US 12,190,396 B2
Tracking system, tracking method, and recording medium
Ryusuke Mayuzumi, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Ryusuke Mayuzumi, Kanagawa (JP)
Filed on Sep. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/488,316.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-163789 (JP), filed on Sep. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0101455 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/00 (2023.01); G06Q 10/10 (2023.01); G06Q 50/06 (2024.01)
CPC G06Q 50/06 (2013.01) [G06Q 10/10 (2013.01); G06Q 2220/00 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising:
an intermediary server including first circuitry; and
a computer including second circuitry configured to:
operate in a distributed ledger system by performing distributed processing with other computers in the distributed ledger system;
in response to supply information indicating a supply of energy by a supplier, generate first information for tracking energy that instructs generation of second information, the second information indicating an owner of the energy and a production method used for producing the energy;
in response to usage information indicating a usage of the energy by a user, determine whether ownership of the energy in the second information has not been changed from a previous owner to the user, and
based on a determination that the ownership of the energy in the second information has not been changed, generate other first information for tracking energy, wherein
the other first information instructs a change of ownership of the energy in the second information from the previous owner to the user,
the first circuitry and the second circuitry together track an exchange of energy, and
the first circuitry is configured to
coordinate, using the first information and the second information, a transfer of ownership of energy between the supplier and the user, and
transmit, to the second circuitry, a request for changing the second information in response to the usage information.