Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080198847 | MULTICASTING SYSTEM, CLIENT DEVICE, UPPER ROUTER CONTROLLER, METHOD OF DISPLAYING CONTENT AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A multicasting system includes a delivery server for multicasting a content via at least one upper router and a plurality of lower routers, a plurality of client devices for playing the content multicast by the delivery server and an upper router controller, a content retrieving unit, and a content playing unit. The client device includes an individual storage unit, a content retrieving unit, a content playing unit, a switch time addition unit, and a display controller. The delivery server includes a content delivery unit for delivering each content to the client device. The upper router controller includes a session information retrieving unit, a book scheduling unit, and a schedule information notifier. | 08-21-2008 |
20080198848 | MULTICASTING SYSTEM AND MULTICASTING METHOD - A multicasting system includes a delivery server for multicasting a content via at least one upper router and a plurality of lower routers, a plurality of client devices for playing the content multicast by the delivery server, an upper router controller for controlling the upper router and a lower router controller for controlling the plurality of lower routers. The client device includes a play history storage unit, an individual storage unit, a content retrieving unit, and a content playing unit. The delivery server includes a master storage unit, an optimizer optimizing the identifier and the session information of the content stored on the individual storage unit, and a content delivery unit. The upper router controller includes a session information retrieving unit, a book scheduling unit, and a schedule information notifier. | 08-21-2008 |
20080250455 | PROGRAM INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS, PROGRAM INFORMATION RETRIEVAL APPARATUS, PROGRAM INFORMATION RETRIEVAL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A program information retrieval system in which a broadcast receiving terminal and a resolver server are connected through a communication network includes a local storing unit that stores a program information, a taste-information acquiring unit that acquires taste information of a user, a program-information requesting unit that requests the resolver server to provide program information, and a program-information receiving unit that receives the program information transmitted from the resolver server. The resolver server includes a master storing unit that stores the program information, a program-information-request receiving unit that receives a request for program information based on the taste information from the broadcast receiving terminal, a program-information extracting unit that extracts program information matching the taste information from the master storing unit using the identifier, and a transmitting unit that transmits the program information extracted from the master storing unit to the broadcast receiving terminal. | 10-09-2008 |
20090006626 | BANDWIDTH REQUESTING SYSTEM, BANDWIDTH REQUESTING DEVICE, CLIENT DEVICE, BANDWIDTH REQUESTING METHOD, CONTENT PLAYBACK METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A bandwidth requesting system includes: a bandwidth requesting device provided to a network to which a plurality of client devices configured to play contents are connected; a router provided externally from the network and connected to the network; and a relay server provided externally from the network and connected to the network via the router; wherein the bandwidth requesting device determines an appropriation request bandwidth based on all bandwidths which the plurality of client devices connected to the network need, and requests the determined appropriation request bandwidth to the relay server via the router; and wherein the relay server determines a bandwidth to appropriate to the network, based on a bandwidth capacity which can be appropriated to the network and the appropriation request bandwidth requested from the bandwidth requesting device, and sends the determined bandwidth to the bandwidth request device, via the router. | 01-01-2009 |
20090063510 | Transmission System and Method, Transmission Apparatus and Method, Reception Apparatus and Method, and Recording Medium - A transmission system includes a transmission apparatus transmitting metadata relating to content via a network and a reception apparatus receiving the metadata. The transmission apparatus includes storing metadata including fragment updating management information in units of fragments; generating a delivery unit including a document which includes the metadata contained in fragments excluding the fragment updating management information; compressing the metadata in the delivery unit; adding document updating management information to the compressed metadata; and delivering the delivery unit. The reception apparatus includes receiving the compressed metadata; decompressing the compressed metadata; storing the decompressed metadata; and copy the document updating management information contained in the delivery unit and assign the document updating management information to the fragments as fragment updating management information. | 03-05-2009 |
20090063649 | Request and Notification for Metadata of Content - A server apparatus has a database configured to store metadata of content. A message receiving unit receives a subscribe request for an event notification subscription from a client terminal, the subscribe request including a search condition for the metadata, and establishes a dialog for the event notification subscription. A metadata search unit searches the database on the basis of the search condition. A message sending unit generates a notify message including a search result obtained by the metadata search unit and sends the notify message to the client terminal. | 03-05-2009 |
