BR9910183A - Apparatus and process for disseminating information electronic program guides - Google Patents

Apparatus and process for disseminating information electronic program guides

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Publication number
BR9910183A
BR9910183A BR9910183-1A BR9910183A BR9910183A BR 9910183 A BR9910183 A BR 9910183A BR 9910183 A BR9910183 A BR 9910183A BR 9910183 A BR9910183 A BR 9910183A
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Brazil
Prior art keywords
electronic program
program guides
information
information electronic
band channel
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BR9910183-1A
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Portuguese (pt)
Inventor
Ted R Michaud
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Gen Instrument Corp
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    • H04H60/68—Systems specially adapted for using specific information, e.g. geographical or meteorological information
    • H04H60/72—Systems specially adapted for using specific information, e.g. geographical or meteorological information using electronic programme guides [EPG]
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    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
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    • H04N21/20—Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/25—Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication, learning user preferences for recommending movies
    • H04N21/262—Content or additional data distribution scheduling, e.g. sending additional data at off-peak times, updating software modules, calculating the carousel transmission frequency, delaying a video stream transmission, generating play-lists
    • H04N21/26283—Content or additional data distribution scheduling, e.g. sending additional data at off-peak times, updating software modules, calculating the carousel transmission frequency, delaying a video stream transmission, generating play-lists for associating distribution time parameters to content, e.g. to generate electronic program guide data
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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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    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/47—End-user applications
    • H04N21/472—End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content
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    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/60—Network structure or processes for video distribution between server and client or between remote clients; Control signalling between clients, server and network components; Transmission of management data between server and client, e.g. sending from server to client commands for recording incoming content stream; Communication details between server and client 
    • H04N21/63—Control signaling related to video distribution between client, server and network components; Network processes for video distribution between server and clients or between remote clients, e.g. transmitting basic layer and enhancement layers over different transmission paths, setting up a peer-to-peer communication via Internet between remote STB's; Communication protocols; Addressing
    • H04N21/64—Addressing
    • H04N21/6408—Unicasting
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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
    • 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
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    • H04N7/00—Television systems
    • H04N7/16—Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems
    • H04N7/162—Authorising the user terminal, e.g. by paying; Registering the use of a subscription channel, e.g. billing
    • H04N7/165—Centralised control of user terminal ; Registering at central
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    • H04N7/00—Television systems
    • H04N7/16—Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems
    • H04N7/173—Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems with two-way working, e.g. subscriber sending a programme selection signal
    • H04N7/17309—Transmission or handling of upstream communications
    • H04N7/17318—Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04H—BROADCAST COMMUNICATION
    • H04H20/00—Arrangements for broadcast or for distribution combined with broadcast
    • H04H20/16—Arrangements for broadcast or for distribution of identical information repeatedly
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    • H04H—BROADCAST COMMUNICATION
    • H04H20/00—Arrangements for broadcast or for distribution combined with broadcast
    • H04H20/28—Arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information
    • H04H20/33—Arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information by plural channels
    • H04H20/34—Arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information by plural channels using an out-of-band subcarrier signal
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    • H04H2201/00—Aspects of broadcast communication
    • H04H2201/30—Aspects of broadcast communication characterised by the use of a return channel, e.g. for collecting users' opinions, for returning broadcast space/time information or for requesting data
    • H04H2201/37—Aspects of broadcast communication characterised by the use of a return channel, e.g. for collecting users' opinions, for returning broadcast space/time information or for requesting data via a different channel
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    • H04H2201/00—Aspects of broadcast communication
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    • H04H2201/70—Aspects of broadcast communication characterised in that receivers can be addressed

Abstract

"APARELHO E PROCESSO PARA DISSEMINARINFORMAçõES GUIAS DE PROGRAMA ELETRôNICO". Umprocesso de e aparelho para proporcionar uma guia eletrônica paraprogramação de televisão provém uma base de dados de extremode cabeça e processador que segmenta e classifica em categoriasinformações de programação que são então radiofundidas numahierarquia através de um canal fora de banda. Terminais de topode receptor de assinante acessam e exibem as informações guiasdiretamente do servidor para topo de receptor em resposta àentrada realizada pelo assinante. Altemativamente, terminais detopo de receptor individuais submetem solicitações por informaçõesguia específicas que são atendidas pelo servidor serialmenteatravés do canal fora de banda."APPLIANCE AND PROCESS FOR DISSEMININGINFORMATION ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDES". A process and apparatus for providing an electronic guide for television programming provides a head end and processor database that segments and categorizes programming information that is then broadcast in a hierarchy through an out-of-band channel. Subscriber receiver top terminals access and display the information directly from the server to the receiver top in response to the subscriber input. Alternatively, individual receiver endpoints submit requests for specific guide information that are served by the serial server through the out-of-band channel.

BR9910183-1A 1998-05-01 1999-04-27 Apparatus and process for disseminating information electronic program guides BR9910183A (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

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US7075998A 1998-05-01 1998-05-01
PCT/US1999/009057 WO1999057904A1 (en) 1998-05-01 1999-04-27 Method and apparatus for providing an interactive program guide with headend processing

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JP (1) JP2002514864A (en)
CN (1) CN1178506C (en)
AU (1) AU766265B2 (en)
BR (1) BR9910183A (en)
CA (1) CA2331092A1 (en)
TW (1) TW492252B (en)
WO (1) WO1999057904A1 (en)

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