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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2007
John Kelly King, Asheville, NC (US);
John Kelly King, Asheville, NC (US);
COX COMMUNICATIONS, INC., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for generating a genre-based video mosaic from multiple of video sources in a cable services network system. A cable services head end periodically searches a database for a genre descriptor identifying a type of programming broadcast in the cable services network, selects a group of video sources associated with the genre descriptor which are currently being broadcast in the cable services network, and generates a mosaic including the group of video sources associated with the genre descriptor which are currently being broadcast in the cable services network. A set-top box receives the mosaic from the head end, executes an application program enabling a subscriber to selectively tune the video sources in the mosaic, and displays the mosaic on a broadcast channel in the cable services network.