Patent ID: 8028316
Filing Date: 2011-09-27
Classification: H04H,H04N

Abstract:
1. A broadcasting system receiver that receives a broadcasting signal including contents of a program transmitted from a broadcasting station apparatus, wherein organization of all broadcasting scheduled programs to be broadcasted within a predetermined time period from a date of transmission of said broadcasting signal is defined on or before the date of transmission of said broadcasting signal, each of said all broadcasting scheduled programs within said predetermined time period is given a first program identifier for identifying the broadcasting scheduled program on or before the date of transmission of said broadcasting signal, each of broadcasting scheduled programs that are provisionally determined to be broadcasted after said predetermined time period is given a second program identifier for identifying the broadcasting scheduled program, said broadcasting station apparatus generates first program information relating to each of said all broadcasting scheduled programs within said predetermined time period and also generates second program information relating to each of said provisionally determined broadcasting scheduled programs, the first program information includes the first program identifier and organization information relating to organization of the broadcasting scheduled program and is transmitted from said broadcasting station apparatus, the second program information includes the second program identifier and organization information relating to organization of the broadcasting scheduled programs, but does not include the first program identifier, and is transmitted from said broadcasting station apparatus or stored in a predetermined server connected to the Internet, after an elapse of time, when organization of a provisionally determined broadcasting scheduled program is defined, a first program identifier is added to the second program information relating to the provisionally determined broadcasting scheduled program, and the organization information included in the second program information relating to the provisionally determined broadcasting scheduled program is changed to the organization information relating to the defined organization, so that the second program information relating to the provisionally determined broadcasting scheduled program is changed to first program information, and the changed first program information is transmitted from said broadcasting station apparatus, said broadcasting system receiver comprising: a receiver that receives the broadcasting signal transmitted from said broadcasting station apparatus and the first program information transmitted from said broadcasting station apparatus; an acquisitioner that acquires the second program information transmitted from said broadcasting station apparatus or acquires the second program information stored in said predetermined server through the Internet; a storage that stores the first program information received by said receiver and the second program information acquired by said acquisitioner; a reserver configured to reserve the broadcasting scheduled program to be broadcasted within said predetermined time period on the basis of the first program information stored in said storage, and to reserve the provisionally determined broadcasting scheduled program on the basis of the second program information stored in said storage; a storer that stores the first program information when said reserver reserves the broadcasting scheduled program to be broadcasted within said predetermined time period, and stores the second program information when said reserver reserves the provisionally determined broadcasting scheduled program; a replacer that replaces, after said reserver reserves the provisionally determined broadcasting scheduled program, then after an elapse of time, when the first program information including a same second program identifier as the second program identifier included in the second program information relating to the reserved broadcasting scheduled program is received, the second program information is stored in said storer with the received first program information; and an outputter that outputs a broadcasting signal corresponding to the broadcasting scheduled program reserved by said reserver on a basis of the first program identifier in the first program information stored in said storage.