Abstract: A method of displaying a page title on a terminal apparatus, and associated terminal apparatus and page data transmission apparatus are provided. The method includes transmitting a request signal to request external page data relating to an external page, and receiving external page data corresponding to the request signal. The external page data includes first title information, second title information, and address information that each relate to the external page. The first title information, second title information, and address information of the external page data are stored in a storage section of the terminal apparatus. The first title information includes a plurality of characters that are not limited in number, and the second title information includes a plurality of characters that are limited in number. The stored second title information is displayed on a display section of the terminal apparatus.

Abstract: Even in the case where a first request signal for requesting the source of the top page and a second request signal for requesting the source of A Corporation CD sales page were transmitted from a client terminal 2, if the source of an information page has been stored in a portal server 4, the above source of the information page is transmitted from the portal server 4 to the client terminal 2 before the source of the top page or the source of the A Corporation CD sales page is transmitted from the portal server 4 or the contents sales server 5.

Abstract: A user authentication processing is performed and an authentication session ID is returned to a terminal 500 (A14). An authentication server 600 issues and stores an authentication ticket (A17). The authentication ticket and authentication session are returned to the terminal 500 (A18). A user 100 transmits a request of service provision and the authentication ticket to a service provider's server 700, and the service provider's server 700 transmits the authentication ticket to the authentication server 600 (A20). The authentication server 600 performs an authentication processing of the authentication ticket (A21), and the authentication result is notified (A22). In the case of the authentication approval, a service session ID is issued together with the notification of authorization (A23). When receiving the notification of the authentication approval, the terminal 500 performs an establishment processing of the session using the received service session ID, and stores the service session ID (A27).

Abstract: If the storage medium runs out of space when storing clip-target information as clip data, data having higher deletion-target priority than others is deleted from among a plurality of stored data to have empty spaces on the storage medium, and then the new clip-target information is stored. The deletion-target priority is determined based on attribution of a plurality of stored data. In this manner, new clip-target information is stored without user's operation, after automatically deleting data having higher deletion-target priority than others (the deletion-target priority is determined based on attribution of clip data). Therefore it is avoided that important clip data is automatically deleted without a user being notified.

Abstract: A method includes receiving, from a broadcast receiver, identification information for identifying a currently received broadcast station. The method also includes receiving, from an external server, state information which indicates a state of a service for providing information concerning the currently received broadcast station corresponding to the identification information. In addition, the method includes providing information, from a server, depending on whether a URL is included in the state information. The method further includes transmitting, to the broadcast receiver, the state information and an address corresponding to the service, after receiving the identification information from the broadcast receiver and the state information from the external server.

Abstract: The present invention provides application software with a function of allowing reproduction of an audio-only disk-shaped recording medium by a similar command to that for reproduction of a disk-shaped recording medium for computer data. The function is interposed between a computer controlling operating system and application software.

Abstract: The present invention is to provides a content data supply system, a content data supply apparatus and method, a content data reproduction apparatus and method, and a program. The content supply system supplies content data from a content data supply apparatus to a content reproduction apparatus via a network. The content reproduction apparatus includes notification means, content list acquisition means, activation file acquisition means, content data acquisition means, and license data acquisition means. The content data supply apparatus includes customer information management means, content list generation means, activation file generation means, storage means, content data supply means, and license data supply means.

Abstract: A service utilizing apparatus includes an interface that transmits, to a service providing apparatus, user information together with request information that requests a user registration, and receives registration completion information indicating a completion of the user registration from the service providing apparatus. The service utilizing apparatus also includes a memory that stores the user information according to the received registration completion information. The service utilizing apparatus further includes a processor that detects a change in the service utilizing apparatus and deletes the user information stored in the memory when the processor detects the change in the service utilizing apparatus. Additionally, the interface transmits to the service providing apparatus delete request information that requests a deletion of the user information when the processor detects the change in the service utilizing apparatus.

Abstract: The client terminal 2 displays the titles of downloaded music data such that these titles are classified by albums based on the album identification information associated with each music data and arranged in an order indicated by the recording order information which is associated with each music data.

Abstract: Memory resources can be optimized by dynamically determining a threshold value of a storage device used for buffering in accordance with a compression rate of data for streaming reproduction. A data reproduction device for temporarily storing compressed data that is downloaded from a server and sequentially performing the streaming reproduction, wherein the amount of data stored in a HDD is optimized by changing and setting the threshold value in accordance with the compression rate of the compressed data.

Abstract: An attribute information acquisition method, including transmitting an attribute request for contents attribute information for altering attributes of contents data stored in a storage medium to an attribute information providing apparatus. The method also includes receiving the contents attribute information transmitted from the attribute information providing apparatus as a result of the transmission of the attribute request. Further, the method includes transmitting to an accounting status notification apparatus a notification request for accounting status notification information that indicates whether an accounting process that corresponds to the contents attribute information has been completed, when a communication enabled state with the attribute information providing apparatus is restored after communication with the attribute information providing apparatus is interrupted during the receiving the contents attribute information.

