Interactive privilege supply system

• US 20040143840A1
• Filed: 12/18/2003
• Published: 07/22/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/17/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Fukuda, Kazuhiro, Maruyama, Tetsuo
• Granted Patent: US 8,700,454 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/32
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4725 using interactive regions of the image, e.g. hot spots details of information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47815 Electronic shopping payment schemes, payment architectures or payment protocols for electronic shopping systems G06Q20/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02

Abstract

An interactive privilege supply system in which a user terminal device, a privilege supply device, and a product supply device are connected via a network, wherein the product supply device at least generates privilege data in which a privilege is interlocked with time; the user terminal device generates entry data within a predetermined period of time in accordance with the privilege data and contingency data, which is contained in program data transmitted at least from the privilege supply device; and the privilege supply device generates result data, which at least contains validity period information about product privilege purchase, in accordance with the relationship between the contingency data and the entry data.

Claims

1. An interactive privilege supply system in which a user terminal device, a privilege supply device, and a product supply device are connected via a network,

wherein said product supply device at least generates privilege data in which a privilege is interlocked with time;

said user terminal device generates entry data within a predetermined period of time in accordance with said privilege data and contingency data, which is contained in program data transmitted at least from said privilege supply device; and

said privilege supply device generates result data, which at least contains validity period information about product privilege purchase, in accordance with the relationship between said contingency data and said entry data.

2. The interactive privilege supply system according to claim 1, wherein said privilege is interlocked with the time at which said entry data is generated.

3. The interactive privilege supply system according to claim 1, wherein said predetermined period of time is at least the time interval between the beginning and end of a program.

4. The interactive privilege supply system according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of said contingency data are generated within said predetermined period of time.

5. The interactive privilege supply system according to claim 1, wherein said contingency data relates to said program data.

6. The interactive privilege supply system according to claim 1, wherein said privilege supply device manages said entry data in accordance with entry identification information.

7. The interactive privilege supply system according to claim 1, wherein said entry identification information is associated with said validity period information.

8. The interactive privilege supply system according to claim 1, wherein said privilege supply device conceals user identification information for identifying said user terminal device for said product supply device.