Image commercial transactions system and method

• US 8,306,917 B2
• Filed: 10/26/2006
• Issued: 11/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Snaptrack Incorporated (Qualcomm, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Toshikage, Hideki, Yoneyama, Shigeyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheung, Mary
• Application Number:
  US11/586,934
• Publication Number:
  US 20070050267A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,203 Days
• Field of Search: 705/50, 705/51, 705/56, 705/75, 717/127, 717/128, 717/178, 713/187, 713/190, 713/200
• US Class Current: 705/51
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/1235 with control of digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0609 Buyer or seller confidence or verification
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0613 Third-party assisted
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0643 Graphical representation of items or shoppers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/32 on separate auxiliary tracks of the same or an auxiliary record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00132 in a digital photofinishing system, i.e. a system where digital photographic images undergo typical photofinishing processing, e.g. printing ordering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00135 Scanning of a photographic original
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00145 from a remote location
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00188 Printing, e.g. prints or reprints H04N1/0019, H04N1/00196 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00196 Creation of a photo-montage, e.g. photoalbum H04N1/0019 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00209 Transmitting or receiving image data, e.g. facsimile data, via a computer, e.g. using e-mail, a computer network, the internet, I-fax
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00424 using a list of graphical elements, e.g. icons or icon bar
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00442 Simultaneous viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. using a mosaic display arrangement of thumbnails
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00453 arranged in a two dimensional array
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00456 for layout preview, e.g. page layout
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00461 marking or otherwise tagging one or more displayed image, e.g. for selective reproduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00912 : Arrangements for controlling a still picture apparatus or components thereof not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32128 : attached to the image data, e.g. file header, transmitted message header, information on the same page or in the same computer file as the image for information embedded in the image H04N1/32144
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/34 : for coin-freed systems ; Pay systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 : Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2547 : Third Party Billing, e.g. billing of advertiser
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 : Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47815 : Electronic shopping payment schemes, payment architectures or payment protocols for electronic shopping systems G06Q20/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 : involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8113 : comprising music, e.g. song in MP3 format
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8153 : comprising still images, e.g. texture, background image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3204 : of data relating to a user, sender, addressee, machine or electronic recording medium H04N2201/3256 and subgroups take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3205 : of identification information, e.g. name or ID code H04N2201/3209 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3208 : of an e-mail or network address
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3226 : of identification information or the like, e.g. ID code, index, title, part of an image, reduced-size image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3242 : of processing required or performed, e.g. for reproduction or before recording H04N2201/3256 and subgroups take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3249 : data relating to a linked page or object, e.g. hyperlink
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3274 : Storage or retrieval of prestored additional information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17336 : Handling of requests in head-ends

Abstract

An image commercial transactions system and method that are able to implement sales to the purpose of the seller. An e-commerce system for selling a picture and a handling condition specific to the picture, both being recorded on a predetermined recording medium in a predetermined format. The picture to be sold and the handling condition are accepted by an acceptor in a digital format. When a transaction is established, an accounting company carries out an accounting electronically for a purchaser of the picture and the e-commerce condition, thereby both of the picture to be sold and the handling condition are sold as digital data so that the purchased picture is used in a handling manner as intended by the seller. Consequently, the selling of the picture can be made so as to satisfy the intention of the seller.

Claims

1. A method of distributing content data, comprising the steps of:

storing content data, program information data and content service data in a server, wherein the content data includes moving picture content data;

distributing the content data with the program information data and the content service data to a computer;

receiving the content data with the program information data and the content service data in the computer;

storing the content data with the program information data and the content service data in the computer; and

displaying a screen related to the stored content data, wherein the screen includes a scene from the content service data, wherein the scene corresponds to the moving picture content data;

the content service data includes billing information that is transmitted to a node station upon purchase of the moving picture content data by a user of the computer,

when the moving picture content data is purchased, the computer fetches the billing information and sends the billing information and a user ID to the node station, the node station carries out a billing process based on the billing information and user ID and sends the result to a bank together with the user ID, and the bank transfers payment for purchase from an account of the user to an account associated with a provider of the moving picture content data,

