System and Method for Capturing Parameters and Register of Events in Portable Devices With Digital Television Receiver, Method for Remote Setting the Service of Parameter Capture and Events Register in Portable Devices, Respective Server and Portable Device

• US 20120174144A1
• Filed: 12/30/2010
• Published: 07/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adriana Keiko Kawai, Alexandre Crivellaro, André Ricardo Dias, Átila Leão Flores Xavier, Daniel Tost, De André Mazzoco, Bruno, Eduardo Seiti De Oliveira, Felipe De Melo Xavier, Gustavo Cincoetti, Leonardo Gomes Franco, Lucas Rogério De Freitas, Márcio Franco Quelhas Alves, Nickolas Seibel Butti, Patricia D.E. Freitas, Paulo Vicente Dutra Da Silva Santos Valente, Rodrigo Geraldi Carraro
• Original Assignee: Adriana Keiko Kawai, Alexandre Crivellaro, André Ricardo Dias, Átila Leão Flores Xavier, Daniel Tost, De André Mazzoco, Bruno, Eduardo Seiti De Oliveira, Felipe De Melo Xavier, Gustavo Cincoetti, Leonardo Gomes Franco, Lucas Rogério De Freitas, Márcio Franco Quelhas Alves, Nickolas Seibel Butti, Patricia D.E. Freitas, Paulo Vicente Dutra Da Silva Santos Valente, Rodrigo Geraldi Carraro
• Inventors: FLORES XAVIER, Átila Leão, SANTOS VALENTE, Paulo Vicente Dutra Da SILVA, GOMES FRANCO, Leonardo, RICARDO DIAS, André, CRIVELLARO, Alexandre, QUELHAS ALVES, Márcio Franco, DE FREITAS, Lucas Rogério, TOST, Daniel, DE OLIVEIRA, Eduardo Seiti, CINCOETTI, Gustavo, DE MELO XAVIER, Felipe, DE ANDRÉ MAZZOCO, Bruno, DE FREITAS, Patricia, CARRARO, Rodrigo GERALDI, KEIKO KAWAI, Adriana, SEIBEL BUTTI, Nickolas
• Granted Patent: US 8,850,463 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/14
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/27 Arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/31 Arrangements for monitoring the use made of the broadcast services
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/43 for identifying broadcast channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/44 for identifying broadcast stations
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44224 Monitoring of user activity on external systems, e.g. Internet browsing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6582 Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system and method for capturing and recording parameters of events on portable devices with digital television receiver, a method for remote configuration of service parameters for capturing and recording events on portable devices, as well as portable device and server. More specifically, a system and method for capturing audience data, the method for remote configuration of audience data capture service, especially adapted for digital TV services on portable devices such as mobile phones, smartphones, personal digital assistants PDA, among others.

The feature particular to the invention help in setting up remotely the service. Besides, another important aspect of the present architecture is the fact that it is completely based on software, using only resources that are already present in portable devices with embedded service.

Claims

1. System for capturing parameters and recording events on portable devices (101) with digital television receiver comprising:

A manager (111) that manages and processes the logic of receiving, transmitting and validating events generated by the service and received within the portable device (101), analyzing the arrival, requesting data on all components to enable the assembly of the message to be sent, checking if the event is valid and initializing or ending all other components within the service for capturing events;

A database (1), implemented in file, which includes an event queue to be sent to a server (102);

An interface (2) for configuration of service parameters, in which all the preference parameters for both the end user and the service are configured;

A SIM card interface (3) to obtain user information on the SIM card (ICCID) and inserting the same in the event to be sent to that server (102);

An interface (4) of the portable device (101), through which it is obtained the location information of the user at the time for the event computed in the service;

An interface TV circuit (5) of the Portable device (101) to collect information about the intensity of TV signal, the physical and logical channels at the time of collection of event information, as well as access to electronic program guide (EPG) or search for channels.

An SMS interface (6) of the Portable device (101) in a port defined by the server (102), to send the events encapsulated in an SMS message to said server (102) and receiving events for the configuration service for capturing parameters and registering events;

Means of queuing (7) to store the events received in a queue ordered by event date;

means (8) for formatting events to be saved in the queue to be sent by SMS channel, the events being encapsulated in accordance with the protocol DTVAM-DS.

