Patent ID: 8212883

Claim:
A non-transitory tangible computer readable medium, containing instructions embedded in the computer readable medium that when executed by a processor are useful in performing a computer program for distributing video data over an electrical power line, the computer program comprising: instructions to detect at a first client end user device, first event data from a first controllable device in a first location over an internet protocol television system; instructions to send command data to a second controllable device in the first location and a third controllable device in a second location adjacent the first location over the electrical power line from the first controllable device in response to the detecting the first event data at the first controllable device; instructions to receiving first video data and second video data concurrently at a first internet protocol television client device over the electrical power line from the second and third controllable devices in response to the detecting the first event data in the first location at the first controllable device; instructions to create at the first client end user device, a client created internet protocol television channel and inserting the client created channel into an existing electronic program guide for the first and second video data; and instructions to send the electronic program guide to a second client end user device for selection and display of the first and second video concurrently at a display for the second client end user device.