JP2002366163A - Method for downloading music from internet to personal computer of user - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for downloading music from the Internet to a user-side personal computer. SOLUTION: A server-side computer receives a command of allowing the user-side computer to download music and a command of paying for the downloading of music including at least one prepayment style through the Internet, accesses a computer where the music to be purchased is stored in a memory to select and purchase the music, encodes the purchased music so that at least one piece of broadcasting-limitation data and one piece of music data are included, and further transmits the encoded purchased music to the user-side computer through the Internet, thereby preventing illegal music broadcasting.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to a method for downloading music from the Internet to a personal computer on the user side. In particular, the present invention relates to the prevention of illegal broadcasting of music by encoding music so as to include at least one broadcast restriction data and one music data.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art The Internet has grown significantly in recent years, mainly due to convenience. The user can use a hyperlink function of a browser to connect to a desired site or download a necessary file. Since anyone can download it freely, there are many cases in which intellectual property rights are infringed. In particular, the most popular MP3 music files these days are those in which the site operator arbitrarily compresses and publishes the general music on the site without receiving the right, and the user downloads and broadcasts it. The legitimate record dealer struggled and led to a court trial with the publisher. The problems it causes tend to grow bigger. However, the user does not know how to determine whether the downloaded music file is legal or not. Most importantly, the downloaded music files have no restrictions and can be broadcast directly.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention provides a method for downloading music from the Internet to a user's computer, whereby the music is illegally encoded to include at least one broadcast-restricted data before downloading. The purpose is to prevent broadcasting and eliminate the situation of infringement of intellectual property rights.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above object,
The present invention provides a method for downloading music from the Internet to a user computer. This method is used when connecting to the Internet and a plurality of user computers, a server computer, and a plurality of music supply computers. The method includes the following steps: a. The server computer receives a command via the Internet that the user computer downloads music; b. The server computer receives a command via the Internet that the user computer pays for downloading music. The payment command includes at least one form of prepaid payment; c. After confirming the payment command, the server-side computer selects and purchases music based on the music download command. The server-side computer executes the following procedure: c1. Determine whether the purchased music is stored in the music supply computer or in the server computer; c2. Access the computer in which the purchased music is stored based on the result of the determination in step (c1); d. The server-side computer encodes the purchased music to include at least one broadcast restriction data and one music data; e. The server-side computer transmits the purchased music to the user-side computer via the Internet.

In the above method, the broadcast restriction data is data for restricting a broadcast period, data for restricting the number of broadcasts, or data for restricting a member account.

The above method further includes the following procedure: f. The server-side computer provides the user-side computer with the software for broadcasting the purchased music encoded in step (d) by downloading the user-side computer through the Internet; g. The server-side computer receives a registration command for the broadcast software of the user-side computer via the Internet; h. Based on the registration command, the server-side computer transmits the registered registration data to the user-side computer through the Internet.

[0007] The permission registration data contains at least a serial number and a password, or at least a member account and a password.

[0008] In step (c2) of the above method, when it is determined in step (c1) that the purchased music is stored in the music supply computer, the server computer is connected to the music supply computer via the Internet. Access to the purchased music.

[0009]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to Examples, but the present invention is not limited to these.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a network environment using the present invention. The Internet 4 in FIG. 1 includes a server computer 2, a plurality of user computers 1,
And a plurality of music supply side computers 3 respectively. Among them, an electronic device having an Internet access function can be used for the user computer 1 and can be connected to the server computer 2 through the Internet 4. The electronic device has at least one piece of broadcasting software used for broadcasting music encoded according to the present invention. The broadcasting software is provided by the server-side computer 2 and can be obtained by downloading. The broadcasting software must be registered in the server-side computer 2. After obtaining the registration permission data, the user-side computer 1 inputs the registration permission data to the broadcasting software. With the registration permission, the broadcasting software can normally broadcast the music encoded according to the present invention.

