Finding of tv anytime web services

• US 20050144285A1
• Filed: 03/12/2003
• Published: 06/30/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Hickman, Andrew James
• Application Number:
  US10/507,196
• Publication Number:
  US 20050144285A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/227
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/328 in the presentation layer [OSI layer 6]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A method for finding TV Anytime web services comprises querying a known address, obtaining a file from the known address, the file having a predefined structure, and parsing the file to obtain URLs for TV Anytime web services. A server system for supplying the file via a network comprises receiving means for receiving the query at the known address, and supplying means for supplying the file in response to the query.

Claims

1. A method for finding TV Anytime web services comprising querying a known address, obtaining a file from said address, said file having a predefined structure, and parsing said file to obtain URLs for TV Anytime web service description files.

2. A method according to claim 1, and further comprising receiving a CRID and generating a basic URL from said CRID.

3. A method according to claim 1, and further comprising receiving a basic URL.

4. A method according to claim 2 or 3, wherein said known address is generated by taking said basic URL and adding to it a predefined suffix.

5. A method according to any preceding claim, and further comprising presenting a human readable portion of said web service description files to a user, said user selecting a TV Anytime web service and obtaining said TV Anytime web service.

6. Apparatus for finding TV Anytime web services comprising communicating means for querying via a network a known address and for obtaining a file from said address, said file having a predefined structure, and processing means for parsing said file to obtain URLs for TV Anytime web service description files.

7. Apparatus according to claim 6, and further comprising a display device for displaying a human readable potion of said web service description files.

8. Apparatus according to claim 6 or 7, and further comprising user interface means for inputting a URL.

9. Apparatus according to claim 7, wherein a user selects a TV Anytime web service and said communicating means obtains said TV Anytime web service.

10. Apparatus according to claim 9, and further comprising storage means for storing the TV Anytime web service obtained by the communicating means.

11. A method for providing access to TV Anytime web services comprising receiving a query at a known address, and supplying a file in response to said query, said file including URLs to TV Anytime web service description files.

12. A method according to claim 11, wherein said known address is generated by placing said file at the entry point of a web site.

13. A method according to claim 11 or 12, wherein said file further contains information on each web service for each respective URL.

14. A server system for providing access to TV Anytime web services comprising receiving means for receiving a query at a known address, and supplying means for supplying a file in response to said query, said file including URLs to TV Anytime web service description files.

15. A system according to claim 14, wherein said known address is generated by placing said file at the entry point of a web site.

16. A system according to claim 14 or 15, wherein said file further contains information on each web service for each respective URL.

17. A method of spidering websites comprising recursively addressing a URL for a non-HTML web service description file, parsing said file to obtain further URLs for non-HTML web service description files, and recording said further URLs.

18. A server system for supplying URLs for TV Anytime web services via a network comprising receiving means for receiving a query, supplying means for supplying one or more URLs for TV Anytime web services in response to said query, and storing means for storing a categorised list of TV Anytime web services.