Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Memory Corporation

Kazunari Sumiyoshi

Makoto Sato

Takahiro Kurita

Hiroyuki Mizuno

Nobuhiro Ono

Hisaki Niikura

Kazunari Kawamura

A storage system includes a plurality of nodes, each of the nodes including one or more node modules each of which includes a nonvolatile storage, and a connection unit directly connectable to at least one of the nodes. The connection unit is configured to transmit an access request or an inquiry directed to a target node module, determine a length of an interval before re-transmitting the access request or the inquiry, based on a response indicating an operation status of the target node module, which is returned by the target node module in response to the access request or the inquiry, and re-transmits the access request or the inquiry after the interval of the determined length has passed.

Storage system including a plurality of nodes

A recorded data storing unit previously stores recorded content data. An index information storing unit stores index information corresponding to portions being grouped depending on attributes of the recorded content from the outside. A playlist creating unit creates a playlist presenting editing targets for the attributes according to specified information specified by a user for the attributes using the specified information and index information appended to the portions of the recorded content depending on the attributes. A playlist storing unit stores the playlist created by the playlist creating unit. A content editing unit edits the editing targets in recorded content in the recorded data storing unit according to the index information in the index information storing unit and the playlist in the playlist storing unit.

Recording/playback device, recording/playback method and digital broadcast viewing history recording system

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kazunari Sumiyoshi