SERVICE INFORMATION PROVISION APPARATUS AND SERVICE INFORMATION ACQUISITION APPARATUS

• US 20110258673A1
• Filed: 11/11/2009
• Published: 10/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Imai, Shigeru, Akatsu, Shinji, Asai, Kohtaro, Matsubara, Masami, Miura, Shin, Akiyama, Takumi
• Granted Patent: US 8,943,544 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/109
• 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 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80

Abstract

A service information provision apparatus is provided with a data service information table configured from a service discovery information table showing association of specific information of a service provider and service discovery information as service content information provided by the service provider, and a service offer information table showing association of the service discovery information of the service discovery information table and data contents corresponding to the service discovery information.

Claims

1. A service information provision apparatus comprising a data service information table in which specific information of a service provider that provides data is associated with service content information the service provider provides.

2. The service information provision apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the data service information table is configured from a service discovery information table showing association of the specific information of the service provider with service discovery information serving as the service content information the service provider provides, and a service offer information table showing association of the service discovery information of the service discovery information table with service offer information showing data content corresponding to the service discovery information.

3. The service information provision apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the service discovery information table includes, in the service discovery information, specific information of a service provider that is different from the service provider and service content information provided by the different service provider.

4. The service information provision apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the data service information table is configured from a service provider discovery information table showing association with the service provider discovery information serving as the service content information providing specific information of the service provider, the service discovery information table and the service offer information table.

5. A service information acquisition apparatus comprising:

a unit for requesting service discovery information to a service provider configuration information server;

a unit for requesting service offer information to a service server specified in specific information of the service server that is indicated in the service discovery information that is responded to the request by the unit for requesting the service discovery information; and

a unit for acquiring the service offer information that is responded to the request by the unit for requesting the service offer information.

6. The service information acquisition apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the unit for requesting the service discovery information requests further the service discovery information to a service provider configuration information server that is specified in specific information of a service provider that is different from the service provider, to which the service provider configuration information server belongs, and which is indicated in the service discovery information responded to the request for the service discovery information.

7. The service information acquisition apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the unit for requesting the service offer information requests the service offer information to a service server that is specified in specific information of a service provider that is different from the service provider, to which the service provider configuration information server belongs, and which is indicated in the service discovery information responded to the request by the unit for requesting the service discovery information.

8. The service information acquisition apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising a unit for requesting the service provider discovery information to a network configuration information server, wherein the unit for requesting the service discovery information requests the service discovery information to the service provider configuration information server that is specified in specific information of the service provider that is indicated in the service provider discovery information responded to the request by the unit for requesting the service provider discovery information.