Patent ID: 9288518
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. An information processing system; comprising: a first information processing apparatus; a second information processing apparatus external to the first information processing apparatus; and a third information processing apparatus external to the first information processing apparatus and the second information processing apparatus, each of the second information processing apparatus and the third information processing apparatus being paired with the first information processing apparatus such that said second information processing apparatus is paired with the first information processing apparatus while said third information processing apparatus is paired with the first information processing apparatus and such that each of the second information processing apparatus and the third information processing apparatus is enabled for direct communication with the first information processing apparatus, said first information processing apparatus has an application information request block configured to request the second information processing apparatus for information about a coordinatable application, based on information acquired about devices paired with the first information processing apparatus and in response to a user operation at the third information processing apparatus in which the user operation at the third information processing apparatus is transmitted directly to the first information processing apparatus, an application information reception block configured to receive the information about the application of said second information processing apparatus transmitted from said second information processing apparatus in response to the request from said application information request block, and a command transmission section configured to transmit a command for executing a user-specified application among coordinatable applications to said second information processing apparatus corresponding to said user-specified application on the basis of the information of the application of said second information processing apparatus received by said application information reception block, and said second information processing apparatus has an application information transmission block configured to transmit the information about the application of said second information processing apparatus requested by said application information request block to said first information processing apparatus, and a command execution block configured to execute said command transmitted by said command transmission section.