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Definitions

• the invention relates to the use of a specific broadcast service when travelling, based on mobile TV, a recent technology currently in deployment where the end-user could watch TV on his mobile communication device, such as mobile phone.
• Operators use dedicated resources such as a TV broadcast server, a mobile telecommunication network, broadcast servers and remote server storing secrets. In order to be able to bill the service, operators also use personal tokens for authenticating the end-user who uses a mobile TV service.
• the personal tokens are generally UICC cards (Universal Integrated Circuit(s) Card). Those cards could content a SIM application (Subscriber Identification Module) when the terminal is a mobile phone connected to a GSM/GPRS (Global System for Mobile communications / General Packet
• a USIM Universal Subscriber Identity Module
• RUIM Removable User Identity Module
• ISIM IP Subscriber Identity Module
• EAP-SIM Extensible Authentication Protocol
• Such tokens are typically compliant with international standard ISO7816.
• the personal tokens could also be MMC (Multi-Media Card), or SD (Secure Digital) or USB (Universal Serial Bus).
• the personal tokens could also be USB key, mass memory card, or any kind of token carrying some necessary credentials.
• DVB Digital Video Broadcasting
• DAB Digital Audio Broadcasting
• DMB Digital Multimedia broadcasting
• ISDB-T Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting - terrestrial
• MBMS Mobile Broadcast Multicast Service
• End-users connected to the network are able to receive the services if such services are available for all, broadcasted in clear or if they have subscribed to such services.
• ESG Electronic Service Guide
• Such ESG allows for the end-user the discovery of services available on the network.
• This service is either broadcasted and then available for every end-user either sent on a point-to-point network (3G network for example) on end- user request.
• 3G network for example
• the program guide For the analog TV at home, the program guide is broadcasted on the "teletext" service.
• the program guide For the digital TV at home, the program guide is called EPG "Electronic Program Guide” but is similar to ESG.
• ESG Electronic Program Guide
• the name ESG is now used for the digital TV for mobile devices but is only slightly different from the guide proposed on the Digital TV for home.
• ESG is transmitted in IP (Internet Protocol) packets for the new networks for Mobile TV.
• EPG which is the transport link for TV at home, is in contrary a service transmitted in MPEG2 transport packets.
• ESG is a kind of paper magazine for the TV programs in electronic form that contains information on programs among others as listed below:
• This information is transmitted in "metadata” and transmitted in “containers” that are updated when some data are modified.
• an engine acquires the data, possibly stores them and transmits them to a graphic engine that will organize the data for display on the end-user request.
• An ESG bootstrap operation allows the terminal to know which ESGs are available and how to acquire them.
• the terminal discovers in descriptor
• ESGProviderDiscovery Descriptor for ESG specified for IP datacast over DVB-H for example
• ESGAccessDescriptor the ESG providers that deliver ESGs in a given IP platform.
• the terminal is able to parse another descriptor (ESGAccessDescriptor) to boot the ESG of the specific provider.
• This mechanism allows the transmission of several ESG in an IP platform.
• the program that the end-user is used to watch in his country are typically not broadcasted in foreign countries.
• the end-user is then no more able to watch news services or serial broadcasted in his country and with he is accustomed to.
• An ordered TV end-user is sometimes a fondness for some specific programs (Serial, news for example) and he doesn't want to loose the following episode or the important news of their country. Arrived in foreign country, he's then no more able to retrieve his favorite programs.
• the end-user is able to see programs from service providers of the visited country only.
• this solution is not fully appropriate as the end- user cannot follow his preferred soap he's used to watch when at home.
• Another known solution is called "TV on demand" where the end-user is able to receive services or programs on the 3G network using the Video on demand feature. The end-user sends a request to his home operator to receive a specific program using an IP connection over the 3G. The operator then answers with the transmission of the video program on the 3G network.
• the drawback of this solution is the cost of using the 3G network and the saturation of the network if numerous requests are transmitted. It's well adapted for short sequences of important video such as goals in a match but it's not suitable with long videos.
• the usual roaming of voice and SMS capabilities services in GSM world is a well known solution as well. The end-user is able to get voice and SMS capabilities services of his home operator when he travels abroad. Operators have some roaming partnership around the world. If the terminal is no more in an area covered by the home network, using the
• the terminal searches the new network. Then when the terminal is connected to the new network, the request of voice and SMS capabilities from the end-user is transmitted by the visited operator to the home operator which is then granted.
• the home operator OP1 cannot on the other hand use more powerful broadcast systems to be able to broadcast abroad for logistics and profitability reasons.
