Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Content information sales management method and distribution management method
- Patent Title (中): 内容信息销售管理方法和分配管理方法
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Application No.: US11502174Application Date: 2006-08-10
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Publication No.: US07881947B2Publication Date: 2011-02-01
- Inventor: Takatoshi Nakamura , Mitsuru Takehara , Masamichi Asukai , Motoyuki Takai , Yoichiro Sako
- Applicant: Takatoshi Nakamura , Mitsuru Takehara , Masamichi Asukai , Motoyuki Takai , Yoichiro Sako
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
- Priority: JP2005-235109 20050815
- Main IPC: G06Q99/00
- IPC: G06Q99/00

Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a content information sales management method including the steps of: causing a distribution source apparatus to distribute trial content information, trial use rules stating trial use conditions, and distribution source identification information for identifying the distribution source apparatus to a distribution destination apparatus; causing the distribution destination apparatus to upload the distribution source identification information corresponding to the trial content information to a sales source apparatus for formal content information when the distribution destination apparatus downloads the formal content information corresponding to the trial content information; and causing the sales source apparatus to update an evaluation value corresponding to the distribution source identification information in accordance with the uploaded distribution source identification information.
Public/Granted literature
- US20070038470A1 Content information sales management method and distribution management method Public/Granted day:2007-02-15
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