JP6563513B2 - Response information collection method, response information collection system, response information collection device and program, and coupon grant method, coupon grant system, coupon grant device and program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an answer information collection method, an answer information collection system, an answer information collection device and a program, and a coupon grant method, a coupon grant system, a coupon grant device and a program.

  Before the spread of network technology, as a means of collecting information from a large number of people, it is common to get the answer information by distributing the paper with the questionnaires filled in and filling out the answers. Met. However, since it takes time and effort to distribute and collect paper, and to collect the acquired response information, in recent years, a technology for collecting information using a system via a network has been developed. For example, Patent Literature 1 and Patent Literature 2 disclose a questionnaire device that conducts a questionnaire via a computer network.

  Prior to the spread of network technology, as a means of collecting a large number of customers, discount coupons or free coupons were distributed to attract customers, or coupons or flyers for special benefits were distributed. Attracting was also common. However, since it takes time or time to distribute the paper, a technology for distributing electronic coupons using a system via a network has been developed in recent years. For example, Patent Document 3 discloses a technique related to a coupon ticket issuing system that can improve the customer-collection effect.

JP 2004-348665 A Japanese Patent Laying-Open No. 2015-90576 JP 2010-170305 A

  However, even if you send the question information using the system to collect information, if the person who received the question information does not reply the answer information, or if the reply is late even if the answer information is sent back Has a problem that it takes time to collect response information. For this reason, it may be difficult to efficiently collect the response information until the target number of responses is reached or the response information collection period ends. Therefore, the present invention provides a response information collection method, a response information collection system, a response information collection device, and a response information collection method that can collect response information more efficiently until the final target number of answers is reached or until a predetermined end time is reached. The purpose is to provide a program.

  In addition, when a coupon is given, it is very difficult for the coupon issuer to predict when the received user will come to use the coupon. Actually, the user may visit the store after a period of time has elapsed since receiving the coupon. Therefore, in the conventional coupon issuing system, it may be difficult to obtain an effect when it is desired to attract customers immediately after distributing the coupon or within a short period of time such as several hours to several days. That is, the conventional coupon issuing system has not been a mechanism suitable for improving the short-term customer attracting effect. Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a coupon granting method, a coupon granting system, a coupon granting apparatus, and a program that can expect a short-term customer attraction effect.

  The present invention is an answer information collecting method performed via a network, an answer request step for requesting transmission of answer information to a user terminal, and an answer for receiving and determining the answer information from the user terminal An additional response requesting step for requesting transmission of the response information to another user terminal that has not yet made the transmission request in accordance with a determination result of the response receiving step. The reply requesting step provides a reply information collecting method that is repeated until the final target number of answers is reached or until a predetermined end time is reached.

  The present invention is also an answer information collecting system in which a user terminal and an answer information collecting apparatus are connected via a network, and the answer information collecting apparatus makes a response information transmission request to the user terminal. In accordance with the determination result of the answer receiving unit, the answer receiving unit including a request unit, a receiving unit that receives the answer information from the user terminal, a determination unit that performs determination on the answer information, An additional response requesting unit that makes a transmission request for the response information to another user terminal that has not made the transmission request yet, and the additional response requesting unit reaches a final target answer count or is predetermined An answer information collecting system is provided that repeats the answer information transmission request until an end time is reached.

  In addition, the present invention provides a response request unit that makes a transmission request for response information to a user terminal, a reception unit that receives the response information from the user terminal, and a determination unit that makes a determination about the response information; And an additional response requesting unit that makes a transmission request for the response information to another user terminal that has not made the transmission request according to the determination result of the response receiving unit. The additional response request unit provides a response information collection device that repeats the transmission request for the response information until a final target number of responses is reached or a predetermined end time is reached.

  Further, the present invention provides a response request collecting step for transmitting a response information to a user terminal to a response information collecting device, a response receiving step for receiving and determining the response information from the user terminal, and the response Depending on the determination result of the accepting step, an additional response requesting step for requesting transmission of the response information to another user terminal that has not made the transmission request, and until the final target answer count is reached or predetermined termination And a process for repeating the additional answer request step until time is reached.

  Further, the present invention is a method for granting a coupon via a network, wherein an authorization granting step for granting a coupon acquisition authority to a user and the acquisition authority not granted based on a predetermined condition are provided. An additional authority granting step for granting the acquisition authority to the user is provided.

