Method and apparatus for information processing, and medium for storing program
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsToshihiro Morita, Mitsuyuki Hatanaka, Kiyonobu Kojima, Ippei Tambata, Shin Shiroma
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Abstract
In an information processor or personal computer (1) to which a terminal is connected and which checks out or in a content to or from the terminal, a device driver (116) detects that a portable device (6) is connected to the personal computer (1), and when the device driver (116) detects that the portable device (6) is connected to the personal computer (1), a start-up program (117) reads contents-related data from the portable device (6) and starts up a display/operation instruction program (112) to provide a display corresponding to the read data.
Claims16
An information processor comprising:
- means for detecting that a terminal having a content stored therein is connected to the apparatus itself;
- and
- means for starting up a program which reads contents-related data from the terminal and controls the display to provide a display corresponding to the data, when the terminal is connected to the apparatus.
An information processing method comprising steps of:
- detecting that a terminal having a content stored therein is connected to an information processor in which the method is effected;
- and
- starting up a program which reads contents-related data from the terminal and controls the display to provide a display corresponding to the data.
A program storage medium having stored therein a computer-readable program for use in the above information processing apparatus and method, the program comprising steps of:
- detecting that a terminal having a content stored therein is connected to an information processor in which the method is effected;
- and
- starting up a program which reads contents-related data from the terminal and controls the display to provide a display corresponding to the data, when at the detecting step, it is detected that the terminal is connected to the information processor.
An information processor comprising:
- means for setting whether a content is to automatically be checked out to a terminal connected to the apparatus itself;
- means for detecting that a terminal having a first content stored therein is connected to the apparatus itself;
- and
- means for controlling the communications with the terminal to check in a first content from the terminal and to check out a second content stored in the apparatus itself to the terminal, on the basis of a setting made by the setting means when the setting means detects that the terminal is connected to the apparatus.
An information processing method comprising steps of:
- setting whether a content is to automatically be checked out to a terminal connected to an information processor itself in which the method is effected;
- detecting that a terminal having a first content stored therein is connected to the information processor itself;
- and
- controlling the communications with the terminal to check in a first content from the terminal and to check out a second content stored in the information processor itself to the terminal, on the basis of a setting made at the setting step when at the setting step, it is detected that the terminal is connected to the information processor.
A program storage medium having stored therein a program to be used in an information processing apparatus and method, the program comprising steps of:
- setting whether a content is to automatically be checked out to a terminal connected to an information processor itself in which the method is effected;
- detecting that a terminal having a first content stored therein is connected to the information processor itself;
- and
- controlling the communications with the terminal to check in a first content from the terminal and to check out a second content stored in the information processor itself to the terminal, on the basis of a setting made at the setting step when at the setting step, it is detected that the terminal is connected to the information processor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.