US 7,706,541 B2Granted

Information management apparatus

AssigneeFIPA Frohwitter Intellectual Property AG

InventorsHiroaki Ono, Kiyoshi Kano, Hideo Nishijima, Takao Arai, Takaharu Noguchi, Nobutaka Amada, Hiroo Okamoto, Hitoaki Owashi, Keizo Nishimura, Nobuyuki Kaku, Shinya Fujimori

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Abstract

An information management apparatus capable of reliable management of distributed information and an information providing system employing the same information management apparatus has a main information reproducing system for reproducing main information recorded in a given recording medium; and a reproduction management system for managing the main information reproducing system for reproducing the main information. A receiver is provided with a unit for recording distributed information and control information limiting the number of main information reproducing cycles on a recording medium, and a main information reproducing system provided with a reproduction disabling function for limiting the reproduction of main information.

Claims4

Dependent claims

An information management apparatus comprising:

a receiver which receives main information;
a recorder which records said main information on a recording medium;
a main information reproducer which reproduces said main information on said recording medium;
and
a reproduction management means for managing said main information reproducer,
wherein said reproduction management means is provided with a reproduction disabling means for disabling operation of said main information reproducer, and
wherein said reproduction disabling means comprises:
decision means for deciding whether the reproduction disabling function of said reproduction disabling means is normal, and
a reproduction start refusing means for refusing a reproduction start command requesting start of an operation for reproducing said main information by said main information reproducer, when said decision means decides that the reproduction disabling function of said reproduction disabling means is abnormal.

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Facts

Application: 10/786,089Filed 26 Feb 2004 · continuation
Priority: JP P6-02086518 Feb 1994
Published: US 2004/0165301 A126 Aug 2004
Granted: 27 Apr 2010
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification21 codes

G11B 15/087
By sensing features present on or derived from record carrier or container: by sensing recorded signals
G11B 5/0086
On transverse tracks: using cyclically driven heads providing segmented tracks
G11B 15/03
Control of operating function, e.g. switching from recording to reproducing: by using counters
G11B 15/125
Masking of heads; circuits for Selecting or switching of heads between operative and inoperative functions or between different operative…:…

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Application08/391,554Parent of this continuation · filed 21 Feb 1995
Application08/928,628Parent of this continuation · filed 12 Sep 1997
Application09/126,435Parent of this continuation · filed 30 Jul 1998
Application09/482,312Parent of this continuation · filed 14 Jan 2000
Application09/642,770Parent of this continuation · filed 22 Aug 2000
Application10/022,736Parent of this continuation · filed 20 Dec 2001
US 2004/0165301 A1Pre-grant publication · published 26 Aug 2004
US 6,731,451 B2Parent of this continuation
US 6,388,831 B1Parent of this continuation
US 6,204,985 B1Parent of this continuation
US 6,031,677 AParent of this continuation
US 5,825,969 AParent of this continuation
US 2002/0051310 A1Published application
US 7,706,541 B2This patent

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