Service system for offering information of invitation of public contribution and/or prize contest by using cellular phone, personal digital assistants, computer terminal machine

• US 20020165025A1
• Filed: 03/05/2001
• Published: 11/07/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki-Kaisha Koubo-Guide-Sha
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki-Kaisha Koubo-Guide-Sha
• Inventors: Kawahara, Kazuhiro
• Application Number:
  US09/800,209
• Publication Number:
  US 20020165025A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/41
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

A service system offers information of an invitation of a public contribution and/or a prize contest by using a cellular phone, a personal digital assistant or a computer terminal machine. A user can easily participate in the system. The user is individually provided with proper information of the invitation of public contribution and/or the prize contest, and can apply for the information, by on-line registering basic information of the user through a cellular phone, a personal digital assistant, or a computer terminal machine connectable to the Internet, by carrying out a referring process on-line by using the proper information. The user is permitted access to a plurality of information of invitation of public contributions and/or prize contests on the Internet.

Claims

1. A service system for offering information of invitation of public contribution and/or prize contest by using a cellular phone, a personal digital assistant, and a computer terminal machine, characterized in that a user can be permitted to easily participate in the system according to the invention, is individually provided with proper information of invitation of public contribution and/or prize contest correctly, and can apply for the information, by on-line registering basic information of the user through a cellular phone, a personal digital assistant, or a computer terminal machine connectable to the Internet, by carrying out a referring process on-line by using the basic information, and by permitting an access to a plurality of information of invitation of public contribution and/or prize contest on the Internet.

2. The service system for offering information of invitation of public contribution and/or prize contest by using a cellular phone, a personal digital assistant, and a computer terminal machine according to claim 1, characterized in that a application procedure for the information of public contribution and/or prize contest is also able to be performed on-line by using the basic information of the registered user.

3. The service system for offering information of invitation of public contribution and/or prize contest by using a cellular phone, a personal digital assistant, and a computer terminal machine according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that there is a charge for the offer of the information of invitation of public contribution and/or prize contest, the charge being paid together with a communication line using fee.

4. The service system for offering information of invitation of public contribution and/or prize contest by using a cellular phone, a personal digital assistant, and a computer terminal machine according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that one or a plurality of total number information of the application at an access time by a user or at a certain reference time, information of winning result of a past invitation of public contribution and/or prize contest, and result information of retrieving a winning result of the user is or are provided together with the invitation information of public contribution and/or prize contest as a part of the information of invitation of public contribution and/or prize contest.

5. The service system for offering information of invitation of public contribution and/or prize contest by using a cellular phone, a personal digital assistant, and a computer terminal machine according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that it is limited that only invitation information of public contribution and/or prize contest available to be applied for at the time of access by a user would be displayed in a cellular phone, a personal digital assistant, or a computer terminal machine connectable to the Internet.

6. The service system for offering information of invitation of public contribution and/or prize contest by using a cellular phone, a personal digital assistant, and a computer terminal machine according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that offering the information of invitation of public contribution and/or prize contest and handling information of an application by a user are performed as a whole through a special controlling server.

7. The service system for offering information of invitation of public contribution and/or prize contest by using a cellular phone, a personal digital assistant, and a computer terminal machine according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that a process for referring the basic information of the registered user can limit or permit overlapped application by one user for the information of invitation of public contribution and/or prize contest in response to necessity.

8. The service system for offering information of invitation of public contribution and/or prize contest by using a cellular phone, a personal digital assistant, and a computer terminal machine according to one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that an applicant is required to reply a questionnaire accompanying an application for the information of invitation of public contribution and/or prize contest, and the reply, the basic information of the user, and the application data are given at any time to a provider of the information of invitation of public contribution and/or prize contest so as to be used as data for market research, product development, and sales promotion.

9. The service system for offering information of invitation of public contribution and/or prize contest by using a cellular phone, a personal digital assistant, and a computer terminal machine according to one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that advertisement information from an advertising sponsor such as a provider of the information of invitation of public contribution and/or prize contest is also provided as information offered to a user, which accompanies the offer of the information of invitation of public contribution and/or prize contest.

10. The service system for offering information of invitation of public contribution and/or prize contest by using a cellular phone, a personal digital assistant, and a computer terminal machine according to one of claims 1 to 9, characterized in that information corresponding to an individual user is selected on the basis of the basic information of the user, the data of past applications, and the data of replies to a questionnaires so as to be provided to the individual user by an electronic mail.