Patent 7627702 was granted and assigned to Sony on December, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Memory resources can be optimized by dynamically determining a threshold value of a storage device used for buffering in accordance with a compression rate of data for streaming reproduction. A data reproduction device for temporarily storing compressed data that is downloaded from a server and sequentially performing the streaming reproduction, wherein the amount of data stored in a HDD is optimized by changing and setting the threshold value in accordance with the compression rate of the compressed data.