AN INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, A DATA TRANSFER CONTROLLING METHOD, A DATA TRANSFER CONTROLLING PROGRAM, A PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM, A PROGRAM TRANSMISSION MEDIUM AND A DATA STORAGE MEDIUM

摘要

A media utilization administering device 22 reads a medium ID saved in a memory card 13, obtains pieces of last update time information indicating the respective times during a data transfer at specified time intervals, and stores state information including the medium ID and the last update time information in a utilization administration memory 104. The media utilization administering device 22 also stores the last update time information as the state information in the memory card 13. A transfer resumption judging device 24 compares the medium IDs and the pieces of the last update time information included in the state information and saved in both the memory card 13 attached and the utilization administration memory 104 when the data transfer was started. If the pieces of the state information held by both agree as a result of the comparison, a transfer resumption controlling device 25 causes a data transfer processing device 21 to resume the data transfer from a position on the data indicated by the last update time information.