Patent ID: 7240033
Filing Date: 2007-07-03
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. An information providing system including a first information providing apparatus, an information processing apparatus, and a second information providing apparatus, said first information providing apparatus comprising: first reception control means for controlling a reception, from said information processing apparatus, of user identification data for identifying a user of said information processing apparatus and a request for purchasing a content; first transmission control means for controlling, in response to said request for purchasing said content, a transmission of said request for purchasing said content to said second information providing apparatus; second reception control means for controlling a reception, from said second information providing apparatus, of device identification information for identifying said second information providing apparatus and usage conditions of said content; storage control means for controlling storage of said device identification information and said usage conditions in correspondence with said user identification data; and second transmission control means for controlling in response to a request, from said information processing apparatus, a transmission, to said information processing apparatus, of said device identification information and said usage conditions stored in correspondence with said user identification data; said information processing apparatus comprising: third reception control means for controlling a reception of said device identification information and said usage conditions; third transmission control means for controlling, when reproduction of said content is requested, a transmission of the request for said content to said second information providing apparatus on the basis of said device identification information and said usage conditions; and fourth reception control means for controlling a reception of said content from said second information providing apparatus; and said second information providing apparatus comprising: fifth reception control means for controlling a reception of said request for purchasing said content from said first information providing apparatus; fourth transmission control means for controlling in response to said request for purchasing said content a transmission of said device identification information and said usage conditions to said first information providing apparatus; sixth reception control means for controlling a reception of a request for said content from said information processing apparatus; and fifth transmission control means for controlling, in response to said request for said content, a transmission of said content to said information processing apparatus.