| US 7,519,545 B2 | ||
| System for selling commodities and method thereof | ||
| Masanobu Kanazawa, Kawasaki (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Mar. 21, 2001, as Appl. No. 9/812,845. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2000-283949 (JP), filed on Sep. 19, 2000. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2002/0035513 A1, Mar. 21, 2002 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06Q 30/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 705—26 [705/27] | 20 Claims |

| 1. A method for selling a commodity using a shopping site on a network, said method comprising:
providing, by a commodity selling system, a first network address for a constituent member of a particular group and a second
network address for a customer who is not a member of the particular group, said first network address being a first Uniform
Resource Locator for the constituent member of the particular group to enter the commodity selling system and said second
network address being a second Uniform Resource Locator for the customer who is not a member of the particular group to enter
the commodity selling system;
judging whether a customer who has accessed a commodity selling system via the network is a constituent member of a particular
group based on a network address of a shopping site accessed by the customer;
judging whether certification is to be performed based on the network address of the shopping site accessed by the customer;
certifying the customer by referring to a database storing constituent member information of the particular group, when the
customer is judged to be a constituent member of the particular group;
selling an ordered commodity based on first sales conditions if the customer is certified as a constituent member of the particular
group, upon receiving the order for the commodity from the customer to the first network address; and
selling an ordered commodity based on second sales conditions if the customer is not a constituent member of the particular
group, upon receiving the order for the commodity from the customer to the second network address;
wherein both a first price as the first sales conditions and a second price as the second sales conditions are provided for
the constituent member of the particular group through a first page identified by the first Uniform Resource Locator, the
first price being lower than the second price, and the second price as the second sales conditions is provided for the customer
who is not a constituent member of the particular group through a second page identified by the second Uniform Resource Locator.
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