Content providing system, receiving device and method, recording medium and program

• US 7,577,715 B2
• Filed: 07/28/2003
• Issued: 08/18/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sisvel International S.A. (Fineur International S.A.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Komatsuzaki, Yoriko, Sato, Makoto, Noda, Takuro
• Primary Examiner(s): Flynn; Nathan J
• Assistant Examiner(s): Siddiqi; Mohammad A
• Application Number:
  US10/494,650
• Publication Number:
  US 20050071441A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,213 Days
• Field of Search: 709/205, 709/220, 709227-229, 709/217, 725/22, 725/37, 725/38, 725/105, 725/116, 725/143, 725/146
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2358/00 Arrangements for display data security
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/02 Networking aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/025 LAN communication management
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/06 Consumer Electronics Control, i.e. control of another device by a display or vice versa
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/16 Use of wireless transmission of display information
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/006 Details of the interface to the display terminal specific for a display terminal using a CRT G09G1/167; using a flat panel G09G3/2096; circuits for interfacing with colour displays G09G5/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2541 Rights Management protecting software against unauthorised usage in a vending or licensing environment G06F21/10; security in data switching network management H04L41/28; security management or policies for network security H04L63/20; access security in wireless networks H04W12/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4331 Caching operations, e.g. of an advertisement for later insertion during playback
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43637 involving a wireless protocol, e.g. Bluetooth, RF or wireless LAN [IEEE 802.11] arrangements for wireless networking or broadcasting of information in indoor or near-field type systems H04B10/114
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/440281 by altering the temporal resolution, e.g. by frame skipping television signal recording using magnetic recording on tape for reproducing at a rate different from the recording rate H04N5/783
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4627 Rights management associated to the content security in data switching network management H04L41/28; security management or policies for network security H04L63/20; access security in wireless networks H04W12/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• 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 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• 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 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]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 : Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17363 : at or near the user terminal

Abstract

The present invention relates to a content providing system, a receiving apparatus and method, a storage medium, and a program, which enable to perform a variety of contents provisions. An operational terminal 21 can obtain, from a storage terminal 1, contents corresponding to utilization information sent from an operational terminal 11 that is receiving provision of predetermined contents from a storage terminal 1. That is, if a user 23 is interested in contents that a user 13 is watching and listening to on the operational terminal 11, and desires to watch and listen to it, the user 23 can watch and listen to on the operational terminal 21, the contents that the user 13 is watching and listening to, by holding the operational terminal 21 very close to the operational terminal 11, or holding the operational terminal 11 very close to the operational terminal 21.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a memory;

a processing unit for;

determining whether the information processing apparatus is in a standby-mode, wherein the information processing apparatus receives contents from a storage terminal when the information processing apparatus is in the standby-mode,

executing a utilization process when the information processing apparatus is in the standby-mode,

executing a permission validation process when the information processing apparatus is not in the standby-mode, wherein the permission validation process comprises presenting the user a dialog, receiving input from the user, and determining whether the user provides the permission based on the input, and

executing the utilization process when the user provides the permission in the permission validation; and

an operation unit, wherein the standby-mode is set by a predetermined operation to the operation unit.

2. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the utilization process comprises a receiving process for receiving the contents, a display process for displaying the contents, and a registration process for storing the contents.

3. An information processing method, comprising:

determining whether an information processing apparatus is in a standby-mode,

wherein the information processing apparatus receives contents from a storage terminal when the information processing apparatus is in the standby-mode, and

wherein the determining whether the information processing apparatus is in the standby-mode comprises determining whether a predetermined operation to an operation unit set the standby-mode;

executing a utilization process when the information processing apparatus is in the standby-mode;

executing a permission validation process when the information processing apparatus is not in the standby-mode, wherein the permission validation process comprises presenting the user a dialog, receiving input from the user, and determining whether the user provides the permission based on the input; and

executing the utilization process when the user provides the permission in the permission validation process.

4. The information processing method of claim 3, wherein the utilization process comprises a receiving process for receiving the contents, a display process for displaying the contents, and a registration process for storing the contents.

5. A storage medium storing a program for performing, when executed by a processor, a method for executing a plurality of utilization processes, the method comprising:

determining whether an information processing apparatus is in a standby-mode,

wherein the information processing apparatus receives contents from a storage terminal when the information processing apparatus is in the standby-mode and

wherein the determining whether the information processing apparatus is in the standby-mode comprises determining whether a predetermined operation to an operation unit set the standby-mode;

executing a utilization process when the information processing apparatus is in the standby-mode;

executing a permission validation process when the information processing apparatus is not in the standby-mode, wherein the permission validation process comprises presenting the user a dialog, receiving input from the user, and determining whether the user provides the permission based on the input; and

executing the utilization process when the user provides the permission in the permission validation process.

6. The storage medium of claim 5, wherein the utilization process comprises a receiving process for receiving contents, a display process for displaying the contents, and a registration process for storing the contents.