Patent ID: 7592531
Filing Date: 2009-09-22
Classification: G10H

Abstract:
1. A tone generation system comprising: a plurality of processor devices connected to a star-type network, each processor device including one or more types of programs, each type of program corresponding to a function of a processing element of said tone generation system, the types of programs including wherein two or more of the processor devices each possess a content file related to tone generation, and each of the processor devices has a table storing, for each of the processor devices, information indicating whether the content file possessed thereby can be supplied to another one of said processor devices, and if the content file corresponding to the received request is not possessed thereby, extract, from the table, any other processor device capable of supplying the content file corresponding to the received request, transmits an acquisition request of the content file to the extracted other processor device via the network, and receive, via the network, the content file transmitted by the other processor device in response to the acquisition request.