EP2103133A1 - Method for controlling set top boxes and set top box that can be controlled by said method - Google Patents
Method for controlling set top boxes and set top box that can be controlled by said methodInfo
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- EP2103133A1 EP2103133A1 EP07846644A EP07846644A EP2103133A1 EP 2103133 A1 EP2103133 A1 EP 2103133A1 EP 07846644 A EP07846644 A EP 07846644A EP 07846644 A EP07846644 A EP 07846644A EP 2103133 A1 EP2103133 A1 EP 2103133A1
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- H—ELECTRICITY
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- H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
- H04N21/43—Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
- H04N21/435—Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
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- H04N21/235—Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
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- H04N21/434—Disassembling of a multiplex stream, e.g. demultiplexing audio and video streams, extraction of additional data from a video stream; Remultiplexing of multiplex streams; Extraction or processing of SI; Disassembling of packetised elementary stream
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- H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
- H04N21/43—Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
- H04N21/443—OS processes, e.g. booting an STB, implementing a Java virtual machine in an STB or power management in an STB
- H04N21/4433—Implementing client middleware, e.g. Multimedia Home Platform [MHP]
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- H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
- H04N21/45—Management operations performed by the client for facilitating the reception of or the interaction with the content or administrating data related to the end-user or to the client device itself, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies, resolving scheduling conflicts
- H04N21/458—Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream, e.g. by combining a locally stored advertisement with an incoming stream; Updating operations, e.g. for OS modules ; time-related management operations
- H04N21/4586—Content update operation triggered locally, e.g. by comparing the version of software modules in a DVB carousel to the version stored locally
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- H04N21/80—Generation or processing of content or additional data by content creator independently of the distribution process; Content per se
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- H04N21/83—Generation or processing of protective or descriptive data associated with content; Content structuring
- H04N21/84—Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors
- H04N21/8402—Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors involving a version number, e.g. version number of EPG data
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Definitions
- the invention relates to a method for controlling set-top boxes and to a controllable by this method set-top box.
- a method for controlling set-top boxes is known from the MHP 1.1.2 standard of ETSI published on the ETSI website.
- Satellite TV channels are transmitted on different transponders, to which a set-top box is tunable.
- the MHPS (Multimedia Home Platform) standard, version 1.1.2 of ETSI describes a software that is loaded on set-top boxes to, among other things, receive and evaluate applications that are transmitted as additional information in the data stream of digital television signals.
- MHP applications which are only occasionally changed by an update on the sender or provider side and are therefore relatively invariant or persistent, are transmitted in a narrow band on a common transponder channel in a relatively slow manner for the purpose of saving channel capacity and in a cache memory of the set top station. Box stored non-volatile.
- the set-top box is signaled in an application information table (Application Information Table, abbreviated to "AIT") by means of a flag "non-launchable from broadcast" that the relevant, persistent application not from the received digital television signal, but to boot from the cache memory.
- AIT Application Information Table
- the version number of the modified application is also changed in the AIT table, whereby the set-top box is signaled that an older version ("older version") of the relevant application is stored in its cache memory is.
- the older application can no longer be started by the set-top box, unless in the A (ET table a special FIag / / "launchabel with older version" is contained, which the release or the Readout of the older MHP application allowed.
- the disadvantage of the known set-top box control is that the user of the set-top box, the change of the application is not signaled. Only if the user randomly switches to the transponder channel on which the application in question is transmitted narrowband, the new version of the application can be loaded and then started.
- a so-called “launcher” is transmitted in each transponder channel, which generally controls application start and signals to the user that an update of the assigned persistent application is available. If the user switches to the transponder channel on which the persistent application is transmitted narrowband, the "launcher” releases the Perform the update.
- no application is available for this proposal, not even the older version, until the modified application is loaded on the set-top box.
- the object of the invention is in contrast to provide a method for controlling a set-top box, which signals the user the availability of an update, but at the same time gives him an assistance, if he ever needs the update, so that the user continues without restriction can have the older update.
- a set-top box which is controllable by the method according to the invention is provided in the independent claim 3 under protection.
- the figure shows the bit structure of an inventively provided version number for updating a persistent MHP application.
- the version number schematically shown in the drawing for the update of an MHP application is transmitted in the AIT table of the transponder channel assigned to the application.
- the version number consists of the sequence of 31 bits, of which bits Nos. 1 to 10 identify the major version numbers and bits Nos. 11 to 31 identify the minor version numbers. With the subdivision into major and minor version numbers, the MHP application and thus the user can signal the type and extent of a change made to the associated MHP application.
- the already mentioned flag "lunchable with older version” is transmitted as special information, which allows the start of the older version of the MHP application stored in a cache of the set-top box, and in spite of the transfer of the modified persistent MHP application on the assigned transponder channel and the associated signaling of a changed version number in the AIT table.
- the modified version number and the older version number are compared with one another in the set-top box in order to determine whether the major version number or only the minor version number has changed.
- the older, saved version of the application is started. This compares now its own (older) version number with the new version number, which is signaled in the AIT table. If the comparison reveals that the major version number has changed, this change in the major version number signals to the user that a major change has occurred in nature and scope, which requires the implementation of an update of the relevant MHP application.
- the user of the set-top box remains free after this signaling whether he tunes the set-top box on the special transponder channel on which the modified MHP application is transmitted narrowband. If the user omits this switch, he can still use the older version of the application without restrictions, because the special flag "launchable with older version" allows the start of the stored older version.
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PCT/EP2007/009950 WO2008086836A1 (en) | 2007-01-17 | 2007-11-17 | Method for controlling set top boxes and set top box that can be controlled by said method |
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