System for insertion and output of a second electronic material based on a first electronic material

• US 7,299,268 B2
• Filed: 10/05/2001
• Issued: 11/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Kamijima, Junichi, Kuroiwa, Sogo
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu; Thong
• Application Number:
  US09/971,036
• Publication Number:
  US 20020046242A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,237 Days
• Field of Search: 709201-205, 709/227, 709/225, 709/229, 709/217, 709/218, 709/223, 709/231, 709/246, 705/14, 705/25, 705/26, 715/700, 345/769, 345/619, 455/552, 725/37, 725/109, 725/116
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0242 Determining effectiveness of advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0275 Auctions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement

Abstract

The invention provides an information processing terminal capable of being connected to a network. The terminal comprises a receiving unit for receiving information of first electronic materials transmitted from an electronic materials providing side, an advertisement information preparing unit for preparing information of second electronic materials, with which advertisement information is associated, based on the information of the first electronic materials received by the information receiving unit, and a transmitting unit for transmitting, to the electronic materials providing side, the information of the second electronic materials, with which the advertisement information prepared by the advertisement information preparing unit is associated.

Claims

1. An online output system having a user terminal connected to an electronic album managing apparatus and an advertisement providing apparatus via a network,

wherein the electronic album managing apparatus which communicates with a plurality of user terminals, comprises:

an image receiving unit that receives album data from one of the plurality of user terminals; and

a first transmitting unit that transmits the received album data to the advertisement providing apparatus,

wherein the advertisement providing apparatus comprises;

a displaying unit that displays the album data transmitted by said first transmitting unit;

an instruction inputting unit that inputs an instruction, based on a user operation, indicating whether or not a demand is made for insertion of advertisement data into the transmitted album data after said display unit displays the album data;

a searching unit that searches for advertisement data to be inserted into the album data, when the input instruction indicates that a demand is made for the insertion of the advertisement data into the album data;

an advertisement album data creating unit that creates advertisement album data by inserting the searched advertisement data into the received album data; and

a second transmitting unit that transmits the created advertisement album data to the electronic album managing apparatus, and

wherein the electronic album managing apparatus further comprises;

a publication unit that publishes the advertisement album data transmitted by said second transmitting unit, to the user terminal.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein the advertisement providing apparatus further comprises a notifying unit that notifies the electronic album managing apparatus when it is instructed that a demand is not made for the insertion of the advertisement data into the album data by the instruction inputting unit.

3. A system according to claim 1, wherein the album data is any one of image data, template data or comment data.