Information managing apparatus, information managing method, and information managing system

• US 20070027764A1
• Filed: 07/14/2006
• Published: 02/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Masuo, Yoko
• Application Number:
  US11/486,117
• Publication Number:
  US 20070027764A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.690
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0273 Determination of fees for advertising

Abstract

According to one embodiment, there is provided an information processing apparatus capable of delivering, to a terminal, stream data of a content which a plurality of users view in common. The apparatus includes a content viewing results storage portion to store content viewing results information indicative of temporal positions in content playback at which respective users have lastly viewed the content, and a content transmitting portion to transmit, upon a request for viewing of the content from one of the users, stream data of the content to be played back from a temporal position at which the one of the users has lastly viewed, based on the content viewing results information stored in the content viewing results storage portion.

Claims

1. An information managing apparatus capable of delivering, to a terminal, stream data of a content which a plurality of users view in common, the apparatus comprising:

a content viewing results storage portion to store content viewing results information indicative of temporal positions in content playback at which respective users have lastly viewed the content; and

a content transmitting portion to transmit, upon a request for viewing of the content from one of the users, stream data of the content to be played back from a temporal position at which the one of the users has lastly viewed, based on the content viewing results information stored in the content viewing results storage portion.

2. The information managing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the content viewing results storage portion further stores deletion enabled/disabled information indicative of whether each of the users permits deletion of the content, and the apparatus further comprising a processing portion to delete the content, when the deletion enabled/disabled information indicates that all of the users permit deletion of the content.

3. The information managing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein when a user completes view of the content or instructs deletion of the content, the deletion enabled/disabled information indicates that the user permits deletion of the content.

4. The information managing apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising a processing portion to cause display of information asking a user to confirm whether to delete the content, when the user completes view of the content or instructs deletion of the content.

5. An information managing method applied to an information managing apparatus capable of delivering, to a terminal, stream data of a content which a plurality of users view in common, the method comprising:

storing, in a storage portion, content viewing results information indicative of temporal positions in content playback at which respective users have lastly viewed the content; and

transmitting, upon a request for viewing of the content from one of the users, stream data of the content to be played back from a temporal position at which the one of the users has lastly viewed, based on the content viewing results information stored in the storage portion.

6. The information managing method according to claim 5, further comprising:

storing deletion enabled/disabled information indicative of whether each of the users permits deletion of the content; and

deleting the content, when the deletion enabled/disabled information indicates that all of the users permit deletion of the content.

7. The information managing method according to claim 6, wherein when a user completes view of the content or instructs deletion of the content, the deletion enabled/disabled information indicates that the user permits deletion of the content.

8. The information managing method according to claim 7, further comprising causing display of information asking a user to confirm whether to delete the content, when the user completes view of the content or instructs deletion of the content.

9. An information managing system, comprising:

a terminal; and

an information managing apparatus capable of delivering, to the terminal, stream data of a content which a plurality of users view in common;

the terminal including;

a transmission processing portion to send a request for transmission of a content to the information managing apparatus; and

a playback processing portion to play back the content transmitted from the information managing apparatus in reply to the request for transmission, and

the information managing apparatus including;

a content viewing results storage portion to store content viewing results information indicative of temporal positions in content playback at which respective users have lastly viewed the content; and

a content transmitting portion to transmit, upon a request for viewing of the content from one of the users, stream data of the content to be played back from a temporal position at which the one of the users has lastly viewed, based on the content viewing results information stored in the content viewing results storage portion.