  In addition, the present invention is a coupon grant system in which a terminal owned by a user and a coupon grant device are connected via a network, and the coupon grant device grants a coupon acquisition authority to the user. An adding unit, a condition determining unit that determines a predetermined condition, and an additional authority granting unit that grants the acquisition authority to another user who has not been granted the acquisition authority based on a result of the condition determining unit. A coupon grant system is provided.

  The present invention also grants the acquisition authority based on the result of the authority granting section for granting the coupon acquisition authority to the user, the condition determining section for determining a predetermined condition, and the condition determining section. There is provided a coupon granting device comprising: an additional privilege granting unit that grants the acquisition privilege to another user who does not.

  Moreover, this invention provides the said acquisition authority to another user who has not provided the said acquisition authority based on the authority grant step which provides the coupon acquisition apparatus with the acquisition authority of a coupon with respect to a user, and predetermined conditions And a program for realizing the additional authority granting step.

  In the present invention, a “coupon” is a privilege that can be enjoyed by the user. The content of the privilege is not particularly limited, and examples thereof include discounts on product prices or service charges, provision of goods, or extension of service time.

  According to the present invention, an answer information collecting method, an answer information collecting system, and an answer information collecting apparatus capable of collecting answer information more efficiently until the final target answer number is reached or a predetermined end time is reached. And programs can be provided. Furthermore, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a coupon grant method, a coupon grant system, a coupon grant device, and a program that are expected to have a short-term customer attraction effect.

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a configuration of an answer information collection system 1 according to the first embodiment. FIG. 2 is a sequence diagram illustrating an example of a process flow in the answer information collection system 1 according to the first embodiment. FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the procedure of the response information collection method according to the first embodiment. FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the procedure of the response information collection method according to the first modification of the first embodiment. FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a procedure of an answer information collecting method according to the second modification of the first embodiment. FIG. 6 is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of a flow of granting answer rights in the answer information collecting method according to the third modification of the first embodiment. FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a configuration of the response information collection system 10 according to the second embodiment. FIG. 8 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the procedure of the response information collection method according to the second embodiment. FIG. 9A is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of a flow of giving an answer right in the answer information collecting method according to the third embodiment. FIG. 9B is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of a flow of giving a response right in the response information collection method according to the third embodiment. FIG. 9C is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of a flow of giving a response right in the response information collection method according to the third embodiment. FIG. 10A is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of a flow of giving an answer right in the answer information collecting method according to the fourth embodiment. FIG. 10B is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of the flow of granting answer rights in the answer information collecting method according to the fourth embodiment. FIG. 10C is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of a flow of granting answer rights in the answer information collecting method according to the fourth embodiment. FIG. 10D is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of a flow of giving a response right in the response information collection method according to the fourth embodiment. FIG. 11 is a diagram schematically showing an example of a flow of granting answer rights in the answer information collecting method according to the fifth embodiment. FIG. 12A is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of a flow of giving an answer right in the answer information collecting method according to the sixth embodiment. FIG. 12B is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of a flow of giving a response right in the response information collection method according to the sixth embodiment. FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating an example of the configuration of the coupon grant system 1 according to the seventh embodiment. FIG. 14 is a sequence diagram illustrating an example of a process flow in the coupon grant system 1 according to the seventh embodiment. FIG. 15: is a flowchart which shows an example of the procedure of the provision method of the coupon which concerns on 7th Embodiment. FIG. 16: is a flowchart which shows an example of the procedure of the provision method of the coupon which concerns on the 2nd modification of 7th Embodiment. FIG. 17: is a figure which shows typically an example of the flow of the coupon acquisition authority provision in the provision method of the coupon which concerns on the 3rd modification of 7th Embodiment. FIG. 18 is a diagram illustrating an example of the configuration of the coupon grant system 110 according to the eighth embodiment. FIG. 19 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a procedure of a coupon grant method according to the eighth embodiment. FIG. 20A is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of the flow of granting the coupon acquisition authority in the coupon granting method according to the ninth embodiment. FIG. 20B is a diagram schematically showing an example of a flow of granting the coupon acquisition authority in the coupon granting method according to the ninth embodiment. FIG. 20C is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of a flow of giving a coupon acquisition authority in the coupon grant method according to the ninth embodiment. FIG. 21A is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of a flow of giving a coupon acquisition authority in the coupon grant method according to the tenth embodiment. FIG. 21B is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of a flow of giving a coupon acquisition authority in the coupon grant method according to the tenth embodiment. FIG. 21C is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of a flow of granting the coupon acquisition authority in the coupon grant method according to the tenth embodiment. FIG. 21D is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of a flow of giving a coupon acquisition authority in the coupon grant method according to the tenth embodiment. FIG. 22 is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of the flow of granting the coupon acquisition authority in the coupon granting method according to the eleventh embodiment. FIG. 23A is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of a flow of giving a coupon acquisition authority in the coupon grant method according to the twelfth embodiment. FIG. 23B is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of a flow of granting the coupon acquisition authority in the coupon granting method according to the twelfth embodiment.

