MEMORY ALLOCATION TO STORE BROADCAST INFORMATION

• US 20130218831A1
• Filed: 12/03/2012
• Published: 08/22/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Conversant Wireless Licensing S.à.r.l. (f/k/a Core Wireless Licensing S.a.r.l.) (MOSAID Technologies Inc. (f/k/a Conversant Intellectual Property Management))
• Original Assignee: Jian Ma
• Inventors: Han, Li, Li, Yuhong, MA, Jian
• Granted Patent: US 9,043,470 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/609
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/23 Updating
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/504 Resource capping
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/508 Monitor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5011 the resources being hardware resources other than CPUs, Servers and Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5016 the resource being the memory
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4335 Housekeeping operations, e.g. prioritizing content for deletion because of storage space restrictions storage management, e.g. defragmentation G06F3/0604; unloading stored programs G06F9/445; storage management in file systems G06F16/10; buffering arrangements in a network node or in an end terminal in packet networks H04L49/90
• 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 21/84 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: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

Methods and systems for allocating memory of user terminals are disclosed. A user terminal may determine a weight for one or more categories, each category being associated with Internet information to be broadcast. The user terminal also may determine an available memory size of memory and may allocate memory to the one or more categories for storing the Internet information based on the weights and the available memory size.

Claims

1-35. -35. (canceled)

36. A server comprising

at least one processor;

and

at least one memory unit in communication with the at least one processor, the at least one memory unit includes at least one computer program code and the at least one memory unit and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the server to perform at least the following;

generate a category guide, the category guide representing an aggregation of a plurality of categories;

communicate the category guide to at least one user terminal;

receive update information from the at least one user terminal; and

update the category guide based on the update information and update aggregation information for each of the categories.

37. The server of claim 36, wherein the server encrypts the category guide based on service subscription of the at least one user terminal and the encrypted category guide is communicated to the at least one user terminal.

38. The server of claim 36, wherein the server sends a request for the update information to the at least one user terminal and receives the update information as a response to the request.

39. The server of claim 36 wherein the category guide includes the plurality of categories and each category includes a category description.

40. The server of claim 36 wherein the server communicates memory requirements for the category guide to the at least one user terminal.

41. The server of claim 36 wherein the server monitors Internet browsing behavior of the at least one user terminal.

42. The server of claim 36 wherein the server receives memory information from the at least one user terminal and updates the category guide with the received memory information.

43. The server of claim 36 wherein the update information includes preference information of the at least one user terminal.

44. The server of claim 43 wherein the server monitors the at least one user terminal for changes in the preference information.

45. The server of claim 44 wherein the server receives new preference information associated with the at least one user terminal and updates the preference information with the new preference information for the at least one user terminal.

46. The server of claim 45 wherein the preference information is used to update the category guide that the server communicates to the at least one user terminal.

47. One or more non-transitory computer readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method comprising the steps of:

monitoring Internet browsing behavior of a plurality of user terminals within a plurality of categories;

aggregating the browsing behavior to produce a category guide, the category guide includes the plurality of categories; and

broadcasting the category guide to the plurality of user terminals, wherein the category guide includes memory requirement for the category guide.

48. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 47, further comprising the steps of:

receiving, from at least one user terminal of the plurality of user terminals, preference information; and

updating profile information for the at least one user terminal based on the preference information.

49. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 48, wherein the preference information includes memory allocation for the at least one user terminal.

50. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 48, wherein the step of aggregating the browsing behavior includes the steps of receiving from the at least one user terminal a weight, the weight being assigned to a selected category from the plurality of categories by the at least one user terminal.

51. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 47, wherein the step of monitoring includes monitoring at least one user terminal'"'"'s direct access to a category of the plurality of categories.

52. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 47, wherein the category guide includes information about timing of the broadcast to the plurality of user terminals.

53. A method comprising the steps of:

monitoring a plurality of user terminals'"'"' browsing behavior among a plurality of categories to generate a category guide, the category guide representing an aggregation of weights received from the plurality of user terminals, for a plurality of categories;

broadcasting the category guide to at least one user terminal selected from the plurality of terminals;

receiving an update from the at least one user terminal; and

updating the category guide based on the update received.