CONTENT ACQUISITION PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, CONTENT ACQUISITION PROCESSING METHOD, AND ITS PROGRAM

• US 20100064005A1
• Filed: 06/16/2006
• Published: 03/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Inventors: Oguro, Kanta, Soquet, Alain, Wharton, Mark, Amaya, Toshiyuki
• Application Number:
  US12/305,091
• Publication Number:
  US 20100064005A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

A terminal of an advertisement distribution system acquires, from a controller, subscription metadata respectively defined for each of first to fourth service servers regarding whether or not to distribute advertising content to be subscribed, and specifies, from among the first to fourth service servers, one or more servers that distribute the advertising content to be subscribed as a subscribed service distribution device. The terminal recognizes a difference between the advertising content adapted for distribution by the subscribed service distribution device and the already acquired advertising content, and transmits distribution request information to the subscribed service distribution device to acquire necessary advertising content.

Claims

1. A content distribution system, comprising:

a plurality of content distribution devices that distribute a content based on a distribution request information that requests distribution of a predetermined content;

a content acquisition processing device that is connected to the plurality of content distribution devices and acquires, via a network, a content distributed by the content distribution

device based on the distribution request information; and

an alternative distribution device connected to the content acquisition processing device via the network and capable of distributing to the content acquisition processing device a content adapted for distribution by the plurality of content distribution devices, wherein

the alternative distribution device includes;

a content storage that stores the content;

a subscription information requestor that transmits to the content acquisition processing device a subscription transmittance request information that requests transmittance of a subscription information regarding whether or not the content distribution device distributes the content to be subscribed, the subscription information being defined for each content distribution device, the subscription information having been acquired by the content distribution device;

a request subscription information acquirer that acquires the subscription information transmitted in response to the subscription transmittance request information;

a storing state determiner that determines whether or not the content adapted for distribution by the content distribution device defined by the subscription information having been acquired is stored in the content storage;

a subscription information updater that, when the storing state determiner determines that the content adapted for distribution is stored, transmits to the content acquisition processing device the subscription information updated so that the alternative distribution device is defined as the content distribution device that distributes the content to be subscribed; and

a distribution controller that distributes the content to the content acquisition processing device in response to the distribution request information transmitted from the content acquisition processing device,

the content acquisition processing device includes;

a subscription information transmitter that, when having acquired the subscription transmittance request information from the alternative distribution device, transmits the subscription information,

a subscription information acquirer that acquires from the alternative distribution device the subscription information having been updated;

a subscribed device specifier that specifies the content distribution device as a subscribed distribution device based on the subscription information having been updated;

a difference recognizer that recognizes a difference between the content adapted for distribution by the alternative distribution device and the content having been acquired in advance; and

a distribution requestor that transmits to the alternative distribution device the distribution request information that requests distribution of the content corresponding to the difference between the content adapted for distribution by the alternative distribution device and the content having been acquired in advance.

2. The content distribution system according to claim 1, wherein

the content distribution device distributes the content based on a predetermined communication protocol, and

the subscription information includes a record defining that the content distribution device based on the one communication protocol distributes the content to be subscribed and defining that the content distribution device based on a communication protocol other than the one communication protocol does not distribute the content to be subscribed.

5. The content distribution system according to claim 1, wherein

the content acquisition processing device further includes end notifier that transmits, when having acquired the content in response to the distribution request information from the alternative distribution device, an end-of-acquisition information to the alternative distribution device,

the alternative distribution device includes an end-of-alternative-distribution recognizer that acquires the end-of-acquisition information transmitted from the content acquisition processing device and that recognizes that the content has been acquired by the content acquisition processing device, and

the subscription information updater of the subscription distribution device transmits the subscription information before updating to the content acquisition processing device when having recognized that the end-of-acquisition information has been acquired.

6. The content distribution system according to claim 5, wherein

when having acquired the end-of-acquisition information, the end-of-alternative-distribution recognizer of the alternative distribution device transmits the end-of-acquisition information to the content distribution device adapted for distribution of the contents having been distributed to the content acquisition processing device, and

the content distribution device includes an end-of-distribution recognizer that acquires the end-of-acquisition information transmitted from the alternative distribution device and recognizes that the content adapted for distribution by the content distribution device is acquired by the content acquisition processing device.

9. The content distribution system according to claim 2, wherein

the content acquisition processing device further includes end notifier that transmits, when having acquired the content in response to the distribution request information from the alternative distribution device, an end-of-acquisition information to the alternative distribution device,

the alternative distribution device includes an end-of-alternative-distribution recognizer that acquires the end-of-acquisition information transmitted from the content acquisition processing device and that recognizes that the content has been acquired by the content acquisition processing device, and

the subscription information updater of the subscription distribution device transmits the subscription information before updating to the content acquisition processing device when having recognized that the end-of-acquisition information has been acquired.

3. (canceled)

4. (canceled)

7. A content distribution method for distributing a content, the method comprising:

using a plurality of content distribution devices that distribute a content based on a distribution request information that requests distribution of a predetermined content, a content acquisition processing device that is connected to the plurality of content distribution devices and acquires, via a network, a content distributed by the content distribution device based on the distribution request information, and an alternative distribution device connected to the content acquisition processing device via the network and capable of distributing to the content acquisition processing device a content adapted for distribution by the plurality of content distribution devices, wherein

the alternative distribution device

transmits to the content acquisition processing device a subscription transmittance request information that requests transmittance of a subscription information regarding whether or not the content distribution device distributes the content to be subscribed, the subscription information being defined for each content distribution device,

acquires the subscription information transmitted in response to the subscription transmittance request information,

determines whether or not the content adapted for distribution by the content distribution device defined by the subscription information having been acquired is stored in the content storage,

when the storing state determiner determines that the content adapted for distribution is stored, transmits to the content acquisition processing device the subscription information updated so that the alternative distribution device is defined as the content distribution device that distributes the content to be subscribed, and

distributes the content to the content acquisition processing device in response to the distribution request information transmitted from the content distribution processing device, and

the content acquisition processing device

transmits the subscription information when having the subscription transmittance request information from the alternative distribution device, wherein the alternative distribution device

transmits to the content acquisition processing device a subscription transmittance request information that requests transmittance of a subscription information regarding whether or not the content distribution device distributes the content to be subscribed, the subscription information being defined for each content distribution device,

acquires the subscription information transmitted in response to the subscription transmittance request information,

determines whether or not the content adapted for distribution by the content distribution device defined by the subscription information having been acquired is stored in the content storage,

when the storing state determiner determines that the content adapted for distribution is stored, transmits to the content acquisition processing device the subscription information updated so that the alternative distribution device is defined as the content distribution device that distributes the content to be subscribed, and

distributes the content to the content acquisition processing device in response to the distribution request information transmitted from the content distribution processing device, and

the content acquisition processing device

transmits the subscription information when having acquired the subscription transmittance request information from the alternative distribution device,

acquires from the alternative distribution device the subscription information having been updated,

specifies alternative distribution device as a subscribed distribution device based on the subscription information having been updated,

recognizes a difference between the content adapted for distribution and having been updated and the content having been acquired in advance, and

transmits the distribution request information that requests distribution of the content corresponding to the difference between the content updated for distribution by the alternative distribution device and the content having been acquired in advance to the alternative distribution device.

8. A content distribution program that instructs a computer to execute the content distribution method according to claim 7.