Electronic transaction method and system
First Claim
1. An information processing assistant method executed by an information processing assistant computer for assisting information processing, said assistant computer being connected via a network with a plurality of computers executing said information processing cooperatively with one another, said method comprising:
- in response to a processing request from at least one computer among said plurality of computers to said assistant computer, said request including information necessary for selecting processing procedure, extracting processing procedure corresponding to said processing request from a storage device which stores at least one processing procedure to be used for execution of said information processing and indicative of how said information processing is executed; and
broadcasting said processing procedure thus extracted to at least one computer related to execution of said processing procedure thus extracted.
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Abstract
A server system has stored therein a plurality of electronic transaction procedures corresponding to elements or combinations thereof including means of payment settlement of a purchased commodity, amount of deal, contents of the purchased commodity, financial institutions for making the settlement and so on. The server system selects one of the electronic transaction procedures corresponding to elements or a combination thereof, including means of payment settlement of a commodity to be purchased when a purchase-side client system requests a seller to sell the commodity. The electronic transaction procedure is distributed to the offer-side client, the purchase-side client and the settlement-side client through a communication network. Each of the offer-side client, the purchase-side client and the settlement-side client executes electronic transaction processes according to the distributed electronic transaction procedure. Either all of the selected electronic transaction procedure is distributed from the server system to the client systems at a time or parts of the electronic transaction procedure are successively distributed to the client systems from the server system.
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23 Claims
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1. An information processing assistant method executed by an information processing assistant computer for assisting information processing, said assistant computer being connected via a network with a plurality of computers executing said information processing cooperatively with one another, said method comprising:
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in response to a processing request from at least one computer among said plurality of computers to said assistant computer, said request including information necessary for selecting processing procedure, extracting processing procedure corresponding to said processing request from a storage device which stores at least one processing procedure to be used for execution of said information processing and indicative of how said information processing is executed; and broadcasting said processing procedure thus extracted to at least one computer related to execution of said processing procedure thus extracted. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6, 7, 8)
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2. An information processing assistant computer for assisting information processing, said assistant computer being connected via network with a plurality of computers executing said information processing cooperatively with one another, and comprising:
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a storage device which stores at least one processing procedure to be used for execution of said information processing and indicative of how said information processing is executed; an extracting unit, responsive to a processing request from at least one computer among said plurality of computers, said request including information necessary for selecting processing procedure, for extracting processing procedure corresponding to said processing request from said storage device; and a broadcasting unit for broadcasting said processing procedure thus extracted to at least one computer related to execution of said processing procedure thus extracted. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12)
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3. An information processing assistant method executed by an information processing assistant computer for assisting information processing, said assistant computer being connected via network with a plurality of computers executing said information processing cooperatively with one another, said method comprising:
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in response to a processing request from at least one computer among said plurality of computers to said assistant computer, said request including information necessary for selecting processing procedure, extracting processing procedure corresponding to said processing request from a storage device which stores at least one processing procedure to be used for execution of said information processing and indicative of how said information processing is executed; and transmitting said processing procedure thus extract to at least one computer related to execution of said processing procedure thus extracted. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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4. An information processing assistant method executed by an information processing assistant computer for assisting information processing, said assistant computer being connected via network with a plurality of computers executing said information processing cooperatively with one another, said method comprising:
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in response to a processing request from at least one computer among said plurality of computers to said assistant computer, said request including information necessary for selecting processing procedure, extracting processing procedure corresponding to said processing request from a storage device which stores at least one processing procedure to be used for execution of said information processing is executed; and distributing a part of said processing procedure thus extracted to a computer related to execution of said processing procedure thus extracted, said part corresponding to said processing request and needed by said computer. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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