Patent ID: 7895627
Filing Date: 2011-02-22
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of pre-fragmenting electronic program guide data for delivery to a low resource client, comprising: receiving, at a server, a file containing electronic programming guide data; receiving, at the server, an indication of a data size associated with the low resource client, the data size being a size of segments allocated within a portion of a memory of the low resource client; fragmenting, at the server, the electronic program guide data into a plurality of data fragments, the data fragments being sized according to the data size indicated by the low resource client, and being sized for storage in the segments of memory allocated in the low resource client; delivering the data fragments to the low resource client by transmitting the data fragments over a broadcast network for display by the low resource client; and compressing the electronic program data into a compressed format, the compressed format remaining searchable by the low resource client, the compressing comprising: