CN112714341A - Information acquisition method, cloud set top box system, entity set top box and storage medium - Google Patents
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are an information acquisition method, a clouded set-top box system, an entity set-top box, and a storage medium. A service proxy channel is established between the entity set top box and the cloud virtual set top box; the entity set top box interacts with a corresponding cloud virtual set top box through a service proxy channel through a first proxy service module; and the cloud virtual set top box interacts with the corresponding entity set top box through the second proxy service module and the service proxy channel.
Description
Technical Field
The embodiment of the present application relates to, but not limited to, the technical field of set top boxes, and in particular, to an information acquisition method, a cloud set top box system, an entity set top box, and a storage medium.
Background
With the increasingly mature development of large video services, a Set Top Box (STB) User puts higher requirements on service experience, and hopes to enjoy better User Interface (UI) experience, richer value-added services and richer daily life through the large video services; moreover, with the speed increase of fixed network broadband, the popularization of fiber to the home, the popularization of wireless 4G and the arrival of 5G, the large video service will come to a large development period, and the method has a wider application scene.
While the big video service is rapidly developed, a plurality of problems are faced: the development of intelligent family business is more and more abundant, the requirement on STB hardware is higher and higher, and the existing network stock STB can not meet the development requirement of an intelligent family; the STB has multiple models, high adaptation cost, long deployment period and high operation and maintenance cost for new services and new requirements, and cannot meet the requirements of service internetworking and quick iteration; the new UI and new service experience has higher requirements on the STB performance, and the existing network stock STB cannot provide the new UI and new service experience for various reasons, so that the experience of the new STB and the old STB is inconsistent. Over time, the number of STB models increases, the above contradiction becomes more and more prominent, and the cost is particularly high if the existing network STB is replaced.
In order to solve the above problems, a solution for clouded STBs is proposed at present. However, in the current cloud STB solution, for a service with a large data volume (e.g., a large video service), there is no effective information interaction and acquisition method between the physical set top box (tstbs) and the cloud virtual set top box (vSTB), for example, a local application on the tstbs and a cloud application on the vSTB need to be modified in a large amount to implement normal interaction, and the implementation method is complex.
Disclosure of Invention
The application provides an information acquisition method, a cloud set top box system, an entity set top box and a storage medium, and interaction experience of the cloud set top box system can be improved.
In one aspect, the present application provides an information obtaining method, including: the entity set top box establishes a service proxy channel with the cloud virtual set top box through the first proxy service module; the entity set top box interacts with the cloud virtual set top box through the service agent channel through the first agent service module to acquire information.
In another aspect, the present application provides an information obtaining method, including: the cloud virtual set top box establishes a service proxy channel with the entity set top box through the second proxy service module; and the cloud virtual set-top box interacts with the entity set-top box through the second proxy service module via the service proxy channel to acquire information.
In another aspect, the present application provides a cloud set-top box system, including: the cloud virtual set top box comprises an entity set top box and a server running with a cloud virtual set top box corresponding to the entity set top box; a service proxy channel is established between the entity set top box and the cloud virtual set top box; the set top box interacts with the cloud virtual set top box through the service agent channel through a first agent service module to acquire information; and the cloud virtual set top box interacts with the entity set top box through the second proxy service module via the service proxy channel to acquire information.
In another aspect, the present application provides a physical set-top box, comprising: a memory and a processor, the memory being adapted to store a computer program which, when executed by the processor, implements the steps of the information acquisition method as described above.
In another aspect, the present application provides a computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program which, when executed by a processor, implements the steps of the information acquisition method on the physical set-top box side as described above.
In another aspect, the present application provides a computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program, which when executed by a processor, implements the steps of the method for acquiring information on the cloud virtual machine set-top box side as described above.
In the application, a service proxy channel is established between the entity set top box and the corresponding cloud end virtual set top box, and the entity set top box and the cloud end virtual set top box can interact through the service proxy channel through the proxy service module to acquire information. By the method and the device, the service interaction of large data volume between the entity set top box and the corresponding cloud virtual set top box can be realized, and the information interaction influence caused by cloud is eliminated, so that the user experience is improved.
