Patent ID: 7907563

Claim:
A communications terminal, comprising: a playback device which playbacks content; a reading device which reads in access information recorded on a prescribed recording medium, the access information being necessary for acquiring the content which can be played back by the playback device from a prescribed server via a network; a content requesting device which requests the content corresponding to the read access information, from the server; a receiving device which receives metadata together with the content from the server, the metadata containing playback control information for the requested content; a storage device which stores the received content and the metadata in a mutually associated condition; and a playback control device which controls the playback device, the reading device, the content requesting device, the receiving device, and the storage device, wherein: the playback control device controls for receiving the content and the metadata from the server, and for playing back the content according to the metadata, if the content corresponding to the read access information is not stored in the storage device when the reading device reads in the access information; and the playback control device controls for playing back the content stored in the storage device according to the metadata stored in the storage device in association with the content, if the content corresponding to the read access information is stored in the storage device.