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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2001
Masahide Tanaka, Kawasaki, JP;
Masahide Tanaka, Kawasaki, JP;
Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Nikon Technologies Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A plurality of sites for print service each having its own available public transportation system for delivering the print are in cooperation. An order from a customer accepted at a site is mutually assigned to another site in dependence on which is the most convenient public transportation system to deliver the print to the destination designated by the customer. The sites and the destination are typically at stations of railroads, respectively. The assignment of the order is made by way of a managing center capable of settling the assignment, recording a report from the assignee site, balancing the accounts among the sites by gathering accounts caused by the assignment of order, or dividing an order into a plurality of sub-orders for a plurality of destinations corresponding thereto. Order may be accepted through a computer communication, in which a computer of the acceptance site provides with a combined data composed of a plurality of kinds of data from the customer. The customer for a convenience upon the next order keeps such a combined data.