Television – Special applications – Manufacturing
Patent
1996-12-18
1999-11-09
Peng, John K.
Television
Special applications
Manufacturing
348569, 348734, 348906, 348 10, 455 61, 455 62, 455 42, 455 51, H04N 5445, H04N 546, H04N 710, H04N 714
Patent
active
059824115
ABSTRACT:
A television viewer can easily navigate programs which are grouped according to a common service provider or other grouping criteria by depressing the "channel up" or "channel down" buttons on a hand-held remote control. Programming services which are provided via one or more transmission paths are integrated, thereby allowing a viewer to successively select the grouped channels regardless of the broadcast signal, transmission path, frequency spectrum, transport stream and/or PID in which the channel is carried. Data is provided with broadcast signals to indicate broadcast address information which corresponds to a primary channel and one or more secondary channels of a channel group. A viewer can successively view the channels of the group while bypassing intermediate non-group channels. Grouped channels can thus be designated by a common channel designator such as a channel number. Goodwill and brand loyalty which has been built up over time in a local station channel number can be used to define a family of programs to maintain continuity as channels are added or dropped, or channel assignments of programming services are rearranged.
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Eyer Mark K.
Rast Robert
General Instrument Corporation
Hoppin Ralph F.
Lipsitz Barry R.
Peng John K.
Sajous Wesner
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