Method and system for controlling broadcast recorder

• US 20050286857A1
• Filed: 06/29/2004
• Published: 12/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks US LLC (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks US LLC (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Kallio, Janne
• Application Number:
  US10/881,498
• Publication Number:
  US 20050286857A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/297
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4227 Providing Remote input by a user located remotely from the client device, e.g. at work
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43637 involving a wireless protocol, e.g. Bluetooth, RF or wireless LAN [IEEE 802.11] arrangements for wireless networking or broadcasting of information in indoor or near-field type systems H04B10/114
• 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 5/76 Television signal recording

Abstract

A mobile terminal, a broadcast recorder, a system, a computer program distribution medium, and a method of operating a broadcast recorder are disclosed. In the method, control information is written into a broadcast recorder control object having object type identification based on which the broadcast recorder control object is identifiable from a plurality of objects, the control information including instructions for executing at least one command in a broadcast recorder; the broadcast recorder control object is communicated to a broadcast recorder by using a wireless connection; the object type identification is detected; the control information is extracted from the broadcast recorder control object on the basis of the object type identification; and the at least one command is executed in the broadcast recorder according to instructions included by the control information.

Claims

1. A method of operating a broadcast recorder, comprising:

writing control information into a broadcast recorder control object having object type identification based on which the broadcast recorder control object is identifiable from a plurality of objects, the control information including instructions for executing at least one command in a broadcast recorder;

communicating the broadcast recorder control object to a broadcast recorder by using a wireless connection;

detecting the object type identification;

extracting the control information from the broadcast recorder control object on the basis of the object type identification; and

executing the at least one command in the broadcast recorder according to the instructions included by the control information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein communicating the broadcast recorder control object includes communicating the broadcast recorder control object over a wireless proximity connection between a mobile terminal and the broadcast recorder by using a standardized object exchange protocol.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein communicating the broadcast recorder control object includes:

transmitting the broadcast recorder control object to a telecommunications system server; and

retrieving the broadcast recorder control object from the telecommunications system server.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising reading the control information from at least one component selected from a list comprising:

an optically readable medium, an electrically readable medium, user dialing.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising reading, electrically, the control information from a printed matter, the control information being encoded on the printed matter as an electrically readable ink pattern.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising exchanging the broadcast recorder control object with other mobile terminals by using a standardized object exchange protocol.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

retrieving the broadcast recorder control object from the broadcast recorder to the mobile terminal; and

editing the broadcast recorder control object in the mobile terminal; and

communicating the broadcast recorder control object to the broadcast recorder by using a wireless connection.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the broadcast control object further includes at least one element in a group comprising:

a begin mark of the broadcast recorder control object, broadcast type information, a broadcast program identifier, a broadcast channel identifier, broadcast program information, broadcast program timing information, a link to data networks, file history of the broadcast control object, an end mark of the broadcast control object.

9. A mobile terminal of a wireless telecommunications system, comprising:

a broadcast recorder control object having object type identification based on which the broadcast recorder control object is identifiable from a plurality of objects;

writing means for writing control information into the broadcast recorder control object, the control information including instructions for executing at least one command in a broadcast recorder; and

communicating means for communicating the broadcast recorder control object to the broadcast recorder by using a wireless connection.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein the communicating means is configured to provide a wireless proximity connection to the broadcast recorder and to support a standardized object exchange protocol;

and

wherein the communicating means is configured to communicate the broadcast recorder control object over the wireless proximity connection by using the standardized object exchange protocol.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein the communicating means is configured to provide a telecommunications system radio connection to a telecommunications system infrastructure;

and

wherein the communicating means is configured to communicate the broadcast recorder control object with a telecommunications system server.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 9, further comprising first reading means for reading the control information from at least one component selected from a list comprising:

