Patent ID: 9729732
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04N

Claim:
1. A transmission apparatus configured to transmit metadata indicating one or more segments acquirable, among a plurality of segments of content data, by a reception apparatus to the reception apparatus, comprising: a reception unit configured to receive an acquisition request of the metadata; and a transmission unit configured to transmit to the reception apparatus, in a case where the reception unit receives a second acquisition request of the metadata after the reception unit receives a first acquisition request of the metadata, second metadata indicating one or more segments which are not transmitted to the reception apparatus and not indicating one or more segments which are transmitted to the reception apparatus among a plurality of segments indicated by first metadata transmitted in response to the first acquisition request, wherein a number of segments indicated by the second metadata and not indicated by the first metadata corresponds to a number of segments indicated by the first metadata and not indicated by the second metadata.