Information collecting method using portable communication terminal

• US 20040122904A1
• Filed: 08/14/2003
• Published: 06/24/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Steve Kim
• Original Assignee: Steve Kim
• Inventors: Kim, Steven
• Application Number:
  US10/467,995
• Publication Number:
  US 20040122904A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

Together with creating questionnaires desired by a client, the invention automatically assigns corresponding e-mail addresses to the respective questionnaires, and furthermore, those e-mail addresses are displayed or notified by way of media such as magazines, newspapers, TV, radio, advertisements, and the like; and the invention attaches a questionnaire URL to blank e-mail from the user that used the e-mail address, and sends a reply e-mail, and then stores and totals the responses to that questionnaire URL.

Claims

1. An information-collection method using a portable-communication terminal comprising a first process wherein an information-processing apparatus creates information according to a request from a client and assigns address information that corresponds to the information;

and when it receives a blank e-mail in which only the address information from a portable-communication terminal has been entered, sends a reply e-mail, to which an information-viewing URL has been added to the blank e-mail.

2. The information-collection method using a portable-communication terminal of claim 1 wherein first process comprises:

a second process wherein the information-processing apparatus assigns an e-mail address as address information;

a third process wherein the portable-communication terminal is used to enter an e-mail address that is displayed or notified by way of a display or advertisement medium and to send a blank e-mail, and is used to enter necessary items in the information downloaded using the information-viewing URL of the reply e-mail; and

a fourth process wherein the information-processing apparatus stores the responses to the input information, and sends to or notifies the client of the totaled results of the responses.

3. The information-collection method using a portable-communication terminal of claim 1 wherein first process comprises a fifth process wherein the auto-information-creation-support unit of the information-processing apparatus provides various templates for performing support for creating the information desired by the client.

4. The information-collection method using a portable-communication terminal of claim 1 or claim 2 wherein first and second processes comprise a sixth process wherein the auto-address-assignment unit of the information-processing apparatus assigns address information at the same time when the information is created.

5. The information-collection method using a portable-communication terminal of claim 1 wherein the first process comprises a seventh process wherein the information-registration unit of the information-processing apparatus registers attribute information about the client in the client-information-management database, and registers the attribute information about the user that uses the portable-communication terminal in the personal-information-management database.

6. The information-collection method using a portable-communication terminal of claim 5 wherein the seventh process comprises an eighth process of managing the user attribute information using the e-mail address of the portable-communication terminal.

7. The information-collection method using a portable-communication terminal of claim 2 wherein the fourth process comprises a ninth process wherein the information-registration unit of the information-processing apparatus registers the responses to the information in the information-management database, and manages the responses using the assigned address information.

8. The information-collection method using a portable-communication terminal of claim 1 wherein the first process comprises a tenth process wherein the information-processing apparatus attaches the information-viewing URL of another client to the reply e-mail.

9. The information-collection method using a portable-communication terminal of claim 1 or claim 8 wherein:

the first and tenth processes comprise;

an eleventh process wherein the target-setting unit of the information-processing apparatus provides templates for setting the target in response to access from the other client, and after checking the necessary items using the target-setting template, creates target information; and

a twelfth process wherein the matching unit of the information-processing unit finds matching users that use the portable-communication terminals and makes a list of the matching information.

10. The information-collection method using a portable-communication terminal of claim 8 wherein the tenth process comprises a thirteenth process of attaching an advertisement of another client.

11. The information-collection method using a portable-communication terminal of anyone of the claims 1 to 3 wherein the information is a questionnaire.

12. The information-collection method using a portable-communication terminal of anyone of the claims 1 to 3 wherein the information is a marketing promotion.

13. The information-collection method using a portable-communication terminal of anyone of the claims 1 to 3 wherein the information is an order form.

14. The information-collection method using a portable-communication terminal of anyone of the claims 1 to 3 wherein the information is a lottery or gambling ticket order form.

15. The information-collection method using a portable-communication terminal of anyone of the claims 1 to 3 wherein the information is a voting ballot.

16. The information-collection method using a portable-communication terminal of anyone of the claims 1 to 3 wherein the information is a point-accumulation promotion.

17. The information-collection method using a portable-communication terminal of anyone of the claims 1 to 3 wherein the information is a ticket order form.

18. The information-collection method using a portable-communication terminal of anyone of the claims 1 to 3 wherein the information is a product comments.

19. A recording medium on which a program is recorded that can execute the information-collection method using a portable-communication terminal of anyone of the claims 1 to 10.