Electronic shop customer registration method

• US 20090094050A1
• Filed: 10/30/2008
• Published: 04/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nikon Corporation, Nikon Systems Inc. (Nikon Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nikon Corporation, Nikon Systems Inc. (Nikon Corporation)
• Inventors: Yoshida, Shoko, Nagai, Jun, Toida, Takashi, Seki, Miho, Ohmura, Akira, Mitsuhashi, Setsu
• Application Number:
  US12/289,592
• Publication Number:
  US 20090094050A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/346
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/337 Profile generation, learning or modification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/012 Providing warranty services
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/016 After-sales
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0185 Product, service or business identity fraud
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0217 involving input on products or services in exchange for incentives or rewards
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0281 Customer communication at a business location, e.g. providing product or service information, consulting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

A service provider places a server at a data center and a service user searches a website, connecting a terminal to the Internet. When the service user specifies a URL in a website server via a terminal accessible to the Internet, data of content stored onto the server is read out and transmitted to the terminal of the service user. The server stores customer information received from the service user and performs a customer registration as a merchandise purchaser. After completing a customer registration, information advising a membership registration different from a customer registration is transmitted to the service user.

Claims

1. A customer registration method comprising:

a step to receive customer information inclusive of information about a customer that purchases merchandise and information about merchandise that the customer purchases sent from the customer;

a step to store the received customer information onto a storage device and performs a customer registration as a purchaser of merchandise;

a step to register customer authentication information to authenticate a registered customer when performing the customer registration;

a step to perform a membership registration different from the customer registration; and

a step to register membership authentication information to authenticate a registered membership, wherein the customer authentication information agrees with a part or all of the membership information when performing the membership registration.

2. The customer registration method set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

a step to detect whether or not either of the customer registration or the membership registration has been already performed when registering authentication information of either of the customer registration or the membership registration; and

a step to register a part or all of another of registered authentication information as authentication information when either was performed.

6. The customer registration method set forth in claim 1, wherein

each of the customer authentication information and the membership authentication information includes an authentication ID and a password;

an authentication ID of the customer authentication information is caused to be different from that of the membership authentication information; and

a password of the customer authentication information is caused to be identical with that of the membership authentication information.

3. A membership registration method comprising:

a step to cause authentication information of a first membership to be entered when performing a membership registration to earn a second membership with no relationship to the first membership in hierarchical order; and

a step to manage registration information about the first membership and the second membership in a unified way.

4. A membership registration method comprising:

a step to receive authentication information to authenticate a second membership from a membership registration performer when performing a first membership registration as a first member;

a step to gain a second membership registration information as a second member corresponding to the received authentication information;

a step to provide to the membership registration performer a part or all of the gained second membership registration information with information about an item to be entered for a first membership registration; and

a step to store received information from the membership registration performer as a first membership registration information.

5. The membership registration method set forth in claim 4, wherein the authentication information includes an authentication ID and a password and an authentication ID of a first membership is caused to be different from that of a second membership and a password of a first membership is caused to be identical with that of a second membership.