Method, computer program, and reception apparatus for delivery of supplemental content

• US 10,491,965 B2
• Filed: 04/21/2017
• Issued: 11/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Eyer, Mark
• Primary Examiner(s): Fogg, Cynthia M
• Application Number:
  US15/493,977
• Publication Number:
  US 20170311038A1
• Time in Patent Office: 949 Days
• Field of Search: 725 32
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/93 which locates resources of other pieces of information, e.g. URL [Uniform Resource Locator]
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/13 Arrangements for device control affected by the broadcast information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4345 Extraction or processing of SI, e.g. extracting service information from an MPEG stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4348 Demultiplexing of additional data and video streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6581 Reference data, e.g. a movie identifier for ordering a movie or a product identifier in a home shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8133 specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8586 by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02

Abstract

Reception apparatus, method, computer-readable storage medium, and information providing apparatus for a trigger. The reception apparatus includes a tuner/demodulator and a processor. The tuner/demodulator is configured to receive content included in a transport stream from a content source. The transport stream includes a trigger associated with the content and references information included in the transport stream. The processor is configured to retrieve the trigger from the transport stream, and to retrieve the information from the transport stream based on the reference in the trigger.

Claims

1. A reception apparatus, comprising:

circuitry configured to

receive content from a broadcast source for presentation of the content;

receive parameter information prior to executing or presenting supplemental content associated with the presentation of the content, the parameter information including location information, timing information, and capability information, the location information being associated with the supplemental content, and the capability information indicating a capability requirement for executing or presenting the supplemental content;

obtain the supplemental content based on the location information; and

execute or present the supplemental content associated with the presentation of the content at a timing determined based on the timing information when the reception apparatus is determined to be capable of executing or presenting the supplemental content according to the capability information.

2. The reception apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

receive, from the broadcast source, triggering information; and

retrieve the parameter information based on a resource location indicated by the received triggering information.

3. The reception apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

retrieve the triggering information from a predetermined location of a transport stream.

4. The reception apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

retrieve the triggering information from a digital television caption stream.

5. The reception apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

receive the parameter information via a unidirectional transport session.

6. The reception apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the parameter information further includes additional data, and

the circuitry is configured to execute or present the supplemental content further based on the additional data included in the parameter information.

7. The reception apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the reception apparatus is a television set.

8. A method of executing or presenting supplemental content by a reception apparatus, comprising:

receiving content from a broadcast source for presentation of the content, the supplemental content being associated with the presentation of the content;

receiving, by circuitry of the reception apparatus, parameter information prior to executing or presenting the supplemental content, the parameter information including location information, timing information, and capability information, the location information being associated with the supplemental content, and the capability information indicating a capability requirement for executing or presenting the supplemental content;

obtaining, by the circuitry of the reception apparatus, the supplemental content based on the location information; and

executing or presenting the supplemental content associated with the presentation of the content at a timing determined based on the timing information when the reception apparatus is determined to be capable of executing or presenting the supplemental content according to the capability information.

9. The method according to claim 8, further comprising:

receiving, from the broadcast source, triggering information; and

retrieving the parameter information based on a resource location indicated by the received triggering information.

10. The method according to claim 9, further comprising:

retrieving the triggering information from a predetermined location of a transport stream.

11. The method according to claim 9, further comprising:

retrieving the triggering information from a digital television caption stream.

12. The method according to claim 8, further comprising:

receiving the parameter information via a unidirectional transport session.

13. The method according to claim 8, wherein

the parameter information further includes additional data, and

the executing or presenting the supplemental content is performed further based on the additional data included in the parameter information.

14. The method according to claim 8, wherein the reception apparatus is a television set.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having embedded therein instructions, which when executed by a reception apparatus, cause the reception apparatus to perform a method of executing or presenting supplemental content, the method comprising:

receiving content from a broadcast source for presentation of the content, the supplemental content being associated with the presentation of the content;

receiving parameter information prior to executing or presenting the supplemental content, the parameter information including location information, timing information, and capability information, the location information being associated with the supplemental content, and the capability information indicating a capability requirement for executing or presenting the supplemental content;

obtaining the supplemental content based on the location information; and

executing or presenting the supplemental content associated with the presentation of the content at a timing determined based on the timing information when the reception apparatus is determined to be capable of executing or presenting the supplemental content according to the capability information.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 15, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving, from the broadcast source, triggering information; and

retrieving the parameter information based on a resource location indicated by the received triggering information.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 16, wherein the method further comprises:

retrieving the triggering information from a predetermined location of a transport stream.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 16, wherein the method further comprises:

retrieving the triggering information from a digital television caption stream.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 15, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving the parameter information via a unidirectional transport session.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 15, wherein

the parameter information further includes additional data, and

the executing or presenting the supplemental content is performed further based on the additional data included in the parameter information.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 15, wherein the instructions are configured to be executed by the reception apparatus, and the reception apparatus is a television set.