CN102131110B - System and method for issuing IPTV (internet protocol television) contents - Google Patents

Abstract

The embodiment of the present invention provides a method for distributing IPTV content of Internet TV, comprising obtaining the content data package issued by the content source website; extracting and storing the media data contained in the content data package; Generate EPG entries and store the generated EPG entries; receive EPG requests; read EPG entries and sort the read EPG entries according to the number of visits, generate EPG pages according to the sorted EPG entries, and return the EPG pages; receive content access requests; Read the corresponding media data according to the content title, and return the media data and the number of visits for updating the content title. The embodiment of the present invention also provides an IPTV content distributing system. In the embodiment of the present invention, the EPG is generated and released by automatically acquiring the content released by the content source website, so the on-demand program content of the IPTV service can be automatically acquired and updated.

Description

A system and method for publishing IPTV content

technical field

The invention relates to Internet TV technology, in particular to an IPTV program release system and method.

Background technique

The development of IPTV (Internet Protocol Television, Internet TV) business has opened a new chapter in the way of broadcasting TV programs.

Different from the traditional broadcasting method of TV programs, in addition to providing live broadcast services, IPTV services can also realize time-shifting, playback, and on-demand services of live broadcast channels, so that users do not need to worry about missing live broadcast programs and watching favorite programs anytime, anywhere. Greatly facilitate the user to watch. Therefore, although the promotion time is not long, the IPTV service has already attracted a large number of users.

For IPTV business, the richness and update speed of its on-demand programs are very important for business promotion. However, at present, the program content of the IPTV service is very scarce and the update method is basically implemented manually, so the program content is outdated, resulting in poor response from users.

Contents of the invention

In view of this, it is necessary to provide an IPTV content publishing system that can automatically update program content.

At the same time, an IPTV content distributing method that can automatically update program content is provided.

According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for distributing content of Internet TV IPTV, comprising:

Obtain at least one content data package published by the content source website, wherein each content data package contains description information and media data;

extracting the media data contained in each content data packet, and storing the extracted media data;

Generate corresponding EPG entries from the description information of each content data packet according to the preset electronic program guide EPG entry structure information, and store the generated EPG entries, and set the number of visits of each generated EPG entry to a preset value An initial value, wherein the EPG entry includes at least the content title included in the description information;

Receive the EPG request sent by the top box;

Read the stored EPG entries and sort the read EPG entries according to the number of visits, generate an EPG page according to the sorted EPG entries, and return the EPG pages to the set-top box;

receiving a content access request sent by the set-top box, wherein the content access request includes a content title in an EPG entry in the EPG page;

Read the corresponding media data according to the content title, and return the media data to the set-top box, and update the access times of the content title;

Each content data packet is a graphic data packet or a streaming media data packet, the media data of the graphic data packet is graphic data, and the media data of the streaming media data packet is a streaming media Uniform Resource Locator URL.

According to one aspect of the present invention, a kind of IPTV content distributing system is provided, is connected with the communication of content source website, comprises:

The first storage module is used to store media data;

The second storage module is used to store EPG entries;

An acquisition module, configured to acquire at least one content data package published by the content source website, wherein each content data package contains description information and media data;

An extracting module, configured to extract the media data contained in each content data packet, and store the extracted media data in the first storage module;

A generation module, configured to generate a corresponding EPG entry from the description information of each content data packet according to the preset EPG entry structure information, store the generated EPG entry in the second storage module, and store each generated EPG entry The number of visits is set to a preset initial value, wherein the EPG entry contains at least the title of the content contained in the description information;

The first receiving module is used for receiving the EPG request sent by the set-top box;

The publishing module is used to read the EPG entries stored in the second storage module and sort the read EPG entries according to the number of visits, generate an EPG page according to the sorted EPG entries, and return the EPG pages to the set-top box;

The second receiving module is configured to receive a content access request sent by the set-top box, wherein the content access request includes a content title in an EPG entry in the EPG page;

A reading module, configured to read corresponding media data according to the content title, return the media data to the set-top box, and update the number of visits of the content title;

Each content data packet is a graphic data packet or a streaming media data packet, the media data of the graphic data packet is graphic data, and the media data of the streaming media data packet is a streaming media URL.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the EPG is generated and released by automatically acquiring the content published by the content source website. Therefore, the embodiment of the present invention can automatically acquire and update the on-demand program content of the IPTV service, and solve the problem that the content of the on-demand program in the existing IPTV service is outdated. At the same time, the embodiment of the present invention can automatically count the visit times of each content, and sort the contents in the EPG according to the visit times, so as to facilitate the user to select content.

