Patent ID: 7292997

Claim:
An order receiving apparatus that receives an order of commodity transaction from a commodity ordering apparatus through a network, comprising: a first storage means adapted to store commodity information that includes at least a commodity name and a selling price of a commodity as an object of transaction; a second storage means adapted to store information specifying combinations of two or more different commodities, and adapted to store specific parameters concerning economic return, which are applied respectively to said combinations, relating said information and said specific parameters, respectively; a third storage means adapted to store a general-purpose parameter concerning economic return, which is applied to commodities other than said combinations of commodities; a means adapted to perform steps of: receiving a request to display information on commodities, from said commodity ordering apparatus; referring to the first storage means, to output said commodity information to said commodity ordering apparatus; and referring to the second and third storage means, to output information on said combinations of commodities and said specific parameters applied respectively to said combinations, and information on said general-purpose parameter, to said commodity ordering apparatus; and a point generation means that performs steps of: receiving an order request including information to specify ordered commodities, from said commodity ordering apparatus; judging if a group of the ordered commodities specified includes commodities related to a combination recorded in the second storage means; calculating first points when it is judged that the commodities related to the combination are included, said first points being decided based on a specific parameter applied to said combination, or based on the specific parameter applied to said combination and on selling prices of the commodities related to said combination; calculating second points with respect to commodities other than the commodities related to said combination, based on the general-purpose parameters based on the general-purpose parameter and selling prices of the commodities in question; and outputting total points of the first points and the second points, to said ordering apparatus.