Patent ID: 6694133
Filing Date: 2004-02-17
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04N

Abstract:
An image delivering system comprising 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, wherein:each of the mobile phones comprises: display means for displaying an image; storage means having an access-controlled region; member registration demand means for transmitting a member registration demand of image delivery service; image delivery demand means for transmitting a demand of an image delivery; image selecting means for transmitting image selection information for selecting a desired image data out of a plurality of image data that are held in the second server, and for downloading the desired image data; hold means for holding the downloaded image data in the access-controlled region of the storage means; and image controlling means for displaying the downloaded image on the display means; the first server comprises: a user identifier table wherein intrinsic identifiers of the mobile phones and user identifiers associated with each other; 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 phone to the second server; and the second server comprises: storage means wherein a image data to be delivered is held; a member list table in which user identifiers of members of image delivery service are described; member registration means for, when receiving a member registration demand from the first server, determining whether a user identifier added to this member registration demand is described in the member list table, and describing the user identifier in the member list table if it is not present; image list transmitting means for, when receiving the image delivery demand, determining whether a user identifier added to this image delivery demand is described in the member list table, and transmitting a list of deliverable images if the user identifier is described in the member list table; and image delivering means for reading out image data indicated in the image selection information from the storage means, and for transmitting the read-out image data to the mobile phones.