Patent ID: 8392468

Claim:
A media information search apparatus, comprising: a recording or reproducing device for playing back and storing in a first memory signals and table information recorded in a recording medium, wherein said signals recorded in the recording medium comprise of a music content; means for querying databases connected to said recording or reproducing device via a communication network, for retrieving contents information corresponding to the music content recorded in the recording medium, by querying a first database for contents information corresponding to the music content, and querying a second database for contents information corresponding to the music content if the first database query fails to return contents information corresponding to the music content, wherein the first database provides the contents information corresponding to the music content in association with a content identifier and when the first database provides the contents information the contents information is loaded into a second memory of the recording or reproducing device, wherein the second database is a web-database that stores website files and provides the contents information corresponding to the music content in association with a copyright identifier when the means for querying the database queries the second database by browsing the website files for the copyright identifier and when the second database provides the contents information the contents information is loaded into the second memory of the recording or reproducing device, and wherein the copyright identifier is different from the content identifier; means for extracting the table information from the first memory based on the contents information stored in the second memory and storing it in the second memory, and means for displaying the table information stored in the second memory; and means for determining whether the contents information contains a plurality of information, wherein, when the plurality information is not found, the contents information is stored on the first database in correspondence to the music content, and wherein, when the plurality information is found: attributes are extracted from the plurality information and are matched to the music content, and contents information corresponding to the attributes is selected and stored on the first database in correspondence to the music content.