EP 1166549 A1 20020102 - DIGITAL TELEVISION RECEIVER WITH APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE FOR USER MANAGEMENT
Title (en)
DIGITAL TELEVISION RECEIVER WITH APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE FOR USER MANAGEMENT
Title (de)
DIGITALER FERNSEHEMPFÄNGER MIT ANWENDUNGSPROGRAMMSCHNITTSTELLE FÜR BENUTZERVERWALTUNG
Title (fr)
RECEPTEUR DE TELEVISION NUMERIQUE AVEC INTERFACE DE PROGRAMME D'APPLICATION POUR GESTION UTILISATEUR
Publication
Application
Priority
- US 9923346 W 19991007
- US 10794998 P 19981112
Abstract (en)
[origin: WO0030345A1] An Application Programming Interface (API) for applications to manage/access user-related information on a Digital Television (DTV) Receiver/Terminal. The API provides a multi-user environment (using user registry (210) and user profile (220) classes), and a registry for preferences (310) which can be associated with an individual user (user-specific) or be common to all users (system-wide). A set of permissions (230) is associated with each user, or at least with a default user, which represents anybody watching the TV. The permission may provide, for example, a parental control/rating ceiling or permission to buy Impulse Pay Per View (IPPV) programs, or engage in e-commerce transactions (e.g., purchase goods or services via the television). The invention also supports a mechanism (220) where some applications can, and some cannot, access the preferences based on a security policy. This means that the user may allow only specified trusted applications to access his/her credit card number but not others, for example, for an e-commerce application.
IPC 1-7
IPC 8 full level
G06F 9/445 (2006.01); H04H 1/00 (2006.01); H04H 20/00 (2008.01); H04N 5/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/44 (2006.01); H04N 7/16 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP KR)
H04N 21/4431 (2013.01 - EP); H04N 21/4437 (2013.01 - EP); H04N 21/45 (2013.01 - KR); H04N 21/4532 (2013.01 - EP); H04N 21/454 (2013.01 - EP); H04N 21/4751 (2013.01 - EP); H04N 21/812 (2013.01 - EP)
Citation (search report)
See references of WO 0030345A1
Designated contracting state (EPC)
DE FR GB
DOCDB simple family (publication)
WO 0030345 A1 20000525; AU 6294499 A 20000605; CA 2351582 A1 20000525; EP 1166549 A1 20020102; JP 2002530943 A 20020917; KR 20010080427 A 20010822
DOCDB simple family (application)
US 9923346 W 19991007; AU 6294499 A 19991007; CA 2351582 A 19991007; EP 99950245 A 19991007; JP 2000583242 A 19991007; KR 20017005989 A 20010511