Patent ID: 7350039

Claim:
A processing controller controlling a data acquiring unit, which is adapted for acquiring data, to acquire said data, comprising: a request information acquiring unit for acquiring request information which requests that said data concerning specified contents or said data related to prespecified contents be acquired by said data acquiring unit; a guidance information acquiring unit for acquiring guidance information corresponding to and concerning contents of said data acquired by said data acquiring unit based on said request information; a priority information acquiring unit for acquiring priority information concerning priority for being acquired by said data acquiring unit in data concerning said specified contents as well as in data related to prespecified contents based on said request information; a comparing unit for comparing overlapping state of the contents of said acquired guidance information; and an acquiring control unit for controlling said data acquiring unit to acquire either one of the data concerning said specified contents and the data related to said prespecified contents overlapped with each other in content, based on said priority information in said data concerning the specified contents and said data related to the prespecified contents each corresponding to the guidance information including overlapped contents.