JP2003203163A - Mediating method of inter-enterprise transaction information in electronic commerce market, server and terminal used for this method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mediating method of inter-enterprise transaction information in an electronic commerce market capable of providing commerce information between specific enterprises, a server and a terminal used for this method. <P>SOLUTION: A method mediates the inter-enterprise transaction information in the electronic commerce market for allowing participation of respective enterprises via a public communication network 50 by a mediating server 10. This mediating method of inter-enterprise transaction information is characterized in that the mediating server 10 stores at least transaction information in a storage part, receives a disclosure request for information on an enterprise of a disclosure request partner from the terminal 20 used by an enterprise of a disclosure requester of the transaction information, informs the terminal 40 used by a request partner enterprise of an inquiry about the possibility of disclosure, informs the requester terminal 20 by receiving an inquiry result, and informs the requester terminal 20 of the transaction information on the request partner enterprise stored in the storage part when the result is permission for the disclosure. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an intermediary transaction information intermediation method in an electronic commerce market, an intermediary server, and a terminal information disclosure request method and information disclosure permission method.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a conventional technique of a method for acquiring information on transactions between companies in an electronic commerce market, an application by the present applicant is disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 11-15886. In this conventional technology, actual transaction information regarding orders, orders, shipments, and deliveries of products and services transmitted between companies via a network that can be used by multiple companies is sequentially accumulated in a database held by a market organizer. When a market research is requested, transaction information is aggregated based on the database and notified to the requester.

According to this prior art, it is possible to automatically collect the transaction information including the ordering information of the ordering company, the order receiving information and the delivery information of the ordering company, and the payment information of the ordering source regarding a certain product. It is possible to grasp the situation of the entire market based on actual transactions.

[0004]

The individual information relating to transactions between companies in the electronic commerce market accumulated as described above is important information that can be utilized as credit information and credit information of companies. It is useful information for other companies in the same industry, companies and financial institutions who are going to do business with the company in the future, but it is so secure that it cannot be referred to by anyone at any time. The above-mentioned conventional technology can provide information on the entire market generated based on the accumulated transaction information, but the inventor has noticed that it is impossible to grasp individual transaction status, for example, transaction history of a specific company. Furthermore, we paid attention to the fact that it is not easy to identify the amount of money accumulated for each transaction and the relationship between credits and debts for each transaction. On the other hand, there is a method of directly contacting a specific company and obtaining transaction data provided by the specific company. However, it is necessary for the requester to confirm the transaction partner and the existence of the transaction in the transaction data.

The present invention has been made in view of the above background, and provides a method for mediating business-to-business transaction information in an electronic commerce market capable of providing business-to-business information between specific businesses, a server and a terminal used for the method. The purpose is to provide.

[0006]

The technology according to the present invention for achieving the above object is a method of mediating inter-company transaction information in an electronic commerce market in which each company can participate through a public communication network by an intermediary server. Then, the intermediary server stores at least the transaction information in a storage unit, and receives a disclosure request for information about a disclosure-requested company from a terminal used by the disclosure-requesting company of the transaction information,
Notifying the terminal used by the request destination company of the inquiry of disclosure possibility, receiving the result of the inquiry and notifying the request source terminal, and if the result is disclosure permission, the request stored in the storage unit The transaction information of the destination company is notified to the request source terminal.

Further, the technology according to the present invention is a method for requesting disclosure of inter-company transaction information in an electronic commerce market in which each company can participate through a public communication network, by means of a terminal used by each company. The request source terminal notifies the intermediary server of a request for disclosure of inter-company transaction information that specifies the information requesting company, and if the result of the request is disclosure permission, the intermediary server determines We will receive transaction information.

Further, the technology according to the present invention is a method of permitting the disclosure of inter-company transaction information in the electronic commerce market in which each company can participate through a public communication network, by means of a terminal used by each company of the requestee of disclosure. Then, the request destination terminal is
It is assumed that an inquiry about whether or not to disclose the information disclosure request is received from the intermediary server, and the result of the inquiry is notified to the intermediary server.

Furthermore, the technology according to the present invention permits the disclosure of inter-company transaction information in the electronic commerce market in which each company can participate through the public communication network, using the terminal used by the company of the requesting company. In the method, the supplier terminal receives an inquiry about whether or not disclosure is possible from the intermediary server with respect to the transaction information of the company requesting information disclosure and the correspondent company, and notifies the intermediary server of the result of the inquiry. I decided to.

