Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and server apparatus

An information processing method, comprising:

• receiving, by a broadcast processing unit, a broadcast resource constituted of a plurality of types of media information;
• and
• acquiring, by a controller, an application information table which stores information requisite for activating an application that can use the broadcast resource and first definition information for specifying the type of the media information of the broadcast resource usable by the application, and judging whether the broadcast resource can be used by the application in a unit of the media information.

A program that causes a computer to function as:

• a broadcast processing unit that receives and processes a broadcast resource constituted of a plurality of types of media information;
• and
• a controller that acquires an application information table which stores information requisite for activating an application that can use the broadcast resource and first definition information for specifying the type of the media information of the broadcast resource usable by the application, and judges whether the broadcast resource can be used by the application in a unit of the media information.

A server apparatus, comprising

• a generation unit that generates an application information table which stores information requisite for activating an application that can use a broadcast resource in an information processing apparatus and first definition information for specifying a type of the media information of the broadcast resource usable by the application, and responds to an acquisition request for the application information table from the information processing apparatus.