Patent ID: 8151293

Claim:
A system for automatically surfing television program sources in response to an event, the system comprising: a television tuner to tune to a first television program source; an event table comprising a plurality of entries for a plurality of different unscheduled event types, wherein each entry associates a different unscheduled event type with a respective television program source; and an event detector to detect an unscheduled event that occurs during a television program and to determine an unscheduled event type associated with the detected event from the plurality of unscheduled event types, the determined event type being based upon a program source associated with the unscheduled event type, wherein, upon detecting the unscheduled event and determining the unscheduled event type, the event detector instructs the television tuner to automatically tune to a second television program source wherein the second television program source is different from the first television program source and is associated with the detected unscheduled event type in the event table.