METHOD AND SERVER SIDE AND TERMINAL FOR FINDING INTERACTIVE ELECTRIC SERVICE GUIDE

• US 20090178082A1
• Filed: 03/13/2009
• Published: 07/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Zhang, Chuxiong, Zhang, Yuanyuan, Zhang, Jie, Shi, Teng
• Granted Patent: US 8,726,315 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/51
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/38 Arrangements for distribution where lower stations, e.g. receivers, interact with the broadcast
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/57 for mobile receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/93 which locates resources of other pieces of information, e.g. URL [Uniform Resource Locator]
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/72 using electronic programme guides [EPG] focusing on identifying broadcast space time H04H60/39 ; menu type display of EPG in television receivers H04N21/47
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/00 Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD] real-time bi-directional transmission of motion video data H04N7/14 ; broadcast or conference over packet switching networks H04L12/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26283 for associating distribution time parameters to content, e.g. to generate electronic program guide data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4821 using a grid, e.g. sorted out by channel and broadcast time
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A method and a service side and a terminal for finding an interactive electrical service guide. Said method comprises: the server side down-issuing the information corresponding to the finding interactive ESG service to the terminal through the broadcast channel, and the terminal acquires the information for finding the interactive ESG service in the broadcast channel. Said server side comprises a sending module of the related information for finding interactive ESG service and a down-issue module for the ESG supplier list. The terminal comprises a receiving module of the related information for finding the interactive ESG service and a receiving module for the ESG supplier list.

Claims

1. A method for discovering an interactive Electronic Service Guide (ESG), comprising:

issuing, by a server, information of ESG providers which is related to discovering of an interactive ESG service to a terminal via a broadcast channel; and

obtaining, by the terminal, the information of the ESG providers which is related to discovering of the interactive ESG service from the broadcast channel.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

issuing, by the server, a list of ESG providers to the terminal;

obtaining, by the terminal, the list of ESG providers in an ESG bootstrap session via the broadcast channel, and determining an ESG provider in accordance with the list of ESG providers;

wherein the obtaining by the terminal of the information related to discovering of the interactive ESG service comprises;

obtaining, by the terminal, the information of the determined ESG provider, which is related to discovering of the interactive ESG service, via the broadcast channel.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the information related to discovering of the interactive ESG service is entrance information of the interactive ESG;

wherein issuing by the server of the information related to discovering of the interactive ESG service to the terminal comprises;

issuing, by the server, ESG discovery information or access information to the terminal through an ESG bootstrap session via the broadcast channel, carrying the entrance information of the interactive ESG.

4. The method according to claim 3, further comprising:

if the server stores the entrance information of the interactive ESG in the ESG discovery information and the entrance information of a broadcast ESG is also stored in the ESG discovery information, adding in the ESG discovery information an interactive ESG identity which distinguishes the entrance information of broadcast ESG and the entrance information of interactive ESG;

and if the server stores the entrance information of the interactive ESG in the ESG access information and the entrance information of the broadcast ESG is also stored in the ESG access information, the method further comprises;

adding in the ESG access information of the ESG provider the interactive ESG identity which distinguishes the entrance information of broadcast ESG and the entrance information of interactive ESG.

5. A server, comprising a module for sending information related to discovering of an interactive Electronic Service Guide (ESG) service and a module for issuing a list of ESG providers, wherein:

the module for sending information related to discovering of the interactive ESG service is adapted to issue information of ESG providers which is related to discovering of the interactive ESG service to a terminal via a broadcast channel; and

the module for issuing a list of ESG providers is adapted to issue a list of ESG providers to the terminal in an ESG bootstrap session via the broadcast channel.

6. The server according to claim 5, wherein the information related to discovering of the interactive ESG service is entrance information of the interactive ESG;

and

the module for sending information related to discovering of the interactive ESG service is adapted to store the entrance information of the interactive ESG in discovery information or access information of a corresponding ESG provider and to issue it to the terminal via the broadcast channel.

