Patent ID: 7716394

Claim:
A content transferring method for use with a first apparatus and a second apparatus interconnected by communicating means, said content transferring method comprising: determining whether a capacity of a storage medium managed by said second apparatus is larger than a size of content data to be transferred from said first apparatus to said second apparatus; performing a synchronizing process to synchronize content data stored in said first apparatus with content data stored in the storage medium managed by said second apparatus, when it is determined in the determining step that the capacity of said storage medium managed by said second apparatus is larger than the size of the content data to be transferred from said first apparatus to said second apparatus; and performing a selective transferring process when it is determined in the determining step that the capacity of said storage medium managed by said second apparatus is smaller than the size of the content data to be transferred from said first apparatus to said second apparatus, the selective transferring process including automatically selecting, by said first apparatus, without regard to content designation input by a user, a subset of the content data to be transferred, with a size of the selected subset of the content data being within a free storage capacity of said storage medium managed by said second apparatus and the selected subset of the content data being different from the content data stored on said storage medium managed by said second apparatus, based on a predetermined condition, and transferring by said first apparatus the selected subset of the content data to said second apparatus.