Method and system for charging vehicle advertisement rate

• US 20040267617A1
• Filed: 06/15/2004
• Published: 12/30/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Yanase, Kazuhiro
• Application Number:
  US10/866,808
• Publication Number:
  US 20040267617A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.62
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0265 Vehicular advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0273 Determination of fees for advertising

Abstract

Provided are a method and a system for charging an appropriate vehicle advertisement rate in a vehicle advertisement service having an advertisement on the external body part of the vehicle. In an advertising vehicle, vehicle sensors for detecting the traveling state such as the traveling speed and the traveling position, and an on-vehicle terminal for importing the information detected by the sensors as the traveling state information are mounted. The traveling state information is imported to a vehicle-state collecting server of a prove information center from the on-vehicle terminal through a network. An advertisement rate calculating server calculates the advertisement rate from the traveling state information and data of an advertisement rate system stored beforehand in which unit rates per traveling distance, changing ratio of the unit rates according to the traveled unit area and the like are collected. Then, the information on the advertisement rate and the traveling state information are transmitted to the advertiser terminal.

Claims

1. A system for charging vehicle advertisement rate, comprising:

an advertisement vehicle;

information obtaining means;

calculating means; and

information sending means;

wherein

the advertisement vehicle performs advertising while traveling along a street,

the information obtaining means obtains information of a traveling state that the advertisement vehicle actually travels,

the calculating means calculates advertisement rate based on advertisement rate data which has been set beforehand corresponding to traveling state information of the advertisement vehicle and on actual traveling state information of the advertisement vehicle, and

the information sending means includes the actual traveling state information of the advertisement vehicle in information of the advertisement rate calculated by the calculating means, and sends the information to an advertiser terminal.

2. The system for charging vehicle advertisement rate, as claimed in claim 1, wherein the information obtaining means obtains the traveling state information in such a manner as to include information about a place, a speed, a distance and a time of the advertisement vehicle traveling in the actual traveling state information of the advertisement vehicle.

3. The system for charging vehicle advertisement rate, as claimed in claim 1, wherein the information obtaining means is provided to the advertisement vehicle so as to obtain the actual traveling state information of the advertisement vehicle.

4. The system for charging vehicle advertisement rate, as claimed in claim 1, wherein the calculating means sets the advertisement rate data as a unit rate per unit traveling distance for each traveling area of the advertisement vehicle based on the information obtained by the information obtaining means, and stores the data.

5. The system for charging vehicle advertisement rate, as claimed in claim 4, wherein the calculating means sets the advertisement rate data while taking into account:

a unit rate per unit traveling distance for each traveling area of the advertisement vehicle; and

time data that the advertisement vehicle travels, based on the information obtained by the information obtaining means, and stores the advertisement rate data.

6. The system for charging vehicle advertisement rate, as claimed in claim 5, wherein the calculating means sets the advertisement rate data in such a manner as to include traveling hours and a traveling period of time that the advertisement vehicle travels in the time data, based on the information obtained by the information obtaining means, and stores the advertisement rate data.

7. A method for charging vehicle advertisement rate comprising the steps of:

advertising by an advertisement vehicle traveling along a street;

obtaining information of a traveling state that the advertisement vehicle actually travels;

calculating advertisement rate based on advertisement rate data which has been set beforehand corresponding to traveling state information of the advertisement vehicle and on an actual traveling state information of the advertisement vehicle; and

sending information to an advertiser terminal which information is so obtained as to include the actual traveling state information of the advertisement vehicle in the advertisement rate information calculated in the calculating step.

8. The method for charging vehicle advertisement rate, as claimed in claim 7, wherein the traveling state information is so obtained as to include information about a place, a speed, a distance and a time of the advertisement vehicle traveling in the actual traveling state information of the advertisement vehicle.

9. The method for charging vehicle advertisement rate, as claimed in claim 7, wherein the actual traveling state information of the advertisement vehicle is obtained through an on-vehicle terminal mounted on the advertisement vehicle.

10. The method for charging vehicle advertisement rate, as claimed in claim 7, wherein the advertisement rate data is set as a unit rate per unit traveling distance for each traveling area of the advertisement vehicle.

11. The method for charging vehicle advertisement rate, as claimed in claim 10, wherein the advertisement rate data is so set as to take into account a unit rate per unit traveling distance for each traveling area of the advertisement vehicle and time data that the advertisement vehicle travels.

12. The method for charging vehicle advertisement rate, as claimed in claim 11, wherein the advertisement rate data is so set as to include, in the time data, traveling hours and a traveling period of time that the advertisement vehicle travels.