INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20140201800A1
• Filed: 10/26/2012
• Published: 07/17/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kitahara, Jun, Kitazato, Naohisa
• Application Number:
  US14/342,917
• Publication Number:
  US 20140201800A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/116
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/485 Task life-cycle, e.g. stopping, restarting, resuming execution G06F9/4881 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/28 Arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 2201/40 characterised in that additional data relating to the broadcast data are available via a different channel than the broadcast channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/13 Arrangements for device control affected by the broadcast information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/82 the transmission system being the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/226 Characteristics of the server or Internal components of the server
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2362 Generation or processing of Service Information [SI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4345 Extraction or processing of SI, e.g. extracting service information from an MPEG stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/443 OS processes, e.g. booting an STB, implementing a Java virtual machine in an STB or power management in an STB
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6543 for forcing some client operations, e.g. recording remote booting in general G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8173 End-user applications, e.g. Web browser, game

Abstract

[Object]

To expand end control of an application related to a broadcast content.

[Solving Means]

In an information processing system capable of controlling an application related to a broadcast content by an AIT, “SUSPEND” is newly added to a set of application control codes of an ETSI standard. By executing “SUSPEND”, a new function of setting an application from an executed state to a pause state can be added. As a result, control involving storing a processing result up to an application end point and resuming processing while taking over the past processing result when the application is activated next time can be realized.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a broadcast content processing unit that receives and processes a broadcast content; and

a controller that acquires an application information table with which suspend information can be set as control information for controlling an application related to the broadcast content, and sets, when the application information table including the suspend information is acquired, an application being executed to a pause state based on the suspend control information.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

a memory capable of storing information,

wherein the controller sets the application being executed to the pause state by storing the application being executed in the memory for each execution state.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the controller cancels, when the application information table including predetermined control information is acquired, the pause state of the application based on the predetermined control information.

4. An information processing method, comprising:

receiving and processing a broadcast content;

acquiring, by a controller, an application information table with which suspend information can be set as control information for controlling an application related to the broadcast content; and

setting, by the controller, when the application information table including the suspend information is acquired, an application being executed to a pause state based on the suspend control information.

5. A program that causes a computer to function as

a controller that acquires an application information table with which suspend information can be set as control information for controlling an application related to a broadcast content, and sets, when the application information table including the suspend information is acquired, an application being executed to a pause state based on the suspend control information.