Means for application of SMS and MMS (9) embedded in the portable device (101) to receive and process commands from the server (102) on a particular port, these commands being passed to that manager (111) that processes and executes the request remotely;

means for TV application (10), in which events are generated and forwarded to said manager (111) that processes and validates whether an event is suitable for registration or for disposal;

A manager (431) in said server (102) for receiving the information records and events captured by the portable device (101) and performs the management of the activity of remote configuration of service for capturing parameters and recording events in the portable device (101);

A radio channel interface through which the server (102) exchange SMS messages with the said portable device (101);

An SMS interface (42) embedded into the server (102) that validates the integrity of the data and forwards the same to the said manager (431);

A relational database (44) capable of managing all event data captured by that manager (431) and saved in the same, and

A Web Server (45) to process the data of said database (44), such information and records of events being captured processed and consolidated by that manager (431) to obtain the desired audience data.

2. System as in claim 1, wherein each and every event is always validated by the service previously stored in that database (1).

3. System as in claim 1, wherein the sending of events occurs when the number of bytes in which event information is packaged is near, but not it not greater than 140 bytes or the timing timeout limit.

4. System, according to claim 1, wherein said timeout is set to 10 minutes.

5. System as in claim 1, wherein, as events are sent to the server (102) and said server (102) confirms that the data arrived intact, these data are excluded from said database (1).

6. System as in claim 1, wherein said interface (4) of the Portable device (101) is used to obtain the phone country code (MCC) of the mobile network code (MNC) and the network identifier (Cell ID), in which the user was registered at the time of collection of the event, providing the user'"'"'s location and the region at the time of collection.

7. System as in claim 1, wherein this TV circuit interface (5) provides the following information:

User answered “

YES”

in the activation message of the system;

User answered “

NEVER”

in the activation message of the system;

User activated the system through an invitation message for activation;

User activated via the menu system;

TV is turned off (it means focus loss);

TV is turned on (meaning focus gain);

Changing Channels—

beginning the search of channels;

TV is tuned;

TV is not tuned;

Loss of TV signal;

Recovery of TV signal;

Results of searching channels;

Access to electronic program guide (EPG);

Exit of the electronic program guide (EPG);

Recognition of remote configuration;

Event of starting an incoming call, and

Event of ending an incoming call.

8. System as in claim 1, wherein the server (102) sends an SMS class 0 message with a port previously defined, and the interface that SMS (6) of the Portable device (101) receives the SMS message, checks the class and port, if it is class 0 and the port is predefined in the system, then the information that is passed to the manager (111) so that the parameters for capturing audience data are configured.

9. System, according to claim 1, wherein the configuration parameters of data capture audience includes:

Changing the value to show the activation message;

changing state of activation of the service for capturing audience data;

changing timeout to detect events in a specific category;

changing SMS address of the server (102); and

changing the value of accumulation period of system events.

10. System as in claim 1, wherein said queuing means (7) sends to the database (1) the current queue of events to be stored in file serving for redundancy in case failures.

11. System as in claim 1, wherein said means of application of SMS and MMS (9) is responsible for processing the invitation SMS messages coming from that server (102), showing a special interface to the user when reading the invitation.

12. System, according to claim 1, wherein special menus are added to the reading panel so that the user can accept direct from the means for applying (9) the service of capturing audience data without entering said TV application (10).

13. System as in claim 1, wherein this means for TV application (10) can also periodically show pop-ups inviting users to participate in the service for capturing audience data.

14. System as in claim 1, wherein a specific menu is provided so that the user can interact when he wants and enables or disables the service for data capture.

15. System as in claim 1, wherein such data collected through the TV application (10) are encapsulated within SMS messages sent, and these SMS messages sent to specific ports, determined by that server (102), with the restriction that those ports are not already specified by the standard SMS.

16. System, according to claim 1, wherein these messages are sent as Class 2 SMS, are not concatenated, and do not require confirmation of arrival at the server (102).

17. System, according to claim 1, wherein these SMS messages using the bytes of data available on SMS for sending coded in 8 bits and are sent in binary form.

18. System, according to claim 1, wherein these SMS messages are not sent in text form.

19. System as in claim 1, wherein once an event ends, another is attached to the end of the message to maximize data space in the SMS message.

