INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND MEDIA SERVER

• US 20150058896A1
• Filed: 04/01/2013
• Published: 02/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ohashi, Yoshinori, Shibuya, Kiyoto, Kawahara, Hiroyuki
• Application Number:
  US14/385,798
• Publication Number:
  US 20150058896A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/58
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2747 Remote storage of video programs received via the downstream path, e.g. from the server
• 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 21/4147 PVR [Personal Video Recorder] H04N5/76 takes precedence ; arrangements for broadcast with accumulation-type receivers H04H20/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/433 Content storage operation, e.g. storage operation in response to a pause request, caching operations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43622 Interfacing an external recording device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47217 for controlling playback functions for recorded or on-demand content, e.g. using progress bars, mode or play-point indicators or bookmarks specific graphical features in visual interfaces H04N21/4312
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums

Abstract

In a media server, a storage unit 50 records content. A status management unit 32 acquires status information related to the media server from inside or outside. By referencing an icon table, an icon selection unit 34 selects an icon image corresponding to the acquired status information. When an icon providing unit 36 provides the selected icon image to an information processing device, the information processing device displays the provided icon image on a menu screen.

Claims

1. An information processing system comprising a media server, and an information processing device interconnected with one another via a network, wherein the media server includes

a storage unit configured to record content,

a status management unit configured to acquire status information related to the media server, and

an icon selection unit configured to select an icon image corresponding to the status information acquired by the status management unit, and

the information processing device includes an icon acquisition unit configured to acquire the icon image selected by the media server, and

a display processing unit configured to generate display data for displaying the acquired icon image.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1,

wherein the status management unit acquires storage status of the storage unit, and

the icon selection unit selects an icon image corresponding to a free space of the storage unit.

3. The information processing system according to claim 1,

wherein the media server further includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire information from the outside, and

the status management unit acquires the status information related to the media server on the basis of the acquired information.

4. The information processing system according to claim 3,

wherein the status management unit acquires as status information the possibility for the media server to update system software, and

the icon selection unit selects an icon image corresponding to the acquired status information.

5. The information processing system according to claim 3,

wherein the status management unit acquires as status information the connection of any other information processing device on the network, and

the icon selection unit selects an icon image corresponding to the acquired status information.

6. A media server for distributing content, the media server comprising:

a status management unit configured to acquire status information related to the media server;

an icon selection unit configured to select an icon image corresponding to the status information acquired by the status management unit; and

an icon providing unit configured to provide the selected icon image.

7. A program for a computer distributing content, comprising:

acquiring status information related to the computer;

selecting an icon image corresponding to the acquired status information; and

providing the selected icon image.

8. A computer-readable storage medium which stores a program for a computer distributing content, the program including:

acquiring status information related to the computer;

selecting an icon image corresponding to the acquired status information; and

providing the selected icon image.