Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20060167797A1/en
Timestamp: 2018-12-11 13:49:48
Document Index: 463168860

Matched Legal Cases: ['art 51', 'art 31', 'art 351', 'art 35', 'art 34', 'art 31', 'art.\n18']

US20060167797A1 - Electronic apparatus, charging system and method, charge processing device, storage medium, and prepaid card - Google Patents
US20060167797A1
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The system management information includes product. IDs, used time restriction information about products whose used times among others are limited under contract, and authentication information. The user information includes such individual information as member IDs, user names, ages, bank accounts and credit card numbers. The settlement information comprises the number of settlements, venue for settlement, and date information.
The controlling part 51 of the charge processor 50 first checks to see if the processor 50 is connected to the body of the electronic apparatus 30 (in step S141).
If the charge processor 50 is judged connected to the electronic apparatus 30, then reception of data from the microcomputer part 31 is awaited (in step S142).
When the electronic apparatus 30 is turned on (in step S201), initialization is carried out (in step S202). The controlling part 351 reads the remaining usable time information from the memory 353 of the charge processing part 35 (in step S203) A check is made to see if the remaining time is zero (in step S204). If the remaining time is judged zero, a message prompting the user to install usable time information (i.e., prepaid information representative of use conditions) is displayed on the display part 34 by means of the microcomputer part 31 (in step S206).
15. An electronic apparatus according to claim 14, further comprising notifying means for notifying said user of said usable time based on the information read from said storing means by said reading means.
16. An electronic apparatus according to claim 15, wherein said notifying means notifies said user of said usable time by giving a usable time display on a display part.
18. A system according to claim 17, wherein said electronic apparatus transmits an electronic apparatus identifier as said user identifier, and wherein said managing apparatus manages a settling method corresponding to said electronic apparatus identifier and settles changes in accordance with said settling method corresponding to said electronic apparatus identifier.
19. A system according to claim 17, wherein said managing apparatus measures an accumulated used time of said electronic apparatus identified by said electronic apparatus identifier and, at the time of settlement regarding said electronic apparatus identified by said electronic apparatus identifier, settles charges in accordance with a charging rate weighted by a weighting, factor corresponding to said accumulated used time.
20. A system according to claim 17, wherein said electronic apparatus comprises:
managing means for managing said user identifier—and a settling method corresponding to said user identifier; and
21. A system according to claim 17, wherein said electronic apparatus comprises:
22. A system according to claim 17, wherein said managing apparatus comprises:
23. A system according to claim 22, wherein said electronic apparatus is disabled upon receipt of said restrictive information.
24. A system according to claim 17, wherein said managing apparatus divides compensation for said used time between an administrative company managing said managing apparatus and a vender that furnishes said electronic apparatus.
26. A charging method according to claim 25, further comprising the step of computing a chargeable time by weighting the measured used time with regard to each of said functions.
27. A charging method according to claim 26, further comprising the step of computing said chargeable time by weighting said measured used time regarding each of said functions and in accordance with different weighting factors set in advance for different apparatuses.
28. A charging method according to claim 25, further comprising the steps of:
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