Patent ID: 7810116

Claim:
A terminal for presenting interactive program guide content comprising a sequence of frames with each frame partitioned into a realtime video portion and a non-realtime guide graphics portion, the terminal comprising: a demodulator operative to receive and demodulate a modulated signal to provide a transport stream comprising data of the video portion of a first frame, data of the video portion of subsequent frames, and data of the guide graphics portion of the first frame of the sequence of frames; and a transport demultiplexer coupled to the demodulator and operative to receive and process the transport stream to: extract data of the video portion of a first frame, data of the video portion of subsequent frames, and data of the guide graphics portion of the first frame of the sequence of frames from the transport stream, and concatenate the extracted data to provide the sequence of frames, wherein the first frame includes the data of the video portion of the first frame concatenated with the data of the guide graphics portion of the first frame, and each subsequent frame respectively includes the data of the video portion of that subsequent frame concatenated with skipped macroblocks indicating that the guide graphics portion of that subsequent frame is the same as the guide graphics portion of a previous frame in the sequence of frames.