Patent ID: 9432220
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. An information processing apparatus connectable to a reproducing system having a number of servers and a number of renderers, said apparatus comprising: a storage to create history information for at least one renderer and to store the created history information, in which the history information for a respective renderer is based on content that has been previously reproduced by the respective renderer and includes information of (i) content type, (ii) content identification of the content, and (iii) server identification which identifies a server having stored therein the respective content, arranged in association with each other; an input unit to enable a user to input a reproduction request for a desired renderer which specifies at least a desired content type; and a transmission unit to retrieve the content identification for desired content associated with the desired content type for the desired renderer from the storage and transmit to the desired renderer a reproduction instruction which includes the retrieved content identification and the server identification wherein the desired content is stored.