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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 05, 1999
Chiyo Akamatsu, Yokohama, JP;
Tetsuo Shinagawa, Odawara, JP;
Yoshimichi Kudo, Fujisawa, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
For providing a receiving contract service being convenient or friendly to both the broadcast service providers and the viewers, and in particular, for providing a digital broadcast receiver set, an information apparatus and a digital broadcasting receiving system, there is provided a system in which a digital broadcast receiver set, an output apparatusand recording apparatusesandare connected with a control bus, wherein there are provided a designated program devising portionfor extracting a plurality of programs at the same time, a receiving contract managing portionfor managing information relating to receiving contacts, and a output destination supervising portionfor managing distributing destination of the broadcast programs at the present, thereby distributing the broadcast programs to the output apparatusand/or the recording apparatusesand, on a basis of the contents of the receiving contracts.