METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING PRESENTATION OF SERVICE GUIDES

• US 20100287461A1
• Filed: 05/07/2010
• Published: 11/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Conversant Wireless Licensing S.à.r.l. (f/k/a Core Wireless Licensing S.a.r.l.) (MOSAID Technologies Inc. (f/k/a Conversant Intellectual Property Management))
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Oksanen, Ilkka Antero, Paila, Toni Juhani
• Granted Patent: US 9,906,832 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/236
• 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: H04H 60/73 using meta-information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2362 Generation or processing of Service Information [SI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4345 Extraction or processing of SI, e.g. extracting service information from an MPEG stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73

Abstract

An approach is provided for presenting service guides. A head-end platform generates a service guide fragment and inserts a tag into the service guide fragment to generate a modified service guide fragment. The head-end platform then causes, at least in part, transmission of the modified service guide fragment. A user equipment receives the service guide fragment and detects the tag in the service guide fragment. The user equipment then determines a transformation type based, at least in part, on the tag. The user equipment causes, at least in part, performing of the transformation and output of a transformed presentation.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

generating a service guide fragment;

inserting a tag into the service guide fragment to generate a modified service guide fragment; and

causing, at least in part, transmission of the modified service guide fragment.

2. A method of claim 1, wherein the tag points to an Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XLST).

3. A method of claim 1, wherein the service guide fragment is eXtensible Markup Language (XML)-based.

4. A method of claim 1, wherein the tag is an href attribute of the service guide fragment.

5. A method of claim 1, wherein the modified service guide fragment is identified based, at least in part, on an identifier.

6. An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory including computer program code for one or more programs,

the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following,

generate a service guide fragment;

insert a tag into the service guide fragment to generate a modified service guide fragment; and

cause, at least in part, transmission of the modified service guide fragment.

7. An apparatus of claim 6, wherein the tag points to an Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XLST).

8. An apparatus of claim 6, wherein the service guide fragment is eXtensible Markup Language (XML)-based.

9. An apparatus of claim 6, wherein the tag is an href attribute of the service guide fragment.

10. An apparatus of claim 6, wherein the apparatus is a head-end platform.

11. A method comprising:

receiving a service guide fragment;

detecting a tag in the service guide fragment;

determining a transformation type based, at least in part, on the tag;

causing, at least in part, performing of the transformation; and

causing, at least in part, outputting of a transformed presentation.

12. A method of claim 11, further comprising:

determining one or more other service guide fragments to transform.

13. A method of claim 11, wherein the tag points to an Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XLST), and wherein the service guide fragment is eXtensible Markup Language (XML)-based.

14. A method of claim 11, wherein the transformed presentation is in the form of a predefined representation, an Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) web representation, or a rich media representation.

15. A method of claim 11, wherein the tag is an href attribute of the service guide fragment, the href attribute pointing to a local document.

16. An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory including computer program code for one or more programs,

the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following,

receive a service guide fragment;

detect a tag in the service guide fragment;

determine a transformation type based, at least in part, on the tag;

cause, at least in part, performing of the transformation; and

cause, at least in part, outputting of a transformed presentation.

17. An apparatus of claim 16, wherein the apparatus is further caused to:

determine one or more other service guide fragments to transform.

18. An apparatus of claim 16, wherein the tag points to an Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XLST), and wherein the service guide fragment is eXtensible Markup Language (XML)-based.

19. An apparatus of claim 16, wherein the transformed presentation is in the form of a predefined representation, an Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) web representation, or a rich media representation.

20. An apparatus of claim 16, wherein the tag is an href attribute of the service guide fragment, the href attribute pointing to a local document.