Reception apparatus, reception method, program and information processing system

• US 9,226,026 B2
• Filed: 08/17/2012
• Issued: 12/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kitazato, Naohisa
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Hai V
• Assistant Examiner(s): Huang, Jen-Shi
• Application Number:
  US13/587,975
• Publication Number:
  US 20130212634A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,229 Days
• Field of Search: 725/32, 725 34- 36
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/241 Operating system [OS] processes, e.g. server setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43074 of additional data with content streams on the same device, e.g. of EPG data or interactive icon with a TV program
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/45 Management operations performed by the client for facilitating the reception of or the interaction with the content or administrating data related to the end-user or to the client device itself, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies, resolving scheduling conflicts
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6543 for forcing some client operations, e.g. recording remote booting in general G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/858 Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot

Abstract

A reception apparatus includes: a reception section adapted to receive an AV content; a trigger extraction section adapted to extract trigger information transmitted together with the AV content for rendering an application program, which is to be executed in a linked relationship with the AV content, operative; a command acquisition section adapted to acquire a command for controlling the operation of the application program in response to the extracted trigger information; and a control section adapted to control the operation of the application program in response to the acquired command.

Claims

1. A reception apparatus, comprising:

circuitry to

receive an AV content;

extract trigger information transmitted together with the AV content for rendering a downloaded application, which is to be executed in a linked relationship with the AV content;

automatically acquire a command, which is different from the trigger information, for controlling operation of the downloaded application, the command being automatically acquired in response to processing the extracted trigger information, without user intervention, and from an external network source; and

control the operation of the downloaded application in response to the acquired command.

2. The reception apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the command indicates one of acquisition or registration, acquisition or start-up, event firing, suspension and termination of the application, and

said circuitry is further configured to control, in response to the command, acquisition or registration, or acquisition or start-up, of the application, or event firing, suspension or termination of the application being executed.

3. The reception apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the command includes time information indicative of time at which the command is to be executed, and

said circuitry is further configured to execute the command in response to the time information.

4. The reception apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the time information is information for allowing the command to be executed when a particular time determined in advance comes independently of the progress of the AV content or information for allowing the command to be executed when a particular time determined in advance in a linked relationship with the progress of the AV content passes.

5. The reception apparatus according to claim 3, wherein, when the command indicates acquisition or start-up and the application is not acquired as yet, said circuitry is further configured to start up, after said circuitry acquires the application, the acquired application when the time at which the command is to be executed comes.

6. The reception apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the circuitry is further to

transmit identification information for identifying said reception apparatus side to an information processing apparatus which provides the application, and

control the acquisition of the application in response to the identification information from the information processing apparatus.

7. The reception apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the trigger information includes identification information for identifying the AV content and time position information regarding a temporal insertion position of the trigger information in the AV content, and

said circuitry is further configured to acquire the command specified by the identification information and the time position information.

8. The reception apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said circuitry is further to

transmit identification information for identifying said reception apparatus side to an information processing apparatus which provides the command, the information processing apparatus being the external network source, and

acquire the command in response to the identification information from the information processing apparatus.

9. The reception apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further to

acquire specification information for specifying an information processing apparatus, which provides the command, in response to the extracted trigger information, the information processing apparatus being the external network source, and

access the information processing apparatus, which is specified by the acquired specification information, to acquire the command.

13. The reception apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further to request the command for controlling the operation of the application from the external network source via a communication network.

14. The reception apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the circuitry is further to receive a digital television broadcast signal including the AV content and the trigger information.

15. The reception apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the command is separate from the trigger information and the application.

10. A reception method for a reception apparatus, comprising:

receiving an AV content;

extracting trigger information transmitted together with the AV content for rendering a downloaded application, which is to be executed in a linked relationship with the AV content;

automatically acquiring, by circuitry of the reception apparatus, a command for controlling operation of the downloaded application, the command being automatically acquired in response to processing the extracted trigger information, without user intervention, and from an external network source, the command being different from the trigger information; and

controlling, by the circuitry of the reception apparatus, the operation of the downloaded application in response to the acquired command.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to perform a method comprising:

receiving an AV content;

extracting trigger information transmitted together with the AV content for rendering a downloaded application, which is to be executed in a linked relationship with the AV content;

automatically acquiring, by the computer, a command for controlling operation of the application, the command being automatically acquired in response to processing the extracted trigger information, without user intervention, and from an external network source, the command being different from the trigger information; and

controlling, by the computer, the operation of the downloaded application in response to the acquired command.

12. An information processing system, comprising:

a first information processing apparatus to provide a command for controlling operation of a downloaded application to be executed in a linked relationship with the AV content; and

a second information processing apparatus to provide the application;

said reception apparatus including circuitry to

receive the AV content,

extract trigger information transmitted together with the AV content for rendering the downloaded application,

automatically acquire the command, which is different from the trigger information, in response to processing the extracted trigger information, the command being automatically acquired without user intervention and from the first information processing apparatus which is an external network source, and

control the operation of the downloaded application acquired from said second information processing apparatus in response to the command acquired from said first information processing apparatus,

said first information processing apparatus including circuitry configured to provide the command in response to a first inquiry from said reception apparatus,

said second information processing apparatus including circuitry configured to provide the application in response to a second inquiry from said reception apparatus.