Patent ID: 8132217

Claim:
A control device configured to control a content retaining device configured to retain content and a plurality of reproduction devices configured to reproduce and display content supplied from the content retaining device via a network, the control device comprising: a predetermined-range determination unit configured to determine a reproduction device of the plurality of reproduction devices located in a predetermined range based on the control device; a reproduction device designating unit configured to designate at least one reproduction device from among the plurality of reproduction devices which are determined to be located in the predetermined range by the predetermined-range determination unit; and a reproduction instruction unit configured to instruct the reproduction device designated by the reproduction device designating unit to obtain the content retained by the content retaining device via the network and to reproduce and display the content; wherein each of the content retained by the content retaining device includes content attribute information indicating an attribute owned by the content; and wherein the reproduction device designating unit includes: an association information storing unit configured to preliminarily store association information associating a plurality of attributes for classifying the content with the plurality of reproduction devices configured to reproduce and display the content having these attributes by priority, respectively; an attribute information acquiring unit configured to acquire the content attribute information via the network; and a reproduction device identifying unit configured to identify the reproduction device of the plurality of reproduction devices corresponding to the attribute indicated by the content attribute information acquired by the attribute information acquiring unit, in the association information, and wherein the reproduction device designating unit designates the reproduction device of the plurality of reproduction devices identified by the reproduction device identifying unit.