Method and system for providing service to remote users by inter-computer communications

• US 6,883,142 B2
• Filed: 03/30/2001
• Issued: 04/19/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
• Inventors: Shimamoto, Nobuyuki, Kaneko, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Bautista, X. L.
• Application Number:
  US09/821,794
• Publication Number:
  US 20010037192A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,481 Days
• Field of Search: 345/703, 345/738, 345/740, 345/741, 345/744, 345/745, 345/853, 345/700, 345/764, 345/765, 709/201, 709/203, 709/217, 715/703, 715/738, 715/740, 715/741, 715/744, 715/745, 715/853
• US Class Current: 715/744
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions

Abstract

The present invention provides a system which can automatically select a language of a GUI and transaction conditions according to each user. Through the Internet 20, a sales server 10 provides services such as merchandise sales and merchandise auctions to web clients 30, 40 of many users. The web server 10 stores the language codes indicating preferred languages of all users and notations according to various languages for the items constituting various Web pages. Furthermore, the sales server 10 classifies the users into a plurality of groups and stores transaction conditions customized for each group. When a user logs in, the sales server 10 confirms the user'"'"'s language code and the transaction conditions for that user'"'"'s group and, dynamically generates a web page with contents matching the transaction conditions for the user'"'"'s group, using the item notation with the language of that language code, and sends that web page to the web client of the user to be displayed thereon.

Claims

1. A method for providing service to a remote user from a server system through inter-computer communications between said server system and the client system of said remote user, comprising the steps of:

storing addresses in said server system for a plurality of GUI screens corresponding respectively to a plurality of controlling organizations for distributed control of users; and

upon receiving a service request from a client system of a user, selecting an address corresponding to the controlling organization which controls said user from among said plurality of addresses, and sending a GUI screen for this selected address to the client system of said user in order to provide service to said user from the GUI screen of the controlling organization controlling said user.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

said plurality of controlling organizations are related hierarchically to each other, each of said plurality of controlling organizations is associated with one of said GUI screens.

3. A server system for providing service to a remote user through inter-computer communications between said server system and a client system of said remote user, comprising:

means for storing addresses in said server system for a plurality of GUI screens corresponding respectively to a plurality of controlling organizations for distributed control of users; and

means for selecting, upon recieving a service request from a client system of a user, an address corresponding to the controlling organization which controls said user from among said plurality of addresses, and sending the GUI screen with this selected address to the client system of said user for providing service to said user from the GUI screen of the controlling organization controlling said user.

4. The server system according to claim 3, wherein;

said plurality of controlling organizations are related hierarchically to each other, each of said plurality of controlling organizations is associated with one of said GUI screens.