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US 8,621,039 B2Granted
Communication service method and communication apparatus thereof
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsMotoki Nakade, Jun Tanaka, Yoshito Shiraishi, Etsuo Kuroda
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Abstract
A communication service method wherein a user ID is registered at server. Video data from the user's terminal is transmitted to the server. The user selects the setting of whether image data is used with that video data; and the user's selected setting is stored at the server with the user ID. When the stored setting indicates that image data is used, the video data and the image data are transmitted from the server to one or more other terminals.
Claims5
A communication service method comprising:
- registering, in a server, a user ID of a user;
- transmitting video data from a terminal used by the user to the server;
- selecting by the user a setting, of whether image data is used with the video data;
- storing the setting with the user ID in the server;
- and
- transmitting from the server to one or more other terminals the video data and the image data when the setting indicates that the image data is used.
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