Patent ID: 8244631

Claim:
A processing system comprising: a data management server storing registration information about a customer, the registration information communicated through a network between the data management server and a financial account of the customer with an external financial institution; a customer communication terminal communicating data with said data management server and for outputting information for identifying a customer; and a process execution terminal receiving said information for identifying the customer from said customer communication terminal and executing a process for said customer, wherein: said process execution terminal provides said information to said data management server when receiving said information for identifying the customer; said data management server identifies the customer based on said information provided from said process execution terminal, generates reply information based on said registration information about said customer, the reply information indicating an approval of payment from the financial account, and provides said reply information to said process execution terminal; and said process execution terminal executes a process for said customer based on said reply information when receiving said reply information; wherein the information for identifying the customer and the registration information about the customer is associated with each other only at the data management server, the data management server being different than the process execution terminal that receives the information for identifying the customer.