Patent ID: 8677404

Claim:
A method for configuring ports on a computer, comprising: using an operating system to generate a visual user interface, said operating system comprising a registry and said user interface comprising a plurality of icons representing video input sources coupled to a tuner and a plurality of icons representing tuner output channels, the plurality of icons representing video input sources coupled to the tuner and the plurality of icons representing tuner output channels being presented via a single user interface presentation so as to allow configuration of a plurality of ports via the single user interface presentation, the single user interface presentation further comprising a preview display portion; receiving input data to associate plural individual video input sources in said plurality of video input sources with plural individual tuner output channels in said plurality of tuner output channels, processing said input data to directly generate a set of video source-channel associations, said set of video source-channel associations being stored in said registry; and receiving input data to retrieve individual video source-channel associations within said set of video source-channel associations from said registry, said set of video source-channel associations being used to generate control signals to control said tuner to process video data in accordance with said video source-channel associations; and wherein said preview display portion presenting video content of a selected input of the video input sources; one of said plural individual video input sources is automatically assigned and labeled in an initial default configuration screen of the single user interface presentation as a primary channel; said input data to associate plural individual video input sources comprises keyboard input data and radio button interface input data; and when said control signals to control said tuner indicate said tuner to a channel change, said registry is checked to determine if said channel change is associated with said set of video source-channel associations.