Fujitsu Corporation

Masao Fujiwara

Takayuki Hasebe

Seigo Kotani

Naoya Torii

Makoto Yoshioka

Keiichi Murakami

Kouichi Kanamoto

Shinichi Yoshimoto

Michihiro Miyasaka

Haruhiko Tsunoda

Sekio Ikeda

Shigeta Akihiko

Yuka Egashira

Nobuo Oka

Tokimori Tomita

Masakazu Yamashita

Mamoru Matsumoto

Shuji Morita

Yasumasa Hiroshima

Satoshi Tomari

Tatsuro Masuda

A service point management system employs a computer for managing points issued to each customer who receives service according to the points. A point issue unit issues points to the customer according to transactions performed by the customer. A point accumulation unit calculates and accumulates the issued points. A point notification unit notifies the customer of point information. A customer identification unit identifies the customer according to customer identification data entered through a customer or store terminal. The point notification unit notifies the customer identified by the customer identification unit of the customer's cumulative point information before the customer carries out transactions.

Service point management system for use in sales promotion services

A service system in an online shopping mall established through a network realizes an improvement of a service to a customer by not having to carry a magnetic card and shortening a time from issuing points to redeeming points. To attain the objects of the system, a points issuing unit issues points corresponding to the purchase amount of a customer. A points storage device stores the number of points accumulated by the customer. A points redeeming unit reduces a purchase amount of the customer as points to be redeemed. A points issue ratio and a points redeeming ratio can be set for each shop forming part of the online shopping mall.

Point-service system in online shopping mall

The CPU in the processing unit of an external storage device transmits data between an information processing device and a storage medium, determines whether or not the information processing device can access the storage medium of the external storage device, decrypts data encrypted in the storage medium, etc. using a program loaded into RAM through an interface or a read/write unit. Changing the data loaded into the RAM efficiently and flexibly guarantees the security of the data stored on the storage medium.

Apparatus and method for controlling storage medium using security

There is provided a system for refunding payment for software applied to a software distribution system comprising at least one user terminal and a center. The center notifys the user terminal of the deciphering information on condition that a user of the user terminal pays for the software which is supplied to the user terminal in a enciphered form. Then, the user terminal decipheres the enciphered software by using the deciphering information. The refunding system comprises an installation monitoring unit 38a that records whether the software is installed legally and normally. When the user requests the center to refund the paymenet for the software, a refund request unit 38b of the user terminal notifies the center of the installation history along with the refund request. The center determines whether the installation history contains a data indicating that the installing operation of the software is accomplished normally. The payment for the software is refunded to the user only when an installation accomplishment information is not contained in the installation history.

System for refunding payment for software

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Kawasaki, Japan

Masao Fujiwara