Database system, computer program and advertisement presentation method in database system

• US 20070226197A1
• Filed: 03/20/2007
• Published: 09/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Sasai, Kosuke, Kawakami, Youichi
• Application Number:
  US11/725,638
• Publication Number:
  US 20070226197A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

A database system comprising: a database storing a plurality of types of information; a storage storing element associated information in which a plurality of elements included in said plurality of types of information are associated with each other and element-advertisement associated information in which advertising information is associated with a combination of two or more elements included in the plurality of elements; and a presentation device visibly presenting the advertising information by referring to the element-advertisement associated information when information entered by a user corresponds to the combination of two or more elements.

Claims

1. A database system comprising:

a database storing a plurality of types of information;

a storage storing element associated information in which a plurality of elements included in said plurality of types of information are associated with each other and element-advertisement associated information in which advertising information is associated with a combination of two or more elements included in said plurality of elements; and

a presentation device visibly presenting said advertising information by referring to said element-advertisement associated information when information entered by a user corresponds to said combination of two or more elements.

2. The database system according to claim 1, further comprising

a calculating part calculating charging information to be charged to an advertiser of said advertising information visibly presented by said presentation device in accordance with access conditions of a user making access to said advertising information.

3. The database system according to claim 2, wherein

said calculating part calculates said charging information in accordance with a frequency of presentation of said advertising information by said presentation device.

4. The database system according to claim 2, wherein

said calculating part calculates said charging information in accordance with a frequency of user'"'"'s access to detailed contents information about said advertising information visibly presented by said presentation device.

5. The database system according to claim 2, wherein

said calculating part calculates said charging information in accordance with an order quantity induced by said advertising information visibly presented by said presentation device.

6. The database system according to claim 1, further comprising

a reward-information determining part determining reward information for an information provider who provides at least part of said plurality of types of information.

7. The database system according to claim 2, further comprising

a changing part changing a calculating rule of said charging information obtained by said calculating part so as to reduce a fee charged to said advertiser of said advertising information when he/she is also an information provider of at least part of said plurality of types of information.

8. The database system according to claim 1, wherein

said element associated information is described in RDF.

9. The database system according to claim 1, further comprising

an associated information generating part structuring a plurality of elements included in said plurality of types of information and associating them with each other by using language processing, thereby generating said element associated information.

10. The database system according to claim 1, wherein

when said plurality of types of information contain information belonging to at least one or more categories of medical care, nursing and caregiving, an advertiser of said advertising information includes at least one or more entities of a hospital, a medical practitioner, a clinic, a medical equipment manufacturer, a school for medical care, a publisher relating to medical care and a pharmaceutical manufacturer.

11. The database system according to claim 1, wherein

said database system includes an auction system.

12. The database system according to claim 1, wherein

said database system includes an e-learning system.

13. A computer program controlling a computer to operate as a database system, wherein said database system comprises:

a database storing a plurality of types of information;

a storage storing element associated information in which a plurality of elements included in said plurality of types of information are associated with each other and element-advertisement associated information in which advertising information is associated with a combination of two or more elements included in said plurality of elements; and

a presentation device visibly presenting said advertising information by referring to said element-advertisement associated information when information entered by a user corresponds to said combination of two or more elements.

14. The computer program according to claim 13, wherein

said element associated information is described in RDF.

15. An advertisement presentation method in a database system, comprising the steps of:

(a) storing, in a storage, element associated information in which a plurality of elements included in a plurality of types of information constituting a database are associated with each other and element-advertisement associated information in which advertising information is associated with a combination of two or more elements included in said plurality of elements; and

(b) visibly presenting said advertising information by referring to said element-advertisement associated information when information entered by a user corresponds to said combination of two or more elements.

16. The advertisement presentation method according to claim 15, wherein

said element associated information is described in RDF.