Patent ID: 8826324

Claim:
A server apparatus used in a system that delivers, to a reception apparatus via a network, a commercial stream of a content prior to a delivery of a main-program stream of the content, the server apparatus comprising: a processor to perform functions to store reproduction control information for the commercial stream, that includes at least first setting information that sets whether to restrict a trick reproduction in the reception apparatus; and to extract, in response to a first reproduction control information acquisition request from the reception apparatus, the reproduction control information for the commercial stream and transmit the reproduction control information for the commercial stream to the reception apparatus, wherein the reproduction control information for the commercial stream is stored in a reproduction control metafile comprising a content identification, a content title, a content uniform resource locator (URL), a digital rights management server URL, a license identification, and a trick reproduction inhibition flag, and wherein the reproduction control metafile is stored apart from any main-program stream reproduction control information the processor further performing functions to receive, from the reception apparatus, a reproduction end notification including at least first identification information that identifies the content interrupted while being reproduced in the reception apparatus, second identification information that identifies one of the reception apparatus and a user, and end time position information of one of the commercial stream and the main program stream interrupted while being reproduced; to store, as resume information, the first identification information, the second identification information, and the end time position information included in the received reproduction end notification in association with each other; and to transmit to the reception apparatus, as reproduction resumption position information, the end time position information of one of the commercial stream and the main program stream of the content based on the resume information in response to a content viewing request from the reception apparatus, that includes the first identification information that identifies the content interrupted while being reproduced and the second identification information that identifies one of the reception apparatus and the user.