US 2002/0178129 A1 · Lease-business support apparatus, lease-business support method, recording medium containing program for operating the lease-business support apparatus, and recording medium containing program for executing the lease-business support method

Lease-business support apparatus, lease-business support method, recording medium containing program for operating the lease-business support apparatus, and recording medium containing program for executing the lease-business support method

OwnerKatsunori Horimoto, Kunihiro Takeda +18inventors

InventorsKatsunori Horimoto, Kunihiro Takeda, Hitomi Nemoto, Mitsuyoshi Uchida, Osamu Kawabata, Toru Endo, Yoshihisa Tsuji, Shuji Shimada, Masayuki Enari, Hironori Kato, Yoko Toyoda, Hisahito Gondo, Hisayoshi Nakagome, Aritomo Sakamoto, Hideyasu Kokubo, Toshiaki Nagai, Kiyotaka Iwamoto, Kazuo Hotta, Yutaka Okazaki, Hisao Myoga

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Abstract

A lease-business support apparatus collects latest information from a brand-new-sales-company terminal, a secondhand-sales-company terminal, a leasing-company terminal, and a maintenance-company terminal which are related to lease business. By performing quality management and appropriate fixed-period-sales-price calculation based on the latest information, the lease-business support apparatus provides each customer terminal with appropriate lease-business information. This makes it possible to inexpensively lease a high-quality item.

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Dependent claims

A lease-business support apparatus comprising

means in which lease-business-information-generating data is stored, wherein the lease-business-information-generating data is used to generate the fixed-period sales price of an item, and lease-business information including the fixed-period. sales price is provided to at least one customer terminal connected to said lease-business support apparatus in response to a request from said at least one customer terminal.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.