Patent ID: 8677417
Filing Date: 2014-03-18
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of processing media services, as performed by a playback device with a processor, from a plurality of content aggregators through a communications network comprising the steps of: said playback device receiving a first media service list from a first content aggregator from a plurality of content aggregators, said playback device receiving a second media service list from a second content aggregator from said plurality of content aggregators, wherein said second media service list has a data structure incompatible with a data structure said first media service list; said playback device translating said first media service list and said second service list into a unified media service list comprising media services wherein said unified media service list is the same data structure of at least one of: said first media service list, and said second media service list; and said playback device downloads a first codec to play a first media service present on said unified media service, in response to a user selection of said first media service, when said first media service is in a format that requires said first codec for playback.