Patent ID: 8140648

Claim:
An information processing apparatus, comprising: a storage unit for saving content data; a communication unit for communicating with one or more external storage devices; and a content management unit for, when receiving from the external storage device through the communication unit a notification indicating that new content data is saved in the external storage device, acquiring the new content data from the external storage device through the communication unit with the notification as a trigger, and saving the new content data in the storage unit; a management information storage unit for storing management information including storage area information of content data saved in at least one of the storage unit or the external storage device; wherein the content management unit manages a storage area of the content data in the storage unit and the external storage device based on the management information stored in the management information storage unit; wherein the external storage device includes: a first external storage device, for which access speed is slower than the storage unit; and a second external storage device, for which access speed is slower than the first external storage device, and the content management unit determines, when moving the content data saved in the storage unit to one of the first external storage device or the second external storage device, whether or not the content data is saved in the other one of the first or the second external storage device based on the storage area information of the management information, and deletes the content data from the storage unit after copying the content data from the storage unit to the other one of the first or the second external storage device if the content data is not saved.