Specifications

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42 August 2004
encrypted, users cannot access it before the rights
have also arrived to the device. In this case, the
content can be freely distributed on the network,
only users with the rights file can access the con-
tent. Content providers can deliver the rights to the
user using push technology.
Downloading servers and publishing
servers
When using a mobile phone, the users do not have
to be aware of the network architecture. During a
content downloading session, typically many phys-
ical servers are involved. Sometimes transactions
may take place between different companies’ serv-
ers.
The actual content may be put on one server, the
downloading server. The content can be reached,
for example, through references from one or many
other servers, the publishing servers. The content
creator puts his or her content on the downloading
server through an interface to the content provider.
The user navigates to the publishing server and
selects the content, or rather a link to or description
of the content. The content is then downloaded
from the actual downloading server.
When content is downloaded to the device, opera-
tors generate revenues from the user via, for exam-
ple, their billing system. Operators might in their
turn be billed for rights by the content aggregator,
content provider or directly by the content creator.
Figure 4. The flow of revenues and content. The content is viewed and selected from a publishing server
and downloaded to the mobile phone from a downloading server. The revenue is in this case collected
from the user by the operator and transferred to the content creator via the content aggregator.
Publishing
server
Operator
Content
aggregator
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Revenue
Content Services
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Revenue
Background pictures
Screen savers
Films
Music
Ring signals
Content creator
Content provider
MMS
Other
delivery
methods
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Downloading
server