Patent ID: 8719439

Claim:
A content transmitting and receiving device comprising: a content receiver function module configured to receive and to replay content; a content transmitter function module configured to transmit designated content; a content designator receiver configured to receive a content designator as a uniform resource identifier (URI) over a network; a content transmitter function identifier extracting module configured to extract a content transmitter function identifier from the received content designator; a content transmitter function identifier comparator configured to compare the extracted content transmitter function identifier with a content transmitter function identifier stored in the content transmitting and receiving device; a content obtaining method switching module configured to switch between internal transfer of content and external transfer of content over the network based on a result of a comparison performed by the content transmitter function identifier comparator; and a content reader configured to read designated content from a content accumulating module, wherein if the content obtaining method switching module switches to the internal transfer, the content reader transmits the read designated content to the content receiver function module through the internal transfer.