Patent ID: 7038121
Filing Date: 2006-05-02
Classification: G10H

Abstract:
1. A contents reproduction system comprising: a receiving section to receive contents transmitted from a spatially separated place; a storage section to store contents to be reproduced; a monitoring section to monitor a receiving condition indicative of a reception state of a content received by the receiving section; a reproducing section to reproduce a received content received by the receiving section when the receiving condition is in a predetermined acceptable state, and to reproduce one of the contents stored in the storage section when the receiving condition is in an unacceptable state; a preference discriminating section to examine at least one content selected by a user for reproduction, and determine a preference of the user; and a contents selecting section to select one, as a reserve content, from the contents stored in the storage section in accordance with the preference determined by the discriminating section, and to supply the reserve content to the reproducing section for reproduction instead of the received content when the receiving condition is in the unacceptable state; wherein: the preference discriminating section includes an attribute discriminating section to determine an attribute of a content received by the receiving section; and the contents selecting section is configured to select the reserve content from the contents stored in the storage section in accordance with the attribute determined by the attribute discriminating section.