Reception apparatus, reception method, and program

摘要

Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus including: a reception block configured to receive AV content; a definition information acquisition block configured to acquire definition information defining the life cycle of an application program to be executed in linkage with the AV content; an application acquisition block configured to acquire the application program distributed over a network in accordance with the acquired definition information; and a control block configured to control the performance of the acquired application program.

主权项

1. A reception apparatus comprising:
circuitry configured to: receive audio-video content that is broadcasted as digital TV broadcast signals over a broadcast network; acquire definition information, including a first and a second definition information, defining life cycles of first and second application programs, respectively, to be executed in linkage with the audio-video content, the definition information being acquired over a network different from the broadcast network; acquire the first and second application programs, distributed over the network different from the broadcast network, in accordance with information designating one or more acquisition destinations on the network of the first and second application programs, the information being included in the acquired definition information; analyze the acquired second definition information defining the life cycle of the acquired second application program; and control and maintain a performance of the acquired first application program based on the analysis of the acquired second definition information.