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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2007
Brian Lee Klosterman, San Ramon, CA (US);
Brian Lee Klosterman, San Ramon, CA (US);
Starsight Telecast, Incorporated, Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a tuning scheme for coordinating schedule information and programs received from multiple sources (and). In the preferred embodiment, an identifier associated with the program's channel () is used to identify a source device (or). When a user selects a program (or) listed in displayed schedule information (), the system () reads the source identifier attached to the program's channel (). The system () then carries out an automatic switching/tuning such that the required source device (or) is input to the destination device (), and a tuner is then tuned to the selected program's channel ().