Patent ID: 8380813

Claim:
A network terminal apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one storage medium having encoded thereon processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to act as: a communication section to communicate with a first server apparatus via at least one network; a reproduction section to reproduce and output content data; a request processing section to perform: a management structure requesting process for requesting that the first server apparatus provide management structure information indicating a management structure for content, the management structure identifying a classification of the content, a content selecting process for selecting an item of content data of the content based at least in part on the management structure information, the content selecting process causing the at least one processor to select the item of content data without input from a user regarding the selection, and a content requesting process for requesting that a second server apparatus identified by the management structure information distribute the item of content data selected by the content selecting; and a reproduction controlling section to cause the reproduction section to reproduce the item of content data received from the second server apparatus wherein: the request processing section further performs a server selecting process for selecting the first server apparatus without input from the user and executes the management structure requesting process for the first server apparatus selected by the server selecting process, the at least one storage medium further stores executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to act as an operation section to perform an operation of turning on a power supply or starting a reproducing operation, and the request processing section executes the server selecting process, the content selecting process, and the content requesting process without input from the user in response to the operation of turning on the power supply or starting the reproducing operation performed by the operation section.