| US 7,519,685 B2 | ||
| Contents linkage information delivery system | ||
| Masao Nonaka, Kadoma (Japan); Masato Yamamichi, Kadoma (Japan); Motoji Ohmori, Hirakata (Japan); Masaya Yamamoto, Hirakata (Japan); Wataru Ikeda, Osaka (Japan); Masataka Minami, Arcadia, Calif. (US); Kazuhisa Watanabe, Yokohama (Japan); and Atsushi Saso, Kawasaki (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Panasonic Corporation, Osaka (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Apr. 04, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/406,217. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0262217 A1, Nov. 24, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 15/16 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 709—219 | 4 Claims |

| 1. A playback apparatus comprising:
a reading unit that reads content stored on a recording medium;
a receiving unit that receives, from a server, electronic bulletin board information corresponding to the content, the electronic
bulletin board information containing (i) a comment corresponding to a predetermined position of the content and (ii) an instruction
item that corresponds to the comment and indicates that a currently played-back position of the content is to change to the
predetermined position of the content corresponding to the comment;
a playback unit that plays back the content read from the recording medium and the electronic bulletin board information corresponding
to the content; and
a display unit that displays, on a screen, the content and the electronic bulletin board information corresponding to the
content,
wherein, when an instruction item of electronic bulletin board information displayed on the screen is selected from the screen,
the playback unit changes a playback position of the content from the currently played-back position of the content to the
predetermined position of the content corresponding to the comment.
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