Information processing device and information processing method

• US 9,911,113 B2
• Filed: 04/15/2008
• Issued: 03/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Nagai, Hiroaki, Arisumi, Yoshinobu, Shibata, Takeshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Hamilton, Sara C
• Application Number:
  US12/596,234
• Publication Number:
  US 20100145850A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,612 Days
• Field of Search: 705 39, 235380
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/0655 e-cash managed centrally
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/105 involving programming of a portable memory device, e.g. IC cards, "electronic purses"
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/16 Payments settled via telecommunication systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/18 involving self-service terminals [SST], vending machines, kiosks or multimedia terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/2295 Parent-child type, e.g. where parent has control on child rights
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/32 using wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/322 Aspects of commerce using mobile devices [M-devices]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3227 using secure elements embedded in M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3278 RFID or NFC payments by means of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/349 Rechargeable cards
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/352 Contactless payments by cards
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/363 with the personal data of a user
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/42 Confirmation, e.g. check or permission by the legal debtor of payment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing

Abstract

An electronic money server groups a parent who owns a parent mobile phone and children who own child mobile phones to be registered as a family, and credit information of the parent is also registered. When the child accesses the electronic money server by using the child mobile phone and specifies a money amount to request family charge, the electronic money server requests the parent mobile phone for permission of the family charge. When the parent grants the family charge, the electronic money server allows the parent mobile phone to decrease a value by the money amount specified by the child and to make the family settlement, and allows the child mobile phone to increase the value by this money amount and to effect the family charge. Further, the child mobile phone can accept issue of credit from a credit server on credit of the parent, thereby effecting the family charge.

Claims

1. An information processing system, comprising:

a first mobile device and a second mobile device, wherein the first and second mobile devices each include an IC chip, and wherein the IC chip includes an antenna configured to perform near field communication;

an electronic money terminal configured to communicate with at least one of the first mobile device and the second mobile device by near field communication via the antenna; and

a server including a processor, a storage device and a communication control device;

wherein the first mobile device stores a first monetary value and the second mobile device stores a second monetary value, and wherein the second mobile device is configured to send a charge request to the server to change the second monetary value in the second mobile device;

wherein the storage device is configured to store a family information for a family group including a first person and a second person, wherein the first person is associated with the first mobile device and the second person is associated with the second mobile device;

wherein the communication control device is configured to perform wireless communication with at least one of the first mobile device and the second mobile device via a base station,

wherein the communication control device transmits a charge request notification to the first mobile device when the server receives the charge request from the second mobile device, and the charge request notification is based on a confirmation of the family information,

wherein the processor is configured to obtain a balance of the first monetary value stored in the first mobile device, and

wherein the communication control device is configured to;

(a) when a response that grants permission for the charge request is received from the first mobile device within a predetermined time, transmit decrease information to the first mobile device, wherein based on the decrease information, the first mobile device executes a family settlement by decreasing the balance of the first monetary value in the first mobile device by a money amount corresponding to the charge request; and

transmit increase information to the second mobile device through the electronic money terminal, wherein based on the increase information the second mobile device executes a family charge by increasing a balance of the second monetary value in the second mobile device by the money amount corresponding to the charge request; and

(b) when the response that grants permission for the charge request is not received from the first mobile device within the predetermined time, transmit a request to a credit server to issue credit corresponding to the money amount of the charge request, generate monetary value based on the credit and transmit increase information to the second mobile device through the electronic money terminal, wherein based on the increase information the second mobile device executes the family charge by increasing a balance of the second monetary value in the second mobile device by the money amount corresponding to the charge request.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the family information includes at least one of a family ID, a family password, a family account number, or an electronic mail address.

3. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the second person does not have credit information registered in the family information.

4. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the first and second mobile devices each include a phone function unit, and wherein the phone function unit and the IC chip are connected through an interface unit.

5. The information processing system according to claim 4, wherein the IC chip includes a value processing unit, and the value processing unit is configured to change the first and second monetary value stored in the first mobile device or the second mobile device.

6. The information processing system according to claim 4, wherein the IC chip includes a high-frequency circuit configured to communicate with the electronic money terminal.

7. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the family information includes credit information.