Patent ID: 8250593

Claim:
An information processing method for a computing system, the information processing method comprising: receiving, with a communication unit of the computing system, a download notification from a first information processing apparatus, the download notification indicating that of information contents have been transmitted by the first information processing apparatus, to a second information processing apparatus; adjusting, with a computation unit of the computing system, a number of times the information contents have been transmitted, based on the download notification; receiving a reproduction notification from the second information processing apparatus indicating that a reproduction of content data has based on the information contents has been detected; adjusting a number of times the content data has been reproduced, based on the reproduction notification; and updating computing a price of a subsequent transmission of the information contents, with a processor of the computing system, as a nonlinear function of the reproduction number of times the content data has been reproduced and the number of times the information contents have been transmitted; wherein the price of the subsequent transmission of the information contents is based on a number of times the information contents have been downloaded for commercial use and a number of times the information contents have been downloaded for non-commercial use; and wherein the price of the subsequent transmission of the information contents is based on a number of times the information contents have been downloaded in an urban area.