20090064218 | CONTENT RECEIVING DEVICE AND METHOD - A content receiving client device has a metadata obtaining unit, a message generating unit, and a message sending unit. The metadata obtaining unit obtains metadata including information used to generate an invite message for prompting establishment of a session for receiving content from a content distribution server. The message generating unit generates, based on the metadata, the invite message. The invite message includes a destination address field storing location information specifying a location of the content. The invite message further includes a body field storing information used to establish the session. The message sending unit sends the invite message to a session control server that controls the session. | 03-05-2009 |
20100023980 | Information Processing Apparatus, Terminal Apparatus, and Program - An information processing apparatus includes a content purchase history storage unit in which a content purchase history for each user is stored, a metadata storage unit in which metadata of a plurality of contents is stored, and a metadata retrieval unit to retrieve, upon reception of a metadata retrieval request that is sent from a terminal apparatus of the user via a network and includes information for identifying a user and a retrieval condition, metadata of a content that meets the retrieval condition from the metadata storage unit, judge whether the content retrieved has already been purchased based on the content purchase history of the user that is stored in the content purchase history storage unit, and send a retrieval result of the metadata of the content that includes a judgment result to the terminal apparatus via the network as a metadata retrieval response. | 01-28-2010 |
20100174680 | Network System, Network Household Appliance, Content/Metadata Synchronous Processing Method, and Computer Program - [Object] To provide a network system capable of efficiently carrying out synchronous processing by positively notifying a home network appliance of an update content of a content or metadata. | 07-08-2010 |
20100191825 | CONTENT ACQUISITION APPARATUS, PROGRAM, CONTENT ACQUISITION METHOD AND CONTENT ACQUISITION SYSTEM - [Object] To provide a content acquisition apparatus, a program, a content acquisition method and a content acquisition system. | 07-29-2010 |
20100223436 | CONTENT ACQUISITION APPARATUS, PROGRAM, CONTENT ACQUISITION METHOD AND CONTENT ACQUISITION SYSTEM - [Object]To provide a content acquisition apparatus, a program, a content acquisition method and a content acquisition system.
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20110093569 | MULTICASTING SYSTEM AND MULTICASTING METHOD - A multicasting system includes a delivery server for multicasting a content via at least one upper router and a plurality of lower routers, a plurality of client devices for playing the content multicast by the delivery server, an upper router controller for controlling the upper router and a lower router controller for controlling the plurality of lower routers. The client device includes a play history storage unit, an individual storage unit, a content retrieving unit, and a content playing unit. The delivery server includes a master storage unit, an optimizer optimizing the identifier and the session information of the content stored on the individual storage unit, and a content delivery unit. The upper router controller includes a session information retrieving unit, a book scheduling unit, and a schedule information notifier. | 04-21-2011 |
20110099285 | Stream receiving device, stream receiving method, stream transmission device, stream transmission method and computer program - There is provided a stream receiving device including an information receiving unit for receiving stream control information for a 3D stream to be distributed from an exterior over a network, the stream control information being described using metadata, a stream securing unit for executing a process related to securing of the 3D stream to be distributed using the stream control information received by the information receiving unit before the 3D stream is distributed, and reserving the stream, and a stream receiving unit for receiving the 3D stream distributed over the network based on the result of reservation in the stream securing unit. | 04-28-2011 |
20110289542 | Contents Reception Device and Method, Contents Transmission Device and Method, Program, and Recording Medium - The present invention relates to a contents reception device and method, a contents transmission device and method, a program, and a recording medium, whereby a Push-type NRT service can be realized. | 11-24-2011 |
20120060197 | RECEIVING DEVICE, RECEIVING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - 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. | 03-08-2012 |
20120274848 | RECEIVING DEVICE AND METHOD, TRANSMITTING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present disclosure provides a receiving device including, a receiver that receives AV content, a detector, an acquirer, a tentative reservation registering part, and a definitive reservation registering part. | 11-01-2012 |
20120331513 | CONTENT DELIVERY APPARATUS, CONTENT DELIVERY METHOD, AND TRANSMITTING SERVER - The delivery of content is performed over a cable network with a high capacity, and data for control is exchanged over an IP network. A VoD channel is allocated to a bandwidth of a cable network (1) which is divided for every region beforehand, and thus the VoD channel is dynamically allocated in response to the demand for VoD streaming from an end device ( | 12-27-2012 |