  Hereinafter, embodiments for carrying out the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In addition, embodiment described below shows an example of embodiment of this invention, and, thereby, the range of this invention is not interpreted narrowly.

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First, the overall configuration of the answer information collection system 1 according to the first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a configuration of an answer information collection system 1 according to the first embodiment. In the answer information collecting system 1, an answer information collecting device 2 and a user terminal 3 are connected via a network 4 so that they can communicate with each other. Although three user terminals 3 are illustrated in FIG. 1, the number of user terminals is not limited to three.

  The present invention can also be understood as an invention of an answer information collecting method including various processes (steps) executed by a computer such as the answer information collecting device 2 and the user terminal 3 included in the answer collecting system 1. Further, as long as at least the object of the present invention can be achieved, a part of various processes (steps) described in the present embodiment may be omitted.

  The answer information collection device 2 is a computing device such as a CPU (Central Processing Unit) that executes program computation processing, a storage device such as a RAM, ROM, and hard disk drive for storing computer programs or data, and a network such as the Internet or a LAN. 4 is a computer including a communication device that transmits and receives data via the communication device 4. In the answer information collecting apparatus 2, the operation of the answer information collecting apparatus 2 is controlled by executing various processes by the arithmetic device.

  The user terminal 3 is a communication terminal owned by the user, and is, for example, a smartphone, a mobile phone, a tablet computer, or a personal computer.

  Next, the functional configuration of the response information collection device 2 according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG. 1, the answer information collection device 2 includes an answer request unit 21, an answer acceptance unit 22, and an additional answer request unit 23. Specifically, the answer information collection device 2 functions as an answer request unit 21, an answer reception unit 22, and an additional answer request unit 23 by executing various processes according to a program stored in the storage device. Further, some or all of the answer request unit 21, the answer accepting unit 22, and the additional answer request unit 23 may be configured by circuit modules. The information providing apparatus 2 is not limited to a single computer, and may be a computer system in which a plurality of computers operate in cooperation. Further, the answer information collecting device 2 may include a plurality of arithmetic devices, and various processes executed by the answer information collecting device 2 may be executed in a distributed manner by the plural arithmetic devices.

  The response request unit 21 requests the user terminal 3 to transmit response information. Hereinafter, the transmission request for the response information by the response request unit 21 is also simply referred to as “response request”.

  “Answer information” is information that becomes an answer to a question, suggestion, request, or the like. The means for making a response information transmission request is not particularly limited. For example, an email describing a question may be transmitted to the user terminal 3. In addition, the URL of a site on the Internet on which a question item is posted may be transmitted by e-mail to prompt the owner of the user terminal 3 to access the URL. When the user terminal 3 is a personal computer or a smartphone, the question items or the URL may be displayed on the user terminal 3 via an application installed in the user terminal 3.

  When the user terminal 3 is a smartphone, the question item or the URL may be notified using a push notification function. In addition, a reply field may be provided in the push notification displaying the questions and the like so that the user can reply the reply information from the push notification. The user can easily and easily transmit the answer information, thereby collecting a large amount of answer information.

  The answer reception unit 22 includes a reception unit 221 and a determination unit 222 as shown in FIG. The receiving unit 221 receives response information from the user terminal 3. For example, the receiving unit 221 may receive the answer information by receiving an email transmitted from the user terminal 3 or may receive the answer information via a site on the Internet.

  The determination unit 222 determines the answer information. For example, the determination unit 222 determines whether or not the reception unit 221 has received the answer information. Further, the determination unit 222 can store a “waiting time” set for waiting for reception of answer information, and can determine whether or not the waiting time has ended. Further, the determination unit 222 can determine whether or not the reception unit 221 has received the response information before the end of the waiting time.

  The waiting time may be set before the answer request unit 21 makes an answer request. Further, the set waiting time may be changed after that, and in that case, it may be set based on the response record obtained as a result of the response request already executed by the response request unit 21. The “response record” is a record related to the response information, and means the number of responses, response time, response rate, and the like.

