Patent ID: 7264157
Filing Date: 2007-09-04
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. An area-based content delivery method comprising the steps of: (a) issuing, by a content usage right issuing terminal, a content usage right to a portable terminal of a user who visits a store, the content usage right including a maximum elapsed use time; (b) in response to a request from the portable terminal having the content usage right, sending a content to the requesting portable terminal by an in-store server whose content transmission area covers inside of the store; (c) detecting, by said in-store server, that the portable terminal having the content usage right has left the store and invalidating the content usage right issued to the portable terminal in response to the detection that the portable terminal has left the store; and (d) the in-store server subtracting elapsed time from the maximum elapsed use time and closing a connection to the portable terminal in response to a result of the subtracting being that the maximum elapsed use time has been reached.