PORTABLE CELLULAR PHONE

• US 20070066217A1
• Filed: 11/07/2006
• Published: 03/22/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Sasaki, Hiroyuki, Arisawa, Ryukou, Fujii, Yuichi
• Application Number:
  US11/557,121
• Publication Number:
  US 20070066217A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/3.40
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72406 by software upgrading or downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/08 specially adapted for optional reception of entertainment or informative matter
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

Music data stored in a data card 101 is input into a portable cellular phone 110, and also a plurality of pieces of application software (131, 133) suitable for a music data format defined in connection with the music data is selected by a user and downloaded from a remote server 130. According to this configuration, the application software in association with the music data can be downloaded from the server in response to the user'"'"'s selection.

Claims

1. A portable terminal, comprising:

a storage portion configured to store a reproducing application and content data;

an identifying portion that identifies the content data stored in the storage portion;

a searching portion that searches the reproducing application that enables to reproduce the identified content data in the storage portion;

an instructing portion that instructs a server to transmit reproducing information about the reproducing application to the portable terminal through the communication network when the reproducing application that enables to reproduce the identified content data is not stored in the storage portion; and

a receiving portion that receives the reproducing information.

2. The portable terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein the reproducing information includes the reproducing application that enables to reproduce the identified content data.

3. The portable terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein the reproducing information includes a list of the reproducing application that enables to reproduce the identified content data and is transferable from the server to the portable terminal through the communication network.

4. The portable terminal as set forth in claim 3, further comprising:

a selecting portion that selects the reproducing application from the list; and

a requesting portion that requests the server to transmit the selected reproducing application to the portable terminal through the communication network; and

wherein the receiving portion receives the selected reproducing application.

5. The portable terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein the storage portion is detachable from the portable terminal.

6. The portable terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein the receiving portion receives the content data through the network.

7. The portable terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein the identifying portion identifies a format of the content data;

and

wherein the searching portion searches the reproducing application that enables to reproduce the content data having the identified format.

8. The portable terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein the content data is music data.

9. The portable terminal as set forth in claim 7, wherein the format of the content data is at least one of MP3, MPEG and Quick-Time.

10. The portable terminal as set forth in claim 1, further comprising a recording portion that records a history of the transmission in which the reproducing application was downloaded and stored in the storage portion.