COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD
The present invention relates to a communications system ( 100 ), comprising: one or more communications net-works ( 104 ); a plurality of content items accessible over said one or more communications networks; and a data store ( 110 ) of presentation configuration data for one or more of said plurality of content items for defining presentation of a content item corresponding to presentation configuration data. The present invention also relates to an apparatus and method.
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30 . A method of content item display management using a CPU and a software program, comprising:
storing presentation configuration data for one or more of a plurality of content items; and
defining representation of a content item in dependence on presentation configuration data corresponding to said content item.
31 . A method according to claim 30 , further comprising defining representation of a content item in dependence on a state of the content item receiver and said presentation configuration data.
32 . A method according to claim 31 , wherein said presentation configuration data comprises broadcast communications network display data for displaying indicia associated with said broadcast communications network.
33 . A method according to claim 32 , further comprising using said content item owner configuration data usable in a content item receiver for displaying indicia associated with said content item owner.
34 . A method according to claim 33 , wherein said presentation configuration data comprises original equipment manufacturer (OEM) configuration data usable by a content item receiver for displaying indicia associated with the manufacturer of the content item receiver.
35 . A method according to claim 34 , further comprising transmitting content item representation data to a content item receiver.
36 . A method according to claim 35 , wherein a further one of said one or more communications network is a broadband network.
37 . A method according to claim 36 , wherein a content item accessible over said broadband network comprises a broadband content item.
38 . A method according to claim 37 , wherein presentation configuration data for said broadband content item comprises presentation configuration data usable by said content item receiver for displaying indicia associated with a source and/or originator of said broadband content item.
39 . A method according to claim 30 further including the step of operating a content item receiver, the step of operating the content item receiver comprising receiving content item representation data and driving a display device to display indicia corresponding to said content item representation data.
40 . A method according to claim 39 , further comprising driving a display device to reserve one or more regions of said display for indicia corresponding to respective content item representation data.
41 . A method according to claim 40 , wherein said content item representation data corresponds to one or more of: a content provider; a content owner; a service provider; a broadcast network owner; and an OEM.
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