Broadcast data receiver

• US 7,580,670 B2
• Filed: 03/29/2006
• Issued: 08/25/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Furukawa, Atsushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Phan; Huy Q
• Application Number:
  US11/277,807
• Publication Number:
  US 20060223489A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,245 Days
• Field of Search: 455/3.01, 455/3.02, 455/466, 455/566, 455/550.1
• US Class Current: 455/3.02
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/59 for emergency or urgency
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 2201/70 characterised in that receivers can be addressed
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/15 on receiving information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/73 using meta-information

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a broadcast data receiver which is able to easily receive information about predetermined person. An address book 120 holds the personal identifying information for identifying person. The BML document extracting section 150 extracts the BML document described by the BML from the broadcast data. The personal information searching section 160 obtains the correspondence personal identifying information corresponding to the personal identifying information held by the address book 120 from the BML document.

Claims

1. A broadcast data receiver which receives broadcast data transmitted via a broadcast wave, comprising:

a personal information holding unit for holding personal identifying information identifying a person;

a receiving unit for receiving the broadcast data;

a markup description extracting unit for extracting markup description information described by a markup language from the broadcast data received by the receiving unit;

a correspondence personal identifying information detector for obtaining correspondence personal identifying information corresponding to the personal identifying information held by the personal information holding unit for the markup description information extracted by the markup description information extracting unit;

a residence area specifying unit for specifying a residence area based on residence area specifying information;

an area information extracting unit for extracting broadcast target area information indicating a broadcast target area from the broadcast data received by the receiving unit; and

an area overlap deciding unit for deciding whether the residence area specified by the residence area specifying unit and the broadcast target area indicated by the broadcast target area information extracted by the area information extracting unit are overlapping.

2. The broadcast data receiver according to claim 1,

wherein the correspondence personal identifying information detector obtains the correspondence personal identifying information of the personal identifying information related to the residence area specifying information if the area overlap deciding unit decides that the residence area and the broadcast target area are overlapping.

3. The broadcast data receiver according to claim 2, wherein the broadcast receiver is a communication terminal,

the personal information holding unit is an address book, and

the address book is referred to if the communication terminal specifies a communication party.

4. The broadcast data receiver according to claim 2,

wherein the personal identifying information and a contact address indicating a personal contact address are identified by the personal identifying information in the personal information holding unit,

further comprising a display for displaying the contact address related to the correspondence personal identifying information and the correspondence personal identifying information obtained by the correspondence personal identifying information detector.

5. The broadcast data receiver according to claim 2,

further comprising a broadcast program specific information holding unit for holding broadcast specific information related to the broadcast data,

wherein the correspondence personal identifying information detector obtains the correspondence personal identifying information from the broadcast related the broadcast program specific information held by the broadcast program specific information holding unit.

6. The broadcast data receiver according to claim 1, wherein the broadcast receiver is a communication terminal,

the personal information holding unit is an address book, and

the address book is referred to if the communication terminal specifies a communication party.

7. The broadcast data receiver according to claim 1,

wherein the personal identifying information and a contact address indicating a personal contact address are identified by the personal identifying information in the personal information holding unit,

further comprising a display for displaying the contact address related to the correspondence personal identifying information and the correspondence personal identifying information obtained by the correspondence personal identifying information detector.

8. The broadcast data receiver according to claim 1,

further comprising a broadcast program specific information holding unit for holding the broadcast specific information related to the broadcast data,

wherein the correspondence personal identifying information detector obtains the correspondence personal identifying information from the broadcast related the broadcast program specific information held by the broadcast program specific information holding unit.