JP2002099864A - Network transaction method, data processing device and method, data communication system and information storage medium - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a general user using network shopping with a method to pay for the purchase payment without performing exclusive work. SOLUTION: An intermediary agent connects a user terminal device 13 to a communication network by a data processing device 11 and collects a fee from the general user. When the general user sends order data from the user terminal device 13 to a virtual store opened on the communication network by a seller using a sales processor 12, sales of merchandise is carried out. The purchase payment is collected by the intermediary agent from the general user and provided to the seller, and the purchase payment is collected from the general user by the intermediary agent in the same way as a connection fee.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an online transaction method in which a seller sells a product for sale to a general user by using a communication network, an intermediary data processing device and method interposed in the online transaction method, The present invention relates to a data communication system in which a transaction method is executed, and an information storage medium storing software for a computer of the data processing device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art At present, user terminal devices such as so-called personal computers have become widespread, and the Internet, which is a communication network connectable with the user terminal devices, has also become widespread. 2. Description of the Related Art Online transactions for mail-order sales of products to users are being carried out as businesses.

For example, in a net transaction method disclosed in US Pat. No. 5,715,314, in a data communication system in which a sales processing device of a seller and a user terminal device of a general user perform data communication with each other via the Internet, a plurality of systems are used. The sales processing device in which the sales merchandise is registered establishes a virtual store homepage on the Internet.

[0004] On this home page, data of a shopping cart which can selectively put in a sale product are presented together with a plurality of sale products. Therefore, the general user browses the homepage on the user terminal device, selects a sale item as desired, and puts it in the shopping cart.
When the completion of the input is transmitted from the user terminal device to the sales processing device as order data, the sales processing device calculates the total price of the sales commodities put in the shopping cart and returns the data to the user terminal device.

[0005] After confirming the total amount, the general user inputs personal delivery data such as a name and an address necessary for delivery of the sale product, and inputs a credit card number and a bank account number necessary for settlement of the sale price. The user also inputs personal payment data such as

[0006] Then, in the sales processing apparatus which receives the delivery data and the payment data, the sales price is collected online from a general user's bank account or the like in accordance with the payment data by online processing, and the sales data is collected in accordance with the delivery data. Deliver the sales product to general users.

However, the so-called Internet is a public communication network, and leakage of communication data is a problem because there is no person in charge of management. For this reason, when a general user transmits personal delivery data or payment data from a user terminal device to a sales processing device in order to purchase a product for sale as described above, there is a concern that the data is leaked and misused.

In order to reduce this possibility, for example, in a net transaction method disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H11-161717, a sales processing device that receives personal delivery data and payment data from a user terminal device is used. A user ID is issued, and delivery data and payment data are registered for each user ID.

Since the user ID is returned from the sales processing device to the user terminal device, the general user needs to transmit the delivery data and the settlement data by transmitting the user ID to the sales processing device from the second time. Without
The leakage can be prevented.

[0010]

However, even in the above-described net transaction method, it is necessary to perform data communication between the delivery data and the settlement data on the Internet for the first time. May leak. In addition, some homepages of virtual stores established on the Internet are intended to be fraudulent from the beginning, in which case the delivery data and the payment data transmitted by the general user from the user terminal device will be abused. .

[0011] For this reason, the general user cannot transmit the delivery data and the settlement data to the homepage of the virtual store visited for the first time without worry, which is a factor that hinders the spread of mail-order sales on the Internet.

Further, the above-mentioned Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 11-16171
In the Internet transaction method disclosed in Japanese Patent Publication No. 7, the general user who has traded once does not need to input the delivery data and the payment data and transmit the data from the next time. Each time the user purchases the data, it is necessary to input the delivery data and the payment data and transmit the data, so that the operation is complicated.

[0013] In addition, even in this net transaction method, since it is necessary to transmit a user ID, which is personal information of a general user, through a communication network, there is a possibility that data leakage will occur.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, and has been made in consideration of the above-mentioned problems. At least one of a data processing device and method of an intermediary intervening in the net transaction method, a data communication system in which the net transaction method is executed, and an information storage medium storing software for a computer of the data processing device The purpose is to provide.

