Method for serving picture images on the internet

• US 20060080178A1
• Filed: 12/06/2003
• Published: 04/13/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tae-Yurn Lee
• Original Assignee: Tae-Yurn Lee
• Inventors: Lee, Tae-Yurn
• Application Number:
  US10/537,225
• Publication Number:
  US 20060080178A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]

Abstract

The present invention relates to an improved method for serving picture images on the internet based on a different method, and in particular to an improved method for serving picture images on the internet which is capable of selling picture images for an increased price based on an anti-discount service method with respect to images having a high use frequency by determining a sale sequence of images, and when using the picture images, a place of use, a start date of use, and serial number of images are reported to an operator of a web site.

Claims

1. In a method in which a plurality of picture images in various fields are stored in an internet homepage, and a user is connected with the homepage and logs in and receives a service of a picture image, an improved method for serving picture images, comprising:

a step in which an operator of a homepage determines an image-based sale rank based on the number of uses of the picture images (sale rank) during a certain period in a process that the picture images are downloaded; and

a step in which the operator of the homepage opens the sale rank on a bulletin board or a notice section of the homepage, and the prices of the picture images are increased with respect to the images having a high frequency of uses by the users based on an anti-discount service method.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the user of the homepage voluntarily reports a place of use, a start date of use, a serial number of image, and a user ID to the operator of the homepage using e-mail before the start date of the picture images and then uses the downloaded picture images.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the prices of the picture images are increased based on the frequency of uses of the images after a certain period is passed in a process that the user downloads and uses the picture images, and then the increased prices of the same are open on a bulletin board or a notice section of the homepage.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein when the user attaches a certain trademark or a recognizable symbol designated by the operator to the picture images, the user is provided with a certain benefit.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein said trademark or recognizable symbol is processed in such a manner that the trademark or recognizable symbol is recovered only when it is needed to check whether the picture images are legal or illegal after the trademark or recognizable symbol designated by the operator is provided to the picture images of the homepage operated by the operator using a water mark method.