[0010]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION <Example of System Configuration> An example of the system configuration of an embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIG. The intermediary server 10, the request source terminal 20, the request destination terminal 30, and the customer terminal 40 are connected to the network 50 by a telephone line or a dedicated line, respectively.

The intermediary server 10 is a computer operated by the organizer of the electronic commerce market that mediates transaction information between companies, and has a processing device 11, a communication device 12 connected to the network 50, and a member information database 13. When,
It is constituted by the transaction information database 14. Two
The one database (13, 14) uses a readable / writable memory (storage unit) as a storage resource.

In the member information database 13, information on member companies registered to participate in the electronic commerce market is aggregated and managed by using information (company name or company ID) for specifying a company as a key. Further, in the transaction information database 14, information (transaction information) regarding transactions of each company connected to the network 50 is aggregated and managed by using information (company name or company ID) for identifying the company as a key. .

The request source terminal 20 is a computer installed in a company requesting disclosure of transaction information, and the processing device 21.
A communication device 22 connected to the network 50, an operation input device 23 such as a keyboard, and a display 24.

The request destination terminal 30 is a computer installed in a company that permits or prohibits disclosure of transaction information, and the processing device 31.
A communication device 32 connected to the network 50, an operation input device 33 such as a keyboard, and a display 34.

The customer terminal 40 is the intermediary server 1.
It is a computer installed in a trading partner company of transaction information managed by 0, and includes a processing device 41, a communication device 42 connected to the network 50, an operation input device 43 such as a keyboard, and a display 44. It

The operation input device 23 such as a keyboard provided in the request source terminal 20 will be described in detail below when a company on the network 50 designates another company to request disclosure of transaction information. Thus, the transaction information brokering process according to the present invention is started.

Next, the processing of the mediation server 10 which mediates commercial transactions between member companies will be described with reference to FIG. In FIG. 2, as a member company, an intermediary server 10 that mediates a commercial transaction between a company (member company B) in which the request destination terminal 30 is installed and a company (member company C) of a transaction partner thereof, respectively. Processing for accumulating data received from the company in the transaction information database 14 will be described.

This figure illustrates a commercial transaction in which the member company C orders a certain product from the member company B. In the figure, the horizontal arrow indicates the flow of information from the information source to the destination, and the vertical arrow indicates the temporal flow.

First, in the member company C, which is the ordering source, fixed order data 201 including information necessary for ordering such as product name, quantity, unit price, delivery date is generated and transmitted to the intermediary server 10. The brokerage server 10 uses this fixed order data 20.
When 1 is received, the order recipient (member company B) is notified of the receipt of the order. When the customer (member company B) ships the product, the shipment data 202 is transmitted to the intermediary server 10, and when the shipped product reaches the orderer (member company C), the member company C
Sends the arrival data 203 indicating that the goods have been delivered and confirmed the receipt to the intermediary server 10. Next, the order receiver (member company B) transmits the accounts receivable data 204 for presenting the accounts receivable details of the shipped merchandise to the intermediary server 10. Finally, after the ordering source (member company C) calculates the payment amount, the payment amount and the payment method are created for each accounting month, and the inspection payment data 205 for notifying the contents is transmitted to the intermediary server 10. To do.

Each data includes a plurality of information items by the above processing. For example, the fixed order data 20
1 includes order date, order amount, product name, lot number, delivery date, and the like. The shipping data 202 includes the shipping date, and the arrival data 203 includes the arrival date. Accounts receivable data 204
Includes the receivable date, the receivable amount, the accounting month, and the like, and the acceptance payment data 205 includes the payment content, the paid amount, the payment receipt date, and the like. The intermediary server 10 that has received these data sequentially stores the transaction information in the transaction information database 14.

The information items of the transaction information are not limited to the items used in this figure, and may be set arbitrarily according to the actual condition of the commercial transaction. For this reason, these information items may include those in a data format defined by the EIAJ-EDI Standard 1999 edition Electronic Industries Association of Japan.

As described above, since the data indicating the progress status of the transaction is stored, both parties of the transaction can view the data to grasp the progress status of the commercial transaction in which the contract such as the order is concluded. is there.

