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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2013
Flextronics Ap, Llc, San Jose, CA (US);
Mikhail Shoykher, Thornhill, CA;
John S. Visosky, Gormley, CA;
Ron Cassar, Burlington, CA;
Robert Csiki, Markham, CA;
Flextronics AP, LLC, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An EPG data service for an Intelligent TV includes various of source plugins polling and retrieving updated EPG information from a plurality of respective EPG information sources and an EPG subservice receiving the EPG information retrieved by the various source plugins, aggregate the EPG information, and provide a relevant portion of the EPG information to an application of the Intelligent TV. For an EPG source with substantially no updated EPG information, the respective source plugin associates EPG information from the EPG source with dummy EPG data. The EPG subservice aggregates the updated EPG information from the plurality of EPG sources and resolve conflicts between duplicate EPG information from the plurality of EPG sources according to various rules.