Receiving device, transmitting device, and data processing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12149784-B2
Application number	US-201615563776-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 8, 2016
Priority date	Jun 22, 2015
Publication date	Nov 19, 2024
Grant date	Nov 19, 2024

Abstract

A receiving device is provided that includes circuitry configured to receive a digital broadcast stream. The circuitry is configured to acquire server information corresponding to a viewing history server that collects viewing history information related to a viewing history of content. The server information is included in the digital broadcast stream. The circuitry is further configured to control transmission of the viewing history information to the viewing history server based on the acquired server information.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A receiving device comprising:
circuitry configured to
receive a digital broadcast stream that includes content and server information, the server information indicating (i) a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and (ii) a URL type that is a single 8-bit value and that indicates a type of server corresponding to the URL, the URL type having a different value than the URL,
acquire the URL and the URL type from the digital broadcast stream, and
transmit viewing history information related to a viewing history of the content based on the URL in a case that the acquired URL type acquired from the digital broadcast stream is determined to indicate the server is a viewing history server.

2. The receiving device according to claim 1 , wherein
the digital broadcast stream includes first control information, the first control information including channel information for the content,
the URL is included in the first control information, and
the circuitry is configured to acquire the URL from the first control information.

3. The receiving device according to claim 2 , wherein the first control information specifies the URL to be for one of a plurality of services provided in the digital broadcast stream.

4. The receiving device according to claim 2 , wherein the first control information is
arranged in a user datagram protocol (UDP) packet included in an IP packet, and
acquired ahead of second control information transmitted by a real-time object delivery over unidirectional transport (ROUTE) session or an MPEG media transport (MMT) session.

5. The receiving device according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is configured to manage the viewing history information.

6. The receiving device according to claim 1 , wherein the viewing history information includes a consumption data message (CDM) including a service identifier.

7. A data processing method of a receiving device, the method comprising:
receiving, by circuitry of the receiving device, a digital broadcast stream that includes content and server information, the server information indicating (i) a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and (ii) a URL type that is a single 8-bit value and that indicates a type of server corresponding to the URL , the URL type having a different value than the URL;
acquiring, by the circuitry of the receiving device, the URL and the URL type from the digital broadcast stream; and
transmitting, by the circuitry of the receiving device, viewing history information related to a viewing history of the content based on the URL in a case that the acquired URL type acquired from the digital broadcast stream is determined to indicate the server is a viewing history server.

8. A transmitting device comprising:
circuitry configured to
generate server information that includes a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and a URL type, the URL type being a single 8-bit value and indicating a type of server corresponding to the URL is a viewing history server that collects viewing history information related to a viewing history of content , the URL type having a different value than the URL; and
transmit a digital broadcast stream that includes the content and the server information to a receiving device configured to transmit the viewing history information based on the URL in a case that the URL type acquired from the digital broadcast stream is determined to indicate the server is a viewing history server.

9. The transmitting device according to claim 8 , wherein
the digital broadcast stream includes first control information, the first control information including channel information for the content, and
the URL is included in the first control information.

10. The transmitting device according to claim 9 , wherein
the first control information specifies the URL to be for one of a plurality of services provided in the digital broadcast stream, or specifies the URL to be common among the plurality of services, and
the content is included in the one of the plurality of services.

11. The transmitting device according to claim 9 , wherein the first control information is
arranged in a user datagram protocol (UDP) packet included in an IP packet, and
acquired ahead of second control information transmitted by a real-time object delivery over unidirectional transport (ROUTE) session or an MPEG media transport (MMT) session.

12. A data processing method of a transmitting device, the method comprising:
generating, by circuitry of the transmitting device, server information that includes a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and a URL type, the URL type being a single 8-bit value and indicating a type of server corresponding to the URL is a viewing history server that collects viewing history information related to a viewing history of content , the URL type having a different value than the URL; and
transmitting, by the circuitry of the transmitting device, a digital broadcast stream that includes the content and the server information to a receiving device configured to transmit the viewing history information based on the URL in a case that the URL type acquired from the digital broadcast stream is determined to indicate the server is a viewing history server.

13. The data processing method according to claim 7 , wherein
the digital broadcast stream includes first control information, the first control information including channel information for the content,
the URL is included in the first control information, and
the URL is acquired from the first control information.

14. The data processing method according to claim 13 , wherein the first control information specifies the URL to be for one of a plurality of services provided in the digital broadcast stream.

15. The data processing method according to claim 7 , further comprising:
managing the viewing history information.

16. The data processing method according to claim 7 , wherein the viewing history information includes a consumption data message (CDM) including a service identifier.

17. The receiving device according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is configured to connect to the viewing history server using the URL corresponding to the viewing history server.

18. The receiving device according to claim 1 , wherein the receiving device is a television receiver.

19. The receiving device according to claim 1 , wherein the URL identifies the server as a viewing history server.

20. The data processing method according to claim 7 , wherein the URL identifies the server as a viewing history server.

21. The receiving device according to claim 2 , wherein the first control information specifies the URL to be common among a plurality of services.

22. The data processing method according to claim 13 , wherein the first control information specifies the URL to be common among a plurality of services.

23. The receiving device according to claim 1 , wherein the receiving device includes a display unit and a speaker.

Assignees

• Saturn Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Kitahara Jun

Classifications

• H04N21/845

  Structuring of content, e.g. decomposing content into time segments · CPC title

• H04N21/64322

  IP · CPC title

• H04N21/4884

  for displaying subtitles · CPC title

• H04N21/4532

  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 title

• H04N21/23892

  involving embedding information at multiplex stream level, e.g. embedding a watermark at packet level · CPC title