Method for mapping between signaling information and announcement information and broadcast receiver

• US 8,966,554 B2
• Filed: 09/23/2013
• Issued: 02/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Song, Jae Hyung, Suh, Jong Yeul, Lee, Chul Soo, Thomas, Gomer, Kim, Jin Pil, Hong, Ho Taek, Lee, Joon Hui
• Primary Examiner(s): MONTOYA, OSCHTA I
• Application Number:
  US14/034,415
• Publication Number:
  US 20140026172A1
• Time in Patent Office: 519 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 725/93
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/16 Arrangements for broadcast or for distribution of identical information repeatedly
• 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 21/2353 specifically adapted to content descriptors, e.g. coding, compressing or processing of metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26283 for associating distribution time parameters to content, e.g. to generate electronic program guide data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2665 Gathering content from different sources, e.g. Internet and satellite
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/40 Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/431 Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4345 Extraction or processing of SI, e.g. extracting service information from an MPEG stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 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 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4828 for searching program descriptors retrieval of video data G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64322 IP
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only

Abstract

A method for mapping signaling information to announcement information and a broadcast receiver are disclosed herein. A method of providing a Non-Real-Time (NRT) service, the method comprises extracting identification information of first signaling information and second signaling information based upon a program specific information/program and system information protocol (PSI/PSIP) table, receiving the first signaling information and second signaling information based upon the extracted identification information, constructing and displaying a service guide using the received first signaling information, acquiring first content identification information as a content selected from the displayed service guide, accessing a File Delivery over Unidirectional Transport (FLUTE) session using the received second signaling information, acquiring second content identification information matched with the acquired first content identification information from the accessed FLUTE session and receiving and storing one or more file constructing corresponding content based upon the acquired second content identification information.

Claims

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

generating the non-real time service and signaling data, the signaling data including a non-real time information table describing one or more content items each of which comprises one or more corresponding files, the non-real time service associated with the one or more content items; and

transmitting the non-real time service and the signaling data,

wherein the non-real time information table comprises information specifying an identification number of each of the one or more content items and provides a linkage function between each content item and the one or more corresponding files,

wherein the one or more corresponding files are listed in a File Delivery over Unidirectional Transport (FLUTE) File Delivery Table (FDT) that is linked to the information of the non-real time information table in order to identify the content item to which each of the one or more corresponding files belong,

wherein the signaling data further includes a service map table containing service-level attributes for the non-real time service, and

wherein the service map table includes first information identifying the non-real time service and second information indicating that a category of a service is a non-real time service, the service map table linked to the non-real time information table via the first information.