Receiving device, receiving method, and program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9596511-B2
Application number	US-201113220231-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 29, 2011
Priority date	Aug 30, 2010
Publication date	Mar 14, 2017
Grant date	Mar 14, 2017

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a receiving device for receiving an AV content broadcast by a broadcasting wave, including: an obtaining section adapted to obtain a description document described in a predetermined computer language for displaying another content different from the AV content; a determining section adapted to determine whether the obtained description document is managed by a broadcaster which broadcasts the AV content or is managed by a different operator other than the broadcaster; and a controlling section adapted to control execution of the obtained description document in response to a result of the determination by the determining section.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A receiving device for receiving an audio/video (AV) content broadcast, comprising:
processing circuitry configured
to obtain, using a uniform resource identifier (URI), a description document described in a predetermined computer language for displaying another content different from the AV content;
to determine, based on the URI, whether the obtained description document is managed by a broadcaster which broadcasts the AV content or is managed by a different operator other than the broadcaster; and
to control execution of the obtained description document according to a management mode that is set based on the determination of whether the obtained description document is managed by the broadcaster or is managed by the different operator.

2. The receiving device according to claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured
to detect trigger information relating to control of the description document transmitted together with the AV content and executed in an interlocked relationship with the progress of the AV content,
to obtain the description document from an information processing device managed by the broadcaster based on the detected trigger information, and
to determine that the description document obtained from the information processing device is managed by the broadcaster.

3. The receiving device according to claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured
to obtain, when the description document can be executed solely without interlocking with the AV content, the description document from an information processing device managed by the broadcaster, and
to determine that the description document obtained from the information processing device is managed by the broadcaster.

4. The receiving device according to claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured
to obtain, when the description document can be executed only by a specific application program, the description document from a different information processing device managed by the different operator, and
to determine that the description document obtained from the different information processing device is managed by the different operator.

5. The receiving device according to claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured
to execute the obtained description document,
to control, when the description document is determined to be managed by the broadcaster, said execution of the obtained description document in a first management mode in which said executed description document can perform a specific process determined in advance, and
to control, when the description document is determined to be managed by the different operator, said execution of the obtained description document in a second management mode in which said executed description document cannot perform the specific process.

6. The receiving device according to claim 5 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured
to determine, when said execution of the obtained description document is operated in the first management mode, every time the description document is obtained, whether the obtained description document is managed by the broadcaster or the different operator, and
to control, when the description document is managed by the different operator, said execution of the obtained description document, which is operating in the first management mode, to operate in the second management mode.

7. The receiving device according to claim 5 , wherein
said processing circuitry is configured to control, when a predetermined operation is performed while said execution of the obtained description document is operating in the second management mode, said execution of the obtained description document, which is operating in the second management mode, to operate in the first management mode.

8. The receiving device according to claim 1 , wherein
said processing circuitry is configured to obtain the description document transmitted utilizing a predetermined broadcasting waveband of a digital television broadcasting signal.

9. The receiving device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a receiver configured to receive the AV content broadcast, wherein
the processing circuitry is configured to determine based on boundary information whether the obtained description document is managed by the broadcaster which broadcasts the AV content being received by the receiver or is managed by the different operator other than the broadcaster.

10. The receiving device according to claim 9 , wherein the boundary information is predetermined by the broadcaster which broadcasts the AV content.

11. The receiving device according to claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured
to obtain the description document via a communication network.

12. The receiving device according to claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured
to allow the executed description document to perform one of a channel selecting operation, a recording operation, and a bookmarking operation.

13. The receiving device according to claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured
to determine, based on a domain name included in the URI, whether the obtained description document is managed by the broadcaster which broadcasts the AV content or is managed by the different operator other than the broadcaster.

14. A receiving method by a receiving device, comprising:
obtaining, using a uniform resource identifier (URI), a description document described in a predetermined computer language for displaying another content different from an audio/video (AV) content;
determining, based on the URI, whether the obtained description document is managed by a broadcaster which broadcasts the AV content or is managed by a different operator other than the broadcaster; and
controlling, by processing circuitry of the receiving device, execution of the obtained description document according to a management mode that is set based on the determination of whether the obtained description document is managed by the broadcaster or is managed by the different operator.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for controlling a receiving device and causing a computer of the receiving device to execute a process comprising:
obtaining, using a uniform resource identifier (URI), a description document described in a predetermined computer language for displaying another content different from an audio/video (AV) content;
determining, based on the URI, whether the obtained description document is managed by a broadcaster which broadcasts the AV content or is managed by a different operator other than the broadcaster; and
controlling, by the computer, execution of the obtained description document according to a management mode that is set based on the determination of whether the obtained description document is managed by the broadcaster or is managed by the different operator.

Assignees

• Kitahara Jun
• Kitazato Naohisa
• Dewa Yoshiharu
• Yamagishi Yasuaki
• Saturn Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Kitahara Jun
• Kitazato Naohisa
• Dewa Yoshiharu
• Yamagishi Yasuaki

Classifications

• H04N21/478

  Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application · CPC title

• H04N21/4622 Primary

  Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet (web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859) · CPC title

• H04H60/73

  using meta-information · CPC title

• H04N21/4349

  by extracting from data carousels, e.g. extraction of software modules from a DVB carousel · CPC title

• H04H60/82

  the transmission system being the Internet · CPC title