INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20100145850A1
• Filed: 04/15/2008
• Published: 06/10/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Arisumi, Yoshinobu, Shibata, Takeshi, Nagai, Hiroaki
• Granted Patent: US 9,911,113 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/41
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/0655 e-cash managed centrally
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/105 involving programming of a portable memory device, e.g. IC cards, "electronic purses"
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/16 Payments settled via telecommunication systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/18 involving self-service terminals [SST], vending machines, kiosks or multimedia terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/2295 Parent-child type, e.g. where parent has control on child rights
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/32 using wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/322 Aspects of commerce using mobile devices [M-devices]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3227 using secure elements embedded in M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/349 Rechargeable cards
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/352 Contactless payments by cards
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/363 with the personal data of a user
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/42 Confirmation, e.g. check or permission by the legal debtor of payment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing

Abstract

An electronic money server groups a parent who owns a parent mobile phone and children who own child mobile phones to be registered as a family, and credit information of the parent is also registered. When the child accesses the electronic money server by using the child mobile phone and specifies a money amount to request family charge, the electronic money server requests the parent mobile phone for permission of the family charge. When the parent grants the family charge, the electronic money server allows the parent mobile phone to decrease a value by the money amount specified by the child and to make the family settlement, and allows the child mobile phone to increase the value by this money amount and to effect the family charge. Further, the child mobile phone can accept issue of credit from a credit server on credit of the parent, thereby effecting the family charge.

Claims

1-15. -15. (canceled)

16. An information processing device that executes information processing with respect to a portable terminal that includes a function of increasing/decreasing a stored monetary value based on increase information or decrease information, the information processing device comprising:

correspondence storing means for storing intrinsic information that is used to enable a representative to make settlement and the portable terminal owned by a regular person in association with each other in regard to a group including the representative and the regular person;

increase request accepting means for accepting an increase request for the monetary value of a predetermined money amount from the portable terminal;

settlement means for making settlement of the predetermined money amount requested to increase on defrayment of the representative by using the associated intrinsic information; and

increase information transmitting means for transmitting the increase information that is used to increase the monetary value of the predetermined money amount requested to increase to the portable terminal.

17. The information processing device according to claim 16, comprising restrictive condition storing means for storing restrictive conditions when transmitting the increase information to the portable terminal,

wherein the increase information transmitting means transmits the increase information in accordance with the stored restrictive conditions.

18. The information processing device according to claim 16 or 17, wherein the intrinsic information is transmission destination information for a settlement terminal that is owned by the representative and decreases a stored monetary value based on the decrease information,

the information processing device comprises connection request transmitting means for transmitting a connection request to the settlement terminal by using the transmission destination information, and

the settlement means makes settlement by transmitting the decrease information that is used to decrease the monetary value of the predetermined money amount to the settlement terminal connected in response to the connection request.

19. The information processing device according to claim 18, wherein the increase information transmitting means transmits the increase information after the settlement means makes settlement in the settlement terminal.

20. The information processing device according to claim 18, wherein the settlement means makes settlement in the settlement terminal after the increase information transmitting means transmits the increase information to the portable terminal.

21. The information processing device according to claim 18, comprising settlement permission request transmitting means for transmitting a settlement permission request to the settlement terminal by using the transmission destination information,

wherein the settlement means makes settlement when it receives a permission notification with respect to the transmitted settlement permission request from the settlement terminal.

22. The information processing device according to claim 21, wherein, when no response is returned from the settlement terminal within a predetermined time after the settlement permission request is transmitted, the increase information transmitting means transmits the increase information that is used to increase the monetary value of the predetermined money amount requested to increase to the portable terminal.

23. The information processing device according to claim 18, comprising transmission date and hour accepting means for accepting a setting of a date and hour that the increase information is transmitted from the portable terminal,

wherein the settlement means transmits the decrease information to the settlement terminal until the accepted transmission date and hour, and the increase information transmitting means transmits the increase information to the portable terminal after the transmission date and hour.

24. The information processing device according to claim 16, wherein the correspondence storing means stores credit information of the representative as second intrinsic information,

the information processing device comprises credit acquiring means for acquiring credit of the representative from a credit server by using the stored credit information, and

the settlement means makes settlement based on the acquired credit when a predetermined condition is met.

25. The information processing device according to claim 24, comprising balance confirming means for confirming a balance of the monetary value in the settlement terminal,

wherein the predetermined condition is that the confirmed balance is equal to or below a predetermined money amount.

26. The information processing device according to claim 16, wherein the intrinsic information is credit information of the representative,

the information processing device comprises credit acquiring means for acquiring credit of the representative from a credit server by using the stored credit information, and

the settlement means makes settlement by using the acquired credit.

27. The information processing device according to claim 26, comprising monetary value storing means for storing a monetary value generated by using the credit in advance,

wherein the settlement means makes settlement by decreasing the predetermined amount from the stored monetary value.

28. The information processing device according to claim 27, wherein the monetary value storing means is capable of storing a monetary value in accordance with each portable terminal,

the information processing device comprises distributing means for distributing the generated monetary value in accordance with each portable terminal based on a preset distribution amount and storing the same in the monetary value storing means, and

the increase information transmitting means transmits the increase information that is used to increase a money amount of the monetary value distributed to the portable terminal when the portable terminal issues an increase request.

29. An information processing method for using a computer to execute information processing with respect to a portable terminal that includes a function of increasing/decreasing a stored monetary value based on increase information or decrease information,

the computer comprising:

correspondence storing means for storing intrinsic information that is used to enable a representative to make settlement and the portable terminal owned by a regular person in association with each other in regard to a group including the representative and the regular person;

increase request accepting means;

settlement means; and

increase information transmitting means,

the method comprising;

an increase request accepting step of accepting an increase request for the monetary value of a predetermined money amount from the portable terminal by the increase request accepting means;

making settlement of the predetermined amount requested to increase on defrayment of the representative by using the associated intrinsic information by the settlement means; and

transmitting the increase information that is used to increase the monetary value of the predetermined amount requested to increase to the portable terminal by the increase information transmitting means.

30. An information processing device that executes information processing through a communication terminal with respect to a monetary terminal including a function of increasing/decreasing a stored monetary value based on increase information or decrease information, the information processing device comprising:

correspondence storing means for storing intrinsic information that is used to allow a representative to make settlement and the monetary terminal owned by a regular person in association with each other in regard to a group including the representative and the regular person;

increase request accepting means for accepting an increase request for the monetary value of the predetermined money amount for the monetary terminal from the communication terminal;

settlement means for making settlement of the predetermined money amount requested to increase on defrayment of the representative by using the associated intrinsic information;

connecting means for achieving connection with the monetary terminal through the communication terminal; and

increase information transmitting means for transmitting the increase information that is used to increase the monetary value of the predetermined money amount requested to increase to the connected monetary terminal.