MEDIATION DEVICE, MEDIATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20150081386A1
• Filed: 07/08/2014
• Published: 03/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/18/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Yahoo Japan Corporation (A Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo Japan Corporation (A Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: SHIMIZU, Nobuyuki
• Application Number:
  US14/325,826
• Publication Number:
  US 20150081386A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7.32
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0203 Market surveys; Market polls

Abstract

A mediation device according to the present application includes a task reception unit, a deliverable reception unit, a calculation unit, and a measures unit. The task reception unit receives work including one or more dummy questions from an order terminal used by an orderer. The deliverable reception unit receives deliverables of the work including answers to the dummy question from a plurality of acceptor terminals used by a plurality of acceptors. The calculation unit calculates some answer state of the dummy question included in the deliverables received by a second reception unit. The measures unit executes predetermined measures according to the answer state calculated by a calculation unit.

Claims

1. A mediation device comprising:

a first reception unit configured to receive work including one or more dummy questions from an order terminal used by an orderer;

a second reception unit configured to receive deliverables of the work including answers to the dummy question from a plurality of acceptor terminals used by a plurality of acceptors;

a calculation unit configured to calculate some answer state of the dummy question included in the deliverables received by the second reception unit; and

a measures unit configured to execute predetermined measures according to the answer state calculated by the calculation unit.

2. The mediation device according to claim 1, wherein

the calculation unit

calculates ratio of incorrect answer to the dummy question as the answer state, and

the measures unit

executes at least one of measures to stop display of the work or measures to transmit notification to prompt change of the dummy question to the order terminal as the predetermined measures for the orderer when the incorrect answer rate calculated by the calculation unit is a predetermined threshold or more.

3. The mediation device according to claim 1, wherein

the second reception unit

receives only answers to the dummy question,

the calculation unit

calculates ratio of incorrect answer to the dummy question received by the second reception unit,

the measures unit

notifies the orderer of a modification request of the dummy question as the predetermined measures for the orderer when the incorrect answer rate calculated by the calculation unit is a predetermined threshold or more, and

the first reception unit

receives work including a modified dummy question from the order terminal.

4. The mediation device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a delivery unit configured to transmit any deliverable of the deliverables to the order terminal according to the answer to the dummy question; and

an estimation unit configured to estimate a charge to be billed to the orderer according to the answer to the dummy question.

5. The mediation device according to claim 4, wherein

the delivery unit

transmits the deliverable to the order terminal when the answer to the dummy question is a correct answer, and transmits only the answer to the dummy question of the deliverable when the answer to the dummy question is an incorrect answer, and

the estimation unit

estimates compensation to be received by the acceptor by including the compensation to the charge when the answer to the dummy question is a correct answer, and estimates the compensation without including the compensation in the charge when the answer to the dummy question is an incorrect answer.

6. The mediation device according to claim 4, wherein

the estimation unit

estimates, as the charge, a total amount of compensation to be received by the acceptor as a guaranteed minimum amount and a reward for making a correct answer to the dummy question when the answer to the dummy question is a correct answer, and estimates, as the charge, the compensation without adding the reward when the answer to the dummy question is an incorrect answer.

7. The mediation device according to claim 4, wherein

the calculation unit

calculates ratio of incorrect answer to the dummy question as the answer state, and

the estimation unit

estimates, as the charge, compensation for the deliverable to be paid to an intermediary who manages the mediation device instead of to the acceptor when the incorrect answer rate is a predetermined threshold or more, and the answer to the dummy question is an incorrect answer.

8. The mediation device according to claim 4, wherein

the delivery unit

transmits the deliverable to the order terminal regardless of correctness/incorrectness of the answer to the dummy question, and

the estimation unit

estimates compensation to be received by the acceptor as the charge when the answer to the dummy question is a correct answer, and estimates compensation to be received by an intermediary who manages the mediation device as the charge when the answer to the dummy question is an incorrect answer.

9. A mediation method executed by a mediation device, the method comprising:

receiving work including one or more dummy questions from an order terminal used by an orderer;

receiving deliverables of the work including answers to the dummy question from a plurality of acceptor terminals used by a plurality of acceptors;

calculating some answer state of the dummy question included in the deliverables; and

executing predetermined measures for the orderer according to the answer state.

10. A non-transitory recording medium on which a mediation program is recorded, the recording medium being executed by a computer and comprising:

receiving work including one or more dummy questions from an order terminal used by an orderer;

receiving deliverables of the work including answers to the dummy question from a plurality of acceptor terminals used by a plurality of acceptors;

calculating some answer state of the dummy question included in the deliverables; and

executing predetermined measures for the orderer according to the answer state.