Patent ID: 7774426

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: means for inputting an operation input of a user; means for producing a first request signal requesting a part of multimedia data stored in a different information processing apparatus be sent and a second request signal requesting that all of the multimedia data be sent based on the operation of the user received by said means for receiving; means for sending the first request signal or the second request signal produced by said means for producing to the different information processing apparatus; means for receiving part or all of the multimedia data sent from the different information processing apparatus; means for reproducing part or all the multimedia data received by said means for receiving; and means for controlling said means for reproducing so as to reproduce the part of the multimedia data that is sent from the different information processing apparatus which received the first request signal, that is received by said means for receiving, and that corresponds to the first request signal, and for controlling said means for reproducing so as to reproduce all of the multimedia data this is sent from the different information processing apparatus which received the second request signal, that is received by said means for receiving and that corresponds to the second request signal.