Patent ID: 8074249

Claim:
A content storage control apparatus comprising: a content acquiring unit configured to be capable of accessing a designated Web page and acquiring the content information of the Web page from a Web server; a confirmation unit configured to check for the presence of an associated Web page URL associated with a broadcast program; an output unit configured to output the data of the broadcast program to a recording apparatus during the broadcast program is being broadcast; and a control unit configured to use, in case the associated Web page URL is present, the content acquiring unit to acquire the content information of the associated Web page corresponding to the associated Web page URL and store the acquired content information in a storage unit in association with the broadcast program; a playback unit configured to acquire the data of a recorded broadcast program from the recording apparatus, play back the broadcast program using the acquired data, and output it to a display; and a Web page output unit configured to read the content information of the associated Web page that corresponds to the associated Web page URL associated with the broadcast program, from the storage unit and output the associated Web page to the display, wherein the confirmation unit, during the output of the data of the broadcast program to the recording apparatus, acquires update timing information of the associated Web page from the Web server that stores the associated Web page and determines whether the associated Web page that is stored the Web server has been updated, by comparing the acquired update timing information with a latest update timing information of the associated Web page that has already been acquired, and wherein the control unit, if the result of the comparison shows that the acquired update timing information and the latest update timing information do not match, determines that the associated Web page has been updated and acquires the content information of the updated associated Web page from the Web server by using the content acquiring unit, and stores the content information of the updated associated Web page in the storage unit in association with the broadcast program, and wherein the control unit allows to a user to choose whether to output the associated Web page stored in the storage unit when the content information of the associated Web page associated with the broadcast program is present, or to acquire the content information of the associated Web page by the content acquiring unit using the associated Web page URL and output the acquired associated Web page.