Additional features and advantages of the application will be set forth in the description which follows, and in part will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by the practice of the application. The objectives and other advantages of the application may be realized and attained by the structure particularly pointed out in the written description and claims hereof as well as the appended drawings.
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Fig. 1 is an exemplary diagram of a cloud set-top box system according to an embodiment of the present application;
FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an example of interaction between a cloud application and a local application in an embodiment of the present application;
FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a scenario in which a user uses a cloud set-top box system to perform application interaction in the embodiment of the present application;
FIG. 4 is a flowchart of an exemplary implementation of application interaction provided by an embodiment of the present application;
fig. 5 is a flowchart of an exemplary implementation of playing a video according to an embodiment of the present application;
fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of an information obtaining method according to an embodiment of the present application;
fig. 7 is a schematic diagram of another information acquisition method provided in the embodiment of the present application;
fig. 8 is a schematic diagram of an entity set top box according to an embodiment of the present application.
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To make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present application more apparent, embodiments of the present application will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments in the present application may be arbitrarily combined with each other without conflict.
The steps illustrated in the flow charts of the figures may be performed in a computer system such as a set of computer-executable instructions. Also, while a logical order is shown in the flow diagrams, in some cases, the steps shown or described may be performed in an order different than here.
The embodiment of the application provides a cloud set-top box system, which comprises: the cloud virtual set top box comprises an entity set top box and a server running with a cloud virtual set top box corresponding to the entity set top box; a service proxy channel is established between the entity set top box and the cloud virtual set top box; the entity set top box interacts with the cloud virtual set top box through the service proxy channel through the first proxy service module to acquire information; and the cloud virtual set-top box interacts with the entity set-top box through the second proxy service module via the service proxy channel to acquire information. According to the embodiment of the application, the first proxy service module and the second proxy service module realize information interaction between the entity set top box and the cloud virtual set top box, and information acquisition of large data volume services without cloud feeling can be supported, so that user experience is improved.
Fig. 1 is an exemplary diagram of a cloud set-top box system according to an embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 1, the cloud set-top box system provided in this embodiment includes: a physical set top box (tstbs), a cloud platform (corresponding to the above-mentioned service end), and a service system (e.g., a Content Delivery Network (CDN), an Electronic Program Guide (EPG), etc.). A virtual set top box (vSTB) Manager (Manager) and one or more cloud vstbs assigned to the tstbs run on the cloud platform.
A tSTB cloud client runs in the tSTB, and the tSTB cloud client comprises a t-terminal agent module (corresponding to the first agent service module); the t-end proxy module comprises a cloud application proxy unit and a proxy execution unit Hub, and is used for providing proxy service for information transmission of big data service of the tSTB. Because one tstbs can correspond to a plurality of cloud stbs, the t-side agent module can be related to the corresponding cloud stbs as required.
A cloud application and a v-terminal agent module (corresponding to the second agent service module) are operated in the cloud terminal vSTB corresponding to the tSTB; the v-terminal proxy module comprises a local application proxy unit and a proxy execution unit Hub, and is used for providing proxy service for information transmission of the big data service of the vSTB.
A service proxy channel can be established between the proxy execution unit Hub of the t-side proxy module and the proxy execution unit Hub of the v-side proxy module, so as to support information interaction between the local application proxy unit and the cloud application proxy unit through the service proxy channel.
A Spice Client (Client) is also operated on the tSTB, and a Spice Server (Server) is operated on the cloud vSTB; a desktop channel may be established between the Spice client and the Spice server, for example, for transmitting a desktop command and the like.
