US 6,477,507 B2 · ONLINE COMMODITY MANAGEMENT, A SERVER SYSTEM APPLIED IN THE ONLINE COMMODITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, TERMINAL EQUIPMENT APPLIED IN THE ONLINE COMMODITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, A MANAGING METHOD IN THE ONLINE COMMODITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND A COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM WITH A PROGRAM MAKING A COMPUTER EXECUTE THE METHOD RECORDED THEREIN

Abstract

An online commodity management system in which processing for authorization is executed, when a request for purchase is made from a client to a server system, the request is verified for authorization by a credit authorizing/settling serve, and when the request for purchase is authorized to the purchaser as a result of the authorization, the desired contents and a serial number for identifying the contents and the purchaser are distributed from the server system to the client as a purchaser. With these operations, correlation between contents and the purchaser can be unified for management on the system. Then, when a report on completion of the purchase is transmitted from the client to the server system, the server system executes the processing for accounting with the purchaser.

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Dependent claims

An online commodity management system comprising:

a server system connected to a network for virtually constructing an electronic market formed with a plurality of contents on said network and providing controls for selling the contents and accounting for sold contents through said electronic market;
and
at least one terminal equipment connected to said network for getting access to said electronic market and providing controls for purchasing the contents;
wherein
said terminal equipment comprising:
a requesting unit for requesting desired contents to said server system in said electronic market constructed on said network;
a receiver for receiving said desired contents distributed from said server system upon the request by said requesting unit and a serial number, added to said contents and distributed, for identifying the contents and purchaser;
and
a storage for storing therein the desired contents and the serial number received by said receiver;
and
said server system comprising:
a serial number generator for generating said serial number correlating to said desired contents upon the request from said requesting unit;
a managing unit for managing a correlation between the serial number generated by said serial number generator and the contents;
and
a distributing unit for distributing to said terminal equipment data obtained by adding the serial number generated by said serial number generator to said desired contents requested by said requesting unit.

12 more elements

An online commodity management system comprising:

a server system connected to a network for virtually constructing an electronic market formed with a plurality of contents on said network and providing controls for selling the contents and accounting for sold contents based on an encoding system through said electronic market;
and
at least one terminal equipment connected to said network for accessing to said electronic market and providing controls for purchasing the contents that require decoding thereof;
wherein
said terminal equipment comprising:
a requesting unit for requesting desired contents to said server system in said electronic market constructed on said network;
a reporting unit for transmitting, when having received said desired contents by means of distribution from said server system upon the request by said requesting unit, a specified report to said server system;
and
a storage for storing therein, when a serial number for identifying said desired contents and purchaser distributed correlated to the contents received from said server system is received after said specified report is transmitted by said reporting unit, said received desired contents and said serial number correlated to each other;
and
said server system comprising:
a contents distributing unit for distributing said desired contents requested by said requesting unit in said terminal equipment thereto;
an accounting unit for executing accounting when said specified report is transmitted by said reporting unit after said desired contents is distributed by said content distributing unit;
a serial number generator for generating said serial number correlating to said desired contents distributed by said content distributing unit after the processing for accounting is executed by said accounting unit;
a managing unit for managing a correlation between the serial number generated by said serial number generator and the contents;
and
a serial number distributing unit for distributing the serial number generated by said serial number generator to said terminal equipment.

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Terminal equipment for an online commodity management system having:

a server system connected to a network for virtually constructing an electronic market formed with a plurality of electronically deliverable contents on said network and providing controls for selling the contents and accounting for sold contents based on an encoding system through said electronic market;
and
at least one terminal equipment connected to said network for accessing to said electronic market and providing controls for purchasing the contents that require decoding thereof;
and
said server system comprising:
a unit for executing the processing for accounting after the desired contents requested by said terminal equipment is distributed and distributing a serial number for identifying said contents and the purchaser correlating to said desired contents after the processing for accounting is executed;
said terminal equipment comprising:
a requesting unit for requesting desired contents to said server system in said electronic market constructed on said network;
a reporting unit for transmitting, when having received said desired contents by means of distribution from said server system upon the request by said requesting unit, a specified report to said server system;
and
a storage for storing therein, when a serial number distributed correlated to said desired contents received from said server system is received after said specified report is transmitted by said reporting unit, said received desired contents and said serial number correlated thereto.

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A managing method for an online commodity management system, said system having:

a server system connected to a network for virtually constructing an electronic market formed with a plurality of contents on said network and providing controls for selling the contents and accounting for sold contents based on an encoding system through said electronic market;
and
at least one terminal equipment connected to said network for getting access to said electronic market and providing controls for purchasing the contents that require decoding thereof;
said managing method comprising:
a first step of requesting desired contents from said terminal to said server system in said electronic market constructed on said network;
a second step of executing processing for accounting in said server system when said terminal receives said desired content from said server system upon the request in said first step;
a third step of transmitting a serial number for identifying said content correlated to said desired contents as well as the purchaser from said server system to said terminal after executing the processing for accounting in said second step;
and
a fourth step of managing said desired contents and the serial number correlating to each other in each of said terminal and said server system respectively.

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A computer readable recording medium with a program making a computer execute a managing method for an online commodity management system, said system having:

a server system connected to a network for virtually constructing an electronic market formed with a plurality of contents on said network and providing controls for selling the contents and accounting for sold contents based on an encoding system through said electronic market;
and
at least one terminal equipment connected to said network for getting access to said electronic market and providing controls for purchasing the contents that require decoding thereof:
said managing method comprising:
a first step of requesting desired contents from said terminal to said server system in said electronic market constructed on said network;
a second step of executing processing for accounting in said server system when said terminal receives said desired content from said server system upon the request in said first step;
a third step of transmitting a serial number for identifying said content correlated to said desired contents as well as the purchaser from said server system to said terminal after executing the processing for accounting in said second step;
and
a fourth step of managing said desired contents and the serial number correlating to each other in each of said terminal and said server system respectively.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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