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Fig. 1 is the flow chart of IPTV content distributing method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a logical structural block diagram of the IPTV content distributing system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of an application environment of an IPTV content publishing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed ways

Fig. 1 is a flowchart of an IPTV content distribution method 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in Figure 1, at step 102, at least one content data package issued by the content source website is obtained, wherein each content data package contains description information and media data;

Specifically, the content source website may use a fixed format (hereinafter referred to as the content data package format) to publish its content data package, and the content data package formats adopted by different content source websites may be different. In this way, the content source website can provide the content data package according to the format it uses daily, and report the corresponding content data package format.

In addition, the descriptive information included in the content data package also adopts a fixed format, so that desired information can be extracted from the descriptive information. The descriptive information may include information such as but not limited to content title, content introduction, related pictures (such as but not limited to news pictures, movie posters) and the like.

The content data package published by the content source website may be a graphic data package or a streaming media data package. Wherein, the media data contained in the graphic data packet is graphic data, and the graphic data may be, for example but not limited to, news with pictures, novels with illustrations, etc., or separate text content (such as novels) or graphic content (such as photo galleries). The media data contained in the streaming media packet is a streaming media URL (uniform resource locator, Uniform Resource Locator), and the streaming media corresponding to the streaming media URL can be streaming media content such as music and video.

Optionally, for the streaming media data packet, the corresponding streaming media data can also be obtained according to the streaming media URL contained in the streaming media data packet, and the streaming media data can be used to replace the streaming media URL as the The media data of the streaming media packet.

In addition, the content data published by the content source website can be obtained through interfaces such as HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol, Hypertext Transfer Protocol), HTTPS, FTP (File Transfer Protocol, File Transfer Protocol), FTPS, and Web Service (Web Service) Bag. At the same time, content source websites can use standards such as RSS (Really Simple Syndication), Atom, NITF (News Industry Text Format, news industry text format), JASON (JavaScript Object Notation, Java Script Object Notation) and other standards to publish their content data package, so the above-mentioned content data package needs to be obtained according to the standard used by the content source website when publishing its content data package.

Optionally, after obtaining the content data package from the content source website, it is also possible to judge whether each content data package contains at least one illegal word contained in the preset illegal word list, and if so, then mark the content data package is an illegal content data packet, otherwise, the content data packet is marked as a legal content data packet. In addition, the obtained content data package can also be output for manual review by reviewers.

In step 104, extract the media data contained in each content data packet, and store the extracted media data;

Specifically, in step 104, the corresponding relationship between the media data and the description information contained in the content data package needs to be recorded;

As mentioned above, the media data should be extracted from the content data package published by the content source website according to the content data package format corresponding to the content source website. In addition, the extracted media data needs to be stored.

Optionally, according to the determination of the legality of the content data package in step 102, step 104 may further include extracting description information and media data included in the legal content data package.

In step 106, according to the preset EPG (Electronic Program Guide, electronic program guide) entry structure information, generate corresponding EPG entries from the description information of each content data packet, and store the generated EPG entries, and each The number of visits of the EPG entry is set to a preset initial value, wherein the EPG entry contains at least the content title contained in the description information;

Specifically, in step 106, it is also necessary to record the correspondence between the description information and the EPG entry; at the same time, since the correspondence between the description information and the media data has been recorded before, the correspondence between the description information and the EPG entry can be combined relationship, to obtain the corresponding relationship between the media data and the EPG entry. Furthermore, since the EPG entry contains at least the content title, the corresponding relationship between the content title and the media data can be obtained.

Specifically, the corresponding information may be extracted from the description information according to the information content specified in the EPG entry structure information, and then the extracted information may be combined according to the structure specified in the EPG entry structure information to generate the EPG entry. For example, such as but not limited to content title, content introduction, related pictures, etc. may be extracted from the description information, and then the extracted information may be combined according to the above item structure information to generate the EPG item. In particular, the structure of the above-mentioned description information can be set to be the same as the above-mentioned EPG entry structure information, so that the description information extracted from the content data package can be directly stored as an EPG entry.

In addition, the number of visits set in step 106 is used to sort the EPG entries when generating the EPG, which will be described in detail below.

Optionally, according to the determination of the legality of the content data package in step 102, step 106 may further include generating a corresponding EPG entry from the description information of each legal content data package according to the preset entry structure information.

