Information processing device, information processing method, and information processing program product

• US 10,043,161 B2
• Filed: 06/29/2012
• Issued: 08/07/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Rakuten, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Suzukake, Wataru
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Tien C
• Application Number:
  US14/411,255
• Publication Number:
  US 20150206105A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,230 Days
• Field of Search: 705 39, 705 37, 705 38, 705 65, 705 80, 705 42, 235379, 235380, 235381, 345173, 345684, 715743, 715750, 715835, 715859, 703 27, 707501, 707526, 709200, 709203, 4554351, 455457
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/0655 e-cash managed centrally
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/105 involving programming of a portable memory device, e.g. IC cards, "electronic purses"
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3226 Use of secure elements separate from M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3676 Balancing accounts

Abstract

An object is to provide a mechanism for giving an instruction to transfer value by an operation which is close to exchange of cash in terms of sense. A portable terminal incorporates a general-purpose IC chip storing a terminal-side value balance and can connect to an electronic money server via the Internet. In the electronic money server, a server-side value balance corresponding to the portable terminal is stored. The electronic money server and the portable terminal operate in cooperation with each other, and value can be transferred between the terminal-side value balance and the server-side value balance. The portable terminal displays a value transfer screen by a user interface and can accept the amount of value to be transferred and the direction of transfer from the value transfer screen by a user'"'"'s touch operation.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

at least one memory operable to store computer program code;

at least one processor operable to read said computer program code and operate according to said program code, the program code including;

displaying code configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to display one or more objects, each indicating a unit amount, in a predetermined position on a screen;

detecting code configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to detect a user instruction position on the screen;

region identifying code configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to identify a display region of the object, the display region including the user instruction position;

direction identifying code configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to identify a direction of a slide shift when, from a state in which the user instruction position is included in the identified display region, the user instruction position or another user instruction position detected by the detecting code is slid; and

instructing code configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to perform transfer of value identified by using a transfer amount of value determined by using the unit amount indicated by the object corresponding to the identified display region and a transfer direction of value determined based on the identified direction of the slide shift, wherein

the displaying code is further configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to dispose two or more regions on the screen, the two or more regions respectively corresponding to two or more values, and display the one or more objects in a position overlapping a boundary line or a boundary region of the two regions,

when the user instruction position detected is slid from a state in which the user instruction position is not included in any of the identified display region, the region identifying code is further configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to identify a display region of the object including the user instruction position on a trajectory of the slide shift,

when the user instruction position is further slid from a state in which the user instruction position is included in the identified display region, the direction identifying code is further configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to identify a direction from a first region indicating a rear region with respect to a travelling direction of the slide shift to a second region indicating a front region, and

the instructing code is further configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to determine a direction from a first value corresponding to the first region to a second value corresponding to the second region as the transfer direction of value.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

when the direction of the slide shift is identified by the direction identifying code multiple times by a predetermined point of time after the display region of the object is first identified by the region identifying code, the instructing code is further configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to determine the transfer amount of value by using an accumulated amount which is obtained by performing addition of the unit amounts indicated by the objects corresponding to the display regions identified by the region identifying code a number of times the direction of the slide shift is identified by the direction identifying code.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein

the instructing code is further configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to calculate an accumulated amount which is obtained by performing addition of the unit amounts a number of times the direction of the slide shift is identified by the direction identifying code from a point of time at which the display region is identified by the region identifying code for each unit amount indicated by the object corresponding to the display region identified by the region identifying code to a predetermined point of time and determines the transfer amount of value by using a total amount of the accumulated amounts.

4. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein

the instructing code is further configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to add the unit amounts as negative values a number of times a direction opposite to a direction identified first by the direction identifying code is identified.

5. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein

when the direction identifying code identifies, at almost a same time, directions of a plurality of slide shifts occurred at almost a same time, a number of the slide shifts identified at almost the same time is counted as a number of times the direction of the slide shift is identified.

6. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

when a display region of a same object is consecutively identified multiple times by the region identifying code before the direction of the slide shift is identified by the direction identifying code, the instructing code is further configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to determine the transfer amount of value by using an accumulated amount obtained by addition of the unit amount indicated by the object corresponding to the identified display region a number of times the display region is identified.

7. The information processing device according to claim 6, wherein

when the direction of the slide shift is identified by the direction identifying code multiple times, the instructing code is further configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to calculate an accumulated amount obtained by addition of a unit amount a number of times a same display region is identified by the region identifying code from a predetermined point of time before a direction is identified for each of the directions of the slide shifts identified by the direction identifying code to a point of time at which the direction is identified, the unit amount indicated by the object corresponding to the identified display region, and determine the transfer amount of value by using a total amount of the accumulated amounts.

