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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2006
Junichi Yoshizawa, Fuchu, JP;
Junichi Yoshizawa, Fuchu, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
According to one embodiment, there is provided an electronic apparatus including a meta-data acquiring portion to acquire, through a network, meta-data containing, in a specific area, copy control information indicative of at least whether copy of a content is permitted or not, a meta-data analyzing portion to analyze information contained in the meta-data acquired by the meta-data acquiring portion, and an information display processing portion to display information indicative of a kind of a process that is permitted to be performed with respect to the content, based on the copy control information contained in the information analyzed by the meta-data analyzing portion, the specific area in the meta-data containing description of attribute information relating to a resource of the content, and the copy control information being described as a part of the attribute information.