Patent ID: 7890520

Claim:
A portable reproduction apparatus to connect to an information-processing apparatus, said reproduction apparatus comprising: a content storage section configured to store a plurality of contents; a table acquisition section configured to acquire a plurality of tables from said information-processing apparatus, each table provided in a layer structure including titles of contents identified by said information-processing apparatus from said content storage section as a lowest-level layer and a name of a group including said identified contents as a high-level layer, on the basis of attributes extracted from a host database of said information-processing apparatus including attributes of contents stored in a content storage section in said information-processing apparatus as the attributes of said identified contents; a terminal storage section for storing at least a first table and a second table, said first table is a table included in said plurality of acquired tables arranged by title of said identified contents in accordance with a first rule and said second table is a table included in said acquired tables arranged by title of said identified contents in accordance with a second rule, for the name of every group including some of said identified contents; a display control section configured to read out said first table from said terminal storage section in accordance with a first operation and to display said titles arranged in said first table in accordance with said first rule as the titles of said identified contents on a display section, and to read out said second table from said terminal storage section in accordance with a second operation and to display said titles arranged in said second table in accordance with said second rule as the titles of said identified contents on said display section; a content-title selection section configured to select one of content titles displayed by said display control section; and a content reproduction section configured to select a content identified by a content title selected by said content-title selection section from said contents stored in said content storage section in said portable reproduction apparatus and to reproduce said selected content.