Subscription newspaper dispatching system

Claim 2

An information dispatching system, comprising an information offering office and a plurality of receiving terminals, wherein: said information offering office includes: edit means for editing digitized information data, and broadcast means for broadcasting the edited information data; and each of said receiving terminals includes: reception means for receiving the broadcasted information data, record means for recording the received information data in a storage medium, control means for selectively displaying the recorded information data on a display screen, and input means for receiving an operational command from a user; wherein said edit means edits digitized newspaper data as said digitized information data to a format having: a header file containing headings attached to respective news items of the newspaper data, an element file containing element information representing substantial contents of the newspaper data for display, and a layout file containing layout information defining, by page, a display layout of the element information in each of said element files corresponding to the headings in said header file, and wherein said control means operates according to a first mode for displaying a list of the headings contained in said header file, and a second mode for displaying, by page, all the element information in the element file, in response to an operational command received by said input means that designates one of the displayed headings, according to the layout information in the layout file corresponding to the designated heading.

Claim 3

An information dispatching system as defined in claim 1, wherein along with the information data, said broadcast means broadcasts, through a radio channel, software to be utilized with said information data; wherein said reception means receives the broadcasted software with the information data; and wherein said record means records the received software with the information data in a portable storage medium.

Claim 4

An information dispatching system as defined in claim 2, wherein: said information offering office includes encryption means for encrypting the information data by the use of a specified cryptic key prior to broadcast, and means for affixing terminal identifiers, respective receiving terminals permitted to receive the information data, to the specified cryptic key, and then causing said broadcast means to broadcast the cryptic key bearing the terminal identifiers; and each of said receiving terminals includes means for storing its own terminal identifier therein, means for storing the received cryptic key therein when said reception means has received said specified cryptic key bearing the stored terminal identifier, and decryption means for decrypting said received information data by the use of the stored cryptic key.

Claim 5

An information dispatching system as defined in claim 2, further comprising: at least one service office which includes means for storing a predetermined cryptic key therein, and means for bestowing the stored cryptic key on the receiving terminal in compliance with an access of said receiving terminal to said service office through a public network; said information offering office including encryption means for encrypting the information data to-be-broadcasted by the use of the predetermined cryptic key; and each of said receiving terminals including means for acquiring said predetermined cryptic key by access to said service office through the public network, means for storing the acquired cryptic key therein, and decryption means for decrypting said received information data by the use of the stored cryptic key.

Claim 6

An information dispatching system as defined in claim 2, wherein: said information offering office includes means for affixing management information expressive of an attribute of the information data to the information data to be broadcasted, and means for affixing terminal identifiers, of the respective receiving terminals permitted to utilize the information data of the specified attribute to said specified attribute of said information data, and then causing said broadcast means to broadcast the specified attribute bearing the terminal identifiers; and each of said receiving terminals includes means for storing its own terminal identifier therein, means for storing the received attribute therein when said reception means has received said specified attribute bearing the stored terminal identifier, and means for causing said record means to record said received information data in said storage medium, only when the management information affixed to said received information data is matched with the stored attribute.

Claim 7

An information dispatching system as defined in claim 2, wherein: said information offering office includes means for affixing management information expressive of an attribute of the information data to the document information to be broadcasted; an attribute of the information data recordable in said portable storage medium is prerecorded in said portable storage medium; and each of said receiving terminals includes means for causing said record means to record said received document information in said storage medium, only when the management information affixed to said received information data is matched with the attribute recorded in said portable storage medium; and said portable storage medium is set in said record means.

Claim 8

An information dispatching system as defined in claim 2, wherein each of said receiving terminals further includes a memory card driver, means for managing a history of the records of the information data in said portable storage medium, and means for writing the managed history into a memory card set in said memory card driver, on a predetermined event.

Claim 9

An information dispatching system as defined in claim 7, further comprising portable charging terminals each of which includes a second memory card driver, means for calculating a fee for subscription of the document information by said receiving terminal which has written the history into said memory card set in said second memory card driver, and an output device for indicating the calculated fee.

Claim 10

An information dispatching system as defined in claim 1, wherein: said information offering office includes encryption means for encrypting the information data by the use of a specified cryptic key prior to broadcast, and means for affixing terminal identifiers, respective receiving terminals permitted to receive the information data, to the specified cryptic key, and then causing said broadcast means to broadcast the cryptic key bearing the terminal identifiers; and each of said receiving terminals includes means for storing its own terminal identifier therein, means for storing the received cryptic key therein when said reception means has received said specified cryptic key bearing the stored terminal identifier, and decryption means for decrypting said received information data by the use of the stored cryptic key.

