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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2008
Yigal Bejerano, Springfield, NJ (US);
Pramod V. N. Koppol, Manalapan, NJ (US);
Yigal Bejerano, Springfield, NJ (US);
Pramod V. N. Koppol, Manalapan, NJ (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for improving a channel change response time are disclosed. A meta channel associated with an original and auxiliary media streams is generated. The information conveyed by the meta channel is propagated toward at least one user device. The user device may receive the meta channel information and select one of the media streams using the meta channel information in response to a channel change request from a user terminal, or a network device may select one of the media streams for a user terminal in response to a channel change request from the user terminal.