US 6,856,966 B1Granted

Product delivery methods

AssigneeSeta Corp.

InventorJun Fujimoto

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Abstract

A method and system for delivering data, goods, or services, by which additional data such as purchase history data, purchaser inherent data and accounting data, which correspond to a purchaser, are recorded in a rewritable medium, to which primary data is, rewritten or reloaded, and by which a high-security system can be easily configured by collating such additional data with corresponding additional data recorded in a computer of a data deliverer or management company. A purchaser purchases a purchaser record medium, to which primary data is rewritten or reloaded, at a shop. Further, the purchaser deposits, namely, writes cash data representing a predetermined amount of money thereto. At that time, the purchaser also writes purchaser inherent data thereto. When primary data, goods, or services are requested, data recorded in the purchaser record medium is sent to the data deliverers or management companies through communication networks and collated with past data recorded in computers of the data deliverers or management companies. If matched, the primary data, goods or service is delivered from the data deliverer or the management company. Additional data is then recorded in the purchase record medium. Simultaneously, additional data relating to the primary data, goods or service is recorded in the computers of the data deliverers or management companies.

A data providing method for providing a purchaser with first data from a retail seller onto a rewritable record medium through a purchase request, the seller having a data providing system having a data delivery portion for delivering the first data to the purchaser and a data intermediate portion connected with the data delivery portion via a communication line for intermediating between the data delivery portion and the rewritable record medium of the purchaser, the method comprising:

recording, for the purchaser, second data onto the rewritable record medium, the second data representing identification information of the purchaser;
retrieving, for the seller, the second data from the rewritable record medium onto the data intermediate portion;
producing third data including purchase information on an available purchaser balance for purchasing the first data;
recording the third data onto the rewritable record medium as purchaser third data;
registering for the purchaser the third data in the data providing system as registered third data;
retrieving the registered third data of the purchaser from the data providing system based on the second data recorded in the rewritable record medium, when the purchaser makes the purchase request of the first data;
comparing a registered relevant portion of the registered third data with a purchaser relevant portion of the purchaser third data that corresponds to the registered relevant portion to determine matching between the corresponding relevant portions;
performing an accounting operation that provides the purchaser with the first data in response to matching between corresponding relevant portions, the accounting operation producing additional third data that represent the purchase information for purchasing the first data;
recording, from the data delivery portion onto the rewritable record medium, the first data and the additional third data, after the accounting operation is performed;
and
registering in the data providing system the additional third data, after the accounting operation is performed.

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Application

09/452,135Filed 1 Dec 1999 · continuation in part

Priority

JP 9-2143189 Aug 1997

Granted

15 Feb 2005

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Classification3 codes

G06Q 30/06
Commerce: buying, selling or leasing transactions
G06Q 20/202
Point-of-sale [POS] network systems: interconnection or interaction of plural electronic cash registers [ECR] or to host computer, e.g. network…
G06Q
Information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial

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