Music data distribution mail magazine issuing system

• US 20020049844A1
• Filed: 10/03/2001
• Published: 04/25/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: E-Magazines Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: E-Magazines Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Nishikawa, Hideki
• Application Number:
  US09/970,395
• Publication Number:
  US 20020049844A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/225
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A music data distribution, mail magazine issuing system, that permits users to access, display, listen to and/or download registered data designated by the users, comprises a music data server, for uploading and registering music data held by applicants and for distributing the music data on line upon receiving requests from users; a mail magazine server, for registering correlated character data and image data associated with the applicants, and music data and for distributing on line the character data and the image data together with information provided from the music data distribution, mail magazine issuing system; and a total management server, for managing and controlling the entire system, for determining legal registration appropriateness and for selecting and registering only legally appropriate date. Entertainers or musicians can register their original work data via the Internet, and an unspecified number of users can access and use the registered work data via the Internet.

Claims

1. A music data distribution, mail magazine issuing system, that permits users to access and to display, listen to and/or download registered data designated by said users, comprising:

a music data server, for uploading and registering music data held by registration applicants and for distributing said music data on line upon receiving requests from users;

a mail magazine server, for registering correlated character data and/or image data associated with said registration applicants, and/or music data and for, as needed, distributing on line said character data and/or said image data together with information provided from said music data distribution, mail magazine issuing system;

a total management server, for managing and controlling the entire system, that includes a function for examining the copyrights of data registered at said servers or, when problems arise related to public order and morals and other associated problems, for determining legal registration appropriateness and for selecting and registering only legally appropriate data.

2. A music data distribution, mail magazine issuing system according to claim 1, wherein an information distribution form used by said mail magazine server is a mail magazine issued for said registration applicants, and said data is character data, including songs associated with data registered in said music data server, registerer profiles, self-advertisements, registerer messages to music data users, and live concert information.

3. A music data distribution, mail magazine issuing system according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising:

a function, based on said registration data for said music data user, for automatically transmitting information for a succeeding issue date and the opening date for a live concert.

4. A music data distribution, mail magazine issuing system according to one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising:

a music data gift function for receiving the name of a musical piece selected by a user who is a member of said system, an instruction for predetermined entries and a fee paid by said user, and for permitting a third party designated by said user to listen to and/or download music data.

5. A music data distribution, mail magazine issuing system according to one of claims 1 to 4, further comprising:

a music data gift function for enabling the on-line transmission, to a third party designated by said user, of associated character data and/or image data that accompany said music data.