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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2009
Hiroyuki Kikkoji, Tokyo, JP;
Nozomu Okuzawa, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiyuki Takaku, Tokyo, JP;
Susumu Yamahara, Tokyo, JP;
Shinsuke Yamashita, Kanagawa, JP;
Jun Moriya, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiro Murase, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Kikkoji, Tokyo, JP;
Nozomu Okuzawa, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiyuki Takaku, Tokyo, JP;
Susumu Yamahara, Tokyo, JP;
Shinsuke Yamashita, Kanagawa, JP;
Jun Moriya, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiro Murase, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To further correctly obtain related information about contents being received from a server. A communication apparatussuccessively transmits request information that requests related information about contents being received via a network, at specified intervals (S), receives related information corresponding to that request information (S), temporarily stores (S), displays it (S), and performs contents updating processing. Here, if a direction to store the related information about the contents is entered, the communication apparatusrequests again request information for related information about contents, separately from the contents updating processing (S). Then, the communication apparatusreceives related information corresponding to that request information (S), and stores it (S). This enables the latest related information to be further correctly obtained out of related information concerning contents, and obtaining related information before updating is reduced.