BROADCAST RECEIVING TERMINAL, CONTROL METHOD, DISPLAY TERMINAL, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20150281791A1
• Filed: 03/24/2015
• Published: 10/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: TANAKA, Kimihiro, MITANI, Hideki
• Granted Patent: US 9,510,052 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224

Abstract

There is provided a broadcast receiving terminal that includes a reception unit, a display unit, and a reservation unit. The reception unit receives, over a network, content information, the content information including trailer information and reception reservation information. The display unit displays trailer content. The reservation unit reserves reception of the broadcast program.

Claims

1. A broadcast receiving terminal comprising:

a reception unit for receiving, over a network, trailer content that provides a preview of a broadcast program, and content information associated with the trailer content;

a display unit for displaying the trailer content received by the reception unit; and

a reservation unit for reserving reception of the broadcast program with reference to the content information in response to acceptance of an operation signal requesting reception of the broadcast program.

2. The broadcast receiving terminal according to claim 1, wherein

the display unit displays a plurality of pieces of trailer content,

the broadcast receiving terminal further comprises a trailer content selecting unit for selecting a specific piece of trailer content from among the plurality of pieces of trailer content, and

the reservation unit reserves reception of a broadcast program for which the piece of trailer content that has been selected provides a preview.

3. The broadcast receiving terminal according to claim 1, wherein

the reception unit receives program list information including one or more pieces of program identification information that respectively identify one or more broadcast programs, and

the display unit displays a program list that includes the one or more pieces of program identification information with reference to the program list information.

4. The broadcast receiving terminal according to claim 1, wherein

the reservation unit reserves reception of the broadcast program with reference to the content information in response to acceptance of the operation signal requesting reception during a period in which the display unit is displaying the trailer content.

5. The broadcast receiving terminal according to claim 3, wherein

additional information is associated with each of the one or more pieces of program identification information,

the broadcast receiving terminal further comprises an extracting unit for extracting one or more pieces of program identification information associated with additional information that satisfies a specific condition, and

the display unit displays a program list that includes the one or more pieces of program identification information extracted by the extracting unit.

6. The broadcast receiving terminal according to claim 5, wherein

the additional information includes at least any of broadcasting station information indicating a broadcasting station that broadcasts a corresponding one of the broadcast programs, attribute information indicating an attribute of the corresponding one of the broadcast programs, broadcast date/time information indicating a broadcast date/time of the corresponding one of the broadcast programs, and charge information indicating whether or not there is a charge for viewing the corresponding one of the broadcast programs.

7. The broadcast receiving terminal according to claim 3, wherein

the reception unit receives trailer content associated with a broadcast program identified by a piece of program identification information included in the program list that is displayed by the display unit.

8. The broadcast receiving terminal according to claim 1, further comprising:

a transmission unit for transmitting reservation completion information indicating completion of reservation of the broadcast program for which the reservation unit has reserved reception, to an external server that delivers the content information.

9. The broadcast receiving terminal according to claim 1, wherein

the broadcast receiving terminal requests an external server that delivers the content information to transmit the content information.

10. A control method for controlling a server, the control method comprising:

receiving reservation completion information indicating that reception has been reserved for a broadcast program, and terminal identification information that identifies a terminal which has reserved reception of the broadcast program; and

transmitting, over a network, (1) content information associated with trailer content that provides a preview of the broadcast program, and (2) reception reservation completion information indicating that reception has been reserved for the broadcast program, in a case where the reservation completion information has been received.

11. A display terminal connected to a broadcast receiving terminal, the display terminal comprising:

a terminal reception unit for receiving, over a network, trailer content that provides a preview of a broadcast program, and content information associated with the trailer content;

a display unit for displaying the trailer content received by the terminal reception unit; and

a reception reservation instructing unit for providing, to the broadcast receiving terminal, a reception reservation instruction for reserving reception of the broadcast program with reference to the content information in response to acceptance of an operation signal requesting reception of the broadcast program.

12. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium recording a program that makes a computer function as the terminal reception unit, the display unit, and the reception reservation instructing unit included in the display terminal according to claim 11.

13. A broadcast receiving terminal comprising:

a reception unit for receiving, over a network, trailer content that provides a preview of a broadcast program, and content information associated with the trailer content;

a display unit for displaying the trailer content received by the reception unit; and

a reservation unit for referring to the content information in response to acceptance of an operation signal indicating selection of the broadcast program, and allowing acceptance of reception reservation of the broadcast program.