Receiving device, receiving method, program, and broadcasting system

• US 8,595,783 B2
• Filed: 12/29/2010
• Issued: 11/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Dewa, Yoshiharu
• Primary Examiner(s): SHANG, ANNAN Q
• Application Number:
  US12/980,917
• Publication Number:
  US 20120054816A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,063 Days
• Field of Search: 725/36, 725 51- 61, 725/100, 725106-118, 725131-142, 709217-232
• US Class Current: 725/116
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/93 which locates resources of other pieces of information, e.g. URL [Uniform Resource Locator]
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 2201/40 characterised in that additional data relating to the broadcast data are available via a different channel than the broadcast channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25816 involving client authentication restricting access to computer systems by authenticating users using a predetermined code G06F21/33; cryptographic authentication protocols H04L9/32; networks authentication protocols H04L63/08; authentication in wireless network security H04W12/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25858 involving client software characteristics, e.g. OS identifier
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4351 involving reassembling additional data, e.g. rebuilding an executable program from recovered modules
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6175 involving transmission via Internet broadcast-related systems characterised by the transmission system being the Internet H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8166 involving executable data, e.g. software arrangements for executing specific programs G06F9/44; broadcasting computer programmes in broadcast systems H04H20/91; involving the movement of software or configuration parameters H04L67/34
• 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

Disclosed herein is a receiving device for receiving AV contents, the receiving device including: an obtaining section configured to obtain a description document described in a program language for displaying contents from a server present on a network connected with the receiving device; a determining section configured to determine whether the obtained the description document is obtained from a first server managed on a broadcaster side broadcasting the AV contents; and a controlling section configured to control execution of the obtained the description document according to a result of determination by the determining section.

Claims

1. A receiving device for receiving AV content, the receiving device comprising:

an AV content receiving section configured to receive location information of data content corresponding to the AV content;

a communication section configured to access a server corresponding to the location information and to obtain the data content via a network;

a control section configured to execute the data content, wherein

when the data content executed by the control section is managed on a provider side, the data content is permitted to perform a specific process, and

when the data content executed by the control section is not managed on the provider side, performance of the specific process by the data content is prohibited.

2. The receiving device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an output section configured to output video including an image of the data content superimposed on video of the AV content.

3. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein

the control section is configured to permit the data content to perform the specific process, or prohibit the performance of the specific process by the data content, according to a management mode set in the receiving device.

4. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein

the specific process is a predetermined process that needs to be prevented from being performed when the server from which the data content is obtained is not a provider server.

5. A method of a receiving device for receiving audio/video (AV) content, the method comprising:

receiving, by the receiving device, location information of data content corresponding to the AV content;

accessing, by the receiving device, a server corresponding to the location information and obtaining the data content via a network; and

executing, by the receiving device, the data content, wherein the step of executing includes

when the data content executed by the receiving device is managed on a provider side, permitting the data content to perform a specific process, and

when the data content executed by the receiving device is not managed on the provider side, prohibiting performance of the specific process by the data content.

6. The method according to claim 5, further comprising:

outputting video including an image of the data content superimposed on video of the AV content.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein the step of executing comprises:

permitting the data content to perform the specific process, or prohibiting performance of the specific process by the data content, according to a management mode set in the receiving device.

8. The method according to claim 5, wherein

the specific process is a predetermined process that needs to be prevented from being performed when the server from which the data content is obtained is not a provider server.

9. A transmitting device for transmitting audio/video (AV) content, the transmitting device comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit, to a receiving device, location information of data content corresponding to the AV content, wherein

the location information corresponds to a server that stores the data content, the data content being managed by a provider side or not managed by the provider side,

when the data content is managed by the provider side and is executed by the receiving device, the data content is permitted to perform a specific process, and

when the data content is not managed by the provider side and is executed by the receiving device, prohibiting performance of the specific process by the data content.

10. A method of a transmitting device for transmitting audio/video (AV) content, the method comprising:

transmitting, by a transmitter of the transmitting device and to a receiving device, location information of data content corresponding to the AV content, wherein

the location information corresponds to a server that stores the data content, the data content being managed by a provider side or not managed by the provider side,

when the data content is managed by the provider side and is executed by the receiving device, the data content is permitted to perform a specific process, and

when the data content is not managed by the provider side and is executed by the receiving device, performance of the specific process by the data content is prohibited.