Patent ID: 8635369

Claim:
A content transmission system having a content sending apparatus for sending content and a content reception apparatus for receiving said content, said content sending apparatus including: a first memory storing a first program; and a first processor configured to execute the first program to cause the content sending apparatus to perform a first method, the first method comprising: attaching content identifying information associated with metadata of said content to data of said content, inserting a command, to be executed by said content reception apparatus after reception of said content by said content reception apparatus has been completed, into said metadata to be attached to said data of said content, and sending said data of said content, attached with both content identifying information associated with said metadata, and said inserted command, to a content reception apparatus storage location specified by a URL received from said content reception apparatus, and said content reception apparatus including: a second memory storing a second program; and a second processor configured to execute the second program to cause the content reception apparatus to perform a second method, the second method comprising: receiving said data of said content, attached with both content identifying information associated with said metadata and said inserted command, at the storage location specified by the URL sent to said content sending apparatus, and analyzing said metadata, and executing said command after completion of reception of said content and on the basis of a result of the analysis of said metadata, and identifying a time in said metadata at which said command is to be executed and said command is executed at this time, wherein the content of said command includes deleting data of the received content upon passing of a predetermined time after completion of reception of said content, wherein said command causes said content reception apparatus to execute at least one of copying and moving said data of said content to a predetermined recording media identified in the command.