US 6,983,482 B2
Data broadcast content generation system
Katsuyuki Morita, Hirakata (Japan); Hideki Kagemoto, Nara (Japan); Hidekazu Shimizu, Hirakata (Japan); and Toshihiro Hishida, Kobe (Japan)
Assigned to Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka-fu (Japan)
Filed on Feb. 27, 2001, as Appl. No. 9/794,188.
Claims priority of application No. 2000-053223 (JP), filed on Feb. 29, 2000.
Prior Publication US 2001/0018766 A1, Aug. 30, 2001
Int. Cl. H04N 7/025 (2006.01); H04N 7/10 (2006.01); H04N 5/445 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 725—32 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A data broadcast content generation system for generating content that includes a body page and an attached page, comprising:
body data storing means for storing body page data for displaying the body page;
part data storing means for storing a plurality of sets of part data which are each a combination of display element data for determining a display element and attached page data for displaying an attached page;
schedule storing means for storing broadcast schedule information that associates each of a plurality of broadcast time slots with information for identifying a set of part data; and
combining means, for each of the plurality of broadcast time slots, for
(a) specifying a set of part data associated with the broadcast time slot, in accordance with the broadcast schedule information,
(b) relating the body page data, display element data of the specified set of part data, and attached page data of the specified set of part data to each other, so that a display element determined by the display element data will be displayed in the body page, and a link destination of the displayed display element will be an attached page displayed using the attached page data, the attached page being referred to as a link destination attached page, and
(c) setting the body page data, the display element data, and the attached page data which are related to each other, as carousel data to be transmitted during the broadcast time slot,
wherein the attached page data of each of the plurality of sets of part data includes part document data which is written in a markup language to define the attached page, and a part document file which holds the part document data is stored in the part data storing means together with a display element file which holds the display element data of each of the plurality of sets of part data,
the body page data includes body document data which is written in the markup language to define the body page, the body document data including a first filename and a second filename, the first filename being written as a filename for identifying a display element file that determines the display element which will be displayed in the body page and linked to the link destination attached page, and the second filename being written as a filename for identifying a part document file that defines the link destination attached page, and
the combining means relates the body page data, the display element data, and the attached page data to each other, by changing a filename of a display element file holding the display element data, to the first filename, and changing a filename of a part document file holding part document data included in the attached page data, to the second filename.