In fig. 1, tIF represents an interface inside a physical set-top box; wherein, tiif 1 represents an interface between a local application and a cloud application proxy unit, tiif 2 represents an interface between a tSTB cloud client and an Android (Android) system, and tiif 3 represents an interface between a local application proxy unit and a proxy execution unit Hub in a t-side proxy module. vIF denotes an interface inside the cloud virtual set-top box; wherein vIF1 represents an interface between the cloud application and the local application proxy unit, vIF2 represents an interface between the cloud application and the Android system, and vIF3 represents an interface between the local application proxy unit and the proxy execution unit Hub in the v-side proxy module. sIF represents an interface between an entity set top box and a cloud platform; the sff 1 represents an interface between the tstbs and the cloud vSTB manager, the sff 2 represents an interface between the Spice Client and the Spice Server, and the sff 3 represents an interface between the proxy execution unit Hub of the tstbs and the proxy execution unit Hub of the vSTB.
In this embodiment, the tstbs may access the cloud platform through the cloud authentication system, and after the tstbs pass the authentication, the corresponding one or more cloud-side tstbs are allocated to the tstbs by the tstbs Manager of the cloud platform. The cloud application running on the cloud vSTB can keep the original interaction mode and interface calling unchanged, and the interaction with the local application on the tSTB is realized through the service proxy channel to acquire information. After receiving the interaction request from the service agent channel, the tSTB can also process the interaction request through the original interaction mode and interface call, thereby realizing the information interaction with the cloud vSTB. The cloud application on the cloud vSTB keeps the original interaction mode and interface calling, so that the cloud application is not sensitive to cloud whether running locally or in the cloud. And the system interface layer realizes the transmission of the application interaction request by a service agent channel through binding the corresponding agent service. The cloud application agent unit and the local application agent unit need to register to the service agent channel, and it is ensured that the application interaction request is successfully transmitted by the service agent channel. After the tstbs are connected to the cloud vSTB, the service broker channels need to be kept alive on-line all the time.
In this embodiment, a virtualization device, a service cloud, a User Interface (UI) and a part of an Application program (APP) are run on a cloud stb and are delivered to an entity terminal in a video stream form; the application realizes interaction through the service agent channel. tSTB can transmit remote control instruction, UI display, media play; and the interaction between the local application and the cloud application is realized through a service agent channel.
In the cloud set top box system, for the cloud vSTB and the tSTB, the interaction between the cloud application and the local application can avoid a large amount of modification and customization of an original interaction mode and an original interface due to cloud, and the application interaction influence caused by cloud can be eliminated regardless of running the local application or the cloud application, so that the cloud is really noninductive.
Fig. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an interaction between a cloud application and a local application in an embodiment of the present application. In this embodiment, the vSTB and the tstbs need to register application proxy units respectively, where the vSTB registers a local application proxy unit and the tstbs registers a cloud application proxy unit; the cloud application agent unit exists as the mapping of the cloud application to tSTB, and the local application agent unit exists as the mapping of the local application to the cloud vSTB, so that the application lists at the two ends are transparent. When a user of a set-top box performs a cloud application operation, it is usually supported to call a native system service (for example, including ams (activity management service), pms (packet management service), media, graphics, network, storage, etc.), and it is required to support MediaCodec and extend and support a low-latency mode (frame data is not cached, and decoded frames are output), and it is also supported to call an extended system service, system attributes, etc.; the called system service is bound with the same-end application proxy unit, and then the application interaction between the vSTB and the tSTB is realized through the service proxy channel.
As shown in fig. 2, the interaction process of the cloud application and the local application in this embodiment may include:
s201, when the entity set top box is started, and the tSTB is successfully connected with the cloud vSTB, the service agent channel is always in a keep-alive online state. After the tSTB is successfully connected with the cloud vSTB, a service proxy channel is established between a proxy execution unit Hub in the t-side proxy module and a proxy execution unit Hub in the v-side proxy module, and the service proxy channel is always in a keep-alive online state.
S202, the cloud application agent unit of the tSTB and the local application agent unit of the vSTB respectively complete registration, mutual mapping of application lists at two ends is achieved, and the application list information is ensured to be synchronous and consistent. The application list comprises a local application list and a cloud application list. The cloud application proxy unit is mapped with a cloud application list, and the local application proxy unit is mapped with a local application list.
