Receiving device, receiving method, transmitting device, and transmitting method

• US 9,986,198 B2
• Filed: 12/22/2015
• Issued: 05/29/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kitahara, Jun, Kitazato, Naohisa
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, William
• Application Number:
  US14/978,887
• Publication Number:
  US 20160112671A1
• Time in Patent Office: 889 Days
• Field of Search: 386240
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/40 Arrangements for broadcast specially adapted for accumulation-type receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/91 broadcasting computer programmes
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/72 using electronic programme guides [EPG] focusing on identifying broadcast space time H04H60/39 ; menu type display of EPG in television receivers H04N21/47
• 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 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6581 Reference data, e.g. a movie identifier for ordering a movie or a product identifier in a home shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8173 End-user applications, e.g. Web browser, game
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/782 on tape
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a receiving device including: a first receiving section configured to receive audio visual contents capable of a download reservation and transmitted in non-real time; a recording section configured to record the audio visual contents that have been downloaded; an obtaining section configured to obtain an application program for executing a process related to the audio visual contents; and an executing section configured to execute the process related to the audio visual contents on a basis of control information included in the application program.

Claims

1. A receiving device comprising:

circuitry configured to

download, from a server an application program related to non-real-time audio visual contents, wherein the application program is a Hyper Text Markup Language document described in Hyper Text Markup Language, and including functions described as scripts in the HTML document;

determine whether the server is managed by an entity other than an entity providing the non-real-time audio visual contents;

permit execution of at least one of the functions using the application program in case of the server being determined as managed by the entity providing the non-real-time audio visual contents;

limit the execution of the at least one of the functions using the application program in case of the server being determined as managed by the entity other than the entity providing the non-real-time audio visual contents;

execute the application program, including executing a function of reserving a download of the non-real-time audio visual contents from a broadcast signal in case of the function of reserving the download being one of the at least one of the functions that execution thereof is permitted;

receive the broadcast signal, the broadcast signal including real-time audio visual content and the non-real-time audio visual contents, the non-real-time audio visual contents having been reserved via the application program and transmitted in non-real time; and

record the non-real-time audio visual contents that have been downloaded.

2. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein when a predetermined event has occurred during execution of the application program, the circuitry is configured to execute a process related to the non-real-time audio visual contents according to the event that has occurred in case of the process related to the non-real-time audio visual contents being one of the at least one function that execution thereof is permitted.

3. The receiving device according to claim 2, wherein

the non-real-time audio visual contents whose download is to be reserved are specified via the application program.

4. The receiving device according to claim 3, wherein

executing the application program includes performing a function for cancelling a reservation for a download of the non-real-time audio visual contents,

the non-real-time audio visual contents to be cancelled are specified via the application program, and

the circuitry is configured to cancel the reservation for the download of the specified non-real-time audio visual contents in case of the function for cancelling the reservation for the download being one of the at least one function that execution thereof is permitted.

5. The receiving device according to claim 2, wherein

executing the application program includes performing a function for obtaining a download state of the non-real-time audio visual contents whose download is reserved,

an instruction to obtain the download state is given via the application program, and

the circuitry is configured to obtain the download state in case of the function for obtaining the download state being one of the at least one function that execution thereof is permitted.

6. The receiving device according to claim 2, wherein

executing the application program includes performing a function for obtaining detailed information on the downloaded non-real-time audio visual contents,

an instruction to obtain the detailed information is given via the application program, and

the circuitry is configured to obtain the detailed information in case of the function for obtaining the detailed information being one of the at least one function that execution thereof is permitted.

7. The receiving device according to claim 2, wherein

executing the application program includes performing a function for performing an immediate download of the non-real-time audio visual contents,

the immediate download of the non-real-time audio visual contents whose download is to be reserved is instructed via the application program, and

the circuitry is configured to perform the instructed immediate download of the non-real-time audio visual contents in case of performing the immediate download being one of the at least one function that execution thereof is permitted.

8. The receiving device according to claim 7, wherein

executing the application program includes performing a function for stopping performing the immediate download of the non-real-time audio visual contents,

an instruction to stop the immediate download of the non-real-time audio visual contents is given via the application program, and

the circuitry is configured to stop performing the immediate download of the non-real-time audio visual contents in case of stopping performing the immediate download being one of the at least one function that execution thereof is permitted.

