Patent ID: 9697343
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q

Claim:
1. A method comprising: acquiring biological information to generate a 1st attribute information from a person, by using a camera, to generate first attribute information, said person having a personal digital assistant; transmitting a demand command which requests second attribute information to two or more personal digital assistants that are in a predetermined communication range of a communications department; receiving the 2nd attribute information transmitted from each of the personal digital assistants that has received the demand command by using the communications department; comparing the acquired 1st attribute information with each of the acquired 2nd attribute information; computing a degree of similarity between the acquired 1st attribute information and each of the acquired 2nd attribute information; determining whether any of the personal digital assistants from which each of the 2nd attribute information was acquired has a degree of similarity above a predetermined threshold; if the degree of similarity is above the threshold, supplying the countervalue information which can be used for settlement of accounts to the personal digital assistant which has the second attribute information determined to have the degree of similarity above the predetermined threshold of the person from which the 1st attribute information was acquired by using the communications department; reading the countervalue information from memory according to a demand from a settlement system and supplying the countervalue information to the settlement system; transmitting a demand to the personal digital assistant which has been supplied with the countervalue information, by using the settlement system; receiving the countervalue information transmitted from the personal digital assistant which has been supplied with the countervalue information and has received the demand, by using the settlement system; and performing settlement of accounts using the countervalue information, by using the settlement system.