Patent ID: 11889163
Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A receiving device comprising:
circuitry configured to
acquire a digital broadcast signal that includes audio-video (AV) content and location information, the location information indicating a source from which application control information is obtainable, the application control information being for controlling an operation of an application executed in conjunction with the AV content;
acquire the application control information from the source indicated by the location information, the application control information including a uniform resource locator (URL);
obtain, from the URL included in the acquired application control information, control information during a polling period that is defined in accordance with an attribute specified in the acquired application control information; and
control the operation of the application based on the acquired application control information and the obtained control information.