When a user gets interested in some music he/she listens to somewhere, for example, in a coffee shop, the user records that music in a memory provided in a portable terminal. A processor reads the information stored in the memory and performs a predetermined process on it. The resultant information is...http://www.google.com.au/patents/US7190971?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7190971 - Information processing apparatus and method, information processing system, and transmission medium