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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012

Filed:

Dec. 30, 2005
Applicant:

Tomoshi Hirayama, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Tomoshi Hirayama, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/10 (2006.01); H04N 7/025 (2006.01); H04N 7/173 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An information providing system allows to intentionally modify the arrangement of clips to be reproduced from that of the first transmission. The program clips and the CM clips obtained by receiving those broadcast are stored in recorded result storage sectionand rearrangement examining sectioncarries out a processing operation of comparing the attributes of each of the clips and the applicable profile data generated by applicable profile generating section. Then, the sequence of reproducing the contents clips is modified on the basis of the result of the processing operation and download operating sectiondownloads the contents clips to be added on an on-demand basis. Then, the final arrangement sectionrearranges the sequence of reproducing the contents clips including those to be added to set up the final arrangement.


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