Electronic service providing system
View Patent ↗An electronic service providing system includes a shop-side terminal device, a user-side terminal device, and an electronic service management server connectable with each other. The electronic service management server has a customer card database storing an electronic customer card representative of shop-related use points related to a history of purchases made by a user at a shop. The user-side terminal device receives the electronic customer card from the electronic service management server. The user-side terminal device indicates the electronic customer card when a purchase is made at the shop. Information of shop-related use points given by the shop in relation to the purchase is sent from the shop-side terminal device to the electronic service management server. The electronic service management server adds the notified shop-related use points to the electronic customer card to update the electronic customer card. The updated electronic customer card is stored in the customer card database.
1. An electronic service providing system comprising:
a shop-side terminal device, a user-side terminal device, and an electronic service management server connectable with each other, the shop-side terminal device being located in a shop, the user-side terminal device being possessed by a user, the electronic service management server having a customer card database storing an electronic customer card representative of shop-related use points related to a history of purchases made by the user at the shop;
means for sending the electronic customer card from the electronic service management server to the user-side terminal device;
means provided in the user-side terminal device for indicating the electronic customer card when a purchase is made at the shop;
means for sending information of shop-related use points given by the shop in relation to the purchase from the shop-side terminal device to the electronic service management server;
means provided in the electronic service management server for adding the shop-related use points given by the shop to the electronic customer card to update the electronic customer card;
means provided in the electronic service management server for storing the updated electronic customer card in the customer card database;
a negotiable-card management server to which the electronic service management server is connectable, the negotiable-card management server managing a negotiable card for settling an account concerning a purchase, the negotiable card being possessed by the user;
a card point conversion table provided in the electronic service management server and determining a rate of trade between shop-related use points given by the shop and negotiable-card-related use points given in response to use of the negotiable card; and
means for allowing diversion between the shop-related use points and the negotiable-card-related use points by reference to the card point conversion table.
2. An electronic service providing system as recited in claim 1 , wherein the electronic service management server has an ownership group conversion table determining rates of trades among shop-related use points given by the shop and other shops, and diversion is allowed among the shop-related use points given by the shop and other shops.
3. An electronic service providing system as recited in claim 1 , wherein the shop-related use points or the negotiable-card-related use points can be transferred between the user and another user.