Content providing system, receiving apparatus and method, storage medium, and program for content reception by short range communication enabled devices

摘要

The present invention relates to a content providing system, a receiving apparatus and method, a storage medium, and a program, which enable to perform a variety of contents provisions. An operational terminal 21 can obtain, from a storage terminal 1, contents corresponding to utilization information sent from an operational terminal 11 that is receiving provision of predetermined contents from a storage terminal 1. That is, if a user 23 is interested in contents that a user 13 is watching and listening to on the operational terminal 11, and desires to watch and listen to it, the user 23 can watch and listen to on the operational terminal 21, the contents that the user 13 is watching and listening to, by holding the operational terminal 21 very close to the operational terminal 11, or holding the operational terminal 11 very close to the operational terminal 21.

主权项

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:
a display; an input unit; a short range communication unit utilized for short range communication; a network communication unit utilized for network communication; and a processing unit configured to:
execute a determination process to determine whether the information processing apparatus is in a standby-mode,execute a first receiving process to receive, via the network communication unit, a first content from a content provisioning device storing the first content,execute a first utilization process to utilize the first content,execute a sending process to send, via the short range communication unit, information identifying the first content to another information processing apparatus that is capable of short range communication,execute a second receiving process to receive information identifying a second content from the another information processing apparatus via the short range communication unit,execute a third receiving process to receive, via the network communication unit and based on the information identifying the second content, the second content from a content provisioning device storing the second content,execute a second utilization process to utilize the second content, andexecute a permission validation process comprising:
controlling the display to present to a user a dialog for obtaining a permission for an operation;receiving, from user input received via the input unit in response to the dialog, a user intention of permitting or not permitting the operation; anddetermining, based on the user input, whether the user provides the permission, wherein the input unit, the short range communication unit, the network communication unit, and the processing unit are each implemented via at least one processor.