In step 108, the EPG request sent by the receiver top box;

Specifically, when the set-top box is powered on or returns to the EPG home page, the set-top box will send an EPG request to obtain the latest EPG.

In step 110, read the stored EPG entry and sort the read EPG entry according to the number of visits, generate an EPG page according to the sorted EPG entry, and return the EPG page to the set-top box;

Specifically, the read EPG entries may be sorted in descending order of access times, and then the sorted EPG entries may be combined to generate an EPG page.

In step 112, receiving a content access request sent by the set-top box, wherein the content access request includes a content title of an EPG entry in the EPG page;

Specifically, when the user clicks or selects a content title of an EPG entry on the EPG page, the content access request will be triggered, and the content access request will include the clicked or selected content title.

In step 114, read the corresponding media data according to the content title, return the media data to the set-top box, and update the access times of the content title, and finally, the method 100 ends.

Specifically, since visit counts are updated after each visit, visit counts are a direct reflection of content popularity. In this way, popular media data can be recommended to users.

Fig. 2 is a logical structural block diagram of an IPTV content publishing system 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The IPTV content distribution system 200 is connected with the content source website for communication. As shown in FIG. A receiving module 212 , an issuing module 214 , a second receiving module 216 and a reading module 218 .

The acquiring module 206 is configured to acquire at least one content data package published by the content source website, wherein each content data package includes description information and media data.

Specifically, the content source website may use a fixed format (hereinafter referred to as the content data package format) to publish its content data package, and the content data package formats adopted by different content source websites may be different. In this way, the content source website can provide the content data package according to the format it uses daily, and report the corresponding content data package format.

In addition, the descriptive information included in the content data package also adopts a fixed format, so that desired information can be extracted from the descriptive information. The descriptive information may include information such as but not limited to content title, content introduction, related pictures (such as but not limited to news pictures, movie posters) and the like.

The content data package published by the content source website may be a graphic data package or a streaming media data package. Wherein, the media data contained in the graphic data packet is graphic data, and the graphic data may be, for example but not limited to, news with pictures, novels with illustrations, etc., or separate text content (such as novels) or graphic content (such as photo galleries). The media data included in the streaming media data packet is a streaming media URL, and the streaming media corresponding to the streaming media URL may be streaming media content such as music and video.

Optionally, the IPTV content publishing system 200 may also include a download module, which is used to obtain corresponding streaming data according to the streaming URL contained in the streaming data packet, and use the streaming data to replace the streaming URL As the media data of the streaming media data packet.

In addition, the content data published by the content source website can be obtained through interfaces such as HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol, Hypertext Transfer Protocol), HTTPS, FTP (File Transfer Protocol, File Transfer Protocol), FTPS, and Web Service (Web Service) Bag. At the same time, the content source website can use RS S (Really Simple Syndication, really simple aggregation), Atom, NITF (News Industry Text Format, news industry text format), JASON and other standards to publish its content data package, so it needs to publish according to the content source website Its content data package uses the standard to obtain the above content data package.

Optionally, the IPTV content publishing system 200 can also include a content filtering module, which is used to judge whether each content data packet contains at least one illegal word contained in the preset illegal word list, and if so, the content data The packet is marked as an illegal content data packet, otherwise the content data packet is marked as a legal content data packet. In addition, the obtained content data package can also be output for manual review by reviewers.

The extracting module 208 is used to extract the media data contained in each content data packet, and store the extracted media data in the first storage module 202;

As mentioned above, the media data should be extracted from the content data package published by the content source website according to the content data package format corresponding to the content source website. In addition, the extracted media data needs to be stored.

Optionally, if the IPTV content distribution system 200 includes a content filtering module, the extraction module can be further used to extract the description information and media data included in the legal content data packet.

The generation module 210 is used to generate a corresponding EPG entry from the description information of each content data packet according to the preset entry structure information, and store the generated EPG entry in the second storage module 204, and each generated EPG entry The number of visits is set to a preset initial value, wherein the EPG entry contains at least the title of the content contained in the description information;

Specifically, the corresponding information may be extracted from the description information according to the information content specified in the EPG entry structure information, and then the extracted information may be combined according to the structure specified in the EPG entry structure information to generate the EPG entry. For example, such as but not limited to content title, content introduction, related pictures, etc. may be extracted from the description information, and then the extracted information may be combined according to the above item structure information to generate the EPG item. In particular, the structure of the above-mentioned description information can be set to be the same as the above-mentioned EPG entry structure information, so that the description information extracted from the content data package can be directly stored as an EPG entry.

