Electronic program guide generation

摘要

An electronic program guide may be provided. A plurality of encoded content streams may be received along with associated program guide information. The content streams may be re-modulated and associated with new channel assignments. Program guide entries for the content streams may be created and/or updated to reflect the new channel assignments. The re-modulated content streams and program guide entries may then be distributed to a plurality of display devices.

主权项

1. A method for providing a local program guide, the method comprising:
providing a program guide from a headend of a television service provider to an EPG generator, wherein the EPG generator generates local program guides for distribution to a plurality of televisions in a local commercial environment rather than to subscribers of the television service provider; generating a private content distribution network for providing content via a plurality of remapped channels to the plurality of televisions in the local commercial environment by: receiving at a re-modulation device the program guide from the television service provider and a plurality of channel streams from the headend of the television service provider, the plurality of channel streams are each associated with a physical channel and a virtual channel in a channel map, wherein one of the plurality of channel streams is associated with a first channel; receiving content information associated with the one of the plurality of channel streams from the television service provider; re-modulating via the re-modulation device the one of the plurality of channel streams to disassociate the one of the plurality of channel streams with the first channel and to associate the one of the plurality of channel streams with a new channel; associating the content information associated with the one of the plurality of channel streams to the new channel; receiving at the re-modulation device a second channel stream from a local content source associated with the commercial environment; receiving content information associated with the second channel stream from the local content source; re-modulating via the re-modulation device the second channel stream from the local content source to associate the second channel stream with the first channel; associating the content information associated with the second channel stream to the first channel; and generating, via the EPG generator, a local program guide having a grid reflecting times of available content and wherein different content is selectable from the local program guide while moving across the grid in time, the local program guide comprising the content information associated with the one of the plurality of channel streams on the new channel and the content information associated with the second channel stream on the first channel; distributing the program guide from the headend of the television service provider to the subscribers of the television service provider wherein the program guide of the television service provider comprises the plurality of channel streams associated with the first and second channels; distributing over the private content distribution network the re-modulated first content stream, the re-modulated second content stream and the local program guide from the EPG generator to provide the content via the plurality of remapped channels to the plurality of televisions in the local commercial environment; and displaying the local program guide and tuning to the one of the plurality of channel streams received from the headend in response to selecting from the local program guide a program associated with the new channel or tuning to the second channel stream from the local content source in response to selecting from the local program guide another program associated with the first channel.