Patent ID: 7340527
Filing Date: 2008-03-04
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A content distribution system comprising: a storing unit operable to store a plurality of pieces of stream data and a plurality of pieces of attribute information respectively corresponding to any one of the pieces of stream data; an accepting unit operable to accept request information for requesting a content from a terminal; an extracting unit operable to extract more than two pieces of stream data from said storing unit, according to the accepted request information; a determining unit operable to determine to add a transition effect to a splicing point of two pieces of the stream data included in the more than two pieces of stream data extracted by said extracting unit when only one of two pieces of attribute information corresponding to the two pieces of stream data of the splicing point has a specific attribute, by referring to the two pieces of attribute information corresponding to the two pieces of stream data of the splicing point; a splicing unit operable to splice the pieces of the stream data extracted by said extracting unit into a line of stream data, and to add the transition effect to the splicing point when said determining unit determines to add the transition effect to the splicing point; and a distributing unit operable to distribute the line of the stream data spliced by said splicing unit to the terminal.