IC card
AssigneeDai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
InventorsTeruaki Shiro, Taichi Kaneko, Eiji Hirosawa
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Abstract
A use information judging means compares use information recorded in use information recording means with a predetermined condition value to judge whether or not the use information agrees with the predetermined condition value. When the use information judges that the use information agrees with the condition value, rewriting means rewrites content information stored in content information storing means. The use information can include an accumulated used amount of money or use times. The content information can include a royalty service rate, a premium rate or a limit of usable amount of money.
Claims8
An IC card comprising:
- use information recording means for recording use information of an IC card;
- content information storage means for storing content information of the IC card;
- use information judging means for comparing the use information of the IC card recorded by the use information recording means with a predetermined condition value of use information, and judging whether the recorded use information of the IC card agrees with the predetermined condition value;
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- rewriting means for rewriting the content information stored in the content information storage means when the use information judging means judges that the recorded use information of the IC card agrees with the determined condition value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.