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The present invention relates to a data vending machine system and a method thereof, and in particular to a data vending machine system and a method thereof which are capable of selecting a certain music file, recording the selected music file onto a recording medium and printing a selected image an

The present invention relates to a data vending machine system and a method thereof, and in particular to a data vending machine system and a method thereof which are capable of selecting a certain music file, recording the selected music file onto a recording medium and printing a selected image and character message on a surface of the recording medium. The present invention includes a host computer for storing a digital music file and a plurality of remote data vending machine connected with the host computer. The data vending machine includes at least one listing and reserving apparatus for providing a reservation function of the music files selected by the customer, a database and fabrication control apparatus for storing a part of the music files stored in the host computer and recording the selected music file onto the recording medium, and a charge paying unit. There are further provided a main apparatus which performs the entire control operation of the data vending machine so that the music files selected by the customer is fabricated as one music album, and a network apparatus for thereby effectively managing the database of the remote data vending machine and minimizing the waiting time of the customer.

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[ What is claimed is:] [1.]1. In a data vending machine including a host computer and a plurality of remote data vending machine connected with the host computer via a communication network, said host computer, comprising:a first database for storing a plurality of digitalized data files;a managemen

[ What is claimed is:] [1.]1. In a data vending machine including a host computer and a plurality of remote data vending machine connected with the host computer via a communication network, said host computer, comprising:a first database for storing a plurality of digitalized data files;a management database for storing a management data including a list of data files stored therein by each data vending machine, a sold date of each data file, and a sold number of the same;a management data updating means for updating the management database in accordance with a management data transferred from the data vending machine;a deletion instruction message generation means for generating a message for instructing a deletion data file which will be deleted among the data files stored in the data vending machine with reference to the management data corresponding to the management database when a data file transfer request is received from the data vending machine; anda transferring means for transferring a data file requested from the data vending machine to the data vending machine together with a deletion message generated by the deletion instruction message generation means, each data vending machine, comprising:a second database for storing a part of the data files stored in the first database of the host computer;a listing and reserving means for providing a listing and selection function and a procurement reservation function of the lists of the data files stored in the first database stored in the host computer;a fabrication means for reading a data file selected by a customer from the second database of the data vending machine and recording the read data file onto a recording medium;a charge processing means for processing the charge for the cost of the data file; anda main control means for controlling the entire operations of the system, said main control means, comprising:a reservation information processing means for requesting a transfer of the data files which are not stored in the second database among the data files reserved by the listing and reserving means to the host computer;a database managing means for deleting the deletion instructed data file from the second database when a deletion request data file is received from the transfer means of the host computer together with the deletion instruction message and storing the received data file onto the second database;a procurement processing means for reading a data file selected by the customer from the second database and recording the read data file onto a recording medium by instructing to a fabrication means; anda selling information transfer means for storing a selling information related to the procurement data file of the customer and transferring to the host computer.