Service usage reporting data transport
AssigneeSaturn Licensing LLC
InventorMark Eyer
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Abstract
A reception apparatus, including circuitry configured to receive a broadcast stream including audio/video content and a uniform resource identifier (URI). The circuitry is configured to determine whether a command identifier associated with the URI indicates the URI is a location of a server to which service usage information is to be sent. The circuitry is configured to, when the command identifier indicates the URI is the location of the server to which the service usage information is to be sent, associate the URI with the service provider. The circuitry is configured to provide the service usage information to the server according to the associated URI.
Claims20
A reception apparatus, comprising:
- circuitry configured to
- receive a broadcast stream including audio/video content and a uniform resource identifier (URI) from a broadcaster,
- determine that the URI is a location of a service-usage reporting server associated with the broadcaster to which service usage information is to be sent based on a type indicator associated with the URI,
- when the type indicator indicates the URI is the location of the service-usage reporting server to which the service usage information is to be sent, associate the URI with the service-usage reporting server, and
- provide the service usage information to the service-usage reporting server according to the associated URI.
A method for providing service usage information, the method comprising:
- receiving, by circuitry of a reception apparatus, a broadcast stream including audio/video content and a uniform resource identifier (URI) from a broadcaster;
- determining that the URI is a location of a service-usage reporting server associated with the broadcaster to which service usage information is to be sent based on a type indicator associated with the URI;
- when the type indicator indicates the URI is the location of the service-usage reporting server to which the service usage information is to be sent, associating by the circuitry the URI with the service-usage reporting server;
- and
- providing, by the circuitry, the service-usage information to the service-usage reporting server according to the associated URI.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions which when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform a method for providing service usage information, the method comprising:
- receiving a broadcast stream including audio/video content and a uniform resource identifier (URI) from a broadcaster;
- determining that the URI is a location of a service-usage reporting server associated with the broadcaster to which service usage information is to be sent based on a type indicator associated with the URI;
- when the type indicator indicates the URI is the location of the service-usage reporting server to which the service usage information is to be sent, associating the URI with the service-usage reporting server;
- and
- providing the service-usage information to the service-usage reporting server according to the associated URI.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.