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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2010
Eric Holley, Atlanta, GA (US);
Eric Holley, Atlanta, GA (US);
EchoStar Technologies L.L.C., Englewood, CO (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and methods are described for allowing users to access channels of a receiving device using custom channel identifiers rather than content provider assigned channel identifiers. A receiving device receives a first set of channel identifiers assigned by a content provider for a plurality of channels. The receiving device further receives a second set of custom channel identifiers identifying the plurality of channels. At least a portion of the first set of channel identifiers maps to the second set of channel identifiers. The user provides user input specifying one of the second identifiers to access and the receiving device correlates the user input to a corresponding first identifier to determine the selected channel the user desires to access.