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

• US 8,606,172 B2
• Filed: 07/09/2010
• Issued: 12/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Tsutsui, Shintaro, Nagano, Susumu, Katayama, Yasushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Pan, Yuwen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jain, Ankur
• Application Number:
  US12/833,825
• Publication Number:
  US 20100280933A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,250 Days
• Field of Search: 455/424, 455/425, 455/456.5, 455/456.6, 455/561, 455/550.1, 455/575.1, 455/2.01, 455/3.01, 455/3.02, 455/30.3, 455/3.05, 455/3.06, 455/412.1, 725/39, 725/54, 725/87, 725/62, 725/63, 725/74, 725/86, 725/135, 360/15, 360/18, 360/27, 360/55, 360/39, 348/734, 348/14.04, 348/14.02, 705/51, 705/57, 705/404
• 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 data receiving apparatus that receives digital audio data, the data receiving apparatus comprising:

means for generating display data to display a list of digital song titles;

means for downloading at least one digital song selected from the list of digital song titles by a user, and downloading auxiliary data related to the selected digital song and including at least one piece of artwork for the selected digital song and text data, the auxiliary data being downloaded with the selected digital song;

a digital interface configured to connect to a reproduction apparatus, including a recording medium, via a direct local and to transfer the selected digital song and the auxiliary data downloaded by the means for downloading to the reproduction apparatus;

means for acquiring a device ID from each of external devices that are connected to the digital interface and for determining if there is a default device ID, wherein device IDs are allocated to each of the external devices prior to connecting to the digital interface;

means for automatically transferring, when there is not a default device ID, the downloaded digital song with the auxiliary data related to the downloaded digital song from the data receiving apparatus to a selected one of the external devices; and

means for recording the selected digital song and the auxiliary data downloaded by the means for downloading in separate areas of a same physical recording medium of the reproduction apparatus through the digital interface.

2. The data receiving apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the means for downloading further downloads copyright information associated with the selected digital song, and

wherein the means for recording records copy information based on the copyright information on the recording medium, records the selected digital song on the recording medium using synchronous transfer, and records the piece of artwork and the text data about the selected digital song using asynchronous transfer.

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

means for performing a billing process on the basis of a reception of the selected digital song,

wherein the means for recording performs recording on the recording medium after the billing process has been performed by the means for performing the billing process.

4. A method of a data receiving apparatus for receiving digital audio data, the method comprising:

generating, by the data receiving apparatus, display data that is used to display a list of digital song titles;

downloading at least one digital song selected from the list of song titles by a user, and downloading auxiliary data related to the digital song and including at least one piece of artwork for the selected digital song and text data, the auxiliary data being downloaded with the selected digital song;

acquiring a device ID from each of external devices and for determining if there is a default device ID, wherein device IDs are allocated to each of the external devices prior to connecting to a digital interface;

automatically transferring, when there is not a default device ID, the downloaded digital song with the auxiliary data related to the downloaded digital song from the data receiving apparatus to a selected one of the external devices; and

recording the selected digital song and the auxiliary data downloaded during the downloading in separate data areas of a same physical recording medium included in a reproduction apparatus connected through a digital interface via a direct local connection, wherein

the digital interface is configured to transfer the selected digital song and the auxiliary data downloaded during the downloading to the reproduction apparatus.

5. The data receiving and recording method according to claim 4,

wherein the receiving process further receives copyright information about the piece of artwork and the text data about the selected digital song, and

wherein the control process performs control so that copy information based on the copyright information is recorded together with respective data, the selected digital song is recorded on the recording medium using synchronous transfer, and the piece of artwork and the text data about the selected digital song are recorded using asynchronous transfer.

6. The data receiving and recording method according to claim 4,

wherein a billing process is performed on the basis of a reception of the selected digital song, and

wherein the control process performs recording on the recording medium when a state is set in which the billing process is performed.

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

generating display data that is used to display a list of digital song titles;

downloading at least one digital song selected from the list of digital song titles by a user, and downloading auxiliary data related to the selected digital song and including at least one piece of artwork for the selected digital song and text data, the auxiliary data being downloaded with the selected digital song;

acquiring a device ID from each of external devices and for determining if there is a default device ID, wherein device IDs are allocated to each of the external devices prior to connecting to a digital interface;

automatically transferring, when there is not a default device ID, the downloaded digital song with the auxiliary data related to the downloaded digital song from the data receiving apparatus to a selected one of the external devices; and

recording the selected digital song and the auxiliary data downloaded during the downloading in separate data areas of a same physical recording medium included in a reproduction apparatus connected through a digital interface via a direct local connection, wherein

the digital interface is configured to transfer the selected digital song and the auxiliary data downloaded during the downloading to the reproduction apparatus.

8. A data receiving apparatus that receives digital audio data, the data receiving apparatus comprising:

a controller configured to

generate display data that is used to display a list of digital song titles,

download at least one digital song selected from the list of digital song titles by a user, and

download auxiliary data related to the selected digital song and including at least one piece of artwork for the selected digital song and text data, the auxiliary data being downloaded with the selected digital song; and

a digital interface configured to

connect to a reproduction apparatus, including a recording medium, via a direct local connection and to transfer the selected digital song and the auxiliary data downloaded by the controller to the reproduction apparatus,

acquire a device ID from each of external devices that are connected to the digital interface and for determining if there is a default device ID, wherein device IDs are allocated to each of the external devices prior to connecting to the digital interface, and

automatically transfer, when there is not a default device ID, the downloaded digital song with the auxiliary data related to the downloaded digital song from the data receiving apparatus to a selected one of the external devices,

wherein the controller is further configured to

record the selected digital song and auxiliary data downloaded by the controller in separate data areas of a same physical recording medium of the reproduction apparatus through the digital interface.

9. The data receiving apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the digital interface is a local serial bus interface.

10. The data receiving apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the controller is configured to record the selected digital song in a first predetermined data region for storing a plurality of digital songs, and the auxiliary data in a second predetermined data region for storing auxiliary data for the plurality of songs, in a same physical recording medium of the reproduction apparatus.