And S203 to S204, when the cloud vSTB cloud application sends an application interaction request, calling an interface of the original system service, judging the system service according to the application list information, binding a local application proxy unit when judging that the object of the application interaction request is a local application, and transmitting the application interaction request to tSTB through a service proxy channel.
Wherein the application interaction request may include at least one of: an application open request, an application close request, an application install request, an application uninstall request, and an application-related system data synchronization request. However, this is not limited in this application.
A system service (system service), among others, refers to a program, routine, or process that performs specified system functions in order to support other programs.
The system service can search a cloud application list according to interactive object information carried by the application interactive request, if the interactive object information is not searched in the cloud application list, a local application list obtained by local application service mapping is searched, and when the interactive object information is searched in the local application list, a local application proxy unit is bound, and the local application proxy unit transmits the application interactive request to the tSTB by calling a service proxy channel. And when the interactive object information is found in the cloud application list, the system service processes the application interactive request. And when the interactive object information is not found in the cloud application list and the local application list, ending the processing.
And S205, after receiving the application interaction request transmitted by the service agent channel, the tSTB processes the application interaction request through the cloud application agent unit and transmits a processing result back to the cloud vSTB.
After receiving an application interaction request transmitted by a service agent channel, a cloud application agent unit of the tSTB calls a system service to process the application interaction request; after the processing result is obtained, the cloud application proxy unit transmits the processing result back to the local application proxy unit of the cloud vSTB through the service proxy channel.
In the exemplary embodiment, the application interaction between the vSTB and the tSTB is realized through the local application proxy unit, the cloud application proxy unit and the service proxy channel, and the cloud application and the local application do not need to modify an original interaction mode and an original interface due to cloud, so that normal interaction experience without cloud sense can be realized, and the service experience degree of the cloud set top box system is greatly improved.
Fig. 3 is a scene flow chart of application interaction performed by a user using a cloud set-top box system in the embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 3, in this embodiment, a common scenario in which a user uses a cloud set-top box system includes the following processes:
s301, a user opens a television and an entity set top box, and the entity set top box is automatically connected with a cloud vSTB;
s302, the entity set top box displays a cloud application interface of the cloud vSTB through a television;
s303, clicking a setting inlet of the cloud application page by a user through a remote controller, and entering a setting page of the set top box;
s304, the entity set-top box starts to display a local application setting page;
s305, the user quits the setting page by using a remote controller;
s306, the entity set top box recovers the interface display of the cloud application.
Fig. 4 is a flowchart of an exemplary implementation of application interaction provided in an embodiment of the present application. In this example, a first proxy service module (including a clouded application proxy unit and a proxy execution unit Hub) is run on the tstbs, and a second proxy service module (including a local application proxy unit and a proxy execution unit Hub) is run on the vsbs. According to the user usage scenario illustrated in fig. 3, a scenario flow of application interaction between a vSTB and a tstbs implemented in the present embodiment is shown in fig. 4, and includes the following processes:
s401, tSTB is successfully connected to the cloud vSTB through the authentication request.
S402 to S403, establishing a service proxy channel between tSTB and cloud vSTB; establishing a service proxy channel between a proxy execution unit Hub of the tSTB and a proxy execution unit Hub of the cloud vSTB; moreover, at the tSTB side, the cloud application agent unit completes agent self-registration and is mapped with a cloud application list operated by the vSTB side; on the vSTB side, the local application proxy unit completes proxy self-registration, and a local application list operated by the tSTB side is mapped.
S404 to S406, when the tSTB is normally connected to the cloud stb, the cloud stb streams a User Interface (UI) frame from the cloud application, and then transmits the streamed UI stream to the tSTB, and the tSTB decodes the streamed UI stream and displays the EPG on a Television (TV).
S407 to S411, when the user uses the remote controller to perform a key operation, the stb transmits a key input instruction of the remote controller to the cloud stb (for example, the stb transmits the key input instruction to the cloud stb through the desktop channel), and the cloud stb performs a key event processing. When an application interaction request is triggered by a key event, the cloud vSTB calls a system service interface, the application to be interacted is known to run in the tSTB instead of the cloud vSTB by judging the application list information (including the local application list and the cloud application list), and then the local application proxy unit is further bound, and the application interaction request is transmitted to the tSTB by walking a service proxy channel.
