Patent ID: 8392525

Claim:
A mobile electronic device comprising: communication means for performing communication by connecting to a network to which a plurality of content playback devices and one or more content holding devices are connected; location query request sending means for generating a location query request about content being played back by one of the plurality of content playback devices connected to the network and sending the location query request to at least the one of the plurality of content playback devices on the network; location query response receiving means for receiving a location query response about the content being played back by the one of the plurality of content playback devices from the one of the plurality of content playback devices through the communication means, the location query response being sent via the network in accordance with the location query request and including address information corresponding to a content holding device that holds the content being played back by the one of the plurality of content playback devices; provision form receiving means for receiving an instruction input of a content provision form in which content is provided; provision request sending means for generating a provision request for requesting that content be provided in the content provision form received in the provision form receiving means and sending the provision request through the communication means to the content holding device that holds the content being played back by the one of the plurality of content playback devices in accordance with the address information included in the received location query response; and content receiving means for receiving through the communication means content that is sent from the content holding device via the network in accordance with the provision request.