公开(公告)号：EP1672599A1

公开(公告)日：2006-06-21

申请号：EP05111325.6

申请日：2005-11-25

申请人： Park, Soo-Min

发明人： Park, Soo-Min

IPC分类号： G07F17/16 ,  G11B20/00

CPC分类号： G06Q20/123 ,  G06Q20/1235 ,  G06Q30/04 ,  G11B20/00181 ,  G11B20/00724 ,  G11B20/00746 ,  G11B20/00797

摘要： The present invention relates to a system and method for determining whether playing has been performed, determining the number of times that the playing has been performed, and charging fees based on the determination results (hereinafter "post-payment") after music has been provided from an on-line sound source server and has been played in users' players, such as MP3 players, so as not only to charge the users fees for multimedia files in a post-payment manner, not in a convention advance payment manner but also to overcome the problems of a conventional method of charging fees at the time when users access an on-line source server and download or play music (hereinafter "advance payment"). In particular, the present invention relates to a post-paid billing system and method wherein multimedia files are first provided to the user and fees are charged based on the number of times (including first playing that is related to the determination of whether playing has been performed) the users have played the provided multimedia files. According to the present invention, the users can play and enjoy the multimedia files at a lower price. Since the fees are clearly and correctly charged, the profit distribution between service providers and multimedia copyright holders can be easily made, whereby the copyright holders can earn the royalties. Since the multimedia files can be freely duplicated/distributed, the copyright infringement due to unauthorized duplication can be basically prevented, whereby the development of multimedia industry can be promoted.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及一种用于确定是否已经执行了播放的系统和方法，确定已经执行了播放的次数以及基于在提供音乐之后的确定结果（以下称为“后付款”）的收费 来自在线声源服务器，并且已经在诸如MP3播放器的用户播放器中播放，因此不仅以后付款方式向用户收取多媒体文件的费用，而不是按照约定的预付费方式 以克服当用户访问在线源服务器和下载或播放音乐时（以下称为“预付费”）的常规收费方式的问题。 特别地，本发明涉及一种后付费计费系统及方法，其中首先向用户提供多媒体文件，并根据次数（包括与确定是否播放相关的第一次播放）来收费 用户已经播放了提供的多媒体文件。 根据本发明，用户可以以较低的价格播放和享受多媒体文件。 由于费用明确，收费明确，服务商与多媒体版权持有人之间的利润分配可以轻松实现，版权所有者可以获得版税。 由于多媒体文件可以自由复制/分发，所以基本上可以防止由于未经授权的复制而导致的版权侵权，从而可以促进多媒体行业的发展。