Abstract: An information provision apparatus previously stores associated information concerning an on-air program. The apparatus accepts a request for associated information from a client terminal CT which receives a program's broadcast signal. In synchronization with timing of accepting the request, the apparatus reads the associated information and transmits it to the client terminal CT. When the on-air program changes to a next program in such situation, the apparatus updates the associated information which should be read and transmitted. The apparatus can update the associated information to be transmitted in synchronization with program changeover. It is possible to provide the program in synchronization with the associated information without a time difference between both.

Abstract: According to the present invention, the step of requesting of an associated information provision server KS for associated information about contents broadcast in a broadcast program being received is provided. The step of acquiring the associated information corresponding to the request from the associated information provision server KS and storing this is provided. And the retrieval step of transmitting a part of the associated information as a retrieval key to retrieve contents to a CD seller server 31, and obtaining retrieval results from the CD seller server 31 is provided. Thereby, the associated information about the contents broadcast in the broadcast program being received is obtained. The retrieval results are obtained from a contents retrieval server by using the part of the associated information as retrieval keys. Therefore, retrieval results having variety that are not limited to results conceived by the user in a certain degree can be obtained.

Abstract: According to the present invention, the step of requesting of an associated information provision server KS for associated information about contents broadcast in a broadcast program being received is provided. The step of acquiring the associated information corresponding to the request from the associated information provision server KS and storing this is provided. And the retrieval step of transmitting a part of the associated information as a retrieval key to retrieve contents to a CD seller server 31, and obtaining retrieval results from the CD seller server 31 is provided. Thereby, the associated information about the contents broadcast in the broadcast program being received is obtained. The retrieval results are obtained from a contents retrieval server by using the part of the associated information as retrieval keys. Therefore, retrieval results having variety that are not limited to results conceived by the user in a certain degree can be obtained.

Abstract: In the source of the page “A Company—the Page for Selling CDS”, the number of characters of the bookmark title information is limited to 21 characters. Thus, even if the size of the bookmark display area AR2 is not large, the client terminal 2 can display all of the bookmark title information “A Company's CD Sales Page” on the bookmark display area AR2, since this bookmark title information, an abbreviation of the page title information “A Company—the Page for Selling CDs”, consists of 21 characters.

Abstract: In this invention, a client terminal CT receives programs of the latest version and a schema-change instruction file SF from an update-information providing server 3. After the programs are updated in terms of version, the indicator information SD of the schema-change instruction file SF is compared with the indicator information log SDL described in a schema-change log file SL, thereby determining the version of the present schema. If the schema needs to be updated, it is automatically updated in accordance with the schema-change instruction file SF. Thus, the database schema is automatically updated to be of the latest version at all times.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a data recording device including: a feature quantity detecting unit configured to detect a predetermined feature quantity of mixed data in which a music part and a talking part are mixed; a sound volume level detecting unit configured to detect sound volume level of the mixed data; a section identifying unit configured to identify a music part section corresponding to the music part and a talking part section corresponding to the talking part in the mixed data on a basis of the feature quantity and the sound volume level; and a recording unit configured to record the mixed data including the music part section and the talking part section identified by the section identifying unit.

Abstract: The present invention allows for the acquisition of content data. The present invention temporarily stores the first and second process progress information in the storage medium, and, when the requested content data and license data 301 are registered in the database after being downloaded and temporarily stored in the storage medium, removes the first and second process progress information, and, if there are the first and/or second process progress information are left when the stopped content acquisition process restarts, retries to acquire data after removing the content data and license data 301 corresponding to the second process progress information. This prevents, when the data acquisition is retried, the same content data and license data from being stored in the storage medium again. This allows efficient use of the storage space, and therefore the content data is acquired without fail.

Abstract: A client terminal CT transmits an acquisition request for musical composition information. An associated information provision server KS continuously receives the acquisition request at a given time interval. The associated information provision server KS transmits timing specification information along with the musical composition information corresponding to the acquisition request to the client terminal CT. The timing specification information specifies timing for the client terminal CT to transmit the acquisition request next. The associated information provision server KS controls a polling interval for acquisition requests. In this manner, acquisition requests can be distributed to those transmitted at a given time interval and those received in accordance with the timing specification information. A simple method can be used to prevent acquisition requests from being concentrated on the associated information provision server KS.

Abstract: In executing a variety of processing operations for contents data, such as reproducing the contents data, the time until booting the application to enable the operations is shortened. A database file for management of contents data is stored in a hard disc drive and the data for hard disc contents controller (hdcc) processing, formulated on the basis of the database (a data image of the file for hdcc processing) is then saved. Using this data for hdcc processing, the application executes the required processing for the contents data. If, depending on the results of the processing by the application, the registration processing for the database becomes needed, the registration processing for the data for hdcc processing is necessarily executed. By so doing, the data for hdcc processing is kept synchronized with the database file at all times.