• the invention brings a solution to this problem.
• Another problem is the time difference.
• Figure 1 depicts a terminal set in a network associated with a personal token according to a preferred embodiment of the invention
• Figure 2 is a diagram which represents a method implemented by the system described by figure 1 , method of providing specific broadcast service such as TV programs to the end-user when abroad according to the invention.
• Terminal T is made of IRT, a radio telecommunication and a broadcast network interface, a processor PT, a man-machine interface, memories MT.
• Terminal T is also equipped with a central processing unit PT, keyboard or other input device such as microphone, or biometric reader, and display unit AT, and with an IC card reader LT.
• IC card reader LT is linked and/or embedded into the other parts of the terminal T.
• Such terminal T is linked to a radio telecommunication network RN connected to a set of other terminals and connected also to a remote server TS.
• Server TS typically stores dedicated applications and secret information which can be read by remote computers if an authorized end- user makes use of a personal token such as a smart card CP.
• the personal card CP carries some necessary credentials which are challenged by the remote server S during what is called an authentication session.
• Terminal T is also linked to a broadcast network BN connected to a set of other terminals and connected also to a remote server BS.
• Server BS typically stores TV broadcast dedicated applications and secret information which can be sent and used by remote computers if an authorized end-user makes use of a personal card such as card CP.
• the personal card CP carries some necessary mobile TV dedicated credentials which are challenged by the remote server BS during what is called an authentication session when the end-user wants to use the mobile TV services.
• the smart card CP is a smart card MMC (Multi-Media Card), or SD (Secure Digital) or USB (Universal Serial Bus) or UICC (Universal Integrated Circuit(s) Card).
• the smart card CP is as an example a card with a dedicated application SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) in case the terminal T is a mobile linked to a GSM/GPRS (Global System for Mobile communications / Genera! Packet Radio Service) network, or a USIM (Universal Subscriber Identity Module) application, RUIM (Removable User Identity Module) or ISIM (IP Subscriber Identity Module) or EAP-SIM
• SIM Subscriber Identity Module
• GSM/GPRS Global System for Mobile communications / Genera! Packet Radio Service
• USIM Universal Subscriber Identity Module
• RUIM Removable User Identity Module
• ISIM IP Subscriber Identity Module
• the smart card CP includes mainly a processor PC, or several processors, memories blocks MC1 to MC3.
• the smart card exchanges data with terminal T via I/O port PES and reader LT (using contact or contactless mode).
• Memory MC1 includes a ROM or flash memory where operating system is stored.
• Memory MC2 is a non volatile memory such as EEPROM or Flash to store keys, identity numbers, and other parameters and credentials linked to the end-user such as PIN code.
• Memory MC3 is a RAM or SRAM memory dedicated to data management. Processor PC, memories MC1 , MC2, MC3 and PES port are linked together by the BC bidirectional bus. This invention is not restricted to a radio mobile terminal linked to a smart card.
• the smart card can be as well a smart card linked to a personal computer linked to a mobile terminal or directly linked to a network, a credit card, an e-purse, a healthcare card, a loyalty card, an e-passport or every additional card linked to a terminal.
• this invention concerns other communicating devices as well such as personal communicating devices (PDA), gaming devices (gaming station) or smart TV set (Portable Multimedia Player).
• PDA personal communicating devices
• gaming devices gaming station
• smart TV set Portable Multimedia Player
• the invention consists of using a method to allow an end-user (USER) of a mobile broadcast network to use his specific broadcast service when travelling characterized in that it comprises the following steps where:
• the end-user registers to a specific broadcast service by his home operator OP1. This is generally done before the end-user leaves the home operator network, that means before the terminal of the end-user has left the home communication network. This can be done after the home operator
• the home operator OP1 sends to the end-user's token, data including the dedicated technical parameters related to said specific broadcast service as described in step 3 of figure 2,
• the home operator OP1 sends to foreign operator OP2 data related to said specific broadcast service as described in step 5 of figure 2,
• Foreign operator OP2 builds an ESG for the said specific broadcast service and delivers the ESG to the end-user as shown in step 6 of figure 2.
• the home operator OP1 sends to foreign operator OP2, as described in step 5 of figure 2, among others data, its identifier (OperatorJD (OP1)), the name of the specific broadcast service (serviceJD), a list of Identifier for each program (ProgramJD) specific broadcast service, and the content of each one of programs of the specific broadcast service.
• the foreign operator OP2 builds then an ESG service for said specific broadcast service.
