KR20080032979A - Open community for watching global tv - Google Patents

Abstract

An open community for global TV watching is provided to watch various TV programs with a PC or a mobile phone through wired and wireless Internet web sites by adding a streaming function and a remote control function to a STB/PVR. An individual person streams a TV program to the outside through the Internet in real time while viewing the TV program through a STB(Set Top Box)/PVR(Personal Video Recorder)(3) connected with a broadcast receiving medium(2) or storing the TV program on an embedded hard disk(4) so that the TV program is to be watched through a PC(6) or a mobile phone(7). The individual person registers oneself as a private person operator or a user at a wired and wireless community web site. If the individual person connects to the web site and is authorized, the individual person watches programs in real time, changes channel, records and reproduces the programs by controlling the STB/PVR at home through a web player(8). The community web site permits to open contents which the individual person watches on the web site, to friends or other people(9).

Description

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Figure 1-Schematic diagram of watching open TV

In this proposal, the home TV viewing can be transferred to the remote place through the network and remote control so that it can be viewed and controlled by a PC or a mobile phone, connected to the community site, and spread locally or numerically to participate and open through this community. This makes it easy for anyone to watch various TV channels from around the world on the community's website for free via the Internet.

Most existing homes have TV viewing through antennas, cables, and satellites. In addition, IPTV has recently become possible using the Internet. It is also possible to watch TV programs on portable terminals such as PCs, laptops and mobile phones.

However, most of these have to pay for regional restrictions and the use of broadcasting infrastructure.

To overcome this problem, under the internet paradigm of participation and sharing, commercial broadcasting contents and various user-generated contents, namely, photo or video UCC community, have emerged. Currently, the United States YouTube and domestic Pandora TV, etc. as a representative community is using more than 1 million concurrent users a day. However, most of the contents created by their own digital cameras, etc. may be vulnerable to compatibility, and when processing the used broadcast content, there is a copyright problem for unauthorized copying. Of course, the community that operates it tries to get away with it as a personal problem, but if it's acquired by Google, etc., it should solve the total copyright issue of using commercial content to solve this problem.

In contrast, the proposed community portal allows users to pay for content at home and revisit the content that they are allowed to watch on a PC or mobile phone from a remote location by streaming. Currently, it is commercialized by Slingmedia and Sony in the US. Since SlingBox or Location Free are available to the public, the primary copyright problem can be solved. The next issue is voluntary disclosure to friends and the general public for non-commercial purposes, so the second copyright problem is much easier to solve than UCC, such as YouTube, which is being copied without permission.

The technical problem to be achieved in this proposal is to transfer home TV viewing to a remote location so that it can be viewed and controlled by a PC or a mobile phone, and this is implemented using standard protocols such as XML to connect to wired / wireless community sites and spread locally or numerically. In this way, it is possible for anyone to participate and release through this community, so that anyone can easily watch various TV channels around the world on this community website for free through the Internet.

In the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, an individual can watch or install a TV program [1] at home through an STB / PVR [3] connected to a broadcast receiving medium such as an antenna (terrestrial wave), cable, satellite, or IP [2]. By storing it on the hard disk [4], it can be live streamed [5] to the outside through the Internet or a communication network so that the PC [6] or the mobile phone [7] can be viewed from a remote location. At this time, the individual registers himself as an individual operator and user on the wired / wireless community website for this purpose, and when the user accesses the authentication, he / she controls the STB / PVR in his / her home through the player [8] on the web to watch or change the channel. And playback are possible. The control language for this purpose is to use general standard communication protocol or higher Internet standard language such as XML. In particular, the proposed Remote Control XML, UPnP, etc. can be used for this purpose.

At this time, the community allows individual operators to share what they see on the wired and wireless web with friends and others [9]. All rights and responsibilities for this disclosure are held by the individual operator.

At this time, channel search and change, recording, and playback of recorded contents can be performed only by a person having a personal STB / PVR, and other allowed people can only watch. However, it also allows a personal operator to grant some or all of the control to a designated person.

In addition, the personal operator can assign metadata such as a name or a search word for a TV channel so that ordinary people can easily find a viewing channel through a search. In addition, by providing advertising space that can be used by the operator on the web player, it can personally create promotion and new marketing model.

