Patent ID: 8713607

Claim:
A system, comprising: a viewing system that includes a plurality of television-based client devices, at least one of the television-based client devices configured to: receive from a content provider, a bandwidth-limited digital data stream for carrying multiple individual digital data streams, wherein the multiple individual digital data streams are allocated by the content provider to the viewing system based on a bandwidth available to the viewing system; and provide, to individual television-based client devices of the plurality of television-based client devices, a selected one of the multiple individual digital data streams; and a multi-room user interface displayed at one of the television based client devices of the viewing system, wherein: the multi-room user interface is displayed when the viewing system detects a conflict; the multi-room user interface is configured to: provide information for any one or more of the television-based client devices of the viewing system; display representations of viewing selections being shown at two or more of the television-based client devices that receive different data streams, the display representations including at least one picture-in-picture data stream display representation and at least one poster image display representation of an on-demand media content, the on-demand media content representing content not currently available on one of the multiple individual digital data streams; and allow a viewer to select a conflict solution.