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Pay per Use

In 1993, the European Patent Office (EPO) granted Canon K.K. of Japan owns a patent on charging a fee per a unit of decoded information. The main claim covers all systems where a local application decodes information received from remote information distributor and calculates a fee based on the amount of information decoded. If an information vendor wants to realise a full "Pay Per Use" system where the fee arises only when the user actually reads the information (rather than when it is transmitted), he might want to beg Canon for a license. Perhaps Canon will be generous, since it is clear that the patent claim describes a class of programs for computers (computer-implemented calculation rules), and the supposedly novel and inventive problem solution (invention) consists in nothing but the program [ as such ]. All features of this claim belong to the field of data processing by means of generic computer equipment.

EC Class:

H04N7/16E2 ; H04N7/16E3

IP Class:

H04N7/16

priority date:

JP19910305705 19911025

application number:

EP19920118204 19921023

requested:

[_] EP0538888, B1

applicant:

CANON KK (JP)

inventor:

YAMAMOTO MASAKUNI (JP); ENDO KIYONOBU (JP); HASEGAWA KOYO (JP); HOSHI HIROAKI (JP); IIDA ICHIRO (JP); YAMAGUCHI EIJI (JP); MATSUMURA SUSUMU (JP); MORISHIMA HIDEKI (JP)

publication date:

1993-04-28

patent number:

EP0538888

Name of the Invention:

Information processing method and system.

Claim 1:

An information processing system comprising

receiving means for receiving transmitted information, the information being coded or incomplete and in a non-usable form;
a recording medium, decoding information needed to demodulate the received information being prerecorded on said recording medium, said recording medium comprising a first area in which the received information is to be written and a second area in which the decoding information is pre-recorded;
writing means for writing the information received by said receiving means in the first area of said recording medium;
reading means for reading out the decoding information from said recording medium; and
demodulating means for converting the information received by said receiving means and written in said first area of said recording medium to a usable form using the decoding information read out by said reading means;

wherein the charge for use of the information is defined in units corresponding to the decoding information being prerecorded on said recording medium

patent application (A):

claims, description and abstract

granted version (B1):

The EPO publishes the patent as a collection of graphical files, which we concatenate into one huge PDF file and, by OCR batch processing, reduce to a text file.