Patent ID: 7697077

Claim:
A method for providing channel numbers to channels of programs in multiple digital data transmissions received via a digital transmissions receiver, comprising: receiving at least one domestic digital data transmission and at least one foreign digital data transmission via the receiver, wherein the at least one domestic digital data transmission and the at least one foreign digital data transmission include logical channel number data for channels of programs therein; assigning, via the receiver, channel numbers for the channels of programs in the at least one domestic digital data transmission according to the logical channel number data therein at a lower range of an available range of channel numbers of the receiver; and assigning, via the receiver, channel numbers for the channels of programs in the at least one foreign digital data transmission that are in a higher range of the available range than the channel numbers for the channels of programs in the at least one domestic digital data transmission, wherein the channel numbers in the higher range are assigned starting at the end of the available range and counting back towards the lower range.