Patent ID: 6409080
Filing Date: 2002-06-25
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
A portable electronic device to execute a prescribed process according to information on a deal amount of money input from a terminal device comprising:storage means for storing an application program for calculating loyalty points, and individual information of a person holding the portable electronic device, a qualification unit to add a special loyalty point based on the individual information, a size of a loyalty point added that corresponds to the qualification unit and a total loyalty point calculated by the application program; means for calculating a first loyalty point using the application program stored in the storage means according to the information on the deal amount of money input from the terminal device, a second loyalty point using the application program stored in the storage means according to the corresponding qualification unit when the qualification unit is satisfied, and a total loyalty point by adding the second loyalty point with the first loyalty point; and means for updating the loyalty point stored in the storage means to the total loyalty point calculated by the calculating means.