Efficient delivery of interactive program guide using demand-cast
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Apr 14, 2009
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Oct 12, 2000
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Apr 15, 1999
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Techniques to efficiently deliver interactive program guide (IPG). In one aspect, if an IPG page is requested by a viewer and not already transmitted, only the guide portion for the requested page is sent instead of the entire page. The requested page includes a guide portion that is specific to the requested page and a background portion that is common for a number of pages. The background portion can be continually broadcasted by the head-end. The requesting terminal is thus able to regenerate the requested page based on the demand-casted guide portion (i.e., transmitted upon request) and the continually broadcasted background portion. Alternatively, the entire requested page can be transmitted. In another aspect, instead of sending the requested guide portion continually, the guide portion is sent a limited number of times (e.g., only once, upon receiving the request). Since the guide portion for any particular page is normally static and does not change over time, sending the guide portion a limited number of times (e.g., once) is typically sufficient and greatly reduces bandwidth usage.
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