OBTAINING CONTENT

摘要

Whilst listening to music streamed to a mobile terminal, a user can purchase the track currently being played. In response to the user input, a request is sent from the terminal to a server. The server identifies the content item that is required, determines whether the user has paid for and thus is entitled to that content item, and sends XML data to the terminal. The terminal follows instructions in the XML data to coordinate with the server to download the track therefrom. This makes the purchase of content that the user is interested in straightforward for the user, since there is no need to determine what content is being streamed and then independently obtain that content from another source. The process is technically straightforward, allowing system components which generally are unrelated to each other and which are not designed for interoperability to cooperate to allow a user to be provided with content.