20. System as in claim 1, wherein if an event does not fit the end of the SMS message so that it has to be broken, the whole event then moves to the next message, and the current message is sent with a small “

surplus”

in the data field.

21. System as in claim 1, wherein in the event of network failure, the events are stored on disk, until the portable device (1) is registered on a network again, all events are sent to the server (102).

22. System as in claim 1, wherein the SMS message from the server configuration (102) to the portable device (101) comprises one or a plurality of commands at a time, and all are processed in a once they reach the said portable device (101).

23. System as in claim 1, wherein said SMS message coming from said server (102) is a class 0 SMS, unique, addressing 16-bit port and is not concatenated, and the ports are configured as a client, as in SMS message for sending, class 2.

24. System as in claim 1, wherein in the case of sending an SMS class 0 message to the portable device (101), this interface SMS (42) embedded onto the server (102) validates the information generated by the server manager (431) and following the protocol packages DTVAM-SD.

25. System as in claim 1, wherein this manager (431) is able to cross all the databases of events, process requests for graphics and still refer to the Web Server (45) that needs provide these data in an organized way in the final reports.

26. Method for capturing parameters and registering events on portable devices (101) with digital television receiver wherein it comprises the following steps:

Initializing the service of capturing parameters and register events on the portable device 101 (Step E901);

providing the user'"'"'s information in the SIM card (ICCID) and insert the same in the event to be sent to the server, allowing the server to later compare the ICCID with a detailed record of the user (Step E902);

obtaining the location information of the user in the time for the event computed in the service (Step E903);

Collecting information about the intensity of TV signal, physical and logical channels at the time of the event collection and information access to electronic program guide (EPG) or searching for channels (step E904);

Storing the received events in a queue ordered by event date (Step E905);

Formatting the events to be saved in the queue for sending by encapsulating the events in accordance with the protocol DTVAM-DS (Step E906);

Repeating the steps E904 to E906 until the maximum size of 140 bytes of an SMS is reached or exceed the timeout of 10 minutes (Step E907); and

Sending events encapsulated in an SMS class 2message to the server 102 transparent to the user'"'"'s portable device 101 (Step E908).

27. Method as in claim 26, wherein each and every event is always validated by the service previously stored in said database (1).

28. Method as in claim 26, wherein sending of events occurs when the number of bytes in which event information is packaged is near, but not it not greater than 140 bytes or the timing timeout limit.

29. Method according to claim 26, wherein this timeout is set to 10 minutes.

30. Method as in claim 26, wherein, as events are sent to the server (102) and said server (102) confirms that the data arrived intact, these data are excluded from said database (1).

31. Method as in claim 26, wherein such a step (E904) is used to obtain the phone country code (MCC) of the mobile network code (MNC) and the network identifier (Cell ID), in which the user was registered at the time of collection of the event, providing the user'"'"'s location and the region at the time of collection.

32. Method as in claim 26, wherein such a step (E904) provides the following information:

User answered “

YES”

in the activation message of the Method;

User answered “

NEVER”

in the activation message of the Method;

User activated the Method through an invitation message for activation;

User activated via the menu Method;

TV is turned off (it means focus loss);

TV is turned on (meaning focus gain);

Changing Channels—

beginning the search of channels;

TV is tuned;

TV is not tuned;

Loss of TV signal;

Recovery of TV signal;

Results of searching channels;

Access to electronic program guide (EPG);

Exit of the electronic program guide (EPG);

Recognition of remote configuration;

Event of starting an incoming call, and Event of ending an incoming call.

33. Method as in claim 26, wherein these collected data is encapsulated within SMS messages sent in accordance with protocol DTVAM-DS, and those sent SMS messages on specific ports, determined by said server (102), with the restriction that those ports are not already specified by the standard SMS.

34. Method according to previous claim 26, wherein these messages are sent as Class 2 SMS, are not concatenated, and do not require confirmation of arrival at the server (102).

35. Method according to claim 26, wherein these SMS messages using the bytes of data available for sending the SMS message encoded in 8 bits and are sent in binary form.

36. Method according to claim 26, wherein these SMS messages are not sent in text form.

37. Method as in claim 26, wherein once an event ends, another is attached to the end to maximize data space in the SMS message.