20130013780 | CONTENT RECEIVING DEVICE AND METHOD - A content receiving client device has a metadata obtaining unit, a message generating unit, and a message sending unit. The metadata obtaining unit obtains metadata including information used to generate an invite message for prompting establishment of a session for receiving content from a content distribution server. The message generating unit generates, based on the metadata, the invite message. The invite message includes a destination address field storing location information specifying a location of the content. The invite message further includes a body field storing information used to establish the session. The message sending unit sends the invite message to a session control server that controls the session. | 01-10-2013 |
20130103716 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, SERVER APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTERLOCKED APPLICATION FEED SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a terminal apparatus including an extraction portion configured to extract from a content to be reproduced signature data representative of a characteristic of the content; a query generation portion configured to generate a query including the extracted signature data; a communication portion configured to transmit the generated query to a server apparatus and receive a response returned therefrom in reply to the query; and an application execution portion configured to acquire and execute an application corresponding to an application identifier included in the received response. | 04-25-2013 |
20130145414 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, SERVER APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND LINKING APPLICATION SUPPLY SYSTEM | 06-06-2013 |
20130167171 | RECEPTION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus including: a reception portion configured to receive AV content; a trigger acquisition portion configured to acquire trigger information for operating an application program to be executed in interlocked relation to the AV content; a table acquisition portion configured to acquire a correspondence table associating a command for controlling the operation of the application program with a valid time of the command; and a control portion configured such that when the time acquired from the trigger information as indicative of the progress of the AV content satisfies a predetermined condition of validity in reference to the valid time of the command on the basis of the acquired correspondence table, the control portion controls the operation of the application program in accordance with the command being valid. | 06-27-2013 |
20130185760 | STREAMING DISTRIBUTING DEVICE AND METHOD, STREAMING RECEIVING DEVICE AND METHOD, STREAMING SYSTEM, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed herein is a streaming distributing device including: a content fragment generating section configured to generate a fragment storing data of a content to be distributed by streaming, the fragment being defined by an MP4 file format; and a subtitle fragment generating section configured to generate a fragment storing a TTML (Timed Text Markup Language) document instance relating to a subtitle to be displayed in the content, the fragment being defined by the MP4 file format, wherein the subtitle fragment generating section adds, to header information of the fragment, instance classification distinguishing information for distinguishing whether the TTML document instance stored in the fragment is a TTML document instance specifying a rendering context relating to the subtitle. | 07-18-2013 |
20130191860 | RECEIVER, RECEPTION METHOD, PROGRAM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a receiver including: a reception section operable to receive AV content transmitted by a broadcasting wave; a trigger acquisition section operable to acquire trigger information adapted to operate an application program to be executed in response to the received AV content; a table acquisition section operable to acquire a correlation table correlating the trigger information to commands adapted to control the operation of the application program; an application acquisition section operable to acquire, based on the acquired correlation table, the application program transmitted by the broadcasting wave when the command correlated to the trigger information indicates the acquisition of the application program; and a control section operable to control the operation of the acquired application program in accordance with the command correlated to the trigger information. | 07-25-2013 |
20130201399 | RECEIVING APPARATUS, RECEIVING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is a receiving apparatus, a receiving method, and a program which are configured to provide application programs to be executed in response to AV content. The receiving apparatus includes: a receiving block; a trigger acquisition block; an application acquisition block; and a control block. The control block acquires trigger information and, on the basis of a command obtained from the acquired trigger information, acquires a data broadcast application from an application server on the Internet or a data broadcast application transmitted as NRT content of an NRT service using a FLUTE session by referencing an FDT identified by an SMT and an NRT-IT. In accordance with a command obtained from the acquired trigger information, the control block controls an operation of the acquired application program. The present technology is applicable to television receivers configured to receive digital television broadcast signals. | 08-08-2013 |
20130247124 | CONTENTS RECEPTION DEVICE AND METHOD, CONTENTS TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention relates to a contents reception device and method, a contents transmission device and method, a program, and a recording medium, whereby a Push-type NRT service can be realized. | 09-19-2013 |
20130275502 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that can ensure content-related application programs can be reliably utilized. A client | 10-17-2013 |
