Communication device and program

• US 20040260793A1
• Filed: 03/31/2004
• Published: 12/23/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Ichikawa, Yuichi, Asai, Mao, Takeshita, Masato, Yamane, Naoki, Tomioka, Atsuki, Washio, Satoshi, Oi, Tatsuro, Hattori, Yasunori, Watanabe, Nobuyuki, Yamada, Kazuhiro, Nishida, Masakazu, Murakami, Keiichi, Tsuda, Masayuki, Naruse, Naoki, Kamiya, Dai
• Application Number:
  US10/814,821
• Publication Number:
  US 20040260793A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/289 Intermediate processing functionally located close to the data consumer application, e.g. in same machine, in same home or in same sub-network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

The present invention provides a method for making it more convenient for a user to try out contents. When contents are received, the contents are written in a free space or a space where some data is already stored, of cache memory means. When contents are written in the cache memory means, the contents are processed or executed. When a command is issued using operation means for storing contents processed or executed, the contents are read from the cache memory means, and written in content storage means.

Claims

1. A communication device comprising:

operation means;

cache memory means;

content storage means composed of nonvolatile memory;

receiving means for receiving contents;

first writing means, when said receiving means receives contents, for writing said contents in a free space or a space, where some data is already stored, of said cache memory means;

content using means, after said first writing means writes contents in said cache memory means, for processing or executing said contents; and

second writing means, when a command is issued using said operation means for storing contents processed or executed by said content using means, for writing said contents in said content storage means after reading said contents from said cache memory means.

2. A communication device according to claim 1, wherein:

said receiving means receives trial information indicating that said contents are contents for trial use; and

said first writing means, when said receiving means receives said trial information, writes said contents in said free space or said space, where some data is already stored, of said cache memory means.

3. A communication device according to claim 1, wherein:

said second writing means comprises determining means for determining whether a size of data readable in a free space of said content storage means is equal to or more than a data size of said contents stored in said cache memory means; and

when said determining means determines that said size of data readable in said free space of said content storage means is equal to or more than said size of data of said contents stored in said cache memory means, said second writing means writes in said content storage means said contents processed or executed by said content using means after reading said contents from said cache memory means.

4. A communication device according to claim 3, wherein:

said writing means comprises inquiring means, when said determining means determines that said size of data readable in said size of free space of said content storage means is smaller than said size of data of said contents stored in said cache memory means, for prompting a user to delete one or more contents stored in said content storage means; and

when, in response to said prompting of said inquiring means, a command is issued by using said operation means for deleting one or more contents stored in said content storage means, said second writing means, reserves a free space in said content storage means by making it impossible to read said contents from said content storage means and making a space in said content storage means storing said contents available for storing new data, and causes said determining means to make a determination.

5. A program product for causing a computer having operation means, cache memory means, and content storage means composed of nonvolatile memory, to execute:

a receiving process of receiving contents;

a first writing process, when contents are received in said receiving process, of writing said contents in a free space or a space where some data is already stored, of said cache memory means;

a content using process, after contents are written in said cache memory means in said first writing process, of processing or executing said contents; and

a second writing process, when a command is issued using said operation means for storing contents processed or executed in said content using process, of writing said contents in said content storage means after reading said contents from said cache memory means.