WO2010048763A1

WO2010048763A1 - Method for searching mobile telephone television program and mobile telephone thereof

Info

Publication number: WO2010048763A1
Application number: PCT/CN2008/073707
Authority: WO
Inventors: 孙爱芳
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2008-10-27
Filing date: 2008-12-24
Publication date: 2010-05-06
Also published as: CN101388737A

Abstract

A method for searching mobile telephone television programs and a corresponding mobile telephone are disclosed in the present invention. The method for searching includes the steps of: by the mobile telephone, receiving the searching words used for searching mobile telephone television program; by the mobile telephone, transmitting the searching words finally to an ESG server in the broadcasting service management system at the broadcasting television side via devices in the mobile network; by the ESG server, searching programs in the electronic service guide based on the searching words and transmitting the searching result back to the mobile telephone; and representing the received searching result on the mobile telephone. According to the present invention, it is possible to improve the efficiency of mobile telephone television program searching, to meet the requirements of users, and to save the memory space for the mobile telephone memory to a certain extent.

Description

Search method of mobile TV program and corresponding mobile phone

Technical field

The present invention relates to a mobile TV service, and more particularly to a search method for a mobile TV program and a corresponding mobile phone. Background technique

With the development of mobile TV services, such as the promotion and popularization of mobile TV services under the China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting (CMMB) standard, more and more TV stations will participate. Each TV station has a different program presented to the user every day. How do you search for the TV shows you like to watch in this colorful program? Of course, the user can know the result by querying the electronic service guide of each TV station, but this requires the user to view and search one by one in the electronic service guide of each TV station, and the electronic service guide of one TV station is different every day, 24 hours a day, the program Different from time to time, not to mention more than one TV station to choose from, thus, users will have difficulty accepting such inefficient operations through the electronic business guide for carpet-type program search, then users will most likely miss a TV station Time to play your favorite watching TV show. Moreover, the mobile phone receives all the TV programs of the broadcast network and will occupy a certain space in the mobile phone.

Therefore, in the prior art, the mobile phone cannot efficiently and accurately search the electronic service guide of the mobile TV service stored in the mobile phone as needed, and the mobile phone memory also occupies a certain space for storing the electronic service guide of the television service. Therefore, how to effectively improve the search efficiency of mobile TV programs, meet the needs of users, and save a certain amount of storage space for mobile phone memory has become a technical problem to be solved in the prior art. Summary of the invention

The technical problem solved by the present invention is to provide a mobile phone television program search method and a corresponding mobile phone, which can effectively improve the search efficiency of the mobile TV program, meet the needs of the user, and save a certain storage space for the mobile phone memory.

In order to solve the above technical problem, the present invention provides a mobile phone television program search method, package Including the following steps:

The mobile phone receives a search term for a mobile TV program search;

The mobile phone finally transmits the search term to an electronic service guide ESG server in the broadcasting and television side broadcast service management system through a device in the mobile network;

The ESG server performs a program search in the electronic service guide according to the search term, and transmits the search result back to the mobile phone;

The mobile phone presents the received search result.

The method for searching for a mobile TV program according to the present invention, wherein:

The device in the mobile network is a service guide SG server in a broadcast service management system of an operator to which the mobile phone belongs, and the mobile phone sends the search term to the SG server by using a short message, and the SG server receives After that, the search term is extracted from the short message and sent to the ESG server in the broadcast-side broadcast service management system via the Internet.

Further, wherein the format of the short message is an SS+ search term.

Further, wherein the ESG server performs a program search in the electronic service guide according to the search term, if no matching program is searched, the ESG server passes the information that the program does not exist through the broadcast network in an emergency broadcast manner. Or sending the mobile phone back to the mobile phone through the SG server; if the matching program is searched, the ESG server creates the program information of the program into a program list, and then encapsulates the program list into a data packet to be urgent through the broadcast network. The way of broadcasting is sent back to the mobile phone by SMS via the SG server.

Further, when the ESG server creates a program list, the matched programs are sorted according to the time of the broadcast time. If the broadcast time is the same, the TV stations are sorted according to the electronic service guide on the ESG server. Sort the order.