20130276049 | INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION DEVICE AND METHOD, AND INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - [Object] To improve efficiency of information distribution. | 10-17-2013 |
20130291036 | CONTENT TRANSFER DEVICE AND CONTENT TRANSFER METHOD, CONTENT REPRODUCTION DEVICE AND CONTENT REPRODUCTION METHOD, CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An apparatus may include a control unit to control transmission of a transformed video stream over a network, in response to a reproduction control command for a video stream realized by an application executed by a browser at a client device. | 10-31-2013 |
20130305303 | TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, TRANSMITTING METHOD, RECEIVING APPARATUS, RECEIVING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A transmitting apparatus, a transmitting method, a receiving apparatus, a receiving method, a program, and a content distribution system capable of stably supplying content to a plurality of terminal devices. A terminal device can receive content streaming distribution from a content distribution server over the Internet. In addition, the terminal device can relay the received content to a different terminal device over the Internet. If the quality of the content distributed in such a manner is degraded (e.g., the amount of delay increases), the content distribution server can control a TV broadcasting apparatus to streaming-distribute the content by on-air broadcast. In addition, the content distribution server can stop broadcasting of the content in accordance with the number of viewers. | 11-14-2013 |
20140013347 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND METHOD, RECEPTION APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a transmission apparatus for distributing a content to a client, including a question generation section configured to generate question information representative of a question regarding liking of a user of the client, and a transmission section configured to transmit the question information and provider side answer information representative of an answer set by a provider which provides the content to the question regarding the liking of the user to the client. | 01-09-2014 |
20140019474 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, RECEPTION APPARATUS, AND APPLICATION-COORDINATED SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a transmission apparatus including: at least one content recognition section; and a timeline data generation section. The content recognition section has a database block configured to store reference data including at least signature data and a content identifier, and timeline data including at least an application identifier and timeline information. The content recognition section further has a response generation block configured to recognize content from which signature data included in a query, generate a response including the timeline data including a content identifier and the application identifier, and return the generated response to the reception apparatus. The timeline data generation section is configured to generate the timeline data and collectively supply the generated timeline data to the at least one content recognition section, the generated timeline data being common to the at least one content recognition section. | 01-16-2014 |
20140020006 | RECEIVING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, AND APPLICATION INTERLOCKING SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a receiving apparatus including: an extracting part configured to extract signature data representing a feature of reproduced content from the content; a profile generating part configured to generate user profile data; a query generating part configured to generate a query containing the signature data and the user profile data, transmit the query thus generated to a transmitting apparatus, and receive a response that is sent back from the transmitting apparatus in accordance with the query and that has been caused to match with the user profile data in the transmitting apparatus; and an application executing part configured to acquire and execute an application in conjunction with reproduction of the content based on the response thus received. | 01-16-2014 |
20140040965 | RECEIVING DEVICE, RECEIVING METHOD, TRANSMITTING DEVICE, AND TRANSMITTING METHOD - Disclosed herein is a receiving device including: a receiver that receives AV content; a trigger information acquirer that acquires trigger information adapted to identify control information to control operation of an application program run in conjunction with the AV content; a table acquirer that acquires a table in which the control information identified by the trigger information is stored in response to first version information that is included in the trigger information and indicates a version of the table; and a control section that controls the operation of the application program in response to the control information that is identified by the trigger information and is stored in the table. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040968 | RECEPTION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD, TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, AND TRANSMISSION METHOD - Enable appropriate caching of application programs executed in coordination with AV content. The cache memory temporarily stores a coordinated application that is executed in coordination with received AV content. When a plurality of coordinated applications are stored in the cache memory, a control block controls the cache memory according to the priority of the coordinated applications which corresponds to a predetermined frequency specified for each of them in advance. The present technology is applicable to, for example, television receivers that receive digital television broadcast signals. | 02-06-2014 |
