Patent ID: 7890647

Claim:
A content display-playback system comprising: at least one server that distributes audio-visual content via streaming; and at least one client that plays back, by streaming, the content distributed via streaming from the server, the server and the client being connected, wherein the client beforehand makes settings regarding a client operation to be performed for submitting a streaming distribution request to the server to perform playback by streaming, the at least one client comprises a first client including a display-playback apparatus and a second client including a content display-playback operation control apparatus, the second client controls a display-playback operation for content selected by the second client and displays the content selected by the second client so that the content from the server is played back by the first client by a throw operation performed at the second client, and when the second client controls a display-playback operation for content selected by the second client so that the content from the server is played back by the first client by a throw operation, the second client makes settings so that the first client plays back the content from the beginning when a current playback position of the second client at which the throw operation is performed is less than a predetermined time.