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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2013
Filed:
May. 26, 2000
Shigeyuki Kawai, Tokyo, JP;
Koji Ito, Tokyo, JP;
Shigeyuki Kawai, Tokyo, JP;
Koji Ito, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An electronic money system and a payment-accepting apparatus that further facilitate the use of cards substituting cash money. The electronic money use fee is computed on the basis of the information about the timing with which the amount of money data equivalent to an amount of money used are withdrawn from an information card, thereby allowing the user owning the information card to use an electronic money system regardless of whether time zones having different profit rates. Consequently, the user owning the information card always may pay by the information card, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of the information card that substitutes cash money.
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