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

Abstract

The present invention relates to an information providing system, an information providing apparatus and a method thereof, and an information processing apparatus and a method thereof suppressing unauthorized use of the video contents. A stream contents server 3 issues permission information to a data contents server 10. The data contents server 10 provides the data contents to which the permission information is added to a TV receiver 7. A data broadcast engine 73 extracts identification information from the stream contents provided by the stream contents provider 1, and feeds it to the stream contents provider 1 together with the permission information extracted from the data contents. Based on the permission information and the identification information, the stream contents provider 1 judges whether the reference to the stream contents by the data contents be permitted, and transmits the result of judgement to the digital TV receiver 7. The invention can be adapted to a digital broadcast system.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to an information providing system, an information providing device and method, and an information processing device and method, and in particular to an information providing system, an information providing device and method, and an information processing device and method for preventing illegal use of information. Background technique [0002] Recently, due to the popularization of the Internet, various information devices are connected to the Internet, so that data contents can be received through the Internet. [0003] For example, by adding an Internet connection function to a digital TV, not only data content can be received via the digital TV, but also broadcast digital TV signals (streaming data) can be received and displayed via satellite. [0004] However, if an Internet connection function is added to the digital television, the data content received through the Internet refers to the program (streaming content)...

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Problems solved by technology

[0005] As a result, for example, when sponsor A providing data content and sponsor B providing streaming content are competing sponsors, there is a possibility that two contents provided by competing sponsors may be displayed at the same time, which is not ideal.

[0006] In addition, there is a possibility that the copyright of the image content may be violated by intentionally referring to predetermined streaming content (image content) on the data content.

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