Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Tsukasa Kimura

Hiroshi Fujii

Hideaki Kimata

Hideki Sakamoto

Takaaki Akimoto

Hiroyuki Yamashita

Tadashi Ichikawa

Yasuhiro Tomita

Ryota Suzuki

Sachiko Irie

A contents additional services inquiry server for receiving inquiries for additional services provided by a contents center and a third-party contents additional services providing server, wherein a registration request specifies a contents identifier uniquely identifying contents, and requests registration of registration request information including each additional service information regarding service that can be provided with respect to the contents having the contents identifier and provider location information regarding a location of a respective provider of each additional service. Registration request information registered by the contents center and registration request information registered by the third-party contents additional service providing server are separately stored. The registration request information specified by the contents identifier is searched and returned when there is a request for the additional service, where registration request information registered by the contents center and registration request information registered by the third-party contents additional service providing server are separately presented.

Contents additional service inquiry server for identifying servers providing additional services and distinguishing between servers

Image communication system and method

Growing community of inventors

Kanagawa-ken, Japan

Tsukasa Kimura