Patent ID: 8631438

Claim:
A mobile intelligent device based system that translates between two different channel/network line-ups comprising: a mobile intelligent device; a mobile device application that is loaded in the mobile intelligent device, configured to store a viewing service provider's channel/network line-up and an alternate service provider's channel/network line-up wherein the mobile device application links the mobile intelligent device to one or more Internet websites storing a plurality of different service providers' channel/network line-ups and downloads a selected viewing service provider's channel/network line-up and a selected alternate service provider's channel/network line-up to the mobile intelligent device and associates one or more channel/network(s) offered by the selected alternate service provider with one or more network/channel(s) offered by the selected viewing service provider wherein the selected alternate service provider's channel/network line-up is capable of having the same number of networks available as the selected viewing service provider's channel/network line-up, is capable of having a lesser number of networks available as the selected viewing service provider's channel/network line-up, and is capable of having a greater number of networks available as the selected viewing service provider's channel/network line-up, to assemble a translated program guide wherein the mobile device application maintains the same channel numbers for the one or more network/channel(s) offered by both the selected viewing service provider's channel/network line-up and the one or more channel/network(s) offered by the selected alternate service provider, wherein for networks that are offered by the selected alternate service provider's channel/network line-up, but are not offered by the selected viewing service provider's channel/network line-up, no translation is possible since the network is absent, further wherein for networks that are not offered by the selected alternate service provider's channel/network line-up, but are offered by the selected viewing service provider's channel/network line-up, no translation is necessary, the mobile device application configured to identify translated channel clashes where clashes are channels that correspond to networks not offered by the selected alternate service provider's channel/network line-up, but are offered by the selected viewing service provider's channel/network line-up, but duplicate channels in the selected alternate service provider's channel/network line-up, the mobile device application also configured to reassign networks having duplicate channel(s) offered by the selected viewing service provider's channel/network line-up to channels not offered by the selected alternate service provider's channel/network line-up.