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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2015
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Tomohiko Hishinuma, Kanagawa, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A client device includes cache in which a source of content is stored, a cache information transmitting unit configured to transmit information indicating the source stored in the cache to a server managing a group of client devices capable of communicating without using an external network, an external cache acquiring unit configured to acquire, from other client devices in the group, sources of content requested to be output based on information provided by the server, and a source acquiring unit configured to, when at least a part among the sources of the content requested to be output is not acquired from the other client devices, acquire the unacquired source from a content server through the external network.