9. The receiving device according to claim 2, wherein

executing the application program includes performing a function for deleting the downloaded non-real-time audio visual contents and related information related to the non-real-time audio visual contents,

the non-real-time audio visual contents to be deleted are specified via the application program, and

the circuitry is configured to delete the specified non-real-time audio visual contents and the related information in case of performing the function for deleting the downloaded non-real-time audio visual contents and the related information related to the non-real-time audio visual contents being one of the at least one function that execution thereof is permitted.

10. The receiving device according to claim 2, wherein

executing the application program includes performing a function for updating download information on a download of the non-real-time audio visual contents, the download information being transmitted periodically together with the non-real-time audio visual contents,

an instruction to update the download information is given via the application program, and

the circuitry is configured to update the download information in case of performing the function for updating the download information being one of the at least one function that execution thereof is permitted.

11. The receiving device according to claim 2, wherein

executing the application program includes performing a function for obtaining recording space information on a recording space of a memory to which the non-real-time audio visual contents that have been downloaded are recorded,

an instruction to obtain the recording space information is given via the application program, and

the circuitry is configured to obtain the recording space information in case of performing the function for obtaining the recording space information being one of the at least one function that execution thereof is permitted.

12. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to obtain the Hyper Text Markup Language document transmitted from an information processing device managed by another entity than the entity providing the non-real-time audio visual contents.

13. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to receive the non-real-time audio visual contents transmitted by a broadcast signal.

14. The receiving device according to claim 13, wherein the circuitry is further configured to receive the non-real-time audio visual contents distributed via the Internet in case of the receiving device failing to receive the non-real-time audio visual contents transmitted by the broadcast signal.

15. The receiving device according to claim 2, wherein the circuitry is configured to identify target non-real-time audio visual contents by identifying information identifying the non-real-time audio visual contents, the identifying information being included in download information on a download of the non-real-time audio visual contents, the download information being transmitted periodically together with the non-real-time audio visual contents.

16. The receiving device according to claim 15, wherein

the download information is an Non Real Time Information Table, and

the identifying information is a Content Linkage included in the Non Real Time Information Table.

17. A receiving method of a receiving device, the receiving method comprising, performed by the receiving device:

downloading, from a server an application program related to non-real-time audio visual contents, wherein the application program is a Hyper Text Markup Language document described in Hyper Text Markup Language, and including functions described as scripts in the HTML document;

determining whether the server is managed by an entity other than an entity providing the non-real-time audio visual contents;

permitting execution of at least one junction using the application program in case of the server being determined as managed by the entity′

providing the non-real-time audio visual contents;

limiting the execution of the at least one function using the application program in case of the server being determined as managed by the entity other than the entity providing the non-real-time audio visual contents;

executing the application program, including executing a function of reserving a download of the non-real-time audio visual contents from a broadcast signal in case of the function of reserving the download being one of the at least one of the functions that execution thereof is permitted;

receiving the broadcast signal, the broadcast signal including real-time audio visual content and the non-real-time audio visual contents, the non-real-time audio visual contents having been reserved via the application program and transmitted in non-real time; and

recording the non-real-time audio visual contents that have been downloaded.

18. A transmitting device comprising;

circuitry configured to

generate an application program related to non-real-time audio visual contents, wherein the application program is a Hyper Text Markup Language document described in Hyper Text Markup Language, and including functions described as scripts in the HTML document, the application program having a function of reserving download of the non-real-time audio visual contents, the reserved non-real-time audio visual contents being transmitted in non-real time in a broadcast signal that includes the non-real-time audio visual contents and real-time audio visual content; and

transmit the application program to a receiving device, wherein execution of the function of reserving download of the non-real-time audio visual contents by the receiving device using the application program is permitted or limited based on whether the transmitting device is managed by an entity other than an entity providing the non-real-time audio visual contents.

19. A transmitting method of a transmitting device, performed by the transmitting device:

generating, by circuitry of the transmitting device, an application program related to non-real-time audio visual contents, wherein the application program is a Hyper Text Markup Language document described in Hyper Text Markup Language, and including functions described as scripts in the HTML document, the application program having a function of reserving download of the non-real-time audio visual contents, the reserved non-real-time audio visual contents being transmitted in non-real time in a broadcast signal that includes the non-real-time audio visual contents and real-time audio visual content; and

transmitting the application program, wherein execution of the function of reserving download of the non-real-time audio visual contents by the receiving device using the application program is permuted or limited based on whether the transmitting device is managed by an entity other than an entity providing the non-real-time audio visual contents.