Information providing system and method thereof
First Claim
1. An information providing system comprising:
- a server computer capable of transmitting an advertisement data through a communication network;
wherein an advertising rate for transmitting the advertisement data is charged to a provider who provides the advertisement data to the server computer, and the advertising rate varies according to a transmitting time of the advertisement data.
1 Assignment
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
An advertisement provider transmits advertising data to, for example, a WWW (World Wide Web) server from a terminal and the WWW server transmits the advertising data to a user terminal through a communication network such as the Internet. Advertisement charges to the advertisement provider are changed according to transmitting time period, and charges to the user are changed according to the transmitting time period. The advertisement charges or the user charges may be increased or decreased according to the number of accesses.
This disclosures of Japanese Patent Applications No. 2000-220241filed on Jul. 21, 2000 and 2001-118289 filed on Apr. 17, 2001, including the specifications and abstracts are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.
-
Citations
20 Claims
-
1. An information providing system comprising:
a server computer capable of transmitting an advertisement data through a communication network;
wherein an advertising rate for transmitting the advertisement data is charged to a provider who provides the advertisement data to the server computer, and the advertising rate varies according to a transmitting time of the advertisement data.- View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
-
7. An information providing system comprising:
a server computer connected to a communication network and transmitting advertising data to a first computer at the request of the first computer and sending the first computer accounting data according to transmitting time of the advertising data to the first computer. - View Dependent Claims (8)
-
9. An information providing method comprising:
receiving advertising data from an advertisement provider, providing the advertising data through a communication network, and setting an advertising rate charged to the advertisement provider according to a providing time of the advertising data through the communication network. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12)
-
13. An information providing method comprising:
providing an advertising rate table set according to a providing time of advertising data, receiving the advertising data at an advertising rate set based on the advertisement rate table, and providing the received advertising data through a communication network.
-
14. An information providing method comprising:
receiving a request for transmitting advertising data through a communication network and transmitting the advertising data to a computer requesting for the transmission through the communication network, and sending accounting data set according to a providing time to the computer requesting the transmission. - View Dependent Claims (15)
-
16. A server computer providing an information to a first computer through a communication network, comprising:
-
a momory that stores an advertisement data; and
a controller that transmites the advertisement data to the first computer through the communication network, and sets an advertisement rate for transmitting the advertisement data which is charged to a provider who provides the advertisement data, wherein the controller sets the advertisement rate according to a transmitting time of the advertisement date. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
-
Specification