Service provision system and method

• Main Authors: HIRAI, KATSUNORI, MINEO, AKIRA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 27.09.2000
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

There are provided an actual using result table to store purchase amounts in a shopping system and an operation threshold value table to store load thresholds used as criteria for determining whether to approve service provisioning, and when a request for an access to a service provisioning system is received, the actual using result table and the operation threshold value table are referred to, a load threshold is determined based on an actual using result, and it is determined whether to approve an access to the service provisioning system. The invention solves the problem created when a service provisioning system such as a shopping service system is highly loaded, since all users are unconditionally limited in the access to the service provisioning system, service provisioning conditions cannot be set on a user-by-user basis so that specific users are preferentially connected to the service provisioning system and other users are not.