[0015]

The net transaction method of the present invention is executed by using a data communication system. In the data communication system, a sales processing device of a plurality of sellers and a data processing device of an intermediary are connected to a communication network. Are connected to each other, and the user terminals of a large number of general users are connected to the communication network by the data processing device.

In such a data communication system, since the user terminal device is connected to the communication network by the data processing device, the intermediary company periodically collects connection fees from general users. On the other hand, the seller has opened a virtual store where data for sale is presented on the communication network by the sales processing device, and a general user browses the virtual store with a user terminal device connected to the communication network. be able to.

Therefore, when a general user who wants to purchase a sales product presented at the virtual store transmits data of the order data of the sales product from the user terminal device to the sales processing device, the order data is received. The merchandise sold from the sales processing apparatus is sold to general users.

[0018] However, since the seller does not charge the general user for the sales price of the merchandise, but charges the mediator, the broker collects the sales price from the general user and provides it to the seller. As described above, since the intermediary agent periodically collects the connection price from the general user, the sales price is also collected in the same manner as the connection price.

In another aspect of the present invention, the sales price is added to the connection price by an intermediary agent and collected from general users, so that the sales price is collected simultaneously with the periodic collection of the connection price. .

Further, the data processing device issues a network address for each user terminal device connected to the communication network and manages the data together with the use date and time. The data is transmitted to the sales processing device. When the network address and the reception date and time of the order data are transmitted to the data processing device together with the sales price from the sales processing device, a general user who collects the sales price is specified by the network address and the reception date and time in the data processing device. You.

In this case, a general user who collects the sales price is specified from the network address in the data processing device of the broker. The network address issued to the user terminal device performs data communication on the communication network. The network address is issued when the data processing device connects the user terminal device to the communication network. Absent.

Further, the delivery data necessary for the delivery of the merchandise for each general user is also registered in the data processing device of the intermediary, and the intermediary executes the distribution of the merchandise from the seller to the general user. As a result, the merchandise is delivered from the dealer to the general user without performing data communication of the delivery data, which is the personal information of the general user, via the communication network.

Further, the sales data is issued by the sales company for each product sold to the general user, and the data is transmitted from the sales processing device to the data processing device. The data processing device manages the order data together with the delivery data. Thus, the correspondence between the sales product and the general user is reliably specified by the broker.

[0024] Further, since the communication network comprises the Internet and the virtual store comprises a homepage, the general user can easily access the virtual store and transmit the order data, and yet the settlement data and the general user's payment data can be obtained. The confidentiality of the delivery data is well maintained.

It should be noted that the term "sales product" in the present invention means an object to be sold as a product, and it does not matter whether it is tangible or intangible. Further, the data processing device means a device which can connect a user terminal device to a communication network such as the Internet mainly by a computer, and allows a so-called network server or the like. The sales processing device means a device that can open a virtual store in a communication network mainly using a computer, and also allows a network server or the like.

The user terminal device means a device which can perform data communication through a communication network and is operated by a general user, and allows a so-called personal computer or mobile phone. However, such a user terminal device does not need to be owned if operated by a general user, and may be, for example, installed in a convenience store or the like and temporarily lent to a trading user.

The order data is various data for notifying the contents of an order for a sale product by a general user, and includes, for example, an identification number, quantity data, size data, and the like of the sale product.
Color data, etc. The payment data is various data used for collecting payment from a general user, and includes, for example, a general user's credit card number and bank account number. The delivery data is various data used for delivering goods to general users, and includes, for example, addresses and names of general users.

The various means referred to in the present invention may be formed so as to realize their functions. For example, dedicated hardware for generating a predetermined function, a computer provided with a predetermined function by a program , Predetermined functions realized inside the computer by the program, combinations thereof, and the like.

The information storage medium referred to in the present invention may be any hardware in which a program for causing a computer to execute various processes is stored in advance as software. Fixed ROM (Read Only Memory) or HDD (Hard
Disc Drive), CD (Compact Disc) -ROM or FD (Flo
ppy Disc).

The computer referred to in the present invention may be any device that can read a program composed of software and execute a corresponding processing operation.
(Central Processing Unit)
M, RAM (Random Access Memory), I / F (Interfac
Devices such as e) to which various devices are connected as necessary are allowed.

