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Sound data delivering system, sound data delivery method, delivering server utilized in the sound data delivering system, client-side terminal utilized in the sound data delivering system, and computer-readable recording medium containing a program applied to a computer utilized in the sound data delivering system

  • US 7,254,414 B2
  • Filed: 06/05/2001
  • Issued: 08/07/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A sound data delivering system having a portable communication terminal and a delivering server that are communicable with each other, said delivering server comprising:

  • request determining means for determining whether a request from said portable communication terminal is a request of a regular sound data or a request of a trial-listening sound data; and

    data delivering means for delivering the regular sound data to the portable communication terminal with charging a fee to a user of the portable communication terminal if the request from said portable communication terminal is determined to be a request of said regular sound data, and for delivering a trial-listening sound data, which is the regular sound data to which an appending data indicating that the sound data is the trial-listening sound data is added in order to generate the trial-listening sound data, to the portable communication terminal without charging a fee to the user of the portable communication terminal if the request from the portable communication terminal is determined to be a request of said trial-listening sound data, andsaid portable communication terminal comprising;

    storage means for storing said delivered regular sound data and said delivered trial-listening sound data; and

    registration means for, if the sound data stored in said storage means is a regular sound data, registering the sound data as a sound data of an incoming call sound or a background music of said portable communication terminal, or, if the sound data is a trial-listening sound data, refraining from registering the trial-listening sound data as a sound data of an incoming call or a background music of said portable communication terminal,wherein the registration mean is configured to alter the sound data stored in said storage means as the trial-listening sound data from the trial-listening sound data to the regular sound data by erasing said appending data from the sound data and to permit registration of the altered trial-listening sound data if an instruction for purchasing the trial-listening sound data is transmitted from said portable communication terminal to said server.

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