Further, wherein the format of each program information in the program list is a program name + a broadcast time + a broadcast television station; the format of the data packet is a data header + a data content + an end word, and the data header is an SS The data content is the program list, and the end word is JG.

Further, wherein the search term is a keyword, the ESG server searches for a program that matches a program information string and a keyword in an electronic service guide according to the keyword, and the program information string includes a program name string. . Further, when the mobile phone displays the received search result, if the information that the program does not exist is received, the mobile phone directly parses; if the data packet is received, the data packet is parsed. Present the parsed program list.

In order to solve the above technical problem, the present invention further provides a mobile phone capable of performing a mobile phone television program search, the terminal comprising: an input module, a television program search module, and a display module;

The input module is configured to receive a search term input by the user for performing a program search, and send the search term to the television program search module;

The television program search module is configured to finally send the received search term to an ESG server in the broadcast service management system of the broadcasting and television network through a device in the mobile network, and receive a search result returned by the ESG server;

The display module is configured to display the search result.

In the mobile phone of the present invention, the television program search module is a service guide SG server that is configured to encapsulate the test word into a short form of a short message and send it to a broadcast service management system of an operator to which the mobile phone belongs. It takes up space, and it can also provide users with the information they want efficiently and accurately. The present invention can be applied to a mobile TV service such as CMMB. BRIEF abstract

1 is a flowchart of a method for searching a mobile TV program according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a schematic diagram of an architecture of a system applied by a search method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of functional modules of a mobile phone involved in a search method according to an embodiment of the present invention. Preferred embodiment of the invention

The detailed description is not to be construed as limiting the invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the method for searching a mobile phone television program according to an embodiment of the present invention, the specific implementation steps are as follows:

Step 101: The user inputs a search term by using a television program search function on the mobile phone, and confirms the check Inquiry

The search term may be a keyword or a program time of a program that the user likes to watch, and the keyword is taken as an example here. The input method is input via the phone keypad or Touch Panel (touch screen).

Step 102: The mobile phone sends the input keyword in the short message gateway (SS+ keyword) to the SG (Service Guide) server in the broadcast service management system of the operator, as shown in FIG. 2, and then the SG. The server resends the keyword in the short message data received from the mobile phone to the ESG (Electronic Service Guide) server in the broadcast service management system of the broadcasting and television side through the Internet;

Step 103: After receiving the keyword that needs to be searched, the ESG server performs a program search according to the keyword, and searches for a program whose program name string matches the keyword in the electronic service guide. If yes, step 104 is performed; if not, Then perform step 105;

The program matching the keyword means that the program name string of the program includes the content matching the keyword, and the content matching the keyword may mean that the content is the same as the keyword, and the case may be ignored. Conventional matching methods such as wildcards and combinations thereof are used.

The search is not limited to the program name string, but can also be extended to a string of other information of the program such as a character string of the program description information, so that the name of the protagonist input by the user in a certain program can also be matched to the corresponding program. If the entered term is the program time, the matching program should be searched for during the program play time. and many more.

Step 104: The ESG server sorts the program information of the matched program according to the sequence of the broadcast time. If the broadcast time of the program is the same, the order may be sorted according to the order of the TV stations in the electronic service guide on the ESG server. And making a program list, the format of each program information in the program list may be the program name + broadcast time + broadcast TV station, and then step 106 is performed.

The ESG server may also be sorted according to the order of the television stations (program transmission sources) in the electronic service guide, or may be sorted or not sorted according to other methods, and the present invention is not limited thereto.

Step 105: The ESG server generates information that the program does not exist, and then performs step 106. Step 106: The ESG server sends the search result to the mobile phone through the broadcast network in an emergency broadcast manner or sends the search result back to the mobile phone by using a short message through the SG server. As shown in FIG. 2, if the information does not exist in the program, the ESG server directly sends it to the mobile phone through the broadcast network in an emergency broadcast manner or sends the mobile phone back to the mobile phone through the SG server;

If the program exists for the search result, the ESG server encapsulates the program listing made in step 104 into a data packet in the format of data header + data content + end word. In one example, the data header is SS, and the data content is a program list, wherein the format of each program information in the program list is the program name + broadcast time + broadcasted TV station, and the end word is JG, and the data packet is passed. The broadcast network is transmitted to the mobile phone by means of an emergency broadcast or sent back to the mobile phone by SMS via the SG server.

