US 2003/0200110 A1Published application

Interindividual settlement support method

AssigneeNifty Corporation

InventorsNaohiro Munechika, Kinji Iwatate, Kanjiro Sato, Hiroshi Muramatsu, Motoharu Suzuki, Miyuki Yamazaki, Yuki Watabe

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Abstract

When a browser on a user terminal operated by a seller sends a file of a content to be sold or a link destination URL, indicating the location of the content and information designating its sale price and charging condition to a WWW server on a support server machine, a product registration CGI generates a unique product number, stores thus generated product number, the sale price and the charging condition, path to the file of the content to be sold or the link destination URL in a product information table with then corresponding to one another, issues a product URL including the generated product number and URL of the sale CGI, and sends the product URL to the user terminal. When a browser on a user terminal operated by the purchaser then sends this product URL to the WWW server, a sale CGI and charging system executes processes to charge the purchaser the sale price stored in the product information table corresponding to the product number in the product URL according to the charging condition and notifies the user terminal of the path to the file or the link destination URL.

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Dependent claims

An interindividual settlement support method for mediating in purchasing a content between individuals and for charging a purchaser its sale price via a network, said method comprising steps of:

enabling on a computer execution of a first program of processes for communicating with terminals to mediate in purchasing a content between individuals and a second program of processes for charging a purchaser sale price of the content;
wherein said first program makes the computer stores identification information, and information indicating a sale price and a charging condition for a content requested by a seller in a first storage device with them corresponding each other, and reads when receiving a purchase request designating the identification information from a terminal operated by a purchaser, information indicating the sale price and charging condition corresponding to this identification information from the first storage device to store a record including the the purchaser in a second storage device;
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wherein said second program makes the computer charge the purchaser indicated by the identification information the sale price indicated by the information according to the charging condition indicated by the information, said prices of information being included in same record stored in the second storage device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.