Portable device, information processing method, and program

• US 8,718,450 B2
• Filed: 11/17/2008
• Issued: 05/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kinoshita, Akihiko, Chiba, Hiroyuki, Kanao, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Vaughn, Jr., William C
• Assistant Examiner(s): ADAMS, EILEEN M
• Application Number:
  US12/272,000
• Publication Number:
  US 20090129745A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,996 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 386/296
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4227 Providing Remote input by a user located remotely from the client device, e.g. at work
• 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 5/782 on tape
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/165 Centralised control of user terminal subsequent to an upstream request signal H04N7/17345; Registering at central by two-way working H04N7/17309
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/173 with two-way working, e.g. subscriber sending a programme selection signal

Abstract

A portable device includes a setting means that sets a recording reservation; an acquisition means that acquires information that indicates the contents of a recording reservation set in a recording device by requesting the information processing device; an integrating means contained in the portable device that combines a recording reservation set in the portable device with the recording reservation set in the recording device; and a display control means that displays the contents of the recording reservation set in the portable device and the contents of the recording reservation set in the recording device on the basis of the recording reservations combined by the integrating means, and displays information that indicates which recording site the contents will be recorded in, the recording medium of the portable device or a recording medium of the recording device, when recorded in accordance with the respective recording reservations.

Claims

1. A portable device comprising:

a setting means that sets a recording reservation;

an acquisition means that, when instructed to display a list of recording reservations, acquires information that indicates the contents of a recording reservation set in a recording device by requesting an information processing device;

an integrating means contained in the portable device that combines a recording reservation set in the portable device with the recording reservation set in the recording device,

wherein the portable device allows checking of the contents of both the recording reservation set in the portable device and the recording reservation set in the recording device, wherein the contents comprise broadcast data, and selecting at least one of the portable device and the recording device as the recording site, wherein the portable device is capable of being the recording site; and

a display control means that displays the contents of the recording reservation set in the portable device and the contents of the recording reservation set in the recording device on the basis of the recording reservations combined by the integrating means, and displays information that indicates which recording site the contents will be recorded in, the recording medium of the portable device or a recording medium of the recording device, when recorded in accordance with the respective recording reservations, wherein

the information processing device, when requested from the portable device, accesses the recording device to acquire the information that indicates the contents of the recording reservation set in the recording device and then transmits the information to the portable device, and wherein

the acquisition means acquires the information transmitted from the information processing device.

2. The portable device according to claim 1, wherein

the setting means, when the recording site of the contents when recorded in accordance with a predetermined recording reservation is instructed to change from the recording medium of the portable device to the recording medium of the recording device, deletes the predetermined recording reservation and requests the information processing device to set a recording reservation of the contents, which is the recording target of the predetermined recording reservation, in the recording device, and wherein

the information processing device, when requested from the portable device, accesses the recording device and instructs the recording device to set a recording reservation of the requested contents.

3. The portable device according to claim 1, wherein

the setting means, when the recording site of the contents when recorded in accordance with a predetermined recording reservation is instructed to change from the recording medium of the recording device to the recording medium of the portable device, sets a recording reservation of the contents, which is the recording target of the predetermined recording reservation, and requests the information processing device to delete the predetermined recording reservation from the recording device, and wherein

the information processing device, when requested from the portable device, accesses the recording device and instructs the recording device to delete the recording reservation of the requested contents.

4. The portable device according to claim 1, wherein the information processing device, when requested from the portable device, instructs an information processing device, which is continuously connected to the recording device through a network, to acquire information for accessing the recording device, and accesses the recording device on the basis of the acquired information.

5. An information processing method for a portable device that has a recording medium and that is connected to an information processing device through a network, comprising the steps of:

setting a recording reservation;

when instructed to display a list of recording reservations, acquiring information that indicates the contents of a recording reservation set in a recording device by requesting the information processing device;

in the portable device, combining a recording reservation set in the portable device with the recording reservation set in the recording device,

wherein the portable device allows checking of the contents of both the recording reservation set in the portable device and the recording reservation set in the recording device, wherein the contents comprise broadcast data, and selecting at least one of the portable device and the recording device as the recording site, wherein the portable device is capable of being the recording site;

displaying the contents of the recording reservation set in the portable device and the contents of the recording reservation set in the recording device on the basis of the combined recording reservations, and displaying information that indicates which recording site the contents will be recorded in, the recording medium of the portable device or a recording medium of the recording device, when recorded in accordance with the respective recording reservations;

in the information processing device, when requested from the portable device, accessing the recording device to acquire the information that indicates the contents of the recording reservation set in the recording device and then transmitting the information to the portable device; and

acquiring the information, transmitted from the information processing device, that indicates the contents of the recording reservation set in the recording device.

6. A non-transitory storage medium storing a program, executable on a computer, for executing information processing on a portable device that has a recording medium and that is connected to an information processing device through a network, the program comprising the steps of:

setting a recording reservation;

when instructed to display a list of recording reservations, acquiring information that indicates the contents of a recording reservation set in a recording device by requesting the information processing device;

in the portable device, combining a recording reservation set in the portable device with the recording reservation set in the recording device,

wherein the portable device allows checking of the contents of both the recording reservation set in the portable device and the recording reservation set in the recording device, wherein the contents comprise broadcast data, and selecting at least one of the portable device and the recording device as the recording site, wherein the portable device is capable of being the recording site;

displaying the contents of the recording reservation set in the portable device and the contents of the recording reservation set in the recording device on the basis of the combined recording reservations, and displaying information that indicates which recording site the contents will be recorded in, the recording medium of the portable device or a recording medium of the recording device, when recorded in accordance with the respective recording reservations;

in the information processing device, when requested from the portable device, accessing the recording device to acquire the information that indicates the contents of the recording reservation set in the recording device and then transmitting the information to the portable device; and

acquiring the information transmitted from the information processing device, that indicates the contents of the recording reservation set in the recording device.

7. A portable device comprising:

a setting unit that sets a recording reservation;

an acquisition unit that, when instructed to display a list of recording reservations, acquires information that indicates the contents of a recording reservation set in a recording device by requesting an information processing device;

an integrating unit contained in the portable device that combines a recording reservation set in the portable device with the recording reservation set in the recording device,

wherein the portable device allows checking of the contents of both the recording reservation set in the portable device and the recording reservation set in the recording device, wherein the contents comprise broadcast data, and selecting at least one of the portable device and the recording device as the recording site, wherein the portable device is capable of being the recording site; and

a display controller that displays the contents of the recording reservation set in the portable device and the contents of the recording reservation set in the recording device on the basis of the recording reservations combined by the integrating unit, and displays information that indicates which recording site the contents will be recorded in, the recording medium of the portable device or a recording medium of the recording device, when recorded in accordance with the respective recording reservations, wherein

the information processing device, when requested from the portable device, accesses the recording device to acquire the information that indicates the contents of the recording reservation set in the recording device and then transmits the information to the portable device, and wherein

the acquisition unit acquires the information transmitted from the information processing device.