Note that causing the computer to execute various operations corresponding to software in the present invention also allows the computer to control operations of various devices. For example, when a computer stores various data, the RA is connected to the computer in advance.
M, various kinds of data can be stored in an internal memory provided as a part of the computer, and the information storage medium of the present invention can be stored in an FD.
In such a case, it is permitted that the computer stores various data therein.

[0032]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A first embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In the data communication system 10 of the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 2, one data processing device 11, a plurality of sales processing devices 12, a large number of user terminal devices 13, and one payment processing device 14 It is connected by the Internet 15 which is a network.

The sales processing device 12 comprises a network server or the like owned by the seller, and is used by the seller for online sales of merchandise. For this reason,
The sales processing device 12 has set up a store homepage, which is a virtual store homepage, on the Internet 15, and the store homepage presents data on sales products along with purchase guidance and the like. User terminal device 13
Is composed of a personal computer or the like owned by a general user, and is used by a general user to browse data on a store homepage.

The data processing device 11 is composed of a network server or the like owned by an intermediary, and is used for connection work for connecting the user terminal device 13 of a general user to the Internet 15. The payment processing device 14 is composed of a host computer owned by a financial company such as a bank or a credit company, and is used for data processing and data communication in financial business.

In this embodiment, the general user has concluded a contract to connect the user terminal device 13 to the Internet 15 by the data processing device 11 with an intermediary agent.
A contract with the settlement company to pay the connection price etc. to the intermediary company is concluded. Further, the seller has concluded a contract with the intermediary to collect the sales price of the sold product from the general user, and the intermediary has concluded a contract with the settlement agent to collect the sales price together with the connection price.

The data processing device 11 according to the present embodiment has a CPU 10 as hardware that is a main component of a computer.
The CPU 101 has a ROM 103, a RAM 104, an HDD 1
05, FDD (FD Dr.
ive) 107, a CD drive 109 in which a CD-ROM 108 is exchangeably mounted, a keyboard 110, a mouse 11
1, hardware such as a display 112, a communication I / F 113 connected to the Internet 15, and the like are connected.

The data processing device 11, the sales processing device 12, the user terminal device 13, and the settlement processing device 14 are different in the specifications and performances of respective parts, but have basically the same hardware configuration. In the description, the same names and reference numerals are used in the respective devices 11 to 14, and the detailed description is omitted.

In the data processing device 11 of the present embodiment,
The hardware such as the ROM 103, the RAM 104, the HDD 105, the replaceable FD 106, and the replaceable CD-ROM 108 corresponds to an information storage medium, and at least one of them stores control programs and various data necessary for various operations as software. Have been.

For example, a control program for causing the CPU 101 to execute various processing operations includes the FD 106 and the CD-RO.
It is stored in advance in M108. Such software is installed in the HDD 105 in advance,
When the data processing device 11 is started, the data is copied to the RAM 104 and read by the CPU 101.

As described above, when the CPU 101 reads an appropriate program and executes various processing operations,
As shown in FIG. 1, the data processing device 11 of the present embodiment includes a user registration unit 21, a user connection unit 22, a connection accumulation unit 23, a price collection unit 24, a price reception unit 25, a collection control unit 26, a delivery output Various means such as the means 27 are logically provided as various functions.

The user registration means 21 corresponds to a storage area or the like constructed in the HDD 105 so that the CPU 101 can recognize data in accordance with a control program stored in the RAM 104 or the like, and has contracted for connection to the Internet 15. Various data are registered in advance for each general user.

This registration data consists of a user file for each general user, in which settlement data and delivery data are registered for each user ID. The user ID is composed of identification data unique to each general user, for example,
Consists of a connection account and password.

The settlement data is various data used when collecting a connection fee from a general user, and includes a credit card number and a bank account number of the general user. The delivery data is various data that can be used for delivering goods to the general user, and includes an address and a name of the general user.

The user connection means 22 corresponds to the function of controlling the operation of the communication I / F 113 by the CPU 101 in accordance with the above-mentioned control program, and the user terminal 13 of a general user registered in the user registration means 21 as data. Is connected to the Internet 15.

