DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20100121766A1
• Filed: 02/18/2008
• Published: 05/13/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Hakoishi, Takashisa, Yaegashi, Akira, Sugaya, Hiroshi
• Application Number:
  US12/527,485
• Publication Number:
  US 20100121766A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/50
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0225 Avoiding frauds

Abstract

Advertisement video data in which coupon ID data attached to each of coupons is embedded as a watermark is distributed and reproduced; part of the video data provided by a display device (30) is captured by an image pickup section (41) of a mobile phone device (40), and the coupon ID data is extracted from the captured advertisement video data; the extracted coupon ID data is stored into a secure memory (48) that holds terminal ID data; the coupon ID data and the terminal ID data transmitted from the mobile phone device (40) are received; and a log in effect when each coupon related to the coupon ID data is identified and redeemed is transmitted to a coupon management device (60) whereby the terminal ID data and the redemption logs are managed in relation to the coupon ID data by the coupon management device (60). This makes it possible efficiently to distribute the coupons using the advertising media and to measure the effects of advertisement based on coupon use status.

Claims

1. A data processing system comprising:

advertising media for providing advertisement data in which coupon ID data attached to each of coupons is embedded as a watermark;

a terminal device including acquisition means for acquiring the advertisement data provided by said advertising media, extraction means for extracting the coupon ID data from the advertisement data acquired by said acquisition means, secure storage means for storing terminal ID data as well as the coupon ID data extracted by said extraction means, terminal-side communication means for transmitting the coupon ID data and the terminal ID data held in said secure storage means, and terminal-side noncontact communication means for transmitting the coupon ID data and the terminal ID data held in said secure storage means;

a redemption device including redemption-side noncontact communication means for receiving the coupon ID data and the terminal ID data transmitted from the terminal-side noncontact communication means of said terminal device, and redemption-side communication means for transmitting a log in effect when any of the coupons related to said coupon ID data is redeemed, whereby the coupons related to said coupon ID data are redeemed; and

a coupon management device including a coupon database for managing said coupons in relation to said coupon ID data, and management-side communication means for receiving the redemption logs transmitted from said redemption device so as to manage the received logs using said coupon database.

2. The data processing system according to claim 1, wherein

said coupon management device includes reception means for receiving the coupon ID data and the terminal ID data transmitted from said terminal-side communication means, encryption means for encrypting coupon data related to the coupon ID data using the coupon ID data and the terminal ID data received by said reception means, and transmission means for transmitting the encrypted coupon data derived from encryption by said encryption means said terminal device, and

said terminal device stores the encrypted coupon data received by said communications means into non-secure storage means.

3. The data processing system according to claim 2, wherein

said redemption device includes decryption means for decrypting said encrypted coupon data using the coupon ID data and the terminal ID data transmitted from the terminal-side noncontact communication means of said terminal device, and

said redemption-side noncontact communication means receives said encrypted coupon data as well as the coupon ID data and the terminal ID data transmitted from the terminal-side noncontact communication means of said terminal device, and decrypts said encrypted coupon data using said coupon ID data and said terminal ID data so as to redeem said coupons.

4. The data processing system according to claim 2,

wherein said terminal device includes decryption means for decrypting said encrypted coupon data using the coupon ID data and the terminal ID data held in said secure storage means, and display means for displaying decrypted coupon data, said terminal device displaying the decrypted coupon data on said display means so as to let said coupons be redeemed by said redemption device.

5. The data processing system according to claim 1, wherein

said terminal device transmits the coupon ID data and the terminal ID data held in said secure storage means from the terminal-side noncontact communication means of said terminal device to the redemption-side noncontact communication means of said redemption device,

said redemption device transmits said coupon ID data and said terminal ID data from said redemption-side communication means to said coupon management device, and

said coupon management device uses verification means to verify said coupon ID data and, when said coupon ID data is verified, transmits the coupon data related to the coupon ID data from said management-side communication means to said redemption device while transmitting redemption data indicating that the coupon data related to the coupon ID data has been redeemed to said terminal device via said redemption device.

6. The data processing system according to claim 1, wherein

said terminal device transmits the coupon ID data and the terminal ID data held in said secure storage means from the terminal-side noncontact communication means of said terminal device to the redemption-side noncontact communication means of said redemption device,

said redemption device transmits said coupon ID data and said terminal ID data from said redemption-side communication means to said coupon management means,

said coupon management device uses verification means to verify said coupon ID data and, when said coupon ID data is verified, uses encryption means to encrypt the coupon data related to the coupon ID data using said coupon ID data and said terminal ID data, before transmitting the encrypted coupon data from said management-side communication means to said redemption device,

said redemption device decrypts said encrypted coupon data using said coupon ID data and said terminal ID data, and

said coupon management device transmits redemption data indicating that the coupon data related to the coupon ID data has been redeemed to said terminal device via said redemption device.

7. The data processing system according to claim 1, further comprising

an electronic commerce device,

wherein, when placing an order for a product with said electronic commerce device, said terminal device transmits the coupon ID data and the terminal ID data held in said secure storage means from said terminal-side communication means to said electronic commerce device,

said electronic commerce device transmits said coupon ID data and said terminal ID data to said coupon management device, and

said coupon management device uses verification means to verify said coupon ID data and, when said coupon ID data is verified, transmits the coupon data related to the coupon ID data from said management-side communication means to said electronic commerce device.

8. A data processing method comprising the steps of:

using advertising media to provide advertisement data in which coupon ID data attached to each of coupons is embedded as a watermark;

causing a terminal device to acquire the advertisement data provided by said advertising media, to extract the coupon ID data from the acquired advertisement data, and to store the extracted coupon ID data into secure storage means which holds terminal ID data;

receiving the coupon ID data and the terminal ID data transmitted from said terminal device, identifying the coupons related to the coupon ID data, and transmitting to a coupon management device a log in effect when any of the coupons related to said coupon ID data is redeemed; and

causing said coupon management device to manage the terminal ID data and the redemption logs in relation to said coupon ID data.