Patent ID: 9311497
Filing Date: 2016-04-12
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. An information processing system comprising at least a plurality of information processing apparatuses each of which is capable of transmitting and receiving data including a content, each information processing apparatus comprising a computer processor configured to perform at least: receiving, from another information processing apparatus among the said plurality of information processing apparatuses, as identification information, information for identifying a piece of data of which output is limited; constantly and repeatedly updating the identification information in a storage each time the identification information is received; transmitting the identification information updated in the storage, to another information processing apparatus; transmitting and receiving the data to and from another information processing apparatus; and among the received data, not outputting the piece of the data that is identified on the basis of the identification information updated in the storage, and outputting a piece of the data that is not identified on the basis of the identification information stored in the identification information storage, wherein the information processing system further comprises a server apparatus which transmits identification information for identifying a piece of data of which output is limited to each information processing apparatus, said transmitted identification information being based on identification information for identifying a piece of data of which output is limited which is received from each information processing apparatus, wherein each information processing apparatus further comprises: a server information receiver for receiving the identification information transmitted from the server apparatus; and the computer processor of each information processing apparatus further performs updating the identification information stored in the identification information storage, with the received identification information, wherein each information processing apparatus receives the identification information from the server apparatus, and updates the identification information, and wherein the data includes a user identifier indicating the user that has created the data, and when the number of times of transmission, to the server apparatus, of the user identifier included in the data created using a specific one of the applications exceeds a first threshold, each information processing apparatus limits output of the data from the specific application, and when the number of transmission of the user identifier to the server apparatus exceeds a second threshold, each information processing apparatus limits output of the data from all the applications regardless of which one of the applications was used for creating the data.