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System and methods for providing a billing system for use in a content distribution service

  • US 20020091652A1
  • Filed: 12/27/2001
  • Published: 07/11/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2001
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A system for distributing a debt in a content providing service, the system being communicably connected to content storage means in which one or more digital contents are stored and also communicably connected to additional-information storage means in which additional information offered for being provided by one or more additional-information providers is stored, the system having a capability of distributing a debt such that when additional information is transmitted to an user associated with a digital content, part or all of a debt imposed upon the user as a result of transmission of the digital content to the user is distributed to the additional-information provider of the additional information, wherein the digital content and the additional information are selected from the content storage means and the additional-information storage means in accordance with a selection criterion, in terms of the debt distribution, designated by the user, and part or all of the debt imposed upon the user is distributed to the additional-information provider in accordance with the selection result.

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