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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2006
Takeo Morinaga, Kanagawa, JP;
Ichiro Hamada, Kanagawa, JP;
Takeo Morinaga, Kanagawa, JP;
Ichiro Hamada, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
A transmission/reception system includes a providing apparatus and a recording apparatus. The providing apparatus has a generating section which generates restrictive information for each piece of content to be broadcast, and a providing section which provides the restrictive information by broadcasting to the recording apparatus. The recording apparatus has a management section which manages the restrictive information, and a restriction section that adds a restriction to at least one of a next copying of the same content as copied last or each piece of the recorded content that provided a source of the copying.