Patent ID: 9723360
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,H04N

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for a digital broadcast system, the method comprising: receiving and storing, by circuitry of a receiver, a plurality of questionnaires, each of the plurality of questionnaires being associated with, and broadcast over-the-air by, a different one of a plurality of service providers of the digital broadcast system, wherein each of the plurality of questionnaires comprises a data structure common to the plurality of service providers; acquiring answers to the plurality of questionnaires; storing the acquired answers to the plurality of questionnaires in a memory of the receiver; downloading a plurality of different triggered declarative objects (TDOs) associated with the plurality of service providers; executing one of the plurality of different TDOs; and interfacing, by the circuitry, a script in the one of the plurality of different TDOs with at least one of the answers to the plurality of questionnaires via an Application Programming Interface (API) implemented at the receiver, the API being configured to interface scripts in the plurality of different TDOs with the at least one of the answers to the plurality of questionnaires, each of the different TDOs being associated with a different one of the plurality of service providers, wherein the one of the plurality of the different TDOs includes the script which is configured to perform a function conditioned on the at least one of the answers to the plurality of questionnaires stored in the memory of the receiver.