Patent ID: 8473605

Claim:
A method for channel switching at a device to render real time content, the method comprising: receiving a channel selection indicator that identifies a second channel from a wireless network comprising second content to be rendered instead of a first channel from the wireless network having first content currently being rendered via a first rendering pathway in the device; obtaining the second content from a protocol stack of the device, wherein the protocol stack extracts and repackages the second content from the second channel; determining whether the second content can be rendered using the first rendering pathway according to a content format of the second content by determining if the second content is of the same content format as the first content; and inputting the second content into the first rendering pathway if it is determined that the second content can be rendered using the first rendering pathway, wherein said inputting the second content into the first rendering pathway comprises sending an activation message indicating that the second content is to be repackaged and delivered to the same endpoint as the first content.