Appeal No. 2004-0174
Application No. 09/789,405
Appellants’ invention relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving
a decoding key encoded with specific information to decode encrypted information of a
record medium. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of
exemplary claim 70, which is reproduced below.
70. An information providing and collecting system comprising:
information transmitting means for establishing a connection
between an information providing side and an information collecting side;
transmitting and receiving means for transmitting and receiving
information between said information providing side and said information
collecting side through said information transmitting means;
information medium reading means for reading information of a
non-unique information medium having encoded information recorded
thereon;
key encoding means which uses a plurality of specific information
possessed by said information collecting side and transmitted from said
information collecting side so as to encode key information required to
decode said encoded information of the information medium, wherein said
plurality of specific information is non-specific to said information medium,
and includes a user ID, a user password and a medium reading apparatus
ID;
encoded-key decoding means located at the collecting side for
receiving encoded key information electronically transmitted from said
information providing side and for decoding the encoded key information
by using said specific information; and
encoded-information decoding means for decoding said encoded
information read from said information medium by using said decoded key
information.
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