Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program and information processing system

An information processing method comprising:

• controlling, by a processing device at an apparatus,
• receiving a request to reproduce content data;
• acquiring, from a device external to the apparatus, information related to the content data, in which the information includes a reproducing point of the content data reproduced on the external device;
• and
• reproducing the content data to initiate reproduction of the content based on the reproducing point,
• wherein the reproducing point of the content data indicates a temporal position within the content data at which the content data is currently being reproduced on the external device, at a time when the reproduction of the content data is initiated at the apparatus, and wherein the reproducing the content data is initiated at another temporal position in the content data that is later than the temporal position within the content data.

A non-transitory recording medium configured to store a program executable by a computer, the program comprising:

• receiving, at an apparatus, a request to reproduce content data;
• acquiring, from a device external to the apparatus, information related to the content data, in which the information includes a reproducing point of the content data reproduced on the external device;
• and
• reproducing, at the apparatus, the content data to initiate reproduction of the content data based on the reproducing point,
• wherein the reproducing point of the content data indicates a temporal position within the content data at which the content data is currently being reproduced on the external device, at a time when the reproduction of the content data is initiated at the apparatus, and wherein the reproducing the content data is initiated at another temporal position in the content data that is late than the temporal position within the content data.