Patent ID: 9301001
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method of providing a user-tailored entertainment experience by a hospitality media system comprising one or more satellite receivers, the method comprising: logging viewing histories indicating which of a plurality of available satellite channels are watched by guests of a hospitality location; automatically selecting a core set of satellite channels to make available for viewing at the hospitality location according to at least the viewing histories; the core set including up to a predetermined number of different channels of media content selected from a plurality of available satellite channels, wherein the predetermined number is less than a total number of the available satellite channels; controlling the one or more satellite receivers to concurrently decode substantially in real-time all of the automatically selected core set of satellite channels, whereby one of the satellite receivers is reserved for each of the different channels in the core set to thereby ensure that all of the core set of satellite channels can be concurrently distributed substantially in real-time to the hospitality location; and distributing decoded channels of the core set from the one or more satellite receivers to a plurality of entertainment devices at the hospitality location, wherein each of the entertainment devices allows viewing of one or more of the core set of satellite channels by a respective guest of the hospitality location.