Patent ID: 8032524

Claim:
A content management system comprising: a content acquisition device that acquires content; and a management device that is communicably connected to the content acquisition device and manages the content, wherein the content acquisition device includes a first registration unit, and the management device includes a second registration unit, the first and second registration units registering a search keyword in association with the content in cooperation with each other, wherein the first registration unit performs the following operations comprising: (1) transmitting the content to the management device; (2) receiving a content ID for identifying the content and a plurality of keyword candidates associated with the content from the management device; (3) displaying the keyword candidates; and (4) transmitting a keyword candidate designated from among the displayed keyword candidates and the content ID to the management device while associating with each other, and wherein the second registration unit performs the following operations comprising: (a) receiving the content from the content acquisition device; (b) generating the plurality of keyword candidates based on the content; (c) associating the content with the generated keyword candidates, and generating the content ID for identifying the content; (d) transmitting the content ID and the generated keyword candidates to the content acquisition device; (e) receiving the designated keyword candidate and the content ID from the content acquisition device; and (f) registering the designated keyword candidate as a search keyword in the search database in association with content identified by the content ID received through the operation (e), wherein, in the operation (d), the second registration unit, if the content acquisition device automatically acquires the content, transmits a group of content IDs of contents, for which a search keyword has not yet been registered in the search database, and in response to receiving, from the content acquisition device, a candidate request for keyword candidates associated with a content identified by a content ID which is specified by a user from among the group of content IDs, transmits the keyword candidates associated with the content identified by the specified content ID, and if the content acquisition device acquires the content in response to a user operation, transmits the content ID and the keyword candidates without waiting for the candidate request.