Reception Apparatus, Content Reception Method, and Program

• US 20100100635A1
• Filed: 10/14/2009
• Published: 04/22/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Masunaga, Shinya, Niwa, Yoshikatsu, TAKEMURA, Tomoaki
• Application Number:
  US12/579,048
• Publication Number:
  US 20100100635A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/231
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/61 taking into account QoS or priority requirements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44004 involving video buffer management, e.g. video decoder buffer or video display buffer
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44209 Monitoring of downstream path of the transmission network originating from a server, e.g. bandwidth variations of a wireless network arrangements for maintenance or administration in data switching networks involving bandwidth and capacity management H04L41/0896
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4508 Management of client data or end-user data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/458 Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream, e.g. by combining a locally stored advertisement with an incoming stream; Updating operations, e.g. for OS modules ; time-related management operations arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast or during the distribution H04H20/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4758 for providing answers, e.g. voting
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/173 with two-way working, e.g. subscriber sending a programme selection signal

Abstract

A reception apparatus includes a download section, a storage section, a judgment section, and a presentation section. The download section downloads a content via a network. The storage section stores the content being downloaded. The judgment section judges, based on a transmission rate of the content being downloaded and a standard reproduction rate of the content, whether the content can be reproduced continuously. The presentation section presents a result of the judgment to a user.

Claims

1. A reception apparatus, comprising:

a download means for downloading a content via a network;

a storage section to store the content being downloaded;

a judgment means for judging, based on a transmission rate of the content being downloaded and a standard reproduction rate of the content, whether the content can be reproduced continuously; and

a presentation means for presenting a result of the judgment to a user.

2. The reception apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the download means measures the transmission rate of the content being downloaded, and

wherein the judgment means judges, when an instruction to reproduce the content being downloaded is input, whether the content can be reproduced continuously based on the transmission rate measured by the download means and the standard reproduction rate of the content.

3. The reception apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the judgment means calculates, when it is judged that the content cannot be reproduced continuously, a wait time required until the download of the content ends, and

wherein the presentation means presents to the user the wait time together with the result of the judgment.

4. The reception apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the download means preferentially downloads, in a state where a plurality of contents can be downloaded at the same time, the content when it is judged by the judgment means that the content cannot be reproduced continuously.

5. The reception apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein the download means stops, for preferentially downloading the content to be reproduced, downloads of contents other than the content to be reproduced.

6. The reception apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the download means is capable of downloading a plurality of contents at the same time, and

wherein the judgment means judges a content that is capable of being reproduced continuously based on the transmission rate of each content being downloaded and the standard reproduction rate of the content.

7. The reception apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the download means measures the transmission rate of each content being downloaded in a state where downloads of contents other than the content as a target of the measurement are stopped, and

wherein the judgment means judges, based on the transmission rate of each content being downloaded and the standard reproduction rate of the content, a content that is capable of being reproduced continuously while the downloads of contents other than the content as the target of the measurement are stopped.

8. A content reception method, comprising:

downloading a content via a network;

storing the content being downloaded in a storage section;

judging, based on a transmission rate of the content being downloaded and a standard reproduction rate of the content, whether the content can be reproduced continuously; and

presenting a result of the judgment to a user.

9. A program causing a computer to operate as a reception apparatus, the program causing the computer to function as:

a download means for downloading a content via a network;

a storage section to store the content being downloaded;

a judgment means for judging, based on a transmission rate of the content being downloaded and a standard reproduction rate of the content, whether the content can be reproduced continuously; and

a presentation means for presenting a result of the judgment to a user.