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

• US 8,351,845 B2
• Filed: 04/03/2006
• Issued: 01/08/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Inventec Corporation, Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Tsutsui, Shintaro, Nagano, Susumu, Katayama, Yasushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Duc
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHOW, CHARLES CHIANG
• Application Number:
  US11/396,438
• Publication Number:
  US 20060217060A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,472 Days
• Field of Search: 455/2.01, 455/3.06, 455/3.01, 455/424, 455/425, 455/456.5, 455/456.6, 455/412.1, 455/414.4, 455/561, 455/550.1, 455/414.1, 455/566, 455/557, 455/3.02, 455/3.03, 725/48, 725/49, 725/61, 725/37, 725/39, 370/69.1, 370/18, 370/71, 370/73, 325/260, 325/343, 369/13.35, 369/13.39, 348/74, 348/725, 348/553
• US Class Current: 455/3.02
• 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 of a data receiver comprising:

receiving text data strings corresponding to at least one digital content data containing music data and at least one of lyrics data and jacket image data relevant to the music data;

retrieving text strings from the received text data strings;

displaying the retrieved text strings in a list of the at least one digital content data;

receiving a selection of one of the at least one digital content data from a user;

obtaining the selected digital content data via the Internet;

determining, by the data receiver, recording apparatuses that are directly connected to the data receiver via a serial bus interface from identification data returned from the connected recording apparatuses, in response to a request;

determining, by the data receiver, apparatus types of the connected recording apparatuses;

displaying in a list recording apparatus identifiers corresponding to the determined respective connected recording apparatuses, the recording apparatus identifiers including the apparatus types of the respective connected recording apparatuses;

receiving a selection of one of the displayed recording apparatus identifiers after receiving the selection of one of the at least one digital content data from the user; and

automatically downloading via the serial bus interface the obtained digital content data from the data receiver to the connected recording apparatus corresponding to the recording apparatus identifier selected from the displayed recording apparatus identifiers in response to receiving the selection of one of the displayed recording apparatus identifiers, the connected recording apparatus corresponding to the selected recording apparatus identifier being configured to reproduce the downloaded digital content data.

2. The receiving method according to claim 1, wherein,

said at least one digital content data includes audio data on a song coded by a predetermined method, and

said text strings include 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 divided by predetermined codes and continuously arranged.

3. The receiving method according to claim 1, further comprising:

sampling one of the at least one digital content data displayed in the list.

4. The receiving method of claim 1, wherein said at least one digital content data contains copyright information.

5. The receiving method according to claim 1, wherein the recording apparatus identifiers further include names associated with the respective connected recording apparatuses.

6. The receiving method according to claim 1, wherein the displaying in the list comprises displaying in the list only the recording apparatus identifiers corresponding to the determined respective connected recording apparatuses.

7. A data receiver comprising:

a receiving unit to receive text data strings corresponding to at least one digital content data containing music data and at least one of lyrics data and jacket image data relevant to the music data;

a retrieval unit to retrieve text strings from the text data strings received by said receiving unit;

an obtaining unit to determine recording apparatuses that are directly connected to the data receiver via a serial bus interface from identification data returned from the recording apparatuses connected to the data receiver in response to a request from the data receiver;

a determining unit to determine apparatus types of the connected recording apparatuses;

a display control unit to create image data for displaying (i) texts including the text strings retrieved by said retrieval unit in a list of the at least one digital content data and (ii) recording apparatus identifiers corresponding to the determined respective connected recording apparatuses in a list, the recording apparatus identifiers including the apparatus types of the respective connected recording apparatuses; and

a control unit to receive a selection of one of the at least one digital content data from a user, to receive a selection of one of the recording apparatus identifiers after receiving the selection of one of the at least one digital content data from the user, to obtain the selected digital content data, and to automatically download the obtained digital content data from the data receiver to the connected recording apparatus corresponding to the recording apparatus identifier selected from a display of the recording apparatus identifiers in the list the connected recording apparatus corresponding to the selected recording apparatus identifier being configured to reproduce the downloaded digital content data.

8. The data receiver according to claim 7, wherein,

said at least one digital content data includes audio data on a song coded by a predetermined method, and

said text strings include a character string of a name of the song and a character string of a name of a performer, and said retrieval unit 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.

9. The data receiver according to claim 7, further comprising:

a sampling unit to sample one of the at least one digital content data displayed in the list.

10. The data receiver according to claim 7, wherein said at least one digital content data contains copyright information.

11. The data receiver according to claim 7, wherein the recording apparatus identifiers further include names associated with the respective connected recording apparatuses.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having embedded therein instructions which, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform a method comprising:

receiving text data strings corresponding to at least one digital content data containing music data and at least one of lyrics data and jacket image data relevant to the music data;

retrieving text strings from the received text data strings;

displaying the retrieved text strings in a list of the at least one digital content data;

receiving a selection of one of the at least one digital content data from a user;

obtaining the selected digital content data via the Internet;

determining, by the data receiver, recording apparatuses that are directly connected to a data receiver via a serial bus interface from identification data returned from the connected recording apparatuses, in response to a request;

determining, by the data receiver, apparatus types of the connected recording apparatuses;

displaying in a list recording apparatus identifiers corresponding to the determined respective connected recording apparatuses, the recording apparatus identifiers including the apparatus types of the respective connected recording apparatuses;

receiving a selection of one of the displayed recording apparatus identifiers after receiving the selection of one of the at least one digital content data from the user; and

automatically downloading via the serial bus interface the obtained digital content data from the data receiver to the connected recording apparatus corresponding to the recording apparatus identifier selected from the displayed recording apparatus identifiers in response to receiving the selection of one of the displayed recording apparatus identifiers, the connected recording apparatus corresponding to the selected recording apparatus identifier being configured to reproduce the downloaded digital content data.

13. A data receiver comprising:

receiving means for receiving text data strings corresponding to at least one digital content data containing music data and at least one of lyrics data and jacket image data relevant to the music data;

retrieval means for retrieving text strings from the text data strings received by said receiving means;

obtaining means for determining recording apparatuses that are directly connected to the data receiver via a serial bus interface from identification data returned from the recording apparatuses connected to the data receiver in response to a request from the data receiver;

determining means for determining apparatus types of the connected recording apparatuses;

display control means for creating image data for displaying (i) texts including the text strings retrieved by said retrieval means in a list of the at least one digital content data and (ii) recording apparatus identifiers corresponding to the determined respective connected recording apparatuses in a list, the recording apparatus identifiers including the apparatus types of the respective connected recording apparatuses; and

control means for receiving a selection of one of the at least one digital content data from a user, for receiving a selection of one of the recording apparatus identifiers after receiving the selection of one of the at least one digital content data from the user, for obtaining the selected digital content data, and for automatically downloading via the serial bus the obtained digital content data from the data receiver to the connected recording apparatus corresponding to the recording apparatus identifier selected from a display of the recording apparatus identifiers in the list, the connected recording apparatus corresponding to the selected recording apparatus identifier being configured to reproduce the downloaded digital content data.