| US 7,562,127 B2 | ||
| Contents additional service inquiry server for identifying servers providing additional services and distinguishing between servers | ||
| Hideki Sakamoto, Tokyo (Japan); Hiroshi Fujii, Kanagawa-ken (Japan); Sachiko Irie, Kanagawa-ken (Japan); Hiroyuki Yamashita, Kanagawa-ken (Japan); and Tsukasa Kimura, Kanagawa-ken (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Apr. 02, 2002, as Appl. No. 10/114,570. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2001-104198 (JP), filed on Apr. 03, 2001. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2003/0065747 A1, Apr. 03, 2003 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 15/16 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 709—219 [709/203; 709/223; 709/225; 709/228; 709/229; 709/246; 709/247; 707/10; 705/59] | 18 Claims |
| 1. A contents additional service inquiry server for receiving inquiries for additional services provided by a contents center
and a third-party contents additional service providing server from a user, comprising:
means for receiving a registration request from the contents center or the third-party contents additional service providing
server which specifies a contents identifier that uniquely identifies contents in clear distinction from any other contents
and which is embedded into the contents solely by the contents center before distribution of the contents, the registration
request also requesting registration of registration request information including additional service information regarding
each additional service that can be provided with respect to the contents having the contents identifier and provider location
information regarding a location of a respective provider of said each additional service,
means for authenticating whether said contents center is a delivery source of the contents having the contents identifier
specified by said registration request only when said registration request is issued by said contents center,
means for storing the registration request information received by said means for receiving, in correspondence to the contents
identifier, such that registration request information registered by said contents center and registration request information
registered by said third-party contents additional service providing server are separately stored in clear distinction from
each other, and
means for searching and returning said registration request information specified by the contents identifier when an inquiry
request for the additional service that specifies the contents identifier is issued by the user, by uniquely identifying the
registration request information corresponding to the contents identifier specified by the inquiry request, wherein the registration
request information registered by the contents center and the registration request information registered by the third-party
contents additional service providing server are separately presented in clear distinction from each other.
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