Patent ID: 6874142

Claim:
An applet latest version automatically setting system, comprising: a central office server of a banking institution having an applet storage unit storing an applet of a latest version and having a single-program structure, and a version number storage unit storing a version number of the applet stored in the applet storage unit; and a branch office terminal unit of the banking institution having a version number information storage unit performing a process based on the applet read from said server, and storing a local version number of the applet, a comparison unit reading the version number of the applet of the latest version from the version number storage unit of the central office server when a predetermined event occurs, and comparing the read version number with the local version number stored in the version number information storage unit, and an update unit reading the applet of the latest version from the applet storage unit of the central office server and updating an applet at the branch office terminal unit when the comparison unit outputs a non-matching result, wherein the predetermined event includes at least one of an initialization of the applet or a detection of a user event causing performance of an online process during execution after the applet is initialized, and wherein the applet at the branch office terminal unit is deleted and the applet of the latest version is retrieved when the applet at the branch office terminal unit is terminated.