Patent ID: 7917529

Claim:
A method of providing a TV-Anytime metadata service using a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) query operation, comprising the steps of: a) including a requested fields type element, required to designate a field of a metadata table, in a query result value type in the SOAP query operation, wherein the field is a part of the metadata table; 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 includes only a value in the field of the metadata table among entire fields of the metadata table, and wherein the requested fields type element included at step a) comprises: a requested field sub-element for designating a field ID of the field of the metadata table; and a requested path sub-element for designating a path of the field ID.