Ranking system and ranking mehod

• US 20040049469A1
• Filed: 07/10/2002
• Published: 03/11/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nova Corporation (US Bancorp)
• Original Assignee: Nova Corporation (US Bancorp)
• Inventors: Tsuzumidani, Takashi, Saruhashi, Nozomu
• Application Number:
  US10/192,031
• Publication Number:
  US 20040049469A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/79
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/027 involving a payment switch or gateway

Abstract

OBJECT The object of the present invention is to provide a “ranking system” by noticing a relation between said “foreign language conversation communication ability” and “sports ability” and aims for an improvement of a communication ability in a foreign language.

SOLVING MEANS

The ranking system comprises a means for entering a sports field or a record or ranking thereof, a means for calculating a sport score from said record or ranking, a means for choosing a language, a means for entering the foreign language conversation communication ability, a means for calculating a language score from said foreign language conversation communication ability, a means for processing a ranking by comparing via network said sport score and said language score with data recorded and accumulated in a network server, and a means for displaying said ranking.

Claims

1. A ranking system comprising:

a means for entering a sports field or a record or ranking thereof, a means for calculating a sport score from said record or ranking, a means for choosing a language, a means for entering the foreign language conversation communication ability, a means for calculating a language score from said foreign language conversation communication ability, a means for processing a ranking by comparing via network said sport score and said language score with data recorded and accumulated in a network server, and a means for displaying said ranking.

2. The ranking system according to claim 1, wherein criteria for estimating the foreign language conversation communication ability comprise the lesson frequency and the conversation lesson time in language education facilities or network conversation lessons.

3. The ranking system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the criteria for estimating the foreign language conversation communication ability comprise an estimated level which is acknowledged by language education facilities or during network conversation lessons.

4. The ranking system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein, as to the resulted language score, said ranking system has a means for proposing information to improve a language score.

5. The ranking system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the information offered by the above means for proposing information to improve a language score comprises a list of the words used in the sports field in which the entrant participates, an example sentence using the word(s), and a voice information reading aloud the above example sentence.

6. The ranking system according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the information offered by the above means for proposing information to improve a language score comprises an introduction of language education facilities and network conversation lessons.

7. The ranking system according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the contents of the resulted ranking are automatically delivered to the computers of a selector and an entrant by means of an information delivery means installed in a network server.

8. The ranking system according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the resulted ranking is employed as the criteria for selecting international sportsmen who are excellent in the sports ability and the foreign language conversation communication ability.

9. The ranking system according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the resulted ranking is employed as the criteria for selecting international instructors who are excellent in a special technology or skill and the foreign language conversation communication ability.

10. The ranking system according to any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein said ranking is prepared by adding the above sport score and language score to the existing official ranking, a new ranking is prepared from the resulted ranking, and the new ranking is employed as the criteria for selecting a sportsman who has both of the sports ability and the foreign language conversation communication ability.

11. A method of ranking sportsmen or instructors, which comprises:

a step for entering a sports field or a record or ranking thereof, a step for calculating a sport score from said record or ranking, a step for choosing a language, a step for entering the foreign language conversation communication ability, a -step for calculating a language score from said foreign language conversation communication ability, a step for processing a ranking by comparing via network said sport score and said language score with data recorded and accumulated in a network server, and a step for displaying said ranking.