Method of and apparatus for controlling transmission of information on programs
First Claim
1. A program-related-information transmission control apparatus employed on a data distributing side for transmitting program related information for programs to be broadcasted to a data receiving side by way of a data-transmission means, said apparatus comprising:
- a television-watching-record information collecting means for gathering information on television-watching records obtained in accordance with relevant television-watching operations from said data receiving side; and
a transmission-condition controlling means for controlling conditions for transmitting said program related information of programs on the basis of said information on television-watching records made from viewer television-watching statistics so that said program related information most-likely desired is transmitted more frequently than said program related information which is less desired wherein said transmission-condition controlling means generates information on television-watching statistics for all attributes of each program from television-watching records, and determines transmission conditions for all said attributes of each program on the basis of said information on television-watching statistics and weighted parameters for all said attributes of each program.
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Abstract
A program-related-information transmission control method adopted on a data distributing side for transmitting program related information for programs to be broadcasted to a data receiving side by way of a data-transmission means, includes the steps of: gathering information on television-watching records obtained in accordance with relevant television-watching operations from said data receiving side; and controlling conditions for transmitting said program related information of said programs on the basis of said information on television-watching records.
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6 Claims
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1. A program-related-information transmission control apparatus employed on a data distributing side for transmitting program related information for programs to be broadcasted to a data receiving side by way of a data-transmission means, said apparatus comprising:
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a television-watching-record information collecting means for gathering information on television-watching records obtained in accordance with relevant television-watching operations from said data receiving side; and
a transmission-condition controlling means for controlling conditions for transmitting said program related information of programs on the basis of said information on television-watching records made from viewer television-watching statistics so that said program related information most-likely desired is transmitted more frequently than said program related information which is less desired wherein said transmission-condition controlling means generates information on television-watching statistics for all attributes of each program from television-watching records, and determines transmission conditions for all said attributes of each program on the basis of said information on television-watching statistics and weighted parameters for all said attributes of each program. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A program-related-information transmission control apparatus employed on a data distributing side for transmitting program related information for programs to be broadcasted to a data receiving side by way of a data-transmission means, said apparatus comprising:
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a television-watching-record information collecting means for gathering information on television-watching records obtained in accordance with relevant television-watching operations from said data receiving side; and
a transmission-condition controlling means for controlling conditions for transmitting said program related information of programs on the basis of said information on television-watching records made from viewer television-watching statistics so that said program related information most-likely desired is transmitted more frequently than said program related information which is less desired;
wherein said transmission conditions are transmission intervals at which information on television-watching records is transmitted; and
wherein said transmission intervals are each the reciprocal of the number of transmissions of information on television-watching records per unit time.
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