System for calculating insurance premium

• US 20030236686A1
• Filed: 02/12/2003
• Published: 12/25/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Homma, Nobuyuki, Ikki, Shingo, Ohya, Tetsuharu, Matsumoto, Kiyotaka
• Application Number:
  US10/366,491
• Publication Number:
  US 20030236686A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/4
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/02 Banking, e.g. interest calculation or account maintenance credit or loans G06Q40/03
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance

Abstract

An insurance premium calculation system calculates an insurance premium in consideration of factors other than the distance covered and the number of workdays of an automobile. In order to calculate the insurance premium in accordance with a person (or an automobile) insured more properly, equipment information relative to equipment (or parts) equipped in the automobile is inputted from a store server and a collation system calculates the insurance premium in accordance with points corresponding to each equipment. An insurance contract plan is prepared on the basis of the calculated insurance premium by an insurance company server to be informed to a customer.

Claims

1. A system for calculating an insurance premium, said system including an insurance company server managed by an insurance company which provides automobile insurance and a store server managed by a store which sells equipment relative to an automobile, said insurance company server and said store server being connected through a network, and comprising:

a storage apparatus for storing points previously defined for each equipment and a program;

a receiving apparatus for receiving purchase information of equipment containing an equipment identifier for specifying equipment purchased and an insurance identifier for specifying automobile insurance of a purchaser of the equipment from said store server; and

a control apparatus connected to said storage apparatus and said receiving apparatus, for calculating points corresponding to the equipment identifier on the basis of said received equipment identifier and said storage means in accordance with said program and controlling to store said insurance identifier and said calculated points in a correspondence manner to each other in said storage means, said control apparatus calculating a total value of the points corresponding to said insurance identifier every fixed period defined by the automobile insurance specified by said insurance identifier and calculating information relative to an updated insurance premium of said automobile insurance on the basis of said total value.

2. An insurance premium calculation system according to claim 1, wherein:

said storage apparatus stores, for each insurance identifier, class information indicative of a class of the automobile insurance specified by said insurance identifier, and

said control apparatus calculates information relative to the insurance premium by using a table which is prepared for each class indicated by said class information and in which the points and information relative to the insurance premium are stored in a correspondence manner to each other.

3. An insurance premium calculation system according to claim 1, wherein

said control apparatus calculates, as information relative to the insurance premium, information indicating at least one of a premium of the insurance and a discount of the premium of the insurance.

4. An insurance premium calculation system according to claim 1, wherein

said control apparatus calculates, as information relative to the insurance premium, information indicating a class of the insurance.

5. An insurance premium calculation system according to claim 1, wherein:

said receiving apparatus receives purchase information containing a store identifier for identifying said store, and

said control apparatus controls to store said store identifier in said storage means in a correspondence manner to said insurance identifier and said calculated points, and uses said store identifier to calculate the total value of the points for each store for the fixed period.

6. An insurance premium calculation system according to claim 5, wherein

said control apparatus stores an insurance company identifier indicative of an insurance company issuing insurance specified by said insurance identifier in a correspondence manner to the insurance company in said storage means, and calculates the total value of points for said fixed period of each insurance company for each total value of points for each store on the basis of the total value of points for each store and said insurance company identifier.

7. An insurance premium calculation method using an insurance premium calculation system including an insurance company server managed by an insurance company which provides automobile insurance, a store server managed by a store which sells equipment relative to an automobile, and storage means connected to said insurance company server and said store server through a network, for storing points previously defined for each equipment, comprising:

a step of receiving purchase information of equipment containing an equipment identifier for specifying equipment purchased and an insurance identifier for specifying automobile insurance of a purchaser of the equipment from said store server;

a step of calculating points corresponding to the equipment identifier on the basis of the received equipment identifier and said storage means to store said insurance identifier and said calculated points in a correspondence manner to each other in said storage means;

a step of calculating a total value of the points corresponding to said insurance identifier every fixed period defined by the automobile insurance specified by said insurance identifier; and

a step of calculating information relative to an updated insurance premium of the automobile insurance on the basis of the total value.

