Content providing system, receiving device and method, recording medium and program

• US 20050071441A1
• Filed: 08/12/2003
• Published: 03/31/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sisvel International S.A. (Fineur International S.A.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sato, Makoto, Noda, Takuro, Komatsuzaki, Yoriko
• Granted Patent: US 7,577,715 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/220
• 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

1-25. -25. (Canceled).

26. An information processing apparatus for executing a plurality of utilization processes requiring a user'"'"'s permission, to contents sent from a sending apparatus, characterized by comprising:

determination means for determinating whether said information processing apparatus is in a content standby-mode or not;

first executing means for executing said utilization process, if said determination means determine as said standby-mode, assuming that a user'"'"'s permission is obtained; and

second executing means for executing a predetermined permission validation process for obtaining a user'"'"'s permission if said determination means determine as not said standby-mode, and executing said utilization process if the user'"'"'s permission is obtained by that process.

27. The information processing apparatus as set forth in claim 26, characterized in that:

said utilization processes are a receiving process for receiving said contents, a display process for displaying said contents, and a registration process for registering said contents, and

said permission validation process is a presentation process for presenting a user a dialog for obtaining said permission.

31. The information processing apparatus as set forth in claim 26, characterized in that:

said information processing apparatus further comprises an operation input unit, and

said content standby-mode is to be set by a predetermined operation to said operation input unit, which is previously executed by the user.

28. An information processing method of an information processing apparatus for executing a plurality of utilization processes requiring a user'"'"'s permission, to contents sent from a sending apparatus, characterized by comprising:

a determination step of determinating whether said information processing apparatus is in a content standby-mode or not;

a first execution step of executing said utilization process, if the process of said determination step determines as said standby-mode, assuming that the user'"'"'s permission is obtained; and

a second execution step of executing a predetermined permission validation process for obtaining a user'"'"'s permission if the process of said determination step determines as not said standby-mode, and executing said utilization process if a user'"'"'s permission is obtained by that process.

32. The information processing method as set forth in claim 28, characterized in that:

said content standby-mode is to be set by a predetermined operation to an operation input unit for inputting user'"'"'s operation, which is previously executed by the user.

33. The information processing method as set forth in claim 28, characterized in that:

said utilization processes are a receiving process for receiving said contents, a display process for displaying said contents, and a registration process for registering said contents, and

said permission validation process is a presentation process for presenting a user a dialog for obtaining said permission.

29. A storage medium in which a computer readable program is stored, characterized in that:

said program is a program of an information processing apparatus for executing a plurality of utilization processes requiring a user'"'"'s permission, to contents sent from a sending apparatus, said program comprising;

a determination control step of controlling determination as to whether said information processing apparatus is in a content standby-mode or not;

a first execution control step of controlling execution of said utilization process, if the process of said determination control step determines as said standby-mode, assuming that a user'"'"'s permission is obtained; and

a second execution control step of controlling execution of a predetermined permission validation process for obtaining a user'"'"'s permission if the process of said determination control step determines as not said standby-mode, and controlling execution of said utilization process if the user'"'"'s permission is obtained by that process.

34. The storage medium as set forth in claim 29, characterized in that:

said content standby-mode is to be set by a predetermined operation to an operation input unit for inputting user'"'"'s operation, which is previously executed by the user.

35. The storage medium as set forth in claim 29, characterized in that:

said utilization processes are a receiving process for receiving said contents, a display process for displaying said contents, and a registration process for registering said contents, and

said permission validation process is a presentation process for presenting a user a dialog for obtaining said permission.

30. A program of an information processing apparatus for executing a plurality of utilization processes requiring a user'"'"'s permission, to contents sent from a sending apparatus, characterized by having a computer execute a process comprising:

a determination control step of controlling determination as to whether said information processing apparatus is in a content standby-mode or not;

a first execution control step of controlling execution of said utilization process, if the process of said determination control step determines as said standby-mode, assuming that a user'"'"'s permission is obtained; and

a second execution control step of controlling execution of a predetermined permission validation process for obtaining a user'"'"'s permission if the process of said determination control step determines as not said standby-mode, and controlling execution of said utilization process if the user'"'"'s permission is obtained by that process.

36. The program as set forth in claim 30, characterized in that:

said content standby-mode is to be set by a predetermined operation to an operation input unit for inputting user'"'"'s operation, which is previously executed by the user.

37. The program as set forth in claim 30, characterized in that:

said utilization processes are a receiving process for receiving said contents, a display process for displaying said contents, and a registration process for registering said contents, and

said permission validation process is a presentation process for presenting a user a dialog for obtaining said permission.