META DATA INFORMATION PROVIDING SERVER, CLIENT APPARATUS, METHOD OF PROVIDING META DATA INFORMATION, AND METHOD OF PROVIDING CONTENT
1 Assignment
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
An apparatus and/or a method for efficiently providing meta data information regarding content and the content to a user includes connecting to a meta data information providing server that provides meta data of at least one content, receiving fundamental meta data information including connection information, which is provided for retrieval of content, from the meta data information providing server, and, when predetermined content is selected, connecting to one of the content providing servers that provide the selected content using the connection information and obtaining the selected content from the connected content providing server. Thus, it is possible to rapidly access a content providing server that provides user desired content using fundamental meta data information received from a meta data
71 Citations
45 Claims
-
1-22. -22. (canceled)
-
23. A method of providing meta data information, the method comprising:
-
generating the meta data information including fundamental meta data information required for a client apparatus to retrieve content and detailed meta data information regarding the content; providing the fundamental meta data information to the client apparatus in an initial stage of a connection with the client apparatus; and providing the detailed meta data information to the client apparatus when the client apparatus requests the detailed meta data information based upon the provided fundamental meta data information. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 43)
-
-
29. A method of receiving content, the method comprising:
-
connecting to a meta data information providing server that provides meta data on contents; receiving, from the meta data information providing server, fundamental meta data information that is required for retrieval of the content selecting a desired content from among the content information included in the fundamental meta data information; connecting to one of at least one content providing server that provides the desired content using the fundamental meta data information; and obtaining the desired content from the connected content providing server. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 44)
-
-
37. A method of receiving meta data information, the method comprising:
-
connecting to a meta data information providing server that provides the meta data information on content; receiving, from the meta data information providing server, fundamental meta data information that is required to retrieve the content; and if additional information is requested for a desired content, requesting detailed meta data information on the desired content out of content information included in the fundamental meta data information and receiving the requested detailed meta data information on the desired content from the meta data information providing server. - View Dependent Claims (38, 45)
-
-
39-41. -41. (canceled)
-
42. A recording medium for use with processor to access contents using meta data, the recording medium comprising:
-
retrieval information used by the processor to retrieve the content from any of one or more content providing servers that provide the content; address information used by the processor to connect to any of the one or more content providing servers that provide the content; and state information used by the processor to determine an operating state of each of the one or more content providing servers so as to prioritize which of the content providing servers are to be used to obtain the content.
-
Specification