an optically readable medium, an electrically readable medium, user dialing.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 9, further comprising second reading means for reading, electrically, the control information from a printed matter, the control information encoded on the printed matter as an electrically readable ink pattern.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 9, further comprising exchanging means for exchanging the broadcast recorder control object with other mobile terminals by using an object exchange protocol.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 9, further comprising retrieving means for retrieving the broadcast recorder control object from the broadcast recorder to the mobile terminal;

and

editing means for editing the broadcast recorder control object in the mobile terminal; and

the communicating means is configured to communicate the broadcast recorder control object to the broadcast recorder by using a wireless connection.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein the broadcast control object includes at least one element in a group comprising:

a begin mark of the broadcast recorder control object, broadcast type information, a broadcast program identifier, a broadcast channel identifier, broadcast program information, broadcast program timing information, a link to data networks, file history of the broadcast control object, an end mark of the broadcast control object.

17. A broadcast recorder comprising:

communicating means for communicating a broadcast recorder control object by using a wireless connection, the broadcast recorder control object having object type identification based on which the broadcast recorder control object is identifiable from a plurality of objects, the broadcast recorder control object including control information which includes instructions for executing at least one command;

detecting means for detecting the object type identification;

extracting means for extracting the control information from the broadcast recorder control object on the basis of the object type identification; and

executing means for executing the at least one command according to the instructions included by the control information.

18. The broadcast recorder of claim 17, wherein the communicating means is configured to provide a wireless proximity connection to a mobile terminal and to support a standardized object exchange protocol;

and

wherein the communicating means is configured to communicate the broadcast recorder control object over the wireless proximity connection by using the standardized object exchange protocol.

19. The broadcast recorder of claim 17, wherein the communicating means is configured to provide a telecommunications system radio connection with a telecommunications system infrastructure;

and

wherein the communicating means is configured to communicate the broadcast recorder control object with a telecommunications system server.

20. The broadcast recorder of claim 17, further comprising:

a request receive means for receiving a request for providing a broadcast recorder control object to the mobile terminal; and

providing means for providing the broadcast recorder control object to the mobile terminal.

21. The broadcast recorder of claim 17, wherein the broadcast control object includes at least one element in a group comprising:

a begin mark of the broadcast recorder control object, broadcast type information, a broadcast program identifier, a broadcast channel identifier, broadcast program information, broadcast program timing information, a link to data networks, file history of the broadcast control object, an end mark of the broadcast control object.

22. A system for operating a broadcast recorder, comprising:

a mobile terminal of a wireless telecommunications system, the mobile terminal including;

a broadcast recorder control object having object type identification based on which the broadcast recorder control object is identifiable from a plurality of objects;

writing means for writing control information into the broadcast recorder control object, the control information including instructions for executing at least one command in a broadcast recorder; and

first communicating means for communicating the broadcast recorder control object to the broadcast recorder by using a wireless connection, the system further comprising a broadcast recorder including;

second communicating means for communicating the broadcast recorder control object by using a wireless connection;

detecting means for detecting the object type identification;

extracting means for extracting the control information from the broadcast recorder control object on the basis of the object type identification; and

executing means for executing the at least one command according to the instructions included by the control information.

23. A computer program distribution medium readable by a computer and encoding a computer program of instructions for executing a computer process for operating a broadcast recorder, the process comprising:

writing control information into a broadcast recorder control object having object type identification based on which the broadcast recorder control object is identifiable from a plurality of objects, the control information including instructions for executing at least one command in a broadcast recorder;

communicating the broadcast recorder control object to the broadcast recorder by using a wireless connection;

detecting the object type identification;

extracting the control information from the broadcast recorder control object on the basis of the object type identification; and

executing the at least one command in the broadcast recorder according to the instructions included by the control information.

24. The computer program distribution medium of claim 23, the distribution medium comprising a computer readable medium, a program storage medium, a record medium, a computer readable memory, a computer readable software distribution package, a computer readable signal, a computer readable telecommunications signal, and a computer readable compressed software package.