SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING WHETHER TO NOTIFY AGREEMENT TERMS, METHOD, AND MEDIUM

• US 20150046368A1
• Filed: 07/22/2014
• Published: 02/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2013
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Inoue, Yuichi
• Application Number:
  US14/338,128
• Publication Number:
  US 20150046368A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/342
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

To provide a system for determining whether to present agreement terms to a user at the time of use of a web service. The present invention is a system for determining whether to notify agreement terms to use a predetermined function to a user, the system having: an acquisition unit configured to acquire language information for specifying a language corresponding to a user and agreement information on a date of agreement of the agreement terms by the user; and a determination unit configured to, in the case where a request to use the predetermined function from a user is received, determine whether to notify the agreement terms to the user based on the date of the agreement terms corresponding to the language information acquired by the acquisition unit of a plurality of agreement terms corresponding to a plurality of languages, respectively, and the agreement information acquired by the acquisition unit.

Claims

1. A system for determining whether to notify agreement terms to use a predetermined function to a user, the system comprising:

an acquisition unit configured to acquire language information for specifying a language corresponding to a user and agreement information on a date of agreement of the agreement terms by the user; and

a determination unit configured to determine, in a case where a request to use the predetermined function from a user is received, whether to notify the agreement terms to the user based on a date of the agreement terms corresponding to language information acquired by the acquisition unit of a plurality of agreement terms corresponding to a plurality of languages, respectively, and agreement information acquired by the acquisition unit.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein

as the user agreement information, update date information of the agreement terms to which the user has agreed is set instead of a time at the point of time of agreement by the user.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein

the determination unit determines whether to notify agreement terms to a user by comparing an update date indicated by the update date information set in the user agreement information and an update date indicated by update date information of agreement terms document data for the specified language.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein

in a case where the update date indicated by the update date information of the agreement terms document data for the specified language is earlier than the update date indicated by the update date information set in the user agreement information, the determination unit determines to display agreement terms to the user.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein

the determination unit determines whether to notify agreement terms to a user by comparing a version number of the agreement terms set in the user agreement information and a version number of the agreement terms document data for the specified language.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein

in a case where the update date of the agreement terms corresponding to the language information of the plurality of agreement terms corresponding to the plurality of languages, respectively, is later than the date of the agreement information for the language information, the determination unit determines to notify the agreement terms to the user.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein

in a case where the update date of the agreement terms corresponding to the language information of the plurality of agreement terms corresponding to the plurality of languages, respectively, is earlier than the date of the agreement information corresponding to a language different from the language corresponding to the language information, the determination unit determines not to notify the agreement terms to the user.

8. The system according to claim 1, comprising an information terminal and a server connected with the information terminal, wherein

the predetermined function is performed by using the server in response to instructions of a user to the information terminal.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein

the predetermined function is a web service, downloading of contents, or downloading of a program.

10. The system according to claim 8, wherein

the information terminal or the server comprises the determination unit.

11. A method for determining whether to notify agreement terms to use a predetermined function to a user, the method comprising the steps of:

acquiring language information for specifying a language corresponding to a user and agreement information on a date of agreement of agreement terms by the user; and

determining, in a case where a request to use the predetermined function from a user is received, whether to notify the agreement terms to the user based on an update date of the agreement terms corresponding to the acquired language information of a plurality of agreement terms corresponding to a plurality of languages, respectively, and the acquired agreement information.

12. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to perform the method according to claim 11.