Patent ID: 6941363
Filing Date: 2005-09-06
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A transaction management system comprising: an authentication part for performing authentication by sending a user identifier and a password to an authentication system operated by an Internet service provider that should authenticate an accounting target user; and a request part for making an accounting request to an accounting processing system operated by other than said Internet service provider when said authentication part succeeds in the authentication, wherein said accounting process system is a system operated by a type said transaction management system further comprises: a mapping-of-information storage part for storing a mapping of each of the plurality of user identifiers to at least one contractor identifier; an acquisition part for acquiring through communications the user identifier and the password given to a user by said Internet service provider from the user ordering a purchase of a certain article to any one of one or more purchase order accept system for accepting the order of purchasing the article through the communications, and the contractor identifier of the contractor made to pay a fee related to the article; and a judgement part for judging based on the state-of-contract information retained corresponding to the contractor identifier acquired by said acquisition part whether or not the contractor identified by the contractor identifier has the nonpayment of fee by exchanging information with said accounting process system; said authentication part authenticates a user's identity on the basis of the user identifier and the password acquired by said acquisition part by exchanging information through communications with said authentication system if the user identifier and the contractor identifier acquired by said acquisition have their mapping given by the mapping information stored in said mapping-of-information storage part; and said request part requests said type