Information processing device and information processing method

• US 10,002,206 B2
• Filed: 05/15/2013
• Issued: 06/19/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yamagishi, Yasuaki
• Primary Examiner(s): BOWEN, RICHARD L
• Application Number:
  US13/894,779
• Publication Number:
  US 20140122528A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,861 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/90335 Query processing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2668 Creating a channel for a dedicated end-user group, e.g. insertion of targeted commercials based on end-user profiles information retrieval from the Internet by querying with filtering and personalisation G06F16/9535; arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast H04H20/10; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; adaptation of message content in packet-switching networks H04L51/063
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4431 characterized by the use of Application Program Interface [API] libraries
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/454 Content or additional data filtering, e.g. blocking advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/458 Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream, e.g. by combining a locally stored advertisement with an incoming stream; Updating operations, e.g. for OS modules ; time-related management operations arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast or during the distribution H04H20/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4755 for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4758 for providing answers, e.g. voting

Abstract

An information processing device for obtaining contents distributed from a server, includes an answer generating section configured to generate user side answer information as information indicating an answer of a user to a question about a preference of the user so as to correspond to question information as information indicating the question, the question information being transmitted from the server. The device further includes a matching section configured to obtain the contents distributed from the server by performing matching between the user side answer information and provider side answer information as information indicating an answer set to the question by a provider providing the contents, the provider side answer information being transmitted from the server. The matching section is provided as a Web application, and performs the matching between the user side answer information and the provider side answer information by calling a plurality of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces).

Claims

1. An information processing device for obtaining content broadcast from a server, the information processing device comprising:

circuitry configured to

receive question information from the server, the question information indicating a question about a preference of a user;

prompt the user for an answer to the received question about the preference of the user;

generate user side answer information indicating the answer of the user to the question about the preference of the user;

receive, from the server, provider side answer information that indicates an answer set to the question by a provider that provides the content broadcast from the server, the provider side answer information being associated with the content;

determine whether the user side answer information corresponding to the question matches the provider side answer information corresponding to the question; and

obtain the content broadcast from the server when the user side answer information corresponding to the question is determined to match the provider side answer information corresponding to the question,

wherein the circuitry is configured to determine whether the user side answer information matches the provider side answer information by calling a plurality of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces).

2. The info, «

ration processing device according to claim 1, further comprising

a storage memory configured to store the user side answer information generated by the circuitry,

wherein the circuitry is configured to determine whether the user side answer information stored in the storage memory matches the provider side answer information by calling the plurality of APIs.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the circuitry is configured to call a user side answer information obtaining API for obtaining the user side answer information from the storage memory.

4. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the circuitry is configured to call a provider side answer information obtaining API for obtaining the provider side answer information from the server.

5. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein when the storage memory is configured as a database, the circuitry calls the user side answer information evaluating API for evaluating whether the user side answer information corresponding to the provider side answer information is stored in the storage memory, and the circuitry obtains the content corresponding to the provider side answer information for which the result is true.

6. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the circuitry is configured to call a content obtaining API to obtain the content.

7. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the circuitry is configured to determine whether to obtain the content broadcast from the server by determining whether the user side answer information matches a query indicating a combination of answers set by the provider, the query being received from the server.

8. The information processing device according to claim 7,

wherein the circuitry is configured to call a query obtaining API for obtaining the query from the server.

9. The information processing device according to claim 7,

wherein when the storage memory is configured as a database, the circuitry calls the user side answer information evaluating API for evaluating whether the user side answer information corresponding to the query is stored in the storage memory, and the circuitry obtains the content corresponding to the query for which the result is true.

10. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to decode the obtained content for display to the user.

11. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the information processing device is a television.

12. An information processing method of an information processing device for obtaining content broadcast from a server, the information processing method comprising:

receiving question information from the server, the question information indicating a question about a preference of a user;

prompting the user for an answer to the received question about the preference of the user;

generating, by circuitry of the information processing device, user side answer information indicating the answer of the user to the question about the preference of the user;

receiving, by the circuitry from the server, provider side answer information that indicates an answer set to the question by a provider that provides the content broadcast from the server, the provider side answer information being associated with the content;

determining, by the circuitry, whether the user side answer information corresponding to the question matches the provider side answer information corresponding to the question; and

obtaining, by the circuitry, the content broadcast from the server when the user side answer information corresponding to the question is determined to match the provider side answer information corresponding to the question,

wherein the determining whether the user side answer information matches the provider side answer information includes calling a plurality of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces).

13. An information processing device for obtaining content broadcast from a server, the information processing device comprising:

circuitry configured to

receive question information from the server;

generate a query indicating a combination of answers of a user to questions about preferences of the user that correspond to the question info, lotion indicating the questions;

receive, from the server, provider side answer information that indicates answers set to the questions by a provider that provides the content broadcast from the server, the provider side answer information being associated with the content;

determine whether the query corresponding to the questions matches the provider side answer information corresponding to the questions; and

obtain the content broadcast from the server when the query corresponding to the questions matches the provider side answer information corresponding to the questions,

wherein the circuitry is configured to determine whether the query matches the provider side answer information by calling a plurality of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces).

14. The information processing device according to claim 13, further comprising

a storage memory configured to store the query generated by the circuitry,

wherein the circuitry is configured to determine whether the query stored in the storage memory matches the provider side answer information by calling the plurality of APIs.

15. The information processing device according to claim 14,

wherein the circuitry is configured to call a query obtaining API for obtaining the query from the storage memory.

16. The information processing device according to claim 14,

wherein the circuitry is configured to call a provider side answer information obtaining API for obtaining the provider side answer information from the server.

17. The information processing device according to claim 14,

wherein when the storage memory is configured as a database, the circuitry calls the query evaluating API for evaluating whether the query corresponding to the provider side answer information is stored in the storage memory, and the circuitry obtains the content corresponding to the provider side answer information for which the result is true.

18. The information processing device according to claim 14,

wherein the circuitry is configured to call a content obtaining API to obtain the content.

19. An information processing method of an information processing device for obtaining content broadcast from a server, the information processing method comprising:

receiving question information from the server;

generating a query indicating a combination of answers of a user to questions about preferences of the user that correspond to the question information indicating the questions;

receiving, from the server, provider side answer information that indicates answers set to the questions by a provider that provides the content broadcast from the server, the provider side answer information being associated with the content;

determining whether the query corresponding to the questions matches the provider side answer information corresponding to the questions; and

obtaining the content broadcast from the server when the query corresponding to the questions matches the provider side answer information corresponding to the questions,

wherein the determining whether the query matches the provider side answer information includes calling a plurality of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces).