Broadcast system, broadcast management device, broadcast method, and terminal
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorsMasahiko Yahagi, Satoru Kaneda
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Abstract
Provided is a broadcast system that assigns a communication channel to a program and broadcasts data for the program to terminals, the broadcast system including a broadcast management device and a communication access network device. The management device calculates as a score a measure of viewing requests from users of the terminals for a plurality of programs, and determines a program to actually broadcast on the communication channel based on the score. The communication access network device transmits program data on a communication channel according to the determination of the broadcast management device.
Claims12
A broadcast management device that manages programs to be broadcast in a broadcast system which assigns a communication channel to a program and broadcasts data for the program into a communication area which can accommodate a plurality of terminals, the broadcast management device comprising:
- a score calculator that calculates in a real-time manner as a score a measure of viewing requests from a plurality of users of the respective terminals for a program that is actually being broadcast on the communication channel and a program that is not being actually broadcast but can be broadcast;
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- a determination unit that updates in a real-time manner the program to be actually broadcast on the communication channel by selecting from among the program that is being actually broadcast on the communication channel and a program that is not actually being broadcast but can be broadcast based on the score calculated by the score calculator.
A broadcast management device that manages programs to be broadcast in a broadcast system which assigns a communication channel to a program and broadcasts data for the program into a communication area which can accommodate a plurality of terminals, the broadcast management device comprising:
- a score calculator that calculates as a score a measure of viewing requests from a plurality of users of the respective terminals for a program that is actually being broadcast on the communication channel and a program that is not being actually broadcast but can be broadcast;
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- a determination unit that updates the program to be actually broadcast on the communication channel by selecting from among the program that is being actually broadcast on the communication channel and a program that is not actually being broadcast but can be broadcast based on the score calculated by the score calculator,
- wherein, the score calculator summarizes users' viewing requests for programs which are sent from the plurality of the terminals, and counts the score of each of the programs based on the result of summarization;
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- the broadcast management device farther comprising means for notifying the terminals of the scores of the programs calculated by the score calculator as notice information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.