Patent ID: 7853209

Claim:
A mobile communication station comprising: a registration unit configured to register type information indicating a type of data available to each of plurality of applications installed in an external device, said type information including a content type identifier, a type of application, and a buffer size of a buffer memory of the mobile communication station to be used for data divisions by a base station apparatus, and a maximum size of contents; a wireless transceiver configured to transmit the type information registered in said registration unit to the base station apparatus, and to receive data, which said application installed in said external device is configured to use, from said base station apparatus; a data transfer unit configured to transfer the data received by said wireless transceiver, and including a unit configured to receive the data divided into several pieces at the base station, each having a size equal to or smaller than the buffer memory size of the buffer memory of the mobile communication station to said external device, in accordance with types of applications and a type of data to be reproduced, during the connection in dedicated-short-range-communications with the base station apparatus, and configured to specify the external device that is the destination of the transfer of the data based on the type information; and a wireless communications unit configured to transmit an acknowledgement signal to said base station apparatus at one of the following timings indicated by base station, at a time of reception of data received from said base station apparatus, at a time of data transfer by said data transfer unit, or at a time of completion of use of data by said external device.