Patent ID: 7206821

Claim:
A method of transmitting information to a computer having a removable medium, comprising the steps of: receiving a request from the computer to download information over a network; determining whether a device of the computer having structure to write to the removable medium meets predetermined criteria including a capability to deal with an interrupted or non-steady data flow and is therefore an appropriate device for writing to the removable medium; and transmitting information to the computer in order for the device of the computer to write the information to the removable medium, wherein the transmitting step comprises: transmitting the information from the network to the removable medium without writing any of the information to an intermediate storage device when the determining step determines that the device is an appropriate device for writing to the removable medium, and transmitting the information to the computer in order for the intermediate storage device to store the information followed by reading the information from the intermediate storage device and writing the information to the removable medium using the device, when the determining step determines that the device is not an appropriate device for writing to the removable medium.