Patent ID: 7124109

Claim:
A point service system for offering point services over a network in accordance with a number of points possessed by a customer, the point service system comprising: a point service provider server having a customer information database for keeping track of a number of points on a customer basis; a user terminal for making a point deal request including a point trading condition; and a trade service provider which is connected, over the network, to said point service provider server and said user terminal, wherein said trade service provider comprises: a trading condition tracking database for keeping track of the point trading condition; deal request reception means for receiving the point deal request from said user terminal; deal making means for making a predetermined deal between users based on the point deal request by searching said trading condition tracking database to find any point trading condition corresponding to the point trading condition received by said deal request reception means for point trading; and point change means for changing a number of points of a user which is kept track of in said customer information database when a change to the number of points of the user occurs due to the predetermined deal between users made by said deal making means as a result of the point trading.