Patent ID: 9424875
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: G11B,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A content receiver apparatus comprising: a meta information acquiring unit that acquires meta-information which is attribute information of the contents; a license information acquiring unit that acquires output license information describing output requirements of the contents; and an output unit that outputs the contents to an external device via a network, wherein: the meta-information has output times information showing times in which the contents can be output to the external device; the output license information has usage time limit information indicating a usage time limit of the contents in an output destination; and the output unit executes output of the contents based on times indicated by the output times information, acquires the usage time limit information from the output license information for the contents and sets the acquired usage time limit information in a management information storing area in the external device, wherein: the management information storing area is a tamper resistant area; the license information acquiring unit acquires playback license information describing a playback condition of the contents; the playback license information has playback time limit information indicating a time limit during which a playback of the contents is allowed by the content receiver apparatus; the output license information further has body watching/listening time period matching information indicating whether the usage time limit, indicated by the usage time limit information, of the contents in the output destination is made to match with the time limit, indicated by the playback time limit information, during which the playback of the contents is allowed by the content receiver apparatus; and the output unit executes (a) or (b) below, in case of executing output of the contents, based on times indicated by the output times information: (a) in a case of indicating that the body watching/listening time period matching information is made to match, acquiring the playback time limit information from the playback license information for the contents and setting the acquired playback time limit information in the tamper resistant area in the external device, and (b) in a case of not indicating that the body watching/listening time period matching information is made to match, acquiring the usage time limit information from the output license information for the contents and setting the acquired usage time limit information in the tamper resistant area in the external device.