Pioneer Corporation

Katsutoshi Inagaki

Tsutomu Takahashi

Masao Higuchi

Akihiro Tozaki

Kunihiro Minoshima

Tsuyoshi Hasebe

Ryuichiro Morioka

Gaku Yamamura

Kazutomo Watanabe

Yoshitaka Tanaka

Yasuo Shirosaki

Ryuichi Morioka

A method for reserving recording and viewing a broadcast program on a display screen includes the steps of extracting a broadcast program timetable; simultaneously displaying the broadcast program timetable and a viewing reservation timetable; waiting for a selection input to select a broadcast program on the display screen; waiting for an allocation input to allocate a selected program into the viewing reservation timetable; and generating recording instruction to instruct recording of the selected program and reproduction reservation instruction to instruct reproduction of the selected program at a time corresponding to a position at which the selected program is allocated in the viewing reservation timetable.

Program recording and viewing reservation system and method thereof

In a network system S, which includes an agent server LS that is located between the Internet IN and a terminal T and that relays a connection request from the terminal T to the Internet IN, the agent server LS requests the establishment of a connection between the terminal T and the agent server LS and transmits to the terminal T a request signal that includes identification information for the agent server LS. The terminal T receives the request signal and examines the agent server LS based on the identification information included in the received signal. When it is concluded that the agent server LS that transmitted the request signal is one to which the terminal T should be connected, a connection is established with the agent module LS that transmitted the request signal.

Network system, network operation method, agent module, terminal device, and information recording medium and program therefor

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Tokorozawa, Japan

Katsutoshi Inagaki