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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2004
Applicants:
Toshinobu Sano, Neyagawa, JP;
Takahiro Chiba, Neyagawa, JP;
Hideyuki Sawada, Neyagawa, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Onkyo Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04N 7/173 (2011.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Each of servers in a global list server system includes a local list of music piece data stored by the each server and a global list of the music piece data stored by the servers. A client requests an arbitrary server to provide the global list and the server transmits the global list to the client upon receiving the request. The client refers to the global list and requests a server storing desired music piece data to transfer the music piece data. The server transmits music piece data to the client upon receiving the transfer request for the music piece data.