Patent ID: 7516251

Claim:
A content provision system comprising an information processing apparatus, an output apparatus, a content management server which manages content, and a user management server which manages information regarding a user who is logging in, connected via a network, said system characterized in that: said information processing apparatus is characterized by: including: acquisition means which acquires the content without using said network; recognition means which recognizes that said user logged in said network on the basis of an operation that the user carried out toward the information processing apparatus; transmission/reception means which carries out transmission/reception of information via said network; and provision means which provides predetermined content to said output apparatus which requests provision of said predetermined content, transmitting a user registration request message containing user identification information of the user who is recognized to have logged in by said recognition means and a device identification number of the information processing apparatus, and receiving information regarding the output apparatus which is connected to said network in which said user is logging in, recognizing the output apparatus in which said user is logging in on the basis of the information received from said user management server, and in a case of receiving the predetermined content by said acquisition means, transmitting a content registration request message to said content management server, and transmitting a message indicating that predetermined content has been acquired, said message containing position information indicating a position of said predetermined content, and being necessary for said output apparatus which said user is logging in to acquire said predetermined content to the output apparatus which said user is logging in, and said output apparatus is characterized by including: indication means which indicates that there is outputable content in response to reception of the message transmitted from said information processing apparatus; and output means which requests said information processing apparatus to provide said predetermined content and allows a user to view and listen to said predetermined content provided from said information processing apparatus, in a case where said predetermined content is instructed to be outputted in response to the indication by said indication means.