BROWSER APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM, SERVER APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20160212037A1
• Filed: 11/21/2014
• Published: 07/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: YUTANI, Tetsuo, TOGAME, Takashi
• Granted Patent: US 10,193,793 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1863 comprising mechanisms for improved reliability, e.g. status reports arrangements for detecting or preventing errors by carrying supervisory signal the return channel H04L1/16
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/16 Multipoint routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services

Abstract

The present technology relates to a browser apparatus, a recording medium, a server apparatus, and an information processing method by which a load in viewing web content can be reduced.

Provided is a browser apparatus that implements a web browser including a unicast communication function section that sends a request to a web site and receives web content from the web site using a unicast protocol, and a multicast communication function section that receives web content multicast-distributed using a multicast protocol. The browser apparatus includes a control unit that controls, in response to an external input, the unicast communication function section of the web browser to send a request to a web site and receive web content from the web site using the unicast protocol.

Claims

1. A browser apparatus that implements a web browser application including

a first communication function section that sends a request to a web site and receives web content from the web site using a unicast protocol, and

a second communication function section that receives web content multicast-distributed using a multicast protocol, comprising

a control unit that controls, in response to an external input, the first communication function section of the web browser application to send a request to a web site and receive web content from the web site using the unicast protocol.

2. The browser apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the second communication function section receives a plurality of web content items, and

the control unit records only a web content item of the plurality of web content items, which has a particular URL address, on a recording medium.

3. The browser apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the control unit controls, if the web content received by the second communication function section has an error, the first communication function section to request the web content from the web site.

4. The browser apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

a communication interface capable of accessing a mobile communication network, wherein

the first communication function section and the second communication function section performs communication via the communication interface.

5. A recording medium that records a program that causes a computer, which implements a web browser application having

a first communication function that sends a request to a web site and receives web content from the web site using a unicast protocol, and

a second communication function that receives web content multicast-distributed using a multicast protocol, to realize

a function of controlling, in response to an external input, the first communication function of the web browser application to send a request to a web site and receive web content from the web site using a unicast protocol.

6. A server apparatus, comprising:

a first communication function section that receives web content from a web site using a unicast protocol;

a cash memory that temporarily stores the web content;

a second communication function section that multicast-distributes the temporarily stored web content using a multicast protocol; and

a control unit that controls operations of the first communication function section, the second communication function section, and the cash memory.

7. The server apparatus according to claim 6, wherein

the control unit adds header information including at least an update time of the web content to the temporarily stored web content and packages the web content, to thereby generate a content pack, and

the second communication function section multicast-distributes the content pack.

8. The server apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

the control unit further adds a check sum for error correction to the web content and packages the web content.

9. The server apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

the control unit generates a list of URL addresses of web sites of a plurality of content packs, and

the second communication function section multicast-distributes the list of the URL addresses at predetermined intervals.

10. An information processing method for a server apparatus, comprising the steps of:

by the server apparatus

controlling reception of web content from a web site using a unicast protocol;

controlling temporary storage of the web content in a cash memory; and

controlling multicast distribution of the web content temporarily stored in the cash memory using a multicast protocol.