ONLINE E-COMMERCE SYSTEM AND METHOD

• Main Authors: SUZUKI HIDEAKI, GOTO SHINICHIRO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 24.09.2004
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To ensure a reliable payment of charges to a service provider and transfer only necessary pieces of a user's personal information to agencies. SOLUTION: A service providing server 2S comprises a service providing part 2S1, a charging information recording part 2S2 and a deposit/sales management part 2S3, and accumulates information on a user 1 in user information 2SDB1. A billing part 4S1 of a bill collection server 4S creates billing information on the user 1 and accumulates it in billing information 4SDB4, as referring to user collection information 4SDB1, service provider information 4SDB2 and charging/clearing agency information 4SDB3. Information on a deposit is managed in deposit information 4SDB5. An ID management server 5S has an ID management part 5S1 that manages a common ID of the user as a common identification number and an ID issued by each agency as a user identification number, an ID issued to a service provider, and an ID issued to a bill collection agency. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI