Patent ID: 8321452

Claim:
An information processing apparatus, comprising: means for registering specific information specifying a previously specified search condition; means for transmitting, when the registered specific information is selected, the specific information or the search condition to another information processing apparatus which executes an additional search based on the previously specified search condition; means for receiving a list of content matching search information retrieved based on the additional search from the another information processing apparatus; means for successively playing back an arbitrary number of a plurality of content included in the received list in a sequential manner; means for changing an order of playing back the plurality of content included in the received list by changing a display order of symbolic information representing the content included in the received list, the order of playing back and the display order being changed during playback of one of the plurality of content, the symbolic information each representing a different one of the plurality of content; and means for displaying the symbolic information while playing back the one of the plurality of content.