Patent ID: 8813162
Filing Date: 2014-08-19
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. An information receiving apparatus comprising: a communication unit that receives distribution data sent from an information distribution server; a storage unit that stores the distribution data in a first storage area; an expandable memory that stores the distribution data removed from the storage unit; a control unit that requests the distribution data via the communication unit, wherein the control unit removes the distribution data from the first storage area before requesting a download to the information distribution server and after a discrete number of distribution data files stored in the first storage area reaches a predetermined maximum number, and transfers the distribution data to a second storage area of the storage unit or to the expandable memory; and wherein the control unit determines whether a used storage capacity in the storage unit is greater than a predetermined value, and the control unit removes the distribution data from the first storage area and transfers the distribution data to the expandable memory when the used storage capacity in the storage unit is greater than the predetermined value, and removes the distribution data from the first storage area and transfers the distribution data to the second storage area of the storage unit when the used storage capacity in the storage unit is not greater than the predetermined value.