BROADCAST CONTENT TRANSMITTING APPARATUS AND BROADCAST CONTENT RECEIVING APPARATUS

• US 20130144986A1
• Filed: 05/30/2011
• Published: 06/06/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamada, Akira, Ohya, Tomoyuki, Nakazawa, Norihiko, Baba, Masayuki, Matsuoka, Hosei
• Application Number:
  US13/701,029
• Publication Number:
  US 20130144986A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/16 Arrangements for broadcast or for distribution of identical information repeatedly
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/13 Arrangements for device control affected by the broadcast information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/25 Arrangements for updating broadcast information or broadcast-related information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/27 Arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/40 for identifying broadcast time
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/73 using meta-information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4331 Caching operations, e.g. of an advertisement for later insertion during playback
• 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 21/4586 Content update operation triggered locally, e.g. by comparing the version of software modules in a DVB carousel to the version stored locally deployment, distribution, installation, update of software G06F8/65; error detection or correction of the data by redundancy during software upgrading G06F11/1433; arrangements for updating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/25
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

When only part of content that is stored inside a terminal is updated, the updated content is allowed to be received efficiently, taking into account reducing the power consumption of the terminal. This broadcast content delivery apparatus (10) has a program information generating apparatus (15) that generates program information including a list of objects constituting the broadcast content, object identifiers, object version number information, and object broadcast times, and a content delivery control apparatus (12) that repeats transmitting the objects based on the object broadcast times, and transmits the program information at a predetermined transmission time, when there is addition, removal or updating with respect to the objects constituting the broadcast content, the program information of the broadcast content is updated, the updating of the objects is reported to a broadcast content receiving apparatus by updating corresponding object version number information, and the addition or removal of the objects is reported to the broadcast content receiving apparatus by updating the object list.

Claims

1. A broadcast content transmitting apparatus comprising:

a program information generating section that, with respect to broadcast content that is comprised of a plurality of objects, generates program information, including a list of objects constituting the broadcast content, object identifiers, object version number information and object transmission times;

a content delivery control section that repeats transmitting the objects based on the object broadcast times, and also transmits the program information at a predetermined transmission time; and

an updating section that, when there is addition, removal or updating with respect to the objects constituting the broadcast content, updates the program information of the broadcast content, wherein;

the updating of the objects is reported to a broadcast content receiving apparatus by updating corresponding object version number information; and

the addition or removal of the objects is reported to the broadcast content receiving apparatus by updating the object list.

2. The broadcast content transmitting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the broadcast content delivery control section transmits the objects in order from a newest object that is added or updated.

3. The broadcast content transmitting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the broadcast content is advertisement broadcast content that is comprised of advertisement objects, where each object is formed with a commercial message.

4. The broadcast content transmitting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the broadcast content is media content that is comprised of media objects, where each object is formed with a media file.

5. The broadcast content transmitting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the broadcast content is program information content that is comprised of program information objects, where each object is formed with program information.

6. The broadcast content transmitting apparatus according to claim 5, wherein:

the program information generating section generates program information related to the program information content and program information related to each content corresponding to each program information object; and

the content delivery control section transmits the program information related to the program information content and the program information related to each content corresponding to each program information object, at respective transmission times.

7. A broadcast content receiving apparatus comprising:

a receiving section that receives program information including an object list of objects constituting broadcast content, object identifiers, object version number information and object broadcast times, and also receives the objects included in the object list of the program information based on the object broadcast times;

a memory that stores the broadcast content received in the receiving section in object units, and program information related to the broadcast content; and

a control section that detects updating of the objects from the object version number information included in newest program information that is stored in the memory, detects addition or removal of the objects from the object list, and controls the receiving section to receive only an object that is detected to be updated or added, among a plurality of objects constituting the broadcast content, at an object broadcast time of the object.

8. The broadcast content receiving apparatus according to claim 7, wherein, when the objects are transmitted from a broadcast content transmitting apparatus in order from the updated or added object, the receiving section receives only an object that needs to be updated or added, under control of the control section.

9. The broadcast content receiving apparatus according to claim 7, wherein:

the receiving section receives program information related to program information content that is comprised of program information objects, where each object is formed with program information, and program information related to each content corresponding to each program information object; and

when program information that is added or updated is detected from the program information related to the program information content, the control section controls the receiving section to receive the added or updated program information based on a transmission time of the detected program information.

10. A broadcast content transmitting method comprising the steps of:

with respect to broadcast content that is comprised of a plurality of objects, generating program information, including a list of objects constituting the broadcast content, object identifiers, object version number information and object transmission times;

repeating transmitting the objects based on the object broadcast times, and also transmitting the program information at a predetermined transmission time; and

when there is addition, removal or updating with respect to the objects constituting the broadcast content, updating the program information of the broadcast content, wherein;

the updating of the objects is reported to a broadcast content receiving apparatus by updating corresponding object version number information; and

the addition or removal of the objects is reported to the broadcast content receiving apparatus by updating the object list.

11. A broadcast content receiving method comprising:

receiving program information including an object list of objects constituting broadcast content, object identifiers, object version number information and object broadcast times, and also receiving the objects included in the object list of the program information based on the object broadcast times;

storing the broadcast content received in object units, and program information related to the broadcast content; and

detecting updating of the objects from the object version number information included in newest program information that is stored, detecting addition or removal of the objects from the object list, and controlling a reception start time such that only an object that is detected to be updated or added is received, among a plurality of objects constituting the broadcast content, at an object broadcast time of the object.