Registers – Systems controlled by data bearing records – Credit or identification card systems
Reexamination Certificate
2002-09-11
2004-07-27
Le, Thien M. (Department: 2876)
Registers
Systems controlled by data bearing records
Credit or identification card systems
C235S378000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06766946
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a system for purchasing a personal recording media, and more particularly to a system capable of searching one or more musical compositions, editing the searched musical compositions, and purchasing a recording media such as CD, MD, cassette tape and the like into which the edited musical compositions are inserted.
2. Description of the Related Art
In general, a customer can produce an original compilation recording media which is unique to the customer by renting or purchasing a MD, CD, cassette tape and the like, selecting the customer's favorite musical compositions by utilizing a reproducing/recording apparatus such as a CD player/recorder, a cassette deck and the like, and editing and recording the selected musical compositions into recording media such as a MD, CD, or cassette tape in the customer's preferred order.
For example, even for musical compositions by a single musician or artist, it is rare that all personally favorite musical compositions are recorded in just one album such as an MD, CD, or cassette tape. Accordingly, when the customer desires to produce a personally original compilation recording media such as an album composed of only the customer's personally favorite musical compositions, the customer has to purchase or rent a plurality of MDs, CDs, cassette tapes and the like, and then select, edit, and then record personally favorite musical compositions using reproducing/editing/recording storage apparatus in such a manner that a few musical compositions are selected from one album, more musical compositions are selected from another album and further musical compositions are selected from another album.
Similarly, when the customer desires to produce an album composed of musical compositions by a plurality of musicians or artists, a plurality of albums by each of the musicians or artists have to be purchased or rent, and then the desired personally original compilation recording media must be produced by using the reproducing/editing/recording storage apparatus.
In the above mentioned conventional methods, there is a problem, such that when a customer desires to produce an original compilation recording media, the customer has to purchase or rent a plurality of MDs, CDs, cassette tapes and the like, and then select, edit, and then record personally favorite musical compositions from them using reproducing/editing/recording storage apparatus, and as a result, it would be more costly than purchasing one MD, CD, cassette tape and the like having those personally favorite musical compositions, and also it would take time for reproducing/editing/recording.
Further, there is another problem, such that because a customer freely produces a personally original compilation recording media by copying the musical compositions from a plurality of MDs, CDs, cassette tapes and the like, without concern for the existence of the copyrights of the musical compositions, the copyright owners can not collect royalties for the copyrights regarding their own musical compositions, and as a result, no return has been provided for the music industries as well as for the musical composers.
In the view point of their strategies in businesses, the businesses such as the advertising agencies, broadcasting companies, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), mobile-phone ISPs, and the like, who deal with the customers directly or indirectly, are targeting the personal information of the customers for use in their businesses. As a result, the personal information of the consumers is quite valuable as one of the marketing tools.
However, there are problems in dealing with the personal information of the customers.
Remarkably, the acquisitions of personal information from the customers by the business agencies generate some legal problems such as privacy problems. Because of their values, once they have acquired the personal information of the customers, many business agencies attempt to re-use or to re-distribute the acquired personal information of the customers for other purposes and/or for other agencies in the Internet without notifying the customers of the re-uses and/or re-distributions of the personal information.
In this regard, some customers claim that their privacy is infringed by the business agencies because their personal information are re-used and/or re-distributed without the customer's consent.
Therefore, there needs a privacy permission scheme for providing a customer with an access control of the customer's personal information in order to permit an appropriate use or distribution of the customer's personal information while protecting an inappropriate use or distribution of the customer's personal information by the business agencies and/or the third parties.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the present invention to provide a system for purchasing a personal recording media, which system is capable of arbitrarily selecting or designating the customer's favorite musicians or artists, arbitrarily selecting or designating musical compositions by the selected musicians or artists, and purchasing a personally original compilation recording media composed of the selected or designated musical compositions.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a method of purchasing a personal recording media for arbitrarily selecting or designating the customer's favorite musicians or artists, arbitrarily selecting or designating musical compositions by the selected musicians or artists, and purchasing a personally original compilation recording media composed of the selected or designated musical compositions.
It is still another object of the present invention to provide a recording media of recording a personal recording media purchasing program for arbitrarily selecting or designating the customer's favorite musicians or artists, arbitrarily selecting or designating musical compositions by the selected musicians or artists, and purchasing a personally original compilation recording media composed of the selected or designated musical compositions.
It is further object of the present invention to provide a system for purchasing a personal recording media, which system is capable of automatically collecting royalties for copyrights and the like regarding the musical compositions incorporated into the recording media at a time when a customer purchases a personally original compilation recording media, and also capable of implementing the return and the like concerning the use of the musical compositions for the copyrighters and the like.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a method of purchasing a personal recording media for automatically collecting royalties for copyrights and the like regarding the musical compositions incorporated into the recording media at a time when a customer purchases a personally original compilation recording media, and for implementing the return and the like concerning the use of the musical compositions for the copyrighters and the like.
It is still another object of the present invention to provide a recording media of recording a personal recording media purchasing program for automatically collecting royalties for copyrights and the like regarding the musical compositions incorporated into the recording media at a time when a customer purchases a personally original compilation recording media, and for implementing the return and the like concerning the use of the musical compositions for the copyrighters and the like.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a system for providing a customer with an access control of the customer's personal information in order to permit an appropriate use or distribution of the customer's personal information while protecting an inappropriate use or distribution of the customer's personal information by the business agencies and/or the third parties.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a m
Givotovskky Nicholas R.
Iida Takahito
Davidson Davidson & Kappel LLC
Dentsu Inc.
Le Thien M.
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