Step 107: The mobile phone receives the search result. If the mobile phone receives the data packet, the mobile phone parses the data packet, and the parsed program list includes the program name of one or more programs, the playing time, and the broadcasted television station. Displaying the parsed program list to the user through the mobile phone; if the mobile phone receives the information that the program does not exist, the mobile phone is directly displayed to the user through the mobile phone;

The step 107 may further include: if the user selects to save, save the search result to the mobile phone for the user to view again. As shown in FIG. 3, it is a schematic diagram of a functional module of a mobile phone having a mobile TV program search function according to the embodiment. The method includes: an input module 301, a television program search module 302, a display module 303, and a storage module 304;

The input module 301 is configured to receive a search term input by the user for program search, and send the search word to the television program search module 302;

The television program search module 302 is configured to send the received search term to the ESG server in the broadcasting and television broadcast service management system through the device in the mobile network, for example, by using a short message, and receiving the search result returned by the ESG server;

The display module 303 is configured to display the search result. If the information does not exist, the information may be directly displayed. If the data package includes the program ticket, the program list in the data packet is parsed and then the program list is Display

The storage module 304 is configured to save the search result when the user selects to save the search result. Of course, the invention may have other various embodiments without departing from the spirit and spirit of the invention. However, such corresponding changes and modifications are intended to be included within the scope of the appended claims.

Industrial applicability

The invention greatly facilitates the user to watch the mobile TV program in a targeted manner, improves the search efficiency of the mobile TV program, saves a certain storage space of the mobile phone, and shows which content is broadcasted by which television station at any time.

Claims

Claim

A mobile phone television program search method, comprising the steps of: receiving, by a mobile phone, a search term for a mobile TV program search;

The mobile phone presents the received search result.

2. The method for searching for a mobile phone television program according to claim 1, wherein: the device in the mobile network is a service guide SG server in a broadcast service management system of an operator to which the mobile phone belongs, and the mobile phone Sending the search term to the SG server by using a short message. After receiving the SG server, the SG server extracts the search term from the short message and sends the search term to the broadcast communication management system through the Internet. On the ESG server.

3. The method for searching a mobile phone television program according to claim 2, wherein: the format of the short message is an SS+ search term.

4. The method for searching a mobile phone television program according to claim 2, wherein: the ESG server performs a program search in the electronic service guide according to the search term, and if no matching program is searched, the ESG The server sends the information that the program does not exist to the mobile phone through the broadcast network in an emergency broadcast manner or through the SG server; if the matched program is searched, the ESG server creates the program information of the program into a program list. Then, the program list is encapsulated into a data packet and sent back to the mobile phone via a broadcast network in an emergency broadcast manner or via a SG server.

The method for searching for a mobile phone television program according to claim 4, wherein: when the program is produced, the ESG server sorts the matched programs according to the sequence of the broadcast time, for example, the broadcast time is the same. Then follow the e-business guide on the ESG server. The sort order of the viewports is sorted.

The method for searching a mobile phone television program according to claim 4 or 5, wherein: the format of each program information in the program list is a program name + a broadcast time + a broadcast television station; The format is data header + data content + end word, the data header is SS, the data content is the program list, and the end word is JG.

The method for searching a mobile phone television program according to claim 4, wherein: the search term is a keyword, and the ESG server searches for a program information string and a keyword in an electronic service guide according to the keyword. A matching program, the program information string including a program name string.

The method for searching for a mobile phone television program according to claim 4, wherein: when the mobile phone displays the received search result, if the information that the program does not exist is received, the mobile phone directly displays; If the data packet is received, the data packet is parsed, and the parsed program list is displayed.

9. A mobile phone capable of searching for a mobile TV program, wherein the terminal comprises: an input module, a television program search module, and a display module;

The television program search module is configured to finally send the received search term to the ESG server in the broadcast service management system of the broadcast and television service through the device in the mobile network, and receive the search result returned by the ESG server;

The display module is configured to display the search result.

10. The handset of claim 9 wherein:

The television program search module is a service guide SG server that is configured to encapsulate the detection word into a short form of a short message and send it to a broadcast service management system of an operator to which the mobile phone belongs.