More specifically, when the above-mentioned user ID is transmitted from the user terminal device 13 to the data processing device 11, the data processing device 11
After confirming that D is valid in the user file, the user terminal device 13 is connected to the Internet 15.

The user connection means 22 issues an IP (Internet Protocol) address as a network address for each user terminal device 13 connected to the Internet 15 as described above.
The P address is also data-managed together with the use date and time for each user ID described above.

The connection integrating means 23 corresponds to the function of the CPU 101 detecting the operating state of the communication I / F 113 in accordance with the control program, and the user terminal device 13 is connected to the Internet 15 by the user connecting means 23. Detects the time, converts it to the connection price, and converts the user ID
Store data with

The charge collecting means 24 corresponds to a function of controlling the operation of the communication I / F 113 by the CPU 101, and periodically collects the connection charge calculated by the connection integrating means 23 from a general user. More specifically, as described above, the intermediary contracts with the general user and the settlement company, and the data processing device 11 reads out the connection price and the settlement data for each user ID at a predetermined date such as the end of the month. Since the billing data of the connection fee is transmitted to the payment processing device 14 in accordance with the payment data, the connection fee is provided to the intermediary by bank transfer or registered mail.

The price receiving means 25 corresponds to the function of the CPU 101 for recognizing the data received by the communication I / F 113 as data, and receives data from the sales processing device 12 of the sales price of the merchandise sold to the general user. More specifically, as described above, the user terminal device 13 connected to the Internet 15 by the data processing device 11 can freely browse data on a store homepage and the like established by the sales processing device 12, and the like. The order data can be transmitted together with the above-mentioned IP address to the sales product presented as data.

The order data is various data for notifying the contents of the order of the commodity for sale by the general user.
It consists of the identification number of the product for sale, number data, size data, color data, and the like. The sales processing device 12 that has received the order data together with the IP address transmits the IP address and the date and time of receiving the order data to the data processing device 11 together with the sales price corresponding to the order data.

As described above, in this data processing device 11, the IP address is managed for each user ID together with the use date and time. Is retrieved.

The collection control means 26 corresponds to a function for the CPU 101 to execute predetermined data processing, and also causes the price collection means 24 to collect the sales price data received by the price reception means 25. More specifically, as described above,
Since the user ID of the general user who collects the sales price is specified from the address or the like, the sales price is added to the connection price that matches this user ID.

The delivery output means 27 corresponds to the function of controlling the operation of the communication I / F 113 by the CPU 101, reads out delivery data by the user ID specified from the IP address or the like as described above, and outputs the display data on the display 112. And a printout of a printer device (not shown) connected to the communication I / F 113 or the like to notify and output the mediation agent.

More specifically, the sales processing device 12 which has received the order data issues order data for each sales product to be delivered to the general user, and the order data is sent to the data processing device 11 together with the sales price. Send data. Therefore, in the data processing device 11, the above-mentioned order data is also data-managed together with the user ID.
As described above, the delivery data is output to the intermediary together with the order data.

This intermediary agent, for example, picks up the sales merchandise from the seller based on the order data and delivers the sales merchandise to the general user based on the delivery data. Alternatively, the order receiving data and the delivery data are transmitted to a delivery company (not shown), and the delivery company is made to pick up the sales product from the seller and deliver it to the general user.

The various units of the data processing device 11 as described above are realized by using hardware such as the communication I / F 113 as necessary, and the main components are software stored in an information storage medium such as the RAM 104. Correspondingly, it is realized by the function of the CPU 101 which is the hardware of the computer.

The software of the data processing device 11 can register, for example, a user file in which payment data and delivery data are set for each user ID for each general user. Connecting the user terminal device 13 to the Internet 15, issuing an IP address to the user terminal device 13 connected to the Internet 15 and managing data for each user ID together with the use date and time; Detecting the connection time of 13; converting the detected time into a connection price and storing the data together with the user ID;
The connection price is collected periodically from the general user in accordance with the settlement data, and the IP address and the reception date and time of the order data are received from the sales processing device 12 together with the sales price of the merchandise sold to the general user. Specifying the general user who collects the sales price from the received data, adding the received sales price to the matching connection price, reading the specified general user's delivery data, etc. Processing operation of the CPU 101
RAM10 as a control program to be executed by
4 and the like.

