TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND METHOD, RECEPTION APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION SYSTEM

• US 20120054267A1
• Filed: 03/25/2011
• Published: 03/01/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yamagishi, Yasuaki, Kitazato, Naohisa
• Granted Patent: US 8,909,694 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/33 Arrangements for monitoring the users' behaviour or opinions
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/65 for using the result on users' side
• 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: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23614 Multiplexing of additional data and video streams arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information H04H20/28
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2668 Creating a channel for a dedicated end-user group, e.g. insertion of targeted commercials based on end-user profiles information retrieval from the Internet by querying with filtering and personalisation G06F16/9535; arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast H04H20/10; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; adaptation of message content in packet-switching networks H04L51/063
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/454 Content or additional data filtering, e.g. blocking advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4667 Processing of monitored end-user data, e.g. trend analysis based on the log file of viewer selections
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4755 for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4758 for providing answers, e.g. voting
• 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 21/8545 for generating interactive applications

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a transmission apparatus for distributing a content to a client, including a script generation section for generating a script for obtaining user side answer information representative of an answer of a user of the client to a question regarding liking of the user, and transmission section for transmitting the script and provider side answer information representative of an answer set by a provider which provides the content to the question regarding the liking of the user to the client.

Claims

1. A transmission apparatus for distributing a content to a client, comprising:

script generation means for generating a script for obtaining user side answer information representative of an answer of a user of the client to a question regarding liking of the user; and

transmission means for transmitting the script and provider side answer information representative of an answer set by a provider which provides the content to the question regarding the liking of the user to the client.

2. The transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said script generation means generates the script for obtaining the user side answer information representative of the answer of the user based on log information representative of a behavior log of the user.

3. The transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said script generation means generates the script for obtaining the user side answer information of a format which can be grasped by the provider.

4. The transmission apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising metadata generation means for generating metadata including the provider side answer information as metadata of the content corresponding to the answer set by the provider;

said transmission means transmitting the metadata to the client.

5. The transmission apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

query generation means for generating a query representative of a combination of answers set by the provider,

said transmission means transmitting the query to the client.

6. A transmission method for a transmission apparatus for distributing a content to a client, comprising the steps of:

generating a script for obtaining user side answer information representative of an answer of a user of the client to a question regarding liking of the user; and

transmitting the script and provider side answer information representative of an answer set by a provider which provides the content to the question regarding the liking of the user to the client.

7. A reception apparatus for acquiring a content distributed from a server, comprising:

script execution means for executing a script transmitted from the server for obtaining user side answer information representative of an answer of a user to a question regarding liking of the user; and

matching means for carrying out matching between the user side answer information and provider side answer information transmitted from the server and representative of an answer set by a provider which provides the content to the answer to determine acquisition of the content distributed from the server.

8. The reception apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said script execution means executes the script for obtaining the user side answer information representative of the answer of the user based on log information representative of a behavior log of the user.

9. The reception apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said script execution means executes the script for obtaining the user side answer information of a format which can be grasped by the provider.

10. The reception apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said matching means carries out the matching to determine acquisition of the content corresponding to metadata including the provider side answer information.

11. The reception apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said matching means carries out the matching based on the user side answer information and a query representative of a combination of answers set by the provider transmitted from the server to determine acquisition of the content distributed from the server.

12. The reception apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said script execution means executes the script for generating a query representative of a combination of answers of the users to the question regarding the liking of the user, and

said matching means carries out the matching based on the query and the provider side answer information transmitted from the server to determine acquisition of the content distributed from the server.

13. A reception method for acquiring a content distributed from a server, comprising the steps of:

executing a script transmitted from the server for obtaining user side answer information representative of an answer of a user to a question regarding liking of the user; and

carrying out matching between the user side answer information and provider side answer information transmitted from the server and representative of an answer set by a provider which provides the content to the answer to determine acquisition of the content distributed from the server.

14. A transmission and reception system, comprising:

a transmission apparatus for distributing a content; and

a reception apparatus for acquiring the content distributed from said transmission apparatus;

said transmission apparatus including script generation means for generating a script for obtaining user side answer information representative of an answer of a user of said reception apparatus to a question regarding liking of the user, and

transmission means for transmitting the script and provider side answer information representative of an answer set by a provider which provides the content to the question regarding the liking of the user to said reception apparatus,

said reception apparatus including

script execution means for executing the script transmitted from said transmission apparatus for obtaining the user side answer information, and

matching means for carrying out matching between the user side answer information and the provider side answer information transmitted from said transmission apparatus to determine acquisition of the content distributed from said transmission apparatus.

15. A transmission apparatus for distributing a content to a client, comprising:

a script generation section configured to generate a script for obtaining user side answer information representative of an answer of a user of the client to a question regarding liking of the user; and

a transmission section configured to transmit the script and provider side answer information representative of an answer set by a provider which provides the content to the question regarding the liking of the user to the client.

16. A reception apparatus for acquiring a content distributed from a server, comprising:

a script execution section configured to execute a script transmitted from the server for obtaining user side answer information representative of an answer of a user to a question regarding liking of the user; and

a matching section configured to carry out matching between the user side answer information and provider side answer information transmitted from the server and representative of an answer set by a provider which provides the content to the answer to determine acquisition of the content distributed from the server.