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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2013
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Lalit R. Kotecha, San Ramon, CA (US);
Lee K. Tjio, Danville, CA (US);
William H. Stone, Doylestown, PA (US);
Reza Okhravi, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Stanley A. Zadrozny, Westfield, NJ (US);
Derek H. Bao, Concord, CA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A device may receive a request for an electronic program guide from a user device and determine a location of the user device. The device may determine, based on the determining that the user device is located in a first location, a group of different types of networks available to the user device and may provide, based on the determined group of different types of networks available to the user device, the electronic program guide for display. The electronic program guide may include a network identifier for each of one or more available channels associated with each of the determined group of different types of networks, and a content identifier associated with a respective one of the one or more available channels associated with each of the determined group of different types of networks.