Patent ID: 8065743
Filing Date: 2011-11-22
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A content use management system comprising: a content-providing system; and a content-using device; said content-providing system including a processor that provides, to said content-using device, digital content having content identification information corresponding to user-side-specific information specific to said content-using device or a user of said content-using device, the digital content having primary distribution destination information; said content-using device including a first control processor that, when receiving an instruction for using digital content from a user, allows use of the digital content when content identification information included in the digital content corresponds to user-side specific information specific to said content-using device or a user of said content-using device; said first control processor, when said content-using device cannot access said content-providing system, executing a control process in accordance with the primary distribution destination information of the digital content when the content identification information included in the digital content does not correspond to the user-side-specific information or the user thereof; said first control processor, when said content-using device cannot access said content-providing system, allowing use of the digital content when the user-side-specific information specific to the content-using device or the user thereof is set in the primary distribution destination information of the digital content; said first control processor, when said content-using device cannot access said content-providing system, writing the user-side-specific information specific to the content-using device or the user thereof in the primary distribution destination information and then allowing use of the digital content when the primary distribution destination information is not set; said first control processor, when said content-using device cannot access said content-providing system, not allowing use of the digital content when information that does not correspond to the user-side-specific information specific to the content-using device or the user thereof is set in the primary distribution destination information of the digital content.