APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR CONTENT DISTRIBUTION

摘要

PURPOSE: An apparatus, a method, and a program for content distribution are provided to distribute a content and its usage rule to a content receiving terminal. CONSTITUTION: A news content receiving terminal transmits an identifier of a news content to be requested and a terminal capability level to a news content distribution server. A variation database manages variations of each content for every receiving terminal capability level. Based on the variation database, a variation to be distributed is determined. A meta database manages meta data of each content. A meta data interpreting section parses the meta data to obtain the variation to be transmitted. A usage rule database(104) manages usage rules for every set of a news content and the receiving terminal capability level. Based on the usage rule database(104), the usage rule to be distributed is determined.