Content providing system, receiving apparatus and method, storage medium, and program for content reception by short range communication enabled devices

• US 9,277,272 B2
• Filed: 06/04/2012
• Issued: 03/01/2016
• 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): Barot, Bharat N
• Application Number:
  US13/487,386
• Publication Number:
  US 20120239780A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,366 Days
• Field of Search: 709202-205, 709227-229, 709217-220, 709/249, 725/22, 725143-146
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 display;

an input unit;

a short range communication unit utilized for short range communication;

a network communication unit utilized for network communication; and

a processing unit configured to;

execute a determination process to determine whether the information processing apparatus is in a standby-mode,

execute a first receiving process to receive, via the network communication unit, a first content from a content provisioning device storing the first content,

execute a first utilization process to utilize the first content,

execute a sending process to send, via the short range communication unit, information identifying the first content to another information processing apparatus that is capable of short range communication,

execute a second receiving process to receive information identifying a second content from the another information processing apparatus via the short range communication unit,

execute a third receiving process to receive, via the network communication unit and based on the information identifying the second content, the second content from a content provisioning device storing the second content,

execute a second utilization process to utilize the second content, and

execute a permission validation process comprising;

controlling the display to present to a user a dialog for obtaining a permission for an operation;

receiving, from user input received via the input unit in response to the dialog, a user intention of permitting or not permitting the operation; and

determining, based on the user input, whether the user provides the permission,

wherein the input unit, the short range communication unit, the network communication unit, and the processing unit are each implemented via at least one processor.

2. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the short range communication unit utilizes Manchester code and ASK (Amplitude Shift Keying) modulation.

3. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the short range communication is close range non-contact communication.

4. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the short range communication is Bluetooth communication.

5. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the network communication comprises wireless LAN communication.

6. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the network communication comprises IP communication.

7. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the sending process and the second receiving process are performed based on a determination of the determination process.

8. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the sending process is performed in response to a request, from the another information processing apparatus, to receive the information identifying the first content.

9. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first content and the second content comprises AV data.

10. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first content and the second content comprises voice data.

11. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first content and the second content comprises moving image content.

12. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first content and the second content comprises visiting card information.

13. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first content and the second content comprises address information.

14. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first content is the same as the second content, and the content provisioning device storing the first content is the same as the content provisioning device storing the second content.

15. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the content provisioning device storing the first content is the same as the content provisioning device storing the second content.

16. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the sending process and the second receiving process are performed based on a determination of the permission validation process.

17. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the display is configured to display the first content and to display the second content.

18. The information processing apparatus of claim 17, wherein the first content and the second content are displayed based on a determination of the permission validation process.

19. An information processing method of an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:

determining whether the information processing apparatus is in a standby-mode;

executing a first receiving process to receive, via a network, a first content from a content provisioning device storing the first content;

executing a first utilization process to utilize the first content;

executing a sending process to send, via short range communication, information identifying the first content to another information processing apparatus that is capable of short range communication;

executing a second receiving process to receive information identifying a second content from the another information processing apparatus via short range communication;

executing a third receiving process to receive, via the network and based on the information identifying the second content, the second content from a content provisioning device storing the second content;

executing a second utilization process to utilize the second content; and

executing a permission validation process comprising;

controlling a display to present to a user a dialog for obtaining a permission for an operation;

receiving, from user input received via an input unit in response to the dialog, a user intention of permitting or not permitting the operation; and

determining, based on the user input, whether the user provides the permission.

20. The information processing method of claim 19, wherein the short range communication utilizes Manchester code and ASK (Amplitude Shift Keying) modulation.

21. The information processing method of claim 19, wherein the short range communication is close range non-contact communication.

22. The information processing method of claim 19, wherein the short range communication is Bluetooth communication.

23. The information processing method of claim 19, wherein the network comprises a wireless LAN.

24. The information processing method of claim 19, wherein communication over the network comprises IP communication.

25. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a processor of an information processing apparatus causes the information processing apparatus to execute a method, the method comprising:

determining whether the information processing apparatus is in a standby-mode;

executing a first receiving process to receive, via a network, a first content from a content provisioning device storing the first content;

executing a first utilization process to utilize the first content;

executing a sending process to send, via short range communication, information identifying the first content to another information processing apparatus that is capable of short range communication;

executing a second receiving process to receive information identifying a second content from the another information processing apparatus via short range communication;

executing a third receiving process to receive, via the network and based on the information identifying the second content, the second content from a content provisioning device storing the second content;

executing a second utilization process to utilize the second content; and

executing a permission validation process comprising;

controlling a display to present to a user a dialog for obtaining a permission for an operation;

receiving, from user input received via an input unit in response to the dialog, a user intention of permitting or not permitting the operation; and

determining, based on the user input, whether the user provides the permission.