Information distribution server system, information distribution method, and recording medium
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Abstract
An object of the present invention is to build an environment which provides adequate merits to both users and providers of applications and which enables distribution of various applications from providers to users. The status of payment of a predetermined usage fee which the user of each cellular phone must pay for a predetermined period is stored. Further, the status of usage of each application is detected. A license fee to be paid to the provider of the application is calculated on the basis of a ground total of usage fees and the usage status of the application and is output.
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37 Claims
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1. (canceled)
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2. An application distribution system that distributes applications to user terminals connectable to the application distribution system via at least one public network, comprising:
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provider table configured to store identifications of applications available for download by users of the user terminals and identifications of application providers who provide the applications;
usage table configured to record usages of the applications by the users;
fee table configured to record fees collected from the users who each pay a fixed amount of fee periodically; and
calculator configured to calculate allocations of the fees collected from the users among the application providers according to at least one of the usages of the applications by the users recorded in the usage table. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. An application distribution method of distributing applications to user terminals connectable to the application distribution system via at least one public network, the method comprising:
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storing identifications of applications available for download by users of the user terminals and identifications of application providers who provide the applications;
recording usages of the applications by the users;
recording fees collected from the users who each pay a fixed amount of fee periodically; and
calculating allocations of the fees collected from the users among the application providers according to at least one of the usages of the applications by the users recorded in the usage table. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37)
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