Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Masami Matsubara

Shinji Akatsu

Shin Miura

Shigeru Imai

Takehiko Hanada

Takumi Akiyama

Hiroki Sakaguchi

Kohtaro Asai

Yukimasa Sugino

Susumu Oka

A service information provision apparatus is provided with a data service information table configured from a service discovery information table showing association of specific information of a service provider and service discovery information as service content information provided by the service provider, and a service offer information table showing association of the service discovery information of the service discovery information table and data contents corresponding to the service discovery information.

Service information provision apparatus and service information acquisition apparatus

A content display device includes a content setting storage meansfor storing a content setting which associates a content selection request with a content which an external device has, a content setting server meansfor accepting a content setting from a content setting clienton a network to update and manage content settings stored in the content setting storage means, and a display content management meansfor reading a content setting corresponding to the content selection request from the content setting storage meansto present the content which the content setting clienthas to a display means, or, when the content setting corresponding to the content setting request does not exist, displaying a method of accessing the content setting server meansand identification information for identifying the content setting clienton the display means

Content display device

An application executing unitmakes a request for assignment of a remote control button to an application currently being executed, a button assignment management unitcarries out an assignment process of assigning the remote control button to the application, and a user interface unitinquires of the button assignment management unitabout an application corresponding to a remote control button indicated by a remote control code received by a remote control code receiving unitshows, and notifies a predetermined event associated with the application to the application executing unit

Application executing terminal

A client apparatus in accordance with the present invention includes a contents list request transmitting meansfor transmitting a request of a media server apparatusto transmit a contents list which is a list of metadata of contents, a contents list receiving meansfor receiving the contents list from the media server apparatus, an item list storing meansfor storing the contents list and an item list having listed items each of which is described as metadata, an item list transmitting meansfor transmitting the item list to a monitor server apparatus, a key input meansfor receiving a key input, an input key transmitting meansfor transmitting the key input to the monitor server apparatus, and an identification information receiving meansfor receiving identification information making it possible to uniquely identify each item included in the item list.

Client apparatus

A transcoder includes transcoder modulesandwhich convert the formats of contents stored in serversandinto formats which can be supported by a renderer, respectively, and an internal controllerfor comparing the format of each content stored in the serversandwith the conversion functions of the transcoder modulesandto create a transcoder content list in which contents which can be supported are described, and for transferring a content acquisition request to acquire a content to the serversand, the content acquisition request being transmitted thereto on the basis of the created transcoder content list.

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Tokyo, Japan

Masami Matsubara