Patent ID: 9699227
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. An information processing system comprising: one or more processors and a memory coupled to the one or more processors; a media server; and at least two client information processing apparatuses connectable with the media server through a network; the media server having: a registration processing block configured to register the client information processing apparatuses with the media server, such that the at least two client information processing apparatuses are associated with one another as being part of a single client apparatus, and such that the media server receives respective client information from the client information processing apparatuses, the client information including, for each of the client information processing apparatuses: (i) device identification information including a unique identifier of the given client information processing apparatus that permits a user to differentiate the at least two client information processing apparatuses from one another, and (ii) type identification information including an indication of an overall function of the given client information processing apparatus, and an information provision block configured to provide the client information associated with the registered client information processing apparatuses that are associated with one another to at least one of the client information processing apparatuses; each of the client information processing apparatuses having: an information acquisition block configured to acquire the client information from the media server, display processing block configured to generate display data for displaying the acquired client information, and a display operating to display the display data such that the type identification information and the device identification information for each of the client information processing apparatuses are displayed on the display in a way that conveys to a viewer that the client information processing apparatuses are associated with one another, wherein: the display processing block is configured to generate the display data to include a respective type icon image for each of the client information processing apparatuses, where each type icon image provides graphical indicia of the type identification information including the indication of the overall function of the given client information processing apparatus; and the display data is displayed on the display such that the respective type icon image is located adjacent to the respective type identification information and the respective device identification information for each of the client information processing apparatuses.