Patent ID: 7499982

Claim:
An information processing device, comprising: transmitting means for transmitting user registration data necessary to secure a user's exclusive storage area by user registration in a server connected in a network for content distribution, to said server over a network; receiving means for receiving address data defined, in part, by the user registration data, the address designated as an access point indicating said exclusive storage area over said network and for receiving one or more automatic upload programs each of said automatic upload programs being programmed to connect to a unique part of said exclusive storage area and to provide an interface for editing condition data to manage distribution of an associated content file, said condition data including information specifying one of a plurality of distribution channels at the server from which the content file is distributed over the network; connection means for allowing each of said automatic upload programs to perform connection processing automatically to said access point in the said server via actuation of a corresponding upload icon; and transfer means for writing the content file to be distributed to the exclusive storage area automatically when connection processing is performed and for transferring an associated control file controlling distribution of the transferred content file from the server, the control file including the condition data set up through the interface and user information data related to the user registration, wherein a genre of the content file, a codec used to encode and/or decode the content file, a schedule specifying when the content file is broadcast from the server over the network, a commercial setting including a link corresponding to commercial data associated with the content file and a content identification corresponding to the content file are included in the associated control file and are edited via the interface and transmitted to the server.