Patent ID: 7657267
Filing Date: 2010-02-02
Classification: G06Q,H04H,H04N

Abstract:
1. A receiving apparatus in an information distribution system made up of a customer management center and receiving apparatuses, which receive distributed content, including a content distribution apparatus and content storage means, said receiving apparatus comprising: means for inputting viewer profile information in accordance with a viewer profile setting program, storing said input viewer profile information, and transmitting the viewer profile information to said customer management center; means for receiving content, profile condition information of target viewers of said content, and a filtering and storing execution script; means for executing sequentially: first, for executing said filtering and storing execution script to perform matching of said stored viewer profile information with said profile condition information, and matched content is filtered and stored in said content storage means; and second, reading viewer profile information stored in the receiving apparatus; third, temporarily downloading the content and content profile condition information; and means for reproducing said stored content, wherein said content, said profile condition information and said script file for the filtering and storing program are broadcast as a packet stream repeatedly transmitted in the time slot by a data carousel method, wherein said viewer profile information comprises a plurality of items which is specified by binary values for an applicable case and for a non-applicable case, as said profile condition information, a case matching said item of said viewer profile information is set to one of the binary values in such a manner as to have a one-to-one correspondence with each item of said viewer profile information, and a logical computation of said viewer profile information and said profile condition information is performed so as to determine matching according to the logical computation result, and wherein the filtering and storing execution script is received together with the information content and the profile condition information.