Patent ID: 8788567
Filing Date: 2014-07-22
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: an information acquiring unit for acquiring, from one or more external apparatuses connected via a network, processing information about a processing to be executed by each of the external apparatuses and/or about a result of a processing executed thereby and information about a function that each of the external apparatuses can execute in cooperation with the information processing apparatus; an information display unit for displaying the processing information of each of the external apparatuses and program information about one or more program contents and displaying, on the basis of the information about the function of each of the external apparatuses, one or more functions that can be executed by each of the external apparatuses with respect to the one or more program contents; and a function execution unit for causing one or more of the external apparatuses capable of executing a function selected from among the one or more functions to execute the selected function with respect to a program content selected from among the one or more program contents, said information processing apparatus being a television receiver and the one or more external apparatuses includes a digital recorder so that said television receiver is able to (i) display one or more functions that can be executed by the digital recorder without having previously had information regarding the digital recorder stored therein and (ii) cause the digital recorder to execute a respective selected function, wherein the information about a function includes behavior information specifying an operation method when the function is selected, the behavior information including information representing either of an embedded type and a download type.