Patent ID: 8832762

Claim:
An information provisioning apparatus, comprising: an acquirer that acquires a plurality of audio and video elementary streams of which content is composed, and metadata related to the content, the content comprising a plurality of segments; a unitizer that divides the metadata into metadata processing units, wherein a metadata processing unit (MPU) indicates a unit of the metadata and corresponds to a segment of the content, the MPU and the segment are configured to be processed for partial execution of the metadata in synchronization with the segment of the content; and a multiplexer that generates a transport stream of a MPEG2-system by multiplexing an audio packetized elementary stream (PES), a video PES, and a metadata PES for each segment of the content, the audio PES and the video PES being acquired by packetizing the plurality of audio and video elementary streams, the metadata PES being acquired by packetizing the metadata processing units.