Patent ID: 9465802
Filing Date: 2016-10-11
CPC Classification: G06F,G11B,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A content storage device that is any one of a plurality of content storage devices in a content storage processing system, each of the content storage devices comprising: a content storage unit operable to store a content; a metadata storage unit operable to store original metadata indicating a situation in which the content has been captured; a transmission unit operable to transmit the original metadata to another one of the content storage devices; a reception unit operable to receive original metadata transmitted from any other one of the content storage devices; and an extraction unit operable to extract, from the original metadata stored in the metadata storage unit, relevant metadata that is relevant to original metadata received by the reception unit and corresponds to a content that is not stored in the content storage device having received the original metadata and that is stored in any other one of the content storage devices that has transmitted the original metadata, wherein when the relevant metadata is extracted by the extraction unit, the transmission unit further transmits the extracted relevant metadata to the other one of the content storage devices that has transmitted the original metadata received by the reception unit, the reception unit further receives relevant metadata transmitted from any other one of the content storage devices in response to the transmission of the original metadata to the other one of the content storage devices, the relevant metadata being relevant to the transmitted original metadata and being the original metadata stored in the other one of the content storage devices which indicates a situation in which a content corresponding to the relevant metadata has been captured, and each of the content storage devices further comprises a display unit operable to display the content, the original metadata, and the relevant metadata together on a display.