Patent ID: 7155504
Filing Date: 2006-12-26
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A data delivery system for delivering data stored in a sending station to at least one receiving station, comprising: distribution tables, disposed in the sending station, each defining parameters regarding where and how to deliver engineering documents of a particular product category, the parameters including destinations of each different type of documents and data formats supported in each of the destinations; attribute identification means, disposed in the sending station, for identifying attributes of data to be distributed, the attributes including document types; destination determination means, disposed in the sending station, for determining destinations of the data, according to the document type identified by said attribute identification means, by consulting one of said distribution tables relevant to a specified product category; transmission means, disposed in the sending station, for sending the data to the destinations determined by said destination determination means; reception means, disposed in each receiving station, for receiving the data sent from said transmission means; reproduction means, disposed in each receiving station, for restoring the data received by said reception means to original form thereof; data conversion means, disposed in the sending station, for converting the data into image data or plotter data; distribution information embedding means for adding distribution-related information pertaining to the data distribution to the image data or plotter data produced by said data conversion means, and wherein said transmission means sends the data converted by said data conversion means.