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Abstract

A customer operates his portable communication terminal to call a vending management center and to transmit a purchase request for buying an item from an intended one of a plurality of automatic vending machines. The vending management center transmits a selling allowance to the intended automatic vending machine. The automatic vending machine, in accordance with the selling allowance, delivers an item indicated by the customer. Thus the customer can obtain his desired item. The automatic vending machine, after delivering the item, transmits dispensing result data to the vending management center. Then, the vending management center prepares user and sales data from the dispensing result data and transmits the user and sales data to a proprietary of the communication network accommodating the portable communication terminal. Subsequently, the proprietary, in accordance with the user and sales data, settles an account with the customer on the communication fee and the item price.

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First Claim