Service information provision apparatus and service information acquisition apparatus

• US 8,943,544 B2
• Filed: 11/11/2009
• Issued: 01/27/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Matsubara, Masami, Imai, Shigeru, Miura, Shin, Akatsu, Shinji, Asai, Kohtaro, Akiyama, Takumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Epko, Nnenna
• Application Number:
  US13/128,660
• Publication Number:
  US 20110258673A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,903 Days
• Field of Search: 725/109, 725/110, 725/114
• US Class Current: 725/109
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2362 Generation or processing of Service Information [SI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4345 Extraction or processing of SI, e.g. extracting service information from an MPEG stream
• 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 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80

Abstract

A service information provision apparatus is provided with a data service information table configured from a service discovery information table showing association of specific information of a service provider and service discovery information as service content information provided by the service provider, and a service offer information table showing association of the service discovery information of the service discovery information table and data contents corresponding to the service discovery information.

Claims

1. A service information acquisition apparatus, comprising:

a processor-based device programmed to;

send a request for first service discovery information to a first service provider configuration information server;

send a first request for service offer information to a first service server specified by specific information of the first service server, the first service server belonging to a first service provider, the specific information of the first service server being indicated in the first service discovery information acquired in response to the request for the first service discovery information; and

acquire the service offer information of the first service server in response to the first request for the service offer information,

wherein the processor-based device is further programmed to;

send a request for second service discovery information to a second service provider configuration information server,

send a second request for the service offer information to a second service server specified by specific information of the second service server, the second service server belonging to a second service provider, the specific information of the second service server being indicated in the second service discovery information acquired in response to the request for the second service discovery information, and

acquire the service offer information of the second service server in response to the second request for the service offer information.

2. The service information acquisition apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processor-based device is further programmed to

send a request for service provider discovery information to a network configuration information server, and

receive the service provider discovery information in response to the request for the service provider discovery information, the service provider discovery information indicating the first service provider configuration information server.