Patent ID: 6959366

Claim:
An apparatus control method adopted by a data transfer apparatus to control a data-recording apparatus connected to said data transfer apparatus, wherein: said data transfer apparatus includes a primary recording medium in which contents data have been stored; said data-recording apparatus is capable of recording contents data onto a secondary recording medium; and the contents data stored on said primary recording medium can be transferred to said secondary recording medium by connecting said data-recording apparatus to said data transfer apparatus, wherein a first control procedure or a second control procedure is selectively executed in accordance with a control condition, said first control procedure including the steps of: using a common application module to issue a first control code according to a common control condition independently of a type of said secondary recording medium; using a transformation module to transform said first control code in accordance with said data-recording apparatus connected to said data transfer apparatus; and transmitting the transformed control code to said data-recording apparatus connected to said data transfer apparatus by way of a device driver; said second control procedure including the steps of: using a local application module to issue a second control code in accordance with a control condition not prepared in said common application module; and transmitting the issued second control code to said data-recording apparatus connected to said data transfer apparatus by way of said device driver.