Patent ID: 7590597
Filing Date: 2009-09-15
Classification: G06Q,G07F

Abstract:
1. An electronic business transaction system comprising: a plurality of member sites; and a center site connected to the member sites via a network, wherein each member site comprises: (a) an information transceiver unit which transmits information to the center site and receives information from the center site via the network; and (b) a control unit comprising: means for transmitting purchase information or sale information to the center site via the network, the purchase information including information specifying a product and indicating that the member site desires to purchase the product, and the sale information including information specifying a product and indicating that the member site desires to sell the product; means for transmitting a search request to the center site via the network to search the purchase information or the sale information; means for receiving the searched information from the center site as a search result of the search request and displaying the received searched information; means for transmitting sale proposal information or purchase proposal information to the center site via the network, the sale proposal information indicating that the member site desires to sell the product in response to the displayed purchase information and including information specifying the member site, and the purchase proposal information indicating that the member site desires to purchase the product in response to the displayed sale information and including information specifying the member site; means for receiving information on other member site which proposes to sell or purchase the product in response to the purchase or sale information from the center site via the network, the information on the member site being searched using the member site specifying information in the proposal information received by the center site; means for accepting an input of information on whether or not the member site determines to make a contract for the purchase or the sale with the other member sites based on the received other member site information; and means for transmitting information that the member site determines to make the contract with the other member site to the center site, wherein the center site comprises: (x) an information transceiver unit which transmits information to each of the member sites and receives information from the member site via the network; (y) a memory unit which stores the purchase information, the sale information and the information on the member sites; and (z) a control unit comprising: means for receiving the search request of the purchase information or the sale information from the member site via the network; means for searching the information stored in the memory unit in response to the search request, and transmitting the searched information to the request transmitted member site to display the searched information on the member site; means for receiving the sale proposal information or the purchase proposal information from the member site via the network; means for searching the member site information stored in the memory unit using the information specifying the member site in the received purchase or sale proposal information; means for transmitting the searched member site information to the member site which has transmitted the purchase or sale information; and means for transmitting information that the contract is made between the purchase or sale proposal transmitted member site and the sale or purchase information transmitted member site to both sites via the network after receiving information that the member site determines to make the contract with the other member site from both of the member sites.