| US 7,386,515 B2 | ||
| Fee imposition system for application software | ||
| Toshiyuki Sakuma, Kawasaki (Japan); Haruhisa Nakamura, Kamakura (Japan); Masaki Honma, Showa (Japan); Yuichi Kaneko, Yokohama (Japan); Hirotaka Morita, Yokosuka (Japan); and Mitsuhiro Enomoto, Fujisawa (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Jul. 30, 2002, as Appl. No. 10/207,168. | ||
| Application 10/207168 is a division of application No. 10/100187, filed on Mar. 19, 2002, granted, now 7,065,504. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2003/0055789 A1, Mar. 20, 2003 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06Q 99/00 (2006.01); H04K 1/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 705—52 [705/51; 705/53; 705/58; 705/59; 713/165; 713/182; 380/200; 380/201; 380/202] | 10 Claims |
| 1. A method for providing use by a customer of application software in a network connecting a server of a provider who performs
the application software to provide services and a client machine of the customer for the application software comprising
the steps of:
receiving inputs of a name of software that the customer wants to use, at least a name of a table that the customer wants
to use while using the software, and a data use term, from the client machine;
calculating a fee by a processing unit on the basis of a predetermined fee schedule in accordance with the software, a kind
of the table and the data use term and sending the calculated fee to the client machine;
collecting the fee and issuing a ticket file after receiving an input by the customer for purchasing the ticket file;
transmitting the ticket file to the client machine; and
receiving the ticket file from the customer and checking whether or not the ticket file is available, when the customer uses
the application software based on the issued ticket file;
copying data of the table designated by information indicated by the ticket file from a data source memory unit and writing
the data of the table on a data target memory unit, when the ticket file is available; and
performing the application software by using the data written in the data target memory unit and transmitting the performed
result to the client machine.
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