Patent ID: 9288424
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method of dynamically generating a genre-based video mosaic from a plurality of video sources in a cable services network, comprising: periodically searching a database by a server in a cable services head-end for video data related to currently airing video programming matching genre descriptors defined by a cable services operator, the defined genre descriptors identifying types of programming broadcast in the cable services network; compiling, by the server, a list of video data related to the currently airing video programming matching the defined genre descriptors for inclusion in video mosaics; transforming the list of video data related to the currently airing video programming matching the defined genre descriptors to genre-based mosaic video streams for each of the defined genre descriptors; transmitting, from the headend to a subscriber, the genre-based mosaic video streams to the subscriber for presentation on a mosaic video channel of the cable services network; automatically updating the genre-based mosaic video streams to include the currently airing video programming found during periodically searching the database by the server in the cable services head-end for video data related to currently airing video programming matching genre descriptors defined by the cable services operator; receiving a selection signal from the subscriber for tuning to a program guide channel; displaying, on the selected program guide channel, a channel description of a currently tuned genre-based video mosaic channel, a scaled video window of the currently tuned genre-based video mosaic channel and a program guide listing presenting a list of genre-based video mosaic channels according to transmitted genre-based mosaic video streams selectable by a subscriber; receiving a selection for one of the genre-based video mosaic channels from the list of genre-based video mosaic channels; and displaying the genre-based video mosaic channel selected from the list of genre-based video mosaic channels to simultaneously present video windows in a video mosaic corresponding to currently airing video programming matching a defined genre descriptor associated with the genre-based video mosaic channel selected from the list of genre-based video mosaic channels, wherein the video windows display the currently airing video programming in a scaled format having a reduced number of colors compared to an initial format of the currently airing video programming.