Patent ID: 7113983

Claim:
A program reproduction system for transmitting and reproducing contents via a communication network, said program reproduction system comprising: a program serving site having a memory storing a plurality of types of contents having different characters and adapted to supply a program file defining a reproducing sequence of a plurality of contents including contents of different characters; and a client connectable to said program serving site via the communication network and having a plurality of types of reproduction engines capable of reproducing said plurality of types of contents having different characters, said client being adapted to: receive a program file from said program serving site; receive, from said program serving site, contents specified by the received program file; and successively reproduce each of the received contents in a reproducing sequence defined by the received program file, using any one of the reproduction engines which corresponds to the type of the content to be reproduced, wherein the received contents are automatically reproduced in accordance with the reproducing sequence.