Content providing system, receiving apparatus and method, storage medium, and program

• US 10,009,418 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2016
• Issued: 06/26/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2002
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sisvel International S.A. (Fineur International S.A.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Komatsuzaki, Yoriko, Sato, Makoto, Noda, Takuro
• Primary Examiner(s): BAROT, BHARAT
• Application Number:
  US15/280,485
• Publication Number:
  US 20170019461A1
• Time in Patent Office: 635 Days
• Field of Search: 709202-205, 709217-219, 709249, 725 22, 725105, 725116-118, 725121-123
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2358/00 Arrangements for display data security
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/02 Networking aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/025 LAN communication management
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/06 Consumer Electronics Control, i.e. control of another device by a display or vice versa
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/16 Use of wireless transmission of display information
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/006 Details of the interface to the display terminal specific for a display terminal using a CRT G09G1/167; using a flat panel G09G3/2096; circuits for interfacing with colour displays G09G5/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2541 Rights Management protecting software against unauthorised usage in a vending or licensing environment G06F21/10; security in data switching network management H04L41/28; security management or policies for network security H04L63/20; access security in wireless networks H04W12/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4331 Caching operations, e.g. of an advertisement for later insertion during playback
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43637 involving a wireless protocol, e.g. Bluetooth, RF or wireless LAN [IEEE 802.11] arrangements for wireless networking or broadcasting of information in indoor or near-field type systems H04B10/114
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/440281 by altering the temporal resolution, e.g. by frame skipping television signal recording using magnetic recording on tape for reproducing at a rate different from the recording rate H04N5/783
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4627 Rights management associated to the content security in data switching network management H04L41/28; security management or policies for network security H04L63/20; access security in wireless networks H04W12/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/632 using a connection between clients on a wide area network, e.g. setting up a peer-to-peer communication via Internet for retrieving video segments from the hard-disk of other client devices broadcast-related systems characterised by transmission among terminal devices H04H60/80; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6581 Reference data, e.g. a movie identifier for ordering a movie or a product identifier in a home shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8352 involving content or source identification data, e.g. Unique Material Identifier [UMID]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 : Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17363 : at or near the user terminal

Abstract

The present invention relates to a content providing system, a receiving apparatus and method, a storage medium, and a program, which enable to perform a variety of contents provisions. An operational terminal 21 can obtain, from a storage terminal 1, contents corresponding to utilization information sent from an operational terminal 11 that is receiving provision of predetermined contents from a storage terminal 1. That is, if a user 23 is interested in contents that a user 13 is watching and listening to on the operational terminal 11, and desires to watch and listen to it, the user 23 can watch and listen to on the operational terminal 21, the contents that the user 13 is watching and listening to, by holding the operational terminal 21 very close to the operational terminal 11, or holding the operational terminal 11 very close to the operational terminal 21.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a display unit;

a storing unit storing a content;

a short range communication unit;

a network communication unit; and

circuitry configured to;

execute a first transmission process to transmit information identifying the content to an another information processing apparatus via the short range communication unit,

execute a permission validation process comprising;

controlling the display unit to present to a user a dialog for obtaining a permission for an operation of transmitting the content;

receiving a user intention of permitting or not permitting the operation of transmitting the content; and

determining, based on the user intention, whether the permission is provided, and

execute a second transmission process to transmit the content of the storing unit via the network communication unit based on the determination.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an input unit,

wherein the user intention is received via the input unit.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

initiate a request to transmit the content to the another information processing apparatus.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the network communication unit is configured to utilize Manchester code and ASK (Amplitude Shift Keying) modulation.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the short range communication unit is configured to utilize NFC (Near Field Communication).

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the network communication unit is configured to utilize wireless LAN communication or Bluetooth communication.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the content is selected from at least one of a content including a moving image, a content including a static image and a content including address information.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information identifying the content includes information for controlling utilization of the content or information indicating an apparatus that controls utilization of the content.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the permission validation process comprises receiving the user intention, input to the presented dialog, to permit a transmission of the content, or the user intention, input to the presented dialog, not to permit a transmission of the content.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by an information processing apparatus causes the information processing apparatus to execute a method, the method comprising:

executing a first transmission process to transmit information identifying a content stored in a storing unit to an another information processing apparatus via a short range communication unit;

executing a permission validation process comprising;

controlling a display unit to present to a user a dialog for obtaining a permission for an operation of transmitting the content;

receiving a user intention of permitting or not permitting the operation of transmitting the content; and

determining, based on the user intention, whether the permission is provided; and

executing a second, transmission process to transmit the content of the storing unit via a network communication unit based on the determination.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 10, wherein the executed method further comprises:

requesting to transmit the content to the another information processing apparatus.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 10, wherein the network communication unit is configured to utilize Manchester code and ASK (Amplitude Shift Keying) modulation.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 10, wherein the short range communication unit is configured to utilize NFC (Near Field Communication).

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 10, wherein the network communication unit is configured to utilize wireless LAN communication or Bluetooth communication.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 10, wherein the content is selected from at least one of a content including a moving image, a content including a static image and a content including address information.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 10, wherein the information identifying the content includes information for controlling utilization of the content or information indicating an apparatus that controls utilization of the content.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 10, wherein the permission validation process comprises receiving the user intention, input to the displayed dialog, to permit a reception of the content, or the user intention, input to the displayed dialog, not to permit a reception of the content.

18. An information processing method comprising:

executing a first transmission process to transmit information identifying a content stored in a storing unit to an another information processing apparatus via a short range communication unit;

executing a permission validation process comprising;

controlling a display unit to present to a user a dialog for obtaining a permission for an operation of transmitting the content;

receiving a user intention of permitting or not permitting the operation of transmitting the content; and

determining, based on the user intention, whether the permission is provided; and

executing a second transmission process to transmit the content of the storing unit via a network communication unit based on the determination.