Patent ID: 8793735
Filing Date: 2014-07-29
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of providing multiple channel recall on a television receiver, the method comprising: storing N previously and most recently viewed channels in a list, wherein N represents an integer, wherein each of the N previously and most recently viewed channels represents a unique television channel of N most recently viewed channels that was previously viewed by a user; receiving user selections that indicate a user-configurable subset of M channels of the list of the N previously and most recently viewed channels, wherein M represents an integer that is less than N; outputting a selection menu including the list of N previously and most recently viewed channels and the user-configurable subset of M channels of the list of previously and most recently viewed channels, wherein only the user-configurable subset of M channels of the list of N previously and most recently viewed channels is available for selection in the selection menu, channels of the list of N previously and most recently viewed channels but not of the user-configurable subset of M channels being non-selectable; receiving a user input selecting one of the user-configurable subset of M channels of the list of N previously and most recently viewed channels from the selection menu; and commanding a television tuner to output the selected one of the user-configurable subset of M channels of the list of N previously and most recently viewed channels.