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AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsKatsutoshi Sakao, Satoru Maeda, Manabu Onishi
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In an information-processing system shown in FIG. 1, a server (106) for delivering remote-operation control information in accordance with an audio/video instrument (110) and an information-processing apparatus (103) with a remote-operation screen display function for remote-controlling the audio/video instrument (110) based on control information acquired from this server (106) are connected to each other through the Internet (105) etc. The information-processing apparatus (103) makes a request to the server (106) to deliver the remote-operation control information in accordance with this audio/video instrument (110) and, based on the control information delivered from the server (106) owing to this delivery request, performs display processing of a remote-operation screen and, based on remote-operation information input by operations on the remote-operation screen, remote-controls the audio/video instrument (110).
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A base station connected to video information providing apparatus, remote-controlled from the base station, for transmitting video information, supplied from the video information providing apparatus, to video display apparatus of the type that is operable to request distribution of and to store remote-control build up data associated with said video information providing apparatus, receive display information included in said remote-control build-up data from an external data base for displaying a remote-operation screen and produce remote-operation information at said base station in response to operations on the remote-operation screen;
A method by which a base station transmits video information supplied from video information providing apparatus, remote-controlled from the base station, to video display apparatus of the type that is operable to request distribution of and to store remote-control build up data associated with said video information providing apparatus, receives display information included in said remote-control build-up data from an external data base for displaying a remote-operation screen and produces remote-operation information at said base station in response to operations on the remote-operation screen;
A program to control a processor to implement a method by which a base station transmits video information supplied from video information providing apparatus, remote-controlled from the base station, to video display apparatus of the type that is operable to request distribution of and to store remote-control build up data associated with said video information providing apparatus, receives display information included in said remote-control build-up data from an external data base for displaying a remote-operation screen and produces remote-operation information at said base station in response to operations on the remote-operation screen;
A computer-readable record medium for storing a program operable to control a processor to carry out the method by which a base station transmits video information supplied from video information providing apparatus, remote-controlled from the base station, to video display apparatus of the type that is operable to request distribution of and to store remote-control build up data associated with said video information providing apparatus, receives display information included in said remote-control build-up data from an external data base for displaying a remote-operation screen and produces remote-operation information at said base station in response to operations on the remote-operation screen;
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.