INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM

• US 20150006368A1
• Filed: 02/20/2014
• Published: 01/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: TANAKA, Noriaki
• Application Number:
  US14/184,901
• Publication Number:
  US 20150006368A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/39
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/10 specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/227 characterised in that multiple accounts are available, e.g. to the payer

Abstract

An information processing device includes an information acquiring unit that, in the case in which a pay service is provided to a user, acquires fee calculation information used to calculate a fee for the service, a selecting unit that, in the case in which a plurality of payment methods exist for a fee calculated on the basis of fee calculation information acquired by the information acquiring unit, selects at least one payment method from among the plurality of payment methods, on the basis of influence information that potentially influences selection of the payment method, and a sending unit that sends, to a destination depending on the payment method selected by the selecting unit, charge information used to charge a fee calculated on the basis of the acquired fee calculation information.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

an information acquiring unit that, in the case in which a pay service is provided to a user, acquires fee calculation information used to calculate a fee for the service;

a selecting unit that, in the case in which a plurality of payment methods exist for a fee calculated on the basis of fee calculation information acquired by the information acquiring unit, selects at least one payment method from among the plurality of payment methods, on the basis of influence information that potentially influences selection of the payment method; and

a sending unit that sends, to a destination depending on the payment method selected by the selecting unit, charge information used to charge a fee calculated on the basis of the acquired fee calculation information.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a specifying unit that, in the case in which the service is provided by any of a plurality of output devices, specifies which payment methods by which to pay a fee of the service are available for use on the output device that provided the service;

wherein, in the case in which the specifying unit specifies a plurality of payment methods, the selecting unit selects the plurality of payment methods as a plurality of payment methods for a fee calculated on the basis of the acquired fee calculation information.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the selecting unit selects the payment method using a fee of the service calculated on the basis of the acquired fee calculation information as the influence information.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the selecting unit selects the payment method using a time period when the service is provided as the influence information.

5. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an attribute acquiring unit that acquires attribute information indicating attributes of a user;

wherein the selecting unit selects the payment method using an attribute indicated by attribute information acquired by the attribute acquiring unit as the influence information.

6. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the selecting unit selects the payment method using a type of the service provided to the user as the influence information.

7. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the payment methods include a method of paying the fee at a second location that differs from a first location at which the service is provided, and

the selecting unit selects the payment method using a distance between the first location and the second location as the influence information.

8. The information processing device according to claim 7, wherein

in the case in which the selecting unit selects a method of paying the fee at the second location, the sending unit sends, to the output device, the charge information including route data indicating a route to the second location.

9. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the selecting unit selects a plurality of the payment methods on the basis of the influence information, and

the sending unit sends notification information for notifying the user to select one of a plurality of payment methods selected by the selecting unit, and sends the charge information to a destination depending on the payment method selected by the user.

10. An information processing method comprising:

in the case in which a pay service is provided to a user, acquiring fee calculation information used to calculate a fee for the service;

in the case in which a plurality of payment methods exist for a fee calculated on the basis of acquired fee calculation information, selecting at least one payment method from among the plurality of payment methods, on the basis of influence information that potentially influences selection of the payment method; and

sending, to a destination depending on the selected payment method, charge information used to charge a fee calculated on the basis of the acquired fee calculation information.

11. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for processing information, the process comprising:

in the case in which a pay service is provided to a user, acquiring fee calculation information used to calculate a fee for the service;

in the case in which a plurality of payment methods exist for a fee calculated on the basis of acquired fee calculation information, selecting at least one payment method from among the plurality of payment methods, on the basis of influence information that potentially influences selection of the payment method; and

sending, to a destination depending on the selected payment method, charge information used to charge a fee calculated on the basis of the acquired fee calculation information.