  The additional response request unit 23 makes a response information transmission request to another user terminal 3 that has not yet made a response information transmission request in accordance with the determination result of the response reception unit 22. Hereinafter, the response information transmission request by the additional response request unit 23 is also simply referred to as an “additional response request”.

  The additional response request unit 23 determines whether or not the cumulative number of response information received by the receiving unit 221 has reached the final target response number, or has reached a predetermined end time, and reaches the final target response number. Until the end time or until the predetermined end time is reached, an additional reply request is made to another user terminal 3.

  The “final target answer number” is the final target number of the cumulative number of answer information received by the receiving unit 221 and can be arbitrarily set. The answer request unit 21 according to the present embodiment makes a response request. It has been set in the additional response request unit 23 before. The set final target answer number may be changed thereafter.

  Similarly, the predetermined end time is set in the additional response request unit 23 before the response request unit 21 makes a transmission request for response information. The “predetermined end time” refers to a time at which the additional response request unit 23 ends processing of the additional response request. For example, a specific date and time can be set as the predetermined end time such as “November 1, 2015, 12:00”. Further, the elapsed time from the time when the response request unit 21 requests transmission of response information may be set as the “predetermined end time”. For example, “when the response request unit 21 requests transmission of response information 3 hours after ”may be set as the predetermined end time. The set predetermined end time may be changed thereafter.

  Further, the additional response request unit 23 may request the transmission of response information to a user terminal owned by an unanswered user who has already received a response information transmission request but has not yet transmitted the response information. it can.

  The waiting time set in the determination unit 222 of the response receiving unit 22 may be set based on the response record obtained as a result of the response information transmission request already executed by the additional response requesting unit 23.

  Further, the response request unit 21 and the additional response request unit 23 can lose the response right of the user who has not transmitted the response information when the waiting time is over.

  The “response right” is a response request given to the user who owns the user terminal 3 when the response request unit 21 and the additional response request unit 23 request the user terminal 3 to transmit the response information. It is a right. Details of granting and losing the answer will be described later.

  The answer information collection device 2 according to the present embodiment can further include a user information storage unit 24. The user information storage unit 24 stores information about the user terminal 3 and information about the user who owns the user terminal 3. Information about the user terminal 3 includes information such as a telephone number, a mail address, and an IP address. The information related to the user includes attribute information such as the user's age, sex, hobby, occupation, current location, purchase history, and the like. In this case, the answer information collection device 2 may include a user extraction unit 25 that extracts user information from the user information storage unit 24. The user extraction unit 25 may extract a user according to the response record obtained as a result of the transmission request for the response information already executed by the response request unit 21 and the additional response request unit 23.

  In addition, the answer information collection device 2 according to the present embodiment can include a privilege granting unit 26. The privilege grant unit 26 grants a privilege to the user who transmitted the response information according to the result of the answer acceptance unit 22.

  The answer information collection device 2 can further include a notification unit 27. The notification unit 27 notifies the user terminal 3 that has not transmitted the response information to prompt the user terminal 3 to transmit the response information before the waiting time set in the determination unit 222 ends. For example, the notification unit 27 can notify the remaining time until the end of the waiting time. As a result, it is possible to prevent a user from forgetting to send reply information and collect more reply information.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 2, the flow of processing in the answer information collection system 1 according to the first embodiment will be described. FIG. 2 is a sequence diagram illustrating an example of a process flow in the answer information collection system 1 according to the first embodiment. First, the response request unit 21 of the response information collection device 2 sends a response information transmission request to the user terminal 31 (step S101).

  The user terminal 31 transmits the answer information, and the answer information is received by the receiving unit 221 of the answer information collecting apparatus 2 (step S102). The determination unit 222 of the response information collection device 2 determines the received response information (step S103), and the additional response request unit 23 determines whether the response information transmission request has not yet been made according to the determination result. Is sent to the user terminal 32 (additional response request) (step S104). The user terminal 32 transmits the answer information, and the answer information is received by the receiving unit 221 of the answer information collecting apparatus 2 (step S105). The determination unit 222 of the response information collection device 2 determines the received response information (step S106), and the additional response request unit 23 issues an additional response request to another user terminal 33 according to the determination result. This is performed (step S107).

  Up to this point, the processing flow in the case where the user terminal 3 transmits the answer information has been described, but conversely, the user terminal 31 may not transmit the answer information. That is, as shown in FIG. 2, when the determination unit 222 determines not to receive response information from the user terminal 33 (step S108), an additional response request may be made to another user terminal 34 (step S108). S109).

