TELEVISION RECEIVING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND DISPLAY METHOD

• US 20100058418A1
• Filed: 06/04/2009
• Published: 03/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Yoshizawa, Junichi, Takeda, Kentaro
• Application Number:
  US12/478,100
• Publication Number:
  US 20100058418A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/110
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25875 involving end-user authentication restricting access to computer systems by authenticating users using a predetermined code G06F21/33; arrangements for secret or secure communication including means for verifying the identity or authority of a user of the system H04L9/32; networks authentication protocols H04L63/08; authentication in wireless network security H04W12/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/441 Acquiring end-user identification , e.g. using personal code sent by the remote control or by inserting a card
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/443 OS processes, e.g. booting an STB, implementing a Java virtual machine in an STB or power management in an STB
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/173 with two-way working, e.g. subscriber sending a programme selection signal

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a television receiving apparatus is connected to a server apparatus connected to a plurality of information processing apparatuses, each information processing apparatus includes a first application that is configured to input inputting information to a user who belongs to a group created by the server apparatus and that is configured to output outputting information created by the server apparatus in accordance with the inputting information. The television receiving apparatus includes: a channel transmitting unit configured to transmit channel information that identifies channels to be watched; an output information receiving unit configured to receive the outputting information from the server apparatus for the inputting information inputted by a user of the television receiving apparatus using the first application for transmitting to another user in the group in accordance with the channel information; and a second application configured to display the received outputting information.

Claims

1. A television receiving apparatus connected to a server apparatus via a network, the server being connected to a plurality of information processing apparatuses, each of the information processing apparatuses including a first application, the first application being configured to input inputting information to a user who belongs to a group created by the server apparatus and configured to output outputting information that is created by the server apparatus in accordance with the inputting information, the television receiving apparatus comprising:

a channel transmitting unit configured to transmit channel information that identifies channels to be watched;

an output information receiving unit configured to receive the outputting information from the server apparatus for the inputting information inputted by a user of the television receiving apparatus using the first application for transmitting to another user in the group created by the server apparatus in accordance with the channel information; and

a second application configured to display the received outputting information in a display unit.

2. The television receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the second application displays the outputting information in an outputting area of the display unit, wherein the outputting area is different from a display area of the display unit that displays images of the channel being watched by the user.

3. The television receiving apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a start-up information receiving unit configured to receive start-up information that indicates the user of the television receiving apparatus has started up the first application; and

a start-up unit configured to start up the second application upon receiving the start-up information.

4. An information processing apparatus connected to a server apparatus via a network, the server apparatus being connected to a plurality of television receiving apparatuses, the information processing apparatus comprising:

a group receiving unit configured to receive group information that identifies a group created by the server apparatus in accordance with channels watched by a user of the television receiving apparatuses; and

an application configured to output outputting information, created by the server apparatus, for inputting information inputted by a user of a designated group, wherein the user of the designated group inputs the inputting information to transmit the inputting information to another user of the designated group that indicates the group of the group information received.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

the group receiving unit is further configured to receive changed group information that is created by the server apparatus in accordance with channel changed by the user with the television receiving apparatuses;

and

the application is configured to output the outputting information, created by the server apparatus, for the inputting information inputted by the user of the designated group, wherein the application inputs the inputting information to be transmitted to another user of a new designated group, and the new designated group is the group of the changed group information.

6. A displaying method conducted by a television receiving apparatus, the television receiving apparatus being connected to a server apparatus via a network, the server apparatus being connected to a plurality of information processing apparatuses, the information processing apparatus including a first application configured to output outputting information created by the server apparatus in accordance with inputting information, wherein the plurality of information processing apparatuses input the inputting information to be transmitted by a user who belongs to a group created by the server apparatus, the displaying method comprising:

transmitting channel information which identifies channels to be watched, from a channel transmitting unit transmits to the server apparatus;

receiving, in an output information receiving unit, the output information, created by the server apparatus, from the server apparatus for inputting information inputted by a user of the television receiving apparatus using the first application for transmitting to another user in the group created by the server apparatus in accordance with the channel information; and

displaying the received outputting information in a display unit by a second application.