7. The server according to claim 5, further comprising:

a module for sending a relation between different ESGs, adapted to issue to the terminal ESG discovery information or access information, carrying the relation between different ESGs of the ESG providers.

8. The server according to claim 5, wherein the information related to discovering of the interactive ESG service is an address for obtaining Partition Declaration information;

and

the module for sending information related to discovering of the interactive ESG service is adapted to issue the address for obtaining the Partition Declaration information to the terminal via the broadcast channel.

9. The server according to claim 8, wherein the module for sending information related to discovering of the interactive ESG service comprises:

a module for creating a Partition Declaration, adapted to create the Partition Declaration information of ESG data provided by each ESG service; and

a module for sending a Partition Declaration, adapted to issue to the terminal the ESG access information, carrying the created Partition Declaration information.

10. The server according to claim 9, wherein:

the Partition Declaration information comprises an address for obtaining each ESG set, information on access type of the address and a consistency identity of the ESG set; and

the module for creating a Partition Declaration comprises;

a module for determining an ESG set, adapted to divide the ESG data provided by each ESG service into a plurality of ESG sets and to determine the address for obtaining each ESG set and the access type of the address; and

a module for determining a consistency identity, adapted to determine consistency of each ESG set in accordance with an order in which the plurality of ESG sets are provided to the terminal.

11. A terminal, comprising:

a module for receiving information related to discovering of an interactive Electronic Service Guide (ESG) service and a module for receiving a list of ESG providers, wherein;

the module for receiving a list of ESG providers is adapted to obtain a list of ESG providers via a broadcast channel, to display the list to a user and to record an ESG provider selected by the user; and

the module for receiving information related to discovering of the interactive ESG service is adapted to obtain corresponding information related to discovering of the interactive ESG service from the broadcast channel in accordance with the ESG provider selected by the user.

12. The terminal according to claim 11, wherein the information related to discovering the interactive ESG service is entrance information of the interactive ESG;

the module for receiving information related to discovering the interactive ESG service is adapted to obtain the entrance information of the interactive ESG from discovery information or access information of the ESG providers via the broadcast channel; and

the terminal further comprises;

a module to obtain Web Service invocation information, adapted to obtain the entrance information of the interactive ESG from the module for receiving information related to discovering of the interactive ESG service and to obtain the corresponding Web Service invocation information from an interactive channel in accordance with the obtained entrance information of the interactive ESG.

13. The terminal according to claim 11, further comprising:

a module for determining a relation between a broadcast ESG and an interactive ESG, adapted to determine a relation between the interactive ESG and a related broadcast ESG in accordance with the ESG access information or discovery information;

wherein, if the user selects the interactive ESG, the terminal further comprises;

a module for requesting data, adapted to submit a data request to a provider of the interactive ESG when determining that data as requested by the data request to be sent to the provider of the interactive ESG is within a data range of the interactive ESG in accordance with the interactive ESG selected by the user and the relation between the interactive ESG and the related broadcast ESG.

14. The terminal according to claim 11, wherein the information related to discovering of the interactive ESG service is an address for obtaining Partition Declaration information;

and

the module for receiving information related to discovering of the interactive ESG service is adapted to obtain the corresponding address for obtaining the Partition Declaration information from the broadcast channel in accordance with the ESG provider selected by the user.

15. The terminal according to claim 14, further comprising:

a module for obtaining a Partition Declaration, adapted to obtain the Partition Declaration information from the address; and

a module for obtaining an ESG set, adapted to obtain each ESG set recorded in the Partition Declaration information sequentially in accordance with the information of the address for obtaining the ESG set carried in the Partition Declaration information.

16. The terminal according to claim 15, further comprising:

a module for determining consistency of an ESG set, adapted to determine whether an ESG set obtained by the module for obtaining an ESG set possesses consistency in accordance with a consistency identity of the ESG set carried in the Partition Declaration information; and

a module for providing ESG data, adapted to parse an ESG set possessing consistency or a union of the ESG set possessing consistency and ESG sets previously obtained by the module for obtaining an ESG set but not provided to the user and to provide it to the user.