Information processing method

Abstract

an information processing method in which an electronic device embedded in footwear or attached to the footwear. The footwear having a communicator configured to communicate with one or more external terminals executes an authentication step of authenticating, whether or not a user wearing the footwear is an authorized user, an acquisition step of acquiring at least a payment request of a reward for the user wearing the footwear from the one or more external terminals via the communicator when the authentication has succeeded, an acceptance step of accepting the acquired payment request in accordance with a prescribed action performed by the user, and a transmission step of transmitting an acceptance result to the one or more external terminals via the communicator.

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