INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL, CONTENT PROVIDING SYSTEM, CONTENT PROVIDING METHOD, AND CONTENT PROVIDING PROGRAM

• US 20090024626A1
• Filed: 03/10/2006
• Published: 01/22/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Takei, Yuko
• Application Number:
  US11/576,716
• Publication Number:
  US 20090024626A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9562 Bookmark management

Abstract

The invention provides a content providing system for making it possible to use URL information retained in a PC terminal from a mobile terminal and store content acquired as the mobile terminal accesses any URL in the PC terminal. The content providing system of the invention is a content providing system including a PC terminal 20, a mobile terminal 30 that can conduct communications with the PC terminal 20, and a Web server 10 for providing content data for the PC terminal 20 through the Internet. The PC terminal 20 has a folder 21 storing the content identifier corresponding to the content data; and an information table 28 made up of a user ID for each mobile terminal and a terminal ID and terminal specifications of the mobile terminal corresponding to the user ID. When access is made from the mobile terminal 30, if the user ID and the terminal ID extracted from the mobile terminal 30 are stored in the information table 28, the mobile terminal 30 is permitted to access the folder 21, and selects the content identifier stored in the folder 21.

Claims

1. An information processing terminal being capable of conducting a communication with a mobile communication terminal and being provided with content data from a Web server, the information processing terminal comprising:

a content identifier storage unit that stores a content identifier corresponding to the content data;

a table storage unit that stores a table including a user ID for each mobile communication terminal and a terminal ID and a terminal specification of the mobile communication terminal corresponding to the user ID;

an extraction unit that extracts the user ID and the terminal ID of the mobile communication terminal when the information processing terminal is accessed from the mobile communication terminal;

a determination unit that permits the mobile communication terminal to access the content identifier storage unit when the user ID and the terminal ID extracted by the extraction unit are stored in the table; and

a selection acceptance unit that accepts selection operation from the mobile communication terminal for selecting the content identifier stored in the content identifier storage unit when the determination unit permits the mobile communication terminal to access the content identifier storage unit.

2. The information processing terminal according to claim 1, comprising:

a reception unit that receives the content data corresponding to the content identifier accepted through the selection acceptance unit from the Web server;

a conversion unit that references the terminal specification responsive to the terminal ID of the mobile communication terminal and converts the content data received by the reception unit into a browseable format on the mobile communication terminal; and

a sending unit that sends the content data converted by the conversion unit to the mobile communication terminal.

3. The information processing terminal according to claim 1, comprising:

a reception unit that receives the content data corresponding to the content identifier accepted through the selection acceptance unit from the Web server; and

a content data storage unit that stores the content data received by the reception unit,

wherein the content data storage unit stores the content data that cannot be browsed on the mobile communication terminal, of the content data received by the reception unit.

4. The information processing terminal according to claim 3, comprising:

a conversion unit that references the terminal specification responsive to the terminal ID and converts the content data stored in the content data storage unit into a browseable format on the mobile communication terminal; and

a sending unit that sends the content data converted by the conversion unit to the mobile communication terminal,

wherein the content data storage unit divides the content data received by the reception unit for storage;

wherein the conversion unit converts each piece of the content data divided and stored in the content data storage unit into a browseable format on the mobile communication terminal; and

wherein the sending unit sends the each piece of the content data converted by the conversion unit to the mobile communication terminal by mail.

5. The information processing terminal according to claim 4, wherein the content data sent by mail is limited in the number of playback times.

6. The information processing terminal according to claim 2, comprising:

a registration unit that registers a different content identifier which is contained in the content data received by the reception unit as link information in the content identifier storage unit.

7. The information processing terminal according to claim 2, wherein the sending unit includes VoIP calling unit;

and

wherein when the content data corresponding to the content identifier selected through the mobile communication terminal contains audio data, the VoIP calling unit calls the mobile communication terminal according to VOIP and sends the audio data.

8. A content providing system, comprising:

the information processing terminal according to claim 1;

a mobile communication terminal that can conduct a communication with the information processing terminal; and

a Web server that provides content data to the information processing terminal through the Internet.

15. The information processing terminal according to claim 3, comprising:

a registration unit that registers a different content identifier which is contained in the content data received by the reception unit as link information in the content identifier storage unit.

9. A content providing method of providing content data stored in a Web server connected to the Internet to a mobile communication terminal from an information processing terminal connected to the Internet, the content providing method, comprising:

an extraction step of extracting a user ID and a terminal ID of the mobile communication terminal by the information processing terminal when the information processing terminal is accessed from the mobile communication terminal;

a permission step of permitting access from the mobile communication terminal by the information processing terminal when the extracted user ID and terminal ID are contained in a table including the user ID for each mobile communication terminal and the terminal ID and the terminal specification of the mobile communication terminal corresponding to the user ID, stored in the information processing terminal; and

a selection step of selecting a content identifier corresponding to the content data stored in the information processing terminal by the mobile communication terminal.

10. The content providing method according to claim 9, comprising:

a reception step of receiving the content data corresponding to the content identifier selected by the mobile communication terminal from the Web server by the information processing terminal;

a conversion step of referencing the terminal specification responsive to the terminal ID of the mobile communication terminal and converting the received content data into a browseable format on the mobile communication terminal by the information processing terminal; and

a sending step of sending the converted content data to the mobile communication terminal by the information processing terminal.

11. The content providing method according to claim 9, comprising:

a reception step of receiving the content data corresponding to the content identifier selected by the mobile communication terminal from the Web server by the information processing terminal; and

a storage step of storing the content data that cannot be browed on the mobile communication terminal, of the received content data by the information processing terminal.

12. The content providing method according to claim 11, comprising:

a conversion step of referencing the terminal specification responsive to the terminal ID and converting the stored content data into a browseable format on the mobile communication terminal by the information processing terminal; and

a sending step of sending the converted content data to the mobile communication terminal by the information processing terminal,

wherein the storage step divides the received content data for storage,

wherein the conversion step converts each piece of the content data divided and stored into a browseable format on the mobile communication terminal; and

wherein the sending step sends the each piece of the converted content data to the mobile communication terminal by mail.

13. The content providing method according to claim 10, comprising a registration step of registering a different content identifier contained in the received content data as link information in the information processing terminal.

16. The content providing method according to claim 11, comprising a registration step of registering a different content identifier contained in the received content data as link information in the information processing terminal.

14. (canceled)