Patent ID: 8589576

Claim:
A contents distributing system, comprising: a server; and a client connected to the server via a network; wherein the client includes: a receiving portion that receives plural pieces of audio contents from the server; a buffer that is configured to store the plural pieces of audio contents received by the receiving portion sequentially; and a reproducing portion that reads the plural pieces of audio contents stored in the buffer sequentially from the early stored audio contents, and then reproduces the plural pieces of audio contents; wherein the server includes: a storing portion that is adapted to store the plural pieces of audio contents; and a transmitting portion that reads the plural pieces of audio contents constituting a group from the storing portion and then transmits the plural pieces of audio contents continuously to the client, when the transmitting portion receives a request for distribution of the plural pieces of audio contents formed in a group from the client; wherein the plural pieces of audio contents include a first content, a second content, and a third content to be reproduced in this order; wherein the transmitting portion transmits the first content, the second content, and the third content to the client in this order; wherein the receiving portion receives the second content from the server while the reproducing portion reproduces the first content; wherein when the client receives a request for reproducing the third content while the reproducing portion reproduces the first content, the client transmits a reproducing order change request for the third content to the server; wherein when the server receives the reproducing order change request, the server instructs the client to clear the second content, and transmits the third content to the client; wherein when the receiving portion receives a clear instruction for the second content, the client clears the second content stored in the buffer; and wherein the third content is stored in the buffer subsequent to the end of the first component so that the reproducing portion reproduces the third content subsequent to the first content continuously.