Service server and service method

• US 20050149399A1
• Filed: 12/16/2004
• Published: 07/07/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Tadashi, Suzuki, Ryo, Shimomura, Takuya, Fukunaga, Yoshitsugu
• Application Number:
  US11/012,279
• Publication Number:
  US 20050149399A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.560
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0258 Registration

Abstract

A service server for communicating with a user terminal via a network and delivering a voice message about a picture the server has received an order to print from the user to the user terminal, comprising: a database for managing a voice message to be provided for a user and a playing condition for the voice message; an inputting device for inputting a voice message and a playing condition to be managed in the database; an access information issuing device for issuing access information to obtain the voice message via a network for the database to manage in association with the voice message and playing condition; a print instruction device for sending the picture for which the server has received an order to print with access information to a printer to record the picture and access information on the same print medium; a determination device for determining whether the current condition matches a playing condition managed in the database when the service server accessed from a user terminal by using access information recorded on the print medium; and a sending device for reading a voice message corresponding to the access information from the database and sending the voice message to the accessing user terminal when the current condition is determined to match the playing condition.

Claims

1. A service server for communicating with a user terminal via a network and delivering a voice message about a picture the server has received an order to print from the user to the user terminal, comprising:

a database for managing a voice message to be provided for a user and a playing condition for the voice message;

an inputting device for inputting a voice message and a playing condition to be managed in the database;

an access information issuing device for issuing access information to obtain the voice message via a network for the database to manage in association with the voice message and playing condition;

a print instruction device for sending the picture for which the server has received an order to print with access information to a printer to record the picture and access information on the same print medium;

a determination device for determining whether the current condition matches a playing condition managed in the database when the service server accessed from a user terminal by using access information recorded on the print medium; and

a sending device for reading a voice message corresponding to the access information from the database and sending the voice message to the accessing user terminal when the current condition is determined to match the playing condition.

2. The service server according to claim 1, wherein the database manages setting information indicating whether the server sends a voice message common to users or a voice message specific to each user to the user terminal when the server is accessed from the user terminal;

and

wherein the sending device sends a voice message common to users or a voice message specific to each user to the user terminal based on the setting information.

3. The service server according to claim 1, wherein the database manages a designation of a user to be provided with a voice message, such as the user'"'"'s name or pet name;

and

wherein the sending device sends a voice message including the designation of a user to the user terminal when the server is accessed from the user terminal.

4. The service server according to claim 3, wherein the database manages an anniversary for a user to be provided with a voice message such as the user'"'"'s birthday, the date the user used a facility, or the date the user participated an event;

and

wherein the sending device sends a voice message to a user terminal when the server is accessed from the user terminal and the current date is the user'"'"'s anniversary or in a predetermined period including the user'"'"'s anniversary.

5. The service server according to claim 1, wherein the database manages various voice messages, which are different from each other for each year, month, date, day of the week, or season;

and

the sending device sends a voice message to a user terminal, switching a voice message according to a transition of time such as the current year, month, date, a day of the week, or season when the server is accessed from the user terminal.

6. The service server according to claim 1, wherein the database manages a plurality of voice messages, which are different from each other for each piece of access information;

and

the sending device randomly selects a voice message from the plurality of voice messages and sends the voice message to the user terminal.

7. The service server according to claim 1, wherein the database manages the voice messages and playing conditions by classifying the voice messages and playing conditions into a plurality of groups, each of which is assigned with a group identification information;

the access information issuing device issues access information independently for each group; and

the sending device reads a corresponding voice message from the database and sends the voice message to the user terminal on the basis of the group identification information sent from the user terminal and access information in a group indicated by the group identification information.

8. A service method, comprising the steps of:

obtaining a picture of a user whose order for printing is received;

registering a playing condition for playing a voice message to be provided for a user at a user terminal with a database;

issuing access information for accessing the voice message and registering the access information with the database in association with the playing condition;

sending the picture of a user whose order for printing is received and access information to a predetermined printer and recording the picture and the access information on the same print medium;

obtaining the voice message and registering the voice message with the database in association with the playing condition;

determining whether the current condition matches the playing condition managed in the database when the server is accessed from a user terminal by using access information recorded on the print medium; and

reading the voice message from the database and sending the voice message to the accessing user terminal when the current condition is determined to match the playing condition.

9. A service server for communicating with a user terminal via a network and delivering information on a subject of advertisement for a user displayed on a printed advertising medium to the user terminal, comprising:

an inputting device for inputting planning information on the subject of advertisement;

a management device for managing the planning information for each subject of advertisement;

a receiving device for receiving access information input from a user terminal on the basis of a printed advertising medium recorded with access information required to obtain the planning information for each subject of advertisement from the user terminal;

a delivering information preparing device for preparing delivering information including planning information by searching the planning information on a subject of advertisement corresponding to the access information after the current date and time on the basis of the access information and the date and time of receiving the access information; and

a delivering device for delivering the delivering information to the user terminal.

10. The service server according to claim 9, wherein the subject of advertisement is an amusement facility, a drinking and eating facility, a beauty facility, a therapeutic facility, an educational facility, a training facility or other facilities for providing a user with a service, a store or other facilities for providing a user with goods, a service or goods provided for a user at the facilities, or a provider of a service or goods;

and

wherein the delivering information preparing device prepares delivering information including a period for providing a service or goods for a user at the facilities.

11. The service server according to claim 10, wherein the delivering information preparing device switches contents of delivering information before and after providing a service or goods at the facilities on the basis of the current date and time.

12. The service server according to claim 10, wherein the receiving device obtains the present location of the user terminal from the user terminal;

and

the delivering information preparing device prepares delivering information including planning information on the facility located near the present location on the basis of the present location.

13. The service server according to claim 11, wherein the receiving device obtains the present location of the user terminal from the user terminal;

and

the delivering information preparing device prepares delivering information including planning information on the facility located near the present location on the basis of the present location.

14. The service server according to claims 10, wherein the printed advertising medium is what records a picture representing the facility, the service, the goods, or the provider and access information for obtaining planning information corresponding to the picture on the same sheet of paper;

and

wherein the delivering information preparing device prepares delivering information including planning information corresponding to the picture.

15. The service server according to claims 12, wherein the printed advertising medium is what records a picture representing the facility, the service, the goods, or the provider and access information for obtaining planning information corresponding to the picture on the same sheet of paper;

and

wherein the delivering information preparing device prepares delivering information including planning information corresponding to the picture.

16. The service server according to claims 13, wherein the printed advertising medium is what records a picture representing the facility, the service, the goods, or the provider and access information for obtaining planning information corresponding to the picture on the same sheet of paper;

and

wherein the delivering information preparing device prepares delivering information including planning information corresponding to the picture.

17. An information delivering service method for delivering information on a subject of advertisement for a user displayed on a printed advertising medium to the user terminal, comprising the steps of:

obtaining planning information on the subject of advertisement;

receiving access information input at a user terminal from the user terminal on the basis of a printed advertising medium recorded with access information required to obtain the planning information;

preparing delivering information including planning information by searching for the planning information on a subject of advertisement corresponding to the access information after the current date and time on the basis of the access information and the date and time of receiving the access information; and

delivering the delivering information to the user terminal.