Patent ID: 7802024

Claim:
A content distributing system including a playback apparatus to play back content and a control apparatus to control the playback apparatus by transmitting a command to the playback apparatus, the playback apparatus comprising: identifying means for identifying a category of content to be played back; and transmitting means for transmitting an identification result of the category generated by the identifying means to the control apparatus, and the control apparatus comprising: receiving means for receiving the identification result transmitted from the playback apparatus; storage means for storing command information indicating handling of the content of each category; selecting means for selecting a piece of command information corresponding to the category of the content to be played back from the command information stored in the storage means based on an identification result received from the playback apparatus; processing means for performing a process of allowing a user to recognize a command to provide instructions about handling of the content to be played back based on the piece of command information selected by the selecting means; and accepting means for accepting an operation of specifying a command to provide instructions about handling of the content.