Contents consignment sale system and method for networking broadcasting

• US 20040221018A1
• Filed: 06/07/2004
• Published: 11/04/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The JI Technologies Corporation
• Original Assignee: Eun-Mook Ji
• Inventors: Ji, Eun-Mook
• Granted Patent: US 7,747,468 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/1235 with control of digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0255 based on user history
• 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 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/184 Intellectual property management

Abstract

An Internet broadcasting contents consignment sale system and method. An Internet broadcasting station makes a consignment sale contract with companies or individuals who have copyrights of authored pieces, such as computer and video game makers, filmmakers, music producers, television broadcasting stations, and publishers; generates the consigned authored pieces into specific contents data; allows users to use the contents data only through a specific execution program provided by the Internet broadcasting station; permits Internet users to download the contents via wire and wireless Internet free of charge and keep them; and allows the users to use desired contents data by receiving restoration information on the Internet.

Claims

1. A network-broadcasting contents consignment sale system connected to authors for receiving a plurality of authored pieces, and providing the authored pieces to a user terminal, comprising:

a contents data management server for converting a contents data structure of the authored pieces into a predetermined format, transmitting converted data to the user terminal, and generating restoration information for restoring the converted data structure;

a data storage unit for storing restoration information for restoring the converted contents data; and

a free-of-charge contents provider for providing the converted contents data to the user terminal through a network or a free-of-charge distributor, and wherein the contents data management server transmits the restoration information stored in the data storage unit to the user terminal when the user terminal accesses the contents data management server so that the contents data stored in the user terminal are restored to original contents data and are executed.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the restoration information is temporarily provided on the network, and the restoration information is established to be temporarily stored in a memory or a storage device of the user terminal to perform predetermined tasks, and then be immediately and automatically deleted from the memory including a RAM or the storage device including a HDD.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the contents data management server comprises:

an important data manager for separating a portion of data from the contents data;

a contents data converter for dividing the contents data into a plurality of portions, and arranging the portions in a predetermined order different from the original order to convert the data structure;

an editing code manager for generating editing codes including information for restoring the contents data structure that is arranged by the contents data converter in the order different from the original order back into the contents data structure of the original order;

a numerical value manager for converting predetermined data values of the contents data; and

a contents introducer for introducing the contents, and providing restoration information matched with the contents data.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the data storage unit comprises:

an important data database for storing the portion of the contents data separated by the important data manager;

an editing code database for storing the editing codes;

a numerical value database for storing the numerical values;

a contents data database for storing the converted contents data; and

a contents database for storing documents for introducing the contents data and restoration information matched with the contents data.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the contents data provided to the user terminal are selected from the group consisting of picture products for television broadcasting audio products for radio broadcasting publications and computer and video games for use with the user terminal.

6. In a network-broadcasting contents consignment sale system for transmitting a plurality of contents data to a user terminal connected on the network, recording the contents data on recording media distributing the contents data free of charge, and controlling users'"'"' using the contents data to obtain predetermined use fees from the users, a network-broadcasting contents consignment sale method, comprising the steps of:

converting the contents data'"'"'s structure, separately generating restoration information, and storing the restoration information for executing the converted contents data;

transmitting the contents data having the converted data structure to the user terminal via the network or recording the contents data on various recording media and distributing them to the user free of charge, when a transmission request on the contents data is input from the user terminal; and

transmitting, when a use allowance request for the contents data is input from the user terminal, and the use fee of the contents data is settled or the user is found to previously have paid a predetermined membership fee, restoration information that corresponds to the contents data on which the user allowance request is input, to the user terminal.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising the steps of:

transmitting advertisement data and the restoration information to the user terminal, and operating the user terminal to execute the contents and the advertisements, when the user selects to view the contents and the advertisements without paying the use fee of the contents data.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the method for converting the moving picture contents data comprises the steps of:

dividing the moving picture data into a plurality of portions;

arranging the separated data in a predetermined order that is different from the original order to generate converted contents data;

generating an editing code including information for converting the differently arranged order into the original order; and

separating a predetermined portion from the converted contents data to generate important data.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the method for converting the moving picture contents data comprises the steps of separating a predetermined portion from the moving picture data to generate important data, and generating the remained portion as the converted contents data.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the method for converting the moving picture contents data comprises the steps of:

dividing the moving picture data into a plurality of portions;

arranging the separated data in a predetermined order that is different from the original order to generate converted contents data; and

generating an editing code including information for converting the differently arranged order into the original order.

11. The method of claim 6, wherein the method for converting the program contents data comprises the steps of:

separating a portion from the program to generate important data that are an essential portion of the program for executing personal task programs, business programs, and computer and video game programs; and

substituting other numerical values for predetermined data values of the program to generate converted contents data, and generating numerical values for converting the substituted values into original numerical values.

12. The method of claim 6, wherein the method for converting the program contents data comprises the steps of:

separating a portion from the program to generate important data that are an essential portion of the program for executing personal task programs, business programs, and computer and video game programs; and

generating the remaining portion of the program as the converted contents data.

13. The method of claim 6, wherein the method for converting the program contents data comprises the steps of:

converting predetermined data of the personal task programs, business programs, and computer and video game programs into converted contents data, and generating numerical values for converting the converted numerical values into the original numerical values.