A net transaction method using the data communication system 10 of the present embodiment in the above configuration will be described below. First, a plurality of sellers and intermediaries that have established a store homepage for selling sales products online on the Internet 15 by the sales processing device 12 make contracts, and store home pages for each of the plurality of sales processing devices 12 are stored in the data processing device 11. Data link.

For example, a specific service mark is presented as data on the store homepage data-linked to the data processing device 11, and "If the store has this service mark, the sales price can be added to the Internet connection price. A guidance message such as "" is presented as data.

On the other hand, the general user concludes a contract for connecting the user terminal device 13 to the Internet 15 by the data processing device 11 with an intermediary agent.
3 notifies the intermediary company of the settlement data and the delivery data by transmitting data to the data processing device 11 or the like.

This intermediary generates data of a user file for each general user who makes a contract, registers the data in the data processing device 11, issues a user ID for each general user, assigns data to the user file, and assigns data to the user file. 13 is transmitted.

Therefore, when a general user who has contracted with an intermediary in this way connects the user terminal device 13 to the Internet 15, the connection request is first transmitted to the data processing device 11 together with the user ID. As shown in FIG. 4, the data processing device 11 that has received this connection request as data
Then (step S1), when the user ID is confirmed by data collation with the registered data (step S1).
2) Connect the user terminal device 13 to the Internet 15 by issuing an IP address (step S4).

In such a state, the time is accumulated until the connection is terminated by the user terminal device 13 (step S
5, S6), the accumulated time is data-managed together with the user ID, and the IP address and the use date and time are also set by the user I.
Data is managed together with D (not shown).

As described above, the user terminal device 13 of the general user connected to the Internet 15 can, for example, browse the store homepage established on the Internet 15 by the sales processing device 12 of the dealer. Then, when a general user who browses data on the store homepage requests an order for a sale product,
The general user stores the order data of the desired sales product in the user terminal device 13 in accordance with the purchase guidance on the store homepage.
Transmits data to the sales processing device 12.

At this time, since the sales processing device 12 also receives the data of the IP address set in the user terminal device 13, the order data is stored in the reception date and time and the IP address.
Data is managed together with the address. Further, in the sales processing device 12, since the order data is also issued for each order data received, the order data, the reception date and time, and the IP address are data managed for each order data.

Then, as shown in FIG. 6, in the sales processing device 12 which has received the order data, (step T
2), According to the display guidance on the store website such as "Select the payment method of the sales price from the following. Add to the connection price, credit settlement, ...", add the sales price to the connection price, The general user is made to select whether to settle accounts in the process (step T3).

Therefore, when the normal processing is selected,
The sales processing device 12 requests the user terminal device 13 to transmit the settlement data and the delivery data. Therefore, when the settlement data and the delivery data are received, the ordinary settlement process similar to the conventional one is executed (step T4). .

On the other hand, when the addition of the sales price to the connection price is selected, the sales processing device 12 transmits the sales price, the IP address, and the reception date and time of the order data to the data processing device 11 for each order data. Therefore, in the data processing device 11, as shown in FIG. 4, the corresponding user ID is searched from the reception date and time and the IP address of the received data to confirm that the data is valid (step S8). .

If this is not confirmed, the data processor 11
Returns an error message to the sales processing device 12 (step S3). As shown in FIG. 6, this sales processing device 12 cannot select "add to the connection price.
Please choose the payment method of the sales price from the following. An error process of presenting display guidance such as "credit settlement,..." On the store homepage is executed (step T7).

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 4, after confirming that the user ID is valid (step S8), the data processing device 11 returns the confirmation data to the sales processing device 12 (not shown). The sales price received as data together with the user ID is stored (step S9), and the user I
D reads out the delivery data (step S10).

The read delivery data is output to the intermediary by the display output of the display 112 or the print output of the printer together with the order receiving data.
(Step S11), this intermediary company delivers the merchandise corresponding to the order data from the distributor to the general user in accordance with the delivery data.

Since the connection time and the sales price are stored in the data processing device 11 for each user ID in the above-described work process (steps S5 and S9), as shown in FIG. When a collection date such as a day is reached (step S12), the data processing device 11 reads out the connection time for each user ID and converts it into a connection price (step S13).

