Patent ID: 9549215
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: H04H,H04N

Claim:
1. A method of monitoring an advertisement pod, comprising: receiving at least a beginning of an advertisement pod having one or more advertisements on a first broadcast channel of a plurality of broadcast channels in a receiver, the advertisement pod having an end; determining if the first broadcast channel is a base broadcast channel; accepting a command to tune the receiver from the first broadcast channel to a second broadcast channel while receiving the at least the beginning of the advertisement pod on the first broadcast channel; tuning the receiver to the second broadcast channel of the plurality of broadcast channels and providing content transmitted on the second broadcast channel for display, while monitoring for information designating the end of the advertisement pod; and providing an on screen display (OSD) indicating the end of the first advertisement pod for display according to the monitored information only if the first broadcast channel is determined to be a base broadcast channel; wherein the first broadcast channel is determined to be the base broadcast channel according to at least one of: a user selected input identifying the channel as the base broadcast channel; and a time period in which the first broadcast channel is tuned before tuning the receiver from the first broadcast channel to the second broadcast channel.