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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2007
Kazunari Fujiwara, Osaka, JP;
Takumi Tanabe, Hyogo, JP;
Yasushi Ayaki, Osaka, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A source device includes: a storage unit which stores the file; a receiving unit which receives, from a sink device, a file acquisition request; a transmitting unit which transmits, to the sink device, data within a range specified in the file acquisition request received by the receiving unit, from among the file stored in the storage unit; a limitation unit which deletes or makes unusable data within the range transmitted by the transmitting unit, from among the file stored in the storage unit; and a notification unit which notifies the sink device of a usable range which is a range in which the file is neither deleted nor made unusable by the limitation unit, from among the file stored in the storage unit.