Patent ID: 8438599
Filing Date: 2013-05-07
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A content guide information processing apparatus for guiding content viewing, comprising: a content receiver for receiving content through different modalities; a memory for storing received content; a content player for playing received or stored content; a content guide information management section for managing content guide information having integration of content received through different modalities to be supplied; and a supply section for supplying content guide information, the content guide information includes guide information for already received content and guide information for content yet to be received, the content guide information is in the form of a structured description language, and generation of the content guide information includes adding a structured description language type-field to the guide information for content yet to be received, respective contents being associated with respective types, each type indicating whether the corresponding content is already received content or content yet to be received, for already received content the guide information indicates a directory in which the content is stored, and for content yet to be received the guide information indicates a network address pointing to the content, upon powering on the apparatus automatically sends an HTTP request for a network program list, receives an HTTP response comprising the network program list, extracts data required for the content guide information from the network program list, and registers the extracted data with the content guide information, when a user selects a program for recording, program metadata retrieved during the recording operation, including an indication that the program is self-recorded, is registered with the content guide information, the metadata retrieved during the recording operation being written in a tag field under a tag name, the tag field including a type field, a title field, and a location field, the type field indicating that the program is self-recorded, the title field indicating the recorded date and time and channel name for the program, and the location field indicating a directory on a local disk and a file name.