  Thereafter, additional response requests are repeatedly made in the same manner, and when the final target number of responses is reached or when a predetermined end time is reached (step S110), the processing ends.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 3, the response information collection method according to the first embodiment will be described. FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the procedure of the response information collection method according to the first embodiment.

  First, the response request unit 21 executes a “response request step” for requesting transmission of response information to the user terminal 3 (step S201). Next, the answer acceptance unit 22 executes a “answer acceptance step” for receiving and determining answer information from the user terminal 3. Specifically, the determination unit 222 of the response reception unit 22 determines whether the reception unit 221 has received response information from the user terminal 3 (step S202). If the determination unit 222 determines that the response information has been received (step S202: Yes), the additional response request unit 23 determines whether the cumulative number of received response information has reached the final target response number, or a predetermined end time. Is determined (step S203), and when it is determined that it has not been reached (step S203: No), the additional response request unit 23 sends another user terminal 3 that has not yet made a transmission request. An “additional response requesting step” (step S204) is performed to request transmission of response information.

  Steps S202, S203, and S204 are repeated until the final target answer number is reached or until the predetermined end time is reached. When the final target answer number is reached or when the predetermined end time is reached (step S203: Yes), the processing is performed. finish. For example, the steps S202 to S204 for making a transmission request for the response information to another user terminal 2 that has not made the transmission request until the cumulative number of received response information reaches the final target response number. When repeatedly executed, it is possible to accurately collect the answers of the final target number of answers.

  On the other hand, when the determination unit 222 determines that the answer information has not been received (step S202: No), the process proceeds to an additional answer request step (step S204).

  In the additional response request step (step S204), in addition to another user terminal 3 that has not made a transmission request yet, an unanswered user who has already received a transmission request but has not yet transmitted response information An additional reply request may be made to the user terminal 3 owned by the user.

  As a result, the number of users to which additional response requests are made increases, so that more response information can be collected.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 4, a response information collecting method according to a first modification of the first embodiment will be described.

  In this modification, the determination unit 222 stores a waiting time set for waiting for reception of answer information. When the determination unit 222 determines that the waiting time has ended, the additional response request unit 23 executes an additional response request step.

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the procedure of the response information collection method according to the first modification of the first embodiment. As shown in FIG. 4, the answer request unit 21 executes an answer request step for making a request for sending answer information to the user terminal 3 (step S301). The determination unit 222 of the response reception unit 22 determines whether the reception unit 221 has received response information from the user terminal 3 (step S302).

  When the determination unit 222 determines that the response information has been received (step S302: Yes), the additional response request unit 23 determines whether the cumulative number of received response information has reached the final target response number, or a predetermined end time. Is determined (step S303), and when it is determined that it has not been reached (step S303: No), the end of the waiting time is awaited.

  When the determination unit 222 determines the end of the waiting time (step S304), the additional response request unit 23 requests transmission of response information to another user terminal 3 that has not made a transmission request yet. (Step S305) is executed. Steps S302, S303, S304, and S305 are repeated until the final target answer number is reached or until a predetermined end time is reached. When the final target answer number is reached or the predetermined end time is reached (step S303: Yes), The process ends.

  On the other hand, when the determination unit 222 determines that the answer information has not been received (step S302: No), if the end of the waiting time is determined (step S304), the process proceeds to an additional answer request step (step S305).

  As described above, in the answer information collecting method according to the present modification, when the answer information is not received before the end of the waiting time, the additional answer request step is executed. Therefore, a user who does not transmit answer information before the end of the waiting time can determine that the user is less likely to send answer information, and can send a response information request to another user terminal. Therefore, collection of answer information can be performed more efficiently. In addition, since the collection of the answer information is performed in a concentrated manner within a certain period, the traffic amount (communication amount) between the user terminal 3 and the answer information collection device 2 or the answer information collection device It is possible to easily assume the processing load 2 and the like. Thereby, for example, for a plurality of questions from the answer information collection device 2, it is possible to easily determine the transmission timing when sending an answer request to the user terminal 3 in consideration of the traffic volume or the processing load. is there. In other words, the specifications of the answer information collection device 2 are simplified within a range in which the necessary traffic amount or the processing load is allowed for the expected transmission frequency of the question items or the number of transmissions of the answer requests. It is possible.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 5, a response information collecting method according to a second modification of the first embodiment will be described.

