RECEIVING APPARATUS AND METHOD, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION METHOD, FILTERING AND STORING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20100100557A1
• Filed: 12/28/2009
• Published: 04/22/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: KITAZATO, Naohisa
• Granted Patent: US 9,031,878 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/754
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/76 Wired systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/27 Arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/45 for identifying users
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/46 for recognising users' preferences
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/65 for using the result on users' side
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2547 Third Party Billing, e.g. billing of advertiser
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4147 PVR [Personal Video Recorder] H04N5/76 takes precedence ; arrangements for broadcast with accumulation-type receivers H04H20/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44224 Monitoring of user activity on external systems, e.g. Internet browsing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/454 Content or additional data filtering, e.g. blocking advertisements
• 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 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6582 Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

It is possible for the content distribution side to control the conditions of target viewers for distributions without depending on the functions specific to a receiver. Content which is broadcast, a content profile, and a program are received. In an initial step of the program, prestored viewer profile information is read. All the content profiles and the contents are downloaded temporarily. Next, the profile information is read, and then a process of matching the profile information with the viewer profile information is performed. When it is determined that they do not match, a matching process for the next content profile is performed. If, on the other hand, they match, at the next step, the content is stored. The viewer reproduces the stored content at an appropriate time.

Claims

1-22. -22. (canceled)

23. A receiving apparatus in an information distribution system, comprising:

a receiver device to receive a filtering and storing execution script and one or more content profiles, each content profile including profile information for the content and an associated network address for the content, the content profile not including the content;

a cache area to store the content profiles;

a first storage area to store viewer profile information;

a processing device to execute the filtering and storing execution script, the filtering and storing execution script enabled to determine a matched content profile that matches a particular viewer profile;

a second storage area to store, when a match is determined by the filtering and execution script, the network address for the matched content profile; and

an access device to access the content associated with the network address from the profile information for the matched content profile.

24. The receiving apparatus of claim 23, wherein the one or more content profiles and the filtering and execution script are received substantially at the same time.

25. A method of receiving content in an information distribution system, comprising:

receiving a filtering and storing execution script and one or more content profiles, each content profile including profile information for the content and an associated network address for the content, the content profile not including the content;

storing the content profiles;

storing viewer profile information;

executing the filtering and storing execution script, the filtering and storing execution script enabled to determine a matched content profile that matches a particular viewer profile;

storing, when a match is determined by the filtering and execution script, the network address for the matched content profile; and

accessing the content associated with the network address from the profile information for the matched content profile.

26. The receiving apparatus of claim 25, wherein the one or more content profiles and the filtering and execution script are received substantially at the same time.

27. A receiving apparatus in an information distribution system, comprising:

a receiver device to receive a filtering and storing execution script and one or more content profiles, each content profile including profile information for the content and an associated network address for the content, the content profile not including the content;

a storage area to store viewer profile information;

a processing device to execute the filtering and storing execution script, the filtering and storing execution script enabled to determine a matched content profile that matches a particular viewer profile; and

an access device to access the content associated with the network address from the profile information for the matched content profile.

28. A method of receiving content in an information distribution system, comprising:

receiving a filtering and storing execution script and one or more content profiles, each content profile including profile information for the content and an associated network address for the content, the content profile not including the content;

storing viewer profile information;

executing the filtering and storing execution script, the filtering and storing execution script enabled to determine a matched content profile that matches a particular viewer profile; and

accessing the content associated with the network address from the profile information for the matched content profile.