A system for information on demand, including respective control means

摘要

The present invention provides a system for serving information, comprising: one or more storage medium units having a plurality of storage media; a plurality of end devices connected to the storage medium units, each of which has input means and display means, wherein the end devices output demand data requested to selected information data; controlling means for controlling the storage medium units and the end devices, said control means comprising first control means (SMM) and second control means (SMG), wherein the second control means control a down-load operation of down-loadable software program data from the controlling means to the end devices and/or storage medium units at the beginning of an information on demand service, and outputs that request for assignment of the storage medium to the first control means. <IMAGE>