Television system for accumulation-oriented broadcast, information display system, distribution system, and information distribution method

• US 20020174439A1
• Filed: 04/30/2002
• Published: 11/21/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Dentsu Incorporated (Dentsu Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Dentsu Incorporated (Dentsu Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Maeda, Hiroki, Akiyama, Ryuhei
• Application Number:
  US10/134,648
• Publication Number:
  US 20020174439A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/100
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/40 Arrangements for broadcast specially adapted for accumulation-type receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/27 Arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25883 being end-user demographical data, e.g. age, family status or address arrangements for identifying locations of users in broadcast systems H04H60/52
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4147 PVR [Personal Video Recorder] H04N5/76 takes precedence ; arrangements for broadcast with accumulation-type receivers H04H20/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4331 Caching operations, e.g. of an advertisement for later insertion during playback
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4335 Housekeeping operations, e.g. prioritizing content for deletion because of storage space restrictions storage management, e.g. defragmentation G06F3/0604; unloading stored programs G06F9/445; storage management in file systems G06F16/10; buffering arrangements in a network node or in an end terminal in packet networks H04L49/90
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4405 involving video stream decryption
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44204 Monitoring of content usage, e.g. the number of times a movie has been viewed, copied or the amount which has been watched monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; protecting generic digital content where the protection is independent of the precise nature of the content G06F21/10; arrangements for monitoring the use made of the broadcast services in broadcast systems H04H60/31
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/443 OS processes, e.g. booting an STB, implementing a Java virtual machine in an STB or power management in an STB
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/458 Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream, e.g. by combining a locally stored advertisement with an incoming stream; Updating operations, e.g. for OS modules ; time-related management operations arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast or during the distribution H04H20/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47815 Electronic shopping payment schemes, payment architectures or payment protocols for electronic shopping systems G06Q20/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6543 for forcing some client operations, e.g. recording remote booting in general G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 : involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/445 : for displaying additional information H04N5/50 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 : Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 : on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/907 : using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/926 : by pulse code modulation H04N5/919 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/162 : Authorising the user terminal, e.g. by paying; Registering the use of a subscription channel, e.g. billing

Abstract

A television system is provided with a storage device for a forced accumulation, the advertisement information is selectively received and accumulated therein. According to the present invention, a storage device 2 of a TV system 1 is accumulated with the advertisement information in addition to a variety of TV programs. The storage device is structured of an area that can be exclusively used and an area usable as a user intends. Mainly, the advertisement information provided free of charge by an entrepreneur and the life information necessary for a person to use for a life are selectively received and accumulated in the former area. A content of the advertisement information is properly automatically rewritten and can be viewed for 24 hours a day throughout the year, and hence the viewer can utilize the updated advertisement information free of charge at all times. An HDD of the storage device can be utilized for a receiving box spot of the E-commerce and for accumulating news items of the E-newspaper. A cost for providing the advertisement information is approximately 1/10 a cost for the conventional direct mails and about 1/8 a cost for the inserts.

Claims

1. A television system comprising:

a storage device for storing information forcedly directly stored through on digital broadcasting waves, said information sorted according to codes and selectively received by a viewer.

2. A television system according to claim 1, wherein an area of the information is life information necessary for a person to use for a life and an advertisement for providing the life information free of charge.

3. A television system according to claim 1, wherein said storage device serves as a virtual showroom for an E-commerce or as a receipt box.

4. A television system according to claim 1, wherein a part of said storage device is segmented for a forced accumulation as an exclusive area.

5. An accumulated information broadcasting method comprising:

making a viewer selectively receive a program through on digital broadcasting waves;

directly forced storing the program in a storage device of a television system; and

broadcasting a content stored therein by an on-demand system.

6. An accumulated information broadcasting method according to claim 5, wherein a content stored and invoked by the on-demand system is individually schemed.

7. An information display system for displaying plural categories of information received via a transmission path, comprising:

selecting unit for selecting a specified category of information among the plural categories of information;

a storage device for storing the information selected by said selecting unit;

display indicating unit for indicating displaying the information stored in said storage device; and

display unit for displaying the information on the basis of said display indicating unit.

8. An information display system according to claim 7, wherein said storage device is segmented into an arbitrary area in which the stored information can be updated by external operation unit provided in said information display system, and an exclusive area, distinguished from said arbitrary area, in which the stored information can not be updated by said external operation unit.

9. An information display system according to claim 8, wherein the plural categories of information contain information on a distribution requester of the information, and

said selecting unit selects the information requested by a predetermined distribution requester.

10. An information display system according to claim 8, wherein said exclusive area is further segmented into predefined areas, and

said selecting unit selects, among the plural categories of information received, the information having a category mapped to each of the predefined areas, and makes said storage device store the selected information.

11. An information display system according to claim 9, further comprising:

encrypting unit for encrypting the data for the respective distribution requesters; and

transmitting unit for transmitting the information,

wherein said storage device stores a history of accesses through said display indicating unit with respect to the information for the respective distribution requesters,

said encrypting unit encrypts the access history for the respective distribution requesters, and

said transmitting unit transfers the encrypted access history to the distribution requester.

13. An information format according to claim 12, wherein the information is audio visual information.

15. A distribution system according to claim 14, wherein said storage device is segmented into predefined areas, and

the information is distributed in a way that specifies an area in which the information should be stored.

16. A distribution system according to claim 14, further comprising a distribution management unit for storing an identifier of the predefined area and specifying information of the information distributed in a way that specifies its area.

17. A distribution system according to claim 14, further comprising a segmentation indicating unit for indicating said information display system to segment said storage device thereof into an arbitrary area in which the stored information can be updated by an external operation unit provided in said information display system, and an exclusive area, distinguished from said arbitrary area, in which the information can not be updated by said external operation unit.

18. A distribution system according to claim 14, further comprising a delete indicating unit for indicating said information display system to delete the stored information.

20. An information distribution method according to claim 19, further comprising making the destination of the distribution segment a storage device for storing information into predefined areas.

21. An information distribution method according to claim 19, further comprising specifying, to the destination of the distribution, an area in which the information should be stored.

22. An information distribution method according to claim 19, further comprising making the destination of the distribution delete the distributed information.

12. An information format of information transmitted via a transmission path to an information display system comprising a storage device segmented into predetermined areas,

wherein the information contains specifying information for specifying a should-be-stored area.

14. A distribution system for distributing information to an information display system comprising selecting unit for selecting a specified category of information among plural categories of information received via a transmission path, and a storage device for storing the information selected by said selecting unit,

wherein the information contains a content serving as an output object to said information display system and control information serving as a selection basis for said selecting unit.

19. An information distribution method of distributing plural categories of information via a transmission path and having a destination of the distribution select the information, said method comprising:

inputting a content serving as a distribution object;

generating control information serving as a basis of selecting the content; and

combining the content with the control information.

23. An access history collecting method of collecting a history of accesses to plural categories of information requested for distribution by a distribution requester, said method comprising:

selecting information requested for distribution by a specified requester among the plural categories of information;

storing the selected information;

detecting an indication of displaying the stored information;

recording a history of the display indication for the respective distribution requesters;

encrypting the history of the display indication for the respective distribution requesters; and

transmitting the encrypted history of the display indication to the requester.

24. A television system comprising:

a storage device segmented and given to an information provider, the segmented area being defined by an identifier,

wherein said storage device forcedly stores every segmented area defined by the identifier with received information through on digital broadcasting waves.