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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
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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.

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