Patent ID: 7483960

Claim:
A service providing system, comprising: a plurality of terminals, each of the plurality of terminals having a unique device ID, wherein each of the plurality of terminals transmits the respective device ID when accessing the system; and a server including: a specification information table storing data format specifications representative of each of the plurality of terminals; at least one data parameter corresponding to the data format specifications stored in the specification information table; wherein each of the data format specifications corresponding to one of the device IDs representative of one of the plurality of terminals; wherein the server is programmed to: (a) receive the at least one terminal device ID; (b) determine whether the specification information table includes more than one data format specification representative of the at least one terminal device; (c) in response to the specification information table including more than one data format specification, transmit to each terminal the options for data format specifications; (d) upon the receipt of a data format specification choice, determine whether the data format specification corresponds to more than one data parameters; (e) in response to the corresponding to more than one data parameter, transmit to each terminal the options for the data parameters and a plurality of data transfer rates; and (d) upon the receipt of one of the plurality of data transfer rates and the data parameter selection from each of the terminals, provide each of the terminals with services of the corresponding data format specification and the data parameter selected; (e) in response to the specification table including one data format specification and one data parameter, provide service automatically based on the data format specification associated with the terminal.