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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2008
Susumu Kusakabe, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroshi Abe, Tokyo, JP;
Shinako Matsuyama, Tokyo, JP;
Fumio Kubono, Tokyo, JP;
Susumu Kusakabe, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroshi Abe, Tokyo, JP;
Shinako Matsuyama, Tokyo, JP;
Fumio Kubono, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An electronic money system includes a plurality of electronic money terminals for withdrawing a sum of money which is spent by a user from money data which has been deposited into an information card. Utilization-history data including the number of times the information card has been utilized, and accumulated in the information card is read out at the time when data relating to the spent money is also withdrawn from the information card. Utilization-history data read out from each of the electronic money terminals are gathered and coordinated, so as to coordinate and tabulate the utilization-histories of the information card which has been utilized on any of the plurality electronic money terminals.