Patent ID: 9374624
Filing Date: 2016-06-21
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method of generating a user interface which is configured to display a program guide on a remote control used to control program changes on more than one device which is statically tuned to a channel, comprising: polling devices in a network which contains the devices, each of the devices being configured to statically display programs on fixed channels to determine a list of programs available for display; populating the remote control with system information including which of the displays are statically displaying programs after polling; searching the network to locate available channels available for display and to populate the program guide with available channels; refreshing the program guide so that the program guide can be displayed on the remote control and the program guide is configured to highlight a channel of interest, so that when the channel of interest is highlighted on the remote control, the remote control is tuned to the channel of interest in order to acquire content associated with the channel of interest and to provide a preview of the channel of interest on the remote control; and assigning the channel of interest at least one of the displays so that the at least one display is statically tuned to the channel of interest and is fixed to the channel of interest.