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

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9288518-B2
Application number	US-201313912273-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 7, 2013
Priority date	Jun 15, 2012
Publication date	Mar 15, 2016
Grant date	Mar 15, 2016

Abstract

The present disclosure is intended to facilitate the transmission of information associated with content being viewed on a public device to a private device. In response to a request from a content reception apparatus, a tablet terminal and a mobile telephone transmit information associated with an action and an application that are coordinatable with the content being displayed to the content reception apparatus. In response to a user operation, the tablet terminal selects a user-specified application from a list of applications displayed on a display of the content reception apparatus and transmits this select information to the content reception apparatus. If a coordination command of an action for coordination with an active application comes from the content reception apparatus, then the mobile telephone executes the received command. The present disclosure is applicable to information processing systems operating the content reception apparatus by using a terminal in wireless communication, for example.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An information processing system; comprising:
a first information processing apparatus;
a second information processing apparatus external to the first information processing apparatus; and
a third information processing apparatus external to the first information processing apparatus and the second information processing apparatus,
each of the second information processing apparatus and the third information processing apparatus being paired with the first information processing apparatus such that said second information processing apparatus is paired with the first information processing apparatus while said third information processing apparatus is paired with the first information processing apparatus and such that each of the second information processing apparatus and the third information processing apparatus is enabled for direct communication with the first information processing apparatus,
said first information processing apparatus has
an application information request block configured to request the second information processing apparatus for information about a coordinatable application, based on information acquired about devices paired with the first information processing apparatus and in response to a user operation at the third information processing apparatus in which the user operation at the third information processing apparatus is transmitted directly to the first information processing apparatus,
an application information reception block configured to receive the information about the application of said second information processing apparatus transmitted from said second information processing apparatus in response to the request from said application information request block, and
a command transmission section configured to transmit a command for executing a user-specified application among coordinatable applications to said second information processing apparatus corresponding to said user-specified application on the basis of the information of the application of said second information processing apparatus received by said application information reception block, and
said second information processing apparatus has
an application information transmission block configured to transmit the information about the application of said second information processing apparatus requested by said application information request block to said first information processing apparatus, and
a command execution block configured to execute said command transmitted by said command transmission section.

2. The information processing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the user-specified application is installed on the information processing apparatus and the second information apparatus and not installed on the third information processing apparatus when the second information processing apparatus is requested for the information about the coordinatable application.

3. An information processing apparatus comprising:
an application information request block configured to request other information processing apparatuses for information about a coordinatable application, based on information acquired about devices paired with the information processing apparatus and in response to a user operation at a third information processing apparatus external to the information processing apparatus and the other information processing apparatuses, in which each of the other information processing apparatuses and the third information processing apparatus is paired with the information processing apparatus such that each of the other information processing apparatuses is paired with the information processing apparatus while said third information processing apparatus is paired with the information processing apparatus and such that each of the other information processing apparatuses and the third information processing apparatus is enabled for direct communication with the information processing apparatus, and in which the user operation at the third information processing apparatus is transmitted directly to the information processing apparatus;
an application information reception block configured to receive the information about the applications of said other information processing apparatuses transmitted from said other information processing apparatuses in response to the request by said application information request block; and
a command transmission section configured to transmit a command for executing a user-specified application among coordinatable applications to said other information processing apparatuses corresponding to said user-specified application on the basis of the information of the application of said other information processing apparatuses received by said application information reception block.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein said application information request block requests for information about an application that is coordinatable with a situation in said information processing apparatus, in which the situation is content being displayed or an active application in said information processing apparatus when the other information processing apparatuses is requested for the information about a coordinatable application.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4 , further comprising:
an own information capture section configured to capture information of an own coordinatable application in response to said user operation, wherein
on the basis of information about applications of other information processing apparatuses received by said application information reception and information about an own application captured by said own information capture block, said command transmission section transmits a command for executing a user-specified application among the coordinatable applications to one of any of said other information processing apparatuses corresponding to said applications and said information processing apparatus.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4 , further comprising:
a display control block configured to display a list of the coordinatable applications on the basis of the information about the applications of said other information processing apparatuses received by said application information reception block.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein said display control block displays said list of applications in accordance with priorities of said applications.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein said priorities of the applications are changed in accordance with usage frequencies of said applications.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein said priorities of said applications get higher when any one of other information processing apparatuses corresponding to any one of said applications is in use.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein said display control block displays said list of applications in a layered structure in accordance with the priorities of said applications.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein said display control block adds, for each of said applications, information indicative of other information processing apparatuses corresponding to said applications, and displays said list of applications.

12. An information processing apparatus comprising:
an application information request block configured to request other information processing apparatuses for information about a coordinatable application in response to a user operation;
an application

Assignees

• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Sugiue Yuki

Classifications

• H04N21/4126

  The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones · CPC title

• H04N21/422

  Input-only peripherals {, i.e. input devices connected to specially adapted client devices}, e.g. global positioning system [GPS] {(input devices also receiving signals from specially adapted client devices H04N21/4104)} · CPC title

• H04N21/443

  OS processes, e.g. booting an STB, implementing a Java virtual machine in an STB or power management in an STB · CPC title

• H04N21/42204

  User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor (constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205) · CPC title

• H04N21/42207

  Electricity · mapped topic