In addition, the number of visits set by the generating module 210 is used to sort the EPG entries when generating the EPG, which will be described in detail below.

Optionally, if the IPTV content publishing system 200 includes a content filtering module, the generating module 210 can be further configured to generate a corresponding EPG entry from the description information of each legal content data packet according to the preset entry structure information.

The first receiving module 212 is used for receiving the EPG request sent by the set-top box;

Specifically, when the set-top box is powered on or returns to the EPG home page, the set-top box will send an EPG request to obtain the latest EPG.

The publishing module 214 is used to read the EPG entries stored in the second storage module and sort the read EPG entries according to the number of visits, generate an EPG page according to the sorted EPG entries, and return the EPG pages to the set-top box;

Specifically, the read EPG entries may be sorted in descending order of access times, and then the sorted EPG entries may be combined to generate an EPG page.

The second receiving module 216 is configured to receive a content access request sent by the set-top box, wherein the content access request includes a content title in an EPG entry in the EPG page;

Specifically, when the user clicks or selects a content title of an EPG entry on the EPG page, the content access request will be triggered, and the content access request will include the clicked or selected content title.

The reading module 218 is configured to read the corresponding media data according to the content title, return the media data to the set-top box, and update the access times of the content title.

Specifically, since visit counts are updated after each visit, visit counts are a direct reflection of content popularity. In this way, popular media data can be recommended to users.

The above-mentioned IPTV content distributing system can be a host device, such as PC or mobile terminal, the host device includes a memory to store codes for executing the present invention, one or more microprocessors to execute the codes, and a communication interface to provide network access.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of an application environment of an IPTV content publishing system according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 3 , it shows an IPTV content publishing system, a content source website 1 , a content source website 2 and a content source website N, and an IPTV set-top box.

The content source website 1 uses the RSS standard to publish its content data package, the content source website 2 uses the ATOM standard to publish its content data package, and the content source website N uses other standards to publish its content data package, and the other standards can be, for example but not limited to Standards such as NITF mentioned above.

The IPTV content distribution system obtains the content data packets released by the content source website 1, the content source website 2 and the content source website N through its acquisition module. The acquisition module includes multiple proxy modules, such as proxy module 1, proxy module 2 and proxy module N. These proxy modules are respectively used to use different protocols to obtain the content data packets published by the content source websites. These protocols are used by each content source website to transmit their content data packets. FTPS, Web Service, etc.

Each proxy module parses the obtained content data packet, and each proxy module corresponds to a content data packet format, which is the format of the content data packet released by the content source website corresponding to the proxy module. The proxy module parses the content packets sequentially in a queue.

The agent module stores the parsed data (including description information and media data) in the data center, and the data center includes the above-mentioned first storage module and second storage module. The processing methods of graphic content data packets and streaming media content data packets are as follows:

Graphic content data package: directly store the media data in the acquired graphic content data package to the data center;

Streaming media content data packet: store the media data (the media data may be a streaming media URL) in the obtained streaming media content data packet to the data center, but do not obtain the corresponding streaming media data of the streaming media URL, the set-top box will When requesting to play the streaming media content, go directly to the corresponding content source website according to the above streaming media URL to request the streaming media service. As an option, the above-mentioned data center may also store streaming media data acquired according to the streaming media URL. At this time, when the set-top box requests to play the streaming media content again, it will directly return the corresponding streaming media data.

The management module can provide various management interfaces to complete the following functions:

1) Through the authority management interface, the management of users, roles and permissions can be realized, and different roles such as producers and reviewers can be given different permissions. Producers only edit and make EPG templates and EPG entry templates, and reviewers review the development of producers. EPG templates and EPG entry templates and content data in the data center.

2) Producers can use EPG development tools to create EPG templates and EPG entry templates through the development tool interface according to their own ideas, edit and integrate description information and media data stored in the data center; the production method uses graphical development tools to realize what you see That is, the development method that you get, while providing a debugging environment to simplify the development process.

3) Through the template management interface, producers can also manage the developed EPG templates and EPG entry templates.

4) Through the review interface, the reviewer can review the EPG page, and the EPG page that passes the review can be accessed by the set-top box.

The EPG server defines the operating environment of the developed EPG page, and is a customized Internet content portal based on the set-top box. The set-top box directly accesses the EPG server, and the EPG server obtains data stored in the data center according to different requests.

The IPTV content publishing system also includes a load balancing module, which is used to balance the load of the server. After receiving the request from the set-top box, the load balancing module selects one of the multiple Internet content processing servers to provide services according to the load status of the server.