  In the present modification, as in the first modification described above, the determination unit 222 stores a waiting time set for waiting for reception of answer information. When the determination unit 222 determines that the response information has been received before the end of the waiting time, the additional response request unit 23 executes an additional response request step.

  FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a procedure of an answer information collecting method according to the second modification of the first embodiment. As shown in FIG. 5, the answer request unit 21 executes an answer request step for making a request for sending answer information to the user terminal 3 (step S401). The determination unit 222 of the answer reception unit 22 determines whether or not the waiting time has ended (step S402).

  If the determination unit 222 determines that the waiting time has not ended (step S402: No), the determination unit 222 determines whether answer information has been received (step S403). When the determination unit 222 determines that the answer information has not been received (step S403: No), the process returns to step S402. When the determination unit 222 determines that the response information has been received (step S403: Yes), the additional response request unit 23 determines whether or not the cumulative number of response information has reached the final target response number, or reaches a predetermined end time. In step S404, if it is determined that it has not been reached (step S404: No), the additional reply request unit 23 sends reply information to another user terminal 3 that has not yet made a transmission request. The additional response requesting step (step S405) is executed. Steps S402, S403, S404, and S405 are repeated until the final target answer number is reached or until a predetermined end time is reached. When the final target answer number is reached or the predetermined end time is reached (step S404: Yes), The process ends.

  On the other hand, when the determination unit 222 determines that the waiting time has ended (step S402: Yes), the process proceeds to an additional response request step (step S405).

  In the response information collection method according to this modification, when response information is received, a response information transmission request is made to another user terminal without waiting for the end of the waiting time. Therefore, the number of response information collections per unit time is increased, and it is possible to collect response information of the final target answer number in a shorter time. Further, more answer information can be collected before the predetermined end time is reached.

  In the answer information collection method according to the first modification and the second modification of the first embodiment described above, the length of the waiting time is not particularly limited. For example, 5 minutes is used when a response information transmission request is made using the push notification function of a smartphone, and 1 hour is used when a response information transmission request is made by sending an e-mail to a personal computer. The waiting time may be different depending on the type of the user terminal 3 or the response information transmission requesting means.

  Further, the waiting time may be set according to the contents such as the question items. For example, if it is a simple question and it is assumed that it will not take time for the user to send response information, the waiting time will be short. Conversely, there will be a wide variety of questions, and the user will send response information. If it is assumed that it takes time to do this, the waiting time can be set longer. Specifically, it is conceivable that the determination unit 22 automatically changes the waiting time when the number of the question items is large so as to be longer than when the number of the question items is small.

  Furthermore, the waiting time may be set before the answer request unit 21 performs the answer request step, and is obtained as a result of a response information transmission request already executed by the answer request unit 21 and / or the additional answer request unit 23. It may be set based on the answer results.

  For example, if you want to collect response information for the final target number of responses in a short period of time, if the number of responses is less than originally expected, reduce the waiting time and add additional responses to more user terminals per unit time By making a request, information can be collected more efficiently.

  Next, before explaining another modified example, the answer information collecting method according to the present embodiment will be further explained from the viewpoint of the answer right held by the user.

  In the answer information collecting method according to the present embodiment, when the answer information collecting device 2 makes a response information transmission request to the user terminal 3, the user who owns the user terminal 3 that has received the answer information transmission request is The right to transmit the reply information to the reply information collecting device 2, that is, the “reply right” is obtained. Thus, it can be said that the response request step and the additional response request step are steps for requesting transmission of response information and for granting an answer right to the user.

  In another variation of the answer information collection method according to the present embodiment, not only is the answer right given to the user, but the answer information is transmitted when the waiting time is completed in the answer request step and / or the additional answer request step. You may lose the answer right of the user who has not done it.

  More specifically, after the response request unit 21 and the additional response request unit 23 give a response right to the user who owns the user terminal 3 by making a response information transmission request to the user terminal 3, the waiting time When the determination unit 222 determines that the user has not transmitted the response information at the end time, the response request unit 21 and / or the additional response request unit 23 can lose the user's response right.

  The means for losing the right to answer is not particularly limited. For example, the answer information collecting apparatus 2 may be set so as not to receive answer information from a user terminal owned by a user who has lost the answer right. Further, when answer information is collected via a site on the Internet, it may be set so as to deny access from the user terminal 3 owned by the user who has lost the answer right at the site.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 6, the answer information collecting method in the answer information collecting system 1 according to the third modification of the first embodiment will be described from the viewpoint of the answer right possessed by the user. FIG. 6 is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of a flow of granting answer rights in the answer information collecting method according to the third modification of the first embodiment. In the answer information collection method according to this modification, the answer right of the user who has not sent answer information at the time when the waiting time is completed is lost in the answer request step and the additional answer request step.

