Sony Corporation

Hidehiko Kakinuma

Kazumasa Sato

Yukihisa Miya

Akinori Iida

Toru Kuwahara

Keiji Shiotani

Yoshitsugu Hasumi

Motoshi Asano

A video playback system includes a video distribution server and at least one information processing device. The video distribution server includes a video distribution portion that performs streaming distribution of a video stream, an alternative video distribution portion that distributes an alternative video, and a control information distribution portion that distributes control information. The information processing device includes a receiving portion that receives the video stream, the alternative video, and the control information, a storage portion that stores the alternative video and the control information, a video stream playback portion that performs streaming playback of the video stream, an alternative video playback portion that plays back the stored alternative video, and a playback switching control portion that, based on the stored control information, controls switching between the streaming playback and the playback of the alternative video.

Information processing device, video playback method, program, and video playback system

Using a preset, temporary ID, a user accesses an on-line shop where he is not registered. When the user buys a commodity, the on-line shop sends order data to a money gate. In response to a request from the money gate, a mall-operating company where the user is registered sends the money gate information necessary for settlement such as a credit number. The money gate generates final order data by combining the order data and the information necessary for settlement. Settlement processing with a card company is performed by using the final order data.

Settlement intermediation processing apparatus, storage medium in which a program for settlement intermediation processing is stored, computer program for settlement intermediation, online shop apparatus, and on-line shopping method and system

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Tokyo, Japan

Hidehiko Kakinuma