Maintenance cost management device and user device
First Claim
1. A maintenance cost management device provided with a point storage portion that stores a user'"'"'s maintenance points for a devise that receives maintenance;
- wherein an accumulative fee paid regularly by the device user is converted to points, and added to the device user'"'"'s maintenance points stored in the point storage portion; and
wherein, after maintenance has been performed, a maintenance cost is settled by subtracting a number of points corresponding to the maintenance cost from the maintenance points in the point storage portion.
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Abstract
A user of devices (1) to (3) pays a predetermined accumulated fee to a device maker through a finance company every month. For each device of each user, a server (B) of the maker converts the sum of the accumulative fee into maintenance points and stores them in a point management table (6). After maintenance, the server (B) subtracts the points corresponding to the maintenance charge from the maintenance points to settle the maintenance cost. Service points are given according to an operation record sent from the devices (1) to (3) through a communications network (5) and a discount is given corresponding to the service points when the maintenance cost is settled.
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10 Claims
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1. A maintenance cost management device provided with a point storage portion that stores a user'"'"'s maintenance points for a devise that receives maintenance;
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wherein an accumulative fee paid regularly by the device user is converted to points, and added to the device user'"'"'s maintenance points stored in the point storage portion; and
wherein, after maintenance has been performed, a maintenance cost is settled by subtracting a number of points corresponding to the maintenance cost from the maintenance points in the point storage portion. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A computer-readable program storage medium on which a program is stored that executes processes of:
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converting an accumulative fee paid regularly by a device user into points;
adding the points to the device user'"'"'s maintenance points in a point storage portion storing the device user'"'"'s maintenance points; and
settling a maintenance cost after maintenance has been performed by subtracting points from the maintenance points in the point storage portion in accordance with the maintenance cost.
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Specification