Service system

• US 8,489,508 B2
• Filed: 10/17/2011
• Issued: 07/16/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Imaging Systems Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Ripplex Inc. (Casio Computer Company Limited)
• Inventors: Naono, Norihiko, Ohnaka, Kunihiko, Okazaki, Mitsutaka
• Primary Examiner(s): CHEUNG, CALVIN K
• Application Number:
  US13/274,483
• Publication Number:
  US 20120095921A1
• Time in Patent Office: 638 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 705/50
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0613 Third-party assisted
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload

Abstract

Multiple service servers can store identification tags, which identify each user, after associating the identification tags with the identification tags of other users; and can also store identification data, which uniquely identifies users across multiple service servers, after associating the identification data with an encryption key for each identification datum. A management server device stores as identification data the user address data encrypted by means of an encryption key that has been generated for each identification datum. A gateway server device receives the identification tags from a first service server, receives the other identification tags associated with the first identification tags, receives the encryption keys associated with the other identification tags, and obtains the encrypted data from the management server. The gateway server device then decodes the encrypted information, and commands delivery that uses the obtained address data.

Claims

1. A gateway server device configured to communicate via network with a user terminal, a first service server, a second service server, a management server, and a gift delivery server, the gateway server device comprising:

at least one processor;

at least one memory;

a first receiving section configured to receive a first identification tag identifying a first user from the first service server;

a second receiving section configured to receive, from the second service server, one or more identification tags of one or more other users associated with the first user identified by the first identification tag received by the first receiving section;

a third receiving section configured to receive a command from the user terminal for selecting an identification tag as a second identification tag from the one or more identification tags of one or more other users, which are received by the second receiving section, wherein the user terminal being operated by the first user identified by the first identification tag;

a fourth receiving section configured to receive from the second service server an encryption key associated with the second identification tag; and

a fifth receiving section configured to receive from the management server encrypted address information of a second user identified by the second identification tag;

a decryption section configured to decrypt the encrypted address information using the encryption key received by the fourth receiving section;

a first sending section configured to send decrypted address information to the gift delivery server.

2. The gateway server device according to claim 1 further comprising:

a sixth receiving section configured to receive address information via the second service server from the second user identified by the second identification tag;

an encryption section configured to generate an encryption key and to generate encrypted address information by encrypting a received address information using the generated encryption key;

a second sending section configured to send the generated encryption key to the second service server together with the second identification tag; and

a third sending section configured to send the second identification tag and the encrypted address information to the management server device.

3. The gateway server device according to claim 1 further comprising:

a seventh receiving section configured to receive information which represents whether received encrypted address information by the fifth receiving section is acceptable or not from the second user identified by the second identification tag.

4. The gateway server device according to claim 1 further comprising:

a fourth sending section configured to send screen information for displaying a first region and a second region, the screen information displaying in the first region the one or more identification tags received by the second receiving section so that the one or more identification tags can be dragged to the second region; and

an fifth sending section configured to send a command for the third receiving section to receive an identification tag dragged to the second region.

5. The gateway server device according to claim 4

wherein

the screen information is information for displaying a third region for displaying information on merchandise and for making dragging information on merchandise to a position at which the displayed identification tag is dragged to the second region, and

the third receiving section includes a eighth receiving section for receiving the command with information on the dragged merchandise.

6. The gateway server device according to claim 1 further comprising a deletion section configured to delete the first identification tag, the one or more identification tags of one or more other users, the encryption key and the encrypted address information, which are received, when a communication session with the first service server is complete.