DISTRIBUTED MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a distributed multimedia system by which plural servers cooperatively realize multimedia information providing service. SOLUTION: This system is provided with an information providing system for executing multimedia service and plural conversion servers for processing media data. Then, a processing assignment deciding part 107 of a information providing server 101 decides to which one of the conversion servers 102A or 102B a processing is requested as against a request from a terminal 103 by negotiating with another processing assignment deciding part so that various kinds of media data are efficiently processed.