Apparatus and method for managing data of rental contracts

• US 20070106563A1
• Filed: 08/01/2006
• Published: 05/10/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aruze Corp.
• Original Assignee: Aruze Corp.
• Inventors: Okada, Kazuo, Fujimoto, Jun
• Application Number:
  US11/496,469
• Publication Number:
  US 20070106563A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]

Abstract

There are disclosed an apparatus and a method for managing data of rental contracts with a plurality of customers. The apparatus is provided with a storage, an input device, and a controller. The storage stores a plurality of contract data, each of which includes a customer ID, item IDs, numbers of items to be applied to rental contracts, a data table of discount rates, dates of the rental contracts, and terms of the rental contracts. The input device receives input of new data, each of which includes a new customer ID, new item IDs, new numbers of items to be applied to new rental contracts, application dates of the new rental contracts, and new terms of the new rental contracts. The controller reads out and sums up the numbers of the items.

Claims

1. An apparatus for managing data of rental contracts with a plurality of customers, the apparatus comprising:

a storage storing a plurality of contract data, each contract datum including a customer ID identifying a customer, one or more item IDs identifying items, one or more numbers of items to be applied to rental contracts, a data table of discount rates respectively determined depending on the number, one or more dates of the rental contracts, and one or more terms of the rental contracts, the customer ID, the item IDs, the numbers, the dates, and the terms being interrelated in each rental contract;

an input device receiving input of new data, each new datum including a new customer ID, one or more new item IDs, one or more new numbers of items to be applied to new rental contracts, one or more application dates of the new rental contracts, and one or more new terms of the new rental contracts; and

a controller reading out and summing up the numbers included in the contract data correspondent to the new customer ID and effective on the application date, from the storage and adding the new numbers of the new rental contracts to the numbers being summed-up to calculate and display a total number of items.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller determines a discount rate correspondent to the total number by referring to the data table of the discount rates.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the storage further stores a price data table of unit prices respectively determined for the items and the controller calculates and displays a total rental fee based on the discount rate, the total number and the price data table.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller calculates and displays a combination of total numbers of items respectively for every combinations of contract data regarding all contracts correspondent to the new customer ID and effective on the application dates and the new data regarding the new applications.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the controller determines discount rates respectively for all the total numbers by referring the data table of discount rates.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the storage further stores a price data table of unit prices respectively determined for the items and the controller calculates and displays a combination of total rental fees based on the discount rates, the combination of the total numbers and the price data table.

7. A method for managing data of rental contracts with a plurality of customers, the method comprising:

storing a plurality of contract data in a storage, each contract datum including a customer ID identifying a customer, one or more item IDs identifying items, one or more numbers of items to be applied to rental contracts, a data table of discount rates, one or more dates of the rental contracts, and one or more terms of the rental contracts, the customer ID, the item IDs, the numbers, the dates, and the terms being interrelated in each rental contract;

receiving input of new data via an input device, the new data including a new customer ID, one or more new item IDs, one or more new numbers of items to be applied to new rental contracts, one or more application dates of the new rental contracts, one or more new terms of the new rental contracts;

reading out and summing up the numbers included in the contract data correspondent to the new customer ID and effective on the application date, from the storage;

calculating a total number of items by adding the new numbers of the new rental contracts to the numbers being summed-up; and

displaying the total number on a display.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

determining a discount rate correspondent to the total number by referring to the data table of the discount rates.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

storing a price data table of unit prices respectively determined for the items;

calculating a total rental fee based on the discount rate, the total number and the price data table; and

displaying the total rental fee on the display.

10. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

calculating a combination of total numbers of items respectively for every combinations of contract data regarding all contracts effective on the application dates and the new data regarding the new applications; and

displaying the combination of the total numbers of items on the display.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

determining discount rates respectively for all the total numbers by referring the data table of discount rates.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

storing a price data table of unit prices respectively determined for the items in the storage;

calculating a combination of total rental fees based on the discount rates, the combination of the total numbers and the price data table; and

displaying the combination of the total rental fees on the display.

13. A computer readable medium storing a program for operation of a computer, the computer readable medium comprising:

a storing routine storing a plurality of contract data in a storage, each contract datum including a customer ID identifying a customer, one or more item IDs identifying items, one or more numbers of items to be applied to rental contracts, a data table of discount rates, one or more dates of the rental contracts, and one or more terms of the rental contracts, the customer ID, the item IDs, the numbers, the dates, and the terms being interrelated in each rental contract;

an input routine receiving input of new data via an input device, the new data including a new customer ID, one or more new item IDs, one or more new numbers of items to be applied to new rental contracts, one or more application dates of the new rental contracts, one or more new terms of the new rental contracts;

a summing routine reading out and summing up the numbers included in the contract data correspondent to the new customer ID and effective on the application date, from the storage;

a calculation routine calculating a total number of items by adding the new numbers of the new rental contracts to the numbers being summed-up; and

a display routine displaying the total number on a display.