Patent ID: 8055676

Claim:
A method of providing a TV-Anytime metadata service, the method comprising: a) including a requested fields type element, required to designate a field of a metadata table comprising a plurality of fields, in a query result value type in a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) query operation for the TV-Anytime metadata service; b) receiving a request message of the SOAP query operation; and c) if the request message includes the requested fields type element, extracting a query result value corresponding to the field of the metadata table designated by the requested fields type element included in the request message, and transmitting the query result value using a response message of the SOAP operation, wherein the query result value comprises a value in the designated field of the metadata table among the plurality of fields, but does not include a value in another field, among the plurality of fields, which is not designated by the requested fields type element, and wherein the requested fields type element included at step a) comprises: a requested fired sub-element for designating a field ID of the designated field of the metadata table; and a requested path sub-element for designating a path of the field ID which is a X-path of an Extensible Markup Language-based communication protocol.