As described above, the intermediary server 10 stores in the transaction information database 14 the data relating to the transaction received from the member company which conducts the commercial transaction. The details of the accumulated transaction information are illustrated in FIG. As in the data configuration example shown in this figure, one row is assigned to one transaction. Further, information items 301 such as a seller company name, a buyer company name, an order date and an order amount, a product name, and the number of lots are assigned to each column. That is, each row constitutes one transaction information item including a plurality of information items 301.

When the intermediary server 10 receives the transaction information from the member company, it writes the received data in the corresponding item. Besides, EIAJ-EDI standard 19
Items corresponding to the 1999 edition of the Japan Electronic Machinery Manufacturers Association may also be included.

The example of FIG. 3 shows an example of the data structure of five pieces of transaction information in which XX Iron Works is a seller company and two transactions information in which RR Seiko is a seller company. For example, the transaction information for the second line (excluding the information line 301 (title line)) is 30 days on February 1, 2001 when XX Iron Works received an order for 5 lots of H-type steel from ABC Industry for 10 million yen. It was delivered late, and the final lot was inspected on September 20, 2001.

<Registration at Information Disclosure Level> A company that can participate in the membership-based electronic commerce market and disclose its own transaction information to other companies can request the terminal 30 when registering for participation. The information disclosure level of the company's transaction information is registered in the member information database 13 of the mediation server 10.
Of course, it is also possible to change the registration at any time after registration. The procedure for registering the information disclosure level is shown in the flowchart of FIG.

The information disclosure level can be set for each information item of transaction information. The "Unconditional Disclosure" level is set for items that can be disclosed to all other companies participating in the electronic commerce market, and the "Inquiry required" level is set for items that are requested to be disclosed by the company requesting disclosure. To set. When setting the two information disclosure levels of the “unconditional disclosure” level and the “inquiry required” level for each information item, an example of an interface screen displayed on the display 34 of the request destination terminal 30 is shown in FIG.
It was shown to. In this example, if the check box 501 of each information item is checked, it is set to the "unconditional disclosure" level, and if it is left unchecked, it is set to the "inquiry required" level.

Further, when disclosure of transaction information is requested from a company having a transaction with the company, disclosure of transaction information with the company is unconditionally permitted, or a disclosure condition when disclosure is requested to the company. Information such as whether to comply with (information disclosure level) or to permit disclosure only to specific companies is also set. In the example screen, "All information is disclosed as a business partner"
When the check box 502 corresponding to is checked, the disclosure is unconditionally permitted, and when the check box is left blank, the information disclosure level is the same as when the disclosure is requested to the company. Further, if the check box of “disclosure only to specific customer” 503 is checked and the company ID of the company designated as the specific customer is input, the disclosure is permitted only to the specific company.

After completing the above input (step 4 in FIG. 4)
01) If the select button 504 is selected, a registration command including these pieces of information is transmitted to the intermediary server 10 via the network 50, and as shown in the data configuration example of FIG. 13 is registered (step 402). That is, the information of each company is assigned to one line of FIG. 6, and the above-mentioned information disclosure level is aggregated together with items 601 such as company ID, company name, and capital.

As described above, the method of uniformly disclosing the transaction information of the company can be adopted only to the companies pre-registered in the membership system, and the transaction amount and the product name can be provided to the specific companies such as the rival company. It is also possible to hide only specific information items such as.

For example, in line 1 of item number 1 in FIG. 6, "XX
Ironworks "(company ID 123456789) has a capital of 150 million yen, the industry is metal processing, and Fig. 5
The disclosure conditions according to the setting by are displayed. Also,
In the item “Ai commerce” displayed in item 2 of FIG. 6, check boxes 501 corresponding to the order date, the number of products, and the number of lots in FIG. Checkbox corresponding to "Company name as"
1 and check box 502 corresponding to “all disclosure of information as business partners” is not checked, and check box 5 corresponding to “disclosure only to specific business partners”
Check "03" and enter "123
The result of inputting "456" is displayed. That is,
In such commerce, there is a case where a part of the information about the own company may be permitted to be disclosed only when there is a disclosure request from the xx ironworks among companies that have transactions with the company.

It should be noted that the disclosure propriety may be set according to the accumulation status of the transaction information in the intermediary server 10 in a certain transaction so that the transaction can be disclosed when the transaction reaches a predetermined progress. For example, the setting is such that, after the shipping data 202 is accumulated, it may be disclosed to a party other than the trading party.

