Patent ID: 6438233
Filing Date: 2002-08-20
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04N

Abstract:
A book data service system, comprising:at least one data center including: a data center computer for storing and managing book data available in the book data service system; and a broadcasting facility for broadcasting all the book data stored and managed by the data center computer according to a prescribed communication protocol, without requiring any requests from users, the prescribed communication protocol being based on a prescribed synchronization control and error correction scheme for realizing data delivery by broadcasting the book data without a confirmation signal; and a plurality of user terminals, each user terminal including: a broadcast receiver for receiving the book data broadcasted from the broadcasting facility of the data center; a user terminal computer for selectively storing and managing the book data received by the broadcast receiver; and a display device for displaying the book data selectively stored and managed by the user terminal computer; wherein the book data broadcasted from the data center contains broadcast schedule table, and each user terminal further includes a storage unit for storing the broadcast schedule table, a reservation unit for making a storing reservation of desired book data on the stored broadcast schedule table, a reservation inspection unit for inspecting whether the book data received by the broadcast receiver is the desired book data for which the storing reservation has been made, where the user terminal computer stores only the desired book data for which the storing reservation has been made among all the book data received by the broadcast receiver.