20140043540 | RECEPTION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD, TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, AND TRANSMISSION METHOD - Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus including: a reception block configured to receive AV content; a trigger information capture block configured to capture trigger information for controlling an operation of an application program to be executed in coordination with said AV content; and a control block configured to control an operation of said application program in accordance with an operation mode specified in said trigger information. | 02-13-2014 |
20140053174 | BROADBAND DELIVERY OF PERSONALIZATION INFORMATION FOR ADVANCED TV SERVICES - A method, computer program, and reception apparatus, and information providing apparatus for retrieving and/or providing PDI data, including a PDI questionnaire. The method includes receiving content from a content source. The received content is displayed on a display. A location of the PDI data associated with the received content is subsequently determined. Further, the reception apparatus retrieves the PDI data based on the determined location of the PDI data. | 02-20-2014 |
20140067922 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that can ensure content-related application programs can be reliably utilized. A client | 03-06-2014 |
20140109164 | RECEPTION APPARATUS AND METHOD, INFORMATION DELIVERY APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND INFORMATION DELIVERY SYSTEM - The present technology relates to a reception apparatus and method by which the load on an electric power system can be decreased at the time of information delivery, to an information delivery apparatus and method, and to an information delivery system. An electric power supply information notification unit notifies, on the basis of content delivery information notified from an information delivery apparatus that delivers content by utilizing a delivery frequency band in a delivery time band, a monitoring control apparatus of electric power supply information including an electric power supply amount and an electric power supply time at the time of receiving the content, the monitoring control apparatus monitoring and controlling electric power supply by an electric power system. A control unit, when electric power supply in the delivery time band is ensured by evaluation by the monitoring control apparatus of the feasibility of electric power supply on the basis of the electric power supply information, controls the content in a reception-enabled state on the basis of the notified delivery information. A content reception unit receives the content delivered from the information delivery apparatus. The present technology can be applied to a content delivery system for delivering content, for example. | 04-17-2014 |
20140122528 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device for obtaining contents distributed from a server, includes an answer generating section configured to generate user side answer information as information indicating an answer of a user to a question about a preference of the user so as to correspond to question information as information indicating the question, the question information being transmitted from the server. The device further includes a matching section configured to obtain the contents distributed from the server by performing matching between the user side answer information and provider side answer information as information indicating an answer set to the question by a provider providing the contents, the provider side answer information being transmitted from the server. The matching section is provided as a Web application, and performs the matching between the user side answer information and the provider side answer information by calling a plurality of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). | 05-01-2014 |
20140137165 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An information processor making up a home network system together with a terminal device. The information processor includes an identification request processing section, a publishing section, and a command execution section. The identification request processing section is configured to extract, from reproduced content, signature data indicating the features of the content, generate a query including at least the extracted signature data and transmit the query to an identification server so as to receive a response indicating the identification result of the reproduced content returned from the identification server in response to the query. The publishing section is configured to publish, to the terminal device, a command to operate the identification request processing section from the terminal device. The command execution section is configured to operate the identification request section in response to the command from the terminal device so as to transfer the response to the terminal device. | 05-15-2014 |
20140149395 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes: a content management block managing first content which may be viewed on a content reproduction apparatus for reproducing content; a database block generating reference data by relating, with first signature data indicative of a feature of the first content extracted therefrom, rights management information about the first signature data and a content identifier indicative of the first content from which the first signature data was extracted and put the generated reference data into a database; and an identification block identifying, in response to a query which is transmitted from the content reproduction apparatus and is including second signature data indicative of a feature of second content extracted from the second content being viewed by a user of the content reproduction apparatus, the content by referencing the reference data stored in the database block, thereby returning a response indicative of a result of the identification. | 05-29-2014 |
