Pay information providing system for descrambling information from plural sources and rescrambling the information before sending to a terminal or terminals
US6289314A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 16, 1997 |
| Grant date | Sep 11, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 16, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N21/812
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A server scrambles received pay information in an internal scrambler and then transmits the result to a terminal which sent a request. A second charge managing portion determines a charge for the pay information for billing a contractor who manages the server, based on a coefficient of charge outputted from a terminal managing portion. The coefficient of charge is determined based on attributes of the terminal that uses the pay information, the number of the terminals which use the pay information, attributes of users who use the terminals, etc. The charge of use can thereby be obtained according to a degree of actual use at a users' side.
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