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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2004
Teppei Yokota, Chiba, JP;
Teppei Yokota, Chiba, JP;
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
A network system by which contents providing services over the Internet may be accepted in each room of a home includes a server apparatus and an electronic equipment terminal interconnected over a LAN. The server apparatus may be connected to the Internet. The electronic equipment terminal transmits a command requesting contents to be acquired over the Internet to the server apparatus via a communication interface and the LAN and receives digital data of the decoded result of the contents transmitted from the server apparatus over the LAN. The electronic equipment terminal performs audio reproduction and/or video display by an audio reproducing unit and/or a video display unit.