Patent ID: 8429732
Filing Date: 2013-04-23
Classification: G01D,H04L,H04W,Y02B,Y04S

Abstract:
1. An information processing method using a first server including a first storage unit having stored thereon a user information database that stores identification information and authentication information of a user, and a communicating unit that communicates with another apparatus, and a second server including receiving by the first server an authentication request including authentication information of a user with the communicating unit from a predetermined apparatus of a user existing facility coupled through a public line to the first server, checking by the first server the authentication information included in the authentication request against the authentication information in the user information database and performing user authentication, and sending by the first server a user confirmation request including the identification information of the user to the second server in a case where the user authentication is successful, and transmitting by the first server predetermined data for utilizing a predetermined commercial product or service to the predetermined apparatus in the user existing facility in a case where a notification of success of user confirmation is received from the second server in response to the user confirmation request; receiving by the second server the user confirmation request from the first server, checking by the second server identification information of the user included in the user confirmation request against the electric power consumer database, and identifying by the second server location information of the user facility of the user, and receiving with the communicating unit of the second server a utilization request for a commercial product or service including the identification information of the measuring apparatus from the measuring apparatus disposed in the user existing facility linked through a dedicated line with the second server, checking the identification information of the measuring apparatus included in the utilization request against the meter information database and identifying by the second server disposition location information of the measuring apparatus, and sending a notification of success of user confirmation including the identification information of the user to the first server in a case where the identified disposition location information of the measuring apparatus is checked against the user facility location information identified based on the user confirmation request and both are identical, wherein the first server stores predetermined data for utilizing either one of a predetermined commercial product and service in the first storage unit where the predetermined data is divided as divided data A, which is an internet key, and divided data B, which is a smart meter network key, having a data size equal to or smaller than the divided data A, which are acquired by dividing data making up the predetermined commercial product or data for providing the predetermined service, and in the case where a notification of success of the user confirmation is received from the second server in response to the user confirmation request, the first server executes a process of transmitting the divided data A via a public line to the predetermined apparatus in the user existing facility and transmitting the divided data B via a dedicated line to the predetermined apparatus in the user existing facility, wherein the predetermined apparatus in the user existing facility executes a process of receiving the divided data A via the public line from the first server, receiving the divided data B via the dedicated line from the first server, combining the divided data A and the divided data B and generating the data making up the predetermined commercial product or the data for providing the predetermined service, and outputting the generated data to an output unit.