• the receiver of the end-user then at the starting up connects itself to the ESG bootstrap, and the new ESG could then be proposed to the end-user.
• the acquisition of the ESG data of the home operator OP1 service then begins.
• the foreign operator OP2 can also build an ESG for said specific broadcast service except signaling information and then the foreign operator OP2 builds a specific ESG for the home operator OP1 adding the signaling information given by an IP encapsulator of the said specific broadcast service and adds in its ESG bootstrap the signaling of this specific ESG with an identifier of home operator OP1 (OperatorJD, or providerJD or ESG_provider_ID) provided by home operator OP1.
• the invention consists as well of using such a method to allow an end-user of a broadcast network to use his Mobile TV service when travelling in a foreign country on a system comprising the following entities:
• a foreign operator OP2 in the foreign country providing Mobile TV service and comprising an ESG building module
• the ESG building module of the foreign operator OP2 taking as an input some data which originate from the home broadcast network, said data relating to a specific broadcast service the end-user has registered to for the purpose of being broadcasted in the foreign country.
• the registration could be made using a dedicated page of the home operator OP1 portal or using a dedicated application sorted into the personal token of the end-user.
• This application is able to communicate with the home operator OP1 using classical OTA (Over the Air) communication means such as SMS (short message system) or data channels and provides menus to help the end-user to register.
• Those menus could propose a list of programs, asks for timing periods...
• the end-user selects the programs in the list of programs, gives the roaming country and gives the timing period during which it will be able to receive the programs as shown in step 2 of figure 2.
• OP1 could then send a receipt as described in step 3 of figure 2, with some parameters allowing an automatic connection to the appropriate ESG stream when the roaming will be effective.
• This receipt could be sent via the 3G network by, among others methods used to send data through any kind of telecommunication network to the token, SMS (short message system), data channel or even using the BIP (Bearer independent Protocol) channel. Parameters could be stored directly in the smart card.
• the home operator OP1 can proceed to an aggregation of all requests of the different end-users as described in the step 4 of figure 2 and builds a service containing the different programs with the adequate scheduling.
• the home operator OP1 sends to its partner, the foreign operator OP2 in the foreign country, parameters such as place of the end-user's roaming, its identifier (OperatorJD (OP1 )), the name of the service (serviceJD), the list of Identifier for each program (ProgramJD), the scheduling data and the content of the service.
• identifier OperatorJD (OP1 )
• serviceJD the name of the service
• ProgramJD list of Identifier for each program
• scheduling data the content of the service.
• the foreign operator OP2 gets then all the information from home operator OP1 to build an ESG service for this new roaming service except the technical part of the ESG (signaling information in the IP (Internet Protocol) network: IP @).
• the foreign operator OP2 builds then a specific ESG for this home operator OP1 (or uses an already existing ESG built by the home operator OP1) adding the technical information given by its own IP encapsulator (1P@ of the new service) and adds in its ESG bootstrap the signaling of this new ESG with the identifier of home operator OP1 (OperatorJD, or providerJD or ESG_provider_ID) provided by the home operator OP 1.
• the receiver of the end-user then connects itself at the starting up to the ESG bootstrap, and the new ESG is proposed to the end-user as shown in steps 7 and 8 of figure 2.
• the acquisition of the ESG data of the home operator OP1 service then begins.
• the ESG acquisition could be automatic without end-user selection using the parameters in the Smart card that the home operator OP1 sent during the registration process.
• the service can be split on several IP addresses.
• Some data are transmitted to the foreign operator, after selection by the end-user in the ESG. This data include identifiers of the specific broadcast service as selected by the end-user. These data may also include content of the specific broadcast service, at this step or in an afterwards transmission.
• the end-user is able to watch the registered services on-live as shown in step 9 of figure 2 (or re-broadcasting) if the scheduling is appropriate to his availability.
• the registered service could also be stored in the smart card as described into step 9bis of figure 2, (in the large memory part of the smart card) automatically using the list of programs stored in the smart card during the registration process. The end-user then watches the service off-line when he wants to.
• the programs could be delivered free to air or in another embodiment, in an encrypted form. If they are delivered in encrypted form, the key (generally traffic keys) used to encrypt the service is delivered by the foreign operator OP2 using messages including keys such as roaming ECM (Entitlement Control Messages) described in the IP Datacast over
• DVB-H Service Purchase and Protection ETSI specification (TS102474) in the Annex A (Open Security Framework).
• Those Roaming ECMs are standard ECM that could be opened by different CAS systems (Conditional Access Systems).
• the end-user that registered for the service receives rights for the service using for example an EMM

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