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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 28, 1998
Min-jae Han, Tokyo, JP;
Min-Jae Han, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
A high-speed dubbing unitfor dubbing digital data from an optical diskto a hard diskat a high speed is connected via a public telephone line to a payment imposing unit. A control unitis provided for generating in its basic data generatorB basic data for imposing the payment from at least data indicative of the user identification and data indicative of the speed for recording the data read out from the optical diskinto the hard diskand transmitting the basic data to the payment imposing unit. The payment imposing unitperforms the imposing of the payment according to the basic data received from the control unitand transmits data indicative of the completion of imposing the payment to the control unit. In response to the data indicative of the completion of the payment, the control unitdirects the high-speed dubbing unitto start recording the data read out from the optical diskinto the hard disk