<Mediation Processing> A company A (eg, XX bank) who has registered to participate in the membership-based electronic commerce market
FIG. 7 shows a flowchart of the transaction information intermediation process performed by the intermediary server 10 when referring to transaction information about another company B (eg, XX ironworks) participating in this market.

In the company A, the ID 80 of its company is requested from the request source terminal 20 according to the screen interface illustrated in FIG.
1 (888888888 in the above example),
Company B's ID (123456789 in the above example), company name 802 (XX Ironworks), and information item 803 (for example, order date, to be requested to be disclosed) in the transaction information.
Order selection, product name, price receipt date), transaction period 806 subject to disclosure request, etc. are selected for operation. When the input is completed and the application button 807 is selected and input, a disclosure request command including these pieces of information is transmitted to the intermediary server 10 (step 701 in FIG. 7).

Upon receiving the disclosure request command, the mediation server 10 receives the ID of the company B included in the command.
(123456789 in the above example) is retrieved and the member information database 13 is searched to confirm the set information disclosure level for each information item requested to be disclosed (step 702).

When the "unconditional disclosure" level is set for all information items requested to be disclosed (step 703), the intermediary server 10 sets the request destination terminal 30 installed in the request destination company B. , Including the name of the requesting company A and the information items requested to be disclosed,
It notifies that there is a disclosure request (step 704). On the display 34 of the request destination terminal 30 that has received the notification, as illustrated in FIG. 9, the request source company 901, the target transaction period 902 of the disclosure request, the disclosure request information 903, and the like are displayed on the screen. At the requesting company, a "return" button 904
Confirm by pressing.

In the example of FIG. 9, XX bank (requesting company A)
7 shows a screen for notifying the requesting company B (for example, XX Iron Works) that there has been a disclosure request for four items from the order date, order amount, product name, and price receipt date. × ×
This is because, in the ironworks, the “unconditional disclosure” level is set for these four items in the transaction information of the company, as illustrated in FIG.

On the other hand, if the information item requested to be disclosed includes an item for which the "inquiry required" level is set, the intermediary server 10 is a request destination terminal installed in the request destination company B. An inquiry command as to whether or not disclosure is possible is transmitted to 30, including the name of the requesting company A and the information items requested to be disclosed (step 705). In the request destination terminal 30 that has received the inquiry command, for example, in the screen interface illustrated in FIG. 10, a check box 104 corresponding to the information item 103 for which disclosure is permitted is operated by inputting a check and the disclosure consent button 105 is pressed. Then, the information of the reply to the inquiry is returned to the intermediary server 10 (step 706).

In the example of FIG. 10, the order date, order amount, product name, price receipt date, lot number (1st lot), lot number (final lot), inspection date from the XX bank (requesting company A), When there is a disclosure request for 10 items including the date of receipt of interim payment / advance payment, number of days of late delivery, and number of days of accounts receivable. is there. In this example, according to the example of FIG. 5, at the XX ironworks, the "unconditional disclosure" level is set for the four items of the order date, the order amount, the product name, and the payment receipt date, but the lot number (1st The "inquiry required" level is set for the six items of lot), number of lots (final lot), date of inspection, date of receipt of interim payment / advance payment, number of days of late delivery, and number of days of accounts receivable.

When requesting company B refuses to disclose all information items requested to be disclosed,
The intermediary server 10 notifies the requester terminal 20 installed in the company A (XX bank in the above example) to that effect and ends the intermediary process (step 707).

As described above, by using the screen interface illustrated in FIG. 10, each time a certain company or the like requests disclosure of transaction information, it is possible to consider whether or not the other party should disclose the transaction information.

As described above, the intermediary server 10 that has notified the request destination terminal 30 of the information of the request source company or has received the reply to the inquiry from the request destination terminal 30 receives the request from the transaction information database 14 of the request destination company B ( In the above example, search for transaction information (see Fig. 3) related to XX ironworks,
Confirm the business partner of each transaction information (step 70)
8). Then, each business partner company (in the transaction information illustrated in FIG. 3, Iroha Industry, ABC Industry, so-called Commerce, T
Member information database 13 (Fig. 6)
(See reference) and whether or not to "disclose all information as a business partner", that is, whether disclosure of transaction information between company B and the company is unconditionally permitted, or information when disclosure is requested to the company. It is confirmed whether the disclosure level conforms to the disclosure level or "disclosure only to a specific company" (step 709).