The application interaction request can carry application information to be interacted, and the matched application information is searched from the application list to judge whether the application to be interacted runs on the tSTB or the cloud vSTB.
And after receiving the application interaction request transmitted by the service agent channel, the tSTB from S412 to S413 processes the application interaction request through the cloud application agent unit, and transmits a processing result back to the cloud vSTB.
The cloud application agent unit can process the application interaction request by calling the system service, and returns the execution result to the local application agent unit of the cloud vSTB through the service agent channel.
Similarly, when the local application interface is displayed on the television, the user uses the remote controller to perform key operation; when an application interaction request is triggered by a key event, the tSTB can call a system service interface, the fact that the application runs on the cloud vSTB but not the tSTB is known by judging application list information, the cloud application proxy unit is further bound, and the application interaction request is transmitted to the cloud vSTB through a service proxy channel; after receiving an application interaction request transmitted by a service agent channel, the cloud vSTB carries out processing through a local application agent unit; the local application proxy unit can obtain a processing result by calling the system service, and transmits an execution result back to the tSTB through the service proxy channel, so as to realize application interaction.
In the above work flow, two processing processes of the cloud vSTB and tSTB application interaction are involved, the cloud vSTB and tSTB application interaction basically keep the original mode, application interaction influence caused by cloud is truly eliminated, no cloud sense is realized, and the service experience degree of a cloud set top box system is greatly improved.
Fig. 5 is a flowchart of an exemplary implementation of playing a video according to an embodiment of the present application. In this example, a first proxy service module (including a clouded application proxy unit and a proxy execution unit Hub) is run on the tstbs, and a second proxy service module (including a local application proxy unit and a proxy execution unit Hub) is run on the vsbs. In this embodiment, in the cloud framework, media playing is performed at tstbs in a unified manner. As shown in fig. 5, based on a manner of implementing information interaction between a cloud stb and a stb through a proxy service, an implementation process of a user implementing video playing includes:
and S501, after the tSTB is authenticated to be successfully accessed to the cloud platform, automatically connecting the cloud vSTB distributed by the cloud platform.
S502 to S503, a service agent channel is established between tSTB and cloud vSTB; establishing a service proxy channel between a proxy execution unit Hub of the tSTB and a proxy execution unit Hub of the cloud vSTB; moreover, on the tSTB side, the cloud application agent unit completes agent self-registration and is mapped with a cloud application list operated by the cloud vSTB side; and at the cloud terminal vSTB side, the local application proxy unit completes proxy self-registration and is mapped with a local application list operated by the tSTB side.
After S504 to S506 and tstbs are normally connected to the cloud stb, the cloud stb streams the UI frames from the EPG, and transmits the streamed UI streams to tstbs, and the tstbs decodes the streamed UI streams and displays the EPG on the television.
And S507 to S511, when the user presses a program playing button by using the remote controller, the tSTB transmits the key input of the remote controller to the cloud vSTB, the cloud vSTB processes the playing control message and calls a system service MediaCodec, and the system service MediaCodec calls a service agent channel by binding a local application agent unit and returns a video playing control instruction to the tSTB.
S512 to S515, after the tSTB obtains the broadcast control instruction, initiating a broadcast control request to the CDN, responding the broadcast control request by the CDN, and transmitting the audio and video stream to the tSTB for playing; the tstbs stream audio and video to the television for display.
And S516 to S517, when the user presses the play exiting button by using the remote controller, the tSTB ends the video playing, and the television displays the EPG UI.
Through the implementation process, the video playing of the EPG by the cloud vSTB and the tSTB in an information acquisition agent mode is completed.
It should be noted that the service scenario in the embodiment of the present application is not limited to the application interaction, EPG video playing, and the like, and the scheme of the present application may be used for other information interaction scenarios involving a large data volume.
