Data transmission method, data transmitter, data receiver, data reception method and data transmission and reception system

• US 7,092,367 B2
• Filed: 06/01/2004
• Issued: 08/15/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kawai, Eiji, Ito, Takeshi, Yoshimori, Masaharu
• Primary Examiner(s): ZIMMERMAN, BRIAN A
• Application Number:
  US10/858,176
• Publication Number:
  US 20040233861A1
• Time in Patent Office: 805 Days
• Field of Search: 370/312, 370/390, 340/7.45, 340/7.46, 386/46
• US Class Current: 370/312
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/023 with message or information receiving capability
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/187 using digital or pulse address codes

Abstract

A data transmission and reception system and method that make it possible to transmit and receive more types of information without changing the existing communication system include a broadcasting base station which has a subID adding unit, which arranges in the transmission data region the subIDs of the transmission data arranged in the transmission data region, and a transmission processing unit, which performs transmission processing on the transmission data as data transmission cycles. A portable information communication terminal has an input unit, which sets IDs and subIDs, a comparison unit, which has the address information comparison function of comparing the ID arranged in the selection call part and the ID set by the input unit and obtaining the result of the address information comparison, as well as the identification information comparison function of comparing the subID arranged in the transmission data region and the subID set by the input unit and obtaining the result of the identification address comparison, and a data reading unit, which performs reception control on the transmission data based on the address information comparison result and identification information comparison result obtained from the comparison unit.

Claims

1. A data receiver to which come repeatedly transmitted, as data transmission cycles, groups of data that have a selection call part consisting of a transmission data region in which are arranged the transmission data being transmitted and identification information that indicates the identity of said transmission data and an address information region in which is arranged address information that indicates the destination address of said transmission data, the data receiver comprising:

an address information setting means that sets address information;

an identification information setting means that sets identification information in accordance with a stage of progress of a game program when the data receiver executes the game program;

an address information comparison means that compares the address information arranged in said selection call part and the address information set by said address information setting means and obtains a result of the address information comparison;

an identification information comparison means that compares the identification information arranged in said transmission data region with the identification information set by said identification information setting means and obtains a result of the identification information comparison, the identification information being set by said identification information setting means when said stage of progress of the game program is cleared, when said game program is executed in said receiver; and

a reception control means that performs reception control on said transmission data based on said address information comparison result and said identification information comparison result.

2. The data receiver of claim 1, further comprising a reception control setting means that sets it so that said reception control means performs reception control on the transmission data based only on said address information comparison result.

3. The data receiver of claim 1, wherein said address information is set to identification information that is unique to said data reception terminal that it uses for reception of transmission data that comes transmitted to its own address, and identification information indicating said transmission data consists of information that has no restrictions on a type thereof.

4. The data receiver of claim 1, wherein information of multiple types of different attributes is arranged in said identification information.

5. The data receiver of claim 1, wherein said groups have synchronization data for reading said transmission data and address information, and further comprising a synchronization means that synchronizes said groups based on synchronization information in order to obtain the information that is arranged in said groups to which it belongs.

6. The data receiver as described in claim 5, wherein said groups in which said transmission data region, said address information region, and said selection call pan are arranged and to which said synchronization information is added comprise transmission data frames of a wireless call system, and wherein said transmission data region serves as a message signal region.

7. A data reception method which is a data reception method that receives data in which there come repeatedly transmitted, as data transmission cycles, groups of data that have a selection call part consisting of a transmission data region in which are arranged the transmission data being transmitted and identification information that indicates the identity of said transmission data and an address information region in which is arranged address information that indicates the destination address of said transmission data, the data reception method comprising:

an identification information setting step that sets identification information in accordance with a stage of progress of a game program when the game program is executed;

an address information comparison step that compares the address information arranged in said selection call part and the preset address information and obtains a result of the address information comparison;

an identification information comparison step that compares the identification information arranged in said transmission data region with said identification information being set by said identification information setting step when said stage of progress of the game program is cleared, when said game program is executed; and

a reception control step that performs reception control on said transmission data based on said address information comparison result and said identification information comparison result.

8. The data reception method claim 7, further comprising a reception control step that sets it so that in said reception control step, reception control is done on the transmission data based only on the result of said address information comparison.

9. The data reception method of claim 7, wherein said address information is set to identification information that is unique to said data reception terminal that it uses for reception of transmission data that comes transmitted to its own address, and identification information indicating said transmission data consists of information that has no restriction on a type thereof.

10. The data reception method of claim 7, wherein information of multiple types of different attributes is arranged in said identification information.

11. The data reception method of claim 7, wherein said groups have synchronization data for reading said transmission data and address information, and further comprising a synchronization step that synchronizes said groups based on synchronization information in order to obtain the information that is arranged in said groups to which it belongs.

12. The data reception method of claim 7, wherein said groups in which said transmission data region, said address information region, and said selection call part are arranged and to which said synchronization information is added comprise transmission data frames oh wireless call system, and wherein said transmission data region serves as a message signal region.

13. A data transmission and reception system which repeatedly performing transmission and reception processes of groups of data, between a data transmitter and a data receiver, as data transmission cycles, said groups of data having a selection call part consisting of a transmission data region in which is arranged the transmission data being transmitted and an address information region in which is arranged address information that indicates the destination address of said transmission data;

said data transmitter comprising an identification information arrangement means that arranges in said transmission data region identification information that shows the identity of the transmission data arranged in said transmission data region, and a transmission processing means that performs transmission processing on the transmission data as said data transmission cycles; and

said data receiver comprising an address information setting means that sets the address information;

an identification information setting means that sets identification information in accordance with a stage of progress of a game program when the data receiver executes the game program;

an address information comparison means that compares the address information arranged in said selection call part and the address information set by said address information setting means and obtains a result of the address information comparison;

identification information comparison means that compares the identification information arranged in said transmission data region and the identification information set by said identification information setting means and obtains a result of the identification information comparison, the identification information being set by said identification information setting means when said stage of progress of the game program is cleared, when said game program is executed in said data receiver, and a reception control means that performs reception control of said transmission data based on said address information comparison result and said identification information comparison result.

14. The data transmission and reception system of claim 13, further comprising a reception control setting means that sets it so that said reception control means does reception control on the transmission data based only on the result of said address information comparison.

15. The data transmission and reception system of claim 13, wherein said address information is set to identification information that is unique to said data reception terminal that said data receiver uses for reception of transmission data that comes transmitted to its own address, and identification information indicating said transmission data consists of information that has no restrictions on a type thereof.

16. The data transmission and reception system of claim 13, wherein information of multiple types of different attributes is arranged in said identification information.

17. The data transmission and reception system of claim 13, wherein said groups have synchronization data for reading said transmission data and address information, and said receiver further comprising a synchronization means that synchronizes sad groups based on synchronization information in order to obtain the information that is arranged in said groups to which it belongs.

18. A data transmission and reception system of claim 13, wherein said groups in which said transmission data region, said address information region, and said selection call part are arranged and so which said synchronization information is added comprise transmission data frames of a wireless call system, and wherein said transmission data region serves as a message signal region.