Browser apparatus, recording medium, server apparatus, and information processing method

• US 10,193,793 B2
• Filed: 11/21/2014
• Issued: 01/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yutani, Tetsuo, Togame, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Ho, Chuong T
• Application Number:
  US15/025,453
• Publication Number:
  US 20160212037A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,530 Days
• Field of Search: 370390, 709218, 709219, 709217, 725 40
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1863 comprising mechanisms for improved reliability, e.g. status reports arrangements for detecting or preventing errors by carrying supervisory signal the return channel H04L1/16
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/16 Multipoint routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services

Abstract

The present technology relates to a browser apparatus, a recording medium, a server apparatus, and an information processing method by which a load in viewing web content can be reduced.

Provided is a browser apparatus that implements a web browser including a unicast communication function section that sends a request to a web site and receives web content from the web site using a unicast protocol, and a multicast communication function section that receives web content multicast-distributed using a multicast protocol. The browser apparatus includes a control unit that controls, in response to an external input, the unicast communication function section of the web browser to send a request to a web site and receive web content from the web site using the unicast protocol.

Claims

1. A browser apparatus comprising:

circuitry configured to

implement a web browser application including a first communication function section that sends a request to a web site and receives web content from the web site using a unicast protocol, and a second communication function section that receives web content multicast-distributed using a multicast protocol,

control, in response to an external input, the first communication function section of the web browser application to send a request to a web site and receive web content from the web site using the unicast protocol, wherein

the second communication function section receives a plurality of web content items,

the circuitry is configured to record only a web content item of the plurality of web content items, which has a particular URL address, on a recording medium, and

the circuitry is configured to control, when the web content received by the second communication function section has an error, the first communication function section to request the web content from the web site.

2. The browser apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

a communication interface configured to access a mobile communication network, wherein

the first communication function section and the second communication function section perform communication via the communication interface.

3. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including computer executable instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform a process, the process comprising:

sending, via a first communication function, a request to a web site and receiving web content from the web site using a unicast protocol;

receiving, via a second communication function, web content multicast-distributed using a multicast protocol;

controlling, in response to an external input, the first communication function of the web browser application to send a request to a web site and receive web content from the web site using a unicast protocol;

receiving, via the second communication function section, a plurality of web content items;

recording only a web content item of the plurality of web content items, which has a particular URL address, on a recording medium; and

controlling, when the web content received by the second communication function has an error, the first communication function to request the web content from the web site.

4. A server apparatus, comprising:

circuitry configured to receive web content from a web site using a unicast protocol; and

a cash memory that temporarily stores the web content, wherein

the circuitry is configured to multicast-distribute the temporarily stored web content using a multicast protocol,

the circuitry is further configured to

add header information including at least an update time of the web content to the temporarily stored web content, add a check sum for error correction to the web content, and package the web content, to thereby generate a content pack,

generate a list of URL addresses of web sites of a plurality of content packs, and

multicast-distribute the list of the URL addresses at predetermined intervals.

5. An information processing method for a server apparatus, the information processing method comprising:

controlling reception of web content from a web site using a unicast protocol;

controlling temporary storage of the web content in a cash memory;

controlling addition of header information including at least an update time of the web content to the temporarily stored web content, addition of a check sum for error correction to the web content, and packaging of the web content, to thereby generate a content pack;

controlling generation of a list of URL addresses of web sites of a plurality of content packs;

controlling multicast distribution of the temporarily stored web content that is temporarily stored in the cash memory using a multicast protocol; and

controlling multicast-distribution of the list of the URL addresses at predetermined intervals.