Data Transfer Method and Server Computer System
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Abstract
A server computer system generates, for data stored in a transmission source server, index information including a data identification number, a data type, information for the data such as copyright information and an address of a server whereat the data are stored, and transmits only the index information to a hand-held information terminal carried by the owner of the transmission source server, thereby, a data transfer is requested for transferring, to a transmission destination server, data indicating the index information from the hand-held information terminal to the transmission destination server in accordance with the index information held by the hand-held information terminal and an address of the transmission destination server.
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16 Claims
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1. (canceled)
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2. A content transmission method, in a content transmission system in which a first information apparatus in a first house is connected with a second information apparatus in a second house via Internet, comprising the steps of:
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verifying, by the first information apparatus, a hand-held information terminal, which accesses the first information apparatus via the Internet from outside of the first house; if the hand-held information terminal is verified by the first information apparatus, receiving, by the hand-held information terminal, identification information of a content and a thumbnail of the content, both of which are stored in the first information apparatus; displaying, by the hand-held information terminal, the received identification information and thumbnail of the content on the hand-held information terminal as a content list; accepting, by the hand-held information terminal, a selection of the content from the displayed content list; receiving, by the first information apparatus, a content transmission request for the selected content; and transmitting, by the first information apparatus, the selected content to the second information apparatus via the Internet. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A hand-held information terminal, which is connected with a first information apparatus in a first house and a second information apparatus in a second house via Internet, comprising:
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a network communication unit which sends own terminal identification information to the first information apparatus via the Internet; a reception unit which receives identification information of a content and a thumbnail of the content, both of which are stored in the first information apparatus if the hand-held information terminal is verified by the first information apparatus based on the sent terminal identification information; a display unit which displays the received identification information and thumbnail of the content as a content list; an input unit which accepts a selection of the content from the displayed content list; and a request transmitting unit which transmits a content transmission request for the content selected at the input unit to the first information apparatus such that the first information apparatus transmits the selected content to the second information apparatus via the Internet in response to the content transmission request. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A first information apparatus in a first house, the first information apparatus being connected with a second information apparatus in a second house via Internet, comprising:
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a storage unit, which stores a content; a network communication unit, which receives identification information of a hand-held information terminal from the hand-held information terminal outside the first house via the Internet; a verification unit, which verifies the hand-held information terminal based on the terminal identification information received at the network communication unit; a transmission unit, which transmits identification information of the content and a thumbnail of the content stored in the storage unit to the hand-held information terminal, if the hand-held information terminal is verified by the verification unit; a reception unit, which receives a content transmission request for a content selected at the hand-held information terminal from a content list generated based on the identification information and thumbnail of the content; and a content transmission unit, which transmits the selected content to the second information apparatus via the Internet. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16)
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