Patent ID: 8345171

Claim:
A method for operating a device having a receiver to receive digital broadcast including a plurality of broadcast channels, the method comprising: operating the receiver in a power saving mode to receive broadcast data for a first channel in the plurality of broadcast channels, wherein each broadcast channel represents a respective stream of media program, the broadcast data for the first channel is received during discrete first time slices, and the receiver is switched to a low power consuming state between the first time slices; receiving a first user input indicating a channel change request; and upon receiving the first user input, operating the receiver in a channel changing mode to receive broadcast data for more than one broadcast channels in the plurality of broadcast channels, wherein operating the receiver in the channel changing mode includes buffering broadcast data for each broadcast channel in the plurality of broadcast channels and using the buffered broadcast data in the channel changing mode to present a current program in a broadcast channel selected from the plurality of broadcast channels.