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Electronic commerce method, electronic commerce system, certificate terminal, and principal certification method by agent

  • US 20050222932A1
  • Filed: 05/18/2005
  • Published: 10/06/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2003
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. An electronic commerce method in which an orderer places an order for a commodity with an order receiver via a network and receives the commodity, wherein the orderer inputs certificate information for identifying the orderer himself/herself to a certificate terminal when placing an order for the commodity, the certificate terminal encrypts the certificate information by a predetermined encryption key, sends encrypted certificate information to the order receiver together with an order form of the commodity via the network, and holds the certificate information and a decryption key for decrypting the encrypted certificate information, a person in charge of delivery of the order receiver, when delivering the commodity, inputs the encrypted certificate information received from the certificate terminal when the order was placed for the commodity, and the orderer inputs terminal certification data showing that he/she is the valid owner of the certificate terminal to the certificate terminal, the certificate terminal, after certifying by the data that the orderer is the valid owner of the certificate terminal, decodes the encrypted certificate information, which has been input by the person in charge of delivery, by the decryption key held in the certificate terminal, verifies decrypted certificate information with the certificate information held in the certificate terminal, and, when the certificate information match, notifies it to the orderer, the person in charge of delivery, and the order receiver, and the person in charge of delivery executes handing over of the commodity to the orderer on receiving verification-matched notification from the certificate terminal.

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