Personal information protective method

• US 20050075982A1
• Filed: 08/24/2001
• Published: 04/07/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Miyagawa, Yuichi
• Application Number:
  US10/363,594
• Publication Number:
  US 20050075982A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/64
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6254 by anonymising data, e.g. decorrelating personal data from the owner's identification
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/382 insuring higher security of transaction
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2463/102 applying security measure for e-commerce
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

Personal information of members (10) of a provider (20) are protected when the members (10) have an access to the internet. A provider (20) issues an ID number to a member (10) at the time of making a contract, and issues an ID_P which corresponds to the ID number to have an access to a virtual shop (30) on the internet and manages the ID_P so as to manage personal information of the member (10), and the member (10) has an access to the virtual shop (30) on the internet using the ID_P which is issued when the member (10) has an access to the provider (20) using the ID number. That is, since members (10) of a provider (20) use ID_P owned by the provider (20) when the members (10) have an access to the internet, personal information of members (10) of the provider (20) can be protected. Furthermore, since the provider (20) ascertains the identity of the members (10) and guarantees solvency of charge of the members (10) when the members (10) purchase goods or information at the virtual shops (30) on the WEB site, the safety and certainty of commerce can be secured for the members (10) as well as for the virtual shops (30) on the WEB site.

Claims

1. A method for protecting personal information characterized by comprising:

processing for issuing an ID number to a member;

processing for managing an ID_P for accessing virtual shops on the internet and personal information of the member corresponding to said issued ID number; and

processing for accessing said virtual shops on the internet by using said ID_P in response to a request from the member.

2. The method for protecting personal information as set forth in claim 1, characterized by further comprising:

processing for judging solvency of charge of the member.

3. The method for protecting personal information as set forth in claim 1, characterized by further comprising:

processing for judging solvency of charge of a noncontractual member when said noncontractual member carries out payment confirmation using a payment-confirming apparatus connected to a dedicated terminal.

4. The method for protecting personal information as set forth in claim 1, characterized by further comprising:

processing for generating a plurality of virtual characters which are specialized in information related to the virtual shops to be accessed with reference to said ID_P in one to one relation; and

processing for information-retrieving related to the virtual shops on the internet by requesting retrieval of information to said virtual characters.

5. The method for protecting personal information as set forth in claim 4, characterized by further comprising:

processing for providing different retrieving abilities respectively to said virtual characters.

6. The method for protecting personal information as set forth in claim 4, characterized by further comprising:

processing for sending purchase requests of goods from said plural virtual characters to said virtual shops in a lump.

7. The method for protecting personal information as set forth in claim 4, characterized by further comprising:

processing for managing history of commerce and trouble information done by said plural virtual characters by accessing to said virtual shops; and

processing for providing said managed information when carrying out commerce with said virtual goods next time.

8. The method for protecting personal information as set forth in claim 7, characterized by further comprising:

processing for classifying risks of the commerce in accordance with the trouble history and

processing for insuring when trouble happens by requiring an insurance fee in addition to purchasing charge for goods.

9. The method for protecting personal information as set forth in claim 4, characterized by further comprising:

processing for generating virtual characters related to said ID_P, in one to one relation; and

processing for accumulating history information of retrieved information and goods corresponding to said virtual characters by accessing to the internet utilizing said virtual characters.

10. The method for protecting personal information as set forth in claim 9, characterized by further comprising:

processing for accumulating personal information with reference to said virtual characters.

11. The method for protecting personal information as set forth in claim 9, characterized in which:

management of the data of said virtual characters and the data accumulated by accessing to the internet with regard to the characters are carried out by different servers.

12. The method for protecting personal information as set forth in claim 9, characterized by further comprising:

processing for providing information in accordance with hobbies and tastes of said member extracted from profile of said virtual characters.

13. The method for protecting personal information as set forth in claim 1, characterized by further comprising:

processing for issuing one number per one trade at every enacted trade.

14. The method for protecting personal information as set forth in claim 12, characterized by further comprising:

processing for requiring delivery of goods to a designated deliverer who has contracts on confidentiality in advance while attaching the ID used by the member and the trade number issued to one per one trade; and

processing for providing information related to real name and address of the member in response to inquiry by referring the ID upon said trade of the goods of the designated deliverer and said trade number of the goods.

15. The method for protecting personal information as set forth in claim 12, characterized by further comprising:

processing for informing the virtual shop on the WEB site of an actual shop which is registered in advance or designated at the time of purchasing goods by the member; and

processing for informing the actual shop by the virtual shop which receives an order from the member while attaching the ID used by the member and the trade number issued to one per one trade in addition to said ID when carrying out commerce.