INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTENT RECEIVING METHOD

• US 20120023539A1
• Filed: 04/26/2011
• Published: 01/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: NAGASHIMA, HIROKAZU
• Application Number:
  US13/094,352
• Publication Number:
  US 20120023539A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/116
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4135 external recorder interface circuits between an apparatus for recording television signals and a television receiver H04N5/775
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/432 Content retrieval operation from a local storage medium, e.g. hard-disk details of retrieval of video data and associated meta data in video databases G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43615 Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43622 Interfacing an external recording device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/445 for displaying additional information H04N5/50 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus

Abstract

According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes: an input module which receives an address of a content stored in a storage apparatus connected via a network; a managing module which stores the received address of the content and an identifier of the storage apparatus in such a manner that the address of the content and the identifier are correlated with each other; a receiving module configured to receive the identifier and an address of the storage apparatus from the storage apparatus after the input module received the address of the content; and an updating module which updates the address of the content which is correlated with an identifier that coincides with the identifier received by the receiving module among identifiers managed by the managing module, based on the address of the storage apparatus received by the receiving module.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

an input module configured to receive an address of a content stored in a storage apparatus connected via a network;

a managing module configured to store the received address of the content and an identifier of the storage apparatus in such a manner that the address of the content and the identifier are correlated with each other;

a receiving module configured to receive the identifier and an address of the storage apparatus from the storage apparatus after the input module received the address of the content; and

an updating module configured to update the address of the content which is correlated with an identifier that coincides with the identifier received by the receiving module among identifiers managed by the managing module, based on the address of the storage apparatus received by the receiving module.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a content receiving module configured to receive the content by sending a transmission request which specifies the address of the content managed by the managing module.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a display device; and

a first display controller configured to cause the display device to display images for selecting the content of which the address are managed by the managing module.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, further comprising:

a receiving module configured to receive an operation on the images;

a decoding module configured to decode the content received by the content receiving module; and

a second display controller configured to cause the display device to display the decoded content,

wherein the content receiving module is configured to receive a content which corresponds to the image selected by the operation.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the first display controller is configured to cause the display device to display images for selecting contents that have not been decoded and images for selecting contents that have been decoded with such an arrangement that the images for selecting the non-decoded contents is given higher priority than the images for selecting the decoded contents.

6. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the first display controller is configured to cause the display device to display pieces of information indicating whether the contents have been decoded by the decoding module together with the respective images for selecting the contents.

7. The apparatus according of claim 3, wherein the first display controller is configured to cause the display device to display pieces of information indicating times when the input module received the addresses of the contents, together with the respective images for selecting the contents.

8. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the first display controller is configured to cause the display device to display the images for selecting the contents in such a manner that the addresses of the contents are arranged according to times when the input module received the respective addresses of the contents.

9. A content receiving method comprising:

receiving an address of a content stored in a storage apparatus connected via a network;

receiving an address of the storage apparatus from the storage apparatus after receiving the address of the content; and

receiving the content by sending a transmission request directed to an address that is different from the received address of the content based on the received address of the storage apparatus and the received address of the content if the received address of the storage apparatus is different from an address of the storage apparatus when the address of the content was received.