Method of processing non-real time service and broadcast receiver

• US 8,307,393 B2
• Filed: 01/15/2010
• Issued: 11/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Song, Jae Hyung, Suh, Jong Yeul, Thomas, Gomer, Kim, Jin Pil, Hong, Ho Taek, Kim, Kwan Suk, Yun, Chang Sik, Lee, Jun Hui
• Primary Examiner(s): Saltarelli, Dominic D
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHUNG, JASON
• Application Number:
  US12/688,512
• Publication Number:
  US 20100186035A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,026 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 725/40
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4331 Caching operations, e.g. of an advertisement for later insertion during playback
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• 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 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4755 for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4821 using a grid, e.g. sorted out by channel and broadcast time
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8193 dedicated tools, e.g. video decoder software or IPMP tool
• 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 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/782 on tape
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/907 using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction

Abstract

A method of processing a non-real time service of a broadcast receiver, which receives and processes a service being transmitted in non-real time, and a broadcast receiver are disclosed. Herein, the method of processing a non-real time service of a broadcast receiver includes receiving a signaling information table including additional information on contents configuring a non-real time service and a content identifier for each content, acquiring the additional information on contents and the content identifier for each content from the signaling information table, storing contents being downloaded through a FLUTE or an internet in a storage medium, based upon the additional information on contents and the content identifier for each content, and displaying a list of recordings including the contents stored in the storage medium, wherein a list of recordings screen displaying the list of recordings includes at least one of a content name, a channel name, a date of recording, and a content size.

Claims

1. A method of transmitting a broadcast signal for non-real time service, the method comprising:

generating the broadcast signal having the non-real time service, signaling data for signaling the non-real time service and file delivery table providing a means to describe attributes for files associated with a non-real time content in the non-real time service,

wherein the signaling data includes a service map table containing service-level attributes for the non-real time service and a non-real time information table containing information describing content items available for download to storage in a broadcast receiving device, the service map table including information used as a linkage to a non-real time information table, the non-real time information table includes content linkage information used to link metadata in the non-real time information table to at least one file described in the file delivery table associated with the non-real time content; and

transmitting the non-real time service via a broadcast channel, the signaling data via a service signaling channel with a specific Internet Protocol (IP) address and user datagram protocol (UDP) port number, and the file delivery table via an Asynchronous Layered Coding/Layered Coding Transport (ALC/LCT) session,

wherein the non-real time information table includes an availability indicator indicating whether the files associated with the non-real time content are available over an interaction channel, and the file delivery table further includes content location information specifying uniform resource locator (URL) for each of the files when the availability indicator indicates the files are available over the interaction channel,

wherein the non-real time information table further includes expiration information representing expiration time of the non-real time content for guiding the broadcast receiving device to delete the non-real time content stored in the storage of the broadcast receiving device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the non-real time service is delivered within IP packets, the IP packets associated with a virtual channel are identified by references in a Virtual Channel Table (VCT) and an associated Program Map Table (PMT) table, wherein the IP packets are carried in a Moving Picture Experts Group-2 (MPEG-2) Transport Stream using digital storage media command and control (DSM-CC) Addressable Sections.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the service signaling channel is carried in a portion of the IP packets.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the non-real time information table further includes expiration information indicator indicating whether the expiration information is present for the non-real time content.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the PMT has elementary packet identifier for linking to at least one of the DSM-CC addressable sections.

6. An apparatus for receiving a broadcast signal for non-real time service, the apparatus comprising:

a tuner configured to receive the broadcast signal having the non-real time service, signaling data for signaling the non-real time service and file delivery table providing a means to describe attributes for files associated with a non-real time content in the non-real time service,

wherein the signaling data includes a service map table containing service-level attributes for the non-real time service and a non-real time information table containing information describing content items available for download to storage in a broadcast receiving device, the service map table including information used as a linkage to a non-real time information table, the non-real time information table includes content linkage information used to link metadata in the non-real time information table to at least one file described in the file delivery table associated with the non-real time content; and

a storage configured to store the at least one file associated with the non-real time content;

wherein the non-real time service is received via a broadcast channel, the signaling data is received via a service signaling channel with a specific Internet Protocol (IP) address and user datagram protocol (UDP) port number, and the file delivery table is received via an Asynchronous Layered Coding/Layered Coding Transport (ALC/LCT) session,

wherein the non-real time information table includes an availability indicator indicating whether the files associated with the non-real time content are available over an interaction channel, and the file delivery table further includes content location information specifying uniform resource locator (URL) for each of the files when the availability indicator indicates the files are available over the interaction channel,

wherein the non-real time information table further includes expiration information representing expiration time of the non-real time content for guiding the broadcast receiving device to delete the non-real time content stored in the storage of the broadcast receiving device.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the non-real time service is delivered within IP packets, the IP packets associated with a virtual channel are identified by references in a Virtual Channel Table (VCT) and an associated Program Map Table (PMT) table, wherein the IP packets are carried in the a Moving Picture Experts Group-2 (MPEG-2) Transport Stream using digital storage media command and control (DSM-CC) Addressable Sections.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the service signaling channel is carried in a portion of the IP packets.

9. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the non-real time information table further includes expiration information indicator indicating whether the expiration information is present for the non-real time content.

10. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the PMT has elementary packet identifier for linking to at least one of the DSM-CC addressable sections.