Patent ID: 7756793

Claim:
A content supply system for supplying media content from a content supply apparatus to a content reproduction apparatus via a network, wherein the content reproduction apparatus comprises a processor configured to perform a method, the method comprising: notifying the content supply apparatus via the network of IDs of media content items purchased by a user; acquiring, from the content supply apparatus, a content list associated with the user of the purchased media content items, the content list indicating whether the purchased media content items have been downloaded by the user completely; receiving, from the content data supply apparatus, an activation file associated with the user for downloading the purchased media content items; requesting download of the purchased media content items based on the activation file; and requesting download of the license for the purchased media content items based on the activation file, and the content data supply apparatus comprises a processor configured to perform a method, the method comprising: managing, for each user of the content reproduction apparatus, customer information including the IDs identifying the purchased media content items and download completion flags corresponding to the IDs indicating whether the purchased media content items have been downloaded by the user to the content reproduction apparatus completely; generating the content list based on the customer information, the content list associating the IDs of the purchased media content items with the corresponding download completion flags indicating whether the purchased media content items have been downloaded by the user completely; identifying, based on the IDs of the purchased media content items and the corresponding download completion flags of the content list, media content items purchased by the user but not downloaded completely by the user; generating the activation file for downloading the identified media content items, the activation file including a first uniform resource locator (URL) for a first site from which the identified media content items can be downloaded and a second URL, different from the first URL, for a site from which the license for the identified media content items can be downloaded; downloading, to the content reproduction apparatus, the identified media content items using the activation file and in response to the content download request from the content reproduction apparatus; and downloading, to the content reproduction apparatus, the license for the identified media content items using the activation file and in response to the license download request from content reproduction apparatus.