Content delivery system

• US 20040192253A1
• Filed: 02/04/2004
• Published: 09/30/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Usumi, Motoharu
• Application Number:
  US10/771,937
• Publication Number:
  US 20040192253A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/406
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/14 Charging , metering or billing arrangements for data wireline or wireless communications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1432 Metric aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast

Abstract

The invention relates to an information delivery system and, more particularly, to the provision of a content delivery system that properly bills a user when delivering content such as music and moving images to the user by means of streaming over the Internet. The system for delivering the content over the network comprises: a subscriber serving apparatus serving the user; a delivery server for delivering the content; and a billing server for billing for the delivery of the content, wherein the subscriber serving apparatus includes monitoring means for monitoring the data stream being delivered from the delivery server to the user, and the billing server includes judging means for judging whether to bill or not bill the user based on the delivery quality of the monitored data stream, and bills the user based on the result of the judgment made by the judging means.

Claims

1. A content delivery system for delivering content over a network, comprising:

a subscriber serving apparatus serving a user;

a delivery server for delivering content; and

a billing server for billing for the delivery of the content, wherein

the subscriber serving apparatus includes monitoring means for monitoring a data stream being delivered from the delivery server to the user, and

the billing server includes judging means for judging whether to bill or not bill the user based on delivery quality of the monitored data stream, and bills the user based on the result of the judgment made by the judging means.

3. A content delivery system as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the delivery server includes means for identifying the subscriber serving apparatus serving the user that originated a delivery request, and for sending information specifying the user and the data stream to be monitored to the subscriber serving apparatus, and

the subscriber serving apparatus, based on the information received from the delivery server, identifies the user and the data stream to be monitored by the monitoring means.

4. A content delivery system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a management apparatus for accepting a delivery request from the user, wherein

the management apparatus includes means for identifying the subscriber serving apparatus serving the user that originated the delivery request, and for sending'"'"' information specifying the user and the data stream to be monitored to the subscriber serving apparatus, and

the subscriber serving apparatus, based on the information received from the management apparatus, identifies the user and the data stream to be monitored by the monitoring means.

5. A content delivery system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the judging means includes a billing judgment table for setting billing parameter, and determines the amount of billing to be charged to the user, based on the result of the judgment of the delivery quality of the monitored data stream and the billing Remarks

2. A content delivery system for delivering content over a network, comprising;

a subscriber serving apparatus serving a user;

a delivery server for delivering content; and

a billing server for billing for the delivery of the content, where

the subscriber serving apparatus includes monitoring means for monitoring a data stream being delivered from the delivery server to the user, and judging means for judging whether to bill or not bill the user based on delivery quality of the monitored data stream, and

the billing server bills the user based on the result of the judgment made by the judging means.