Information processing apparatus and printing cost returning method
OwnerKouichi Takamineinventor
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Abstract
The invention has an object to make the advertisement provided through the Internet print actively. The content stored in the client is combined with the advertisement data stored in the server. When the combined data is printed by the information processing apparatus included in the local system of the client, the fee reduction point is given to the client according to the number of the printing sheets. When the fee reduction points become a specific value, the consumption good for the printing is provided to the user included in the local system. The invention adopts the method of reducing the printing fee by incorporating the advertisement into the printed matters, in such way. Therefore, the advertisement provided through the Internet is printed out actively.
Claims31
An information processing apparatus included in a local system of a client connected with a server through the network, which comprising:
- a sending means for sending a content stored in the client;
- a receiving means for receiving a data wherein an advertisement data is combined with the content;
- and
- an output means for outputting the combined data received by the receiving means.
An information processing apparatus included in a local system of a client connected with a server through the network, which comprising:
- a receiving means for receiving a data wherein an advertisement data is combined with a secret content of the client;
- and
- an output means for outputting the combined data received by the receiving means.
An information processing apparatus included in a local system of a client connected with a server through the network, which comprising:
- a receiving means for receiving an advertisement data;
- a combining means for combining the advertisement data received by the receiving means and a content stored in the client;
- and
- an output means for outputting the combined data prepared by the combining means.
An information processing apparatus included in a local system of a client connected with a server through the network, which comprising:
- a receiving means for receiving a secret content of the client and an advertisement data;
- a combining means for combining the advertisement data and the content received by the receiving means;
- and
- an output means for outputting the combined data prepared by the combining means.
A server connected with a client through the network, which comprising:
- a storage means for storing an advertisement data;
- an extracting means for extracting a proper advertisement data from the storage means;
- a receiving means for receiving a content stored in the client or a secret content of the client;
- a combining means for combining the advertisement data extracted by the extracting means and the content;
- and
- a sending means for sending the combined data prepared by the combining means.
A server connected with a client through the network, which comprising:
- a storage means for storing an advertisement data;
- an extracting means for extracting a proper advertisement data from the storage means;
- a sending means for sending the advertisement data extracted by the extracting means.
A method of reducing the printing fee by incorporating an advertisement into printed matters, which comprising steps of:
- combining a content stored in a client or a secret content of the client and an advertisement data stored in the server;
- giving fee reduction points to the client according to the number of the printing sheets when the combined data is printed out by an information processing apparatus included in a local system of the client;
- and
- providing a user included in the local system with a consumption good for the printing when the fee reduction points become a specific value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.