Reception method, reception device, transmission method, transmission device, transmission/reception method, transmission/reception device

• US 9,058,593 B2
• Filed: 08/31/2011
• Issued: 06/16/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Hirata, Shinichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Thai
• Assistant Examiner(s): DUNN, MISHAWN N
• Application Number:
  US13/222,446
• Publication Number:
  US 20110317986A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,385 Days
• Field of Search: 386/231, 386/291, 386/297, 386/298, 386/326
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/18 Commands or executable codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4135 external recorder interface circuits between an apparatus for recording television signals and a television receiver H04N5/775
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4147 PVR [Personal Video Recorder] H04N5/76 takes precedence ; arrangements for broadcast with accumulation-type receivers H04H20/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42221 Transmission circuitry, e.g. infrared [IR] or radio frequency [RF]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4227 Providing Remote input by a user located remotely from the client device, e.g. at work
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42676 for modulating an analogue carrier signal to encode digital information or demodulating it to decode digital information, e.g. ADSL or cable modem
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42692 for reading from or writing on a volatile storage medium, e.g. Random Access Memory [RAM]
• 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 21/43615 Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43632 involving a wired protocol, e.g. IEEE 1394 high-speed IEEE 1394 serial bus H04L12/40052
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4583 Automatically resolving scheduling conflicts, e.g. when a recording by reservation has been programmed for two programs in the same time slot
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• 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 21/4786 e-mailing message switching systems, e.g. electronic mail systems H04L51/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64322 IP
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 between a recording apparatus and a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/782 : on tape

Abstract

An electronic mail on which a control command is interpolated is transmitted through a public line, received by a modem section of a gate way, converted to a digital data, and supplied to the control section. A CPU of the control section stores the received electronic mail in a RAM, and extracts the control command contained in the electronic mail. The CPU supplies a control signal corresponding to the control command to an interface section. The interface section controls an IR transmission section to transmit a signal corresponding to the control signal supplied from the CPU or outputs a signal through a connection line, and controls a video deck.

Claims

1. A recording apparatus comprising:

a receiver configured to receive from an electronic device, via a network, a first control information including at least one of an operation mode of the recording apparatus, a starting time to start an operation of the recording apparatus, an ending time to end the operation of the recording apparatus or recording channel information;

a timer that provides a current time of the recording apparatus; and

a controller configured to start the operation of the recording apparatus in accordance with the first control information,

wherein said receiver is configured to receive a second control information in an electronic mail message, and

said controller is configured to prevent the start of the operation of the recording apparatus when said second control information is received before the start of the operation of the recording apparatus.

2. The recording apparatus of claim 1, wherein the control information is provided from the electronic device via a remote computer.

3. The recording apparatus of claim 1, wherein the operation mode is a video recording reservation mode.

4. The recording apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a transmission device that transmits a confirmation electronic message that provides an indication of a confirmation of cancellation of a planned recording at said recording device.

5. An electronic device comprising:

a communication interface configured to send, via a network, a first control information that includes at least one of an operation mode of a recording apparatus, a starting time to start an operation of the recording apparatus, an ending time to end the operation of the recording apparatus or recording channel information;

an input section configured to accept user input; and

a control section configured to format said first control information based on a first user input from the input section

wherein said communication interface is further configured to send a second control information in an electronic mail message based on a second user input to prevent the start of said operation of the recording apparatus.

6. The device of claim 5, wherein the electronic device is not a mobile device.

7. The device of claim 5, wherein said communications interface receives at least a portion of said control information from a remote computer.

8. An electronic device comprising:

a communication interface configured to send control information to a recording apparatus; and

a processor configured to send, via said communication interface, a first control information including at least one of an operation mode of the recording apparatus, a starting time to start an operation of the recording apparatus, an ending time to end the operation of the recording apparatus or recording channel information,

wherein said processor is further configured to send a second control information in an electronic mail message to prevent the start of said operation of the recording apparatus.

9. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein

the operation mode is a video recording reservation mode.

10. A method to control a recording apparatus comprising:

receiving a first control information including at least one of a starting time to start an operation of the recording apparatus, an ending time to end the operation of the recording apparatus, an operation mode of the recording apparatus, or recording channel information;

starting said operation of the recording apparatus in accordance with the first control information;

receiving a second control information in an electronic mail message; and

preventing the start of said operation of the recording apparatus when the second control information is received before the start of said operation of the recording apparatus.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising:

transmitting a confirmation electronic message that provides an indication of a confirmation of cancellation of a planned recording at said recording apparatus.

12. A method to control an electronic device comprising:

sending a first control information including at least one of an operation mode of a recording apparatus, a starting time to start an operation of the recording apparatus, an ending time to end the operation of the recording apparatus, or recording channel information; and

sending with circuitry a second control information in an electronic mail message before the start of said operation of the recording apparatus to prevent the start of said operation of the recording apparatus.

13. The method of claim 12 further comprising:

receiving a confirmation electronic message that provides an indication of a confirmation of cancellation of a planned recording at said recording apparatus.