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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2016
Applicant:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Sakai, Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Sakai, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/87 (2006.01); H04N 21/8543 (2011.01); G11B 27/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/87 (2013.01); G11B 27/007 (2013.01); H04N 21/8543 (2013.01);
Abstract
A client () is provisioned with a content selection unit () for referencing description information (), selecting content to be played in a certain period, and at the same time, and selecting content to be played at the next period from an id of a subset that is the same as the subset selected at the period, a request execution unit () for requesting the transmission of the selected content, and a content playback unit () for continuously playing the content transmitted in response to the request.