SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING CONTENTS

• Main Authors: HAMADA SHINICHIRO, SEKI TOSHIBUMI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 12.04.2002
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a scheme capable of eliminating the economical burden of a material secondary processing product manufacturer, also reducing a user burden up to a reasonable level in utilizing contents produced by the secondary processing product manufacturer and also expanding a sales amount in both a material provider and the material secondary processing product manufacturer. SOLUTION: Pay contents 20C are included as material, when contents 20B constituted by performing secondary processing as one product are sold, the material and the secondary processing product are respectively enciphered, information for a contract for connecting to the provider of the material and the secondary processing product on a network to make a utilization contract is also respectively attached to these material and secondary processing product, a cryptography key used in the enciphering is registered in a server, and when the utilization contract is established, the cryptography key is distributed to the user who has established the contract.