Patent ID: 8555175

Claim:
A display generation device for generating a display screen including one or two or more user-selectable playback control items, comprising: one or more processors configured as: a download section for downloading content data desired by a user of the display generation device from a content server storing the content data; a data amount acquisition section for acquiring a data amount already downloaded and a data amount not yet downloaded by the download section among the content data; a rate acquisition section for estimating, prior to start of the downloading of the content data desired by the user, a transmission rate of data from the content server to the display generation device, wherein the rate acquisition section estimates the transmission rate of data based on a data transmission rate between the content server and another receiver different than the display generation device; and a display screen generation section for generating the display screen including the playback control item according to the data amount acquired by the data amount acquisition section and the transmission rate estimated by the rate acquisition section, wherein the display screen generation section calculates a remaining download time by adding a predetermined data amount to the data amount not yet downloaded to generate a sum and dividing the sum by the transmission rate estimated by the rate acquisition section.