Selling price calculation instrument and method thereof

• US 20020032666A1
• Filed: 03/05/2001
• Published: 03/14/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Kawamura, Yuya, Sogabe, Akio
• Granted Patent: US 7,333,959 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/400
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0283 Price estimation or determination

Abstract

The selling price calculation apparatus is equipped with the request receiving unit, the sales information acquisition unit, the discount rate calculation unit, the selling price calculation unit and the discount DB. The request receiving unit receives from the purchaser information concerning the ballot tickets the purchaser wants to purchase. The sales information acquisition unit acquires from the discount DB information concerning the ballot tickets that the purchaser wants to purchase. The sales information includes the accumulated number of purchasers and the predicted number of purchasers from the time of starting the sales of the ballot tickets to the present moment. The discount rate calculation unit calculates the accuracy of statistical odds based upon the accumulated number of purchasers and the predicted number of purchasers, and calculates the discount rate based upon the accuracy of statistical odds. The selling price calculation unit calculates the selling price of the ballot tickets requested by the purchaser based upon the discount rate. The problem that the sale of pre-sale ballot tickets becomes concentrated immediately before the time of stopping the sales of the ballot tickets is relieved or solved by a series of processes thereof.

Claims

1. A selling price calculation method for calculating a selling price of a ballot ticket comprising:

calculating a discount rate based upon the accuracy of statistical odds of the ballot ticket; and

calculating the selling price of the ballot ticket based upon the calculated discount rate.

2. A selling price calculation method described in claim 1, further comprising:

calculating the accuracy of the statistical odds based upon a predicted number of purchasers of the ballot ticket and the number of purchasers who are accumulated from the time sales of the ballot ticket is started.

3. A selling price calculation method described in claim 1, further comprising:

lowering the discount rate until the stopping time of the sales of the ballot ticket when being compared with the discount rate at the time the sales of the ballot ticket is started.

4. A selling price calculation method described in claim 1, further comprising:

raising the discount rate until the starting time of the sales of the ballot ticket when being compared with the discount rate at the time the sales of the ballot ticket is stopped.

5. A selling price acquisition method for acquiring a selling price of a ballot ticket comprising:

transmitting information to identify the ballot tickets; and

receiving the selling price of the ballot ticket calculated based upon an accuracy of a statistical odds of the ballot ticket.

6. A computer readable recording medium which records a program to make a computer perform the control for calculating a selling price of a ballot ticket, the program to make said computer perform the processes of:

calculating a discount rate based upon the accuracy of statistical odds of the ballot ticket; and

calculating the selling price of the ballot ticket based upon the calculated discount rate.

7. A computer readable recording medium which records a program to make a computer perform the control for acquiring a selling price of a ballot ticket, the program to make said computer perform the processes of:

transmitting information which identifies the ballot ticket; and

receiving the selling price of the ballot ticket based upon the accuracy of statistical odds of the ballot ticket.

8. A selling price calculation apparatus that calculates a selling price of a ballot ticket comprising:

a discount rate calculation unit calculating a discount rate based upon an accuracy of statistical odds of the ballot ticket; and

a selling price calculation unit calculating the selling price of the ballot ticket based upon the discount rate.

9. A program embodied in a transmission medium that makes a computer perform the control for calculating a selling price of a ballot ticket, and the program makes the computer execute the processes of:

calculating a discount rate based upon an accuracy of statistical odds of the ballot ticket; and

calculating the selling price of the ballot ticket based upon the calculated discount rate.

10. A program embodied in a transmission medium that makes a computer perform the control for acquiring a selling price of a ballot ticket, and the program makes the computer execute the processes of:

transmitting information that identifies the ballot ticket; and

receiving the selling price of the ballot ticket calculated based upon an accuracy of statistical odds of the ballot ticket.

11. A computer data signal embodied in a carrier wave and representing a program that makes the computer perform the control for calculating a selling price of a ballot ticket, and the program makes the computer execute the processes of:

calculating a discount rate based upon an accuracy of statistical odds of ballot ticket; and

calculating the selling price of the ballot ticket based upon the calculated discount rate.

12. A computer data signal embodied in a carrier wave and representing a program that makes the computer perform the control for acquiring a selling price of a plurality of ballot tickets, and the program makes the computer execute the processes of:

transmitting information that identifies the ballot ticket; and

receiving the selling price of the ballot ticket calculated based upon an accuracy of statistical odds of the ballot ticket.