Claim 11

An information dispatching system as defined in claim 1, further comprising: at least one service office which includes means for storing a predetermined cryptic key therein, and means for bestowing the stored cryptic key on the receiving terminal in compliance with an access of said receiving terminal to said service office through a public network; said information offering office including encryption means for encrypting the information data to-be-broadcasted by the use of the predetermined cryptic key; and each of said receiving terminals including means for acquiring said predetermined cryptic key by access to said service office through the public network, means for storing the acquired cryptic key therein, and decryption means for decrypting said received information data by the use of the stored cryptic key.

Claim 12

An information dispatching system as defined in claim 1, wherein: said information offering office includes means for affixing management information expressive of an attribute of the information data to the information data to be broadcasted, and means for affixing terminal identifiers, of the respective receiving terminals permitted to utilize the information data of the specified attribute to said specified attribute of said information data, and then causing said broadcast means to broadcast the specified attribute bearing the terminal identifiers; and each of said receiving terminals includes means for storing its own terminal identifier therein, means for storing the received attribute therein when said reception means has received said specified attribute bearing the stored terminal identifier, and means for causing said record means to record said received information data in said storage medium, only when the management information affixed to said received information data is matched with the stored attribute.

Claim 13

An information dispatching system as defined in claim 1, wherein: said information offering office includes means for affixing management information expressive of an attribute of the information data to the information data to be broadcasted; an attribute of the information data recordable in said storage medium is prerecorded in said storage medium; each of said receiving terminals includes means for causing said record means to record said received document information in said storage medium, only when the management information affixed to said received information data is matched with the attribute recorded in said storage medium; and said storage medium is set in said record means.

Claim 14

An information dispatching system as defined in claim 1, wherein each of said receiving terminals further includes a memory card driver, means for managing a history of the records of the information data in said storage medium, and means for writing the managed history into a memory card set in said memory card driver, on a predetermined event.

Claim 15

An information dispatching system as defined in claim 13, further comprising portable charging terminals each of which includes a second memory card driver, means for calculating a fee for subscription of the document information by said receiving terminal which has written the history into said memory card set in said second memory card driver, in accordance with the written history in said memory card, and an output device for indicating the calculated fee.

Claim 16

An information dispatching system as defined in claim 1, wherein said edited information data further include a directory file containing distinguishing information capable of identifying the edited information data from other information data, said receiving terminal receives and records a plurality of information data, and said control means further operates according to a third mode for displaying a list of the distinguishing information in the directory file stored by said record means, and in response to an operational command received by said input means designating one of the displayed distinguishing information in the directory file, a list of the headings in the header file of the information data containing said designated distinguishing information is displayed in said first mode.

Claim 17

An information dispatching system as defined in claim 1, wherein said control means further operates according to a third mode for displaying information corresponding to a specific area, in response to an operational command, received by said input means, designating the specific area of the element information displayed on said display screen.

Claim 18

An information dispatching system as defined in claim 1, wherein said information offering office includes a motion-picture CODEC, a still-picture CODEC and a voice CODEC, said element information in said element file contains motion-picture data, still-picture data and voice data, which have been coded respectively by the motion-picture CODEC, the still-picture CODEC and the voice CODEC, said receiving terminal includes a motion-picture decoder, a still-picture decoder and a voice decoder, and said control means decodes the coded motion-picture data, the coded still-picture data and the coded voice data by said motion-picture decoder, said still-picture decoder and said voice decoder, respectively, so as to display or reproduce the respective decoded data.

Claim 19

An information dispatching system as defined in claim 1, wherein said broadcasted information data contain a displayed specific area of the element information in the element file, which is related to one of a header file and an element file of other broadcasted information data, and said control means further includes a mode for displaying said one of a header file and an element file relating to said specific area, in response to the operational command designating the specific area of the element information being displayed on said display screen.

Claim 20

An information dispatching system as defined in claim 1, wherein a displayed specific area of said element information is related to a program, and said control means further includes a mode for executing the program relating to the displayed specific area, in response to an operational command received by said input means, designating the specific area of the element information being displayed on said display screen.

Claim 21

An information dispatching system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said broadcast means broadcasts the edited information through a radio channel.

