SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR DISTRIBUTION OF INFORMATION ON A COMMUNICATION NETWORK

摘要

A communications system includes a plurality of recipient processors located at remote locations with respect to each other and connected to an information provider processor (12) over a communication network. The provider (12) and recipient (124) processors may communicate through the Internet (18). The provider processor (12) can provide information from any suitable source over a communication network. However, access to the information by the recipient processors is controlled based on the geographic location or region of the recipient processors (124). Each recipient processor is operably associated with a positioning system, such as a global positioning system GPS (130, 126) to provide its location. The location information is used to determine whether or not the processor requesting the information is within a restricted or non-restricted region. This determination may be made by comparing the geographic information of the recipient processor with a list of non-restricted or restricted geographic locations or regions.