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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2007
Mikihisa Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
Tsutomu Okude, Tokyo, JP;
Mikihisa Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
Tsutomu Okude, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A credit cardis an IC card, and a PIN is authenticated between a card terminaland the credit card. The card terminaltransmits to a credit company serveran authentication result, amount information indicating an amount to charge up, and a credit card number of the credit card. After billing, the credit company servertransmits the amount information and the credit card number to an electronic money server. The electronic money serveridentifies an electronic money cardbased on the credit card number. The electronic money servergenerates amount change information for adding the amount with which to charge up to 'VALUE', and transmits it to the card terminal. Based on the amount change information, the electronic money cardupdates the amount of 'VALUE' stored therein to an amount specified by the amount change information.
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