SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PATENT LICENSE FEE COLLECTION, AND ENCODING DEVICE AND DECODING DEVICE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a patent license fee collection system which can properly collect a patent license fee.;SOLUTION: The patent license fee collection system is a system which collects the patent license fee from a dealer or manufacturer by a patent license managing company 1 and allots the license fee to the patentees. The patent license managing company 1 has a patent database 10 which stores information regarding registered patents, a key database 11 which stores key data for ciphering determined by patent groups, and a computer 12; and the computer 12 when receiving information regarding the constitution of coded software retrieves corresponding patent information from the patent database 10, requests the dealer or manufacturer of the encoded software to pay for the patent license fee according to the retrieval result, and sends out patent license information according to the answers to the payment answered by dealer or manufacturer.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2002,JPO