Patent ID: 8302130
Filing Date: 2012-10-30
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for maintaining an electronic program guide in a digital display device by scanning a plurality of digital transport streams, each digital transport stream including a plurality of services, comprising: scanning electronic program guide data in each of the plurality of digital transport streams, each of the plurality of digital transport streams including a plurality of entertainment services and electronic guide data for each of the entertainment services, in a first predetermined order based on data indicating viewing preferences for a geographical region; gathering user data based on services accessed by one or more users of the digital display device; ranking the plurality of digital transport streams according to said user data, said ranking including ordering the digital transport streams by greatest to least user service viewing time for entertainment services viewed by a user on each stream; re-scanning at least a first subset of the plurality of data streams in a second order based on the step of ranking.