As described above, the transaction information stored in the transaction information database 14 is checked not only by the requesting company but also by the company that has made a transaction with the requesting company. , Because it is basically confidential information and is not disclosed to a third party. Also, it is inappropriate to make disclosure only by the judgment of the requesting company, which is only one of the parties.

As a result, regarding the information item of the disclosure request included in the disclosure request command, it is necessary to inquire whether or not the company C (for example, Iroha Sangyo, ABC Kogyo, so-called commerce, TTT car body company) of the supplier can disclose the information. In some cases,
Similar to steps 705 to 706, the names of the requesting company A (xx bank) and the requesting company B (xx ironworks) are given to the customer terminal 40 installed in the company C. An inquiry command as to whether or not disclosure is possible may be transmitted including the information item for which disclosure is requested. In this case, the supplier terminal 40 that has received the inquiry command returns the information of the reply to the inquiry to the intermediary server 10, including the information of the information item for which disclosure is permitted.

The confirmation of the disclosure conditions of the business partner company (steps 708 to 710) and the inquiry about whether or not information disclosure is possible to the business partner company are omitted by avoiding the contract with the business partner company in advance. Good.

According to the above procedure, the intermediary server 10 which has confirmed the information disclosure levels of the requesting company B and the trading company C aggregates the disclosure conditions as a whole, and the requesting company A requests disclosure. Company B, among the transaction information
Each of the Cs reads the content of the information item permitted to be disclosed and transmits it as disclosure information to the request source terminal 20 of the company A. At this time, the company B also notifies the item of which the disclosure is permitted but the company C refuses the disclosure (step 710).

As a matter of course, the requesting company B (1
Company C may have a plurality of companies. Then, the request source terminal 2 that has received these disclosure information
0 is a display 2 which is based on the received disclosure information and has an appropriate display method as illustrated in FIGS. 11 and 12.
4 is displayed (steps 711 to 712). For example,
The request destination company 121, the requested transaction period 122, a list 123 of each transaction information, and the like, and a graph of the delivery delay ratio 124 and the number of days of accounts receivable 125, and the analysis information 126 compared with other companies in the same industry are displayed.

Similar to the example of FIG. 9, FIG. 11 shows the result when the XX ironworks is requested to disclose the order date, the order amount, the product name, and the payment date of the transaction information. Here is an example. In this example, for the Iroha Sangyo, ABC Kogyo, so-called commerce, and TTT car bodies that are business partners with XX Iron Works, "Company name as a business partner" and "Business partner as a business partner" in the member information database (see FIG. 6) Information disclosure ”and other settings, as a result of inquiries to each company, company name,
Information on the transaction with the Iroha Sangyo (the fourth line in FIG. 3) in which disclosure of the order date, the order amount, the product name, and the payment date is all permitted is displayed. No information is displayed about such transactions with commerce whose disclosure of the name of the business partner is refused and transactions with ABC Industry whose disclosure of the product name has been refused at least as a result of the inquiry.

On the other hand, in FIG. 12, similarly to the example of FIG. 10, the order date, the order amount, the product name, the number of lots (1st lot), the number of lots ( The results are shown when requesting disclosure of 10 items: final lot), inspection date, intermediate / advance payment receipt date, delivery delay days, payment receipt date, and accounts receivable days. XX Regarding the items Iroha Sangyo, ABC Kogyo, and so-called commerce that are business partners with the ironworks, the disclosure of which is denied as a result of searching the setting contents of the member information database (see Fig. 6) and inquiring to each company Is hidden by shading (127 to 131). For example, regarding ABC Kogyo, as a result of the inquiry, it is found that the product name 127 and the interim payment / advance payment receipt date 128 are refused to be disclosed. Further, regarding such commerce, disclosure of the company name 129 is refused in advance, and as a result of the inquiry, disclosure of the order amount 130 and the interim payment / advance payment receipt date 131 is refused.

In this way, as shown in FIG. 12, even if the requesting company permits the disclosure of information, when the company of the trading partner rejects the disclosure, its contents are shaded 127 or the like. When concealing is displayed, the information regarding the business partner company (for example, ABC industry in FIG. 12) is concealed and effective information for grasping the outline of the transaction regarding the request target company (xx ironworks). Become.