As shown in fig. 6, an embodiment of the present application provides an information obtaining method, including: s11, establishing a service proxy channel between the entity set-top box and the cloud virtual set-top box through the first proxy service module; and S12, the entity set top box interacts with the corresponding cloud virtual set top box through the service proxy channel through the first proxy service module to acquire information.
In an exemplary embodiment, the interacting, by the first proxy service module, between the entity set top box and the cloud virtual set top box corresponding to the entity set top box via the service proxy channel may include: and the entity set top box transmits the triggered first interaction request to the cloud virtual set top box through the service proxy channel by the first proxy service module. The first interactive request refers to a request sent by an entity set top box, and may be an application interactive request, for example.
In an exemplary embodiment, the entity set top box stores a local application list, and the first proxy service module is mapped with a cloud application list on the cloud virtual set top box;
before the entity set-top box transmits the triggered first interaction request to the corresponding cloud virtual set-top box through the service proxy channel by the first proxy service module, the information acquisition method of this embodiment may further include: and the entity set top box calls the system service to determine that the application information to be interacted carried by the first interaction request exists in the cloud application list according to the local application list and the cloud application list. In other words, when the entity set top box calls the system service to determine that the application information to be interacted carried by the first interaction request exists in the cloud application list according to the local application list and the cloud application list, the step of transmitting the first interaction request to the corresponding cloud virtual set top box through the service proxy channel by the first proxy service module is executed.
In an exemplary embodiment, the interacting, by the first proxy service module, between the physical set-top box and the cloud virtual set-top box via the service proxy channel may include: and the entity set top box receives a second interaction request from the cloud virtual set top box from the service proxy channel through the first proxy service module. The second interactive request refers to a request received by the entity set top box, and may be, for example, an application interactive request, a video broadcast control instruction, and the like.
In an exemplary embodiment, after the entity set top box receives, through the first proxy service module, the second interaction request from the cloud virtual set top box from the service proxy channel, the information obtaining method of this embodiment may further include: and the entity set top box initiates a video broadcast control request corresponding to the second interactive request to the CDN, and receives the video stream transmitted after the CDN responds to the video broadcast control request. In this example, the second interaction request may be a video playback instruction.
As shown in fig. 7, an embodiment of the present application further provides an information obtaining method, including: s21, a service proxy channel is established between the cloud virtual set top box and the entity set top box through the second proxy service module; and S22, the cloud virtual set top box interacts with the corresponding entity set top box through the service proxy channel through the second proxy service module to acquire information.
In an exemplary embodiment, the cloud virtual set top box interacts with the physical set top box through the second proxy service module via the service proxy channel, which may include: the cloud virtual set top box receives a first interaction request from the entity set top box from the service proxy channel through the second proxy service module. The first interaction request refers to a request received by the cloud virtual set top box, for example, an application interaction request and the like.
In an exemplary embodiment, the cloud virtual set top box interacts with the physical set top box through the second proxy service module via the service proxy channel, which may include: and the cloud virtual set top box transmits the triggered second interaction request to the entity set top box through the second proxy service module through the service proxy channel. In this example, the second interaction request refers to a request sent by the cloud virtual set top box, such as an application interaction request, a video broadcast control instruction, and the like.
In an exemplary embodiment, the cloud virtual set top box stores a cloud application list, and the second proxy service module is mapped with a local application list on the physical set top box;
before the cloud virtual set-top box transmits the triggered second interaction request to the cloud set-top box through the second proxy service module via the service proxy channel, the information acquisition method of this embodiment may further include: and the cloud virtual set top box calls the system service to determine that the application information to be interacted carried by the second interaction request exists in the local application list according to the local application list and the cloud application list. In other words, when the cloud virtual set top box calls the system service to determine that the application information to be interacted carried by the second interaction request exists in the local application list according to the local application list and the cloud application list, the step of transmitting the triggered second interaction request to the entity set top box through the service proxy channel by the second proxy service module is executed. In this example, the second interactive request may be an application interactive request.
In an exemplary embodiment, the transmitting, by the cloud virtual set top box through the second proxy service module, the triggered second interaction request to the physical set top box via the service proxy channel may include: the cloud virtual set top box calls a system service MediaCodec, the system service MediaCodec is bound with the second proxy service module, and the second proxy service module calls a service proxy channel to transmit the second interaction request to the entity set top box. In this example, the second interaction request may be a video playback instruction.
In addition, an embodiment of the present application further provides an entity set top box, including: a memory and a processor, the memory being adapted to store a computer program which, when executed by the processor, implements the steps of the information acquisition method on the tstbs side.
As shown in fig. 8, in one example, the entity set top box may include: the wireless communication device comprises a processor 610, a memory 620, a bus system 630 and a transceiver 640, wherein the processor 610, the memory 620 and the transceiver 640 are connected through the bus system 630, the memory 620 is used for storing instructions, and the processor 610 is used for executing the instructions stored in the memory 620 so as to control the transceiver 640 to transmit signals.
It should be understood that processor 610 may be a Central Processing Unit (CPU), and processor 610 may also be other general-purpose processors, Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), off-the-shelf programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) or other programmable logic devices, discrete gate or transistor logic devices, discrete hardware components, etc. A general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or the processor may be any conventional processor or the like.
The bus system 630 may include a power bus, a control bus, a status signal bus, and the like, in addition to the data bus. For clarity of illustration, however, the various buses are labeled as bus system 630 in fig. 8.
In implementation, the processing performed by the above-described apparatus may be performed by instructions in the form of hardware, integrated logic circuits, or software in the processor 610. That is, the steps of the method disclosed in the embodiments of the present application may be implemented by a hardware processor, or implemented by a combination of hardware and software modules in a processor. The software module may be located in a storage medium such as a random access memory, a flash memory, a read only memory, a programmable read only memory or an electrically erasable programmable memory, a register, etc. The storage medium is located in the memory 620, and the processor 610 reads the information in the memory 620 and performs the steps of the above method in combination with the hardware thereof. To avoid repetition, it is not described in detail here.
Furthermore, an embodiment of the present application further provides a computer-readable storage medium, which stores a computer program, and the computer program, when executed by a processor, implements the steps of the information acquisition method according to any one of the above aspects, for example, the steps of the information acquisition method on the tstbs side, or the steps of the signal acquisition method on the vSTB side.
It will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that all or some of the steps of the methods, systems, functional modules/units in the devices disclosed above may be implemented as software, firmware, hardware, and suitable combinations thereof. In a hardware implementation, the division between functional modules/units mentioned in the above description does not necessarily correspond to the division of physical components; for example, one physical component may have multiple functions, or one function or step may be performed by several physical components in cooperation. Some or all of the components may be implemented as software executed by a processor, such as a digital signal processor or microprocessor, or as hardware, or as an integrated circuit, such as an application specific integrated circuit. Such software may be distributed on computer readable media, which may include computer storage media (or non-transitory media) and communication media (or transitory media). The term computer storage media includes volatile and nonvolatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data, as is well known to those of ordinary skill in the art. Computer storage media includes, but is not limited to, RAM, ROM, EEPROM, flash memory or other memory technology, CD-ROM, Digital Versatile Disks (DVD) or other optical disk storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tape, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other medium which can be used to store the desired information and which can accessed by a computer. In addition, communication media typically embodies computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data in a modulated data signal such as a carrier wave or other transport mechanism and includes any information delivery media as known to those skilled in the art.
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1. An information acquisition method, comprising:
the entity set top box establishes a service proxy channel with the cloud virtual set top box through the first proxy service module;
and the entity set top box interacts with the cloud end virtual set top box through the first proxy service module via the service proxy channel to acquire information.
2. The information acquisition method according to claim 1, wherein the interacting between the physical set-top box and the cloud virtual set-top box via the service agent channel by the first proxy service module comprises:
and the entity set top box transmits the triggered first interaction request to the cloud end virtual set top box through the first proxy service module via the service proxy channel.
