Patent ID: 7296225
Filing Date: 2007-11-13
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. An information distributing method for distribution of information corresponding to a request from a user terminal, comprising: receiving the request from the user terminal and transmitting, to the user terminal, headlines attached to respective information sets that may correspond to the received request and information indicating a way in which these information sets are handled in an information source as layout information; displaying the headlines on the user terminal according to the layout information so the user can select any of the displayed headlines and receiving an identity of the selected headline from the user terminal; distributing to the user terminal and displaying the information of the set corresponding to the headline the headline identity indicates; and billing the user for the information of the set selected for display by the user, said information indicating the way the information is handled in the information source is information about a position in the information source and/or information about an importance in the information source, wherein the importance degree is calculated based on an importance degree set for each of a plurality of cells dividing a newspaper space in advance and also based on the total sum of the importance degree of the cell occupied by an article on a newspaper layout.