  In FIG. 6, an arrow X indicates a flow of giving the answer right when the answer request step is executed. An arrow Y indicates a flow of giving a response right when the additional response request step is executed. First, when the answer request step is executed, the answer right is given to the user 1. Next, when the additional answer request step is executed, the answer right that the user 1 has is lost and the answer right is given to the user 2. Next, when the additional answer request step is executed, the answer right possessed by the user 2 is lost and the answer right is given to the user 3. Thereafter, until the final target number of answers is reached, or until the predetermined end time is reached, the answer right is lost and granted repeatedly.

  In the answer information collection method according to the present modification, the user loses the answer right if he / she does not send answer information before the end of the waiting time, so the answer information is sent more quickly. As a result, more answer information can be collected in a short time.

  The waiting time may be set by the determination unit 22 based on the response record. For example, the ratio of the number of responses to the number of response information transmission requests is calculated as the response rate. If the response rate is low, the waiting time is too short and many users lose their right to respond before sending the response information. It is thought that there is. Accordingly, the determination unit 22 can calculate the answer rate and set the waiting time longer as the answer rate becomes lower, thereby increasing the answer rate and improving the collection efficiency of the answer information.

  Further, although not shown, the answer information collection method according to the present embodiment is configured so that the user extraction unit 25 stores the user who makes a response information transmission request in the answer request step and / or the additional answer request step from the user information storage unit 24. You may extract and select. The user extraction unit 25 can extract a user by referring to various attribute information such as the user's age, sex, hobbies, and occupation stored in the user information storage unit 24, or the current location and purchase history. This makes it possible to narrow down to users who are more likely to send responses according to the content of question proposals and requests for requesting responses from users, and to send response information as a result. It is possible to collect response information.

  Further, by narrowing down the users who make a response information transmission request by the user extraction unit 25, it is also possible to collect response information that better matches the request. For example, if you want to introduce a store that suits your taste, request users to send response information by extracting users with the same gender, age, and similar hobbies. This increases the possibility of obtaining an answer that meets your wishes.

  The answer information collection method according to the present embodiment may further grant a privilege to the user to whom the privilege grant unit 26 has transmitted the response information, according to the result of the answer acceptance step executed by the answer acceptance unit 22. . The user is more actively requested to send response information for the purpose of granting benefits, and can collect more response information. The content of a privilege is not specifically limited, For example, provision of a point, provision of a discount coupon or a free ticket, or user rank-up etc. are mentioned.

  The privilege may be uniformly given to the user who transmitted the response information, but the content of the privilege is changed according to the time from when the user receives the response information transmission request until the response information is transmitted. May be. From the viewpoint of increasing the efficiency of information collection, it is conceivable that a larger privilege is given as the time until reply information is transmitted is shorter. Thereby, the user aiming at a big privilege comes to transmit reply information quickly, and can collect many reply information in a shorter time.

  Further, the response information collection method according to the present embodiment further sends a response information transmission request to the user terminal 3 that has not transmitted the response information before the waiting time set in the determination unit 222 ends. You may give the notification for urging to do. For example, the remaining time until the end of the waiting time can be notified. As a result, it is possible to prevent a user from forgetting to send reply information and collect more reply information.

Second Embodiment
Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the answer information collection method according to the present embodiment, a target for which a response information transmission request is made is a group 30 constituted by a plurality of user terminals 3. In the following embodiments, differences from the first embodiment will be described, and the same points will be denoted by the same reference numerals and the description thereof will be omitted.

  First, the overall configuration of the answer information collection system 10 according to the second embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a configuration of the response information collection system 10 according to the second embodiment.

  The group 30 is a group composed of a plurality of user terminals 3, and the response information collection device 2 sends a response information transmission request to the group 30.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 7, the functional configuration of the response information collecting apparatus 2 according to the second embodiment will be described.

  The response request unit 21 sends a response information transmission request to the group 30. The determination unit 222 of the response reception unit 22 can determine whether the reception state of the response information in the reception unit 221 satisfies a predetermined condition before the end of the waiting time.

  The predetermined condition is set in the determination unit 222, and may be set before the response request unit 21 makes a response request, or may be changed after the setting.