Then, the sales price with the matching user ID is added to the connection price (step S14), and the billing data of the total price is transmitted to the payment processing device 14 in accordance with the payment data read out with the user ID. (Step S15). Therefore, the settlement company of the settlement processing device 14 withdraws the total price from the account which the general user has previously deposited, and provides this to the intermediary company by an account transfer or the like as shown in FIG. This intermediary provides the sales price to the corresponding sales company from the total price.

In the net transaction method in the data communication system 10 according to the present embodiment, an intermediary can connect the user terminal 13 of a general user to the Internet 15 by the data processing device 11, and the user terminal is connected to the Internet 15. The general user to whom 13 is connected can purchase a sale product from the store homepage of the dealer.

The connection price of the user terminal device 13 to the Internet 15 is collected from the general user by the middleman, but the sales price of the sales product is also collected by the middleman at the same time, so the general user pays the sales price. There is no need for dedicated work.

Therefore, the work of the general user who purchases the sale product is simple, and the motivation of the general user to purchase the sale product can be improved. In addition, since the sales price is added to the connection price and collected at the same time, there is no possibility that the number of times of collection is increased and unnecessary fees are generated.

Further, the settlement data necessary for payment and the delivery data required for delivery of the goods are registered in the data processing device 11, so that even when a general user purchases a sale product from a seller, data communication is performed on the Internet 15. Since the leakage is not performed, the leakage can be prevented well, and the purchase motivation of general users can be improved.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and allows various modifications without departing from the gist of the present invention. For example, in the above embodiment, the broker has exemplified that only the connection price is used as a profit.However, it is possible to add a fee to the sales price acting for collection, or to collect a fee from the seller for each transaction or every month. It is possible.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the case where the intermediary agent collects the connection fee from the general user according to the connection time has been described as an example. However, the connection fee may be fixed and the connection time may be unlimited. Further, in the above-described embodiment, the virtual store of the communication network is exemplified by the store homepage on the Internet 15. However, for example, the virtual store can be digital contents of the mobile phone network.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the sales product provided to the general user from the seller is exemplified as a tangible article. However, for example, such a sales product may be an intangible real estate or service. Music data and image data that can be distributed can also be used.

Further, in the above embodiment, the user terminal device 13
Although the sales processing device 12 that has received the order data from the above has shown that the sales price and the like are transmitted to the data processing device 11 in real time, for example, the sales processing device 1
It is also possible to store the order data received by the user 2 from the user terminal device 13 and transmit the sales price and the like to the data processing device 11 at a predetermined date and time such as the end of the month.

In this case, the user ID cannot be confirmed in real time, but, for example, the data processing device 11 confirms the user ID when receiving data such as a sales price and, if necessary, sends an error message to the user terminal device 1.
3 and the sales processing device 12.

In the above embodiment, the CPU 101 operates according to a control program stored as software in the RAM 104 or the like, so that the data processing device 1
It has been exemplified that various means are logically realized as one various function. However, it is also possible to form each of these various means as unique hardware, and it is also possible to store a part of the various means as software in the RAM 104 or the like and form a part as hardware.

Further, the data processing device 11 as described above
A backup unit as backup means
With this backup unit (not shown), various data such as product data and delivery date data and various software such as a control program can be backed up.

In the above embodiment, the software installed in advance in the HDD 105 from the CD-ROM 108 or the like is stored in the RAM 104 when the data processing apparatus 11 starts up.
It is assumed that the CPU 101 reads the software copied in the RAM 104 and thus stored in the RAM 104,
Such software may be stored in the HDD 105 and used by the CPU 101, or may be fixedly stored in the ROM 103 in advance.

Further, software is stored in the FD 106 or the CD-ROM 108 which is an information storage medium that can be handled alone, and the FD 106 and the HDD 105
Although it is possible to install software in the AM 104, it is also possible for the CPU 101 to directly read the software from the FD 106 or the like and execute the processing operation without performing such installation.

The method of supplying the software described on the information storage medium to the CPU 101 is not limited to loading the information storage medium directly into the data processing device 11. That is, the data processing device 11 of the present invention
If the various means are realized by software, the software only needs to be in a state where the CPU 101 can read and execute the corresponding operation.