38. Method as in claim 26, wherein if an event does not fit the end of the SMS message so that it has to be broken, the whole event then moves to the next message, and current message sent with a small “

surplus”

in the data field.

39. Method as in claim 26, wherein in the event of network failure, the events are stored on disk, so that the portable device (1) is registered on a network again, all events are sent to the server (102).

40. Method as in claim 26, wherein it facilitates the crossing of all the event databases, processing requests for graphics and still referring to the Web Server (45) that need to provide this data in an organized manner for final reports.

41. Method for remote configuration of service for capturing parameters and registering events on portable devices (101) with digital television receiver wherein it comprises the following steps:

Setting the portable devices (101) that will receive the setup message by means of the manager (431) (Step E1001);

Defining the parameters that are set on the portable devices (101) through the manager (431) (Step E1002);

Assembling SMS Class 0 messages with pre-defined port by the system, according to the protocol DTVAM-SD, which will be sent to portable devices (101) (Step E1003);

Sending messages from the server (102) to the portable device (101) (Step E1004);

Receiving the configuration server (102) on the portable device (101) on a specific port defined by the system (Step E1005) and

Processing the contents of the SMS in the portable device (101) and generate a set of actions to be performed by the manager (111) (Step E1006).

42. Method as in claim 41, wherein the server (102) sends an SMS class 0 message with a port previously defined, and said SMS interface (6) of the Portable device (101) receives the SMS message, checks the class and port, and if it is class 0 and the port is predefined in the system, then the information that is passed to the manager (111) so that parameters for the capture of audience data are configured.

43. Method according to claim 41, wherein these specific actions sent by that server manager (431) are included in the group comprising:

Changing the value to show the activation message;

changing state of activation of the service for capturing audience data;

changing timeout to detect events in a specific category;

changing SMS address of the server 102;

changing the value of accumulation period of system events, and

showing invitation message for activating the service data capture audience.

44. Method as in claim 41, wherein the SMS message from the server configuration (102) to the portable device (101) comprises one or a plurality of commands at a time, and all are processed in a once they reach the said portable device (101).

45. Method as in claim 42, wherein the said SMS message coming from that server (102) is a class 0 SMS, unique, 16-bit port addressing and it is not concatenated, and the ports are configured as a client, as class 2 SMS for sending.

46. Method as in claim 42, wherein in the case of sending a SMS class 0 for the portable device (101), this interface SMS (42) embedded into the server (102) validates the information generated by the server manager (431) and package them according to the protocol DTVAM-SD.

47. Portable Device (101) with digital television receiver comprising

A manager (111) that manages and processes the logic of receiving, transmitting and validating events generated by the service and received within the portable device (101), analyzing the arrival, requesting data on all components to enable the assembly of the message to be sent, checking if the event is valid and initializing or ending all other components within the service for capturing events;

A database (1), implemented in file, which includes an event queue to be sent to a server (102);

An interface (2) for configuration of service parameters, in which all the preference parameters for both the end user and the service are configured;

A SIM card interface (3) to obtain user information on the SIM card (ICCID) and inserting the same in the event to be sent to that server (102);

An interface (4) of the portable device (101), through which it is obtained the location information of the user at the time for the event computed in the service;

An interface TV circuit (5) of the Portable device (101) to collect information about the intensity of TV signal, the physical and logical channels at the time of collection of event information, as well as access to electronic program guide (EPG) or search for channels;

An SMS interface (6) of the Portable device (101) in a port defined by the server (102), to send the events encapsulated in an SMS message to said server (102) and receiving events for the configuration service for capturing parameters and registering events;

Means of queuing (7) to store the events received in a queue ordered by event date;

means (8) for formatting events to be saved in the queue to be sent by SMS channel, the events being encapsulated in accordance with the protocol DTVAM-DS.

Means for application of SMS and MMS (9) embedded in the portable device (101) to receive and process commands from the server (102) on a particular port, these commands being passed to that manager (111) that processes and executes the request remotely;

means for TV application (10), in which events are generated and forwarded to said manager (111) that processes and validates whether an event is suitable for registration or for disposal;

A manager (431) in said server (102) for receiving the information records and events captured by the portable device (101) and performs the management of the activity of remote configuration of service for capturing parameters and recording events in the portable device (101);

A radio channel interface through which the server (102) exchange SMS messages with the said portable device (101);

An SMS interface (42) embedded into the server (102) that validates the integrity of the data and forwards the same to the said manager (431);

A relational database (44) capable of managing all event data captured by that manager (431) and saved in the same, and

A Web Server (45) to process the data of said database (44), such information and records of events being captured processed and consolidated by that manager (431) to obtain the desired audience data.

