Service Offering System, Management Server, Service Provider, Terminal Device, Storage Medium Issuing Apparatus, Server Offering Method, and Storage Medium

• US 20090157637A1
• Filed: 01/14/2009
• Published: 06/18/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: KII, Manabu, KAWAKAMI, Takashi
• Granted Patent: US 8,234,301 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions

Abstract

A service offering system is disclosed which includes a recording element for recording a unique identifier to each of a plurality of storage media issued, a database for storing and managing the identifiers, a reading element for reading the recorded identifier from any of the storage media, a checking element for checking the identifier read by the reading element against the identifiers managed in the database and a service offering element for offering a service to the storage medium identified by the checked identifier depending on a result of the check by the checking element.

Claims

1-9. -9. (canceled)

10. A system comprising a management server, a medium issuing apparatus, and a service provider,

the medium issuing apparatus comprises:

recording means for recording right information and unique identifiers on a package storage medium, wherein the right information denotes services available to the package storage medium, and

the management server comprises;

receiving means for receiving the right information and the identifiers from the package storage medium;

storing means for storing the right information corresponding to each of the identifiers and the identifiers in a database; and

checking means for checking an identifier transmitted from a terminal device by way of the service provider against the identifiers stored in the database.

12. The system according to claim 10, wherein the storing means stores, in correspondence with the identifiers sent from the medium issuing apparatus, the right information.

13. The system according to claim 12, wherein the management server further comprises update information creating means for creating update information for updating the right information stored in the database in correspondence with the identifiers and the right information recorded on the package storage media.

14. A management server according to claim 10, wherein the management server further comprises update information creating means for creating update information for updating the right information stored in the database and the right information recorded on the package storage media.

11. (canceled)

15-31. -31. (canceled)