Privilege granting method and privilege granting device

• Main Author: Shimizu, Tooru
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 23.05.2023
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; 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

A settlement device includes an application reception unit that associates and stores a user ID for specifying a user and application information indicating an application to grant a privilege at the time of purchase of a target commodity in a storage unit when the user ID and the application information are acquired, a token generation unit that generates a settlement token and transmits the settlement token to a user terminal when a request for acquiring the user ID and a settlement code is received from a user terminal, a settlement information reception unit that is configured to receive the settlement information used to perform settlement of commodities, the settlement token, and privilege target commodity information for specifying a commodity which is a privilege target from a store terminal that is configured to read the settlement code according to the settlement token, and a privilege granting unit that is configured to grant the privilege corresponding to application information to the user when the application information associated with the user ID corresponding to the received settlement token corresponds to the received privilege target commodity information.