Sony Corporation

Jun Moriya

Yasuhiro Murase

Shinsuke Yamashita

Hiroyuki Kikkoji

Nozomu Okuzawa

Takeshi Iwatsu

Noriyuki Sakoh

Susumu Yamahara

Yoshiyuki Takaku

Junichi Nakamura

Satoshi Araki

Naoki Yuasa

Toshikazu Minoshima

Natsumi Saito

A content receiving apparatus including a receiver receiving first contents from a broadcasting station, a temporary memory unit temporarily storing first contents-related information related to the first contents, a memory storing the first contents and storing, based on an input recording request, the first contents-related information; and the memory storing a plurality of second contents and a plurality of second contents-related information received from a server, the second contents-related information being related to the first contents, and displayable.

Recording device, recording method, and program

A user sets an apparatus name easily identified by the user to a terminal, transmits the apparatus name together with user identification information to a terminal management server for managing a terminal, and the terminal management server registers the apparatus name as associated with the user identification information, thereby allowing the terminal management server to uniquely identify each terminal based on the apparatus name associated with the user identification information. Furthermore, a user can easily identify an apparatus name, thereby realizing a service utilizing system capable of reducing the laborious procedure of operating the terminal management server, and easily identifying each terminal.

Service use method and management method

A data-processing method of receiving broadcast contents and content-related information related to the broadcast contents. The method includes setting a frequency for receiving the broadcast contents from the broadcast station, and recording frequency information corresponding to the set frequency. The method also includes transmitting request information including broadcast station ID identifying the broadcast station corresponding to the frequency information to a server.

Data-processing apparatus, data-processing method and data-processing program

Request informationis transmitted from a transmission meansof a communication deviceto a server. Then, related informationcorresponding to the request informationand an identification codeare obtained and transmitted to the communication deviceby a transmission means. The related informationand identification codeare stored in a storage meansof the communication device. Thereafter, purchase request informationis transmitted to the serverby the transmission means. This purchase request informationis added with an identification codeand user identification information. Then, content datacorresponding to the purchase request informationand additional datacorresponding to the identification codeare transmitted to the communication deviceby the transmission meansof the server

Information processing device, information processing method, and information processing program

Set information including information identifying one or more areas of operation of a broadcast terminal apparatus and a user ID, and broadcast-station information including a name and an identification data item of a broadcast station are stored. The broadcast-station information is stored in association with an area in which a broadcast signal output by the broadcast station can be received. An information-processing apparatus includes a detecting unit that retrieves the name or the identification data item of the broadcast station upon a reception of information identifying one of the one or more areas of operation and the user ID. The information-processing apparatus also includes a transmitting/receiving unit that receives the reception, transmits a transmission of the name or the identification data item of the broadcast station upon the reception, and receives an indicator of the broadcast station and an indicator of the user ID in response to the transmission.

A first communication apparatusstores a first customer information registered by a user in order to receive a first service. A second communication apparatusstores a first customer information registered by the user in order to receive a second service. A transmission meanof a third communication apparatustransmits request information requesting to receive the first service to the first communication apparatustogether with identification information of the user. A reception meanreceives customer information necessary for user registration for the first service from the first communication apparatusaccording to the transmission of the request information. When the customer information necessary for the user registration for the first service is already included in second customer information, a display meandisplays the customer information in the second customer information on an input screen for user registration. Therefore, input of customer information of a user is facilitated in the case in which user registration is performed in plural communication apparatuses.

Communication system and communication method

A processing unit detects whether externally input user personal information has been stored in a storage medium. A network interface transmits a transmission of available/unavailable request information identifying a broadcast station that broadcast received broadcast information, if the externally input user personal information has not been stored in the storage medium. The network interface receives available/unavailable information in a reply to the transmission. The available/unavailable information shows whether an external device offers a service providing related information about contents included in the received broadcast information. The network interface transmits the externally input user personal information to the external device to request a user registration in accordance with the available/unavailable information, if the processing unit detects that the externally input user personal information is not stored in the storage medium. The network interface transmits request information that requests the related information about the contents.

Communication device, communicate method for communication device, and communication program for communication device

The present invention provides a display device for retrieving and displaying the list information regarding the broadcast contents in which the list information corresponding to the program broadcast before or after can be displayed without making the complicate key operations. An information servertransmits a list of musical compositions broadcast in a designated time zone to a terminal unit, based on a retrieval key such as date and time zone from the terminal unit. The terminal unitdisplays the received list of musical compositions on a display part. At this time, the directive items for displaying the list of musical compositions broadcast before and after are displayed, together with the received list of musical compositions. The user is allowed to display the list of musical compositions broadcast in a preceding or succeeding time zone only by selecting a directive item by performing an operation in series with a selection operation for a musical composition within the list of musical compositions, without returning to other screen, or re-specifying the retrieval conditions.

