Patent ID: 8631441
Filing Date: 2014-01-14
Classification: H04H,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of coding and/or transmitting EPG (electronic program guide) data, the data comprising: a plurality of program records, each program record identifying one program; a plurality of schedule records, each schedule record identifying one or more specific scheduled broadcast times of one program, the program records and the schedule records being coded and/or transmitted in an interleaved manner such that two successive program records are separated by one or more schedule records associated with one of the two successive program records; wherein each program record and all of the schedule records for that program record are transmitted prior to the next program record being transmitted; and once transmitted, at a receiving device comprising a processor and a memory, the received EPG data is read, parsed and stored in the memory as it is being received and prior to the complete reception of all of the data for the EPG.