Japanese Inventors Develop Home Delivery Service Pay-By-Card Method
Takayuki Yamagami of Kyoto, Japan, and Takahiko Kurisu of Tokyo, have developed a pay-by-card method and a pay-by-card system for home delivery service.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: “A home delivery contractor enters into an affiliation contract with a credit card company and also enters into a merchandise price collection consignment contract with a merchandise seller. If a consumer orders merchandise with the merchandise seller on the Internet, then the merchandise seller makes a request to the home delivery contractor for home delivery. Upon receipt of the delivered merchandise, the consumer passes to the home delivery contractor a credit card of the credit card company who has entered into the affiliation contract with the home delivery contractor, whereby the home delivery contractor settles the price for the merchandise with a portable card reader device.”
The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,086,590 on Aug. 8.
The patent has been assigned to Sagawa Express Co. Ltd. of Kyoto, and JCB Co. Ltd., Tokyo.
The original application was filed on Nov. 5, 2004, and is available at: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,086,590.PN.&OS=PN/7,086,590&RS=PN/7,086,590.