8. The information processing device according to claim 7, wherein

when a direction opposite to a direction identified first by the direction identifying code is identified, the instructing code is further configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to add the unit amounts as negative values a number of times a display region is identified by the region identifying code before the opposite direction is identified by the direction identifying code.

9. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

when a plurality of different user instruction positions are detected at a same time, the region identifying code is further configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to identify display regions of a plurality of different objects, each including a corresponding one of the plurality of user instruction positions,

when the plurality of user instruction positions or another user instruction position is slid from a state in which the plurality of different user instruction positions are included in the identified different display regions, the direction identifying code is further configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to identify the direction of the slide shift, and

the instructing code is further configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to determine the transfer amount of value by using the unit amounts indicated by the plurality of different objects corresponding to the identified different display regions.

10. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the direction identifying code is further configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to identify a direction from the first region indicating a region including a position detected by the detecting code at a point of time before a point of time at which a position of the user instruction positions on a trajectory of the slide shift, the position on a boundary line or in a boundary region of two regions, is detected to the second region indicating a region including a position detected by the detecting code at a later point of time.

11. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the direction identifying code is further configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to identify, by using a state of motion of the slide shift which is calculated from temporal changes in the user instruction position detected by the detecting code, the direction from the first region indicating a rear region with respect to a travelling direction of the slide shift to the second region indicating a front region.

12. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

determining code configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to determine whether or not at least one of a balance of electronic value stored on a server'"'"'s side and a balance of electronic value stored on a side of a storing medium carried by a user is less than or equal to a predetermined amount or less than the predetermined amount; and

starting code is further configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to begin displaying, when the determining code determines that at least one of the balance of electronic value stored on a server'"'"'s side and the balance of electronic value stored on a side of the storing medium carried by a user is less than the predetermined amount or less than or equal to the predetermined amount.

13. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the displaying code is further configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to change the unit amounts indicated by the objects displayed on the screen in accordance with at least one of a balance of electronic value stored on a server'"'"'s side and a balance of electronic value stored on a side of a storing medium carried by a user.

14. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the displaying code is further configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to display, on the screen, at least one object indicating, as a unit amount, an amount obtained by predetermined numerical calculation which is performed on at least one of a balance of electronic value stored on a server'"'"'s side and a balance of electronic value stored on a side of a storing medium carried by a user.

15. An information processing method performed by a computer, the method comprising:

displaying one or more objects, each indicating a unit amount, in a predetermined position on a screen;

identifying a display region of the object, the display region including a user instruction position detected on the screen;

identifying a direction of a slide shift when the detected user instruction position or another user instruction position is slid from a state in which the user instruction position is included in the identified display region; and

transferring value identified by using a transfer amount of value determined by using the unit amount indicated by the object corresponding to the identified display region and a transfer direction of value determined based on the identified direction of the slide shift, wherein

the displaying further includes disposing two or more regions on the screen, the two or more regions respectively corresponding to two or more values, and display the one or more objects in a position overlapping a boundary line or a boundary region of the two regions,

when the user instruction position detected is slid from a state in which the user instruction position is not included in any of the identified display region, the identifying a display region further includes identifying a display region of the object including the user instruction position on a trajectory of the slide shift,

when the user instruction position is further slid from a state in which the user instruction position is included in the identified display region, the direction identifying further includes identifying a direction from a first region indicating a rear region with respect to a travelling direction of the slide shift to a second region indicating a front region, and

the transferring further includes determining a direction from a first value corresponding to the first region to a second value corresponding to the second region as the transfer direction of value.

16. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to:

display one or more objects, each indicating a unit amount, in a predetermined position on a screen;

identify a display region of the object, the display region including a user instruction position detected on the screen;

identify a direction of a slide shift when the user instruction position or another user instruction position detected is slid from a state in which the user instruction position is included in the identified display region; and

transfer of value identified by using a transfer amount of value determined by using the unit amount indicated by the object corresponding to the identified display region and a transfer direction of value determined based on the identified direction of the slide shift, wherein

the display further includes disposing two or more regions on the screen, the two or more regions respectively corresponding to two or more values, and display the one or more objects in a position overlapping a boundary line or a boundary region of the two regions,

when the user instruction position detected is slid from a state in which the user instruction position is not included in any of the identified display region, the identification of a display region further includes identifying a display region of the object including the user instruction position on a trajectory of the slide shift,

when the user instruction position is further slid from a state in which the user instruction position is included in the identified display region, the direction identification further includes identifying a direction from a first region indicating a rear region with respect to a travelling direction of the slide shift to a second region indicating a front region, and

the transfer further includes determining a direction from a first value corresponding to the first region to a second value corresponding to the second region as the transfer direction of value.