Patent ID: 8495693

Claim:
A method for controlling one or more feeds of a multi-feed channel, the method comprising: receiving, at a client device, a user input enabling a time-shifting system, the enabled time shifting system allowing the client device to recognize a control command from the user, the control command being one of pausing, playing, rewinding fast forwarding, slowing, replaying and zooming; receiving, at the client device, a plurality of video feeds through a plurality of tuners in the client device, at least one of the plurality of tuners providing one of the plurality of video feeds to be included in a multi-feed channel; generating, by the client device, the multi-feed channel from the received plurality of video feeds, the multi-feed channel generated through one tuner from an aggregation of the received plurality of video feeds, the multi-feed channel including the received plurality of video feeds to be displayed simultaneously; transmitting, by the client device, the multi-feed channel to a display device associated with the client device; receiving, at the client device, a selection of at least one of the displayed plurality of video feeds, the selection indicated by a placement of a selection indicator over the at least one of the plurality of video feeds on the display device; subsequent to receiving the selection, receiving, by the client device, the control command to control the selected at least one of the plurality of video feeds on the display device; and controlling, by the client device, the selected at least one of the plurality of video feeds based on the received control command while maintaining display of the not-selected plurality of video feeds included in the multi-feed channel.