摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a viewer to securely view a desired program by making a plurality of information recording and reproducing devices connected to the Internet record a broadcast program in cooperation and by retrieving the program name of the video-recorded program with a keyword through a managing server. <P>SOLUTION: The managing server manages program data corresponding to video files recorded in a hard disk recorder connected to the Internet, and when a general viewer who has a hard disk recorder connected to the Internet, a LAN, etc., makes a reproduction request, the managing server retrieves the IP address of the hard disk recorder where a video file requested by the reproduction request is recorded by referring to the program data and instructs the hard disk recorder having the IP address to performs reproduction, so that the video file begins to be reproduced. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI |