Telecommunications – Radiotelephone system – Message storage or retrieval
Reexamination Certificate
2000-05-30
2004-02-17
Le, Thanh Cong (Department: 2684)
Telecommunications
Radiotelephone system
Message storage or retrieval
C455S422100, C455S414200, C455S517000, C455S566000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06694133
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a system for an image delivery and a method thereof, and to a system that prepares a plurality of images in a server, an image is down-loaded in a mobile phone from the server, and the down-loaded image is displayed on the mobile phone.
2. Description of the Related Art
In recent years, mobile phones have received much attention. Mobile phones now function like computers, handling not only simple call functions like in a conventional phone, but also capable of being connected to a network such as an internet, and transmitting and receiving data.
People have different tastes, and mobile phones also provide a plurality of waiting screens in consideration of a user selecting a favorite screen.
However, in the mobile phone, storage capacity is restricted, and the number of images to be held is also restricted. Accordingly, images in accordance with tastes of a user are not necessarily prepared.
Further, for an image such as a character and so forth that are used on a waiting screen, copyright license fees may be charged the use thereof. In that case, a company that uses an image such as a character on a waiting screen in a mobile information processing terminal such as a mobile phone has to pay a copyright fee for the character to a copyright holder of the character that is used.
If a user does not use an image preliminarily prepared in a mobile phone, a sales company of the mobile phone still has to bear a copyright fee for a character, and the copyright fee is often wasted. As a result, this causes an increase in a cost of the mobile phone.
Accordingly, a service for delivering an image that can be used on a waiting screen is proposed.
However, this service is only for simply delivering an image, and the delivered image can be delivered to other mobile phones again and can be processed, and potential of copyright infringement occurs.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The objective of the present invention is to solve the tasks.
Also, the objective of the present invention is to provide an image delivering system for promoting protection of a copyright and capable of delivering an image in accordance with a taste of a user, and a method thereof.
Moreover, the objective is to provide an image delivering system capable of providing conventional pull type service with push type image delivery service, and a method thereof.
The present invention provides an image delivering system having a mobile communication network, a plurality of mobile phones connected to the mobile communication network, a first server connected to the mobile phones via the mobile communication network, a network, and a second server connected to the first server via the network. The mobile phones have display means for displaying an image, and storage means having a region to which access control is applied. The mobile phone further comprises member registration demand means for transmitting a member registration demand for image delivery service, and image delivery demand means for transmitting an image delivery demand. The mobile phone further comprises image selecting means for transmitting image selection information for selecting a desired image data from a plurality of image data stored in the second server, and for down-loading the desired image data. The mobile phone further comprises hold means that store the down-loaded image data in the access controlled region of the storage means, and image controlling means for displaying the down-loaded image on the display means.
The first server comprises a user identifier table in which intrinsic identifiers of the mobile phones, and user identifiers that correlate to these intrinsic identifiers. The first server further comprises means for retrieving the user identifiers corresponding to the intrinsic identifiers of the mobile phones from the user identifier table, converting the intrinsic identifiers into user identifiers, and transmitting a demand from the mobile phones to the second server.
The second server comprises storage means in which a image data to be delivered is stored, and a member list table in which user identifiers of members of image delivery service are described. The second server further comprises member registration means for, when receiving a member registration demand from the first server, determining whether a user identifier that is set to this member registration demand is described in the member list table. The second server further comprises image list transmitting means for, when receiving the image delivery demand, determining whether a user identifier that is set to this image delivery demand is described in the member list table, and for transmitting a list of a deliverable image. The second server further comprises image delivering means for reading out image data indicated in the image selection information from the storage means, and for transmitting it to the mobile phones.
In accordance with the present invention, since an image data to be delivered is held in an access controlled storage means, the read-out image is held in storage means in which it cannot be delivered to others again or cannot be processed, and protection of a copyright of the delivered image can be promoted.
In addition, it is preferable that the image to be delivered is updated every day.
In another aspect of the invention, if the mobile phones have means for transmitting information on sorts of their own phones, and the second server has storage means in which an image data for every sort of the mobile phones is held, and image delivering means for reading out an image data corresponding to information on the sorts of the mobile phones from the storage means, and for transmitting it to the mobile phones via the first server, display inconvenience due to a difference of the sorts of the mobile phones can be avoided.
In another aspect of the invention, the first server further comprises a table of information on sorts of the phones, in which the intrinsic identifiers of the mobile phones and information on sorts of the mobile phones are described in association with each other. The first server further comprises means for, in response to a demand from the mobile phones, retrieving the information on the sorts of the mobile phones from the table of information on the sorts of the phones, based on the intrinsic identifiers added to the demand, for adding this information on the sorts of the phones to the demand, and for transmitting it.
The second server further comprises storage means in which an image data for every sort of the mobile phones is held, and image delivering means for reading out an image data corresponding to the information on the sorts of the phones, which is added to the demand, from the storage means, and for transmitting it to the mobile phones via the first server. In this way, an advantage same as in the arrangement can be obtained.
In another aspect of the invention, the second server further comprises an address table in which electronic mail addresses of members are described, means for concurrently transmitting electronic mails in which a destination to be linked for down-loading a deliverable image data is set to addresses described in the address table, and means for responding to access based on a link from the electronic mails and transmitting the image data to the mobile phones. The mobile phones further comprise have electronic mail transmitting and receiving means for transmitting and receiving an electronic mail, and access means for receiving an electronic mail by means of the electronic mail transmitting and receiving means, and for having access to the destination to be linked, which is set in the electronic mail, image display controlling means for displaying an image down-loaded from the destination to be linked on the display means. The mobile phones further comprise hold means for holding the image down-loaded from the place to be linked in an access-controlled region of the storage means, thereby providing push type service can be p
Ishii Fujio
Tobita Naomi
Bandai Co. Ltd.
Cong Le Thanh
Le Lana
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