Fecha de publicación: -- Fuente: Wipo "digitalization" In cases where a consumer desires to receive digitalcontent from a digital content retailer through a network,information designating the digital content and a digitalcontent transmission condition such as a transfer rate anda transmission time-zone are sent to the digital contentretailer through the network. The digital content retailerreserves the transfer rate and the transmission time-zonein the network and downloads the digital content to theconsumer through the network at the digital contenttransmission condition according to the reservation. After the downloading of the digital content is completed,the consumer pays a charge for the digital content itselfand a transmission charge corresponding to the digitalcontent transmission condition to a credit company, thecredit company pays the charges to the digital contentretailer, and the digital content retailer pays thetransmission charge to a network operator managing thenetwork. Therefore, the consumer can specify a timecondition like the transmission time-zone for thedownloading of the digital content. Also, because it isnot required that the consumer directly pays thetransmission charge to the network operator, the paymentof the consumer can be efficiently performed.