Patent ID: 9514449
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program, which when executed by a processor, causes a customer terminal to perform operations, comprising: detecting, by the customer terminal, that an IC chip is connected to a reader/writer; receiving, by the customer terminal, an electronic money function unit ID from the IC chip by transmitting an ID reference command from the customer terminal to the IC chip upon detection of the IC chip; storing, by the customer terminal, commission object person information that includes in part, the electronic money function unit ID received from the IC chip; responsive to the detection of the IC chip, activating over a network, a browser executed on the customer terminal to display a web page with a Universal Resource Locator (URL) displaying a list of affiliated store sites; transmitting, by the customer terminal, the commission object person information stored in the customer terminal, to an introducing server over the network; responsive to a store site selection, by a user of the customer terminal, from the list of affiliated store sites presented on the customer terminal, displaying by the customer terminal, a web page associated with the store site selection; performing, by the user of the customer terminal, a business transaction to purchase a commodity associated with the store site selection via a store server affiliated with the store site selection; responsive to a notification of at least one commission earned received by the user from an electronic money server, the commission being based at least in part on the purchase of the commodity, transmitting, by the customer terminal, the electronic money function unit ID received from the IC chip to the electronic money server, in response to the IC chip being communicatively coupled to the reader/writer; and receiving, by the customer terminal to the IC chip, an amount of the commission earned including the at least one commission earned from the electronic money server based on the electronic money function unit ID.