Patent ID: 6389593
Filing Date: 2002-05-14
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A program-related-information transmission control apparatus employed on a data distributing side for transmitting program related information for programs to be broadcasted to a data receiving side by way of a data-transmission means, said apparatus comprising:a television-watching-record information collecting means for gathering information on television-watching records obtained in accordance with relevant television-watching operations from said data receiving side; and a transmission-condition controlling means for controlling conditions for transmitting said program related information of programs on the basis of said information on television-watching records made from viewer television-watching statistics so that said program related information most-likely desired is transmitted more frequently than said program related information which is less desired wherein said transmission-condition controlling means generates information on television-watching statistics for all attributes of each program from television-watching records, and determines transmission conditions for all said attributes of each program on the basis of said information on television-watching statistics and weighted parameters for all said attributes of each program.