BROADBAND DELIVERY OF PERSONALIZATION INFORMATION FOR ADVANCED TV SERVICES

• US 20140053174A1
• Filed: 08/15/2013
• Published: 02/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/15/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: EYER, Mark, Yamagishi, Yasuaki
• Application Number:
  US13/968,035
• Publication Number:
  US 20140053174A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/13
• 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 21/25866 Management of end-user data customer care in data networks H04L41/5077
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25883 being end-user demographical data, e.g. age, family status or address arrangements for identifying locations of users in broadcast systems H04H60/52
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; 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 21/4345 Extraction or processing of SI, e.g. extracting service information from an MPEG stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4348 Demultiplexing of additional data and video streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44224 Monitoring of user activity on external systems, e.g. Internet browsing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4758 for providing answers, e.g. voting
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4884 for displaying subtitles
• 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

Abstract

A method, computer program, and reception apparatus, and information providing apparatus for retrieving and/or providing PDI data, including a PDI questionnaire. The method includes receiving content from a content source. The received content is displayed on a display. A location of the PDI data associated with the received content is subsequently determined. Further, the reception apparatus retrieves the PDI data based on the determined location of the PDI data.

Claims

1. A method of a reception apparatus for retrieving Profiles, Demographics, and Interests (PDI) data, including a PDI questionnaire, comprising:

receiving content from a content source;

displaying the received content on a display;

determining a location of the PDI data associated with the received content; and

retrieving, by the reception apparatus, the PDI data based on the determined location of the PDI data.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of determining comprises:

determining the location of the PDI data associated with the received content based on a PDI locator extracted from closed caption data associated with the received content.

3. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

extracting the PDI locator from non-closed caption text data within a service block having a service number in the range of 1-6.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the step of extracting comprises:

extracting the PDI locator from non-closed caption text data within a service block having a service number of 6.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of determining comprises:

determining the location of the PDI data associated with the received content based on a PDI locator extracted from a triggered declarative object parameters table (TPT) associated with the received content.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of determining comprises:

determining the location of the PDI data associated with the received content based on a PDI locator identifying a location of the PDI data in a File Delivery over Unidirectional Transport (FLUTE) carousel extracted from a Transport Stream carrying the content.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of receiving content comprises:

receiving the content via at least one of a satellite broadcast, a cable television transmission, a terrestrial television broadcast, and the Internet.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of retrieving comprises:

retrieving, by the reception apparatus, the PDI data based on the determined location of the PDI data and one or a combination of a predetermined filename, a predetermined directory path, and a PDI location file.

9. A computer-readable storage medium storing a program, which when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform a method of a reception apparatus for retrieving Profiles, Demographics, and Interests (PDI) data, including a PDI questionnaire, the method comprising:

receiving content from a content source;

displaying the received content on a display;

determining a location of the PDI data associated with the received content; and

retrieving, by the reception apparatus, the PDI data based on the determined location of the PDI data.

10. A reception apparatus, comprising:

a receiver configured to receive content from a content source;

a display interface configured to output the received content;

a processor configured to

determine a location of Profiles, Demographics, and Interests (PDI) data, including a PDI questionnaire, associated with the received content, and

retrieve the PDI data based on the determined location of the PDI data.

11. The reception apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the processor is configured to determine the location of the PDI data associated with the received content based on a PDI locator extracted from closed caption data associated with the received content.

12. The reception apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising:

an extraction unit configured to extract the PDI locator from non-closed caption text data within a service block having a service number in the range of 1-6.

13. The reception apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the extraction unit is configured to extract the PDI locator from non-closed caption text data within a service block having a service number of 6.

14. The reception apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the processor is configured to determine the location of the PDI data associated with the received content based on a PDI locator extracted from a triggered declarative object parameters table (TPT) associated with the received content.

15. The reception apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the processor is configured to determine the location of the PDI data associated with the received content based on a PDI locator identifying a location of the PDI data in a File Delivery over Unidirectional Transport (FLUTE) carousel extracted from a broadcast multiplex carrying the content.

16. The reception apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the receiver is configured to receive the content via at least one of a satellite broadcast, a cable television transmission, a terrestrial television broadcast, and the Internet.

17. The reception apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the processor is configured to retrieve the PDI data based on the determined location of the PDI data and one or a combination of a predetermined filename, a predetermined directory path, and a PDI location file.

18. The reception apparatus according to claim 12, wherein

the receiver is configured to receive the content via at least one of a satellite broadcast, a cable television transmission, a terrestrial television broadcast, and the Internet.

19. An information providing apparatus, comprising:

a memory configured to store Profiles, Demographics, and Interests (PDI) data, including a PDI questionnaire;

a communication unit configured to provide the PDI data to a reception apparatus at a location identified by a PDI locator provided to the reception apparatus.