Patent ID: 11943513
Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  A  G | IPC A  H

Claim 3:
4. An information processing system comprising:
a server apparatus; and
a plurality of client apparatuses, wherein
the server apparatus includes
means adapted to receive, from each of the plurality of client apparatuses, information identifying content currently used by the client apparatus, and
at least one of the plurality of client apparatuses includes:
(a) a content selection screen presentation section adapted to present a user with a content selection screen including a plurality of types of content options, where the content options are selectable by the user in order to execute such content for viewing by the user, wherein:
(i) each content option, prior to selection and execution, is presented to the user as a respective content image among a plurality of content images,
(ii) each respective content image represents the corresponding content option that is presently being executed by another of a plurality of other users, but is not presently selected or executed by the user, and
(iii) indicia of one or more of the plurality of other users is included in proximity to one or more of the content images; and
(b) a preview screen presentation section adapted to present the user with, in a case where one of the content images is selected while the content selection screen is presented, a preview screen including a video that represents a state of a screen watched by the another user among the plurality of other users who is actually using the selected content option,
wherein a graphical symbol is presented such that the another user is graphically linked to the preview screen showing the selected content image for the corresponding content option, and
wherein the preview screen presentation section displays, when receiving the videos, a numerical value indicating a progress level of the process of receiving the videos.