US 7,065,504 B2 · Fee imposition system for application software

Abstract

Fee imposition system and method for application software, in which a software providing corporation can collect the fee without fail and charge a fair fee to a customer, and thereby the customer can use the application software with a paying method easy to estimate. The fee imposition system includes a server machine installed in a management center for managing the software, a client machine installed in a customer's office and connected with the server machine through a communication means, a ticket issue unit for issuing a ticket file on the basis of a predetermined fee schedule, and a data copy/writing unit for copying data corresponding to the information designated by the ticket file from a data source memory unit and recording the copied data on a data target memory unit.

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Dependent claims

A fee imposition system for application software in which the application software is executed based on a plurality of tables, comprising:

an input means for inputting a name of software that a customer wants to use, and a name of a table that the customer wants to use while using the software;
a ticket file issue means for issuing a ticket file based on a predetermined fee schedule according to a kind of the software and the table, and transmitting the ticket file to a client machine;
and
a data copy/writing means for copying data of the designated table from a data source memory unit storing a plurality of the tables, and writing the data of the designated table on a data target memory unit, based on information designated by the ticket file.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Fee imposition system for application software

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