Sony Corporation

Sony Electronics Inc

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.

Ippei Tambata

Mitsuyuki Hatanaka

Toshihiro Morita

Kiyonobu Kojima

Shin Shiroma

Nobuyuki Kihara

Ichiro Sakamoto

Kenji Tomizawa

Shoichi Awai

Tessho Ishida

Akira Shinada

Kazuhiro Fukuda

Daisuke Kawamura

Katsuhiko Nunokawa

Michael Hoch

Philip McKay

Hiroaki Okajima

Ravi Gauba

Sidney Wang

Himgan Wibisono

Jeff J Liu

Andrew M Prohel

Elizabeth Coppinger

Michael S Harwayne

Rodger Lea

Keiichi Yoshioka

Tetsuo Maruyama

Goro Takaki

Yasushi Okumura

Tatsuya Narahara

Hiroyuki Arai

Steven Friedlander

Toshiaki Sato

Kazuto Mugura

Norihiro Nagai

Kazuto Nishizawa

Goro Asai

Yoshiyasu Kubota

Ryo Takaoka

Mikio Kamada

Shoji Imamura

Nariaki Satoh

Kazuya Sasaki

Rui Yamagami

Naoyuki Miyada

Travis Charles Baurmann

Atsushi Narita

Hiroyuki Chigasaki

Masafumi Kizu

Asako Honjo

Kuriko Takeshima

Nariaki Sato

Masahiro Okuno

Henry Newton-Dunn

Sean Christopher Endler

Joseph Steven Herres

Jon Gaiser

Kou Kusanaga

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium is provided for storing computer program instructions that cause a computer to implement a method of exchanging content. The method includes connecting to an information processing apparatus, and transferring a ID of the computer to the information processing apparatus when a connection to the information processing apparatus is detected. The method further includes storing content and data related to the content transmitted from the information processing apparatus, transferring the data corresponding to the content stored in the computer, and reproducing the stored content. The content is automatically transferred to the computer when the computer is judged to be a predetermined device.

Information processing apparatus and associated method of content exchange

There is provided an information providing apparatus including an ECG scenario storage portion to store an ECG scenario related to a program in association with reference ID, an ECG package storage portion to store reference IDs of ECG scenarios related to programs in association with discrimination ID of an ECG channel allocated to an ECG package in order to provide a collection of information related to programs having a relationship as an ECG package, an ECG package providing portion to acquire discrimination ID of a particular channel from a receiving terminal, extract an ECG package corresponding to the acquired discrimination ID and provide it to the receiving terminal, and an ECG scenario providing portion to acquire reference ID of a particular ECG scenario included in the ECG package from the receiving terminal, extract an ECG scenario corresponding to the acquired reference ID and provide it to the receiving terminal.

Information providing apparatus, information receiving terminal, information providing system, information providing method and program

An information processing device for providing a program selected on the basis of a predetermined theme among recorded programs and programs to be received to a user. A special program is generated by selecting a predetermined program on the basis of a predetermined theme such as 'person of the today', 'hot drama', among recorded programs and programs to be received to a user and the contents of the selected program is displayed on a screen as information of a recommendation program. The contents of the special program are changed according to preference of the user, a displaying time of the screen, and setting by the user.

Information processing device, method of processing information, and program

Display panel or screen with graphical user interface

The information receiving apparatus includes the related information receiving portion to receive content-related information, the mode selecting portion to select a link condition between the content and the related information, the related information request transmitting portion to transmit content designation information when the link condition is switched to the link mode or the content is switched in the link mode, and the display control portion to display the content, related information and link condition. The information providing apparatus includes the related information storage portion to store the related information associating with the content, the related information request receiving portion to receive the content designation information, the related information extracting portion to extract the related information corresponding to the content, and the related information transmitting portion to transmit the related information. This provides the information providing system enabling browsing of the related information with or without a link to the content.

Information providing system, information receiving apparatus, information providing apparatus, information providing method and program

An information processor such as a personal computer is provided. A terminal is operably linked to the information processor to check out or to check in content to/from the terminal. A device driver detects that a portable device is connected to the information processor and when the device driver detects that the portable device is connected to the information processor, a start-up program reads contents-related data from the portable device and starts up a display/operation instruction program to provide a display corresponding to the data accessed from the terminal.

In a cooperative processing system for performing cooperative process between a portable terminal and a television terminal through a service server and a device control server, content and content information separately managed by a content server connected to the television terminal and the service server are searched based on a search condition extracted from the content or the content information reproduced and displayed by the portable terminal, and the search result of the content and the content information is seamlessly displayed on the television terminal. Consequently, the convenience of the user in content usage can be enhanced.

Information processing apparatus, content reproduction apparatus, information providing apparatus, device control apparatus, cooperative processing system, and program

Disclosed herein is an apparatus along with a method for displaying a list of data to be transferred from one storage area to another in conjunction with a progress status report of the data transfer, thereby allowing users to know at a glance how far the transfer of desired data has progressed.

Data transfer apparatus and data transfer method

A relationship initiation between devices in a network is described. According to one embodiment, persona information is exchanged between devices in a network. Based upon the persona information, a user of a device may initiate a relationship with another device.

Initializing relationships between devices in a network

An information processor or personal computer is provided having an operably linked terminal which checks out/in in a content to or from the terminal. A device driver detects that a portable device is connected to the personal computer, and when the device driver detects that the portable device is connected to the personal computer, a start-up program reads contents-related data from the portable device and starts up a display/operation instruction program to provide a display corresponding to the read data.

Information processing apparatus and associated method of transferring grouped content

A digital content file having user history information is received at a first device. The user history information includes an alias name of a previous user of the digital content file. A user may review the user history information of the digital content file for information of the previous user of the digital content.

Managing and sharing identities on a network

In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect an input; display a plurality of selections; detect a location of a first segment relative to the plurality of selections; highlight a particular selection from the plurality of selections when the first segment is within an area of the particular selection; and select the particular selection based on the first segment being located within the area of the particular selection.

Methods and apparatuses for viewing choices and making selections

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Kanagawa, Japan

Ippei Tambata