Patent ID: 7734801

Claim:
A media channel service method for retrieving Internet channels comprising: advertising services to a control point within a private network, wherein the control point sends and receives control actions and responses to operate rendering devices via a media renderer; receiving a subscription identifier (ID) and a URI (Universal Resource Identifier) from the control point, wherein the subscription ID allows a channel service provider indicated by the URI to determine whether a valid subscription with the channel service provider exists; requesting Internet channel information from at least one channel service provider; and if the subscription ID is valid, receiving the Internet channel information from the channel service provider, wherein the Internet channel information is provided to a user via the control point for enabling the user to browse the Internet channel information and request media content found on Internet channel information, wherein after the user selects a channel from which the media content is to be rendered, sending, by the control point, the URI for the selected Internet channel to a media renderer, wherein the media renderer requests the media content from a media content provider using the URI and wherein the media content is streamed from the media content provider to a rendering device in the private network via the media renderer.