TERMINAL DEVICE, SERVER DEVICE, DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH PROGRAM IS RECORDED

• US 20160219310A1
• Filed: 03/09/2014
• Published: 07/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Soliton Systems K.K.
• Original Assignee: Soliton Systems K.K.
• Inventors: Shibata, Yoshiaki
• Granted Patent: US 10,148,984 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/62 Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/64 Protecting data integrity, e.g. using checksums, certificates or signatures
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/32 on separate auxiliary tracks of the same or an auxiliary record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2181 comprising remotely distributed storage units, e.g. when movies are replicated over a plurality of video servers distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS], H04L67/1097
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2187 Live feed
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23116 involving data replication, e.g. over plural servers synchronization of replicated data G06F11/1658; error detection or correction by means of data replication G06F11/2053; replication in distributed file systems G06F16/10; replication in distributed file systems G06F16/27; replication or mirroring of data in data networks H04L67/1095
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2353 specifically adapted to content descriptors, e.g. coding, compressing or processing of metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6581 Reference data, e.g. a movie identifier for ordering a movie or a product identifier in a home shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8352 involving content or source identification data, e.g. Unique Material Identifier [UMID]

Abstract

Some embodiments may include a transmitting unit which transmits, when one or more pieces of stored data each being an entity at storage of a digital asset are respectively stored in one or more data storage devices, identification data for uniquely identifying the digital asset to a server device; and a receiving unit which receives, from the server device, digital asset use feature information indicating a feature during use of the digital asset uniquely identified by the identification data transmitted by the transmitting unit, and digital asset entity information indicating an entitative feature of each of the one or more pieces of stored data each being an entity at storage of the digital asset uniquely identified by the identification data.

Claims

1. A terminal device, comprising:

a transmitting unit configured to transmit, when one or more pieces of stored data each being an entity at storage of a unique bitstream are respectively stored in different modes in one or more data storage devices, identification data for identifying all of the pieces of stored data capable of restoring the unique bitstream, to a server device;

a receiving unit configured to receive, from the server device, bitstream use feature information indicating a feature during use of the unique bitstream indicated by the identification data transmitted by the transmitting unit, and stored data entity information indicating an entitative feature of each of the one or more pieces of stored data capable of restoring the unique bitstream indicated by the identification data; and

a determining unit configured to, when the bitstream use feature information includes quality information during use of the bitstream, the stored data entity information includes data compression scheme information of the bitstream, and the quality information included in the bitstream use feature information received by the receiving unit is not within a prescribed range, determine that none of the stored data identified by the identification data is to be acquired at a point in time at which the quality information is determined not to be within the prescribed range, and when the quality information received by the receiving unit is within the prescribed range and the data compression scheme information included in the stored data entity information received by the receiving unit matches at least one piece of prescribed data compression scheme information, determine that stored data corresponding to the stored data entity information including the matching prescribed data compression scheme information is to be acquired from the data storage device.

2. The terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising an acquiring unit configured to acquire, the stored data determined to be acquired from the determining unit, from the data storage device.

3. The terminal device according to claim 2, further comprising a data presenting unit configured to present, when quality information included in the bitstream use feature information received by the receiving unit is within the prescribed range and data compression scheme information included in the stored data entity information received by the receiving unit matches at least one piece of prescribed data compression scheme information, one or more pieces of the stored data entity information including the matching prescribed data compression scheme information to a user, wherein

the determining unit determines that stored data corresponding to the stored data entity information selected by the user among the one or more pieces of the stored data entity information presented by the data presenting unit is to be acquired from the data storage device.

4. The terminal device according to claim 2, wherein

the stored data entity information includes storage location information of the stored data, and

the acquiring unit is configured to acquire the stored data based on the storage location information included in the stored data entity information.

6. The terminal device according to claim 1, wherein

the data storage device is the server device.

