Chip Law Group
Restriction of use that exceeds a personal use range when transmitting a content accumulated at home via an external network
A communication apparatus includes a tuner, a content storage, and a controller that acquires content from the tuner, for one of providing the content to a terminal or recording the content to the content storage, and registers the terminal, in association with a registration date, to a home network. The terminal requests the content from outside the home network. The controller provides the content to the registered terminal based on a request, from the registered terminal, for the content, where the providing of the content to the registered terminal is based on the request, before an expiration date, for the content. The expiration date is based on the registration date of the registered terminal. The providing of the content to the registered terminal is restricted based on the request, after the expiration date, for the content.
SONY CORPORATION
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Takehiko
Nakano