REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF REPRODUCING APPARATUS

• US 20080162669A1
• Filed: 12/10/2007
• Published: 07/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Matsuyama, Kojiro, Tonoike, Akihisa
• Application Number:
  US11/953,332
• Publication Number:
  US 20080162669A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D

Abstract

A reproducing apparatus which receives contents from a server over a network and reproduced the contents is disclosed. The reproducing apparatus includes: a server access part configured to make access to a route folder of the server; a folder attribute acquiring part configured to acquire a folder attribute added to each of member folders of the route folder from the server after making access; a determining part configured to determine whether the folder containing the content of a target for acquisition exists, based on the folder attribute acquired by means of the folder attribute acquiring part; and a hierarchy display part configured to only display a hierarchy of the folder that contains the content of the target for acquisition determined by means of the determining part.

Claims

1. A reproducing apparatus which receives a content from a server over a network and reproduces the content, the reproducing apparatus comprising:

a server access part configured to make access to a route folder of the server;

a folder attribute acquiring part configured to acquire a folder attribute added to each of member folders of the route folder from the server after making access;

a determining part configured to determine whether the folder containing the content of a target for acquisition exists, based on the folder attribute acquired by means of the folder attribute acquiring part; and

a hierarchy display part configured to only display a hierarchy of the folder that contains the content of the target for acquisition determined by means of the determining part.

2. The reproducing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the hierarchy display part considers the folder changed to be an access destination folder,

the server access part makes access to the access destination folder with no access to the route folder in subsequent access and later, and

the hierarchy display part displays a hierarchy of the access destination folder.

3. The reproducing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising an ID storage part configured to store therein an ID unique to the route folder in advance,

wherein the server access part makes access to the folder having the ID in a first time access,

the determining part acquires an ID unique to the folder that is determined to contain the content of a target for acquisition, and the determining part stores it as an ID for the route folder in the ID storage part, and

the server access part makes access to the folder having the ID stored by the determining part in subsequent access and later.

4. The reproducing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the server has a directory structure in which contents common in a category are summarized for every folder.

5. A control method of a reproducing apparatus which receives a content from a server over a network and reproduces the content, the method comprising the steps of:

making access to a route folder of the server by a server access part;

acquiring a folder attribute added to each of member folders of the route from the server by a folder attribute acquiring part after making access;

determining whether the folder containing the content of a target for acquisition exists, based on the folder attribute acquired by means of the folder attribute acquiring part by a determining part; and

displaying a hierarchy of the folder that contains the content of the target for acquisition determined by means of the determining part by a hierarchy display part.

6. The control method of a reproducing apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising the steps of:

acquiring an ID unique to the folder that is determined to contain the content of a target for acquisition by means of the determining part by an ID acquiring part, and

holding the unique ID acquired by means of the ID acquiring part by control done by a holding control part.

7. The control method of a reproducing apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein when the unique ID is held by control done by the holding control part, access is made to a folder having the held unique ID.