Transaction management system and program for configuring online shopping system

Abstract

A transaction management system for configurating an on-line shopping system. The on-line shopping system including the transaction management system also includes an IPS-RADIUS server, an account management system operated by a carrier, and an article supplier server. The transaction management system has contract DB storing plural sets of contract information each having a user ID, a customer code, an ISP code, an accounted party code specifying carrier (or account management system), and so on. When a customer buys an article by accessing to an article supplier server, the server transmits an accounting process request containing a customer code to the transaction management system. The transaction management system, when receiving the accounting process request, attempts to authenticate the identity of the customer. If the customer is authenticated, the transaction management system functions so that the carrier collects a fee of the bought article together with a fee charged for the service provided by the carrier.

1 . A transaction management system comprising: 
 an authentication part for performing authentication by sending a user identifier and a password to an authentication system operated by an Internet service provider that should authenticate an accounting target user; and    a request part for making an accounting request to an accounting processing system operated by other than said Internet service provider when said authentication part succeeds in the authentication.    
     
     
         2 . A transaction management system for requesting a plurality of accounting process systems to execute accounting processes of fees, comprising: 
 a part for receiving a process request for an accounting request from a customer as a payer of fee;    an acquisition part for acquiring identifying information of said accounting process system that is utilized by the fee payer on the basis of the process request received, and necessary items of information for authentication; and    a part for requesting said accounting process system concerned to execute the accounting process of the fee on the basis of the information acquired by said acquisition part.    
     
     
         3 . A program executed by a computer, comprising: 
 an authenticating step of performing authentication by sending a user identifier and a password in an authentication system to said authentication system operated by an Internet service provider that should authenticate an accounting target user; and    a requesting step of making an accounting request to an accounting processing system operated by other than said Internet service provider when the authentication gets successful in said authenticating step.    
     
     
         4 . A program executed by a computer to function as a system for requesting a plurality of accounting process systems to execute accounting processes of fees, said system comprising: 
 a part for receiving a process request for an accounting request from a customer as a payer of fee;    an acquisition part for acquiring identifying information of said accounting process system that is utilized by the fee payer on the basis of the process request received, and necessary items of information for authentication; and    a part for requesting said accounting process system concerned to execute the accounting process of the fee on the basis of the information acquired by said acquisition part.