Legal text distribution and processing in mobile broadcasting
Systems and methods for processing and distributing legal text information allow content providers to distribute legal text to terminals receiving broadcast content. The legal text may include terms and conditions associated with content that a user may want to purchase or subscribe. Upon receiving a content selection that a user wishes to purchase, a terminal may determine whether the content is associated with legal text information. If so, the legal text may be obtained and rendered for the user. The terminal may further determine whether user consent is required and if so, prompt the user with a consent agreement. Legal text information may be obtained in a variety of manners including from a service provisioning system, from a local cache in the terminal and/or from a file delivery server. Communication of legal text information may further be conducted using messages storing legal text attributes and elements.
1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a processor, user input corresponding to a selection of a content item;
determining, by the processor, whether the content item is associated with a legal text element, wherein the legal text element includes information related to a legal text;
in response to determining that the content item is associated with the legal text element, determining, by the processor, whether the legal text element includes the legal text;
based on the legal text element not including the legal text, determining, by the processor, to obtain the legal text associated with the content item, wherein the legal text is obtained from at least one of a local cache of a mobile terminal, a remote content server, an electronic service guide (ESG) server and a file delivery server; and
determining, by the processor, to render the legal text.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein obtaining the legal text associated with the content item further comprises:
determining a legal text identifier from the legal text element; and
retrieving the legal text from the local cache using the legal text identifier.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the legal text identifier is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI).
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of determining whether the content item is associated with the legal text element includes retrieving a purchase fragment associated with the content item, wherein the legal text element is stored in the purchase fragment.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein obtaining a legal text associated with the content item further includes:
accessing a file delivery session of the file delivery server, wherein the file delivery session is specified by service guide information; and
requesting the legal text from the file delivery server.
6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining whether the legal text element includes a user consent requirement; and
in response to determining that the legal text element includes the user consent requirement, prompting a user for consent.
7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising:
determining whether the user consents to the legal text; and
in response to determining that the user consents to the legal text, transmitting a purchase message to a content provider.
8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising the step of transmitting a purchase message to a content provider after rendering the legal text.
9. A method comprising:
receiving, by a processor, service guide information associated with a plurality of content items;
receiving, by the processor, a user selection of a content item of the plurality of content items;
determining, by the processor, to transmit a pricing information request corresponding to the selected content item;
receiving, by the processor, a pricing information response in response to the pricing information request, wherein the pricing information response includes a legal text and at least one of a legal text identifier and user consent information; and
determining, by the processor, to render the legal text on a display.
10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the legal text identifier includes one of a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI).
11. The method of claim 9 , further comprising storing the legal text in a cache of a mobile terminal upon receiving the response to the pricing information request.
12. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
determining whether the legal text is associates with a user consent requirement based on the user consent information
in response to determining that the legal text is associated with the user consent requirement, prompting a user for consent to the legal text.
13. The method of claim 9 , wherein the response to the pricing information request further includes a legal text type, wherein the legal text type dictates a time at which the legal text is rendered.
14. The method of claim 9 , wherein the response to the pricing information request is received from a service provisioning system.
15. The method of claim 14 , further comprising the step of transmitting a service request message to the service provisioning system, the service request message including a user consent response.
16. A computer-readable storage medium carrying one or more sequences of one or more instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause an apparatus to at least perform the following steps:
receive user input corresponding to a selection of a content item;
determining whether the content item is associated with a legal text element, wherein the legal text element includes information related to a legal text;
in response to determining that the content item is associated with the legal text element, determining whether the legal text element includes the legal text;
based on the legal text element not including the legal text, determining to obtain the legal text associated with the content item, wherein the legal text is obtained from at least one of a local cache of the mobile terminal, a remote content server and a file delivery server; and
determining to render the legal text on a display of the apparatus.
17. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 , the apparatus is caused, at least in part, to further perform the following steps:
determining whether the legal text element includes a user consent requirement; and
in response to determining that the legal text element includes the user consent requirement, prompting a user of the apparatus for consent.
18. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17 , the apparatus is caused, at least in part, to further perform the following steps:
determining whether the user consents to the legal text; and
in response to determining that the user consents to the legal text, transmitting a purchase message to a content provider.
19. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 18 , wherein the purchase message includes the user consent response.
20. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 , wherein obtaining the legal text associated with the content item further includes:
accessing a file delivery session of the file delivery server, wherein the file delivery session is specified by service guide information; and
requesting the legal text from the file delivery server.
21. An apparatus comprising:
at least one processor; and
at least one memory including computer program code, wherein when the computer program code is executed by the processor, the apparatus is caused apparatus to perform at least the following;
receive service guide information from an electronic service guide provider through a broadcast network;
receive user input corresponding to a selection of a content item from a plurality of content items associated with the service guide information;
determine whether the content item is associated with a legal text element based on a purchase fragment corresponding to the content item, wherein the legal text element includes information regarding a legal text;
in response to determining that the content item is associated with the legal text element, determine whether the legal text element includes the legal text;
based on the legal text element not including the legal text, determine to obtain a legal text associated with the content item from a file delivery server through a file delivery session specified in the service guide information;
determine to render the legal text on a display of the apparatus;
determine whether user consent is required for the content item based on the purchase fragment; and
in response to determining that user consent is required, determine to prompt a user for consent to the legal text.
22. A system comprising:
a terminal configured to receive user input corresponding to the selection of a content or service item; and
at least one network node comprising:
a processor; and
a memory for storing computer readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the network node to:
receive one or more legal texts from a legal text provider;
determine to associate at least one of the one or more legal texts with a purchase item, wherein the purchase item includes the selected content or service item;
receive a request from the terminal for the selected content or service item; and
determine to transmit the at least one of the one or more legal texts to the terminal in response to the request.
23. A network node comprising:
a processor; and
memory storing computer readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the network node to perform a method comprising:
receiving one or more legal texts from a legal text provider;
determining to associate at least one of the one or more legal texts with a purchase item;
receiving a request from a mobile terminal for the purchase item; and
determining to transmit the at least one of the one or more legal texts to the mobile terminal in response to the request.
24. The network node of claim 23 , wherein the at least one of the one or more legal texts include terms and conditions associated with purchasing the purchase item.