BANDWIDTH REPORTING FOR TELEVISIONS

• US 20110072478A1
• Filed: 09/24/2009
• Published: 03/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sugiyama, Nobukazu, Saha, Dipendu, Wong, Ling Jun, Nguyen, Djung, Patil, Abhishek, Jing, Xiangpeng
• Application Number:
  US12/566,483
• Publication Number:
  US 20110072478A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/110
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64738 Monitoring network characteristics, e.g. bandwidth, congestion level data switched network analysis H04L41/14; monitoring functioning in data switched networks H04L43/0817; flow control in packet networks H04L47/10

Abstract

Techniques for reporting bandwidth in televisions include displaying bandwidth information for receiving one or more instances of the content and receiving a selection of a given instance of the content in response to the displayed bandwidth information. In addition, the techniques include receiving bandwidth usage history for one or more networks and displaying the bandwidth usage history.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a network-enabled television from a given network, bandwidth information regarding content;

displaying, on the network-enabled television, the bandwidth information for receiving one or more instances of the content;

receiving, on the network-enabled television, a selection of a given instance of the content in response to the displayed bandwidth information;

sending, by the network-enabled television on the given network, a request for the given instance of the content in response to the received selection;

receiving, by the network-enabled television from the given network, the requested given instance of the content; and

displaying, on the network-enabled television, the received given instance of the content.

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

determining, by the network-enabled television, if the given network has a bandwidth restriction;

receiving the bandwidth information regarding the content if the given network has a bandwidth restriction; and

displaying the bandwidth information if the given network has a bandwidth restriction.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein displaying the bandwidth information comprises:

generating a graphical user interface including a content identifier and a bandwidth parameter for each instance of the content; and

displaying the graphical user interface.

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

receiving, by the network-enabled television, one or more profile parameters;

generating, by the network-enabled television, a profile; and

displaying the bandwidth information for receiving one or more instances of the content based on one or more profiles.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising receiving, on the network-enabled television, bandwidth usage history.

6. The method according to claim 5, further comprising:

receiving, on the network-enabled television, a request to display bandwidth usage history; and

displaying, on the network-enabled television, the bandwidth usage history.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein displaying the bandwidth usage history comprises:

generating a graphical user interface including bandwidth usage parameter; and

displaying the graphical user interface.

8. The method according to claim 6, further comprising:

determining, by the network-enabled television, if the given network has a bandwidth restriction;

receiving the bandwidth usage history if the given network has a bandwidth restriction; and

displaying the bandwidth usage history if the given network has a bandwidth restriction.

9. The method according to claim 5, further comprising:

determining, by the network-enabled television, a suggested network plan based on the bandwidth usage history; and

displaying, on the network-enabled television, the suggested network plan.

10. One or more computing device readable media containing a plurality of computing device-executable instructions which when executed cause a system to implement a method comprising:

receiving, by a network-enabled television, information indicating an amount of bandwidth for receiving one or more instances of one or more content on one or more networks;

displaying, on the network-enabled television, the bandwidth information for receiving the one or more instances of the one or more content;

receiving, on the network-enabled television, a selection of a given instance of a given content in response to the displayed bandwidth information;

sending, by the network-enabled television on a given network, a request for the given instance of the given content in response to the received selection;

receiving, by the network-enabled television from the given network, the requested given instance of the given content; and

displaying, on the network-enabled television, the received given instance of the given content.

11. The one or more computing device readable media containing the plurality of computing device-executable instructions which when executed cause the system to implement the method of claim 10, further comprising:

determining, by the network-enabled television, if the given network has a bandwidth restriction;

receiving the information indicating the amount of bandwidth for receiving the content if the given network has a bandwidth restriction; and

displaying the bandwidth information if the given network has a bandwidth restriction.

12. The one or more computing device readable media containing the plurality of computing device-executable instructions which when executed cause the system to implement the method of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving, by the network-enabled television, one or more profile parameters;

generating, by the network-enabled television, a profile; and

displaying the bandwidth information for receiving one or more instances of the content based on one or more profiles.

13. The one or more computing device readable media containing the plurality of computing device-executable instructions which when executed cause the system to implement the method of claim 12, further comprising receiving, on the network-enabled television, bandwidth usage history.

14. The one or more computing device readable media containing the plurality of computing device-executable instructions which when executed cause the system to implement the method of claim 13, further comprising:

receiving, on the network-enabled television, a request to display bandwidth usage history; and

displaying, on the network-enabled television, the bandwidth usage history.

15. The one or more computing device readable media containing the plurality of computing device-executable instructions which when executed cause the system to implement the method of claim 14, further comprising:

determining, by the network-enabled television, if the given network has a bandwidth restriction;

receiving the bandwidth usage history if the given network has a bandwidth restriction; and

displaying the bandwidth usage history if the given network has a bandwidth restriction.

16. One or more computing device readable media containing a plurality of computing device-executable instructions which when executed cause a system to implement a method comprising:

receiving, on the network-enabled television, bandwidth usage history for one or more networks;

receiving, on the network-enabled television, a request to display bandwidth usage history; and

displaying, on the network-enabled television, the bandwidth usage history for the one or more networks.

17. The one or more computing device readable media containing the plurality of computing device-executable instructions which when executed cause the system to implement the method of claim 16, further comprising:

determining, by the network-enabled television, if each of the one or more networks have a bandwidth restriction;

receiving, on the network-enabled television, the bandwidth usage history if the given network has the bandwidth restriction; and

displaying, on the network-enabled television, the bandwidth usage history for each of the given networks that have the bandwidth restriction.

18. The one or more computing device readable media containing the plurality of computing device-executable instructions which when executed cause the system to implement the method of claim 17, further comprising:

receiving, by the network-enabled television, one or more profile parameters;

generating, by the network-enabled television, a profile; and

displaying the bandwidth usage history for each of the given networks that have the bandwidth restriction based on one or more profiles.

19. The one or more computing device readable media containing the plurality of computing device-executable instructions which when executed cause the system to implement the method of claim 17, wherein the bandwidth usage history is received from each of one or more applications used to download content.

20. The one or more computing device readable media containing the plurality of computing device-executable instructions which when executed cause the system to implement the method of claim 17, wherein the bandwidth usage history is received from one or more network interface drivers.