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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2002
Toshiyuki Sakuma, Kawasaki, JP;
Haruhisa Nakamura, Kamakura, JP;
Masaki Honma, Showa, JP;
Yuichi Kaneko, Yokohama, JP;
Hirotaka Morita, Yokosuka, JP;
Mitsuhiro Enomoto, Fujisawa, JP;
Toshiyuki Sakuma, Kawasaki, JP;
Haruhisa Nakamura, Kamakura, JP;
Masaki Honma, Showa, JP;
Yuichi Kaneko, Yokohama, JP;
Hirotaka Morita, Yokosuka, JP;
Mitsuhiro Enomoto, Fujisawa, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
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.