Recording device, recording method, and program

• US 20070071418A1
• Filed: 05/18/2004
• Published: 03/29/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Murase, Yasuhiro, Okuzawa, Nozomu, Yamashita, Shinsuke, Moriya, Jun, Kikkoji, Hiroyuki
• Granted Patent: US 9,264,468 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/239
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/611 for multicast or broadcast systems for broadcast or conference H04L12/18; arrangements for broadcast or distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/00; arrangements for broadcast applications with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time H04H60/00; selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS], H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A large number of pieces of recorded information are made to be discriminated and identified easily any time after they are recorded. When broadcast information is received from a broadcasting station 32a, contents-related information relating and corresponding to the contents of the broadcast information is received by a reception means by way of a network 30 and temporarily stored in a temporary memory means 3. When there is an external request for recording the related information, the related information temporarily stored in the temporary memory means 3 is recorded in a keeping means 4 by a related information recording means 5 and, at the same time, the broadcast information that is being received at the time of receiving the recording request is correlated with the related information recorded in the keeping means 4 and recorded in the keeping means 4 by a broadcast information recording means 6. Thus, the related information that is correlated with the broadcast information can be identified with ease by means of the recorded broadcast information.

Claims

1. A recording apparatus characterized by comprising:

reception means for receiving contents-related information relating to contents contained in broadcast information being received;

temporary memory means for temporarily storing the contents-related information;

related information recording means for recording the contents-related information stored in the temporary memory means in keeping means in response to a recording request input externally; and

broadcast information recording means for recording the broadcast information being received in the keeping means, relating it to the related information to be recorded in the keeping means, in response to the externally input recording request.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that

the broadcast information recording means is adapted to record the broadcast information being received in the keeping means at specific time intervals in a ring shape and records the broadcast information broadcast before and after the externally input recording request in response to the recording request.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2, characterized in that

the specific time intervals can be arbitrarily defined.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that

sound information is synthesized with the broadcast information being received at the time point of the externally input recording request and the broadcast information being received, with which the sound information is synthesized, is correlated with the related information to be recorded in the keeping means and recorded in the keeping means by the broadcast information recording means.

5. A recording method characterized by comprising:

a reception step of receiving contents-related information relating to contents contained in broadcast information being received;

a temporarily storing step of temporarily storing the contents-related information;

a related information recording step of recording the contents-related information stored in the temporarily storing step in keeping means in response to a recording request input externally; and

a broadcast information recording step of recording the broadcast information being received in the keeping means, relating it to the related information to be recorded in the keeping means, in response to the externally input recording request.

6. The method according to claim 5, characterized in that

the broadcast information recording step is adapted to record the broadcast information being received in the keeping means at specific time intervals in a ring shape and records the broadcast information broadcast before and after the externally input recording request in response to the recording request, relating it to the related information to be recorded in the keeping means.

7. The method according to claim 6, characterized in that

the specific time intervals can be arbitrarily defined.

8. The method according to claim 5, characterized in that

in the broadcast information recording step, sound information is synthesized with the broadcast information being received at the time point of the externally input recording request and the broadcast information being received, with which the sound information is synthesized, is correlated with the related information to be recorded in the keeping means and recorded in the keeping means.

9. The method according to claim 5, characterized in that

a terminal apparatus that can communicate with an authentication server having an authentication function and a related information providing server providing the contents-related information and is receiving the contents

transmits request information requesting contents-related information relating to the contents being received to the related information providing server along with the service session ID that is a session ID between the terminal apparatus and the related information providing server;

receives, from the related information providing server, information indicating an authentication error and service identifying information for identifying the related information providing server;

transmits authentication ticket issuance request information requesting issuance of an authentication ticket for accessing the related information providing server to the authentication server along with the authentication session ID that is a session ID between the terminal apparatus and the authentication server;

receives the authentication ticket issued from the authentication server if authenticated by the authentication server and transmits authentication request information to the related information providing server along with the authentication ticket;

receives the service session ID that is a session ID between the terminal apparatus and the related information providing server if authenticated by the related information providing server;

transmits the request information requesting the related information to the related information providing server along with the received service session ID; and

receives related information that corresponds to the request information if authenticated by the related information providing server;

in the reception step.

10. The method according to claim 9, characterized in that

the terminal apparatus:

receives information-indicating the authentication error if the authentication by the authentication server is an error and transmits a user ID and password to the authentication server;

receives the authentication session ID that is a session ID between the terminal apparatus and the authentication server if the user ID and the password are authenticated by the authentication server; and

transmits the authentication ticket request information to the authentication server along with the authentication session ID;

in the reception step.

11. A program for causing a computer to execute a process of:

receiving contents-related information relating to contents contained in broadcast information being received;

temporarily storing the contents-related information;

recording the temporarily stored contents-related information in keeping means in response to a recording request input externally; and

recording the broadcast information being received in the keeping means, relating it to the related information to be recorded in the keeping means, in response to the externally input recording request.