Patent ID: 8307201
Filing Date: 2012-11-06
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. An information processing system, comprising: a service providing apparatus; and a plurality of information processing apparatuses connected to said service providing apparatus via a first network which is public, wherein the plurality of information processing apparatuses include first and second information processing apparatuses of respective first and second users, wherein said service providing apparatus includes when the streaming content data is being provided to the private virtual space provided to the first information processing apparatus of the first user in response to a request for the streaming content data from the first information processing apparatus of the first user, the streaming content data is provided to the second information processing apparatus only when the second information processing apparatus shares the private virtual space provided to the first information processing apparatus of the first user, the streaming content data being selected by the first user from a plurality of different content data and being separate from data representing the private virtual space; the common-use means notifies the second information processing apparatus of the request for the streaming content data by the first information processing apparatus; and the second information processing apparatus requests the same streaming content data from the electronic apparatus in response to the notification from the common-use means.