Patent ID: 8341409
Filing Date: 2012-12-25
Classification: G06F,G11B

Abstract:
1. A content server apparatus used with an on-vehicle player apparatus, said content server apparatus comprising: a storage device including a unique information holding unit which holds unique information of the on-vehicle player apparatus; a content obtaining unit operable to obtain a content from outside of said content server; a receiving unit operable to receive a transmission request from the on-vehicle player apparatus, the transmission request including (i) a request for content and (ii) information indicating a car occupant identified by the on-vehicle player apparatus; an encrypting unit operable to encrypt the content obtained by said content obtaining unit into an encrypted content, using the unique information held in said unique information holding unit, prior to the transmission request from the on-vehicle player apparatus; a storing unit operable to store the content encrypted by said encrypting unit; a metadata storing unit operable to store metadata each corresponding to one of a plurality of encrypted contents stored in said storing unit, the metadata including information for identifying (i) a first person who previously recorded a first one of the plurality of encrypted contents, and (ii) a second person who previously recorded a second one of the plurality of encrypted contents, the second person being a different person than the first person; and a transmitting unit operable to transmit, prior to any other encrypted content, an encrypted content to the on-vehicle player apparatus in response to the transmission request from the on-vehicle player apparatus, the encrypted content being included in the encrypted contents stored in said storing unit, and corresponding to metadata identifying the car occupant indicated by the transmission request as one of the first person who previously recorded the first one of the plurality of encrypted contents and the second person who previously recorded the second one of the plurality of encrypted contents, wherein, for an encrypted content whose reproduction time exceeds a predetermined amount of time, (i) the encrypted content is divided into a plurality of fragments including at least a first fragment and a second fragment, (ii) the transmitting unit transmits the first fragment to the on-vehicle player apparatus before transmitting the second fragment to the on-vehicle player apparatus, and (iii) the first fragment is deleted from the storing unit after being transmitted by the transmitting unit to the on-vehicle player apparatus.