When the company name is hidden by shading, information such as the delivery date compliance rate and payment status of the company may be provided.

<Others> Request source terminal 20 / Request destination terminal 3
0 / Customer terminal 40 has two of these three functions,
Alternatively, it may be a terminal in which all are mounted on the same hardware.

The intermediary server 10 and the request source terminal 2
All of the functions described above regarding 0, request destination terminal 30, and transaction terminal 40 may be implemented by downloading a program that implements this function through the Internet or a recording medium and installing it in each device.

[0054]

[Effect of the Invention] Regarding the transaction information in the company's electronic commerce market, when a certain company or the like makes a request for disclosure, it is possible to decide whether or not to disclose it according to the requesting company and the requested information item.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a system configuration example.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a procedure for collecting transaction information in a mediation server.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a data configuration example of transaction information in a transaction information database of an intermediary server.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a control procedure for information disclosure level registration processing.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of an interface screen for registering an information disclosure level.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a data configuration example of member information in a member information database of a mediation server.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a control procedure relating to processing for mediating inter-company transaction information in a mediation server.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of an interface screen for requesting disclosure of transaction information.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of a screen for notifying a requesting company of disclosure of transaction information.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of a screen for inquiring of a requesting company about whether or not to disclose transaction information.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of a screen for displaying disclosure information.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of a screen for displaying disclosure information including information that the business partner has permitted to disclose.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 Mediation server 13 Member information database 14 transaction information database 20 requesting terminal 30 Request destination terminal 40 Supplier terminal 50 network

   ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued front page    (72) Inventor Yoshie Kamata             890 Kashimada, Sachi-ku, Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Stock             Company Information Service Division, Hitachi, Ltd. (72) Inventor Keisuke Yabuta             4-6 Kanda Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo             Within Hitachi, Ltd. (72) Inventor Yoshitaka Nakata             890 Kashimada, Sachi-ku, Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Stock             Hitachi, Ltd. Business Solutions             Within the department

Claims (16)

