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Web server, information providing method, and information providing system

  • US 9,332,016 B2
  • Filed: 12/23/2012
  • Issued: 05/03/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A web server comprising:

  • a memory that stores therein an identifier of an electronic coupon which is provided to a member of a membership site when accessing a shopping mall site through the membership site, a name of the shopping mall site, a URL of the shopping mall site, a content of the electronic coupon, date and time when the member of the membership site accesses the shopping mall site to use the electronic coupon, and a registered attribute of the member in an associated manner, and further stores a different electronic coupon in association with a number of times of usage of electronic coupons at the shopping mall site, and a number of times of usage of electronic coupons at the shopping mall site by the member in a past, the membership site being provided by the web server and the shopping mall site being provided by another server different from the web server; and

    a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a process comprising;

    generating, referring to the memory, a list in which an electronic coupon for which the number of accesses to the shopping mall site where the electronic coupon is used in a specified time period is larger than a predetermined reference value is associated with an attribute of a member who accessed the shopping mall site to use the electronic coupon more times than a predetermined reference value;

    estimating, when the web server has accepted access to the membership site from a user who is registered as a member of the membership site but whose attribute is not registered in the memory, an attribute of the user from at least one of a time of the access to the membership site and a site that the user accessed before the access to the membership site; and

    extracting an electronic coupon associated with the attribute estimated at the estimating from the list generated by the generating, and notifying the user of the extracted electronic coupon and at least one of the name of the shopping mall site and the URL of the shopping mall site associated with the extracted electronic coupon in the memory, wherein the extracting extracts a different electronic coupon according to the number of times of usage of electronic coupons at the shopping mall site by the member in the past, the electronic coupon offering a higher discount to the member who used the electronic coupons more times in the past.

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