Communication method

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2004-05-18

2008-09-30

Smith, Creighton H (Department: 2614)

Telecommunications

Radiotelephone system

Special service

C705S051000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07430410

ABSTRACT:
According to the present invention, the step of requesting of an associated information provision server KS for associated information about contents broadcast in a broadcast program being received is provided. The step of acquiring the associated information corresponding to the request from the associated information provision server KS and storing this is provided. And the retrieval step of transmitting a part of the associated information as a retrieval key to retrieve contents to a CD seller server31, and obtaining retrieval results from the CD seller server31is provided. Thereby, the associated information about the contents broadcast in the broadcast program being received is obtained. The retrieval results are obtained from a contents retrieval server by using the part of the associated information as retrieval keys. Therefore, retrieval results having variety that are not limited to results conceived by the user in a certain degree can be obtained.

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