Patent ID: 7457848

Claim:
An over-network resource distribution system for allowing one or more users to request resources to be provided by at least one resource providing server through user terminals connected by a communication line to the resource providing server, the resource requested being downloaded for utilization through the communication line onto the user terminal, the system comprising: at least one window server having a first user information database recording information required in authenticating the user and a first resource provider information database recording information required in verifying a correctness reliability of a resource provider and transmitting a reliance level related to the resource provider, the level being at least one of reliable, less reliable or not reliable, to serve as a window of a resource request to be sent from an arbitrary one of the user terminals of the users to the resource providing server thereby sending a resource request command corresponding to the resource request to the resource providing server designated in the resource request; and the resource providing server having a second resource provider information database recording information required in authenticating the window server and recording information required in verifying a reliability of the window server and recording information required in determining an optimal resource provider, providing information associated with an optimal resource provider, and verifying a reliability of a resource provider, a second user information database extractably recording information about the user authenticated by the window server and recording reliability information associated with the user, and a permission data database recording restrictions for accessing a resource to be provided to the user and sending the resource in response to a resource request from arbitrary one of the window servers after determining the restrictions related to a requested resource, wherein the restrictions are based on a type of the resource provider and the state of the resource which includes at least copyright status.