Method and apparatus for sending an event in a digital broadcasting system

• US 7,089,283 B2
• Filed: 01/14/2004
• Issued: 08/08/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC (CommScope Holding Company, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamamuro, Keisei, Yoshii, Taketo, Sekiguchi, Takuya, Tsujimura, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Barot, Bharat
• Application Number:
  US10/756,539
• Publication Number:
  US 20040148345A1
• Time in Patent Office: 937 Days
• Field of Search: 709206-207, 709202-203, 709227-229, 709217-219, 718/108, 718/100, 718/104, 719/318, 719/319, 719/320, 719/328, 719/329, 719/313
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/545 Gui
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/28 Arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 40/18 Arrangements characterised by circuits or components specially adapted for receiving
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• 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 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport 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 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/472 End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content end-user interfaces for retrieving video data from a database G06F16/739; network services for supporting unicast streaming H04L65/612
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4786 e-mailing message switching systems, e.g. electronic mail systems H04L51/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only

Abstract

To provide a device capable of determining a delivery destination of an event automatically without requiring choosing operation of an operator. An event entered through an event input means 4 is given to a delivery destination determining means 6 which in turn determines to which of applications AP1, AP2, . . . , APn the given event is to be delivered according to the contents of the event and according to delivery destination determining information stored in a delivery destination determining information storing section, and delivers accordingly. Therefore, the event is delivered to an appropriate application even if the operator does not choose an addressed application.

Claims

1. An event sending method in a digital broadcasting receiver for sending an event corresponding to an input from a user to an application, comprising:

accepting receivable event information that identifies an event capable of being received by the application, the application executing a process based on the event;

determining an application to which the event is sent, based on application determining information that defines which application receives the event based on the receivable event information; and

sending the event to the determined application, wherein the receivable event information is accepted as a portion of a digital broadcast.

2. The event sending method of claim 1, wherein determining an application to which the event is sent is based upon stored application determining information.

3. A digital broadcasting receiver that sends an event corresponding to an input from a user to an application, comprising:

an accepting device that accepts receivable event information that identifies an event capable of being received by the application, the application executing a process based on the event;

a determining device that determines an application to which the event is sent in accordance with application determining information defining which application receives the event based on the receivable event information; and

a sending device that sends the event to the application determined by the determining device, wherein the receivable event information is accepted by the accepting device as a portion of a digital broadcast.

4. The digital broadcasting receiver of claim 3, wherein the determination of the application is based on stored application determining information.

6. The computer-readable medium of claim 3, wherein determining an application is based on stored application determining information.

5. A computer-readable medium that stores a plurality of instructions executed by at least one processor that sends an event corresponding to an input from a user to an application, the plurality of instructions comprising instructions for:

accepting receivable event information that identifies an event capable of being received by the application, the application executing a process based on the event;

determining an application to which the event is sent in accordance with application determining information defining which application receives the event based on the receivable event information; and

sending the event to the determined application, wherein the receivable event information is accepted as a portion of a digital broadcast.