Patent ID: 7552388

Claim:
A data-providing apparatus for editing image data in response to a demand transmitted from a data-processing apparatus through the Internet, said data-providing apparatus comprising: first acquisition means for acquiring one or more scenarios, each scenario comprising a plurality of video scenes and each video scene lasting for a predetermined period of time, in response to a demand made by a user of the data-processing apparatus using a web browser; second acquisition means for acquiring a predetermined number of video clips that are used in each scenario, in response to a demand made by the user of the data-processing apparatus using the web browser, wherein the second acquisition means acquires the video clips supplied from another data-processing apparatus other than the data-providing apparatus; user video-data management means for storing said one or more scenarios and said video clips; receiving means for receiving video clips transmitted by the user from the data-processing apparatus through the Internet using the web browser; means for selecting the video clips acquired by the second acquisition means and for randomly allocating the selected video clips to video scenes of a scenario acquired by the first acquisition means until each video scene of the scenario has been randomly allocated a corresponding one of the video clips; and editing means for editing the video clips that are received by the receiving means and allocated to the video scenes of the acquired scenario.