Patent ID: 8256014

Claim:
A content processing apparatus connectable to a content reproduction apparatus which can at least reproduce content data and capable of communicating with a server apparatus which manages the content reproduction apparatus and said content processing apparatus and recording and/or reproducing content data, comprising: a storage device configured to store a source ID list which is a list of source IDs for permitting reproduction from among source IDs representative of providing sources of content data and to which, when said content processing apparatus is registered in a unit of a user into the server apparatus, a group ID which is applied in a unit of a user is added as a source ID for permitting the reproduction; a content reproduction section, implemented by a processor, that controls reproduction of content data of a reproduction object based on whether or not the source ID added to the content data of the reproduction object is included in said source ID list; a registration decision section that decides, when said content processing apparatus itself and the content reproduction apparatus are connected to each other, whether or not the content reproduction apparatus holds a group ID which is applied in a unit of a user through registration of the content reproduction apparatus in a unit of a user into the server apparatus; an ID decision section that decides, where it is decided by said registration decision section that the content reproduction apparatus holds a group ID, whether or not the group ID held by the content reproduction apparatus and the group ID in said source ID list coincide with each other; an ID transfer section that transfers, where it is decided by said ID decision section that the group ID held by the content reproduction apparatus and the group ID in said source ID list do not coincide with each other, a device ID acquired from the content reproduction apparatus and corresponding to the content reproduction apparatus and a terminal ID stored in said content processing apparatus and corresponding to said content processing apparatus to the server apparatus; and a link result reception section that receives user link completion information representing that association of first user identification information corresponding to the transferred terminal ID and second user identification information corresponding to the transferred device ID is completed from said server apparatus.