Receiving apparatus, receiving method, receiving program, recording medium, and receiving system

• US 20050075901A1
• Filed: 09/15/2004
• Published: 04/07/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kii, Manabu, Fukushima, Takashi
• Granted Patent: US 8,069,158 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/1.100
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00086 Circuits for prevention of unauthorised reproduction or copying, e.g. piracy indicating unauthorised use of record carriers in general G11B23/28; scrambling for television signal recording H04N5/913; network architectures or network protocols for network security H04L63/00; cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for secret or secure communication H04L9/00
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00746 wherein the usage restriction can be expressed as a specific number
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00768 wherein copy control information is used, e.g. for indicating whether a content may be copied freely, no more, once, or never, by setting CGMS, SCMS, or CCI flags
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2529 Mini-discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/00 Editing; Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Monitoring; Measuring tape travel

Abstract

After a reception start request of contents is issued, the presence or absence of a PD connected to a PC is discriminated. If no PD exists, the received contents is recorded into only the PC. If the PD exists, a media type of PD is discriminated. If it is a built-in type, the received contents is recorded into the PC, also transferred to the PD, and recorded into a storing medium in the PD. If it is a media type, whether or not the storing medium has been loaded into the PD is discriminated. If it has been loaded, the received contents is recorded into the PC, also transferred to the PD, and recorded into the storing medium in the PD. If it is not loaded, the user is urged to load the storing medium. Since the recording of the received contents into the PC and the recording into the PD are automatically executed, there is no need to individually execute those processes.

Claims

1. A receiving apparatus for downloading contents from a server through a network, comprising:

communicating means for communicating with said server through said network;

storing means for storing data; and

connecting means to which a recording apparatus can be connected,

wherein when the contents is downloaded from said server by said communicating means, whether or not said recording apparatus has been connected to said connecting means is discriminated and, if it is determined that the recording apparatus has been connected, said downloaded contents is stored into said storing means and recorded into said recording apparatus.

2. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein whether a storing medium which is used by said recording apparatus is a medium of a built-in type in which it is built in said recording apparatus or a medium of a detachable type in which it can be loaded/removed into/from said recording apparatus is discriminated.

3. An apparatus according to claim 2, wherein if it is determined that the storing medium which is used by said recording apparatus is the medium of said detachable type for said recording apparatus, whether or not said storing medium has been loaded into said recording apparatus is discriminated and, on the basis of a result of said discrimination, whether or not the contents is recorded is discriminated.

4. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of said recording apparatuses can be connected to said connecting means.

5. An apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said downloaded contents is transferred to said plurality of recording apparatuses, respectively.

6. An apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the storage of said downloaded contents into said storing means is executed only once in response to said transfer which is executed to said plurality of recording apparatuses.

7. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein check-out of said downloaded contents stored in said storing means is automatically executed in accordance with transfer of said downloaded contents to said recording apparatus.

8. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein if it is determined that said recording apparatus is not connected to said connecting means, said downloaded contents is stored into only said storing means.

9. A receiving method of downloading contents from a server through a network, comprising the steps of:

when the contents is downloaded from said server, discriminating whether or not a recording apparatus has been connected to connecting means; and

if it is determined that said recording apparatus has been connected, storing said downloaded contents into storing means and recording it into said recording apparatus.

10. A receiving program for allowing a computer apparatus to execute a receiving method of downloading contents from a server through a network,

wherein in said receiving method,

when the contents is downloaded from said server, whether or not a recording apparatus has been connected to connecting means is discriminated and, if it is determined that said recording apparatus has been connected, said downloaded contents is stored into storing means and recorded into said recording apparatus.

11. A recording medium in which a receiving program for allowing a computer apparatus to execute a receiving method of downloading contents from a server through a network has been recorded,

wherein in said receiving method,

when the contents is downloaded from said server, whether or not a recording apparatus has been connected to connecting means is discriminated and, if it is determined that said recording apparatus has been connected, said downloaded contents is stored into storing means and recorded into said recording apparatus.

12. A receiving system for downloading contents from a server through a network, comprising:

communicating means for communicating with said server through said network;

first storing means which is fixedly used; and

detachable second storing means,

wherein when the contents is downloaded from said server by said communicating means, whether or not said second storing means can be used is discriminated, and if it is determined that said second storing means can be used, said downloaded contents is stored into said first storing means and recorded into said second storing means.

13. A system according to claim 12, further comprising connecting means to which a recording apparatus can be connected, and

wherein said second storing means is said recording apparatus which is connected to said connecting means.

14. A system according to claim 13, wherein whether a storing medium which is used by said recording apparatus is a medium of a built-in type in which it is built in said recording apparatus or a medium of a detachable type in which it can be loaded/removed into/from said recording apparatus is discriminated.

15. A system according to claim 14, wherein if it is determined that the storing medium which is used by said recording apparatus is the medium of said detachable type for said recording apparatus, whether or not said storing medium has been loaded into said recording apparatus is discriminated and, on the basis of a result of said discrimination, whether or not the contents is recorded is discriminated.

16. A system according to claim 12, wherein a plurality of said second storing means can be provided.

17. A system according to claim 16, wherein said downloaded contents is transferred to said plurality of second storing means, respectively.

18. A system according to claim 17, wherein the storage of said downloaded contents into said first storing means is executed only once in response to said transfer which is executed to said plurality of second storing means.

19. A system according to claim 12, wherein check-out of said downloaded contents stored in said first storing means is automatically executed in accordance with transfer of said downloaded contents to said second storing means.

20. A system according to claim 12, wherein if it is determined that said second storing means cannot be used, said downloaded contents is stored into only said first storing means.

21. A receiving method of downloading contents from a server through a network, comprising the steps of:

when the contents is downloaded from said server, discriminating whether or not detachable first storing means can be used; and

if it is determined that said first storing means can be used, storing said downloaded contents into second storing means which is fixedly used and recording it into said first storing means.

22. A receiving program for allowing a computer apparatus to execute a receiving method of downloading contents from a server through a network,

wherein in said receiving method,

when the contents is downloaded from said server, whether or not detachable first storing means can be used is discriminated, and if it is determined that said first storing means can be used, said downloaded contents is stored into second storing means which is fixedly used and recorded into said first storing means.

23. A recording medium in which a receiving program for allowing a computer apparatus to execute a receiving method of downloading contents from a server through a network has been recorded,

wherein in said receiving method,

when the contents is downloaded from said server, whether or not detachable first storing means can be used is discriminated, and if it is determined that said first storing means can be used, said downloaded contents is stored into second storing means which is fixedly used and recorded into said first storing means.