Portable terminal

Abstract

A portable terminal displays on a selection screen not only contents stored in the portable terminal but also contents stored in a contents server communicatable via a network with the portable terminal. The selection screen displays information regarding the size and location of each of the contents, as well as estimated time and cost required to obtain each of the corresponding contents based on information regarding communication speed and communication path such as communicatable areas. The portable terminal is also equipped with a function to search another communication path that becomes available when moving the portable terminal to another location, and a function to suggest to obtain the contents using such a communication path if the new communication path provides faster and/or more inexpensive connection.

1 . A portable terminal that performs a plurality of functions to reproduce and execute digital contents, the portable terminal comprising: 
 a module that provides a list of contents including location of the contents, estimated communication cost to obtain the respective contents and estimated communication times required to obtain the respective contents; and    a module that displays the list of contents.    
   
   
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