PROVIDER EQUIPMENT GENERATION OF CUSTOMER USER INTERFACE

摘要

Systems, methods, apparatus and other mechanisms of providing a user interface (Ul) at a service provider node in the television distribution system by encoding Ul imagery to provide an encoded video stream bearing the Ul imagery and configured for rendering as a Ul screen via a client device video decoder, the Ul screen including programming information associated with each of a subset of broadcast channels during a plurality of time intervals, and scaled live video imagery associated with each of the subset of broadcast channels; and at the service provider node, scaling video streams associated with at least the subset of broadcast channels to provide respective scaled live video imagery for the Ul screen.