Patent ID: 8719880
Filing Date: 2014-05-06
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A content management server in a system having a content playback apparatus that, when playback of interrupted content is restarted, acquires the content from the content management server, and the content management server that stores the content and performs editing of the content by deleting a portion within the content or adding to a portion within the content, the content management server comprising: a reception section that receives a first playback interruption position that is a position at which playback of a first content before the editing was interrupted by the content playback apparatus, the first playback interruption position being a position from beginning of the first content; a calculation section that calculates a second playback interruption position corresponding to a position at which playback of a second content was interrupted by the content playback apparatus in the second content after the editing, based on an editing interval deleted by the editing and the first playback interruption position within the first content, the second playback interruption position being a position from beginning of the second content; and a transmission section that transmits the second playback interruption position to the content playback apparatus, wherein the calculation section, when the first playback interruption position precedes the editing interval, takes the first playback interruption position as the second playback interruption position.