Patent ID: 7447737
Filing Date: 2008-11-04
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A content reservation control method, comprising: storing contents supplied from an information processing device in a storage area exclusive to a client; receiving schedule times for providing said contents over a network; setting an upper limit on a number of said contents which can be provided at one schedule time; setting up a providing schedule for providing said contents based on schedule times; notifying said information processing device over said network that said contents cannot be provided at one schedule time, if the number of said contents to be provided at said one schedule time reaches said upper limit; and providing said contents to said client according to the providing schedule over the network after reading said contents from said storage area in response to a demand from said client, if the number of said contents to be provided at each of the schedule times are less than said upper limit.