The server-side computer 2 shown in FIG. 1 includes at least a music database used for a memory of a plurality of music files of the server-side computer, download of encoded music after user-side computer 1 accesses the Internet, and encoded music. Payment programs, download of broadcasting software, registration of broadcasting software, etc.
A program that encodes music that the user-side computer 1 desires to download, and encodes the encoded music so that it includes at least a broadcast time limit and the number of broadcasts or broadcast-restricted data and music data according to a member account; 2 and broadcast software used when broadcasting encoded music that can be downloaded from the Internet. Further, the encoding program of the server-side computer 2 can further execute encoding of music that the user-side computer 1 desires to download. Further, background video data can be added to the encoded music.
The plurality of processing programs of the server-side computer 2 use both the technology of the http homepage and the ftp technology, or a remote procedure call (remoting).
Processing such as downloading of encoded music, payment of encoded music, download of broadcast software, registration of broadcast software, and the like can be performed using the technique of e-procedure call).

The music supply side computer 3 shown in FIG. 1 has a server side computer 2 that remotely accesses a plurality of music files of the music supply side computer 3 (remote ac).
cess). For example, the server computer 2 of FIG. 1 remotely accesses a plurality of music files of the music supply computer 3 through the Internet.

FIG. 2 shows a flowchart of the present invention. In step 51, the server computer 2 receives a music download command from the user computer 1 via the Internet 4. In step 52, the server computer 2 receives a payment command for music downloaded by the user computer 1 via the Internet 4. In step 53, after the server-side computer 2 confirms the payment command, the server-side computer 2 selects and purchases music based on the music download command, and determines whether or not the purchased music is stored in the music database of the server-side computer 2. If it is stored, the purchased music is accessed from the server-side computer 2 in step 54a. Procedure if not stored
The server-side computer 2 connects to the music supply-side computer 3 through the Internet 4 by 54b to access the purchased music. In step 55, the purchased music accessed by the server computer 2 is encoded.
The purchased music after encoding includes at least one broadcast restriction data and one music data. Among them, the broadcast restriction data is data that restricts a broadcast period, data that restricts the number of broadcasts, or data that restricts a member account. In step 56, the server-side computer 2 transmits the purchase music encoded through the Internet 4 to the user-side computer 1.

Further, the present invention uses a procedure 56 to reduce the transmission time.
Further compress the purchased music that has been encoded.

FIG. 3 shows a management flow chart of the broadcasting software provided by the present invention. In step 61, the server-side computer 2 downloads the broadcasting software via the Internet 4 and provides it to the user-side computer 1. In step 62, the computer 2 on the server side receives a command for registering broadcast software of the computer 1 on the user side via the Internet 4. In step 63, the server-side computer 2 transmits registration permission data to the user-side computer 1 through the Internet 4 based on the registration command.

The user-side computer 1 can be connected to the server-side computer 2 by using online communication software such as a browser, and downloads broadcasting software.

FIG. 4 shows a specific example when the broadcast software starts up the screen on the user computer 1 for the first time. Zone 71 in FIG. 4 is an input device similar to a mouse
After clicking zone 71 in (not shown in drawing),
Broadcasting software calls online communication software
And online communication software and server-side computer 2
And perform steps 62 and 63 above. After that, the serial number and password of the registration permission data of the server computer 2 are input to the zones 72 and 73. In this way, the registration of application permission for broadcasting software is completed. The broadcast software executed after the second time normally broadcasts the music encoded by the present invention. As another embodiment of the registration permission data, a member account and a password can be used.

FIG. 5 shows that after the broadcast software of FIG.
A specific example of a screen started on a user-side computer is shown. Zone 81 in FIG. 5 shows a list of already-encoded music that has already been downloaded, and encoded music for which a broadcast can be selected and provided from the list by clicking. Zone 82 is a broadcast control key for controlling the broadcast of the encoded music of the provided list. The zone 83 indicates information data on the state of the clicked encoded music based on the broadcast restriction data of the clicked music, for example, the remaining number of broadcasts, the broadcast expiration date, the broadcast expiration date has been exceeded, and the broadcast frequency has been used. The zone 84 is a zone indicating provision of a video broadcast. If the encoded music to be broadcast belongs to karaoke, the screen of the karaoke music can be broadcast in zone 84. Zone 82
The zone 84 can be switched to the full screen and displayed using the full screen control key of the broadcast control key. Zone 85 provides the ability to download music by clicking. After clicking Zone 85, the broadcast software calls the online communication software (c
all) to connect the online communication software to the server-side computer 2 so that the server-side computer 2 interacts with the music download processing program.

