Bandwidth requesting system, bandwidth requesting device, client device, bandwidth requesting method, content playback method, and program
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Sep 30, 2014
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Feb 5, 2008
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Feb 15, 2007
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A bandwidth requesting device is to be connected via a network to a plurality of client devices that play contents. The bandwidth requesting device is to appropriate bandwidths to the plurality of client devices and includes a bandwidth securement requesting unit that determines a request bandwidth, based on bandwidth management information and appropriation request bandwidths sent from the plurality of client devices. The bandwidth securement requesting unit requests a relay server, provided externally from the network, that determines bandwidths usable by the network, to secure the request bandwidth. The bandwidth requesting device also includes a processing unit that resolves, upon a competition among the appropriation request bandwidths sent from the plurality of client devices, the competition. Further, the bandwidth requesting device includes a communication unit that communicates with the relay server and the plurality of client devices to receive the bandwidth management information.
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