14. The method of claim 8 comprising the step of converting a data file format of the converted contents data again to generate an independent format.

15. The method of claim 8 comprising in the case of dividing the contents into a plurality of portions the step of establishing a number of divisions of the contents, intervals of the divided contents, a data volume of the separated important data, a number of the important data, a number of the numerical values, and respective data values differently for each contents data without a predetermined rule.

24. The method of claim 6, wherein the recording media comprise at least one of CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs.

16. In a network-broadcasting contents consignment sale system connected to a plurality of authors, for receiving a plurality of authored pieces, and providing the authored pieces to a user terminal, a contents sale system of relay broadcasting or network broadcasting, comprising:

a contents data management server for converting a data structure of the authored pieces into predetermined data to transmit the converted data to the user terminal, and generating restoration information for restoring the structure of the converted contents data into a structure of before conversion;

a data storage unit for storing restoration information for restoring the structure of the converted contents data, and restoration information that corresponds to the contents data provided by a contents provider to the users;

a free-of-charge contents provider for providing the converted contents data to the user terminal through the network or a free-of-charge distributor; and

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a contents provider system for generating restoration information, storing the restoration information in the data storage unit, and providing the converted contents data that correspond to the restoration information to the user terminal through the network or a free-of-charge distributor.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the contents provider system is comprises:

a contents data manager for converting the data structure of the authored pieces, and transmitting the converted contents data to the user terminal;

a contents database for storing the converted contents data; and

a use fee and advertisement profit manager for managing how much profit the contents provider gains.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the network-broadcasting contents sale system and the contents provider comprise a CD/DVD producer for storing contents data on various recording media.

19. A network-broadcasting contents consignment sale method for unifying a plurality of network broadcasting stations into a single body, applying the network broadcasting stations to a contents data management server and a data storage unit for producing contents data, storing the contents data, and transmitting the same to user terminals, wherein a relay broadcasting station comprises a contents introducer and a contents database for storing the contents data provided by the network broadcasting stations, and the relay broadcasting station receives membership entrance from the users, performs membership and use management, receives predetermined membership fees or use fees from the users to issue use allowances on various contents to the users so that the users may receive the contents data and corresponding restoration information from the network broadcasting stations through the relay broadcasting station (or a homepage thereof) and use them.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein:

a user registers for membership entrance to the relay broadcasting station so as to use and install a specific execution program;

when the user operates the specific execution program a user terminal initially accesses the relay broadcasting station on the network to check whether the user is a registered member who has previously paid the membership fee;

the user terminal receives a use allowance on the specific execution program to allow the user who is a registered member to access the network broadcasting station;

the relay broadcasting station manages membership of the users who use the specific execution program; and

the relay broadcasting station each month receives a predetermined amount of money from the network broadcasting stations as broadcasting technical commissions, receives a predetermined amount of use fees from the users (members) each month to issue program use allowances on the network, or receives broadcasting technical commissions and program use fees from the network broadcasting stations and the users.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein when the relay broadcasting station, the network-broadcasting contents consignment sale system, the contents provider, and the network broadcasting stations perform charged contents business, the users are allowed to reproduce desired contents so that the users may reproduce the contents data by freely transmitting and receiving the contents data on the network and reproduce them through various recording media to share them with each other, and accordingly, the users are allowed to freely collect and keep their desired contents data according to their interests and tendencies, and the users are allowed to receive a use allowance on the network each time the users use the contents so that the users may view the contents by paying a predetermined use fee or a membership fee or they may view the contents together with advertisements.

25. The method of claim 21, wherein the recording media comprise at least one of CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs, and storage devices.

22. A network-broadcasting contents consignment sale method for transmitting a plurality of contents data to user terminals connected on a network, recording the contents data on recording media to distribute them free of charge, issuing a use allowance when a user uses the contents data through a wireless network, and receiving a predetermined use fee or a membership fee, comprising the steps of:

converting the structure of the contents data, and separating, generating, and storing restoration information for executing the converted contents data;

transmitting the contents data having the converted data structure to the user terminal through the network, or recording the contents data on various recording media and distributing them to the users free of charge, when a transmission request on the converted contents data is input from the user terminal;

receiving the contents data at the user terminal through the network or the recording media, and transmitting the contents data to a mobile station by connecting a data transmission cable or through various data transmitters; and

transmitting restoration information that corresponds to the contents data to which the use allowance request is input to the mobile station to execute the contents data at the mobile station, when a use allowance request on the contents data is input from the mobile station.

23. A network-broadcasting contents consignment sale method comprising:

converting various contents produced by service providers including network broadcasting stations, video and computer game service providers, and filmmakers into contents data and restoration information, and storing them in a data storage unit;

reading the data storage unit and transmitting the converted contents data to a network set-top box through the network when the network set-top box accesses a contents data management server of the service providers and requests the converted contents data;

transmitting the restoration information to the network set-top box to execute the converted contents data at the network set-top box when the network set-top box accesses the contents data management server so as to execute, in a presentation place, the converted contents data transmitted to the network set-top box; and

the service providers checking the contents data executed at the network set-top box to receive from the presentation place predetermined use fees according to categories and number of executions of the contents.