| CPC H04N 21/44222 (2013.01) [H04H 60/31 (2013.01); H04N 21/235 (2013.01); H04N 21/23892 (2013.01); H04N 21/25891 (2013.01); H04N 21/435 (2013.01); H04N 21/4532 (2013.01); H04N 21/475 (2013.01); H04N 21/4884 (2013.01); H04N 21/64322 (2013.01); H04N 21/6582 (2013.01); H04N 21/8358 (2013.01); H04N 21/845 (2013.01); H04N 21/8586 (2013.01); H04H 60/66 (2013.01); H04H 2201/50 (2013.01)] | 23 Claims |

|
1. A receiving device comprising:
circuitry configured to
receive a digital broadcast stream that includes content and server information, the server information indicating (i) a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and (ii) a URL type that is a single 8-bit value and that indicates a type of server corresponding to the URL, the URL type having a different value than the URL,
acquire the URL and the URL type from the digital broadcast stream, and
transmit viewing history information related to a viewing history of the content based on the URL in a case that the acquired URL type acquired from the digital broadcast stream is determined to indicate the server is a viewing history server.
|