Advanced Digital Broadcast S.a.

Zbigniew Skowronski

Przemyslaw Sergiel

A computer-implemented method for navigating through channels in a content receiver, wherein the channels have assigned channel numbers and categories, the method comprising: providing a list of categories; providing an ordered list of channels for each category; upon receiving a channel zapping command (SIMILAR+, SIMILAR&#x2212;), selecting a next channel or a previous channel from the list of channels for the current category; upon receiving a category zapping command (NEXT, PREV), selecting a last watched channel in a next category or a previous category from the list of categories and changing the current category to the next category or the previous category; storing the channel number of the selected channel as the last watched channel on the current channel category; and tuning the content receiver to the selected channel. A suitable predictive channels assignment to respective tuners is also disclosed.

Method and system for channel navigation and predictive tuning in a content receiver

A method for distributing video content to at least one mobile device (-) at a customer premises () system comprising a plurality of stationary devices (-) capable of receiving the video content from at least one content provider (). The method comprises the steps of: receiving, at the stationary devices (-), requests to tune a tuner () of the stationary device (-) to a requested channel received from the content provider (); outputting the content, of the channel tuned to by at least one stationary device (-), to a mobile content gateway () at the customer premises () system; handling, at the mobile content gateway (), a list of video channels () comprising data associating each channel of the list with a stationary device (-); sending, from the mobile content gateway (), to the at least one stationary device (-) requests to tune to channels assigned according to the list of video channels (); preparing at least one single-program stream from the content received from the at least one stationary device (-); outputting, from the mobile content gateway (), the at least one single-program stream as at least one adaptive stream; and providing the at least one adaptive stream to the at least one mobile device (-) over a wireless data transmission interface.

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Zielona Gora, Poland

Zbigniew Skowronski