Patent ID: 8799954

Claim:
A method for enhanced channel flipping on a user equipment device, the method comprising: receiving identification from a user of a plurality of channels of media content to include in a channel flipping sequence; generating the channel flipping sequence based on the received identification, wherein the channel flipping sequence: comprises an ordered list of the plurality of channels, and each channel of the plurality of channels is tuned in an order determined based on a respective position of the channel in the channel flipping sequence; after tuning to a currently tuned channel of the plurality of channels in response to receiving a tuning request, storing a direction value indicating whether the tuning request commanded to tune to the currently tuned channel from a higher or a lower order channel in the channel sequence; receiving, after receiving the tuning request, a first user request from a remote input device to remove a first channel from the channel flipping sequence; and in response to receiving the first user request to remove the first channel from the channel flipping sequence, 1) removing the first channel from the channel flipping sequence; 2) determining, based on the stored direction value, whether to tune to a next or a previous second channel in the channel flipping sequence; and 3) automatically tuning to the second channel based on the determination of whether to tune to the next or the previous second channel in the channel flipping sequence.