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Fee imposition system for application software

US7386515B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJul 30, 2002
Grant dateJun 10, 2008
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Expiry dateJun 14, 2025

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06Q30/0283
  • WIPO fieldIT methods for management
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Fee imposition system and method for application software, in which a software providing corporation can collect the fee without fail and charge a fair fee to a customer, and thereby the customer can use the application software with a paying method easy to estimate. The fee imposition system includes a server machine installed in a management center for managing the software, a client machine installed in a customer's office and connected with the server machine through a communication means, a ticket issue unit for issuing a ticket file on the basis of a predetermined fee schedule, and a data copy/writing unit for copying data corresponding to the information designated by the ticket file from a data source memory unit and recording the copied data on a data target memory unit.

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