Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving notification message in a broadcasting system, and system thereof

• US 7,801,513 B2
• Filed: 08/17/2006
• Issued: 09/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Jong-Hyo, Hwang, Sung-Oh, Jung, Bo-Sun, Lee, Kook-Heui, Lee, Jai-Yong
• Primary Examiner(s): MEHRPOUR, NAGHMEH
• Application Number:
  US11/505,496
• Publication Number:
  US 20070042757A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,496 Days
• Field of Search: 455/414.2, 455/412.2, 455/404.1, 455/422.1, 455/431, 455/432.1, 455/435.1, 455/453, 455/456.2, 455/456.4, 455/12.1, 370/312, 370/319, 370/320, 370/321
• US Class Current: 455/414.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/86 Arrangements characterised by the broadcast information itself
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services

Abstract

A terminal apparatus is provided for receiving a broadcast service from a broadcasting system. A receiver receives a notification message from the broadcasting system. A message parser parses the notification message received by the receiver according to a certain format. A controller determines whether the received notification message is a notification message to be used by a user or a notification message to be used by the terminal based on content of the notification message parsed by the message parser, and performs an operation according to the determination result.

Claims

1. An apparatus for transmitting a message in a broadcasting system, the apparatus comprising:

a Notification Event Function for receiving a notification indicating content change information provided from a Content Creation and generating a notification event message for generating a notification message;

a Notification Generation Function for generating a notification message to be used by a user of a terminal scheduled to receive the notification message or to be used by the terminal using the notification event message received from the Notification Event Function; and

a Notification Distribution/Adaptation Function for transmitting the notification message received from the Notification Generation Function to the terminal via a specific network.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the Notification Distribution/Adaptation Function further transmits a notification event message received from a Broadcast Distribution System (BDS) Service Distribution due to change information of the broadcasting system, related to transmission of the content, to the Notification Generation Function.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the Notification Generation Function generates the notification message including a NotificationType indicating usage of the notification message.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the Notification Generation Function generates the notification message including a NotificationVersion indicating version information of the notification message.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the Notification Generation Function generates the notification message including a PresentationType indicating a presentation type of the notification message.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the Notification Generation Function generates the notification message including a UsageType indicating usage of a SessionInformation in the notification message.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the Notification Generation Function generates the notification message including an EventType indicating by what event the notification message is configured.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the Notification Generation Function generates the notification message including a FilteringValue indicating information for executing content previously stored in the terminal.

9. A method for transmitting a message in a broadcasting system, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving, by a Notification Event Function, a notification indicating content change information provided from a Content Creation, generating a notification event for generating a notification message, and transmitting the generated notification event message to a Notification Generation Function;

receiving, by the Notification Generation Function, the notification event message, generating a notification message to be used by a user of a terminal or to be used by a terminal, and transmitting the generated notification message to a Notification Distribution/Adaptation Function; and

receiving, by the Notification Distribution/Adaptation Function, the notification message and transmitting the received notification message to the terminal via a specific network.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the step of generating a notification message by the Notification Generation Function further comprises the step of receiving a notification event message from the Notification Distribution/Adaptation Function that has received an event generated from a Broadcast Distribution System (BDS) Service Distribution due to change information of the broadcasting system, related to transmission of the content.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the step of generating a notification message by the Notification Generation Function comprises the step of generating the notification message including a NotificationType indicating usage of the notification message.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the step of generating a notification message by the Notification Generation Function comprises the step of generating the notification message including a PresentationType indicating a presentation type of the notification message.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the step of generating a notification message by the Notification Generation Function comprises the step of generating the notification message including a UsageType indicating usage of a SessionInformation in the notification message.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the step of generating a notification message by the Notification Generation Function comprises the step of generating the notification message including an EventType indicating by what event the notification message is configured.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the step of generating a notification message by the Notification Generation Function comprises the step of generating the notification message including a FilteringValue indicating information for executing content previously stored in the terminal.