公开(公告)号：JP2004007063A

公开(公告)日：2004-01-08

申请号：JP2002157837

申请日：2002-05-30

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： HAMADA SEIJI ,  SHIKAN AKIMITSU ,  OGURA TAKASHI

IPC: H04N5/76 ,  H04N7/173 ,  H04N21/426 ,  H04N21/84

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a contents distributing method for freely executing contents reproduction control. SOLUTION: Active meta data for controlling the reproduction of contents are distributed, and a user side receiver 30 is configured to combine and reproduce a plurality of contents, or to skip a part of those contents, or to limit the viewing of the contents based on describers included in the active meta data. The active meta data can be updated, and the active meta data for update are individually generated for every user based on user information held in a service provider side server 20 so that the control of the contents can be freely carried out for every user. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO