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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2013
Saturn Licensing Llc, New York, NY (US);
Sri Gopikanth Gutta, Basingstoke, GB;
Saturn Licensing LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
An audio/video content receiver decoding audio/video signals modulated onto transmission channels as transport streams, at least one transmission channel carrying non-viewing information. The content receiver includes a tuner arrangement for concurrently tuning to two or more transmission channels and a multiplexer configured to generate a composite signal from received audio/video signals of required programs for decoding. The content receiver further includes a content decoder for concurrently decoding two or more audio/video programs from the composite signal and a detector configured to detect whether one or more of the transmission channels tuned by the tuner arrangement are not currently in use for providing a program for decoding. Finally, the content receiver includes a controller that, responsive to detection that a transmission channel is not currently in use, controls the tuner to tune that channel to a transmission channel carrying a transport stream including non-viewing information.
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