Receiving device, receiving method, and program

• US 9,596,511 B2
• Filed: 08/29/2011
• Issued: 03/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kitahara, Jun, Kitazato, Naohisa, Dewa, Yoshiharu, Yamagishi, Yasuaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Goodarzi, Nasser
• Assistant Examiner(s): Peng, Fred
• Application Number:
  US13/220,231
• Publication Number:
  US 20120060197A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,024 Days
• Field of Search: 725 32- 36, 725109-113
• 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 60/73 using meta-information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/82 the transmission system being the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4349 by extracting from data carousels, e.g. extraction of software modules from a DVB carousel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport 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 21/478 Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4821 using a grid, e.g. sorted out by channel and broadcast time
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6175 involving transmission via Internet broadcast-related systems characterised by the transmission system being the Internet H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/643 Communication protocols network streaming protocols, e.g. real-time transport protocol [RTP] or real-time control protocol [RTCP], H04L65/65
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6543 for forcing some client operations, e.g. recording remote booting in general G06F9/4416

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a receiving device for receiving an AV content broadcast by a broadcasting wave, including: an obtaining section adapted to obtain a description document described in a predetermined computer language for displaying another content different from the AV content; a determining section adapted to determine whether the obtained description document is managed by a broadcaster which broadcasts the AV content or is managed by a different operator other than the broadcaster; and a controlling section adapted to control execution of the obtained description document in response to a result of the determination by the determining section.

Claims

1. A receiving device for receiving an audio/video (AV) content broadcast, comprising:

processing circuitry configured

to obtain, using a uniform resource identifier (URI), a description document described in a predetermined computer language for displaying another content different from the AV content;

to determine, based on the URI, whether the obtained description document is managed by a broadcaster which broadcasts the AV content or is managed by a different operator other than the broadcaster; and

to control execution of the obtained description document according to a management mode that is set based on the determination of whether the obtained description document is managed by the broadcaster or is managed by the different operator.

2. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is further configured

to detect trigger information relating to control of the description document transmitted together with the AV content and executed in an interlocked relationship with the progress of the AV content,

to obtain the description document from an information processing device managed by the broadcaster based on the detected trigger information, and

to determine that the description document obtained from the information processing device is managed by the broadcaster.

3. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is further configured

to obtain, when the description document can be executed solely without interlocking with the AV content, the description document from an information processing device managed by the broadcaster, and

to determine that the description document obtained from the information processing device is managed by the broadcaster.

4. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is further configured

to obtain, when the description document can be executed only by a specific application program, the description document from a different information processing device managed by the different operator, and

to determine that the description document obtained from the different information processing device is managed by the different operator.

5. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is further configured

to execute the obtained description document,

to control, when the description document is determined to be managed by the broadcaster, said execution of the obtained description document in a first management mode in which said executed description document can perform a specific process determined in advance, and

to control, when the description document is determined to be managed by the different operator, said execution of the obtained description document in a second management mode in which said executed description document cannot perform the specific process.

6. The receiving device according to claim 5, wherein the processing circuitry is configured

to determine, when said execution of the obtained description document is operated in the first management mode, every time the description document is obtained, whether the obtained description document is managed by the broadcaster or the different operator, and

to control, when the description document is managed by the different operator, said execution of the obtained description document, which is operating in the first management mode, to operate in the second management mode.

7. The receiving device according to claim 5, wherein

said processing circuitry is configured to control, when a predetermined operation is performed while said execution of the obtained description document is operating in the second management mode, said execution of the obtained description document, which is operating in the second management mode, to operate in the first management mode.

8. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein

said processing circuitry is configured to obtain the description document transmitted utilizing a predetermined broadcasting waveband of a digital television broadcasting signal.

9. The receiving device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a receiver configured to receive the AV content broadcast, wherein

the processing circuitry is configured to determine based on boundary information whether the obtained description document is managed by the broadcaster which broadcasts the AV content being received by the receiver or is managed by the different operator other than the broadcaster.

10. The receiving device according to claim 9, wherein the boundary information is predetermined by the broadcaster which broadcasts the AV content.

11. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is further configured

to obtain the description document via a communication network.

12. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is further configured

to allow the executed description document to perform one of a channel selecting operation, a recording operation, and a bookmarking operation.

13. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is further configured

to determine, based on a domain name included in the URI, whether the obtained description document is managed by the broadcaster which broadcasts the AV content or is managed by the different operator other than the broadcaster.

14. A receiving method by a receiving device, comprising:

obtaining, using a uniform resource identifier (URI), a description document described in a predetermined computer language for displaying another content different from an audio/video (AV) content;

determining, based on the URI, whether the obtained description document is managed by a broadcaster which broadcasts the AV content or is managed by a different operator other than the broadcaster; and

controlling, by processing circuitry of the receiving device, execution of the obtained description document according to a management mode that is set based on the determination of whether the obtained description document is managed by the broadcaster or is managed by the different operator.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for controlling a receiving device and causing a computer of the receiving device to execute a process comprising:

obtaining, using a uniform resource identifier (URI), a description document described in a predetermined computer language for displaying another content different from an audio/video (AV) content;

determining, based on the URI, whether the obtained description document is managed by a broadcaster which broadcasts the AV content or is managed by a different operator other than the broadcaster; and

controlling, by the computer, execution of the obtained description document according to a management mode that is set based on the determination of whether the obtained description document is managed by the broadcaster or is managed by the different operator.