Those of ordinary skill in the art know that all or part of the steps in the above method can be completed by program instruction related hardware, and the program can be stored in a computer-readable storage medium, such as ROM, RAM and optical disc, etc. .

To sum up, the above are only preferred embodiments of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the protection scope of the present invention. Any modifications, equivalent replacements, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and principles of the present invention shall be included within the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims (6)

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A network television IPTV content release method is characterized in that, comprising: Obtain at least one content data package published by the content source website, wherein each content data package contains description information and media data; extracting the media data contained in each content data packet, and storing the extracted media data; Generate corresponding EPG entries from the description information of each content data packet according to the preset electronic program guide EPG entry structure information, and store the generated EPG entries, and set the number of visits of each generated EPG entry to a preset value An initial value, wherein the EPG entry includes at least the content title included in the description information; Receive the EPG request sent by the top box; Read the stored EPG entries and sort the read EPG entries according to the number of visits, generate an EPG page according to the sorted EPG entries, and return the EPG pages to the set-top box; receiving a content access request sent by the set-top box, wherein the content access request includes a content title in an EPG entry in the EPG page; Read the corresponding media data according to the content title, return the media data to the set-top box, and update the number of visits of the content title; Each of the content data packets is a graphic data packet or a streaming media packet, the media data of the graphic data packet is graphic data, and the media data of the streaming media packet is a streaming media Uniform Resource Locator URL; Judging whether each content data packet contains at least one illegal word contained in the preset illegal word list, if so, then the content data packet is marked as an illegal content data packet, otherwise the content data packet is marked as legal content data pack; The extracting the descriptive information and media data contained in each content data packet further includes extracting the descriptive information and media data contained in the legal content data packet; The generating the corresponding EPG entry from the description information of each content data packet according to the preset entry structure information further includes generating the corresponding EPG entry from the description information of each legal content data packet according to the preset entry structure information. 2. The method of claim 1, further comprising: Obtain corresponding streaming media data according to the streaming media URL included in the streaming media data packet, and use the streaming media data to replace the streaming media URL as the media data of the streaming media data packet. 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein said obtaining at least one content data package published by the content source website further comprises obtaining said at least one content data package according to the content release standard adopted by said content source website package, and the content distribution standard is one of the following standards: Really Simple Syndication RSS, ATOM, News Industry Text Format NITF and Java Script Object Notation JASON. 4. A kind of IPTV content distributing system, is connected with content source website communication, is characterized in that, comprises: The first storage module is used to store media data; The second storage module is used to store EPG entries; An acquisition module, configured to acquire at least one content data package published by the content source website, wherein each content data package contains description information and media data; An extracting module, configured to extract the media data contained in each content data packet, and store the extracted media data in the first storage module; A generating module, configured to generate a corresponding EPG entry from the description information of each content data packet according to the preset EPG entry structure information, and store the generated EPG entry in the second storage module, and store each generated EPG entry The number of visits is set to a preset initial value, wherein the EPG entry contains at least the title of the content contained in the description information; The first receiving module is used for receiving the EPG request sent by the set-top box; The publishing module is used to read the EPG entries stored in the second storage module and sort the read EPG entries according to the number of visits, generate an EPG page according to the sorted EPG entries, and return the EPG pages to the set-top box; The second receiving module is configured to receive a content access request sent by the set-top box, wherein the content access request includes a content title in an EPG entry in the EPG page; A reading module, configured to read the corresponding media data according to the content title, return the media data to the set-top box, and update the number of visits of the content title; Each of the content data packets is a graphic data packet or a streaming media packet, the media data of the graphic data packet is graphic data, and the media data of the streaming media packet is a streaming media URL; A content filtering module, used to judge whether each content data packet contains at least one illegal word contained in a preset illegal word list, if so, then mark the content data packet as an illegal content data packet, otherwise the content data packet The packet is marked as a legitimate content packet; The extraction module is used to extract description information and media data contained in the legal content data packet; The generation module is used to generate corresponding EPG entries from the description information of each legal content data packet according to the preset entry structure information. 5. The system of claim 4, further comprising: A download module, configured to acquire corresponding streaming data according to the streaming URL included in the streaming data packet, and use the streaming data to replace the streaming URL as the media data of the streaming media packet. 6. The system according to claim 5, wherein the obtaining module is used to obtain the at least one content data package according to the content distribution standard adopted by the content source website, and the content distribution standard is the following standard One of them: RSS, ATOM, NITF, and JASON.

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