[Claims] 1. A method of mediating inter-company transaction information in an electronic commerce market in which each company can participate through a public communication network by an intermediary server, wherein the intermediary server stores at least the transaction information in a storage unit. From the terminal of the company requesting disclosure of the transaction information, a disclosure request for information regarding the company of the disclosure requestee is received, and the inquiry terminal of the requesting company is notified of the disclosure permission, Upon receiving the result, the request source terminal is notified, and when the result is a disclosure permission, the transaction information of the request destination company stored in the storage unit is notified to the request source terminal. Intermediary information for business transactions. 2. The inter-company transaction information brokering method according to claim 1, wherein the transaction information is composed of information items divided into a plurality of items, and these information items are disclosed for each company. When a level is set and the intermediary server receives the disclosure request in which the information item is specified, the requesting company searches the storage unit and sets the information disclosure level for the corresponding information item. If the information disclosure level indicates that the disclosure is permitted for all companies, the corresponding information item is read from the storage unit and notified to the request source terminal, while the information disclosure level is confirmed. However, in the case where it indicates that it is necessary to determine whether or not disclosure is required for each request, the inquiry is notified to the request destination terminal and the result of the inquiry is received. In addition to notifying the request source terminal, in the case of permission of disclosure, the corresponding information item is read from the storage unit and notified to the request source terminal. 3. The intermediary transaction information intermediary method according to claim 1, wherein the intermediary server receives the disclosure request,
A method for mediating inter-company transaction information, characterized in that the request destination terminal is notified of information regarding a company that is a source of information disclosure. 4. The intermediary method for inter-company transaction information according to claim 1, wherein the intermediary server includes information regarding the requesting company in an inquiry about disclosure possibility notified to the request destination terminal. Intermediary method for inter-company transaction information. 5. The intermediary method of inter-company transaction information according to claim 1, wherein the intermediary server receives the disclosure request,
A mediation method of inter-company transaction information, characterized by notifying a terminal used by a business of a business partner in the transaction information on the business requested by the requester stored in the storage unit, to the terminal. 6. The intermediary transaction information intermediary method according to claim 1, wherein the intermediary server is configured to perform the intermediary company terminal in the transaction information on the requestee enterprise stored in the storage unit, A method for mediating transaction information between companies, characterized by notifying an inquiry about disclosure or not, and disclosing all or part of the transaction information in accordance with a result of the inquiry. 7. An intermediary server for mediating inter-company transaction information in an electronic commerce market in which each company can participate through a public communication network, and a means for storing at least the transaction information in a storage unit, and the transaction information of the transaction information. From the terminal used by the disclosure requesting company, means for receiving a disclosure request for information about the disclosure requesting company, means for notifying the terminal used by the requesting company of an inquiry as to whether or not to disclose, and receiving the result of the inquiry Means for notifying the request source terminal, and for notifying the request source terminal of the transaction information of the request destination company stored in the storage unit when the result is a disclosure permission, And an intermediary server. 8. The intermediary server according to claim 7, wherein the transaction information is composed of information items divided into a plurality of items, and information disclosure levels are set for each company for these information items. Means for receiving the disclosure request in which the information item is designated, means for checking the information disclosure level of the requested company by searching the storage unit, and the information disclosure level However, in the case of indicating that the disclosure is permitted to all companies, the information disclosure level is provided with the request while the relevant information item is read from the storage unit and notified to the request source terminal. In the case of indicating that disclosure permission / inhibition determination is required for each, the means for notifying the request destination terminal of the disclosure permission / inhibition; A mediation server comprising: means for notifying the request source terminal, and for notifying the request source terminal of the relevant information item from the storage unit in the case of disclosure permission. 9. The intermediary server according to claim 7, further comprising means for notifying the request destination terminal of information regarding a company as a request source of information disclosure when the disclosure request is received. For server. 10. The intermediary server according to claim 7, further comprising means for including information on the request source company in an inquiry as to whether or not disclosure is to be notified to the request destination terminal. 11. The intermediary server according to claim 7, wherein when the disclosure request is received, the terminal is used for a terminal used by a business partner company in the transaction information on the request target company stored in the storage unit. An intermediary server having means for notifying information about a requesting company. 12. The intermediary server according to claim 7, further comprising means for notifying an inquiry of disclosure possibility to the supplier company terminal in the transaction information on the requestee company stored in the storage unit, A means for keeping all or part of the transaction information private according to the result of the inquiry. 13. A method of requesting disclosure of inter-company transaction information in an electronic commerce market in which each company can participate through a public communication network, by means of a terminal on the side of each company, wherein the terminal that requests the information disclosure comprises: Notify the intermediary server of a disclosure request for inter-company transaction information that specifies the company to which information is requested, and if the result of the request is disclosure permission, receive the corresponding transaction information from the intermediary server. A method of requesting information disclosure by a characteristic terminal. 14. A method of permitting disclosure of inter-company transaction information in an electronic commerce market in which each company can participate through a public communication network, by a terminal of each company that is a requester of disclosure, wherein the requestee terminal is A method for permitting information disclosure by a terminal, comprising: receiving an inquiry as to whether or not to disclose an information disclosure request from an intermediary server and notifying the intermediary server of a result of the inquiry. 15. A method for permitting disclosure of inter-company transaction information in an electronic commerce market in which each company can participate through a public communication network, using a terminal on the company side of the customer of the requestee company, wherein the customer The terminal receives, from the intermediary server, an inquiry as to whether or not to disclose the transaction information between the company requesting information disclosure and the corresponding company, and notifies the intermediary server of the result of the inquiry. How to permit information disclosure by. 16. An information providing method in an intermediary server, which is connected to terminals of a plurality of companies through a network and mediates exchange of progress data indicating the history of transactions between the companies, wherein the intermediary server Has a disclosure condition storage unit that stores the disclosure condition of the transaction for each company in advance, and a transaction information storage unit that stores the intermediary progress data, and a predetermined company conducts it from an information processing terminal via a network. Receiving a request to disclose information regarding a transaction, acquiring the disclosure condition of the transaction of the disclosure target company received from the disclosure condition storage unit, searching the transaction partner storage company of the disclosure target company from the transaction information storage unit, and performing the search. The disclosure conditions of the trading partner company extracted in step S1 are acquired from the disclosure condition storage unit, and the disclosure request and the acquired disclosure conditions of the disclosure target company and the trading partner are acquired. The information providing method information on transactions disclosed target enterprise, characterized in that sending to the information processing terminal based on.