Patent ID: 8315725

Claim:
A content reproduction controlling apparatus connected with a plurality of content reproduction terminal devices, each having a plurality of content items recorded therein, the content reproduction controlling apparatus comprising: an acquiring unit that acquires, from each of the content reproduction terminal devices, content information indicative of a subject matter of each of the content items; a determining unit that determines a reproduction content based on the content information, wherein the determining comprises determining whether the content information provided by at least two content reproduction terminal devices is the same, the reproduction content being obtained from the content reproduction terminal devices and being at least one of the content items to be reproduced; an extracting unit that extracts the reproduction content from the content reproduction terminal devices respectively having the reproduction content recorded therein; and a reproducing unit that reproduces and outputs the extracted reproduction content, wherein it is recorded which content reproduction terminal device is a source of each content item, and wherein the determining unit determines whether files of the content information provided by the at least two content reproduction terminal devices are identical.