Gift certificate, gift certificate, issuing system, gift certificate using system

• US 20040210482A1
• Filed: 04/13/2004
• Published: 10/21/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Keneaki, Tetsuhiko
• Application Number:
  US10/823,527
• Publication Number:
  US 20040210482A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0225 Avoiding frauds

Abstract

A purchaser of a gift certificate registers a paying method, a using condition, a password, and a delivery target in a server, using a terminal. The server (issuer) issues the gift certificate that has no face value, a gift certificate number as a specific code, and the using condition, and sends the gift certificate to a registered user. The user who received the gift certificate, in buying a commodity in a store, logs in to the server from a terminal for the store, and inputs the gift certificate number and information of the bought commodity. The server requests input of a password, and, when the correct password is input, makes payment of the commodity by the registered paying method.

Claims

1. A gift certificate comprising a specific code for indicating at least a paying method instead of a face value.

2. A gift certificate according to claim 1, wherein the paying method is performed with a credit card possessed by a purchaser of the gift certificate.

3. A gift certificate according to claim 1, wherein a using condition is entered in the gift certificate.

4. A gift certificate issuing system comprising:

a first display unit for displaying a screen used for inputting an item, the item being required for use of a gift certificate;

a first input unit for receiving an input of the item based on the screen by the first display unit;

a holding unit for capturing the item fed into the first input unit; and

an issuing unit for issuing the gift certificate having a specific code for indicating at least a paying method instead of a face value, based on the item captured into the holding unit.

5. A gift certificate issuing system according to claim 4, further comprising a payment specifying unit based on the item captured into the holding unit.

6. A gift certificate issuing system according to claim 4, wherein the item includes at least one of a using condition in using the gift certificate, a password input in using the gift certificate, and a paying method of the gift certificate.

7. A gift certificate issuing system according to claim 4, wherein the holding unit stores the specific code.

8. A gift certificate issuing system according to claim 4, wherein the issuing unit enters a using condition in the gift certificate.

9. A gift certificate using system comprising:

a second display unit for displaying a screen used for inputting an item, the item being required for use of a gift certificate;

a second input unit for receiving an input of the item based on the screen by the second display unit;

a holding unit for capturing the item fed into the second input unit; and

a paying unit for executing a collation based on the item captured by the holding unit and then executing a predetermined processing based on a collation result.

10. A gift certificate using system according to claim 9, wherein the item includes at least one of a specific code entered in the gift certificate, information of a desired commodity, and a password.

11. A gift certificate using system according to claim 9, wherein the item is displayed in a question form on the second display unit.

12. A gift certificate using system according to claim 9, wherein the processing executed by the paying unit includes at least one of a predetermined paying processing and an invalidating processing of the gift certificate.

13. A gift certificate issuing method comprising the steps of:

displaying a screen used for inputting an item, the item being required for use of a gift certificate;

receiving an input of the item based on the screen;

capturing the input item; and

issuing a gift certificate having a specific code for indicating at least a paying method instead of a face value based on the captured item.

14. A gift certificate using method comprising the steps of:

displaying a screen used for inputting an item, the item being required for use of a gift certificate;

receiving an input of the item based on the screen;

capturing the input item; and

executing a collation based on the captured item and then executing a predetermined processing based on a collation result.

15. A computer program product for issuing a gift certificate comprising the steps of:

displaying a screen used for inputting an item, the item being required for use of a gift certificate;

receiving an input of the item based on the screen;

capturing the input item; and

issuing a gift certificate having a specific code for indicating at least a paying method instead of a face value based on the captured item.

16. A computer program product for using a gift certificate comprising the steps of:

displaying a screen used for inputting an item, the item being required for use of a gift certificate;

receiving an input of the item based on the screen;

capturing the input item; and

executing a collation based on the captured item and then executing a predetermined processing based on a collation result.