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Program push method, set-top box and electronic program guide

A technology of electronic program menu and program push, applied in the field of communication

Inactive Publication Date: 2013-06-05
张顺华
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[0005] proposes the present invention aiming at the lack of flexibility in viewing programs by IPTV users in the related art and the problems that IPTV communication network congestion can be caused. For this reason, the main purpose of the present invention is to provide A program push scheme to solve the above problems

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[0033] Prior to this, the STB displayed the program push program list in the download area of ​​the browser template page, and received the program selected by the user from the program push program list, so that after the user selects the program, it can automatically enter the program download process (that is, the message notification mechanism).

[0034] Step S104: The STB receives the information of the CDN Agent sent by the EPG, and saves the information and the download task of the program in the download queue (that is, the program download mechanism).

[0035] Step S106: The STB executes the download according to the download queue.

[0036]Specifically, the STB cyclically takes out the download tasks in the download queue to execute the download. Wherein, the STB can request the download address information from the CDN Agent to execute the download; or, the STB can also obtain the FTP download address via multi-level CDN Agent node tandem, and then download the pro...

Embodiment 2

[0041] Prior to this, the business management platform made the content to be released into a program and stored the program in the local download area; the business management platform selected user groups and sent the program information corresponding to the stored program to the EPG by using the instant message mechanism.

[0042] Wherein, the program information sent by the service management platform to the EPG includes instant messages carrying the program information.

[0043] Step S204: The EPG receives the download program request information sent by the STB, and sends the CDN Agent information to the STB according to the download program request information.

[0044] The implementation process of the embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to examples.

[0045] image 3 is a schematic diagram of a program push structure according to an embodiment of the present invention, such as image 3 As shown in , it includes the se...

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Abstract

A program delivery method, Set-Top Box (STB) and Electronic Program Guide (EPG) are provided in the present disclosure. The method includes the following steps: the STB sends a request message for downloading a program to the EPG according to the program selected by a user (S102); the STB receives information of a Content Delivery Network (CDN) agent transmitted from the EPG and saves the information of the CDN agent and the program download task in a download queue (S104); the STB executes the download according to the download queue (S106). The present disclosure achieves effects of reducing the load of streaming media servers and the communication network and improving user experience.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the communication field, in particular to a program pushing method, a set-top box (Set-Top Box, referred to as STB for short) and an electronic program guide (Electronic Program Guide, referred to as EPG for short). Background technique [0002] Interactive Personality TV (IPTV for short) provides powerful interactive capabilities and a new way of viewing multimedia content, bringing people a new audio-visual experience. Users can customize various multimedia services and video programs according to their individual needs. Video on demand service (Video on Demand, referred to as VOD) is the most important IPTV video service besides live broadcast, and the electronic program menu is a subsystem of IPTV and a portal for users to enter IPTV. Content Delivery Network (CDN for short) is the content delivery subsystem of IPTV, mainly composed of Content Delivery Network Manager (CDN Manager) and Content Delivery Network Agen...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(China)
IPC IPC(8): H04N21/239H04N21/262H04N7/173
CPCH04N7/17318H04N21/26283H04N21/2393
Inventor 李海滨黄志华孟凡忠
Owner 张顺华