INFORMATION PROVISION SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROVISION METHOD

• US 20170300889A1
• Filed: 03/15/2017
• Published: 10/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2016
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Watanabe, Naoki, Ikumi, Tomonori, Takahata, Masami
• Application Number:
  US15/459,074
• Publication Number:
  US 20170300889A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/209 Specified transaction journal output feature, e.g. printed receipt or voice output
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/342 Cards defining paid or billed services or quantities
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0045 with a code reader for reading of an identifying code of the article to be registered, e.g. barcode reader or radio-frequency identity [RFID] reader
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 5/00 Receipt-giving machines cash registers giving receipts G07G1/00

Abstract

According to one embodiment, After a payment is completed, the notification unit notifies transaction information and a transaction code. The issuing unit issues a voucher on which a visible code representing the transaction code is printed. The creation unit creates provision information based on the notified transaction information. The created provision information is stored in the storage unit in a state of being associated with the transaction code. The reading unit optically reads the visible code that is printed on the voucher. The request unit makes a request for information provision, which is accompanied by the notification of the transaction code that is represented by the visible code. The transaction unit transmits the provision information that is stored in the state of being associated with the transmission code that is notified. The output unit outputs the provision information that is transmitted.

Claims

1. An information provision system comprising:

a payment terminal;

an information provision apparatus; and

an information terminal,

wherein the payment terminal includes

a payment unit configured to make a payment of a price relating to a commercial transaction,

a notification unit configured to notify the information provision apparatus of transaction information indicating contents of the commercial transaction and a transaction code for identifying the commercial transaction, after the payment is completed by the payment unit, and

an issuing unit configured to issue a voucher on which a visible code that represents the transaction code in an optically readable manner is printed,

wherein the information provision apparatus includes

a creation unit configured to create provision information that is provided to a person who makes a payment for the commercial transaction relating to the transaction information, based on the transaction information that is notified by the notification unit, and

a storage unit configured to store the provision information that is created by the creation unit, in a state of being associated with the transaction code that is notified along with the transaction information, based on which the provision information is created,

wherein the information terminal includes

a reading unit configured to optically read the visible code that is printed on the voucher, and

a request unit configured to make a request to the information provision apparatus for information provision, which is accompanied by the notification of the transaction code that is represented by the visible code which is read by the reading unit,

wherein the information provision apparatus further includes

a transmission unit configured to transmit to the information terminal the provision information which is stored in the storage unit in the state of being associated with the transaction code that is notified when the request is made by the request unit, and

wherein the information terminal further includes

an output unit configured to output the provision information which is transmitted by the transmission unit, in a such a manner that the provision information is recognizable to an operator of the information terminal.

2. The system according to claim 1,

wherein the output unit prints contents of the provision information in such a manner that the contents are visually observable to the operator.

3. The system according to claim 1,

wherein the information provision apparatus further includes

a deletion unit configured to delete the provision information that satisfies a condition which is determined in advance, from the storage unit.

4. The system according to claim 3,

wherein the information terminal further includes

an informing unit configured to inform the operator that the provision information is not stored, if the provision information is not stored in the storage unit, in the state of being associated with the transaction code that is represented by the visible code which is read by the reading unit.

5. An information provision method that is performed by a payment terminal, an information provision apparatus, and an information terminal,

wherein the payment terminal

makes a payment of a price relating to a commercial transaction,

notifies the information provision apparatus of transaction information indicating contents of the commercial transaction and a transaction code for identifying the commercial transaction, after the payment is completed, and

issues a voucher on which a visible code that represents the transaction code in an optically readable manner is printed,

wherein the information provision apparatus

creates provision information that is provided to a person who makes a payment for the commercial transaction relating to the transaction information, based on the transaction information that is notified, and

stores the provision information that is created, in a state of being associated with the transaction code that is notified along with the transaction information, based on which the provision information is created,

wherein the information terminal

optically reads the visible code that is printed on the voucher, and

makes a request to the information provision apparatus for information provision, which is accompanied by the notification of the transaction code that is represented by the visible code which is read,

wherein the information provision apparatus further

transmits to the information terminal the provision information which is stored in the state of being associated with the transaction code that is notified when the request is made, and

wherein the information terminal further

outputs the provision information which is transmitted, in a such a manner that the provision information is recognizable to an operator of the information terminal.