摘要 |
<p><P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the taste/interest of a user who has made a contract as a client from being easily analyzed by concealing the time information of a streaming program. <P>SOLUTION: A receiving/reproducing device 1 at a client side consists of request generating parts 11, 12, and 16 which generate a request of program data desired to be reproduced and a request of dummy program data being the data of at least a portion of the other arbitrary programs, and of a reproducing device 13. When packet data transmitted from a server in response to those requests are received, and whether or not the packet data are the dummy program data is discriminated on the basis of identification information S, the packet data which are not the dummy program data are reproduced by the reproducing device 13. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI</p> |