Reception apparatus, reception method, program, and information processing system

• US 9,185,460 B2
• Filed: 10/31/2014
• Issued: 11/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kitazato, Naohisa, Eyer, Mark
• Primary Examiner(s): Harold, Jefferey
• Assistant Examiner(s): HAIEM, SEAN N
• Application Number:
  US14/529,440
• Publication Number:
  US 20150058906A1
• Time in Patent Office: 375 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/93 which locates resources of other pieces of information, e.g. URL [Uniform Resource Locator]
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/13 Arrangements for device control affected by the broadcast information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/76 Arrangements characterised by transmission systems other than for broadcast, e.g. the Internet for broadcast H04H20/65
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44008 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in the video stream arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/462 Content or additional data management, e.g. creating a master electronic program guide from data received from the Internet and a Head-end, controlling the complexity of a video stream by scaling the resolution or bit-rate based on the client capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6543 for forcing some client operations, e.g. recording remote booting in general G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8173 End-user applications, e.g. Web browser, game

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus including: a reception portion configured to receive audio video content; a trigger extraction portion configured to extract trigger information for operating an application program transmitted along with the audio video content and executed in interlocked relation to the audio video content; a table acquisition portion configured to acquire a correspondence table for associating the trigger information with commands for controlling the operation of the application program; a command determination portion configured such that, based on the acquired correspondence table, the command determination portion determines the commands associated with the extracted trigger information; and a control portion configured to control the operation of the application program in response to the determined commands.

Claims

1. A reception apparatus, comprising:

circuitry configured to

receive a parameters table that associates each of a plurality of identifiers with a different action to be performed by the circuitry for an application program,

receive trigger information that includes one of the plurality of identifiers,

determine the action associated with the one of the plurality of identifiers, included in the trigger information, based on the parameters table, and

process content for display to a user, wherein

the application program is executed in synchronization with the display of the content, and

the circuitry is configured to receive the parameters table before the trigger information.

2. The reception apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to perform the action determined to be associated with the one of the plurality of identifiers.

3. The reception apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the trigger information includes a domain name part, and

the circuitry is configured to acquire the parameters table from a server associated with the domain name part.

4. The reception apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the parameters table includes a URL associated with the application program, and

the circuitry is configured to acquire the application program from a server based on the URL included in the parameters table.

5. A method for determining an action to be performed for an application program, the method comprising:

receiving, by circuitry of the reception apparatus, a parameters table that associates each of a plurality of identifiers with a different action to be performed for the application program;

receiving, by the circuitry, trigger information that includes one of the plurality of identifiers;

determining, by the circuitry, the action associated with the one of the plurality of identifiers, included in the trigger information, based on the parameters table;

processing content for display to a user; and

executing the application program in synchronization with the display of the content, wherein the parameters table is received before the trigger information.

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

performing the action determined to be associated with the one of the plurality of identifiers.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein

the trigger information includes a domain name part, and

the method further includes acquiring the parameters table from a server associated with the domain name part.

8. The method according to claim 5, wherein

the parameters table includes a URL associated with the application program, and

the method further includes acquiring the application program from a server based on the URL included in the parameters table.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program which when executed by a computer causes the computer to:

receive a parameters table that associates each of a plurality of identifiers with a different action to be performed for an application program;

receive trigger information that includes one of the plurality of identifiers;

determine the action associated with the one of the plurality of identifiers, included in the trigger information, based on the parameters table;

process content for display to a user; and

execute the application program in synchronization with the display of the content, wherein the parameters table is received before the trigger information.