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Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and recording medium

US6810199B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateSep 13, 1999
Grant dateOct 26, 2004
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Expiry dateSep 13, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N5/782
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An information processing apparatus is connected to another information processing apparatus via a network and has at least one sub-unit for executing a predetermined function. A reservation is made for causing a tuner sub-unit of an IRD to receive a predetermined channel broadcast at a predetermined time and to record it on a VCR sub-unit of a DVCR via an IEEE-1394 serial data bus. Then, a controller of the IRD writes reservation information into a Resource Schedule Board (RSB) built into a Bulletin Board Subunit (BBS) of the IRD and also writes reservation information of the VCR sub-unit into a RSB built into a BBS of the DVCR. With this arrangement, double-booking is prevented.

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