It is also possible to form a control program for realizing the various means as described above by combining a plurality of software. In this case, the information storage medium as a single product stores the data of the present invention. Only the minimum necessary software for implementing the processing device 11 needs to be stored.

For example, the data processing device 11 on which an existing operating system is mounted has a CD-ROM
In a case where application software is provided by an information storage medium such as 108, software for implementing various units of the data processing device 11 of the present invention is implemented by a combination of application software and an operating system, and thus depends on the operating system. The software of the part to be performed can be omitted from the application software of the information storage medium.

[0090]

According to the net transaction method of the present invention, the user terminal device is connected to the communication network by the data processing device, the intermediary agent periodically collects the connection price from the general user, and the sales agent sells. A virtual store where products are presented as data is opened on the communication network by the sales processing device, and this virtual store can be viewed by a general user using a user terminal device connected to the communication network. When a general user who desires to purchase a sales product presented with data transmits data of order data of the sales product from the user terminal device to the sales processing device, the general sales user of the sales processing device receiving the order data receives a general request. The merchandise is sold to the user, and the distributor does not charge the sales price of the merchandise to the general user but to the broker. Then, the broker collects the sales price from the general user and provides it to the seller, so that the sales price of the sold product is collected from the general user to the broker in the same manner as the connection price. No special work is required to pay, and the work of purchasing the sale product is easy.

In another aspect of the present invention, the sales price is added to the connection price by an intermediary agent and collected from a general user, so that the sales price is collected simultaneously with the periodic collection of the connection price. Can be.

The data processing device issues a network address for each user terminal device connected to the communication network and manages the data together with the use date and time. When the data is transmitted to the sales processing device, and the network address and the date and time of receiving the order data are transmitted to the data processing device together with the sales price from the sales processing device, a general user who collects the sales price is sent to the network by the data processing device. By specifying the address and the reception date and time, the intermediary of the data processing device can specify the general user who collects the sales price from the network address. Without a distributor The leakage of personal information of general users to buy La selling goods can be easily and reliably prevented.

Further, delivery data necessary for delivery of sales merchandise for each general user is also registered in the data processing device of the intermediary, and the intermediary executes delivery of the sales merchandise from the seller to the general user. Accordingly, it is possible to deliver the sold product from the dealer to the general user while reliably preventing the leakage of the distribution data without performing the data communication of the distribution data as the personal information of the general user through the communication network.

[0094] Further, the order data is issued by the sales company for each product sold to the general user, and the data is transmitted from the sales processing device to the data processing device. In the data processing device, the order data is managed together with the delivery data. This allows the intermediary company to easily and reliably identify the correspondence between the sales product and the general user.

Further, since the communication network comprises the Internet and the virtual store comprises a homepage, the general user can easily access the virtual store and transmit the order data, and furthermore, the payment data and the general user's settlement data can be obtained. Good confidentiality of the delivery data can be maintained.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing a logical structure of a data processing device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a physical structure of a data communication system.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a physical structure of the data processing device.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a first half of a data processing method by the data processing apparatus.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a second half part.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a data processing method by the sales processing device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Data communication system 11 Data processing device 12 Sales processing device 13 User terminal device 15 Internet which is a communication network 21 User registration means 22 User connection means 23 Connection accumulation means 24 Price collection means 25 Price reception means 26 Collection control means 27 Delivery output means Reference Signs List 101 CPU as a main body of computer 103 ROM as an information storage medium 104 RAM as an information storage medium 105 HDD as an information storage medium FD 108 as an information storage medium CD-ROM as an information storage medium

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Claims (12)

