Patent ID: 6718343
Filing Date: 2004-04-06
Classification: B29B,G06Q,G07F,G07G,Y10S

Abstract:
A recycle managing system for managing recycle targeting goods which are returned from the customers to retail stores for a recycle, comprising:a goods database registering goods information for sale including at least IDs and prices of goods, the database further recording information for discriminating whether or not goods are the recycle targeting ones, recycle points of the recycle targeting goods, and information of payers paying expense of the recycle targeting goods; a calculator for calculating the recycle points equivalent to a monetary value with respect to returns of the recycle targeting goods based on the goods database; a customer database for managing the recycle points of each customer of the retail store; a payer database for managing the recycle points of each payer other than the retail store, which pays expenses equivalent to the recycle points; and a renewing unit for renewing the recycle points of the customer returning the recycle targeting goods based of the calculated recycle points in the customer database, and further renewing the recycle points of the payer paying the expenses for the recycle points of the returned recycle targeting goods based on the calculated recycle points in the payer database.