Patent ID: 6954763
Filing Date: 2005-10-11
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A management server device in a contents providing system which can communicate with a user terminal through a communication network, comprising: a play-list creation device which creates a play list of contents based on a user's input to the user terminal; a storage device which stores the created play list in association with a user; a transmission device which acquires a play list from the storage device according to a request from the user terminal and transmits the list to the user terminal, and a menu providing device which transmits menu data for displaying a menu screen on the user terminal to the user terminal, wherein the menu providing device comprises i) a plurality of menu elements which form a plurality of menu screens; ii) routing data which defines, for each user, an order according to which a plurality of the menu screens are displayed; and iii) a device which changes the contents of the routing data according to the user's input to the menu screen, wherein the play-list creation device comprises: a condition decision device which decides contents-retrieval conditions based on the user input; a device which transmits the contents-retrieval conditions to an external contents delivery server device to execute retrieval; and a device which receives retrieval results from the contents delivery server device and which creates the play list based on the retrieval results.