SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENTLY PROVIDING ESG DATA IN DVB-H SYSTEM

• US 20080046941A1
• Filed: 08/20/2007
• Published: 02/21/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: SUNG, Ki-Yeon, Kim, Young-Jip, Jeon, Jin-Woo, Han, Young-Seop
• Application Number:
  US11/841,433
• Publication Number:
  US 20080046941A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/105
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2353 specifically adapted to content descriptors, e.g. coding, compressing or processing of metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4351 involving reassembling additional data, e.g. rebuilding an executable program from recovered modules
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64315 DVB-H
• 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

Abstract

Disclosed is a system and method for efficiently providing Electric Service Guide (ESG) data in a Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H) system. There is presented a method for dividing ESG data into basic data and additional data and for separately providing the data, wherein the basic data is necessary to provide a DVB-H broadcasting service. To separately provide the basic data from the additional data, a service provider forwards, during a basic profile session, only the basic data necessary to provide a broadcasting service, and separately forwards additional data during an advanced profile session including additional and high-grade data. Then, a terminal determines if a profiling is set up. If the profiling is set up, the terminal gets access to the basic profile session to acquire the basic data, and deals with the advanced profile session as a background job. As a result, the terminal first gets the basic ESG data necessary to provide the broadcasting service, which can antedate the commencement of the broadcasting service, and which can improve the effectiveness of a data receiving scheme of the terminal in great measure.

Claims

1. A method for efficiently providing Electric Service Guide (ESG) data in a Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H) system, the method comprising the steps of:

(1) transmitting ESG data to a terminal by a DVB-H service provider;

(2) determining, by the terminal, if there exists in the ESG data a setting of a profiling for separating minimum ESG data to process separated minimum ESG data,

(3) detecting if a profiletype set in the ESG data denotes a basic profile session including basic data necessary to provide a DVB-H broadcasting service when the profiling is set; and

(4) processing the retrieved basic profile session first I after retrieving the basic profile session on the basis of a result of the detecting.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the profiling and the profiletype are detected from a partition declaration in an init container during an ESG announcement carousel session from an ESG bootstrap session, when the terminal receives the ESG bootstrap session to decode the received ESG bootstrap session, and where a result of the decoding signifies an ESG multiple stream mode.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein step (4) further comprises:

acquiring basic data needed to provide a DVB-H broadcasting service from the basic profile session; and

acquiring additional data from an advanced profile session by dealing with the advanced profile session as a background job if the profiletype corresponds to the advanced profile session.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

classifying the ESG data into additional data and basic data required to provide the DVB-H broadcasting service, so that the DVB-H service provider applies the profiling to the ESG data; and

generating the ESG data classified into the basic profile session including the basic data and at least one advanced profile session including the additional data.

5. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the basic data comprises data of at least one fragment essentially required to provide the DVB-H broadcasting service among all the fragments.

6. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the basic data comprises a set of essential data in at least one fragment required to provide the DVB-H broadcasting service.

7. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the additional data comprises data of the remaining fragments other than the fragments constructing the basic data.

8. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the additional data comprises a set of the remaining additional data other than the essential data of the fragments constructing the basic data.

9. The method as claimed in claim 3, which further comprises merging the basic data and the additional data, which the terminal acquires.

10. A system for efficiently providing Electric Service Guide (ESG) data in a Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H) system, the system comprising:

a DVB-H service provider transmitting ESG data to a terminal; and

a terminal for determining if there exists in the ESG data a setting of a profiling through which the terminal separates minimum ESG data to process the separated minimum ESG data, for detecting if a profiletype set in the ESG data denotes a basic profile session including basic data necessary to provide a DVB-H broadcasting service when the profiling is set, and for processing the retrieved basic profile session first after retrieving the basic profile session.

11. The system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the terminal receives an ESG bootstrap session to decode the received ESG bootstrap session, and when a result of the decoding indicates an ESG multiple stream mode, detects from the ESG bootstrap session the profiling and the profiletype of a partition declaration in an init container during an ESG announcement carousel session.

12. The system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the terminal acquires basic data needed to provide a DVB-H broadcasting service from the basic profile session, and acquires additional data from an advanced profile session by dealing with the advanced profile session as a background job if the profiletype corresponds to the advanced profile session.

13. The system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the DVB-H service provider classifies the ESG data into additional data and basic data required to provide the DVB-H broadcasting service, so that the DVB-H service provider applies the profiling to the ESG data, generates the ESG data classified into a basic profile session including the basic data and at least one advanced profile session including the additional data, and transmits the generated ESG data to the terminal.

14. The system as claimed in claim 12, wherein the basic data comprises data of at least one fragment essentially required to provide the DVB-H broadcasting service among all the fragments.

15. The system as claimed in claim 12, wherein the basic data comprises a set of essential data in at least one fragment required to provide the DVB-H broadcasting service.

16. The system as claimed in claim 14, wherein the additional data comprises data of the remaining fragments other than the fragments constructing the basic data.

17. The system as claimed in claim 15, wherein the additional data comprises a set of the remaining additional data other than the essential data of the fragments constructing the basic data.

18. The system as claimed in claim 12, wherein the terminal merges the acquired basic data and the acquired additional data.