Control method, control apparatus, data receiving and recording method, data receiver and receiving method

• US 20060217060A1
• Filed: 04/03/2006
• Published: 09/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/1998
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Inventec Corporation, Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Katayama, Yasushi, Tsutsui, Shintaro, Nagano, Susumu
• Granted Patent: US 8,351,845 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/3.20
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/18523 Satellite systems for providing broadcast service to terrestrial stations, i.e. broadcast satellite service arrangements specially adapted for satellite broadcast receiving H04H40/90; picture transmission via satellite H04N1/00103; television transmission via satellite H04N7/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/17 on recording information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/23 using cryptography, e.g. encryption, authentication, key distribution

Abstract

A data receiving and recording method and data receiver are provided for receiving data coded by a predetermined method and copyright information attached to the data. While recording the received data on a predetermined recording medium, the copyright information is recorded into a predetermined area of the recording medium. Preferably, the data consists of audio data of the song, lyrics data of the song and image data relating to the song and the copyright information is allotted respectively to the audio data, lyrics data and image data.

Claims

1. A receiving method comprising the steps of:

receiving text data strings indicating a name relevant to main data transmitted by broadcast of a predetermined channel;

retrieving text strings including a designated character string from the received text data strings;

displaying the retrieved character strings in a list;

receiving the main data relevant to a selected character string from the displayed character strings in a list; and

downloading the received data to a predetermined recording apparatus.

2. The receiving method according to claim 1, wherein

said main data is audio data on a song coded by a predetermined method, said text data is a character string of a name of the song and a character string of a name of a performer, the character string of the name of the song and the character string of the name of the performer being text data divided by predetermined codes and continuously arranged.

3. A data receiver comprising:

receiving means for receiving main data transmitted by broadcast of a predetermined channel and text data indicating a name relevant to the main data;

input means for inputting character strings to be retrieved;

retrieval means for retrieving character strings inputted by said input means from a text data string received by said receiving means;

display control means for creating image data displaying texts including the character strings retrieved by said retrieval means in a list; and

control means for receiving main data designated by a text selected from a table list displayed by said image data in said receiving means and downloading the main data to a predetermined recording apparatus.

4. The data receiver according to claim 3, wherein

said main data to be received by said receiving means is audio data on a song coded by a predetermined method;

said text data is a character string of a name of the song and a character string of a name of a performer, and said retrieval means retrieves an inputted character string from text data in which the character string of the name of the song and the character string of the name of the performer are divided by predetermined codes and continuously arranged.