Electronic equipment, recording medium for recording content use program, and content use method
AssigneeRoland Corporation
InventorAkihiro Nagata
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Abstract
An electronic equipment is provided. The electronic equipment includes: a content acquisition part for acquiring a content including a non-purchased content, which is a content that has not been purchased; a usage part for using the non-purchased content acquired by the content acquisition part regardless of whether the content has been purchased or not; and a prohibition part for prohibiting the usage part from using a non-purchased content that is the non-purchased content not being purchased after being acquired by the content acquisition part when a predetermined operation is performed.
Claims8
An electronic musical instrument comprising:
- a temporary storage device;
- a non-volatile storage device;
- and
- a hardware processor coupled to the temporary storage device and the non-volatile storage device and configured to:
- acquire a content including a non-purchased content, which is a content that has not been purchased, from a server, and store the non-purchased content in the temporary storage device;
- use the non-purchased content stored in the temporary storage device regardless of whether the non-purchased content has been purchased or not;
- acquire purchase information indicating whether the non-purchased content has been purchased;
- store the non-purchased content determined to have been purchased according to the purchase information as a purchased content from the temporary storage device into the non-volatile storage device;
- and
- delete the non-purchased content stored in the temporary storage device in a case that the non-purchased content is not being purchased after being acquired when the electronic musical instrument is turned off or a predetermined operation is performed.
A non-transitory recording medium for recording a content use program for executing use processing for causing an electronic musical instrument to use a content including a purchased content and a non-purchased content, which is a content that has not been subjected to purchase processing,
- wherein the electronic musical instrument executes the content use program to:
- acquire the content including the non-purchased content, from a server, and store the non-purchased content in a temporary storage device;
- use the non-purchased content stored in the temporary storage device regardless of whether the non-purchased content has been purchased or not;
- acquire purchase information indicating whether the non-purchased content has been purchased;
- store the non-purchased content determined to have been purchased according to the purchase information as the purchased content from the temporary storage device into the non-volatile storage device;
- and
- delete the non-purchased content stored in the temporary storage device in a case that the non-purchased content is not subjected to the purchase processing when the electronic musical instrument is turned off or a predetermined operation is performed.
A content use method for an electronic musical instrument, the method comprising:
- acquiring a content including a non-purchased content, which is a content that has not been purchased, from a server, and temporarily storing the non-purchased content in a temporary storage device;
- using the non-purchased content that has been temporarily stored in the temporary storage device indiscriminately regardless of whether the acquired non-purchased content has been purchased or not;
- acquiring purchase information indicating whether the non-purchased content has been purchased;
- storing the non-purchased content determined to have been purchased according to the purchase information as a purchased content from the temporary storage device into the non-volatile storage device;
- and
- deleting the non-purchased content stored in the temporary storage device in a case that the non-purchased content is not subjected to the purchase processing when the electronic musical instrument is turned off or a predetermined operation is performed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.