Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Reexamination Certificate
1997-10-15
2001-06-12
Trammell, James P. (Department: 2764)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
C705S004000, C705S026640, C705S027200, C380S001000, C380S029000, C380S029000, C380S029000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06246991
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates generally to a will information management and disclosure system, and more particularly to a will information management and disclosure system and method, and the program storage medium thereof wherein a depositor deposits deposit information, including will information, under a predetermined contract, and the deposit information is opened and disclosed when the depositor has become unable to express his/her intentions due to death or for other reasons.
It has heretofore been widely practiced that the information stored in a rewritable manner in a data processing system is kept in custody and managed, and rewritten or output by an authorized person. It has also been practiced that an individual operating a terminal retrieves desired information stored at a remote location via the Internet using the terminal.
With the advent of the age of aging society, an increasing number of people have a desire to live a comfortable and affluent life in their old age. Furthermore, there also are an increasing number of people, not only elderly people but ordinary people who want to keep information in advance in someone's custody and disclose the deposited information to an extent that is determined by predetermined conditions to persons designated in advance, using predetermined disclosure means, after their death, or when they have become unable to express their intentions due to an illness.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a will information management and disclosure system and method in which the confidentiality of deposited information is removed (unsealed) only after a depositor's death, so that the deposited information can be disclosed to a predetermined person (including the general public).
It is another object of the present invention to provide a program storage medium for realizing a will information management and disclosure system and method in which the confidentiality of deposited information is removed (unsealed) only after a depositor's death, so that the deposited information can be disclosed to a predetermined person (including the general public).
The will information management and disclosure system according to the present invention keeps the information deposited by a depositor in custody, and unseals the deposited information under predetermined conditions. The deposited information is the information, including will information, that can be disclosed under unsealing conditions registered in advance by the depositor and/or when the depositor has become unable to express his/her intentions.
The will information management and disclosure system according to the present invention has a depositor's terminal and a host processing system for keeping in custody and opening deposited information. The depositor's terminal enters as electronic information the information prepared by the depositor for depositing purpose in a rewritable manner. The host processing system comprises an electronic information depositing part for keeping in custody the entered electronic information in accordance with predetermined depositing conditions; an unsealing part for unsealing the deposited information using a predetermined unsealing electronic key, the unsealing part having first confirming means for confirming the establishment of predetermined unsealing conditions and second confirming means for confirming that the depositor has become unable to express his/her intentions; and a recipient-specified delivery part for delivering the deposited information for disclosure using predetermined means to persons designated in advance by the depositor who satisfies predetermined conditions.
The will information management and disclosure method according to the present invention comprises a step of entering information as electronic information from the depositor's terminal, a step of keeping in custody the electronic information entered into the host processing system in accordance with predetermined depositing conditions, a step of unsealing the deposited information using a predetermined unsealing electronic key when it has been confirmed that the predetermined unsealing conditions have been established, and a step of delivering the deposited information for disclosure using predetermined means to persons designated in advance by the depositor who satisfies the predetermined conditions.
The present invention provides a program storage medium that stores a program for implementing the aforementioned will information management and disclosure system and the aforementioned will information management and disclosure method.
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Abe Yukinobu
Araki Yoshio
Katagiri Hiroshi
Ninomiya Shoichi
Nguyen Nga B.
PFU Limited
Trammell James P.
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