Patent ID: 7032819

Claim:
A system for purchasing a personal recording media, comprising: a) a first station for converting at least one data composition and a data information corresponding to said one data composition to predetermined signals, respectively, and for transmitting said signals; b) a card-type storage medium including a storage device and an integrated circuit; c) a receiving device capable of attaching/detaching said card-type storage medium, and of enabling a user to sense said data composition by receiving said signal transmitted from said first station, and of selectively storing into said storage device of said card-type storage medium, by a predetermined operation, data information corresponding to said data composition being transmitted when said card-type storage medium is attached thereto; d) a second station including an entering device capable of attaching/detaching said card-type storage medium into which said data information is stored, and of reading an identification information stored in said storage device of said card-type storage medium when said card-type storage medium is attached thereto, and of reading said data information stored in said storage device of said card-type storage medium; e) a third station connected to said second station and including a data composition information storage means for storing a plurality of data composition information, said third station being capable of: 1) identifying whether or not a user of said system is an authorized user based on said identification information, 2) reading said data composition information associated with said data information by retrieving data composition information from said data composition information storage means based on said data information entered with said entering means, and 3) recording said data composition information read from said data composition information storage means into a predetermined recording medium, and 4) implementing a predetermined accounting process based on an accounting information stored in said card-type storage medium, regarding said recording medium into which said data composition information is recorded, wherein a data information corresponding to said data composition is stored into said card-type storage medium by a predetermined operation when a user is sensing said data composition being transmitted from said first station, and said user can purchase said recording medium into which at least one desired data composition is recorded, by inserting said card-type storage medium of which said data information is stored therein into a predetermined entering means at said second station.