Patent ID: 8799801

Claim:
A method for rendering information from a micro-channel on a wireless device, comprising: receiving a wirelessly-transmitted multicast stream of data comprising a plurality of micro-channels, wherein each micro-channel is associated with a different respective event, and wherein each micro-channel comprises related content within the multicast stream of data and further wherein the related content is associated with the respective event; individually parsing a plurality of markers from the received multicast stream of data; respectively assigning each marker to one of the plurality of micro-channels of the received multicast stream of data by inferring an association with the respective one of the plurality of micro-channels based at least in part on historical usage data of the wireless device; rendering the markers parsed from the multicast stream of data in a predetermined area of a display; receiving a user selection for a first marker associated with a first micro-channel; employing the selected first marker to access the first micro-channel from the multicast stream of data; and displaying content of the first micro-channel in a dedicated display area.