Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Hideki Fujimori

Futoshi Nakabe

Mami Kuramitsu

Tetsuji Sumita

A mobile terminal apparatus is provided to process a copyright-protected content based on rights that permit the processing of the content. The mobile terminal apparatus includes a priority information selecting unit selecting a piece of priority information associated with one of many processing conditions for the content to be processed, from among pieces of priority information for determining a priority for each of the rights. The mobile terminal apparatus also includes a right selecting unit determining a priority of each of the rights based on the selected piece of priority information, and selecting a right having a highest priority among the rights, according to the determined priority. The mobile terminal apparatus also includes a content processing unit processing the content based on the selected right.

Processing of content with rights associated priority information based on conditions

A proxy server apparatus receives a resource obtainment request from a client terminal apparatus, creates, from the received resource obtainment request, divisional get requests that specify resource obtainment ranges, and sends the divisional get requests to a web server apparatus. The proxy server apparatus includes a control unit and a management unit. The control unit creates the divisional get requests by referring to margin times and wait times managed for each request by the management unit.

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Hiroshima, Japan

Hideki Fujimori