Controller and program of the controller

• US 8,793,609 B2
• Filed: 11/14/2012
• Issued: 07/29/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Onkyo Technology Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: ONKYO Corporation (Onkyo Home Entertainment Corp.)
• Inventors: Kondo, Yusuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Pitaro, Ryan
• Assistant Examiner(s): DIXON, MARY E
• Application Number:
  US13/676,614
• Publication Number:
  US 20130205249A1
• Time in Patent Office: 622 Days
• Field of Search: 715/784
• US Class Current: 715/784
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/302 where the computing system component is a software system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3051 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the configuration of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring the presence of processing resources, peripherals, I/O links, software programs verification or detection of system hardware configuration G06F11/2247
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/44 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning

Abstract

A controller for obtaining a contents list via a network, in which a contents list of scroll destination is quickly obtained when a scroll instruction is input, is provided. When the scroll instruction in the contents list is input by a user'"'"'s operation, the controller sets a scroll list obtaining flag into an on state, and preferentially obtains contents information about the scroll destination. When the scroll list obtaining flag is set into the on state, the controller does not transmit a normal contents list obtaining request to a contents list transmitting apparatus. Since the controller transmits the normal contents list obtaining request after average response time passes, the controller can obtain the contents information about scroll destination in the contents list without delay.

Claims

1. A controller comprising:

a communications interface for communicating with a transmitting apparatus for transmitting a contents list; and

a control processor configured to execute a controller program stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium to perform the steps of;

determining whether obtainment of contents information in the contents list is finished;

transmitting a normal contents list obtaining request that is a request for obtaining a predetermined number of the contents information of the contents whose contents information in the contents list is determined that the obtainment is not finished to the contents list transmitting apparatus so as to obtain the contents information;

storing an average response time as an average value of time from transmission of the normal contents list obtaining request to the contents list transmitting apparatus through completion of reception of the contents information;

receiving a scroll instruction of the contents list is input by a user'"'"'s operation into a scroll operation input section,

when the scroll instruction is input, determining whether the obtainment of the contents information in the contents list of scroll destination is completed and determining that the information is not completely obtained, setting the contents information about the scroll destination into an on-obtaining state; and

determining whether the scroll list is being obtained, wherein

when the determination is made that the scroll list is being obtained, the normal contents list obtaining request is not transmitted, and the request for obtaining the contents information about the scroll destination is transmitted to the contents list transmitting apparatus, and

after the request for obtaining the contents information about the scroll destination is transmitted to the contents list transmitting apparatus, the normal contents list obtaining request is transmitted after the average response time passes.

2. The controller according to claim 1, wherein the control processor further is configured to:

after the contents information about the scroll destination is obtained set the scroll list into a non-obtaining state, and

after the scroll list is set into the non-obtaining state transmit the normal contents list obtaining request to the contents list transmitting apparatus.

3. The controller according to claim 1, wherein the control processor further is configured to:

when the average response time passes after the normal contents list obtaining request is transmitted to the contents list transmitting apparatus, determine whether the scroll list is being obtained, and

when the determination is made that the scroll list is being obtained, a process for obtaining the contents information in the normal contents list from the contents list transmitting apparatus is suspended, and the request for obtaining the contents information about the scroll destination is transmitted to the contents list transmitting apparatus.

4. The controller according to claim 1, wherein the control processor further is configured to perform the steps of:

obtaining a scroll instructing interval that is an average value of time from the input of the scroll instruction by means of the user'"'"'s operation through next input of the scroll instruction,

wherein when the determination is made that the scroll instructing interval is the average response time or less, the request for obtaining the contents information in the normal contents list whose number is smaller than the predetermined number is transmitted to the contents list transmitting apparatus in the normal contents list obtaining request.

5. The controller according to claim 1, wherein the control processor further is configured to perform the steps of:

obtaining a scroll instructing interval that is an average value of time from the input of the scroll instruction by means of the user'"'"'s operation through next input of the scroll instruction,

wherein when the determination is made that the scroll instructing interval is the average response time or less, the normal contents list obtaining request is not transmitted to the contents list transmitting apparatus, and the control processor waits for input of the scroll instruction until time of the scroll instructing interval or more passes.

6. A non-transitory computer medium storing a controller program executed by a control processor to perform the steps of:

communicating with a transmitting apparatus for transmitting a contents list

determining whether obtainment of contents information in the contents list is finished;

transmitting a normal contents list obtaining request that is a request for obtaining a predetermined number of the contents information of the contents whose contents information in the contents list is determined that the obtainment is not finished to the contents list transmitting apparatus so as to obtain the contents information;

storing an average response time as an average value of time from transmission of the normal contents list obtaining request to the contents list transmitting apparatus through completion of reception of the contents information;

receiving a scroll instruction of the contents list is input by a user'"'"'s operation into a scroll operation input section,

determining whether the obtainment of the contents information in the contents list of scroll destination is completed and determining that the information is not completely obtained, setting the contents information about the scroll destination into an on-obtaining state; and

determining whether the scroll list is being obtained, wherein

when the determination is made that the scroll list is being obtained, the normal contents list obtaining request is not transmitted, and the request for obtaining the contents information about the scroll destination is transmitted to the contents list transmitting apparatus, and

after the request for obtaining the contents information about the scroll destination is transmitted to the contents list transmitting apparatus, the normal contents list obtaining request is transmitted after the average response time passes.