PRINT OUTPUT LIMITING METHOD, CONTENT SERVER AND COMMUNICATION TERMINAL

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To limit the print output of the data of a work or the like distributed through a network in communication terminal equipment such as a portable telephone provided with a print output function. SOLUTION: In a server 12 accessible only from the specified kind of the communication terminal equipment, print attribute information is added to contents stored in the server 12 and distributed through the network 14 to the communication terminal equipment 10. In the communication terminal equipment 10, the print attribute information added to the received contents functions so as to limit the number of times that the contents can be printed in a printer 18.