Patent ID: 9729665
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A content transmission method comprising: searching, when a first information processing device receives a transmission request for a first content from a second information processing device, for a third information processing device within information processing devices, the third information processing device having a connection with the second information processing device and currently transmitting a second content to the second information processing device; transmitting to the third information processing device, by the first information processing device, the first content and an instruction to transmit the transmitted first content from the third information processing device to the second information processing device in accordance with the transmission request; during the searching for the third information processing device, acquiring an estimated release time of a connection with the second information processing device from each of the information processing devices; and selecting, as the third information processing device from among the information processing devices, an information processing device with which the transmission of the first content from the first information processing device is to be completed before the estimated release time.