Display device, display method, and display control program

A client terminal CT transmits an acquisition request for musical composition information. An associated information provision server KS continuously receives the acquisition request at a given time interval. The associated information provision server KS transmits timing specification information along with the musical composition information corresponding to the acquisition request to the client terminal CT. The timing specification information specifies timing for the client terminal CT to transmit the acquisition request next. The associated information provision server KS controls a polling interval for acquisition requests. In this manner, acquisition requests can be distributed to those transmitted at a given time interval and those received in accordance with the timing specification information. A simple method can be used to prevent acquisition requests from being concentrated on the associated information provision server KS.

Communication method

An interface receives, in a ticket request, service ID data designating a service to be provided, together with user ID data and apparatus ID data, from an external apparatus, and receives a cancellation request including the user ID data and the apparatus ID data from the external apparatus. A processor produces a result of an authentication based on the user ID data and the apparatus ID data upon a reception of the ticket request, and deletes, from a memory, the apparatus ID data after deleting, from the memory, the service ID data, when the interface receives, from the external apparatus, the cancellation request requesting a deletion of the apparatus ID data. The interface transmits a ticket to the external apparatus, in response to the reception of the ticket request, based on the result of the authentication based on the user ID data and the apparatus ID data.

Information processing device and communication method

To further correctly obtain related information about contents being received from a server. A communication apparatussuccessively transmits request information that requests related information about contents being received via a network, at specified intervals (S), receives related information corresponding to that request information (S), temporarily stores (S), displays it (S), and performs contents updating processing. Here, if a direction to store the related information about the contents is entered, the communication apparatusrequests again request information for related information about contents, separately from the contents updating processing (S). Then, the communication apparatusreceives related information corresponding to that request information (S), and stores it (S). This enables the latest related information to be further correctly obtained out of related information concerning contents, and obtaining related information before updating is reduced.

Communication method, communication device, and program

According to the present invention, the step of requesting of an associated information provision server KS for associated information about contents broadcast in a broadcast program being received is provided. The step of acquiring the associated information corresponding to the request from the associated information provision server KS and storing this is provided. And the retrieval step of transmitting a part of the associated information as a retrieval key to retrieve contents to a CD seller server, and obtaining retrieval results from the CD seller serveris provided. Thereby, the associated information about the contents broadcast in the broadcast program being received is obtained. The retrieval results are obtained from a contents retrieval server by using the part of the associated information as retrieval keys. Therefore, retrieval results having variety that are not limited to results conceived by the user in a certain degree can be obtained.

Even in the case where a first request signal for requesting the source of the top page and a second request signal for requesting the source of A Corporation CD sales page were transmitted from a client terminal, if the source of an information page has been stored in a portal server, the above source of the information page is transmitted from the portal serverto the client terminalbefore the source of the top page or the source of the A Corporation CD sales page is transmitted from the portal serveror the contents sales server

Page data reception method, page data providing method, device thereof, and program

A user authentication processing is performed and an authentication session ID is returned to a terminal(A). An authentication serverissues and stores an authentication ticket (A). The authentication ticket and authentication session are returned to the terminal(A). A usertransmits a request of service provision and the authentication ticket to a service provider's server, and the service provider's servertransmits the authentication ticket to the authentication server(A). The authentication serverperforms an authentication processing of the authentication ticket (A), and the authentication result is notified (A). In the case of the authentication approval, a service session ID is issued together with the notification of authorization (A). When receiving the notification of the authentication approval, the terminalperforms an establishment processing of the session using the received service session ID, and stores the service session ID (A).

Authentication method, authentication system, and authentication server

A method includes receiving, from a broadcast receiver, identification information for identifying a currently received broadcast station. The method also includes receiving, from an external server, state information which indicates a state of a service for providing information concerning the currently received broadcast station corresponding to the identification information. In addition, the method includes providing information, from a server, depending on whether a URL is included in the state information. The method further includes transmitting, to the broadcast receiver, the state information and an address corresponding to the service, after receiving the identification information from the broadcast receiver and the state information from the external server.

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Tokyo, Japan

Jun Moriya