Patent ID: 7870222

Claim:
An information communication terminal comprising: a storage unit configured to store contents; a communication unit configured to communicate with an external apparatus; a content reproduction unit configured to reproduce a content from the contents stored in the storage unit; an accessible-content setting unit configured to: classify the contents into a first category of the contents, which are accessible by the external apparatus, and a second category of the contents, which are inaccessible by the external apparatus; change a classification of the content, while the content is being reproduced by the content reproduction unit, to the first category if the content being reproduced is classified according to the second category; and change back the content being reproduced by the content reproduction unit from the first category to an original second category after reproduction of the content being reproduced is completed; and a transmission control unit configured to control the communication unit to transmit contents classified according to the first category to the external apparatus upon receipt of a request for the contents classified according to the first category received from the external apparatus through the communication unit, wherein if the reproduction of the content being reproduced is stopped while the transmission control unit is controlling the communication unit to transmit the content being reproduced to the external apparatus, then the accessible-content setting unit handles the content being reproduced as being classified according to the first category until the transmission control unit completes the controlling of the transmission of the content being reproduced to the external apparatus.