Patent ID: 7979353
Filing Date: 2011-07-12
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. An electronic transaction method using an electronic coupon in an electronic transaction system comprising an electronic shop server opening an electronic shop site on Internet to operate and manage said electronic shop site, a coupon issuance/management server, which has a transfer management memory, issuing and managing an electronic coupon having pecuniary value information usable in a settlement of an electronic transaction for said electronic shop site, and a plurality of information terminals individually operable to access to said electronic shop and to access each other to carry out an electronic transaction, said electronic transaction method comprising: requesting said coupon issuance/management server to issue said electronic coupon from one of said information terminals; issuing, to said requesting information terminal having requested said electronic coupon by said coupon issuance/management server, said electronic coupon having said pecuniary value information and owner identification information related to said requesting information terminal; recording and managing, by said coupon issuance/management server, said owner identification information of said electronic coupon as coupon management information in the transfer management memory; at said requesting information terminal, at said coupon issuance/management server,