FIG. 6 shows a screen used by the server computer for downloading music, and shows a specific example executed on the user computer. The user computer 1 executes the screen shown in FIG. After the selection of the music and the selection of the payment method are completed, the zone 94 is clicked.
As a result, the music download and payment commands of the user-side computer 1 can be transmitted, and the steps 51 and 52 in FIG. 2 are specifically executed. A zone 91 in FIG. 6 is a zone for performing a search by inputting characters. After inputting a keyword such as a song title, a singer, a composer, etc. into the user computer 1, a search is executed. Zone 92 shows a list of search results. This is also a list provided by the user-side computer 1 to select music to be purchased. The zone 93 indicates the total amount of music to be purchased and the credit card number, discount ticket number, and prepaid card number input by the user-side computer 1, and provides options for payment methods. After the user computer 1 completes the input to the zone 93, the user clicks on the zone 94 to pay. At this time, after confirming the payment, the server-side computer 2 determines whether the selected music is stored in the music supply-side computer 3 or the server-side computer 2 based on the selected and purchased music. According to the result of the determination, the computer storing the music that has been selectively purchased is accessed, and the server-side computer 2 encodes the music that has been selectively purchased and downloads it to the user-side computer 1.

FIG. 7A is a diagram showing music encoded according to the present invention. 7A encoded music 1
00 is at least broadcast restriction data 101 and music data 102
Including one. The music data 102 is the server-side computer 2
Are obtained by accessing the music database of the music supply computer 3 or the server computer 2. The server-side computer executes the above-described encoding program, and stores the broadcast restriction data 101 in the music data 102.
Is added to the encoded music 100.

FIG. 7B is a drawing showing a first specific example of FIG. 7A. The broadcast restriction data 101 shown by B in FIG.
"Month / day / hour / minute / second", which is provided to the broadcasting software, and the music data 102 is transmitted as "year / month / day /
7C is a diagram showing a second specific example of FIG. 7A. Broadcasting restriction shown in FIG. 7C is shown. The data 101 is for limiting the “number of broadcasts”, and is provided to the broadcasting software to limit the music data 102 from being broadcast beyond the “number of limited broadcasts.” D in FIG. Is A in FIG.
3 is a drawing showing a third specific example. Broadcast restriction data 101 indicated by D in FIG. 7 restricts a “member account”. The music data 102 can be broadcast only after registration of the broadcasting software of the member account is permitted.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing that the music encoded according to the present invention further includes background video data. The encoded music 100 of FIG. 8 further includes background video data 103. The music data 102 in FIG. 8 is usually karaoke music, and the broadcasting software of the user-side computer 1 can be used as the encoded music 100 in FIG. At the same time, background video data 1
03 can be displayed in zone 84 of FIG.

The broadcast software used for broadcasting the encoded music according to the present invention further includes a CD of the user computer 1.
The equipment (not shown in the figure) can access a CD memory medium that stores multiple background video files. Therefore, when the user computer 1 broadcasts the encoded music of karaoke, even if the encoded music does not include the background video data 103 described in FIG. The related background video file is read and broadcast. The background image of the background image file can be displayed simultaneously in zone 84 in FIG.

The broadcasting software used for broadcasting the encoded music according to the present invention is compatible with online communication software similar to the above-mentioned browser function or ftp function, in addition to the broadcasting of the music encoded by the encoding program. It can be used as broadcast software having an online communication function. It directly accesses the Internet, connects to the server computer 2, and performs selective purchase of music. Further, it is possible to automatically connect to the server computer 2 from the Internet to obtain and display the latest music information and automatically receive the latest music information transmitted by the server computer 2.