20140150040 | RECEIVER, RECEPTION METHOD, TRANSMITTER AND TRANSMISSION METHOD - Disclosed herein is a receiver including: a reception section adapted to receive AV, namely audio and visual content; a registration section adapted to register related content relating to the AV content based on control information included in an application program executed in response to the AV content; and a presentation control unit adapted to exercise control in such a manner that if the registered related content is selected, the selected related content is presented. | 05-29-2014 |
20140173661 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus which cooperates with a terminal apparatus to configure a home network system, including: a frame visual attribute setting section configured to set a frame visual attribute to a window provided on a screen to display a reproduced piece of content; a publication section configured to publish a command adapted to request notification of the frame visual attribute set to the window from the terminal apparatus to the terminal apparatus; and a notification section configured to notify the terminal apparatus of the frame visual attribute of the window in response to calling of the command from the terminal apparatus. | 06-19-2014 |
20140189772 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND NETWORK APPARATUS - To increase the efficiency of a cache and delivery resource control of video data streams in a network. | 07-03-2014 |
20140298020 | RECEPTION DEVICE AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - The present technology relates to a reception device and method, a program, and an information processing system which can securely provide path information capable of equalizing a burden of a usage fee for a connection service to an external network. | 10-02-2014 |
20140310759 | TERMINAL DEVICE, SERVER DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND COLLABORATIVE APPLICATION SUPPLY SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to a terminal device, a server device, an information processing method, a program, and a linked application supplying system, which are capable of executing an application in conjunction with progress of content being viewed at a user's home. | 10-16-2014 |
20140359684 | CLIENT TERMINAL AND OPERATION METHOD OF CLIENT TERMINAL, TRANSMISSION SERVER AND OPERATION METHOD OF TRANSMISSION SERVER, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a client terminal and an operation method of a client terminal, a transmission server and an operation method of a transmission server, and a program, whereby manufacturing costs, developing costs, and maintenance costs can be reduced for a television receiver which is a client terminal, regarding a configuration for distribution of contents from multiple service providers. | 12-04-2014 |
20150058410 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND METHOD, RECEPTION APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a transmission apparatus for distributing a content to a client, including a script generation section for generating a script for obtaining user side answer information representative of an answer of a user of the client to a question regarding liking of the user, and transmission section for transmitting the script and provider side answer information representative of an answer set by a provider which provides the content to the question regarding the liking of the user to the client. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058875 | RECEIVING DEVICE AND METHOD, TRANSMITTING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present disclosure provides a receiving device including, a receiver that receives AV content, a detector, an acquirer, a tentative reservation registering part, and a definitive reservation registering part. | 02-26-2015 |
20150067713 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus which cooperates with a terminal apparatus to configure a home network system, including: a frame visual attribute setting section configured to set a frame visual attribute to a window provided on a screen to display a reproduced piece of content; a publication section configured to publish a command adapted to request notification of the frame visual attribute set to the window from the terminal apparatus to the terminal apparatus; and a notification section configured to notify the terminal apparatus of the frame visual attribute of the window in response to calling of the command from the terminal apparatus. | 03-05-2015 |
20150074242 | TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, TRANSMITTING METHOD, RECEIVING APPARATUS, RECEIVING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - The present technology relates to a transmitting apparatus, a transmitting method, a receiving apparatus, a receiving method, a program, and a content distribution system capable of stably supplying content to a plurality of terminal devices. A terminal device | 03-12-2015 |
20150082367 | RECEPTION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus including: a reception portion configured to receive AV content; a trigger acquisition portion configured to acquire trigger information for operating an application program to be executed in interlocked relation to the AV content; a table acquisition portion configured to acquire a correspondence table associating a command for controlling the operation of the application program with a valid time of the command; and a control portion configured such that when the time acquired from the trigger information as indicative of the progress of the AV content satisfies a predetermined condition of validity in reference to the valid time of the command on the basis of the acquired correspondence table, the control portion controls the operation of the application program in accordance with the command being valid. | 03-19-2015 |