CHARGING DEVICE, CHARGING METHOD, TRANSACTION SUPPORTING DEVICE, AND TRANSACTION SUPPORTING METHOD

摘要

Fee-charge processing performed by providers of software used to complete commercial transactions or devices in which such software is installed for persons provided with such software or devices in accordance with records of utilization, etc. A fee-charge processing device which can communicate with a transaction supporting device used to support completion of transactions that involve goods or services is designed so that transaction information, from which at least transaction content information indicating the concrete transaction contents of transactions using the transaction supporting device has been removed, is received from the transaction supporting device and stored in memory, and fee-charge information including the amount of the fee that is to be charged is produced based upon the transaction information that has been stored in memory. <IMAGE>