Reception terminal, information processing method, program, server, transmission terminal, and information processing system

• US 10,104,149 B2
• Filed: 05/11/2012
• Issued: 10/16/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Nishibe, Mitsuru, Aoki, Yuya, Okayama, Takahiro, Kasahara, Shunichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Mejia, Anthony
• Application Number:
  US13/470,086
• Publication Number:
  US 20120297020A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,349 Days
• Field of Search: 709217
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/00 Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications user-to-user messaging H04L51/00; network arrangements, protocols or services for supporting real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/00

Abstract

There is provided a reception terminal including a display control section which performs control of displaying content data shared with a transmission terminal, and an acquisition section which acquires, from a server, event identification information for identifying an event occurred in the transmission terminal regarding the content data, wherein the display control section adds a display associated with the event identification information acquired by the acquisition section to the content data.

Claims

1. A reception terminal comprising:

circuitry configured to;

perform control of displaying content data shared with a transmission terminal;

acquire, from a server, a combination of event identification information for identifying operations performed by one or more users upon the content data from each of a plurality of transmission terminals, and event occurrence time which is a time at which the operations occurred;

acquire, from the server, notification of a result of performing a predetermined statistical processing to the combinations of the event identification information and the event occurrence time acquired from the plurality of transmission terminals; and

add a display associated with the result of performing the predetermined statistical processing to the content data,

wherein the predetermined statistical processing includes selecting a representative transmission terminal from the plurality of transmission terminals,

wherein the circuitry is further configured to select the representative transmission terminal having a highest amount of transmission from the plurality of transmission terminals, and

wherein the circuitry is further configured to only acquire event identification information from the representative transmission terminal.

11. The reception terminal according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

detect whether to limit the notification;

determine that the notification is to be limited; and

limit the notification.

12. The reception terminal according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined statistical processing includes calculating an occurrence associated with each of the event identification information and selecting the event identification information that has a highest associated occurrence as the result.

13. The reception terminal according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

add a new transmission terminal as the representative transmission terminal when a number of the plurality of transmission terminals is less than a predetermined number.

14. The reception terminal according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

select more than one transmission terminal from the plurality of transmission terminals as the representative transmission terminal.

15. The reception terminal according to claim 12, wherein the predetermined statistical processing includes selecting event identification information associated with occurrences which exceed a predetermined number.

16. The reception terminal according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

select transmission terminals with latest access from the plurality of transmission terminals.

2. An information processing method, executed via at least one processor having circuitry, the method comprising:

performing control of displaying content data shared with a transmission terminal;

acquiring, from a server, a combination of event identification information for identifying operations performed by one or more users upon the content data from each of a plurality of transmission terminals, and event occurrence time which is a time at which the operations occurred;

acquiring, from the server, notification of a result of performing a predetermined statistical processing to the combinations of the event identification information and the event occurrence time acquired from the plurality of transmission terminals; and

adding a display associated with the result of performing the predetermined statistical processing to the content data,

wherein the predetermined statistical processing includes selecting a representative transmission terminal from the plurality of transmission terminals,

wherein the predetermined statistical processing includes selecting the representative transmission terminal having a highest amount of transmission from the plurality of transmission terminals, and

wherein the event identification information is only acquired from the representative transmission terminal.

3. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a computer having circuitry, causes the computer to execute a method, the method comprising:

performing control of displaying content data shared with a transmission terminal;

acquiring, from a server, a combination of event identification information for identifying operations performed by one or more users upon the content data from each of a plurality of transmission terminals, and event occurrence time which is a time at which the operations occurred;

acquiring, from the server, notification of a result of performing a predetermined statistical processing to the combinations of the event identification information and the event occurrence time acquired from the plurality of transmission terminals; and

adding a display associated with the result of performing the predetermined statistical processing to the content data,

wherein the predetermined statistical processing includes selecting a representative transmission terminal from the plurality of transmission terminals,

wherein the predetermined statistical processing includes selecting the representative transmission terminal having a highest amount of transmission from the plurality of transmission terminals, and

wherein the event identification information is only acquired from the representative transmission terminal.