Claim 22

An information dispatching system comprising a central office, a plurality of local offices and a plurality of receiving terminals, wherein: said central office includes means for electronically creating first newspaper data, and means for transmitting the created first newspaper data to the individual local offices; each of said local offices includes means for electronically creating second newspaper data, means for receiving said first newspaper data from said central office, means for creating third newspaper data into which the received first newspaper data and the second newspaper data individually created by the pertinent local office are electronically edited, and means for broadcasting the created third newspaper data through a radio channel; and each of the receiving terminals includes means for receiving the third newspaper data broadcasted from a specified one of said local offices, record means for recording the received third newspaper data, control means for selectively displaying the recorded third newspaper data on a display screen, and input means for receiving an operational command from a user; wherein said means for creating third newspaper data edit said first and second said newspaper data to a format having: a header file containing headings attached to respective news items of the newspaper data, an element file containing element information representing substantial contents of the newspaper data for display, and a layout file containing layout information defining, by page, a display layout of the element information in each of said element files, corresponding to the headings in said header file; and wherein said control means operates according to a first mode for displaying a list of the headings contained in said header file, and a second mode for displaying, by page, all the element information in the element file, in response to an operational command received by said input means that designates one of the displayed headings, according to the layout information of the layout file corresponding to the designated heading.

Claim 23

An information dispatching system comprising a central office, a plurality of local offices and a plurality of receiving terminals, wherein: said central office includes means for electronically creating first newspaper data, and means for transmitting the created first newspaper data to the individual local offices; each of said local offices includes means for electronically creating second newspaper data, means for receiving said first newspaper data from said central office, means for creating third newspaper data into which the received first newspaper data and the second newspaper data individually created by the pertinent local office are electronically edited, and means for broadcasting the created third newspaper data through a radio channel; and each of the receiving terminals includes means for receiving the third newspaper data broadcasted from a specified one of said local offices, record means for recording the received third newspaper data, control means for selectively displaying the recorded third newspaper data on a display screen, and input means for receiving an operational command from a user; wherein said means for creating third newspaper data edit said first and second said newspaper data to a format having: a header file containing headings attached to respective news items of the newspaper data, an element file containing element information representing substantial contents of the newspaper data for display, and a layout file containing layout information defining, by page, a display layout of the element information in each of said element files, corresponding to the headings in said header file; and wherein said control means operates according to a first mode for displaying a list of the headings contained in said header file, and a second mode for displaying, by page, all the element information in the element file, in response to an operational command received by said input means that designates one of the displayed headings, according to the layout information of the layout file corresponding to the designated heading.

Claim 24

An information dispatching system as defined in claim 21, wherein: said record means of each of said receiving terminals records said third newspaper data in a portable storage medium which is set in said record means; and said information dispatching system further comprises portable read terminals each of which includes read means for reading said third newspaper data from one of said portable storage media, means for reconstructing an image of a newspaper which is expressed by said third newspaper data read from said portable storage medium, and means for displaying the reconstructed image of the newspaper.

Claim 25

An information dispatching system comprising a central office, a plurality of local offices and a plurality of receiving terminals, wherein: each of said local offices includes means for electronically creating first newspaper data, and means for transmitting the created first newspaper data to said central office; said central office includes means for electronically creating second newspaper data, means for receiving the plurality of first newspaper data transmitted from the plurality of local offices, means for affixing management information items by which said plurality of first newspaper data are respectively identified, and means for broadcasting said second newspaper data and the plurality of first newspaper data bearing the management information items, respectively, through a radio channel; and each of the receiving terminals includes means for storing therein identification information of at least one of said first newspaper data as is utilized by the pertinent home terminal itself, means for receiving the broadcasted second newspaper data and the broadcasted first newspaper data bearing the management information item, record means for recording the received second newspaper data and the received first newspaper data bearing said management information item which matches with the stored identification information, control means for selectively displaying the recorded newspaper data on a display screen, and input means for receiving an operational command from a user, wherein said central office edits said second newspaper data to a format having; a header file containing headings attached to respective news items of the second newspaper data, an element file containing element information representing substantial contents of the second newspaper data for display, and a layout file containing layout information defining, by page, a display layout of the element information in each of said element files corresponding to the headings in said header file, and wherein said control means operates according to a first mode of displaying a list of the headings contained in said header file, and a second mode for displaying, by page, all the element information in the element file, in response to an operational command received by said input means that designates one of the displayed headings, according to the layout information of the layout file corresponding to the designated heading.

Claim 26

An information dispatching system comprising a central office, a plurality of local offices and a plurality of receiving terminals, wherein: each of said local offices includes means for electronically creating first newspaper data, and means for transmitting the created first newspaper data to said central office; said central office includes means for electronically creating second newspaper data, means for receiving the plurality of first newspaper data transmitted from the plurality of local offices, means for affixing management information items by which said plurality of first newspaper data are respectively identified, and means for broadcasting said second newspaper data and the plurality of first newspaper data bearing the management information items, respectively, through a radio channel; and each of the receiving terminals includes means for storing therein identification information of at least one of said first newspaper data as is utilized by the pertinent home terminal itself, means for receiving the broadcasted second newspaper data and the broadcasted first newspaper data bearing the management information item, record means for recording the received second newspaper data and the received first newspaper data bearing said management information item which matches with the stored identification information, control means for selectively displaying the recorded newspaper data on a display screen, and input means for receiving an operational command from a user, wherein said central office edits said second newspaper data to a format having; a header file containing headings attached to respective news items of the second newspaper data, an element file containing element information representing substantial contents of the second newspaper data for display, and a layout file containing layout information defining, by page, a display layout of the element information in each of said element files corresponding to the headings in said header file, and wherein said control means operates according to a first mode of displaying a list of the headings contained in said header file, and a second mode for displaying, by page, all the element information in the element file, in response to an operational command received by said input means that designates one of the displayed headings, according to the layout information of the layout file corresponding to the designated heading.

Claim 27

An information dispatching system as defined in claim 22, wherein: said record means of each of said receiving terminals records said first and second newspaper data in a portable storage medium which is set in said record means; and said information dispatching system further comprises portable read terminals each of which includes read means for reading said second newspaper data from one of said portable storage media, means for reconstructing an image of a newspaper which is expressed by said second newspaper data read from said portable storage medium, and means for displaying the reconstructed image of the newspaper.

Claim 28

An information offering office including edit means for editing digitized newspaper data and broadcast means for broadcasting the edited newspaper data through a radio channel, wherein said edit means edits the newspaper data to a format having: a header file containing headings attached to respective news items of the newspaper data, an element file containing element information representing substantial contents of the newspaper data for display, and a layout file containing layout information defining, by page, a display layout of the element information in each of said element files, corresponding to the headings in said header file.

Claim 29

An information offering office including edit means for editing digitized newspaper data and broadcast means for broadcasting the edited newspaper data through a radio channel, wherein said edit means edits the newspaper data to a format having: a header file containing headings attached to respective news items of the newspaper data, an element file containing element information representing substantial contents of the newspaper data for display, and a layout file containing layout information defining, by page, a display layout of the element information in each of said element files, corresponding to the headings in said header file.

Claim 30

A receiving terminal displaying newspaper data broadcasted from an information offering office through a radio channel, comprising: reception means for receiving the broadcasted newspaper data, the broadcasted newspaper data having been edited to a form including a header file containing headings attached to each news item of the newspaper data, an element file containing element information representing substantial contents of the newspaper data for display, and a layout file containing layout information defining, by page, a display layout of the element information in each of said element files, corresponding to the headings in said header file, record means for recording the received newspaper data, control means for selectively displaying the recorded newspaper data on a display screen, and input means for receiving an operational command from a user; wherein said control means operates according to a first mode for displaying a list of the headings contained in said header file, and a second mode for displaying, by page, all the element information in the element file, in response to an operational command received by said input means, designating one of the displayed headings, according to the layout information of the layout file corresponding to the heading.

Claim 31

A receiving terminal displaying newspaper data broadcasted from an information offering office through a radio channel, comprising: reception means for receiving the broadcasted newspaper data, the broadcasted newspaper data having been edited to a form including a header file containing headings attached to each news item of the newspaper data, an element file containing element information representing substantial contents of the newspaper data for display, and a layout file containing layout information defining, by page, a display layout of the element information in each of said element files, corresponding to the headings in said header file, record means for recording the received newspaper data, control means for selectively displaying the recorded newspaper data on a display screen, and input means for receiving an operational command from a user; wherein said control means operates according to a first mode for displaying a list of the headings contained in said header file, and a second mode for displaying, by page, all the element information in the element file, in response to an operational command received by said input means, designating one of the displayed headings, according to the layout information of the layout file corresponding to the heading.

Claim 38

A recording medium in which newspaper data are recorded, wherein the recorded newspaper data are edited to a form including a header file containing headings attached to each news item of the newspaper data, an element file containing element information representing substantive contents of the newspaper data for display, and a layout file containing layout information defining, by page, a display layout of the element information in each of said element files, corresponding to the headings in said header file.

Claim 39

A recording medium in which newspaper data are recorded, wherein the recorded newspaper data are edited to a form including a header file containing headings attached to each news item of the newspaper data, an element file containing element information representing substantive contents of the newspaper data for display, and a layout file containing layout information defining, by page, a display layout of the element information in each of said element files, corresponding to the headings in said header file.