Apparatus and method for providing services with a blockchain system
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorTakuma KASAMATSU
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Abstract
An apparatus for providing services, includes: circuitry that: receive, from a communication terminal of a user, a request for obtaining a particular item of one or more items provided by one or more service providers, information on the one or more items being managed on a blockchain system; transmits, to the blockchain system, a request for changing information on a use right of the particular item to indicate transfer of the use right to the user; and provides the particular item to the communication terminal of the user having the use right of the particular item.
Claims16
An apparatus for providing services, comprising:
- circuitry configured to:
- receive, from a communication terminal of a user, a request for obtaining a particular item of one or more items provided by one or more service providers, information on the one or more items being managed on a blockchain system;
- transmit, to the blockchain system, a request for changing information on a use right of the particular item to indicate transfer of the use right to the user;
- and
- provide the particular item to the communication terminal of the user having the use right of the particular item.
A system for providing services, comprising:
- circuitry configured to:
- receive, from a communication terminal of a user, a request for obtaining a particular item of one or more items provided by one or more service providers, information on the one or more items being managed on a blockchain system;
- transmit, to the blockchain system, a request for changing information on a use right of the particular item to indicate transfer of the use right to the user;
- and
- provide the particular item to the communication terminal of the user having the use right of the particular item.
A method of providing services, comprising:
- receiving, from a communication terminal of a user, a request for obtaining a particular item of one or more items provided by one or more service providers, information on the one or more items being managed on a blockchain system;
- transmitting, to the blockchain system, a request for changing information on a use right of the particular item to indicate transfer of the use right to the user;
- and
- providing the particular item to the communication terminal of the user having the use right of the particular item.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.