Patent ID: 7827579

Claim:
A method comprising: causing, at least in part, reception of at least one modified or new electronic service guide data at a server; encapsulating, at the server, the at least one modified or new electronic service guide data and metadata associated with the modified or new electronic service guide data to generate a new electronic service guide object; replacing, at a cache of the server, a current electronic service guide object with the new electronic service guide object; generating a new carousel and a notification of carousel version change at the server, said new carousel including the new electronic service guide object and excluding the current electronic service guide object; causing, at least in part, transmission of the new carousel from the server to a mobile terminal without simultaneously transmitting a carousel consisting of one or more updated sessions; and causing, at least in part, transmission of the notification of carousel version change from the server to the mobile terminal, wherein the new electronic service guide object excludes pre-modified electronic service guide data that is modified into the modified electronic service guide data.