TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION METHOD, CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM, CONTENT DELIVERY METHOD, AND PROGRAM

Title:

TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION METHOD, CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM, CONTENT DELIVERY METHOD, AND PROGRAM

Document Type and Number:

WIPO Patent Application WO/2003/026302

Kind Code:

A1

Abstract:

A transmission apparatus for effectively transmitting a content provided by a viewer to a sender, so that the content is used for live delivery. A program content to be live−delivered from a user terminal (10) serving as a sender and a sender identification information for identifying the user terminal (10) on the Internet (11) are delivered to a client terminal (12) via a streaming delivery server (13). The content provided from the client terminal (12) is transmitted directly to the user terminal (10) according to the sender identification information. The user terminal (10) performs live delivery by using the content transmitted from the client terminal (12).

Inventors:

OOI JUNJI (JP)
HASEGAWA YUTAKA (JP)
MIYAJIMA YASUSHI (JP)
IHARA KEIGO (JP)
NISHIMURA TAKANORI (JP)
FUKUDA JUNKO (JP)

Application Number:

PCT/JP2002/009455

Publication Date:

March 27, 2003

Filing Date:

September 13, 2002

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Assignee:

SONY CORP (JP)
OOI JUNJI (JP)
HASEGAWA YUTAKA (JP)
MIYAJIMA YASUSHI (JP)
IHARA KEIGO (JP)
NISHIMURA TAKANORI (JP)
FUKUDA JUNKO (JP)

International Classes:

G06F13/00; H04L12/18; H04N7/14; H04N21/2381; H04N21/462; H04N21/4782; H04N21/61; H04N7/16; (IPC1-7): H04N7/173

Domestic Patent References:

WO2001045406A1	2001-06-21
WO2000040024A1	2000-07-06

Foreign References:

JP2000152201A	2000-05-30
JP2001045463A	2001-02-16
JP2001148841A	2001-05-29
JP2001242775A	2001-09-07
JP2000137752A	2000-05-16
JPH0715707A	1995-01-17
US6041359A	2000-03-21

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