Continuable communication management apparatus and continuable communication managing method

A continuable communication management apparatus connected to a video content distribution system that includes a video distribution server configured to distribute a requested video content via a network and view terminals configured to receive and reproduce the distributed video content, the continuable communication management apparatus comprising:

• a communication device to receive view information representing a reproduction state of a video content transmitted from an arbitrary view terminal,
• a viewing manage to resister the view information;
• a video list provider to, in response to a video list request transmitted from a view terminal, access a menu server to acquire the video list, determine if there is a video content with a suspended state designated by a user of the view terminal in the view information, and if there is a video content with the suspended state, add the video content with the suspended state as a candidate of continuable viewing to the video list, and transmit the added video list to the view terminal;
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• reporting device configured to find an information item containing an indication of a view location of the video content with the suspended state from the view information and report the information item to the view terminal that has requested the video list.