US 6,289,314 B1Granted

Pay information providing system for descrambling information from plural sources and rescrambling the information before sending to a terminal or terminals

AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

InventorsNatsume Matsuzaki, Makoto Tatebayashi, Motoji Ohmori

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Abstract

A server scrambles received pay information in an internal scrambler and then transmits the result to a terminal which sent a request. A second charge managing portion determines a charge for the pay information for billing a contractor who manages the server, based on a coefficient of charge outputted from a terminal managing portion. The coefficient of charge is determined based on attributes of the terminal that uses the pay information, the number of the terminals which use the pay information, attributes of users who use the terminals, etc. The charge of use can thereby be obtained according to a degree of actual use at a users' side.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A server for receiving information transmitted from a plurality of transmitting stations and distributing the information to one or more terminals, wherein

the information transmitted from each of the transmitting stations is scrambled,
said server comprising:
a plurality of receiving portions operable to respectively receive the information transmitted from each of the transmitting stations,
a plurality of descrambling portions operable to respectively descramble the information received by each of said receiving portions,
one rescrambling portion operable to rescramble all of said descrambled information with a single scrambling method, and
a distributing portion operable to distribute said rescrambled information into each of the terminals, wherein
the information transmitted from each of the transmitting stations is scrambled with a different scrambling method, respectively, and
each of said descrambling portions is operable to descramble the information received by each of said receiving portions by descrambling methods corresponding to each of the scrambling methods, respectively.

5 more elements

A receiving station for receiving information transmitted from a plurality of transmitting stations, wherein

the information transmitted from each of the transmitting stations is scrambled,
said receiving station comprising:
one server, and
one or more terminals, and
said server comprising:
a plurality of receiving portions operable to respectively receive the information transmitted from each of the transmitting stations,
a plurality of descrambling portions operable to respectively descramble the information received by each of said receiving portions,
one rescrambling portion operable to rescramble all of said descrambled information with a single scrambling method, and
a distributing portion operable to distribute said rescrambled information to each of said terminals, and
each of said terminals comprises a redescrambling portion operable to redescramble the rescrambled information, wherein
the information transmitted from each of the transmitting stations is scrambled with a different scrambling method, respectively, and
each of said descrambling portions is operable to descramble the information received by each of said receiving portions by descrambling methods corresponding to each of the scrambling methods, respectively.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 08/929,652Filed 16 Sep 1997
Priority: JP 8-24663618 Sep 1996
Granted: 11 Sep 2001
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

H04N 21/2543
Management at additional data server, e.g. shopping server, rights management server: billing , e.g. for subscription services
G06Q 30/0283
Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising: price estimation or determination
H04N 7/162
Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems: authorising the user terminal, e.g. by paying; Registering the use of a subscription…
H04N 7/163
Authorising the user terminal, e.g. by paying; Registering the use of a subscription channel, e.g. billing: by receiver means only