COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, SERVER DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20110252085A1
• Filed: 01/20/2010
• Published: 10/13/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: BIGLOBE, Inc. (KDDI Corporation)
• Original Assignee: BIGLOBE, Inc. (KDDI Corporation)
• Inventors: Mase, Go, Okajima, Yasunori, Haneishi, Tadashi, Enomoto, Nobuyuki
• Application Number:
  US12/998,961
• Publication Number:
  US 20110252085A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/146 Markers for unambiguous identification of a particular session, e.g. session cookie or URL-encoding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6581 Reference data, e.g. a movie identifier for ordering a movie or a product identifier in a home shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8133 specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8352 involving content or source identification data, e.g. Unique Material Identifier [UMID]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8715 involving the mixing of the reproduced video signal with a non-recorded signal, e.g. a text signal

Abstract

A communication system according to the present invention has a display device (10) including a storage unit that stores a plurality of contents and contents identifiers which are different from contents, and a controller that successively outputs the contents and, when one of the contents is selected, sends a contents identifier corresponding to the selected one of the contents to a network, and a server (20) including a storage unit that stores processing items for the respective contents and a controller that, when the contents identifier is received from the display device via the network, generates a contents page including the processing item corresponding to the contents of the contents identifier.

Claims

1. A communication system comprising:

a display device including a storage unit that stores a plurality of contents and contents identifiers which are different from contents, and a controller that successively outputs the contents and, when one of the contents is selected, sends a contents identifier corresponding to the selected one of the contents to a network; and

a server including a storage unit that stores processing items for the respective contents and a controller that, when said contents identifier is received from said display device via said network, generates a contents page including the processing item corresponding to the contents of said contents identifier.

2. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein said controller of the server sends information for acquiring said contents page to an information processing device via said network.

4. The communication system according to claim 2, wherein said information processing device has an electronic mail address registered in advance in the storage unit of said server;

and

said controller of the server generates a uniform resource locator (URL) of the contents page as information for acquiring said contents page, and sends an electronic mail including the URL of the contents page to said electronic mail address.

5. The communication system according to claim 4, wherein when a controller of said information processing device registers said electronic mail address in said server, the controller of said information processing device sends a device type identifier corresponding to a display form of a screen of a display unit of the information processing device, to said server;

and

said controller of the server registers said device type identifier received from said information processing device, as well as said electronic mail address, in said storage unit; and

when said controller of the server receives a connection request for requesting a connection to the URL of said contents page from said information processing device, after having sent said electronic mail to said information processing device, said controller of the server generates said contents page of the display form corresponding to said device type identifier of said information processing device.

8. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the processing items which are stored in the storage unit of said server are classified according to both or one of the categories that are representative of service zones of the contents and formats that are representative of data recording forms of the contents.

9. The communication system according to claim 8, wherein when said controller of the server generates said contents page, said controller of the server refers to information stored in the storage unit of said server, extracts the category and the format which correspond to said contents identifier, and generates a contents page corresponding to the category and the format which are extracted.

3. (canceled)

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10. (canceled)

11. A server device connected through a network to a display device for successively outputting a plurality of contents, comprising:

a storage unit that stores processing items for the respective contents; and

a controller that, when a contents identifier corresponding to a selected one of said contents is received from said display device, generates a contents page including the processing item corresponding to the contents of said contents identifier.

12. The server device according to claim 11, wherein said controller sends information for acquiring said contents page to an information processing device via said network.

14. The server device according to claim 12, wherein said information processing device has an electronic mail address registered in said storage unit;

and

said controller generates a uniform resource locator (URL) of the contents page as the information for acquiring said contents page, and sends an electronic mail including the URL of the contents page to said electronic mail address.

15. The server device according to claim 14, wherein a device type identifier corresponding to a display form of a screen of a display unit of the information processing device, as well as said electronic mail address, is registered in advance in said storage unit;

and

when said controller receives a connection request for requesting a connection to the URL of said contents page from said information processing device, after having sent said electronic mail to said information processing device, said controller generates said contents page of the display form corresponding to said device type identifier of said information processing device.

16. The server device according to claim 14, wherein when said controller generates said contents page, said controller generates contents pages of a plurality of respective display forms and stores the generated contents pages in said storage unit;

and

when said controller receives a connection request for requesting a connection to the URL of said contents page from said information processing device, after having sent said electronic mail to said information processing device, and when said controller receives a device type identifier corresponding to a display form of a screen of a display unit of the information processing device, said controller selects one of the contents pages stored in said storage unit which corresponds to said device type identifier.

18. The server device according to claim 11, wherein the processing items which are stored in the storage unit are classified according to both or one of the categories that are representative of service zones of the contents and formats that are representative of data recording forms of the contents.

19. The server device according to claim 18, wherein when said controller generates said contents page, said controller refers to information stored in said storage unit, extracts the category and the format which correspond to said contents identifier, and generates a contents page corresponding to the category and the format which are extracted.

13. (canceled)

17. (canceled)

20. (canceled)

21. An information processing method carried out by a server device which is connected through a network to a display device for successively outputting a plurality of contents, comprising:

storing processing items for the respective contents; and

when a contents identifier corresponding to a selected one of said contents is received from said display device, generating a contents page including the processing item corresponding to the contents of said contents identifier.

22. The information processing method according to claim 21, further comprising:

sending information for acquiring said contents page to an information processing device via said network.

24. The information processing method according to claim 22, further comprising:

storing, in advance, an electronic main address of said information processing device;

generating a uniform resource locator (URL)of the contents page as the information for acquiring said contents page; and

sending an electronic mail including the URL of the contents page to said electronic mail address.

25. The information processing method according to claim 24, further comprising:

storing, in advance, a device type identifier corresponding to a display form of a screen of a display unit of the information processing device, as well as said electronic mail address; and

when a connection request for requesting a connection to the URL of said contents page is received from said information processing device, after having sent said electronic mail to said information processing device, generating said contents page of the display form corresponding to said device type identifier of said information processing device.

26. The information processing method according to claim 24, further comprising:

when said contents page is generated, generating contents pages of a plurality of respective display forms and storing the generated contents pages; and

when a connection request for requesting a connection to the URL of said contents page is received from said information processing device, after having sent said electronic mail to said information processing device, and when a device type identifier corresponding to a display form of a screen of a display unit of the information processing device is received, selecting one of the contents pages stored in said storage unit which corresponds to said device type identifier.

28. The information processing method according to claim 21, further comprising:

when the processing items are stored for each of said contents, classifying and storing the processing items according to both or one of the categories that are representative of service zones of the contents and formats that are representative of data recording forms of the contents.

29. The information processing method according to claim 28, further comprising:

when said contents page is generated, referring to stored information and extracting the category and the format which correspond to said contents identifier; and

generating a contents page corresponding to the category and the format which are extracted.

23. (canceled)

27. (canceled)

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