Patent ID: 8683336

Claim:
An inter-device operation interface that is displayed on a display unit of a device control terminal that controls an operation between devices connected through a network, comprising: a contents display area to display information directly representing respective media contents held by a device, and configured to display information of the device that provides the media contents; an operation display area to display information of an operation executed to the media contents; and a device display area to display information serving as a target of the operation, wherein when information displayed in each of the display areas is selected by using an operation unit of the device control terminal, a service provided by the device connected through a wide-area network is displayed in the device display area as a candidate of the target, wherein the information of media contents held by the device, the information of the operation executed to the media contents, and the information serving as the target of the operation are each expressed by an icon comprising a thumbnail image, and wherein the contents display area, the operation display area, and the device display area are all concurrently displayed on the display unit.