| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the following problems; since network speed increases by leaps and bounds in recent years, in the case of obtaining information through an image information service, for example, although there is a great difference in quality between monochrome and color images in spite of the same picture source, there is not a great difference in the utilization charge because of accounting for utilization per unit time in the conventional service, and copy service in a convenience store, etc., obtains profit by the number of copies, and although an increase in the number of copies is expected by adding the information service using the Internet, if only the benefit according to an information service is given to the information service, the information provider cannot obtain the benefit caused by an increase in the utilization of service. SOLUTION: The present invention is made in view of the above problem, and in the system relating the information service using the Internet, utilization charge is calculated according to the amount of information, and in a copy service system, the rate according to the number of copies is also added to the utilization charge. |
