Patent ID: 8667159

Claim:
A method of confirming data comprising: receiving a confirmation request at a first terminal and transmitting the confirmation request to a second terminal; transmitting first data from the first terminal to the second terminal by streaming; storing at the second terminal the received first data and recording a time of start of the storing of the received first data; storing at the first terminal the transmitted first data and recording a time of start of the storing of the transmitted first data: upon receiving an end request, ending at the first terminal the storing of the transmitted first data and transmitting the end request to the second terminal; upon receiving the transmitted end request, at the second terminal stopping storing of the received first data, and transmitting to the first terminal the stored received first data as returned data and the time of start of the storing of the received first data; receiving and storing at the first terminal the returned data and the time of the start of the storing of the received first data that are transmitted by the second terminal; calculating at the first terminal a difference between the time of start of the storing of the received first data that was transmitted by the second terminal and the time of the start of the storing of the transmitted first data recorded by the first terminal; and reproducing data based on the calculation.