METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING BROADCASTING SERVICE

• US 20120011556A1
• Filed: 01/15/2010
• Published: 01/12/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Kang, Jung-Won, Cho, Yong-Ju, Yoo, Jeong-Ju, Hong, Jin-Woo, Truong, Cong-Thang
• Application Number:
  US13/144,834
• Publication Number:
  US 20120011556A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/113
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/73 using meta-information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/254 Management at additional data server, e.g. shopping server, rights management server arrangements for maintenance or administration in data networks H04L41/00; network services using third party service providers H04L67/53
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2665 Gathering content from different sources, e.g. Internet and satellite
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• 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 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/165 Centralised control of user terminal subsequent to an upstream request signal H04N7/17345; Registering at central by two-way working H04N7/17309

Abstract

A method for providing a broadcasting service containing contents includes: generating contents representations metadata for describing possible representations of the contents; and outputting the contents representations metadata, wherein the contents representations metadata includes one or more contents representations description elements which describe a metadata tool defined by a standard specification.

Claims

1. A method for providing a broadcasting service containing contents, the method comprising:

generating contents representations metadata for describing possible representations of the contents; and

outputting the contents representations metadata,

wherein the contents representations metadata comprises one or more contents representations description elements which describe a metadata tool defined by a standard specification.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the metadata tool comprises at least one of VariationSet defined in MPEG-7, AdaptationQoS defined in MPEG-21, and CrossConversionQoS defined in MPEG-21.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the contents representations metadata further comprises an URI element which references to a description of contents representation existing outside the contents representations metadata.

4. A method for providing a broadcasting service containing contents from a service provider to a user, the method comprising:

generating an adaptation capabilities metadata for describing contents adaptation capabilities of the service provider; and

outputting the adaptation capabilities metadata,

wherein the adaptation capabilities metadata comprises at least one of a transmutation capability element, an adjustment capability element, a translation capability element, and an addition capability element.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the transmutation capability element comprises a delay example element which describes a delay example of a transmutation method described in the transmutation capability element.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the transmutation capability element comprises an original format element and a destination format element.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the adjustment capability element comprises contents format element and a conversion method element.

8. The method of claim 4, wherein the translation capability element comprises an original language element, a destination language element, and a language format element.

9. The method of claim 4, wherein the addition capability element comprises a holder format element, an added object element, an added object format element, and an added operation element.

10. An apparatus for providing a broadcasting service containing contents, the apparatus comprising:

a metadata generation unit configured to generate contents representations metadata for describing possible representations of the contents; and

an output unit configured to output the contents representations metadata,

wherein the contents representations metadata comprises one or more contents representations description elements which describe a metadata tool defined by a standard specification.

11. An apparatus for providing a broadcasting service containing contents from a service provider to a user, the apparatus comprising:

a metadata generation unit configured to generate an adaptation capabilities metadata for describing contents adaptation capabilities of the service provider; and

an output unit configured to output the adaptation capabilities metadata, wherein the adaptation capabilities metadata comprises at least one of a transmutation capability element, an adjustment capability element, a translation capability element, and an addition capability element.

12. A method for consuming a broadcasting service containing contents, the method comprising:

receiving contents representations metadata for describing possible representations of the contents; and

selecting contents to be provided to a user by using the contents representations metadata,

wherein the contents representations metadata comprises one or more contents representations description elements which describe a metadata tool defined by a standard specification.

13. A method for consuming a broadcasting service containing contents, the method comprising:

receiving an adaptation capabilities metadata for describing contents adaptation capabilities of a service provider; and

selecting contents to be provided to a user by using the adaptation capabilities metadata,

wherein the adaptation capabilities metadata comprises at least one of a transmutation capability element, an adjustment capability element, a translation capability element, and an addition capability element.

14. An apparatus for consuming a broadcasting service containing contents, the apparatus comprising:

an input unit configured to receive contents representations metadata for describing possible representations of the contents; and

a control unit configured to select contents to be provided to a user by using the contents representations metadata,

wherein the contents representations metadata comprises one or more contents representations description elements which describe a metadata tool defined by a standard specification.

15. An apparatus for consuming a broadcasting service containing contents, the apparatus comprising:

an input unit configured to receiving an adaptation capabilities metadata for describing contents adaptation capabilities of a service provider; and

a control unit configured to select contents to be provided to a user by using the adaptation capabilities metadata,

wherein the adaptation capabilities metadata comprises at least one of a transmutation capability element, an adjustment capability element, a translation capability element, and an addition capability element.