Data-providing apparatus, data-providing method and program-storing medium

• US 20020156829A1
• Filed: 05/20/2002
• Published: 10/24/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yoshimine, Takao
• Granted Patent: US 7,617,299 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/201
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D

Abstract

In the present invention, a moving-picture editing program (12) controls the recording of the data transmitted from a personal computer (1-1), into a user video-data management database (4). The program (12) determines whether the data should be supplied to another personal computer (1-2) in response to a demand made by the personal computer (1-1). The moving-picture editing program (12) supplies the data to the other personal computer (1-2) in response to the demand from the other personal computer (1-2) when it is determined that the data should be supplied to the personal computer (1-1). Hence, the data can be utilized by many other users.

Claims

1. A data-providing apparatus having a recording area corresponding to a data-processing apparatus and designed to supply the data recorded in the recording area to the data-processing apparatus, said data-providing apparatus comprising:

control means for controlling the recording of the data transmitted from the data-processing apparatus, into the recording area;

determining means for determining whether the data should be supplied to another data-processing apparatus in response to a demand made by the data-processing apparatus; and

data-supplying means for supplying the data to the other data-processing apparatus in response to the demand made by the other data-processing apparatus when the determining means determines that the data should be supplied to the other data-processing apparatus.

2. The data-providing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising thumbnail-generating means for generating a thumbnail corresponding to the data, and thumbnail-transmitting means for transmitting the thumbnail to the other data-processing apparatus.

3. The data-providing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said determining means further determines whether the data should be paid for its use, when the data is supplied to the other data-processing apparatus.

4. The data-providing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said determining means further determines the fee for the data when the data is supplied to the other data-processing apparatus.

5. The data-providing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said fee is an amount that the data-processing apparatus needs to pay to the other data-processing apparatus when the data is supplied to the other data-processing apparatus.

6. A data-providing method of supplying the data recorded in a recording area corresponding to a data-processing apparatus, to the data-processing apparatus, said data-providing method comprising the steps of:

controlling the recording of the data transmitted from the data-processing apparatus, into the recording area;

determining whether the data should be supplied to another data-processing apparatus in response to a demand made by the data-processing apparatus; and

supplying the data to the other data-processing apparatus in response to the demand made by the other data-processing apparatus when it is determined in the step of determining that the data should be supplied to the other data-processing apparatus.

7. A program-storing medium which stores a computer-readable program, the program being for use in a data providing apparatus having a recording area corresponding to a data-processing apparatus and designed to supply data recorded in the recording area to the data-processing apparatus, the program performs the steps of:

controlling the recording of the data transmitted from the data-processing apparatus, into the recording area;

determining whether the data should be supplied to another data-processing apparatus in response to a demand made by the data-processing apparatus; and

supplying the data to the other data-processing apparatus in response to the demand made by the other data-processing apparatus when it is determined in the step of determining that the data should be supplied to the other data-processing apparatus.