CONTENT SHARING SYSTEM

• US 20120290951A1
• Filed: 04/27/2012
• Published: 11/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Utsuki, Shingo, Ihara, Koji, Matthew, D. Forrest
• Application Number:
  US13/457,771
• Publication Number:
  US 20120290951A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/753
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• 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

Abstract

Provided is a content sharing system including a plurality of first information processing apparatuses that are each operated by a player who operates content, and displays same content, one or more second information processing apparatuses that are each operated by an audience member viewing operation details of a player on the content and displays the content that is displayed at the first information processing apparatuses simultaneously with the first information processing apparatuses, and a server device for relaying information between the first information processing apparatuses and the second information processing apparatuses. When a predetermined condition is reached, the first information processing apparatuses start display of content same as the second information processing apparatuses, and the second information processing apparatuses each simultaneously display, including the operation details of the player, content same as the content displayed by the first information processing apparatuses.

Claims

1. A content sharing system comprising:

a plurality of first information processing apparatuses that are each operated by a player who operates content, and displays same content;

one or more second information processing apparatuses that are each operated by an audience member viewing operation details of a player on the content and displays the content that is displayed at the first information processing apparatuses simultaneously with the first information processing apparatuses; and

a server device for relaying information between the first information processing apparatuses and the second information processing apparatuses,

wherein, when a predetermined condition is reached, the first information processing apparatuses start display of content same as the second information processing apparatuses, and the second information processing apparatuses each simultaneously display, including the operation details of the player, content same as the content displayed by the first information processing apparatuses.

2. The content sharing system according to claim 1, wherein, when the number of people viewing the content using the second information processing apparatuses reaches a predetermined number, sharing of the content between the first information processing apparatuses and the second information processing apparatuses is started.

3. The content sharing system according to claim 1, wherein, when a duration of stay at the content by the second information processing apparatuses reaches a predetermined value, sharing of the content between the first information processing apparatuses and the second information processing apparatuses is started.

4. The content sharing system according to claim 1, wherein the server device provides, to the first information processing apparatuses and the second information processing apparatuses, a login to the system by using a service different from a service providing the content.

5. The content sharing system according to claim 1, wherein the content is a Web page.

6. The content sharing system according to claim 1, wherein the second information processing apparatuses each further include a feedback transmission unit for returning feedback to an operation on the content by the first information processing apparatus.

7. The content sharing system according to claim 6, wherein the feedback transmission unit transmits the feedback using text.

8. The content sharing system according to claim 6, wherein the feedback transmission unit transmits the feedback using an emotional expression.

9. The content sharing system according to claim 6, wherein the server device transmits details of the feedback from the feedback transmission unit to all of the first information processing apparatuses and the second information processing apparatuses that are logged in and that are displaying same content.

10. The content sharing system according to claim 1,

wherein the first information processing apparatuses each include:

an operation detection unit for detecting the operation details regarding the content; and

an operation details transmission unit for transmitting the operation details detected by the operation detection unit to the server device.

11. The content sharing system according to claim 1,

wherein the second information processing apparatuses each include:

an operation details reception unit for receiving the operation details at the first information processing apparatus transmitted via the server device; and

a display control unit for reflecting the operation details in display of the content.

12. The content sharing system according to claim 1,

wherein the server device includes:

a user management unit for managing a login state of the player and the audience member; and

an information relay unit for transmitting the operation details transmitted from the first information processing apparatus to the first information processing apparatus other than a transmission source and the second information processing apparatuses.