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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2008
Hideo Nagasaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Shigeru Inoue, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Tominaga, Tokyo, JP;
Yasushi Miyajima, Kanagawa, JP;
Tadaaki Kimijima, Tokyo, JP;
Toshimasa Miyoshi, Kanagawa, JP;
Mamoru Tokashiki, Tokyo, JP;
Soichiro Atsumi, Shizuoka, JP;
Toru Sasaki, Tokyo, JP;
Hideo Nagasaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Shigeru Inoue, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Tominaga, Tokyo, JP;
Yasushi Miyajima, Kanagawa, JP;
Tadaaki Kimijima, Tokyo, JP;
Toshimasa Miyoshi, Kanagawa, JP;
Mamoru Tokashiki, Tokyo, JP;
Soichiro Atsumi, Shizuoka, JP;
Toru Sasaki, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information processing method of an information processing system including a client device functioning as a client and a server device functioning as a server which are capable of communication via a network, includes the steps of: at the server device, managing format identification information provided so as to be unique for each content data within the range of each data format, corresponding to the contents of each content; at the client device, causing execution of communication via network, for specifying a content, as to the server device; at the server device, transmitting, to the client device, format identification information correlated with a specified content in response to specification of a content via network from the client device; and at the client device, managing the received and obtained format identification information as corresponding to the specified content.