48. Portable device as in claim 47, wherein each and every event is always validated by the service previously stored in that database (1).

49. Portable device as in claim 47, wherein the sending of events occurs when the number of bytes in which event information is packaged is near, but not it not greater than 140 bytes or the timing timeout limit.

50. Portable device as in claim 47, according to previous claim, wherein said timeout is set to 10 minutes.

51. Portable device as in claim 47, wherein, as events are sent to the server (102) and said server (102) confirms that the data arrived intact, these data are excluded from said database (1).

52. Portable device as in claim 47, wherein said interface (4) of the Portable device (101) is used to obtain the phone country code (MCC) of the mobile network code (MNC) and the network identifier (Cell ID), in which the user was registered at the time of collection of the event, providing the user'"'"'s location and the region at the time of collection.

53. Portable device as in claim 47, wherein this TV circuit interface (5) provides the following information:

User answered “

YES”

in the activation message of the system;

User answered “

NEVER”

in the activation message of the system;

User activated the system through an invitation message for activation;

User activated via the menu system;

TV is turned off (it means focus loss);

TV is turned on (meaning focus gain);

Changing Channels—

beginning the search of channels;

TV is tuned;

TV is not tuned;

Loss of TV signal;

Recovery of TV signal;

Results of searching channels;

Access to electronic program guide (EPG);

Exit of the electronic program guide (EPG);

Recognition of remote configuration;

Event of starting an incoming call, and

Event of ending an incoming call.

54. Portable device as in claim 47, wherein the SMS interface (6) receives the SMS message, checks the class and port, if it is class 0 and the port is predefined in the system, then the information that is passed to the manager (111) so that the parameters for capturing audience data are configured.

55. Portable Device, according to claim 47, wherein the configuration parameters of data capture audience includes:

Changing the value to show the activation message;

changing state of activation of the service for capturing audience data;

changing timeout to detect events in a specific category;

changing SMS address of the server (102); and

changing the value of accumulation period of system events.

56. Portable device as in claim 47, wherein said queuing means (7) sends to the database (1) the current queue of events to be stored in file serving for redundancy in case failures.

57. Portable device as in claim 47, wherein said means of application of SMS and MMS (9) is responsible for processing the invitation SMS messages coming from that server (102), showing a special interface to the user when reading the invitation.

58. Portable device, according to claim 47, wherein special menus are added to the reading panel so that the user can accept direct from the means for applying (9) the service of capturing audience data without entering said TV application (10).

59. Portable device as in claim 47, wherein this means for TV application (10) can also periodically show pop-ups inviting users to participate in the service for capturing audience data.

60. Portable device as in claim 47, wherein a specific menu is provided so that the user can interact when he wants and enables or disables the service for data capture.

61. Portable device as in claim 47, wherein such data collected through the TV application (10) are encapsulated within SMS messages sent, and these SMS messages sent to specific ports, determined by that server (102), with the restriction that those ports are not already specified by the standard SMS.

62. Server comprising:

A manager (431) that receives the information of records and events captured by portable device (101) and performs the management of the activity of remote configuration of service of capturing parameters and register of events in the portable device (101);

An interface radio channel through which the server (102) exchange SMS messages with said portable device (101);

An SMS interface (42) embedded into the server (102) that validates the integrity of the data and forwards the same to the said manager (431);

A relational database (44) capable of managing all event data captured by that manager (431) and saved in the same, and

A Web Server (45) to process the data of that database (44), and such information and records of events captured processed and consolidated by said manager (431) to obtain the desired audience data.

63. Server, as in claim 62, wherein in the case of sending an SMS class 0 message to the portable device (101), this interface SMS (42) embedded in the said server (102) validates the information generated by the server manager (431) and package it in accordance with the protocol DTVAM-SD.

64. Server, as in claim 62, wherein said manager (431) is able to cross all the databases of events, process requests for graphics and still refer to the Web Server (45) that needs provide these data in an organized way in the final reports.