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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2011
Yoshinobu Kure, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshinobu Kure, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
A control apparatus accepts a request for transmission of a content from a content transmission apparatus to the control apparatus, passes on the request to the content transmission apparatus by way of a communication network allowing a transmission quality to be reserved, and issues a request to a content accounting server to carry out a content accounting process according to the substance and content quality. The control apparatus receives a specified substance of the content and transmits a request to the content transmission apparatus to transmit the content, determines a transmission quality and an optimum content quality, makes a reservation for the determined transmission quality of a transmission line based on the transmission quality, and issues a request to a transmission-quality accounting server to carry out an accounting process according to the transmission quality.