# US 2018/0014064 A1 · System for service usage reporting

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- Number: US 2018/0014064 A1
- Document ID: US20180014064A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 15/545,022
- Filed: 2016-01-28
- Published: 2018-01-11
- Earliest claimed: 2015-01-30
- Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Applicants: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Inventors: SACHIN G. DESHPANDE
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20180014064A1

## CPC

- H04N 21/442: Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed, the storage space available from the internal hard disk {(arrangements for monitoring broadcast services or broadcast-related services H04H60/29; arrangements for identifying or recognising characteristics with a direct linkage to broadcast information H04H60/35; monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; monitoring in wireless networks H04W24/00)}
- H04H 60/31: Arrangements for monitoring the use made of the broadcast services
- H04N 21/4667: {Processing of monitored end-user data, e.g. trend analysis based on the log file of viewer selections}
- H04N 21/83555: {using a structured language for describing usage rules of the content, e.g. REL}
- H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
- H04H: BROADCAST COMMUNICATION (multiplex communication H04J; pictorial communication aspects of broadcast systems H04N)

## Abstract

A method for reporting information related to the consumption of the audio-visual content is provided. The method comprises: reporting the information including component; wherein the component is comprised of a component type, a component role, a component name, a component ID and time interval information, wherein the component type includes audio, video, closed caption, and application, the component role presents a role or kind of the component, the component name indicates a string representing a human name of the component, the component ID indicates a string representing a component identifier, and the time interval information which includes a start time and an end time.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method for reporting information, the method comprising:
reporting the information including component; wherein
the component is comprised of a component type, a component role, a component name, a component ID and time interval information, wherein the component type with a value of 0 indicates an audio component, the component type with a value of 1 indicates a video component, the component type with a value of 2 indicates a closed caption component, the component type with a value of 3 indicates an application component, and the component type with a value of 5 to 255 are reserved,
the component role presents a role or kind of the component,
the component name indicates a string representing a human name of the component,
the component ID indicates a string representing a component identifier, and
the time interval information includes a start time and an end time, wherein the start time is a date time at the beginning of the event and an interval of the start time begins when display of this content component begins and the value of the interval of the start time is not less than the value of the start time of this interval instance, and
the end time is a date time at the end of the event and an interval of the end time ends when display of the content component ends and the value of the interval of the end time is not greater than the value of the end time of this interval instance.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the component contents include a delivery path that is used for the content component indicated by a parent component element, wherein
the delivery path includes a path type, a path start time and path end time,
wherein the path type with a value of 0 indicates a broadcast delivery, the path type with a value of 1 indicates a broadband delivery, and the path type with a value of 4 to 255 are reserved,
the path start time is a date time at the beginning of the event, an interval of the path start time begins when the delivery of content component begins on a path indicates by the value of a path type attribute and the value of the interval of the path start time is not less than the value of a start time attribute of a patent component element, and
the path end time is a date time at a beginning of the event, an interval of the path end time ends when the delivery of content component ends on the path indicated by the value of a path type attribute and the value of the interval is not greater than the value of end time attribute of the parent component element.