Patent ID: 8136136
Filing Date: 2012-03-13
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of recording multi-stream interactive television content, comprising: determining a service configuration of an interactive television feature, said interactive television feature providing a gateway program on a gateway channel for accessing a plurality of different interactive television events which are to be broadcast across a plurality of channels, said service configuration describing interrelationships between said interactive television events and indicating that said interactive television events are accessible only through said gateway program on said gateway channel, said gateway program providing necessary signaling which is required by said interactive television events to operate when a user navigates to said interactive television events from said gateway channel of said interactive television feature; obtaining data describing said service configuration comprising information describing data streams of each different channel that broadcasts an interactive television event accessible through said gateway channel of said interactive television feature; displaying a user interface for a recording device, said user interface comprising an interactive listing of selectable unrecorded interactive television events accessible through said gateway channel of said interactive television feature which are available for recording; receiving a user selection from said interactive listing indicating that multiple simultaneously occurring interactive television events are to be recorded and that one or more simultaneously occurring interactive television events are excluded from recording; configuring said recording device to record said multiple simultaneously occurring interactive television events based on said user selection and said service configuration by: recording said multiple simultaneously occurring interactive television events by: displaying a recorded interactive television event selected by the user from said multiple simultaneously occurring interactive television events which were recorded by: