Appeal No. 1999-2379 Application 08/716,061 BACKGROUND The disclosed invention relates to a commercial sending system for sending a commercial from a broadcasting station that detects when commercial material (CM) on a "send list" (a list of CM to be sent, also called a "play list") has not been recorded and adds the record information for the non-recorded CM to a "record list" (a list of CM to be stored). Claim 1 is reproduced below. 1. A commercial sending system for sending a commercial from a broadcasting station, the system comprising: commercial material recording/storing means for recording and storing a commercial material: [sic, ";"] record list storing means for storing a record list including record information of the commercial material stored in said commercial material recording/storing means; send list storing means for storing a send list including send information of the commercial material sent from said commercial material recording/storing means; a commercial material database composed of storage information of the commercial material stored in said commercial material recording/storing means; detecting means for comparing the send list stored in said send list storing means and the storage information of said commercial material database and - 3 -Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007