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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2002
Yoshitsugu Hasumi, Saitama, JP;
Takashi Kawashima, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuo Imai, Tokyo, JP;
Hirofumi Hayaashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshitsugu Hasumi, Saitama, JP;
Takashi Kawashima, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuo Imai, Tokyo, JP;
Hirofumi Hayaashi, Kanagawa, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to an electronic-commerce assisting method capable of smoothly and securely conducting electronic commerce on a communication network, and to an electronic-commerce assisting server for realizing the same. The present invention is configured to have a communication terminal () for a person desiring to purchase a product, who connects to a cybershop () on a communication network () and who desires the purchase of a product using a credit card; an electronic-commerce server (), disposed in the cybershop (), for determining whether or not the electronic commerce should be concluded on the basis of the credit confirmation of the credit card; and an electronic-commerce assisting server () which requests the communication terminal () to transmit unique number data within the IC card () having a credit card function via the communication network (), which converts the received unique number data into a credit card number in order to generate credit limit data of the credit card, and which transmits credit OK/NG data to the electronic-commerce server ().