Remote service providing system and charge computing method
First Claim
1. A remote service providing system that, by connecting a measurement device owned by a system user and a service providing device of a service provider via a communications line, transmits measurement data obtained by the measurement device to the service providing device via the communications line and provides a service from the service providing device to the system user via the communications line, wherein the service providing device is provided with a system use information storage portion for storing system use information comprising a system use state of each system user;
- and the remote service providing system comprises a management device having a communications portion connected to the service providing device via the communications line and acquiring from the service providing device the system use information via the communications line, and a charge information processing portion for computing a charge on the basis of the system use state included in the system use information acquired from the communications portion.
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Abstract
A remote service providing system that computes a charge according to the frequency of use of the system by each user by connecting the user and a service provider via a communications line. A host computer (1) of a medical institution (A) stores, as a use state of the system by each patient, the number of times of transmission of measurement data from a personal measurement instrument (3) via a communications device (2) and the number of times that the host computer (1) sent instructive messages of a doctor. A computer (5) of a system manager (D) computes a charge to the patient or the medical institution, on the basis of the system use state acquired from the host computer (1) via the communications line (10).
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20 Claims
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1. A remote service providing system that, by connecting a measurement device owned by a system user and a service providing device of a service provider via a communications line, transmits measurement data obtained by the measurement device to the service providing device via the communications line and provides a service from the service providing device to the system user via the communications line, wherein
the service providing device is provided with a system use information storage portion for storing system use information comprising a system use state of each system user; - and
the remote service providing system comprises a management device having a communications portion connected to the service providing device via the communications line and acquiring from the service providing device the system use information via the communications line, and a charge information processing portion for computing a charge on the basis of the system use state included in the system use information acquired from the communications portion. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A service providing device in a remote service providing system,
the remote service providing system, by connecting a measurement device owned by a system user and a service providing device of a service provider via a communications line, transmits measurement data of the measurement device to the service providing device via the communications line and provides a service from the service providing device to the system user via the communications line, wherein the remote service providing system is provided with a management device for computing a charge on the basis of a system use state of each system user, and the service providing device comprises a system use information storage portion for storing system use information including a system use state of each system user, and a communications portion for transmitting the system use information of each system user to the management device via a communications line.
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13. A management device of a remote service providing system, the remote service providing system, by connecting a measurement device owned by a system user and a service providing device of a service provider via a communications line, transmitting measurement data obtained from the measurement device to the service providing device via the communications line and provides a remote service from the service providing device to the system user via the communications line, the remote management device comprising:
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a communications portion for acquiring system use information comprising a system use state of each system user from the service providing device via the communications line; and
a charge information processing portion for computing a charge on the basis of the system use state included in the system use information acquired through the communications portion. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A charge computing method in a remote service providing system that, by connecting a measurement device owned by a system user and a service providing device of a service provider via a communications line, transmits measurement data to the service providing device via the communications line and provides a remote service from the service providing device to the system user via the communications line, the method comprising:
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storing, in the service providing device, system use information comprising a system use state of each system user;
acquiring from the service providing device the system use information for each system user; and
computing the charge on the basis of the system use state included in the acquired system use information. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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