US 12,254,458 B2
Payment processing system, payment processing method, and recording medium
Shunsuke Tsuda, Tokyo (JP); and Hajime Hagimori, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/908,044
Filed by NEC Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Feb. 15, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/005414
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 30, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/192716, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 30, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-057433 (JP), filed on Mar. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0102033 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. G06Q 20/22 (2012.01); G06Q 20/12 (2012.01); G06Q 30/06 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 20/22 (2013.01) [G06Q 20/12 (2013.01); G06Q 30/06 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A payment processing system comprising:
at least one memory configured to store storing instructions; and
at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to:
associate a plurality of customers with one another;
specify a product acquired by each of the plurality of customers in a store;
determine whether a customer leaving the store is one of the plurality of customers associated with one another;
upon determining that the customer leaving the store is one of the plurality of customers associated with one other, determine whether all of the plurality of customers associated with one another have left the store, such that the customer who left the store is, of the plurality of customers associated with one another, a last customer that left the store, and such that no other of the plurality of customers remain in the store;
upon determining that all of the plurality of customers associated with one another have left the store:
calculate a sum of prices of products acquired by all the plurality of customers associated with one another; and
perform processing of collective payment to the store by a customer who is a payer among the plurality of customers, for the calculated sum, such that the payer pays for all the products acquired by all the plurality of customers, and such that one payment is made for all the products acquired by the plurality of customers after all the plurality of customers have left the store.