INFORMATION DISTRIBUTING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information distributing method by which a receiver receives information in a desired period and an information distributor efficiently charges and distributes information by deciding the accounting amount of information in accordance with the period when the receiver receives information. SOLUTION: A user 33 designates the obtaining of desired contents data 6. Designated information is transmitted to an accounting center 54 as accounting information selecting information 58a. The information 58 is given to a contents information center 4. The accounting center 54 transmits an usage table 58b as information concerning usage charge (the charging amount) to information receiving equipment 200. Then the usage charge is displayed on a screen, based on a selected condition. The usage charge is displayed by distributing accounting information 41 having information concerning the usage charge from the contents information center 4 to the user 33. Therefore, information distributed to the receiver is charged in accordance with the period which is desired by the receiver to receive information.