Patent ID: 8595779

Claim:
A base server apparatus that relays data to be transmitted to a plurality of terminals from a distribution center and is disposed to a plurality of bases, the base server apparatus comprising: a data distribution control unit that controls to distribute the data from the distribution center to the terminals; a data accumulation unit that records the data transmitted from the distribution center in response to a request signal from the data distribution control unit; a management table that associates the data recorded in the data accumulation unit and the terminal that is showing in a time-shifted viewing or the terminal requesting to pause playing the data, wherein when the data distribution control unit receives a pause request signal for requesting to pause playing the data from the terminal, the data distribution control unit: outputs the request signal for requesting to start recording the data to the data accumulation unit in response to the pause request signal from the terminals when the same data as the data requested to pause by the terminal is not recorded to the data accumulation unit by request from other terminals, distributes the data recorded in the data accumulation unit in response to a resume request signal for requesting to resume playing the data from the terminal requesting to pause playing the data, and deletes the data recorded in the data accumulation unit with a completion of distributing the data to the terminal that requested to resume playing the data when there is no terminal that pauses playing the data or receives the data.