公开(公告)号：US20070050823A1

公开(公告)日：2007-03-01

申请号：US11509558

申请日：2006-08-25

申请人： Kwang-chul Lee ,  Ki-seok Chang ,  Akhil Chapalamadugu

发明人： Kwang-chul Lee ,  Ki-seok Chang ,  Akhil Chapalamadugu

IPC分类号： H04N7/18

CPC分类号： H04L12/2805 ,  H04L12/18 ,  H04L12/282 ,  H04L12/66 ,  H04L2012/2849 ,  H04N21/4263 ,  H04N21/4334 ,  H04N21/43615 ,  H04N21/43622

摘要： A method and apparatus for managing a plurality of tuners for providing a broadcasting service to a plurality of devices in a home network. To provide the broadcast service requested by one of the devices, it is determined whether a tuner to which any broadcast service is pre-assigned can provide the requested broadcast service along with the pre-assigned broadcast service, and the requested broadcast service is additionally assigned to the tuner. If the tuner does not exist, a tuner to which no broadcast service is assigned is detected among from the tuners that can receive a broadcast program corresponding to the requested broadcast service, and the requested broadcast service is assigned to the tuner. Accordingly, in the environment in which various broadcast services are provided to a plurality of devices through a single gateway in a network, the broadcast services can be provided to the devices.

摘要翻译： 一种用于管理用于向家庭网络中的多个设备提供广播服务的多个调谐器的方法和装置。 为了提供由其中一个设备请求的广播服务，确定预先分配了任何广播服务的调谐器是否可以提供所请求的广播服务以及预分配的广播服务，并且另外分配所请求的广播服务 到调谐器。 如果调谐器不存在，则可以从可以接收与所请求的广播服务相对应的广播节目的调谐器中检测到没有分配广播服务的调谐器，并且将所请求的广播服务分配给调谐器。 因此，在通过网络中的单个网关向多个设备提供各种广播服务的环境中，可以向设备提供广播服务。