Patent ID: 8019272

Claim:
A content reproducing apparatus comprising: a wireless communication unit configured to selectively perform wireless communication with a first plurality of wireless communication apparatuses, where each of the plurality of wireless communication apparatuses is capable of transmitting streaming data, the wireless communication unit configured to receive the streaming data; a reproducing unit configured to reproduce the received streaming data by causing the wireless communication unit to communicate wirelessly with a second plurality of wireless communication apparatuses; and a control unit configured to: control the wireless communication unit to receive the streaming data from the first plurality of wireless communication apparatuses; control the reproducing unit to reproduce the streaming data by causing the wireless communication unit to perform wireless communication with the second plurality of wireless communication apparatuses based on a predetermined reproducing order; and start a communication connection process, as established in the predetermined reproducing order, between the wireless communication unit and one of the plurality of wireless communication apparatuses that transmits the streaming data to be received next by the wireless communication unit, the communication process started a predetermined period of time before the predicted reproduction end time of streaming data being reproduced by the reproducing unit so that the reproducing unit substantially sequentially reproduces the streaming data received from the plurality of wireless communication apparatuses.