Data receiving apparatus and method
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorHideki Ohkita
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Abstract
A data receiving apparatus of this invention includes an antenna which receives at least one of broadcast audiovisual data and non-audiovisual data, a data monitoring unit which detects the non-audiovisual data received by the antenna, a related information acquiring unit which acquires information corresponding to predetermined items in accordance with the type of detected non-audiovisual data, a channel assigning unit which assigns an identification number to the non-audiovisual data from which the information is acquired, and a communication unit which notifies a client device for viewing of audiovisual data of the assigned identification number and the information acquired by the related information acquiring unit from the non-audiovisual data assigned the identification number.
Claims12
A data receiving apparatus comprising:
- a receiving unit configured to receive at least one of broadcast audiovisual data and non-audiovisual data;
- a detecting unit configured to detect the non-audiovisual data received by the receiving unit;
- an acquiring unit configured to acquire information corresponding to a predetermined item from the non-audiovisual data detected by the detecting unit in accordance with a type of the data;
- an assigning unit configured to assign an identification number to the non-audiovisual data from which the information is acquired by the acquiring unit;
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- a notifying unit configured to notify a client device for viewing of the audiovisual data of the identification number assigned by the assigning unit and the information acquired by the acquiring unit from the non-audiovisual data assigned the identification number.
A data receiving method comprising:
- receiving at least one of broadcast audiovisual data and non-audiovisual data;
- detecting the received non-audiovisual data;
- acquiring information corresponding to a predetermined item from the detected non-audiovisual data in accordance with a type of the data;
- assigning an identification number to the non-audiovisual data from which the information is acquired;
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- notifying a client device for viewing of the audiovisual data of the assigned identification number and the information acquired from the non-audiovisual data assigned the identification number.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.