The implementation of this service is that once an individual operator has a single stream via STB / PVR for functional and legal matters, the general public other than the operator cannot see other channels. The solution to this problem is that through the proliferation of individual operators with STB / PVR, many people see various channels, so that general users want to change the channel or want to see the desired channel. To go to the screen of another personal operator who is watching. For example, if there are now 100,000 individual operators worldwide (if 100,000 STBs / PVRs are available), 5,000 different channels are currently connected worldwide, so the general public All channels can be moved freely and watched.

If, on average, 20 individual operators are provided for each channel, the individual operator changes or stops the channel, so that they can be transferred to another channel and watch continuously.

Ultimately, the STB / PVR is always on regardless of TV On-Off, so even if a private operator joining this community allows a general user to watch even if they are not connected, they can watch. In addition, if the general control authority is allowed for publicity or marketing, general users without STB / PVR can freely watch TV or recordings around the world.

This open TV community facilitates these features and builds on channel names, recordings, search terms, etc. created by individual operators, as well as general UCC portals by sector (movie, drama, news, sports, education, adult, etc.) and regional (Europe, Categories such as the US, Korea, and Japan can be used to revitalize the community.

The proposed model adds streaming function and remote control function to STB / PVR for individual home TV programs, allowing users to watch additional PCs or mobile phones remotely through wired / wireless internet websites. In other words, if the Internet is available anywhere in the world, you can watch all the TV programs received in your home. By opening and sharing these viewing rights in an open community portal, I can watch various TV programs of other people in different regions. This requires more people to participate and this requires communication standardization for compatibility of STB / PVR streaming and remote control modules that perform this function regardless of the type of TV in the home. For this purpose, the standard protocol, high level Remote Control XML standard, UPnP, etc. are used to maximize the efficiency.

In other words, when this open TV community is formed, non-operators (ie non-STB / PVR home visitors) can watch live broadcasts from anywhere in the world on their PCs or mobile phones via the Internet. You can also watch the recordings. In other words, all this is provided free of charge.

In other words, if you go to www.tvpools.net (tentative name), you can see the world map, and you can click on the area where you can watch now or enter the channel or search word you want to watch all the various channels of all the world for free.

To do this, if you have STB / PVR capable of such streaming and remote control at home, the individual operator will operate with the receiving media of one's own area on the web. This only adds a little less than $ 100 module cost to your own STB / PVR, which you can already pay for remote viewing and control from your PC or mobile phone, so you don't have to pay anything. Additional broadcast channels will be secured.

The community gives all these rights and responsibilities for the control and viewing of the channel to the individual operator, which induces voluntary participation in the form of UCC, which can be used as a promotion and marketing channel for the individual when the community is activated. will be.

In addition, the community can alleviate the difficulty of securing content that is a problem of the current UCC community portal and the legal problem of unauthorized copying UCC, and activates the community by sharing various commercial TV broadcasting contents around the world. It will create revenue models such as item sales and advertisements, and become a global TV media portal.

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A business model that enables individuals to watch TV programs at home on a PC or mobile phone via wired / wireless internet through the STB / PVR built-in network, and connects them to community sites. In order to enable individuals to provide these functions, implement standard means of communication between the network-embedded STB / PVR and community websites. Streaming server module based on MPEG4, H.264, etc. based on Remote Control XML, an XML language designed for this function, and all technologies related to client modules such as Active X, Flash, Flex, etc. Any technology that allows an individual operator with an STB / PVR in his home to grant and restrict to others the authority to share and control remote viewing of it. Any technology that individual operator changes and edits channel information and recording file information received in his or her STB / PVR, and categorizes them by topic such as desired channel and search term in the area desired by the public by metadata such as search word. It provides a visual display of local information on the open TV community web on the world map, shows current STB / PVR connection status and information for individual operators in each region, and allows individual visitors to select the region to watch selected TV channels. Any technology When the general visitor selects the desired region and channel, the connected STB / PVR can be directly watched and connected to another connected STB / PVR screen.If the channel is changed, and the viewing channel is stopped or changed, Technology to switch directly to other STB / PVR to see channels Any business model and technology for ranking search and improving ad features, depending on the level of loyalty of individual operators (continued status, open tolerance, simultaneous viewing and storage files, etc.) All business models and technologies for various functions that can generate revenue (graft technology such as advertising copy, UCC advertisement photo, UCC video, etc.)

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