Patent ID: 11907951
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A server comprising
a processor comprising hardware, the processor being configured to:
acquire store position information of a store where a user has entered, the store position information including at least an address indicating a position of the store and a name of the store, the store position information having been acquired from a terminal owned by the user, the terminal having received the store position information from at least one of a wireless communication device installed in the store and a two-dimensional code displayed in the store and captured by a camera of the terminal;
acquire store information in which position information of each of a plurality of stores and one or more settlement methods available in each of the plurality of stores are associated;
acquire registration information including a user ID of the terminal and a plurality of settlement methods registered in the terminal;
acquire balance information for each of the settlement methods registered in the terminal;
determine, based on the registration information, whether or not settlement is possible by using any of the plurality of settlement methods registered in the terminal in the store where the user has entered;
notify the terminal of the settlement method available in the store where the user has entered based on the registration information, the store position information, and the store information when settlement is not possible by using any of the plurality of settlement methods registered in the terminal; and
display, on the terminal, a list of all of the names of the settlement methods registered in the terminal such that a name of the settlement method available is emphasized in a manner more than any other name of one or more settlement methods that are not available in the store where the user has entered when there is one or more settlement methods registered in the terminal that are not possible to use for settlement in the store, the names of the settlement methods available being actively displayed on a same screen of the terminal as inactively displayed names of the one or more settlement methods that are not available along with the acquired balance information for each of the settlement methods registered in the terminal, the manner emphasized being at least one of enlarging a font of at least one character within the displayed name of the settlement method available, changing a font of at least one character within the displayed name of the settlement method available to a different font, displaying an additional character with the displayed name of the settlement method available, displaying an avatar with the displayed name of the settlement method available, and inverting a background color of the displayed name of the settlement method available.