Title:
INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, CONTENT DISTRIBUTING APPARATUS, CONTENT DISTRIBUTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2003/098446
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
Appropriate contents are distributed in accordance with the performance specification of a client device without preparing contents in a plurality of formats. When receiving a request for data list from a client, a server establishes, as to contents that need not be data-converted, content URL’s and conversion identification information indicative of the original contents, and also establishes, as to contents that must be data-converted, virtual URL’s obtained by burying data conversion instruction information into the URL’s and conversion identification information indicative of the necessity of conversion, and then sends them to the client by return. The server receives and analyzes a URL from the client. If there exists no data conversion instruction information, the server transmits the contents as they are. If there exists any buried data conversion instruction information, the server performs a data conversion in accordance with the data conversion instruction information, and thereafter, transmits the contents to the client.
Inventors:
KOBORI YOICHI (JP)
MORITA TOSHIHIRO (JP)
HONDA KAZUHIRO (JP)
MORITA TOSHIHIRO (JP)
HONDA KAZUHIRO (JP)
Application Number:
PCT/JP2003/005816
Publication Date:
November 27, 2003
Filing Date:
May 09, 2003
Export Citation:
Assignee:
SONY CORP (JP)
KOBORI YOICHI (JP)
MORITA TOSHIHIRO (JP)
HONDA KAZUHIRO (JP)
KOBORI YOICHI (JP)
MORITA TOSHIHIRO (JP)
HONDA KAZUHIRO (JP)
International Classes:
G06F5/00; G06F9/00; G06F3/14; G06F13/00; G06Q50/00; H04N1/00; H04N1/32; H04N7/173; H04N21/233; H04N21/2343; (IPC1-7): G06F13/00; H04N7/173
Foreign References:
| JPH1166101A | 1999-03-09 | |||
| JP2001222487A | 2001-08-17 | |||
| JPH1040187A | 1998-02-13 | |||
| JP2002123461A | 2002-04-26 | |||
| JP2001195335A | 2001-07-19 |
Other References:
See also references of EP 1507212A4
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Miyata, Masaaki (Miyata & Yamada Patent Office Ginza TK
Bldg., 1-7, Shintomi 1-chom, Chuo-ku Tokyo, JP)
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