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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2005
Jeong-wook Seo, Daegu, KR;
Wei-jin Park, Seoul, KR;
Jeong-Wook Seo, Daegu, KR;
Wei-Jin Park, Seoul, KR;
Samsung Electric Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A character service apparatus includes a character content database for storing characters and individual lists of characters purchased by each of users, a content server, connected to a data communication network, for downloading character information to terminals connected thereto, registering a purchased character in a character list of a corresponding terminal, accessing the character content database and downloading a character registered in the character list of the corresponding terminal in response to a transmission request, and a wireless terminal connected to the content server via a wireless network and the data communication network, for displaying the downloaded character information, transmitting a purchase request for the character selected by the user to the content server, transmitting a transmission request for the purchased character, and registering characters received in response to the transmission request as screen information for displaying a specific state of the wireless terminal.