Apparatus and Method for Activating an Interactive Application

• US 20080292277A1
• Filed: 07/04/2005
• Published: 11/27/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Shi, Jun, Tan, Jingwei, Gan, Liang
• Application Number:
  US11/571,948
• Publication Number:
  US 20080292277A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/248
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4349 by extracting from data carousels, e.g. extraction of software modules from a DVB carousel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4433 Implementing client middleware, e.g. Multimedia Home Platform [MHP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8545 for generating interactive applications

Abstract

An extracting apparatus (200) is arranged to extract a certain version of an object from an interactive application associated with a digital program, the extracting apparatus (200) comprises a receiving means (210) for receiving information regarding the version of the objet, an obtaining means (220) for obtaining a version type from the information, the version type indicating the certain version of the object is a replacement version, the replacement version is to replace a preceding version of the object stored on a storage medium, and a processing means (230) for processing the certain version of the object independency on the version type.

Claims

1. A method of associating an interactive application to a digital program, the interactive application having a certain version of an object, the method comprising:

receiving a version type of the certain version of the object, indicating the certain version of the object is a replacement version, the replacement version is to replace a preceding version of the object stored on a storage medium,

generating the interactive application with the received version type, and

associating the generated interactive application to the digital program.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the interactive application is transmitted in a repeated way.

3. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the replacement version is to replace a preceding version of the object presented in real time.

4. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the digital program is a digital TV program compliant with Digital Video Broadcasting standard.

5. A method of extracting a certain version of an object from an interactive application associated with a digital program, the method comprising:

receiving information regarding the certain version of the object,

obtaining a version type from the information, the version type indicating that the certain version of the object is a replacement version, the replacement version is to replace a preceding version of the object stored on a storage medium,

processing the certain version of the object in dependency on the version type.

6. A method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the processing step includes replacing the preceding version of the object on the storage medium with the replacement version.

7. A method as claimed in claim 5, wherein each version of the object has its corresponding validating period, the validating period of the replacement version stored on the storage medium being set to the same period as that of the preceding version of the object.

8. A method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the processing step includes replacing the preceding version of the object presented in real time with the replacement version.

9. A method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the interactive application is transmitted in a repeated way.

10. An extracting apparatus for extracting a certain version of an object from an interactive application associated with a digital program, the extracting apparatus comprising:

receiving means for receiving information regarding the version of the object,

obtaining means for obtaining a version type from the information, the version type indicating the certain version of the object is a replacement version, the replacement version is to replace a preceding version of the object stored on a storage medium,

processing means for processing the certain version of the object in dependency on the version type.

11. A set-top box for extracting a certain version of an object from an interactive application associated with a digital program, the set-top box comprising:

a receiver for receiving the digital program associated with the interactive application,

an extracting apparatus for extracting the certain version of the object from the interactive application associated with the digital program as claimed in claim 10.

12. A television set for extracting a certain version of an object from an interactive application associated with a digital program, the television set comprising:

a receiver for receiving the digital program associated with the interactive application,

a display for displaying the digital program, and

an extracting apparatus for extracting the certain version of the object from the interactive application associated with the digital program as claimed in claim 10.

13. A digital recorder for storing an interactive application associated with a digital program, the interactive application having a certain version of an object, the digital recorder comprising:

a receiver for receiving the digital program associated with the interactive application,

storing means for storing the digital program and the interactive application on a storage medium,

retrieving means for retrieving the digital program associated with the interactive application from the storage medium, and

an extracting apparatus for extracting the certain version of the object from the interactive application associated with the digital program as claimed in claim 10.

14. A computer program product for extracting a certain version of an object from an interactive application associated with a digital program, the computer program product comprising:

code for receiving information regarding the version of the object,

code for obtaining a version type from the information, the version type indicating the certain version of the object is a replacement version, the replacement version is to replace a preceding version of the object stored on a storage medium,

code for processing the certain version of the object in dependency on the version type.

15. A storage carrier containing the computer program product as claimed in claim 14.