Patent ID: 8341672

Claim:
A method for processing a plurality of channels in a digital video distribution endpoint, comprising: a. receiving at least one picture each of a plurality of channels, wherein the channels are coded in a layered bitstream format, including a base layer of a first channel, a base layer of at least one second channel, and a predetermined number of enhancement layers, if any, of the first channel; b. decoding the at least one picture of the base layer and the enhancement layers, if any, of the first channel; c. displaying the decoded base layer and the enhancement layer, if any, of the first channel in a main window; d. decoding the at least one picture of the base layer of at least one second channel in a mini browsing window (MBW); e. displaying the at least one picture of the decoded base layer of the second channel in an enhancement layer; f. receiving a user input requesting to switch from viewing the first channel in a main window to viewing a second channel in the main window; g. displaying at least the base layer of the first channel in an MBW; h. zooming, and displaying in a main window resolution, at least one decoded picture of the base layer of the second layer, at least until a first picture of an enhancement layer of the second layer has been decoded; i. requesting at least one of an enhancement layers of the second channel be received and decoded; j. receiving and decoding at least one picture of the at least one enhancement layer of the second channel; and k. displaying at least one picture of the at leas one enhancement layer of the second channel in the main window.