Patent 7890608 was granted and assigned to Hitachi on February, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An electronic-data distribution system includes a distribution server transmitting a distributed article of electronic data to a distribution client. The distribution client includes a distribution-information requesting means and a distribution requesting means. The distribution server includes a distributed-article creating means, a distribution-information transmitting means transmitting to the distribution client, at least a part of distribution information as a distribution plan stored in a distribution-information DB provided in the distribution server, and a distributing means for transmitting a distributed article for which a transmission request is made to the distribution client.