METHOD OF OPERATING A RECEIVER

• US 20100265400A1
• Filed: 02/18/2010
• Published: 10/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony United Kingdom Limited (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony United Kingdom Limited (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: HEIDER, Frank Fritz
• Application Number:
  US12/707,880
• Publication Number:
  US 20100265400A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/553
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25841 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; arrangements for identifying locations of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/51; location of the user terminal in data switching networks H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2668 Creating a channel for a dedicated end-user group, e.g. insertion of targeted commercials based on end-user profiles information retrieval from the Internet by querying with filtering and personalisation G06F16/9535; arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast H04H20/10; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; adaptation of message content in packet-switching networks H04L51/063
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/434 Disassembling of a multiplex stream, e.g. demultiplexing audio and video streams, extraction of additional data from a video stream; Remultiplexing of multiplex streams; Extraction or processing of SI; Disassembling of packetised elementary stream demultiplexing of data packets for data networks, e.g. RTP/UDP H04L65/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications

Abstract

A method of operating a receiver, comprising: determining a location of the receiver by analyzing a broadcast signal received by the receiver, determining information for a user, the information being dependent on the determined location, and presenting the information to the user.

Claims

1. A method of operating a receiver, comprising:

determining a location of the receiver by analyzing a broadcast signal received by the receiver;

determining information for a user, the information being dependent on the determined location; and

presenting the information to the user.

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

communicating the location to a server via a communication network;

determining the information at the server; and

transmitting the information to the receiver.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information is determined by filtering data included in the received broadcast signal, the filtering being dependent on the determined location.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information is at least partly associated with television channels of the broadcast signal or with a content of the channels.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the location is determined by interpreting service information included in the broadcast signal.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the location is determined by measuring and interpreting a field strength of the received broadcast signal.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the location is determined based on television channels carried in the broadcast signal.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the broadcast signal includes transport streams in predetermined frequency bands, and wherein the location is determined based on the predetermined frequency bands.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the broadcast signal includes transport streams, and wherein the location is determined based on an organization of the television channels in the transport streams.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the broadcast signal includes a first part and a second part, the first and second parts being broadcast by a first broadcast station and a second broadcast station, respectively, wherein the first broadcast station is a broadcast station other than the second broadcast station, and wherein the location is determined based on the first and second parts.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the broadcast signal is a digital television signal.

12. A receiver, comprising:

a tuner adapted to receive a broadcast signal;

a data processor adapted to analyze the broadcast signal and to thereby determine a location of the receiver; and

an interface unit adapted to present information to a user, which information depends on the determined location.

13. The receiver according to claim 12, further comprising:

a communication unit adapted to communicate the determined location to a server over a network and adapted to receive the information from the server.

14. A server, comprising:

a communication unit adapted to receive a location from a receiver and adapted to transmit information to the receiver; and

a data processor adapted to determine the information, wherein the information is adapted to the location.

15. A system, comprising:

a receiver, comprising

a tuner adapted to receive a broadcast signal;

a data processor adapted to analyze the broadcast signal and to thereby determine a location of the receiver;

an interface unit adapted to present information to a user, which information depends on the determined location; and

a communication unit adapted to communicate the determined location over a network and adapted to receive the information; and

a server, comprising

a communication unit adapted to receive the determined location from the receiver and adapted to transmit the information to the receiver; and

a data processor adapted to determine the information with respect to the determined location.