Patent ID: 7360000

Claim:
An information transmitting/receiving system comprising: an information transmitting apparatus, which includes a first communicating section configured to effect communications over a predetermined network, an information acquiring section configured to acquire content information, a registration information managing section configured to create and hold registration information denoting the information receiving apparatus as being registered for authorization to receive said content information from said information transmitting apparatus, an authenticating section which, if said information transmitting apparatus is requested to transmit said content information using said first communicating section, checks said registration information to determine whether the information receiving apparatus that requests the content information transmission is authorized to receive said content information from said information transmitting apparatus, and a transmission controlling section which, if the information receiving apparatus that requests the content information transmission is authorized by said authentication section, causes said first communicating section to transmit said content information acquired by said information acquiring section to the information receiving apparatus that requests the content information transmission; and the information receiving apparatus, which includes a second communicating section configured to effect communications over said predetermined network, an information inputting section configured to input content information transmitted over said network using said second communicating section, a registered information managing section configured to create and hold registered information representing a plurality of information transmitting apparatus units with which said information receiving apparatus has registered for authorization to receive said content information as denoted in said registration information, and a communication control section configured to control said second communicating section to request any one of said plurality of information transmitting apparatus units indicated by said registered information to transmit said content information.