Patent ID: 7653686

Claim:
A content data reproducing device which requests content data of a desired content from a server storing the content data and reproduces a first portion of the content data while receiving a second portion of the content data, the content reproducing device comprising: communication means for requesting the content data from the server and for receiving the content data; a receive buffer which buffers the content data received by the communication means; reproducing means for reading the content data buffered in the receive buffer and for reproducing the content data; and control means for controlling reproduction of the content data, wherein when a stop state in which reproduction of a content is stopped is switched to a pause state in which the reproduction of the content is paused, the control means during the pause is for: permitting the communication means to request the content data from the server and to receive the content data, permitting the receive buffer to include a constant volume of the content data, and permitting the reproducing means stop reading the content data from the receive buffer, wherein, when the switch from the stop state to the pause state is detected, the communication means transmits a request for the content data to the server while the content data reproducing device stays in the pause state.