Patent ID: 7904390
Filing Date: 2011-03-08
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A management apparatus, comprising: means for storing reservation information including information regarding reservations of exclusive use times of a charging object apparatus by a plurality of users; means for determining whether an exclusive use time reservation request received from a particular user of the plurality of users should be granted or denied by evaluating whether a proposed exclusive use time specified in the exclusive use time reservation request conflicts with any of the reservations of exclusive use times stored in the means for storing; updating means for, when the exclusive use time reservation request from the particular user of the plurality of users is granted, updating the reservation information stored in said means for storing to reflect a reservation of an exclusive use time of the charging object apparatus by the particular user of the plurality of users; accounting means for issuing a request for payment to the particular user of the plurality of users in an amount based upon a measured period of use of the charging object apparatus by the particular user of the plurality of users; means for calculating the amount based on an adjusted exchange rate X X permission information signaling means for signaling, when the exclusive use time reservation request from the particular user of the plurality of users is granted, permission information to outside of the management apparatus for permitting use of said charging object apparatus by the particular user of the plurality of users.