Patent ID: 9542398
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. An electronic apparatus comprising: a storage controller configured to read, from external storage, data files of content items and a management file of the content items, wherein the management file comprises information on attributes of the content items and an update timing, and the management file is updated every time one of the content items is played; and a hardware processor configured to: play a first content item from the content items in the external storage, update the management file at a first update timing in response to playing of the first content item, generate a first list of the content items according to the management file, store the first list and the first update timing in an internal memory, play the first content item in the external storage again, determine whether the update timing of the management file is the same as the first update timing, reuse the first list of the content items in the internal memory, when the update timing of the management file is the same as the first update timing, and generate a second list of the content items according to the management file, when the update timing of the management file is not the same as the first update timing.