| 摘要 |
A method and apparatus for managing a plurality of tuners for providing a broadcasting service to a plurality of devices in a home network. To provide the broadcast service requested by one of the devices, it is determined whether a tuner to which any broadcast service is pre-assigned can provide the requested broadcast service along with the pre-assigned broadcast service, and the requested broadcast service is additionally assigned to the tuner. If the tuner does not exist, a tuner to which no broadcast service is assigned is detected among from the tuners that can receive a broadcast program corresponding to the requested broadcast service, and the requested broadcast service is assigned to the tuner. Accordingly, in the environment in which various broadcast services are provided to a plurality of devices through a single gateway in a network, the broadcast services can be provided to the devices.
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