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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2008
Kae Nagano, Tokyo, JP;
Kae Nagano, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
[Object] To download, even when a recording medium having content recorded thereon is not inserted in an electronic apparatus, subcontent related to the content. [Solving Means] With a BD-ROM inserted in a recording/reproducing apparatus, a resident application in the recording/reproducing apparatusreads metadata stored in the BD-ROM and stores the metadata in a disc library DB. When a BD-ROM is not inserted in the recording/reproducing apparatus, the resident application downloads the latest trailer from a content serverbased on a URL of the content serverincluded in the metadata stored in the disc library DB, and then stores the latest trailer in a local storage. Accordingly, even when a BD-ROM is not inserted, the resident application can reproduce, via a disc library, the latest trailer stored in the local storage