PLAYBACK METHOD AND PLAYBACK SYSTEM OF CONTENTS

• US 20090162035A1
• Filed: 12/19/2008
• Published: 06/25/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Murakoshi, Sho, Yoshimura, Shunji, NARAHARA, Tatsuya
• Application Number:
  US12/339,454
• Publication Number:
  US 20090162035A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/353
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4147 PVR [Personal Video Recorder] H04N5/76 takes precedence ; arrangements for broadcast with accumulation-type receivers H04H20/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4227 Providing Remote input by a user located remotely from the client device, e.g. at work
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4828 for searching program descriptors retrieval of video data G06F16/739
• 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 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 between a recording apparatus and a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums

Abstract

A playback method of contents which plays back contents by a portable-type player connected to a recorder recording/playing back contents provided from the outside through a network is disclosed. The method includes the steps of transmitting data indicating contents satisfying a request to the player through the network by the recorder when receiving the request of playing back contents from the player through the network, requesting the recorder to transmit data of a selected content to the player through the network according to data indicating the selected content by the player when selecting the target content from the transmitted data, and playing back data of the transmitted content when data of the target content is transmitted from the recorder to the player through the network according to the request.

Claims

1. A playback method of contents which plays back contents by a portable-type player connected to a recorder recording/playing back contents provided from the outside through a network, the method comprising the steps of:

transmitting data indicating contents satisfying a request to the player through the network by the recorder when receiving the request of playing back contents from the player through the network;

requesting the recorder to transmit data of a selected content to the player through the network according to data indicating the selected content by the player when selecting the target content from the transmitted data; and

playing back data of the transmitted content when data of the target content is transmitted from the recorder to the player through the network according to the request.

2. A playback system of contents comprising:

a recorder recording/playing back contents provided from the outside; and

a portable-type player connected to the recorder through a network,

wherein the recorder transmits data indicating contents satisfying a request to the player through the network when receiving the request of playing back contents from the player through the network,

wherein the player requests the recorder to transmit data of a selected content to the player through the network according to data indicating the selected content when selecting the target content from the transmitted data, and

wherein data of the transmitted content is played back when data of the target content is transmitted from the recorder to the player through the network according to the request.