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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 06, 1999
Yoshiaki Tanaka, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Tomohiro Mouri, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiaki Tanaka, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Tomohiro Mouri, Tokyo, JP;
Victor Company of Japan, Limited, Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
A data distribution system has a portable user terminal, which sends a portable terminal ID or memory card ID and electronic money are sent to a store-based terminal () and receives data content, a store-based terminal (), which receives the portable terminal ID or memory card ID and electronic money from the portable user terminal (), and which sends these to a billing center (), along with a content ID and a store-based terminal ID, a billing center () that receives the content ID, the portable terminal ID or memory card ID, the store-based terminal ID, and the electronic money from the store-based terminal (), and a content center (), which receives the content ID, the portable terminal ID or memory card ID, and the store-based terminal ID, and which distributes data content, via the store-based terminal (), to the portable terminal ().