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PROGRAM GUIDE PROVIDING SYSTEM, PROGRAM GUIDE PROVIDING APPARATUS, PROGRAM GUIDE PROVIDING METHOD, AND PROGRAM GUIDE PROVIDING PROGRAM

  • US 20090113482A1
  • Filed: 10/24/2008
  • Published: 04/30/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A program guide providing system, comprising:

  • a terminal;

    a content providing server configured to provide a content to said terminal;

    a session initiation protocol proxy server configured to perform routing of session initiation protocol messages;

    a program guide providing server configured to provide, to said terminal, a list of services offered by said content providing server as a program guide; and

    a next generation network to which said terminal, said content providing server, said session initiation protocol proxy server, and said program guide providing server are connected, wherein,said content providing server includes service providing means for providing a variety of programs and a related service to said terminal in response to a request from said terminal, andsaid program guide providing server includescommunication history acquisition means for acquiring, via said session initiation protocol proxy server, a communication history between said content providing server and said terminal,communication history storage means for storing the communication history acquired by the communication history acquisition means,audience situation calculation means for calculating an audience situation concerning each of the programs based on the communication history stored in the communication history storage means,program guide generation means for assigning an indicator to each program based on the audience situation calculated by the audience situation calculation means, and generating a program guide in which each program is assigned the indicator, andprogram guide providing means for providing the program guide generated by the program guide generation means to said terminal.

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