Patent ID: 7239417

Claim:
A digital image content distribution system comprising: a server which distributes digital image data and secondary data which corresponds to the digital image data, the server comprising: an image data file which stores the digital image data; a secondary data file which stores the secondary data; a distribution information file which stores distribution information relating to the digital image data and the secondary data; a distribution means for distributing the digital image data and the secondary data in accordance with a requirement from the user terminal; and an information supply means for supplying the user terminal with the distribution information; and a user terminal which reproduces the distributed digital image data and the distributed secondary data, the server and the user terminal being connected to each other through Internet, wherein the secondary data is prepared with the use of a markup language such that a reproduction start point and a reproduction end point correspond to an image frame-specific code for specifying an image frame of the digital image data, and wherein the digital image data and the secondary data are prepared and distributed separately, the secondary data is reproduced synchronously with the digital image data such that the reproduction start point and the reproduction end point of the secondary data corresponding to the image frame to be reproduced are led out during the reproduction of the digital image data.