Patent ID: 7505923
Filing Date: 2009-03-17
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A franchise system for organizing and establishing a headquarter for business transactions over a network, comprising: at least one headquarter network server; and a plurality of franchise store servers, each corresponding to a different franchise store and connected with the at least one headquarter network server by a network; wherein the at least one headquarter network server includes, a merchandise information memory data that includes information for goods sold by the franchise stores, as well as goods not available at one of the franchise stores, but available at the headquarter, a home page creation system that accesses the merchandise information memory data for merchandise information to create a home page of each franchise store, and that accesses a home page data memory system to collect additional home page data for the home page of each franchise store, the home page creation system also accessing a franchise store identification (ID) system, an order receiving system that processes orders from a plurality of member terminals through the home pages of each franchise store, a received data transfer system that transfers order data received by the order receiving system from the at least one headquarter network server to one of the franchise servers according to the franchise store ID system, the order data including a member name and goods ordered, and the franchise store ID system matches a franchise store to a member ordering via a member terminal when the member accesses the franchise system, the franchise store ID system matching franchise stores to the member accessing the franchise system based on uniform resource locator values set up in advance according to predetermined rules, the uniform resource locator values include a first portion unique to each franchise store and a second portion common to all franchise stores and the headquarters; and the at least one headquarter network server is configured to send home page data for the home page of each franchise store to at least one predetermined member server, including information from the merchandise information memory data that enables the home page of each franchise store to include goods not available at the franchise store but available at the headquarter, and sends predetermined guest home page data when a member server accessing the franchise system does not match any franchise store.