Patent 7765270 was granted and assigned to Yamaha (yacht) on July, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A portable music player downloads a musical composition data from a distribution server. When this musical composition data is played back, a sample musical composition data composing a part of the musical composition data is distributed to a surrounding player by wireless. At this time, a terminal identification number IDa of the supplier player is included in tag information of the sample musical composition data, and the user of the surrounding player can download the musical composition data related to the sample musical composition data for value from the distribution server. A part of its sold price is refunded to the user of the supplier player.