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US 2016/0078509 A1Published application
Apparatus, system, and method of managing transactions of electronic books
OwnerKenta YAMANOinventor
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Abstract
A server at an e-book sales agency generates and transmits an order of purchasing an e-book to a server at an e-book store on behalf of the user using authentication information of the user for the e-book store, and updates charge fee information to be used for calculating an amount of fee that is charged to the e-book store by the e-book sales agency.
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An e-book sales agency server apparatus at an e-book sales agency, coupled to an e-book store server apparatus at an e-book store on a network, the server apparatus comprising:
- a memory that stores, for each one of a plurality of users, first authentication information of the user for authentication by the e-book sales agency, and second authentication information of the user for authentication by the e-book store;
- a receiver that receives, from a user terminal operated by a first user of the plurality of users, first authentication information of the first user for authentication by the e-book sales agency;
- processing circuitry that obtains e-book identification information for identifying an e-book, and obtains second authentication information of the first user for authentication by the e-book store using information stored in the memory;
- a transmitter that transmits an order of purchasing the e-book having the obtained e-book identification information to the e-book store server apparatus at the e-book store on behalf of the first user using the second authentication information of the first user, and
- wherein, in response to receiving information indicating that the electronic book having the obtained e-book identification information is purchased by the first user from the e-book store, the processing circuitry updates charge fee information to be used for calculating an amount of fee that is charged to the e-book store by the e-book sales agency.
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A system for managing transactions of e-books, the system comprising:
- a first server at an e-book sales agency, the first server including a memory that stores, for each one of a plurality of users, first authentication information of the user for authentication by the e-book sales agency, and second authentication information of the user for authentication by the e-book store;
- and
- a second server at an e-book store on a network,
- wherein the first server and the second server operate in cooperation with each other and configured to
- receive, from a user terminal operated by a first user of the plurality of users, first authentication information of the first user for authentication by the e-book sales agency,
- obtain e-book identification information for identifying an e-book,
- obtain second authentication information of the first user for authentication by the e-book store using information stored in the memory of the first server,
- generate an order of purchasing the e-book having the obtained e-book identification information at the e-book store on behalf of the first user using the second authentication information of the first user, and
- in response to receiving information indicating that the electronic book having the obtained e-book identification information is purchased by the first user from the e-book store, update charge fee information to be used for calculating an amount of fee that is charged to the e-book store by the e-book sales agency.
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A method of managing transactions of e-books, comprising:
- storing in a memory, for each one of a plurality of users, first authentication information of the user for authentication by the e-book sales agency, and second authentication information of the user for authentication by the e-book store;
- receiving, from a user terminal operated by a first user of the plurality of users, first authentication information of the first user for authentication by the e-book sales agency;
- obtaining e-book identification information for identifying an e-book;
- obtaining second authentication information of the first user for authentication by the e-book store using information stored in the memory;
- transmitting an order of purchasing the e-book having the obtained e-book identification information to a server at the e-book store on behalf of the first user using the second authentication information of the first user;
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- in response to receiving information indicating that the electronic book having the obtained e-book identification information is purchased by the first user from the e-book store, updating charge fee information to be used for calculating an amount of fee that is charged to the e-book store by the e-book sales agency.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.