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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2015
Echostar Technologies L.l.c., Englewood, CO (US);
David Innes, Littleton, CO (US);
William Michael Beals, Englewood, CO (US);
David Kummer, Highlands Ranch, CO (US);
Echostar Technologies L.L.C., Englewood, CO (US);
Abstract
Various arrangements are presented for reducing channel change times. A first tuner of a television receiver may tune to a decryption key transponder stream. The decryption key transponder stream may include a plurality of decryption keys for a plurality of television channels that are transmitted to the television receiver via a plurality of transponder streams. Such keys may be buffered. A second tuner of the television receiver may be tuned to a media transponder stream to receive a television channel. A buffered decryption key may be used in decoding the television channel.