Patent ID: 7222162

Claim:
A contents downloading system, comprising: a server device providing contents; a media device reproducing/recording the contents and transmitting/receiving data with an external device; and a user terminal device, connected to the media device, transmitting a device identifier received from the media device to the server device, downloading the contents corresponding to the device identifier of the media device from the server device, and transmitting the contents to the media device, wherein the server device comprises: a database unit storing the contents; an authentication unit performing an authentication operation on the device identifier transmitted; a storage unit storing a registration status for the device identifier, a possible download frequency for the device identifier, and/or an environment to download for the device identifier, wherein the environment is inputted by a user in the media device; an operation unit searching the contents corresponding to the device identifier from the database unit, and transmitting the contents to the user terminal device if the device identifier transmitted from the authentication unit is authenticated; and a counting unit managing the possible download frequency for the device identifier from the media device such that when the user downloads identical contents designated to the device identifier, the operation unit determines whether a download frequency corresponding to the identical contents designated to the device identifier is greater than or equal to a possible download frequency of the identical contents designated to the device identifier, and if the download frequency corresponding to the identical contents designated to the device identifier is greater than or equal to the possible download frequency of the identical contents designated to the device identifier then the operation unit does not download the identical contents.