the content data, program information, and content service data is distributed over a channel that is detected as a channel having a surplus transfer rate in the case that there is a channel detected as a channel having a surplus transfer rate sufficient for distributing the content data, program information, and content service data, and

in the case that there is no channel detected as a channel having a surplus transfer rate sufficient for distributing the content data, program information, and content service data, an error correction performance of a channel is lowered such that the channel for which the error correction performance is lowered has a surplus transfer rate sufficient for distributing the content data, program information and content service data, and the content data, program information and content service data is distributed over the channel for which the error correction performance is lowered.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of distributing is performed according to a schedule.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the content data is stored with duplication limitation information in the computer.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

storing still picture data provided by an imaging device in the computer; and

storing the still picture data from the computer into a portable music player.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of:

storing the content data from the computer into a portable music player using a program table.

6. The method according to claim 5, further comprising the step of:

displaying album jacket image data corresponding to the content data on the portable music player.

7. A method of reproducing moving picture service data, comprising the steps of:

receiving moving picture service data in a computer from a server via an internet; and

enabling reproduction of scene data in the moving picture service data if a moving picture content data is purchased;

wherein the scene data corresponds to the moving picture content data;

the moving picture service data includes billing information that is transmitted to a node station upon purchase of the moving picture content data by a user of the computer,

when the moving picture content data is purchased, the computer fetches the billing information and sends the billing information and a user ID to the node station, the node station carries out a billing process based on the billing information and user ID and sends the result to a bank together with the user ID, and the bank transfers payment for purchase from an account of the user to an account associated with a provider of the moving picture content data,

the motion picture service data is received over a channel that is detected as a channel having a surplus transfer rate in the case that there is a channel detected as a channel having a surplus transfer rate sufficient for distributing the motion picture service data, and

in the case that there is no channel detected as a channel having a surplus transfer rate sufficient for distributing the motion picture service data, an error correction performance of a channel is lowered such that the channel for which the error correction performance is lowered has a surplus transfer rate sufficient for distributing the motion picture service data, and the motion picture service data is distributed over the channel for which the error correction performance is lowered.

8. The method according to claim 7, further comprising the steps of:

storing the moving picture service data in the computer before reproducing the scene data.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein the moving picture service data includes a title and a picture, wherein the scene data is reproduced with the title and the picture to allow selection of stored moving picture content data.

10. A method of reproducing moving picture content data distributed via an internet, comprising the steps of:

receiving the moving picture content data and moving picture service data in a computer via the internet from a server;

storing the moving picture content data and the moving picture service data in the computer;

displaying a scene from the moving picture service data;

wherein the scene corresponds to the stored moving picture content data;

the moving picture service data includes billing information that is transmitted to a node station upon purchase of the moving picture content data by a user of the computer,

when the moving picture content data is purchased, the computer fetches the billing information and sends the billing information and a user ID to the node station, the node station carries out a billing process based on the billing information and user ID and sends the result to a bank together with the user ID, and the bank transfers payment for purchase from an account of the user to an account associated with a provider of the moving picture content data,

the moving picture content data and moving picture service data is received over a channel that is detected as a channel having a surplus transfer rate in the case that there is a channel detected as a channel having a surplus transfer rate sufficient for distributing the motion picture content data and motion picture service data, and

in the case that there is no channel detected as a channel having a surplus transfer rate sufficient for distributing the motion picture content data and motion picture service data, an error correction performance of a channel is lowered such that the channel for which the error correction performance is lowered has a surplus transfer rate sufficient for distributing the motion picture content data and motion picture service data, and the motion picture content data and motion picture service data is distributed over the channel for which the error correction performance is lowered.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the moving picture service data further includes a title and a picture, wherein the title and the picture are displayed with the displayed scene to allow selection of the stored moving picture content data.

12. The method according to claim 10, further comprising the steps of:

reproducing the moving picture content data stored in the computer; and

storing the moving picture service data in a portable player, wherein the scene is displayed on the portable player.