8. An insurance premium calculation method according to claim 7, wherein:

said storing step includes storing, for each insurance identifier, class information indicative of a class of the automobile insurance specified by said insurance identifier, and

said step of calculating the insurance premium includes calculating information relative to the insurance premium by using a table which is prepared for each class indicated by said class information and in which the points and information relative to the insurance premium are stored in a correspondence manner to each other.

9. An insurance premium calculation method according to claim 8, wherein

said step of calculating the insurance premium includes calculating, as information relative to the insurance premium, information indicating at least one of a premium of the insurance and a discount of the premium of the insurance.

10. An insurance premium calculation method according to claim 8, wherein

said step of calculating the insurance premium includes calculating, as information relative to the insurance premium, information indicating a class of the insurance.

11. An insurance premium calculation method according to claim 7, wherein:

said receiving step includes receiving purchase information containing store identifier for identifying said store,

said storing step includes a step of storing said store identifier in said storage means in a correspondence manner to said insurance identifier and said calculated points, and

said method further comprises a step of using said store identifier to calculate the total value of the points for each store for the fixed period.

12. An insurance premium calculation method according to claim 11, wherein:

said storing step further includes a step of storing insurance company identifier indicative of an insurance company issuing insurance specified by said insurance identifier in a correspondence manner to the insurance company in said storage means, and

said method further comprises a step of calculating the total value of points for said fixed period of each insurance company for each total value of points for each store on the basis of the total value of points for each store and said insurance company identifier.

13. A program product stored in a storage medium readable by a computer connected through a network to an insurance company server managed by an insurance company which provides automobile insurance and a store server managed by a store which sells equipment relative to an automobile, said program product causing said computer to execute the following steps comprising:

a step of storing points previously defined for each equipment;

a step of receiving purchase information of equipment containing an equipment identifier for specifying equipment purchased and an insurance identifier for specifying automobile insurance of a purchaser of the equipment from said store server;

a step of calculating points corresponding to the equipment identifier on the basis of the received equipment identifier and storage means, and controlling to store said insurance identifier and said calculated points in a correspondence manner to each other in said storage means;

a step of calculating a total value of the points corresponding to said insurance identifier every fixed period defined by the automobile insurance specified by said insurance identifier; and

a step of calculating information relative to an updated insurance premium of said automobile insurance on the basis of said total value.

14. A program product according to claim 13, wherein:

said storing step includes storing, for each insurance identifier, class information indicative of a class of the automobile insurance specified by said insurance identifier, and

said step of calculating information relative to the insurance premium includes calculation using a table which is prepared for each class indicated by said class information and in which the points and information relative to the insurance premium are stored in a correspondence manner to each other.

15. A program product according to claim 13, wherein

said step of calculating information relative to the insurance premium includes calculating, as information relative to the insurance premium, information indicating at least one of a premium of the insurance and a discount of the premium of the insurance.

16. A program product according to claim 14, wherein

said step of calculating information relative to the insurance premium includes calculating, as information relative to the insurance premium, information indicating a class of the insurance.

17. A program product according to claim 13, wherein:

said receiving step includes receiving purchase information containing store identifier for identifying the store, and

said controlling step includes a step of controlling to store said store identifier in said storage means in a correspondence manner to said insurance identifier and said calculated points, and

said program product further comprises a step of using said store identifier to calculate the total value of points for each store for the fixed period.

18. A program product according to claim 17, wherein:

said controlling step further includes a step of storing an insurance company identifier indicative of an insurance company issuing insurance specified by said insurance identifier in a correspondence manner to the insurance company in said storage means, and

said program product further comprises a step of calculating the total value of points for said fixed period of each insurance company for each total value of points for each store on the basis of the total value of points for each store and said insurance company identifier.