Topic-oriented Method of recording digital contents broadcast in accordance with a schedule

• US 20050213927A1
• Filed: 01/27/2004
• Published: 09/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Original Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Inventors: Amonou, Isabelle, Bertin, Christian, Campion, Sebastien
• Application Number:
  US10/765,447
• Publication Number:
  US 20050213927A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/228
• 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 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4828 for searching program descriptors retrieval of video data G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6402 Address allocation for clients address allocation in data networks H04L61/50
• 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 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/782 on tape
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

The method of recording audiovisual contents broadcast according to a schedule includes: a step of selecting from an access terminal an audiovisual content to be recorded, the content being associated with a broadcast date and time, and a step of the access terminal receiving a record file of the selected audiovisual content, said file containing information identifying the audiovisual content and the scheduled date and time for broadcasting it. The record file further includes the address of an update server for generating a request to update the record file sent by the terminal to the update server.

Claims

1. A method of recording audiovisual contents broadcast according to a schedule, the method including:

a step of selecting from an access terminal an audiovisual content to be recorded, the content being associated with a broadcast date and time, and

a step of the access terminal receiving a record file of the selected audiovisual content, said file containing information identifying the audiovisual content and the scheduled date and time for broadcasting it,

and wherein the record file further includes the address of an update server for generating a request to update the record file sent by the terminal to the update server.

2. A method according to claim 1 of recording audiovisual contents broadcast according to a schedule, the method including a step of updating the record file in the event of modification of the date and/or time of the broadcast, or cancellation of broadcasting a selected audiovisual content, or substitution of some other audiovisual content.

3. A method according to claim 1 of recording audiovisual contents broadcast according to a schedule, wherein the update request includes the address of the update server and the identification information of the audiovisual content.

4. A method according to claim 1 of recording audiovisual contents broadcast according to a schedule, wherein the request is an HTTP request.

5. A method according to claim 1 of recording audiovisual contents broadcast according to a schedule, wherein the terminal sends the request to update the record file periodically up to the date and time scheduled for broadcasting the selected audiovisual content.

6. A method according to claim 1 of recording audiovisual contents broadcast according to a schedule, wherein, during the selection step a single audiovisual content is selected, and wherein the terminal sends the request to update the record file increasingly often as the date and time for recording the selected audiovisual content approaches.

7. A method according to claim 1 of recording audiovisual contents broadcast according to a schedule, wherein the record file includes a field marked by a markup and defining the address of the update server.

8. A method according to claim 1 of recording audiovisual contents broadcast according to a schedule, wherein the record file includes at least one field marked by a markup and defining information identifying the corresponding audiovisual content associated with data describing said content.

9. A method according to claim 1 of recording audiovisual contents broadcast according to a schedule, wherein the record file includes one field marked by a markup and defining, for a given audiovisual content in the same file, a content identifier associated with a content already recorded in the storage means of the access terminal.

10. A method according to claim 1 of recording audiovisual contents broadcast according to a schedule, wherein the syntax of files exchanged between the access terminal and the server is defined by an unique data structure schema, in particular an XML schema.

11. A method according to claim 1 of recording audiovisual contents broadcast according to a schedule, the method including a preliminary step of selecting a plurality of contents having a common topic, and a step of receiving a record request file from which the access terminal generates a record-request request designed to be sent to a predetermined server for executing automatically the selection step.

12. A method according to claim 11 of recording audiovisual contents broadcast according to a schedule, wherein the record request file includes the address of said predetermined server for generating the record-request request.

13. A method according to claim 1 of recording audiovisual contents broadcast according to a schedule, wherein the request includes the reference of a user for statistical purposes.

14. A system for recording audiovisual contents broadcast in accordance with a schedule and adapted to execute a method according to claim 1, the system including at least one access terminal comprising means for selecting an audiovisual content to be recorded associated with a broadcast date and time, said access terminal including means for receiving a record file of the selected audiovisual content, said file containing information identifying the audiovisual content and the scheduled date and time for broadcasting it, and wherein the record file further includes the address of an update server for generating a request to update the record file sent by the terminal to the update server.

15. An update server adapted to execute a method according to claim 1 and including means for updating the record file.

16. An access terminal adapted to execute a method according to claim 1 and including means for selecting an audiovisual content to be recorded associated with a broadcast date and time, means for receiving a record file of the selected audiovisual content, said file containing information identifying the audiovisual content and the scheduled date and time for broadcasting it, and further including the address of an update server for generating a request to update the record file sent by the terminal to the update server.