Treatment manner of the electronic currency in the digital broadcast system and the digital broadcast system, and the broadcast center which

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a digital broadcast system allowing the settlement using electronic money stored in an IC card, a method of using electronic money, a receiving terminal, the IC card, an electronic money using program, and a computer-readable recording medium with records of the electronic money using program in the digital broadcast system. PSOLUTION: The IC card 150 has a memory for storing information about electronic money, the receiving terminal 130 has a means for transmitting information about processing of electronic money stored in the memory of the IC card 150 to a customer management center 170 over the public telephone network 160, and this center 170 has a means for receiving information transmitted from the receiving terminal 130, thereby executing instructed processes. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO