Patent ID: 7039605
Filing Date: 2006-05-02
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A settlement intermediation processing apparatus comprising: an order information receiving part for receiving, order information configured to perform a sale of a commodity over a network, the sale being accompanied by payment of a price in response to a request sent from a user over the network, the order information relating to the request sent from the user; a payment information acquiring part for acquiring payment information based on the received order information from a second apparatus with which the user has a contract relating to payment of money, the payment information being necessary for receiving payment from the user of the price of a act requested by the user; and a settlement processing part for performing settlement of the price of the act requested by the user based on the received order information and the acquired payment information wherein: the order information receiving part receives order information relating to an order for the commodity from a first apparatus which performs sale of the commodity over the network; the payment information acquiring part acquires payment information necessary for receiving, from a user, payment of a price of the commodity ordered by the user from the second apparatus based on the received order information; the settlement processing part performs settlement of the price of the commodity bought by the user based on the received order information and the acquired payment information; each of the first apparatus and second apparatus is one of a number of commodity selling parts for which users made registration including a contract relating to payment of money, and that permit at least the registered users to access themselves over the network and sell the commodity when accessed; the order information receiving part receives, from one of the number of commodity selling parts, order information relating to an order for the commodity from a user who is registered in at least a commodity selling part other than the one commodity selling part; the payment information acquiring part acquires payment information necessary for receiving, from the user, payment of a price of the commodity ordered by the user from the commodity selling part where the user is registered based on the received order information; and an access information providing part for storing, for each of the plurality of commodity selling parts, pieces of temporary user information for the other respective commodity selling parts to be used when users who are registered in the other commodity selling parts access the commodity selling part, and providing one of the pieces of temporary user information upon request, thereby enabling access to corresponding commodity selling parts other than the commodity selling parts where the user is registered.