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Membership qualification processing system and method thereof

  • US 7,392,196 B2
  • Filed: 12/28/2000
  • Issued: 06/24/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A processing system, comprising:

  • a storing device storing a plurality of membership qualification tables of a plurality of independent services provided by a plurality of respective different organizations in a membership qualification system, each of the plurality of membership qualification tables including qualification criterion information for qualifying membership of a corresponding service and defining a prescribed service of which a user ought to be a member to have a membership qualification for the corresponding service, and identification information of a first service of the plurality of services being included by qualification criterion information for qualifying membership of a second service of the plurality of services for indicating the prescribed service;

    a receiving device receiving information of a user for whom membership qualification is performed;

    a first determining device determining, in response to the information of the user, whether the user is utilizing the first service when the user requests membership in the second service; and

    a second determining device determining that the user has a membership qualification for the second service by referring to the membership qualification table of the second service and checking that the identification information of the first service is included in the qualification criterion information of the second service when the user is utilizing the first service.

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