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US 7,606,118 B2Granted
Music data transfer method, information processing apparatus and information recording/playback system
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsToshihiro Morohoshi, Hidehito Izawa
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Abstract
One embodiment of invention is useful when updating data of a database which is configured to take in data through a network, has a part to be updated, and takes in information of media stored in a local storage, and characterized by that a result of retrieval is outputted with additional information of an updated date/time of information updated by connecting to a network, and the output result is informed.
Claims8
An information processing apparatus, comprising:
- a recorder which holds contents to be transferred to a contents playback unit;
- a comparator which compares the contents stored in the recorder with the transferred contents stored in the contents playback unit, and detects whether the contents are the same or not;
- a transfer unit which transfers the contents held in the recorder to the contents playback unit, when the comparator detects that the contents and transferred contents are not the same;
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- a connector which is configured to connect a signal transmission mechanism, which is configured to connect the transfer unit to the contents playback unit, so that the contents are transferred from the transfer unit to the contents playback unit.
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A contents playback unit, comprising:
- a data storage which holds contents (music data);
- a comparator which detects whether the contents (stored music data) held in the data storage are the same as the contents newly prepared contents (new music data) or not;
- a display unit which is configured to display the result of the comparison by the comparator;
- an instruction unit which is configured to instruct a supplier to accept the newly prepared contents as a result of the comparison by the comparator;
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- a connection terminal which is configured to connect a signal transmission mechanism which is configured to connect the data storage and the supplier, so that the supplier transfers the newly prepared contents to the data storage.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.