5. (canceled)

7. A non-transitory recording medium with a data processing program recorded thereon, the data processing program when executed by a processor configure the processor to function as:

a transmitting unit configured to transmit, when one or more pieces of stored data each being an entity at storage of a unique bitstream are respectively stored in different modes in one or more data storage devices, identification data for identifying all of the pieces of stored data capable of restoring the unique bitstream, to a server device; and

a receiving unit configured to receive, from the server device, bitstream use feature information indicating a feature during use of the unique bitstream indicated by the identification data transmitted by the transmitting unit, and stored data entity information indicating an entitative feature of each of the one or more pieces of stored data capable of restoring the unique bitstream indicated by the identification data; and

a determining unit configured to, when the bitstream use feature information includes quality information during use of the bitstream, the stored data entity information includes data compression scheme information of the bitstream, and the quality information included in the bitstream use feature information received by the receiving unit is not within a prescribed range, determine that none of the stored data identified by the identification data is to be acquired at a point in time at which the quality information is determined not to be within the prescribed range, and when the quality information received by the receiving unit is within the prescribed range and the data compression scheme information included in the stored data entity information received by the receiving unit matches at least one piece of prescribed data compression scheme information, determine that stored data corresponding to the stored data entity information including the matching prescribed data compression scheme information is to be acquired from the data storage device.

8. A server device, comprising:

a storage unit configured to store, when one or more pieces of stored data are respectively stored in one or more data storage devices, identification data for identifying all of the pieces of stored data capable of restoring a unique bitstream, bitstream use feature information which indicates a feature during use of a unique bitstream indicated by the identification data and which includes quality information during use of the bitstream, and stored data entity information which indicates an entitative feature of each of the one or more pieces of stored data capable of restoring the unique bitstream indicated by the identification data and which includes data compression scheme information of the bitstream in association with each other;

a receiving unit configured to receive identification data transmitted from a terminal device; and

a transmitting unit configured to read out, from the storage unit, bitstream use feature information and stored data entity information of each piece of stored data, both of which correspond to the identification data received by the receiving unit, and transmit the read bitstream use feature information and stored data entity information of each of the one or more pieces of stored data to the terminal device.

9. The server device according to claim 8, further comprising a stored data storage unit configured to store the stored data, wherein

the stored data storage unit is the data storage device.

10. A data management system, comprising:

one or more data storage devices respectively configured to store, in different modes, one or more pieces of stored data each being an entity at storage of a unique bitstream;

a terminal device including;

a first transmitting unit configured to transmit, when one or more pieces of stored data each being an entity at storage of the unique bitstream are respectively stored in different modes in the one or more data storage devices, identification data for identifying all of the pieces of stored data capable of restoring the unique bitstream, to a server device;

a first receiving unit configured to receive, from the server device, bitstream use feature information indicating a feature during use of the unique bitstream indicated by the identification data transmitted by the first transmitting unit, and stored data entity information indicating an entitative feature of each of the one or more pieces of stored data capable of restoring the unique bitstream indicated by the identification data; and

a determining unit configured to, when the bitstream use feature information includes quality information during use of the bitstream, the stored data entity information includes data compression scheme information of the bitstream, and the quality information included in the bitstream use feature information received by the receiving unit is not within a prescribed range, determine that none of the stored data identified by the identification data is to be acquired at a point in time at which the quality information is determined not to be within the prescribed range, and when the quality information received by the receiving unit is within the prescribed range and the data compression scheme information included in the stored data entity information received by the receiving unit matches at least one piece of prescribed data compression scheme information, determine that stored data corresponding to the stored data entity information including the matching prescribed data compression scheme information is to be acquired from the data storage device; and

a server device including;

a storage unit configured to store, when one or more pieces of stored data are respectively stored in one or more data storage devices, identification data for identifying all of the pieces of stored data capable of restoring a unique bitstream, bitstream use feature information which indicates a feature during use of a unique bitstream indicated by the identification data and which includes quality information during use of the bitstream, and stored data entity information which indicates an entitative feature of each of the one or more pieces of stored data capable of restoring the unique bitstream indicated by the identification data and which includes data compression scheme information of the bitstream in association with each other;

a second receiving unit configured to receive the identification data transmitted from a terminal device; and

a second transmitting unit configured to read out, from the storage unit, digital asset bitstream use feature information and stored data entity information of each piece of stored data, both of which correspond to the identification data received by the receiving unit, and transmit the read bitstream use feature information and stored data entity information of each of the one or more pieces of stored data to the terminal device.