In summary, the present invention is an invention that provides a method for downloading music from the Internet to a user's computer. As a result, illegal music broadcasting can be prevented, and the situation of infringement of intellectual property rights can be eliminated.

Although the details relating to the present invention have been described above, the above description does not limit the scope of the claims of the present invention. Those skilled in the art should recognize that all equivalent and equivalent variations of the present invention should fall within the scope of the claims of the present invention.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a network environment used in the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a drawing showing a flowchart of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a drawing showing a flow chart of obtaining legal broadcasting software of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a specific example of a screen that is firstly executed on the user side computer by the broadcast software.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a specific example of a screen executed on a user-side computer after permission of the broadcast software of FIG. 3 is registered.

FIG. 6 is a view showing a specific example executed on the user-side computer on a screen used by the server-side computer for downloading music.

7A is a schematic diagram illustrating music encoded in accordance with the present invention, FIG. 7B is a diagram illustrating a first embodiment based on FIG. 7A, and FIG. 7C is a second embodiment based on FIG. 7A. FIG. 7D is a diagram showing an example, and FIG. 7D is a diagram showing a third specific example based on FIG. 7A.

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram in which music encoded according to the present invention further includes background video data.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 User side computer 2 Server side computer 3 Music supply side computer 4 Internet 100 Encoded music 101 Broadcast restriction data 102 Music data 103 Background video data

Claims (14)

[Claims] 1. The following procedure: a. A procedure in which the server-side computer receives a music download command of the user-side computer through the Internet; b. The server computer can download music from the user computer over the Internet.
Receiving a payment command including at least a prepaid form of payment; c. After confirming the payment command, the server-side computer executes c1. A procedure for determining whether the purchased music is stored in the music supply computer or the server computer, c2. A procedure for selecting and purchasing music based on a music download command, comprising: a procedure for accessing the purchased music of a computer storing the purchased music based on the determination result of the procedure c1. D. A procedure in which the server-side computer encodes the purchased music so as to include at least one broadcast restriction data and one music data, e. The server-side computer includes a procedure for transmitting the purchased music encoded through the Internet to the user-side computer, the Internet applied when connecting a plurality of user-side computers, one server-side computer, and a plurality of music-supplying computers over the Internet. How to download music from to your computer. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the server-side computer further comprises a step f of downloading, to the user-side computer, broadcasting software for broadcasting purchased music encoded based on the step d via the Internet. To download music from the Internet to your computer. 3. The method for downloading music from the Internet to a user-side computer according to claim 1, wherein step d further comprises compressing the encoded purchased music. 4. The following f. The server-side computer downloads, to the user-side computer, broadcasting software for broadcasting the purchased music encoded according to the procedure d through the Internet; g. A procedure in which the server-side computer receives a broadcast software registration command from the user-side computer through the Internet; h. The method of claim 1, wherein the server computer transmits the registered data to the user computer via the Internet based on the registration command. 5. The step c2 is that the server-side computer accesses the purchased music of the music-supplying computer through the Internet when it is determined in step c1 that the purchased music is stored in the music-supplying computer. The method of claim 1, wherein music is downloaded from the Internet to a user computer. 6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the broadcast restriction data is data for restricting a broadcast time limit. 7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the broadcast restriction data is data for limiting the number of broadcasts. 8. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the broadcast restriction data is data for restricting a member account. 9. The purchased music after encoding further includes one background video data.
Downloading music from the Internet to a user's computer as described in 1. 10. The method according to claim 4, wherein the registration permission data includes a serial number and a password. 11. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the registration permission data includes a member account and a password. 12. The prepaid payment is a payment using a prepaid card.
How to download music to the user computer from the Internet as described in. 13. The method of claim 1, wherein the payment command further includes a credit card payment. 14. The method according to claim 1, wherein the payment command further includes payment with a discount coupon.