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User terminal program and apparatus

  • US 20020152171A1
  • Filed: 04/22/2002
  • Published: 10/17/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2000
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A user terminal program which enables a user terminal apparatus to execute the following steps:

  • an accepting step for accepting, from a user, instruction information specifying a content that the user wants to reproduce on a predetermined reproducing apparatus other than the user terminal apparatus;

    an acquiring step for acquiring system identifying information which identifies a system to be used for receiving the specified content from a distributing site;

    a judging step for judging whether the acquired system identifying information is included in a compatibility file which is stored in the user terminal apparatus and which includes one or more pieces of system identifying information identifying each of one or more systems adopted by the predetermined reproducing apparatus;

    a receiving step for a) receiving the specified content according to the system identified by the acquired system identifying information, if the acquired system identifying information is judged to be included, and b) prohibiting the specified content from being received, if the acquired system identifying information is judged not to be included; and

    a writing step for writing the received content to a memory of the predetermined reproducing apparatus or to a memory that is insertable into the predetermined reproducing apparatus.

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