Patent ID: 8001576
Filing Date: 2011-08-16
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. An information providing system comprising: a plurality of information providing apparatuses and a plurality of information processing apparatuses, said plurality of information providing apparatuses providing image data and sound data over a network to said plurality of information processing apparatuses, said plurality of information processing apparatuses displaying images and outputting sounds based on said image data and said sound data from said plurality of information providing apparatuses; wherein each of said plurality of information providing apparatuses comprises: wherein each of said plurality of information processing apparatuses comprises: wherein each of the plurality of the information processing apparatuses acquires a version of a server program used by the plurality of the information providing apparatuses and selects one of the plurality of the information providing apparatuses for connection according to the version of the server program, the version of the server program indicating at least a function selected from a recording function, a tuner function, and a multiple-streams function of the plurality of the information providing apparatuses, wherein the plurality of information providing apparatuses detect whether each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses is processing same content and send a request to each information processing apparatus that is processing the same content to boot up a chat means for chatting the same content, and wherein the plurality of information providing apparatuses process a channel change request from one of the plurality of information processing apparatuses based on a predetermined priority of the one of the plurality of information processing apparatuses.