Patent ID: 8230459
Filing Date: 2012-07-24
Classification: H04H,H04N

Abstract:
1. A program guide providing system, comprising: a terminal; a content providing server configured to provide a content to said terminal; a session initiation protocol (SIP) proxy server configured to perform routing of session initiation protocol messages; a program guide providing server configured to provide, to said terminal, a list of services offered by said content providing server as a program guide; and a next generation network to which said terminal, said content providing server, said session initiation protocol proxy server, and said program guide providing server are connected, wherein, said content providing server includes service providing means for providing a variety of programs and a related service to said terminal in response to a request from said terminal, the related service includes as inquiry service which indicates a number of users having a complaint about the content or server congestion and a chat service that allows users to communicate while viewing the program, and said program guide providing server includes communication history acquisition means for acquiring, via said session initiation protocol proxy server, a communication history between said content providing server and said terminal, the communication history including information about a number of times a SIP address of a program is requested by the users, the duration of connection to the SIP address of the program, the number of connections to both the inquiry service and chat service, and the number of failed attempts to connect to the SIP address of the program, communication history storage means for storing the communication history acquired by the communication history acquisition means, audience situation calculation means for calculating an audience situation concerning each of the programs based on the information about the number of times the SIP address of the program is requested by the users, the duration of connection to the SIP address of the program, the number of connections to both the inquiry service and chat service, and the number of failed attempts to connect to the SIP address of the program stored in the communication history storage means, program guide generation means for assigning an indicator to each program based on the audience situation calculated by the audience situation calculation means, and generating a program guide in which each program is assigned the indicator, and program guide providing means for providing the program guide generated by the program guide generation means to said terminal.