4. A server comprising:

circuitry configured to;

acquire, from each of a plurality of transmission terminals, a combination of event identification information for identifying operations performed by one or more users upon content data, wherein the content data is shared between respective ones of the plurality of transmission terminals and respective ones of a plurality of reception terminals, and event occurrence time which is a time at which the operations occurred;

perform a predetermined statistical processing to the combinations of the event identification information and the event occurrence time acquired from the plurality of transmission terminals; and

notify a designated one of the reception terminals of a result of performing the predetermined statistical processing in response to a request from the designated one of the reception terminals,

wherein the predetermined statistical processing includes selecting a representative transmission terminal from the plurality of transmission terminals,

wherein the circuitry is further configured to select the representative transmission terminal having a highest amount of transmission from the plurality of transmission terminals, and

wherein the circuitry is further configured to only acquire event identification information from the representative transmission terminal.

5. The server according to claim 4,

wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

merge the combinations acquired from the plurality of transmission terminals, and notify the designated one of reception terminals of a result obtained by the merging.

6. An information processing method, executed via at least one processor having circuitry, the method comprising:

acquiring, from each of a plurality of transmission terminals, a combination of event identification information for identifying operations performed by one or more users upon content data, wherein the content data is shared between respective ones of the plurality of transmission terminals and respective ones of a plurality of reception terminals, and event occurrence time which is a time at which the operations occurred;

performing a predetermined statistical processing to the combinations of the event identification information and the event occurrence time acquired from the plurality of transmission terminals; and

notifying a designated one of the reception terminals of a result of performing the predetermined statistical processing in response to a request from the designated one of the reception terminals,

wherein the predetermined statistical processing includes selecting a representative transmission terminal from the plurality of transmission terminals,

wherein the predetermined statistical processing includes selecting the representative transmission terminal having a highest amount of transmission from the plurality of transmission terminals, and

wherein the event identification information is only acquired from the representative transmission terminal.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a computer having circuitry, causes the computer to execute a method, the method comprising:

acquiring, from each of a plurality of transmission terminals, a combination of event identification information for identifying operations performed by one or more users upon content data, wherein the content data is shared between respective ones of the plurality of transmission terminals and respective ones of a plurality of reception terminals, and event occurrence time which is a time at which the operations occurred;

performing a predetermined statistical processing to the combinations of the event identification information and the event occurrence time acquired from the plurality of transmission terminals; and

notifying a designated one of the reception terminals of a result of performing the predetermined statistical processing in response to a request from the designated one of the reception terminals,

wherein the predetermined statistical processing includes selecting a representative transmission terminal from the plurality of transmission terminals,

wherein the predetermined statistical processing includes selecting the representative transmission terminal having a highest amount of transmission from the plurality of transmission terminals, and

wherein the circuitry is further configured to only acquire event identification information from the representative transmission terminal.

8. A transmission terminal comprising:

circuitry configured to;

perform control of displaying content data shared with a reception terminal;

detect a combination of operations performed by one or more users upon the content data and event occurrence time, which is a time at which the operations occurred;

detect a result of a predetermined statistical processing performed to the combination of the operations and the event occurrence time; and

notify a server of the result of performing the predetermined statistical processing,

wherein the predetermined statistical processing includes selecting a representative transmission terminal from a plurality of transmission terminals, selecting the representative transmission terminal having a highest amount of transmission from the plurality of transmission terminal, and event identification information is only acquired from the representative transmission terminal.

9. An information processing method, executed via at least one processor having circuitry, the method comprising:

performing control of displaying content data shared with a reception terminal;

detecting a combination of operations performed by one or more users upon the content data and event occurrence time, which is a time at which the operations occurred;

performing predetermined statistical processing to the combination of the operations and the event occurrence time; and

notifying a server of a result obtained by the performance of the predetermined statistical processing,

wherein the predetermined statistical processing includes selecting a representative transmission terminal from a plurality of transmission terminals, selecting the representative transmission terminal having a highest amount of transmission from the plurality of transmission terminals, and event identification information is only acquired from the representative transmission terminal.

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

performing control of displaying content data shared with a reception terminal;

detecting a combination of operations performed by one of more users upon the content data and event occurrence time, which is a time at which the operations occurred;

performing predetermined statistical processing to the combination of the operations and the event occurrence time; and

notifying a server of a result obtained by the performance of the predetermined statistical processing,

wherein the predetermined statistical processing includes selecting a representative transmission terminal from a plurality of transmission terminals, selecting the representative transmission terminal having a highest amount of transmission from the plurality of transmission terminals, and event identification information is only acquired from the representative transmission terminal.