摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system in which a video-on-demand system is realized even with a comparatively small investment monetary amount without the need for introduction of a large scale video server system or the like and a network resource is utilized effectively by relaxing concentration of traffic and rational charging is executed. SOLUTION: A subscriber terminal equipment ms sends a demand including at least information to identify its own subscriber terminal equipment, identification information for information on request and information relating to urgency of the information on request to an information distribution center HE. The information distribution center HE generates a distribution schedule of the information to be distributed based on the demand and executes the distribution of the information on request according to the distribution schedule as above. The subscriber terminal equipment ms receives and analyzes the outgoing control data from the information distribution center HE to recognize the distribution plan and acquires the distributed information based on the recognized distribution plan and stores the information to a large capacity storage means 12 and uses the information by reading it from the storage means 12. A charging means 6 makes charging of distribution depending on the urgency of distribution of information to expect it that the requests of delay distribution is increased thereby reducing the number of demands for a time zone for congested traffic. |