Patent ID: 7120594
Filing Date: 2006-10-10
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A merchandise contract brokerage system to which a plurality of merchandise vendor information processing systems, a plurality of retailer information processing systems, and a plurality of consumer information processing systems are connected via a network, said merchandise contract brokerage system comprising: a merchandise contract sub system that performs a brokerage operation in transmission and reception of merchandise information and contract information between the plurality of merchandise vendor information processing systems and the plurality of retailer information processing systems; and a retailing sub system that performs a brokerage operation in transmission and reception of merchandise information and contract information between the plurality of retailer information processing systems and the plurality of consumer information processing systems, said retailing sub system including a retailing server program adapted to process a consumer merchandise information registration request message, a consumer merchandise information reference request message, and a retailer contract information transmission request message; wherein the merchandise contract sub system transmits retailer merchandise information to one of the plurality of retailer information processing systems in response to a request from the one of the plurality of retailer information processing systems, and transmits merchandise vendor contract information to one of the plurality of merchandise vendor information processing systems in response to a request from one of the plurality of retailer information processing systems; and wherein the retailing sub system transmits consumer merchandise information to one of the plurality of consumer information processing systems in response to a request from the one of the plurality of consumer information processing systems, and transmits retailer contract information to one of the plurality of retailer information processing systems in response to a request from one of the plurality of consumer information processing systems.