US 7,478,324 B1
Electronic publication system
Shuichi Ohtsu, 66-3, Sayama New Town, 2520-192, Kashiwabara, Sayama-shi, Saitama-ken (Japan)
Filed on Nov. 17, 2000, as Appl. No. 9/714,184.
Claims priority of application No. P-11-334896 (JP), filed on Nov. 25, 1999.
Int. Cl. G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/00 (2006.01); H04K 1/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 715—255  [715/205; 715/234; 709/203; 726/26; 705/51] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic publication system comprising:
a processor;
a memory coupled to the processor;
registration means for registering in a publication database writing data, said writing data including a purchaser information variable inserted by an author of said writing data in a publication database;
a personal data input that registers personal data associated with an individual purchaser;
a personal contents input that accepts requests for contents of a publication to be provided to the individual purchaser according to the tastes and necessities of the individual purchaser;
a dynamic re-editing function for dynamically re-editing a composition of the writing data from a group of writing data registered in the publication database, on the basis of contents requested by the individual purchaser; and
an output configured to:
provide the re-edited composition of the writing data only to the individual purchaser as an uneditable publication;
replace the purchaser information variable in the writing data with information unique to the individual purchaser based on the personal data associated with the individual purchaser; and
including include content dynamically and uniquely edited for the individual purchaser,
wherein the uniquely edited content serves as a source identifier in order to deter the re-edited composition from being illegally copied, said re-edited composition not containing any copy protection technique,
wherein said output is further configured to provide the uneditable publication only to the individual purchaser through a network, and
wherein the dynamically re-edited composition renders the uneditable publication as a unique publication in a manner so as to include the personal contents identifying the individual purchaser, such that reproduction of the uneditable publication carries personal data associated with the individual purchaser in a manner that discourages distribution by the individual purchaser and discourages receipt by a third party.