Method for delivering non-anonymous user metadata using an soap operation in TV anytime metadata service

• US 7,725,917 B2
• Filed: 07/29/2005
• Issued: 05/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Korea Electronics Technology Institute (Government of South Korea)
• Inventors: Lee, Jong Seul, Lim, Tae Beom, Lee, Seok Pil, Yoon, Kyoung Ro
• Primary Examiner(s): Hirl, Joseph P
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, AN V
• Application Number:
  US11/192,280
• Publication Number:
  US 20060150234A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,761 Days
• Field of Search: 725/43, 725/135, 725/143, 705/27, 705/10
• US Class Current: 725/135
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2353 specifically adapted to content descriptors, e.g. coding, compressing or processing of metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25875 involving end-user authentication restricting access to computer systems by authenticating users using a predetermined code G06F21/33; arrangements for secret or secure communication including means for verifying the identity or authority of a user of the system H04L9/32; networks authentication protocols H04L63/08; authentication in wireless network security H04W12/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/278 Content descriptor database or directory service for end-user access details of content or meta data based information retrieval of video data in video databases G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6582 Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method or an operation for providing a personalized TV-Anytime metadata service. According to the present invention, there is provided a method of transmitting non-anonymous user metadata to a TV-Anytime service agent using a SOAP operation, comprising the steps of a) defining a SOAP operation which transmits user metadata and is capable of identifying transmission of non-anonymous user metadata, b) the service agent identifying a user, c) a client loading user metadata about the identified user on an element of the SOAP operation defined at step a) and transmitting the element with the user metadata to the service agent, and d) the service agent identifying the element of the SOAP operation transmitted at step c) and extracting the user metadata included in the element of the SOAP operation therefrom.

Claims

1. A method of transmitting non-anonymous user metadata to a TV-Anytime service agent using a simple object access protocol (SOAP) operation, comprising the steps of:

a) providing a SOAP upload operation, a request element of which includes a user information element of extended user description type (ExtendedUserDescriptionType), and a response element of which includes version information (serviceVersion) about a metadata capability description and reception results;

b) for a client, inputting non-anonymous user metadata of an authenticated user to a user information element of the request element and transmitting the non-anonymous user metadata, in response to a command from the authenticated user; and

c) for the service agent, inputting version information (serviceVersion) about a metadata capability description and reception results to the response element and transmitting the version information and reception results to the client, in response to reception of the request element,

wherein the request and response elements of the SOAP upload operation provided at step a), is defined as follows;