Patent ID: 7346650

Claim:
A recording and reproducing system constituted by a server apparatus and terminal apparatuses connected over a local area network; wherein each of said terminal apparatuses comprises: operation request generating means for generating a reproduction request bound for said server apparatus; and terminal-side communicating means for communicating with said server apparatus over said local area network; and wherein said server apparatus comprises: server-side communicating means for communicating with each of said terminal apparatuses over said local area network; server-side recording/reproducing means for recording and reproducing video data to and from a predetermined server-side storage medium; and server-side controlling means which, in response to said reproduction request sent from any one of said terminal apparatuses over said local area network, causes said server-side recording/reproducing means to reproduce said video data from said server-side storage medium and transmits the reproduced video data through said server-side communicating means to the requesting terminal apparatus over said local area network, server side display control means for controlling the displaying of available reproduction requests and making the displayed available reproduction requests selectable by a user, wherein the available reproduction requests are a subset of a plurality of reproductions requests, wherein a selection of the available reproduction requests that are displayed are a function of previously transmitted data, previously reproduced data, information in response to reproduction of the previously transmitted data, and time information associated therewith.