Receiving apparatus, information processing method, program, transmitting apparatus, and application interlocking system for acquiring and executing an application in conjunction with reproduction of content

1. A receiving apparatus comprising:

circuitry configured to:

extract signature data representing a feature of reproduced content from the reproduced content,

generate user profile data,

generate a query containing the signature data and the user profile data,

transmit the query thus generated to a transmitting apparatus,

receive a response that is sent back from the transmitting apparatus in accordance with the query and a matching with the user profile data in the transmitting apparatus, and

acquire and execute an application in conjunction with reproduction of the content based on the response thus received.

2. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to generate the user profile data containing a demographic attribute of a user.

3. The receiving apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein, every time the signature data is extracted, the circuitry generates the query containing the signature data and the user profile data, transmits the query thus generated to the transmitting apparatus, and receives the response that is sent back from the transmitting apparatus in accordance with the query and the matching with the user profile data in the transmitting apparatus.

4. The receiving apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to generate the user profile data containing at least one of a specification of the receiving apparatus, a congestion situation of a communication network or natural environment information.

5. The receiving apparatus according to claim 2 ,

wherein the receiving apparatus is built in a reproducing apparatus configured to reproduce content.

6. An information processing method of a receiving apparatus, the method executed by the receiving apparatus, comprising:

extracting signature data representing a feature of reproduced content from the reproduced content;

generating user profile data;

generating a query containing the signature data and the user profile data;

transmitting the query thus generated to a transmitting apparatus;

receiving a response that is sent back from the transmitting apparatus in accordance with the query and a matching with the user profile data in the transmitting apparatus; and

acquiring and executing an application in conjunction with reproduction of the content based on the response thus received.

7. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a program that when executed by a computer causes the computer to execute a method comprising:

extracting signature data representing a feature of reproduced content from the reproduced content;

generating user profile data;

generating a query containing the signature data and the user profile data;

transmitting the query thus generated to a transmitting apparatus;

receiving a response that is sent back from the transmitting apparatus in accordance with the query and marching with the user profile data in the transmitting apparatus; and

acquiring and executing an application in conjunction with reproduction of the content based on the response thus received.

8. A transmitting apparatus comprising:

a database showing a correspondence relationship among signature data representing a feature of content extracted from content, a content identifier representing the content of an extraction source, and associated metadata containing an application identifier representing an application for execution in conjunction with the content; and

circuitry configured to

identify the content of the extraction source of the signature data contained in a query transmitted from a receiving apparatus by referring to the database,

generate a response containing the associated metadata including the application identifier representing the application for execution in conjunction with the content thus identified, and

send the response back to the receiving apparatus;

wherein the associated metadata contained in the response is matched with user profile data contained in the query before the response is sent back to the receiving apparatus.

9. The transmitting apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to cause the associated metadata contained in the response before the sending-back to match with a demographic attribute of a user of the receiving apparatus contained in the user profile data.

10. An application interlocking system comprising a transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus of content,

wherein the receiving apparatus includes

first circuitry configured to:

extract signature data representing a feature of reproduced content from the reproduced content,

generate user profile data,

generate a query containing the signature data and the user profile data,

transmit the query thus generated to the transmitting apparatus,

receive a response that is sent back from the transmitting apparatus in accordance with the query and a matching with the user profile data in the transmitting apparatus, and

acquire and execute an application in conjunction with reproduction of the content based on the response thus received, and

the transmitting apparatus includes

a database showing a correspondence relationship among the signature data representing the feature of the content extracted from the content, a content identifier representing the content of an extraction source, and associated metadata containing an application identifier representing the application for execution in conjunction with the content,

second circuitry configured to:

identify the content of the extraction source of the signature data contained in the query transmitted from the receiving apparatus by referring to the database,

generate the response containing the associated metadata including the application identifier representing the application for execution in conjunction with the content thus identified, and

send the response back to the receiving apparatus,

wherein the associated metadata contained in the response is matched with user profile data contained in the query before the response is sent back to the receiving apparatus.