Patent ID: 6902106

Claim:
An electronic money transaction system comprising: an electronic money storing medium which stores electronic money information; a contact reading and writing means which electrically contacts the electronic money storing medium to write to and read from the electronic money storing medium; a processing unit which is connected to the contact reading and writing means and at least partially controls the electronic money storing medium; and, a non-contact communicating means which is connected to the processing unit, and which is able to communicate with a non-contact external electronic money storing medium through space without contact being necessary, wherein the processing unit controls, by using the non-contact communicating means and via space, the electronic money storing medium and the non-contact electronic money storing medium, such that at least a portion of electronic money stored in at least one of the electronic money storing medium and the non-contact electronic money storing medium is transferred to the other of the electronic money storing medium and the non-contact electronic money storing medium.