Content Information Deliver System

• US 20100161764A1
• Filed: 12/14/2009
• Published: 06/24/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Ono, Yoshiyuki, Kawahara, Kazuhiko
• Application Number:
  US12/637,602
• Publication Number:
  US 20100161764A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/567 Integrating service provisioning from a plurality of service providers

Abstract

A relay server computer connected to a broadcaster server computer and a content information acquisition request unit via a network includes: a content information database constructing unit that acquires content information from the broadcaster server computer to construct a content information database; a content information acquisition request receiving unit; a content information acquisition unit that searches through the content information database to acquire content information corresponding to the content information acquisition request; and a content information transmitting unit that transmits the acquired content information to a content information acquisition request unit.

Claims

1. A relay server computer that is connected to a broadcaster server computer of a broadcaster and a content information acquisition request unit of a user via a network, comprising:

a content information database constructing unit that acquires content information from the broadcaster server computer to construct a content information database;

a content information acquisition request receiving unit that receives a content information acquisition request from the content information acquisition request unit;

a content information acquisition unit that searches through the content information database to acquire content information corresponding to the content information acquisition request when the content information acquisition request receiving unit has received the content information acquisition request; and

a content information transmitting unit that transmits the content information acquired by the content information acquisition unit to the content information acquisition request unit.

2. The relay server computer according to claim 1, wherein:

the content information acquisition request includes a designation of a broadcaster that is requested to transmit the content information; and

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the content information acquisition unit searches through the content information database to acquire content information of the broadcaster included in the content information acquisition request.

3. The relay server computer according to claim 2, further comprising a reception date identification unit that identifies the date at which the content information acquisition request receiving unit receives the content information acquisition request,

wherein the content information acquisition unit acquires the content information that corresponds to the broadcaster included in the content information acquisition request and the date identified by the reception date identification unit from the content information database.

4. The relay server computer according to claim 1, further comprising:

a reception date identification unit that identifies the date at which the content information acquisition request receiving unit receives the content information acquisition request;

a content information view list transmitting unit that identifies content information of all broadcasters corresponding to the date identified by the reception date identification unit, generates a content information view list thereof, and transmits the content information view list to the content information acquisition request unit; and

a transmission content designation receiving unit that receives a transmission content designation, which is information for identifying content information designated based on the content information view list,

wherein the content information acquisition unit searches through the content information database to acquire content information corresponding to the transmission content designation when the transmission content designation receiving unit has received the transmission content designation.

5. The relay server computer according to claim 4, wherein:

the content information database stores therein additional information data accompanying the content information so as to correspond to the content information; and

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the content information view list transmitting unit searches through the content information database to acquire the additional information data with respect to the content information of all broadcasters corresponding to the date identified by the reception date identification unit, and transmits the additional information data to the content information acquisition request unit with the additional information data included in the content information view list.

6. The relay server computer according to claim 1, wherein the content information database constructed by the content information database constructing unit stores therein the content information, the broadcasters, and the broadcast time of the broadcasters in a correlated manner.

7. A printer that is connected via a network to a relay server computer having a content information database constructed by content information acquired from a broadcaster server computer, comprising:

a print request receiving unit that receives a content information print request from a user;

a content information print request transmitting unit that transmits a content information print request to the relay server computer when the print request receiving unit has received the content information print request;

a print data receiving unit that receives print data in response to the content information print request from the relay server computer; and

a print execution unit that executes printing based on the print data received by the print data receiving unit.

8. A content information delivery system having a relay server computer that delivers content information acquired from a broadcaster server computer of a broadcaster to a content information acquisition request unit of a user via a network, wherein:

the relay server computer comprises a content information database constructing unit that acquires content information from the broadcaster server computer to construct a content information database;

the content information acquisition request unit comprises;

a content information acquisition request receiving unit that receives a content information acquisition request from a user; and

a content information acquisition request transmitting unit that transmits a content information acquisition request to the relay server computer when the content information acquisition request receiving unit has received the content information acquisition request;

the relay server computer further comprises;

a content information acquisition request receiving unit that receives the content information acquisition request from the content information acquisition request unit;

a content information acquisition unit that searches through the content information database to acquire content information corresponding to the content information acquisition request when the content information acquisition request receiving unit has received the content information acquisition request; and

a content information transmitting unit that transmits the content information acquired by the content information acquisition unit to the content information acquisition request unit; and

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the content information acquisition request unit further comprises a content information receiving unit that receives the content information from the relay server computer.

9. The content information delivery system according to claim 8, wherein the content information acquisition request unit further comprises a print execution unit that executes printing based on the content information received by the content information receiving unit.

10. The content information delivery system according to claim 8, wherein the content information acquisition request unit further comprises a content information storage unit that stores the content information received by the content information receiving unit.

11. A recorder that is connected via a network to a relay server computer having a content information database constructed by content information acquired from a broadcaster server computer, comprising:

a content information acquisition request receiving unit that receives a content information acquisition request from a user;

a content information acquisition request transmitting unit that transmits the content information acquisition request to the relay server computer when the content information acquisition request receiving unit has received the content information acquisition request;

a content information receiving unit that receives content information in response to the content information acquisition request from the relay server computer; and

a content information storage unit that stores the content information received by the content information receiving unit.