SERVICE PROVISION METHOD

• US 20150154714A1
• Filed: 05/01/2014
• Published: 06/04/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yoneda, Aki, Kitamura, Tomohiko, Nishimura, Kozo, Harada, Shunji, Miura, Kouji
• Application Number:
  US14/409,557
• Publication Number:
  US 20150154714A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance

Abstract

A premium update system includes: an article transmission unit (607) which transmits via a network an article by a policy holder who has signed a predetermined contract with a service provider providing a predetermined service; an article display unit (609) which displays the article transmitted by the article transmission unit (607) to a viewer other than the policy holder; an interaction degree determination unit (901) which determines an interaction degree showing the degree of interaction relationship between the policy holder and the viewer; and a premium update unit (604) which determines the content (premium) of the contract in accordance with the interaction degree determined by the interaction degree determination unit (901).

Claims

1-17. -17. (canceled)

18. A service providing method comprising:

a transmitting step of transmitting via a network activity amount information showing an activity amount of a policy holder by the policy holder who has signed a medical insurance contract or a life insurance contract;

a displaying step of displaying the activity amount information transmitted in the transmitting step to a viewer other than the policy holder;

an interaction degree determining step of determining an interaction degree showing a degree of interaction relationship between the policy holder and the viewer is determined; and

a contract determining step of determining a premium in the medical insurance contract or the life insurance contract in accordance with the activity amount information displayed to a viewer other than the policy holder in the displaying step and a degree of interaction between the policy holder and the viewer determined in the interaction degree determining step.

19. The service providing method according to claim 18, wherein the interaction degree determining step is implemented such that the interaction degree is increased in a case where a real name of the policy holder is displayed to be viewable to the viewer together with the activity amount information transmitted by the policy holder.

20. The service providing method according to claim 18, wherein the interaction degree determining step is implemented such that the interaction degree is increased in a case where an address of the policy holder is displayed to be viewable to the viewer together with the activity amount information transmitted by the policy holder.

21. The service providing method according to claim 18, wherein the interaction degree determining step is implemented such that the interaction degree is increased in a case where a face image of the policy holder is displayed to be viewable to the viewer together with the activity amount information transmitted by the policy holder.

22. The service providing method according to claim 19, further comprising:

an image acquiring step of acquiring an image of an official identification of the policy holder, wherein

the interaction degree determining step is implemented such that, in a case where an image of an official identification of the policy holder acquired in the image acquiring step match a real name, an address, or a face image of the policy holder registered by the policy holder, the real name, the address, or the face image is determined as real, and the interaction degree is increased.

23. The service providing method according to claim 18, further comprising:

a storing step of associating the policy holder with a viewer who is a friend of the policy holder and storing the friendly relationship between the policy holder with the viewer, wherein

the interaction degree determining step is implemented such that the interaction degree is increased in a case where the number of times a real name of the policy holder has been searched for by the viewer, or the number of times the viewer who has searched for a real name of the policy holder and the policy holder have been associated with each other as being in a friendly relationship is large.

24. The service providing method according to claim 18, further comprising:

a storing step of associating the policy holder with a viewer who is a friend of the policy holder and storing the friendly relationship between the policy holder with the viewer, wherein

the interaction degree determining step is implemented such that the interaction degree of the policy holder is determined in accordance with a level of interaction degree of the viewer associated as being in a friendly relationship with the policy holder in the storing step.

25. The service providing method according to claim 18, wherein the interaction degree determining step is implemented such that the interaction degree is increased in a case where an image, which includes a face image that is determined to be of a same face as a face image of the policy holder, has been transmitted a large number of times from the viewer.

26. The service providing method according to claim 18, wherein the activity amount information includes a movement amount of the policy holder.

27. The service providing method according to claim 26, wherein the movement amount includes the number of steps taken by the policy holder.

28. The service providing method according to claim 18, wherein the activity amount information includes body information on the policy holder.

29. The service providing method according to claim 28, wherein the body information includes any of a pulse, a blood pressure, a blood sugar level, and an uric acid level of the policy holder.

30. A service providing method comprising:

an everyday information transmitting step of transmitting, by a policy holder who has signed with a business operator providing a predetermined service a contract relating to the service, everyday information via a network;

a contract information transmitting step of transmitting by the business operator contract information relating to the contract via a network;

a displaying step of displaying the everyday information and the contract information transmitted in the everyday information transmitting step and in the contract information transmitting step to a viewer other than the policy holder;

an interaction degree determining step of determining an interaction degree showing a degree of interaction relationship between the policy holder and the viewer; and

a contract determining step of determining content of the contract in accordance with a degree of interaction between the policy holder and the viewer determined in the interaction degree determining step.