Patent ID: 7636692
Filing Date: 2009-12-22
Classification: G06Q,G07F

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a communication control section to couple to a plurality of user terminals, a particular user terminal having contents data, said contents data missing particular data bits; storage means for storing user information of the plurality of user terminals that includes user identification information that identifies another user terminal, and improvement-information identification information that identifies improvement information improving the quality of contents data in the particular user terminal, wherein the improvement-information is the particular data bits; searching means for searching the storage means for the another user information having the improvement information requested by the particular user terminal; improvement-information requesting means for requesting the improvement information from the another user terminal corresponding to the user information searched for by the searching means; obtaining means for obtaining a plurality of different pieces of improvement information from each of a plurality of the another user terminals, the improvement information from the another user terminal according to a request made by the improvement-information requesting means; and sending means for sending the plurality of differed pieces of improvement information obtained by the obtaining means to the particular user terminal; the quality of the contents data in the particular user terminal is improved by combining the contents data and the plurality of different pieces of improvement information, wherein the improvement information are low order bits of the contents data in the particular user terminal.