MULTIMEDIA PROVIDING SERVICE
First Claim
1. A method of providing a multimedia service in a multimedia communication system that is made up from a plurality of terminals and a server, said server being connected to said plurality of terminals, said server processing call process signals of said plurality of terminals, and having a database in which are stored content data;
- said method comprising steps wherein;
said server reads said content data from said database at either the timings of;
(a) the interval from the time a call is made by a terminal, that performs call origination among said plurality of terminals, to a terminal among said plurality of terminals that is the communication partner of said terminal that performs call origination, until the terminal responds;
or(b) after communication between said terminals is completed;
at said timing, said server transmits said content data that were read to said terminals; and
at said timing, said terminals reproduce content data that were transmitted from said server.
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Abstract
At one of the timings: during a period between the moment when one of terminals which performs transmission calls out a communication partner and the moment of response and at the timing after the communication between the terminals is complete; a server reads out content data from a database and transmits the read out content data to the terminal. At this timing, the terminal reproduces the content data transmitted from the server.
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31 Claims
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1. A method of providing a multimedia service in a multimedia communication system that is made up from a plurality of terminals and a server, said server being connected to said plurality of terminals, said server processing call process signals of said plurality of terminals, and having a database in which are stored content data;
- said method comprising steps wherein;
said server reads said content data from said database at either the timings of; (a) the interval from the time a call is made by a terminal, that performs call origination among said plurality of terminals, to a terminal among said plurality of terminals that is the communication partner of said terminal that performs call origination, until the terminal responds;
or(b) after communication between said terminals is completed; at said timing, said server transmits said content data that were read to said terminals; and at said timing, said terminals reproduce content data that were transmitted from said server. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 18, 21)
- said method comprising steps wherein;
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12. A method of providing a multimedia service in a multimedia communication system made up from a plurality of terminals and a server, said server being connected to said plurality of terminals, processing call process signals of said plurality of terminals, and having a database that stored content data;
- said method comprising steps wherein;
said server reads said content data from said database in accordance with either; (a) a read signal that corresponds to a key that is entered, when said read signal is transmitted to said server by an origination-side terminal that is a terminal that performs call origination among said plurality of terminals;
or(b) a read signal that corresponds to a key that is entered, when said read signal is transmitted to said server by a termination-side terminal that is a terminal that is the communication partner of said origination-side terminal among said plurality of terminals; said server transmits to at least one terminal from among said origination-side terminal and said termination-side terminal said content data that were read; and said terminals reproduce content data that were transmitted from said server. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31)
- said method comprising steps wherein;
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13. A method of providing a multimedia service in a multimedia communication system that is made up from a plurality of terminals and a server, said server being connected to said plurality of terminals, said server processing call process signals of said plurality of terminals, and having a database in which are stored character strings that can be displayed on said terminals;
- said method comprising steps wherein;
said server reads said character string from said database in accordance with either; (a) a read signal transmitted from the origination-side terminal that is the terminal that performs call origination among said plurality of terminals;
or(b) a read signal transmitted from the termination-side terminal that is the terminal that is the communication partner of said origination-side terminal among said plurality of terminals; said server inserts said character string that was read into image data that are transmitted and received between said origination-side terminal and said termination-side terminal; said server transmits to said terminals image data into which said character string is inserted; and said terminals reproduce image data into which said character string was inserted and that were transmitted from said server. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 24, 27)
- said method comprising steps wherein;
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