SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRONIC BOOK USING PURCHASE CERTIFICATION OF BOOK

• Main Authors: SHIMIZU HIROSHI, IKUTA KATSUMI, FURUI MAKI, KUWABARA TEIJI, NUMATA TORU, FUKUSHIMA SHINICHIRO, TADA YUKINOBU, MOCHIZUKI MISUZU, YAMAMOTO NAOKI, IGARASHI YUTAKA, KANAZAWA RITSUKO, UEYAMA MAYUMI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 21.04.2000
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: ADVERTISING; CALCULATING; CODING OR CIPHERING APPARATUS FOR CRYPTOGRAPHIC OR OTHERPURPOSES INVOLVING THE NEED FOR SECRECY; COMPUTING; CONVEYING; COUNTING; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; DISPLAY; EDUCATION; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS; SEALS; SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS; STORING; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING ORTIPPING; TRANSPORTING

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an electronic book managing system with a means for precisely switching services for a reader who desires the acquisition of an electronic book. SOLUTION: In the electronic book managing system 1, an electronic purchase certification concerning a book in the stock of a bookstore having a bookshop terminal 2 at least is previously distributed to that bookshop terminal 2. At the time of book purchase, the reader acquires the purchase certification from the bookshop terminal 2 to his owned IC card 4. At the time of electronic book application, the reader transmits the purchase certification from a reader terminal 3 through a communication network 5 to the electronic book managing system 1. According to the presence/absence of purchase certification, the electronic book managing system 1 switches the services at the time of supplying the electronic book to that reader.