Information providing apparatus, information receiving terminal, information providing system, information providing method and program

摘要

There is provided an information providing apparatus including an ECG scenario storage portion to store an ECG scenario related to a program in association with reference ID, an ECG package storage portion to store reference IDs of ECG scenarios related to programs in association with discrimination ID of an ECG channel allocated to an ECG package in order to provide a collection of information related to programs having a relationship as an ECG package, an ECG package providing portion to acquire discrimination ID of a particular channel from a receiving terminal, extract an ECG package corresponding to the acquired discrimination ID and provide it to the receiving terminal, and an ECG scenario providing portion to acquire reference ID of a particular ECG scenario included in the ECG package from the receiving terminal, extract an ECG scenario corresponding to the acquired reference ID and provide it to the receiving terminal.

主权项

1. An information providing apparatus connected with an information receiving terminal that acquires information related to a plurality of programs via a communication network, the information providing apparatus providing information related to a program to the information receiving terminal, the information providing apparatus comprising:
circuitry configured to store scenario information related to a program of the plurality of programs in association with reference information, store plural package information, each package information associated, without user input, with a channel allocated to the respective package information and including reference information of a plurality of pieces of scenario information, each piece of scenario information related to a different one of the plurality of programs and having a relationship with other pieces of scenario information and with advertising information included in the respective package information, each one of the stored plural package information including reference information of the plurality of pieces of scenario information and reference information of the advertising information organized in a display sequence, the display sequence indicating an order in which the plurality of pieces of scenario information and the advertising information are to be displayed on the information receiving terminal as the respective package information, acquire identification information of a particular channel allocated to package information from the information receiving terminal, extract the package information associated with the particular channel, and provide the extracted package information to the information receiving terminal and acquire reference information of particular scenario information included in the extracted package information from the information receiving terminal, extract scenario information corresponding to the acquired reference information, and provide the extracted scenario information to the information receiving terminal, wherein the information providing apparatus is connected with an advertising information managing apparatus to store advertising information to be provided as a part of the package information in association with reference information via a communication network, the circuitry stores reference information of the advertising information in order for the information receiving terminal to acquire particular advertising information from the advertising information managing apparatus based on the reference information of the advertising information included in the package information acquired by the information receiving terminal, and the circuitry is further configured to extract a common related keyword from the plurality of pieces of scenario information related to the plurality of programs, and store, in an advertising information database system, reference information of advertising information corresponding to the related item in association with identification information of the channel allocated to the package information.