3. The information acquisition method according to claim 2, wherein the physical set top box stores a local application list, and the first proxy service module is mapped with a cloud application list on the cloud virtual set top box;
before the entity set-top box transmits the triggered first interaction request to the cloud virtual set-top box through the service proxy channel by the first proxy service module, the information acquisition method further includes: and the entity set top box calls a system service to determine that the application information to be interacted carried by the first interaction request exists in the cloud application list according to the local application list and the cloud application list.
4. The information acquisition method according to claim 1, wherein the interacting between the physical set-top box and the cloud virtual set-top box via the service agent channel by the first proxy service module comprises:
and the entity set top box receives a second interaction request from the cloud end virtual set top box from the service agent channel through the first agent service module.
5. The information obtaining method according to claim 4, wherein after the physical set-top box receives the second interaction request from the cloud virtual set-top box through the first proxy service module from the service proxy channel, the information obtaining method further includes:
and the entity set top box initiates a video broadcast control request corresponding to the second interaction request to a Content Delivery Network (CDN), and receives a video stream transmitted after the CDN responds to the video broadcast control request.
6. An information acquisition method, comprising:
the cloud virtual set top box establishes a service proxy channel with the entity set top box through the second proxy service module;
and the cloud virtual set top box interacts with the entity set top box through the second proxy service module via the service proxy channel to acquire information.
7. The information acquisition method according to claim 6, wherein the cloud virtual set top box interacts with the physical set top box through the second proxy service module via the service proxy channel, and comprises:
and the cloud virtual set top box receives a first interaction request from the entity set top box from the service agent channel through the second agent service module.
8. The information acquisition method according to claim 6, wherein the cloud virtual set top box interacts with the physical set top box through the second proxy service module via the service proxy channel, and comprises:
and the cloud virtual set top box transmits the triggered second interaction request to the entity set top box through the second proxy service module through the service proxy channel.
9. The information acquisition method according to claim 8, wherein the cloud virtual set-top box stores a cloud application list, and the second proxy service module is mapped with a local application list on the physical set-top box;
before the cloud virtual set-top box transmits the triggered second interaction request to the entity set-top box through the second proxy service module via the service proxy channel, the information acquisition method further includes: and the cloud virtual set top box calls a system service to determine that the application information to be interacted carried by the second interaction request exists in the local application list according to the local application list and the cloud application list.
10. The information obtaining method of claim 8, wherein the transmitting, by the cloud virtual set top box through the second proxy service module, the triggered second interaction request to the physical set top box via the service proxy channel comprises:
the cloud virtual set top box calls a system service MediaCodec, the system service MediaCodec is bound with the second proxy service module, and the second proxy service module calls the service proxy channel to transmit the second interaction request to the entity set top box.
11. A cloud set-top box system, comprising: the cloud virtual set top box comprises an entity set top box and a server running with a cloud virtual set top box corresponding to the entity set top box;
a service proxy channel is established between the entity set top box and the cloud virtual set top box; the set top box interacts with the cloud virtual set top box through the service agent channel through a first agent service module to acquire information; and the cloud virtual set top box interacts with the entity set top box through the second proxy service module via the service proxy channel to acquire information.
12. The cloud set-top box system according to claim 11, wherein the physical set-top box stores a local application list, and the first proxy service module is mapped with a cloud application list on the cloud virtual set-top box; the cloud virtual set top box stores a cloud application list, and the second proxy service module is mapped with a local application list on the entity set top box.
13. A physical set top box, comprising: memory and processor, the memory being adapted to store a computer program which, when executed by the processor, implements the steps of the information acquisition method of any one of claims 1 to 5.
14. A computer-readable storage medium, characterized in that a computer program is stored which, when being executed by a processor, realizes the steps of the information acquisition method according to any one of claims 1 to 5.
15. A computer-readable storage medium, characterized in that a computer program is stored which, when being executed by a processor, realizes the steps of the information acquisition method according to any one of claims 6 to 10.
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