[Claims] 1. A net transaction method in a data communication system in which a number of general user terminal devices are connected to a communication network to which sales processing devices of a plurality of sellers are connected by a data processing device of an intermediary agent. The intermediary that connects the user terminal device to the communication network with the data processing device periodically collects a connection fee from the general user, and a virtual store where data for sale is presented is provided. Opened in the communication network by the sales processing device, order data of the sales product is transmitted to the sales processing device as desired by the general user from the user terminal device that browses data on a virtual store in the communication network. The sales merchandise is received by the seller after receiving the order data by the sales processing device. The sales price of the sale product sold to the general user is charged to the intermediary by the seller, and the sales price is collected from the general user by the intermediary. An internet transaction method in which the sales price is provided from the intermediary to the seller. 2. The net transaction method according to claim 1, wherein the sales price is added to the connection price by the intermediary agent and collected from the general user. 3. A network address is issued from the data processing device for each of the user terminal devices connected to the communication network, and the use date and time of the network address is managed by the data processing device for each of the user terminal devices. The network address is also transmitted from the user terminal device to the sales processing device of the virtual store together with the order data of the sales product, and the network address and the order data are transmitted from the sales processing device of the virtual store together with the sales price. 3. The network transaction according to claim 1, wherein a reception date and time are transmitted to the data processing device, wherein the general user who collects the sales price is specified by the network address and the reception date and time. Method. 4. Delivery data required for delivery of the sales product for each of the general users is also registered in the data processing device of the intermediary company, and the delivery of the sales product from the seller to the general user is performed. The net transaction method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, which is executed by the intermediary company. 5. The sales data is issued by the seller for each of the sales products to be delivered to the general user, and the sales data is transmitted from the sales processing device to the data processing device. 5. The net transaction method according to claim 4, wherein data management is performed together with the delivery data. 6. The virtual network according to claim 1, wherein said communication network comprises the Internet, and said virtual shop comprises a homepage.
The net transaction method according to any one of the above. 7. A communication network to which sales processing devices of a plurality of sellers are connected, a large number of user terminals of general users are connected by an intermediary data processing device, and the user terminal devices are connected to the data processing device. The intermediary company connected to the communication network with the device periodically collects a connection fee from the general user, and a virtual store where data for sale is presented is opened on the communication network by the sales processing device. The order data of the sales product is transmitted from the user terminal device for browsing the virtual store of the communication network to the sales processing device as desired by the general user, and the sales processing device receives the order data. The data communication system in which the merchandise is sold to the general user by the seller. A charge collecting means for periodically collecting the connection price from the general user; a price receiving means for receiving, from the sales processing device, a sales price of the sales product sold to the general user; A collection control means for collecting the sales price received by the means to the price collecting means. 8. The data processing device according to claim 7, wherein the collection control unit adds the sales price to the connection price. 9. A communication network to which sales processing devices of a plurality of sellers are connected, a large number of user terminals of general users are connected by a data processing device of an intermediary, and the user terminal devices are connected to the data processing device. The intermediary company connected to the communication network with the device periodically collects a connection fee from the general user, and a virtual store where data for sale is presented is opened on the communication network by the sales processing device. The order data of the sales product is transmitted from the user terminal device for browsing the virtual store of the communication network to the sales processing device as desired by the general user, and the sales processing device receives the order data. The data communication system in which the merchandise is sold to the general user by the seller. And periodically collecting the connection price from the general user, receiving data of the sales price of the sales product sold to the general user from the sales processing device, and connecting the data to the sales price. A data processing device that collects money in the same way as payment. 10. The data processing device according to claim 9, wherein the sales price is added to the connection price. 11. The data processing of an intermediary agent according to claim 6, wherein one communication network, sales processing devices of a plurality of vendors connected to the communication network, and the mediation agent according to claim 6 or 7 connected to the communication network. A data communication system comprising: a device; and user terminals of a number of general users connected to the communication network by the data processing device. 12. A plurality of general user terminal devices are connected to a communication network to which a plurality of sales processing devices are connected by an intermediary data processing device, and the user terminal devices are connected to the data processing device. The intermediary company connected to the communication network with the device periodically collects a connection fee from the general user, and a virtual store where data for sale is presented is opened on the communication network by the sales processing device. The order data of the sales product is transmitted from the user terminal device for browsing the virtual store of the communication network to the sales processing device as desired by the general user, and the sales processing device receives the order data. A data communication system in which the sales product is sold to the general user by the seller. An information storage medium storing software readable by a computer of the data processing device, wherein the connection fee is collected periodically from the general user, and the sale sold to the general user is performed. An information storage storing a program for causing the computer to execute data reception of the sales price of the product from the sales processing device and collection of the received sales price in the same manner as the connection price; Medium.