  The predetermined condition may be the number of answers in the group 30 or the answer rate. The “response rate within a group” refers to the ratio of the number of user terminals that have transmitted response information to the number of user terminals that belong to the group. The waiting time set in the determination unit 222 may be set based on the number of user terminals 3 belonging to the group 30.

  The additional response request unit 23 can make a response information transmission request to another group that has not yet made a response information transmission request according to the determination result of the response reception unit 22.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 8, a response information collecting method according to the second embodiment will be described. FIG. 8 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the procedure of the response information collection method according to the second embodiment. The response request unit 21 executes a response request step for requesting transmission of response information to the group 30 (step S501). The determination unit 222 of the answer reception unit 22 determines whether or not the waiting time has ended (step S502).

  If the determination unit 222 determines that the waiting time has not ended (step S502: No), the determination unit 222 determines whether the reception state of the answer information satisfies a predetermined condition (step S503). When the determination unit 222 determines that the predetermined condition is not satisfied (step S503: No), the process returns to step S502. When the determination unit 222 determines that the predetermined condition is satisfied (step S503: Yes), the additional response request unit 23 determines whether or not the cumulative number of response information has reached the final target response number, or at a predetermined end time. When it is determined whether or not it has been reached (step S504), and when it is determined that it has not been reached (step S504: No), the additional response request unit 23 sends the response information to another group that has not yet made a transmission request. An additional response requesting step (step S505) for performing a transmission request is executed. Steps S502, S503, S504, and S505 are repeated until the final target answer number is reached or until a predetermined end time is reached. When the final target answer number is reached or when the predetermined end time is reached (step S504: Yes), The process ends.

  On the other hand, when the determination unit 222 determines that the waiting time has ended (step S502: Yes), the process proceeds to an additional response request step (step S505).

  In the additional response requesting step (step S505), in addition to another group 30 that has not made a transmission request yet, an unanswered user who has already received a transmission request but has not yet transmitted response information. An additional response request may be made to the user terminal 3 owned.

  As a result, the number of users to which additional response requests are made increases, so that more response information can be collected.

  The predetermined condition in step S503 can be, for example, the number of answers or the answer rate in the group 30. When the predetermined number of answers or the answer rate is reached, the process may proceed to the next process (step S504).

  As a result, it is possible to determine that a group with a low number of responses or a low response rate is a group with a small number of users who send response information, and can send a response information transmission request to another group. Collection can be performed more efficiently.

  The waiting time in step S502 may be set based on the number of user terminals 3 belonging to the group 30. When the number of user terminals 3 belonging to the group 30 is large, it is conceivable to increase the waiting time.

  Thereby, it is possible to reduce the number of users who lose the answer right without sending the answer information before the end of the waiting time, and it is possible to collect more answer information.

<Third Embodiment>
Next, a third embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the answer information collection method according to the present embodiment, the answer request step is performed for a plurality of user terminals and / or groups, and the answer information is transmitted when the waiting time ends in the answer request step and the additional answer request step. The right to answer users who have not done so is lost. Thereafter, from each of the plurality of user terminals and / or groups, another user terminal that has not yet requested transmission, or a group configured by a plurality of other user terminals that have not yet requested transmission, Additional response request steps are executed in parallel.

  In addition, when executing the response request step and the additional response request step for the group, the response right of all users in the group was lost on the assumption that the response information was not transmitted from all user terminals belonging to the group. The case is illustrated. The loss of the answer right is performed in units of users who have not transmitted the answer information at the time when the waiting time ends, and is not performed in units of groups. The same applies to the fourth to sixth embodiments described later.

  With reference to FIG. 9, the reply information collection method according to the third embodiment will be described from the viewpoint of the reply right possessed by the user. FIG. 9 is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of a flow of granting answer rights in the answer information collecting method according to the third embodiment.

  In FIG. 9, the arrow X and the arrow Y indicate the flow of giving the answer right as in FIG. FIG. 9A is an example of a case where an answer request step is executed for a plurality of users. FIG. 9B is an example of a case where an answer request step is executed for a plurality of groups. FIG. 9C is an example of a case where an answer request step is executed for a user and a group.

  As shown in FIG. 9, since it is possible to request transmission of response information in parallel at the same time, it is possible to collect response information of the final target response number in a shorter time. Although FIG. 9A to FIG. 9C show the flow of giving the answer right by two columns, the number of columns is not limited to two, and may be three or more, which is the same as the final target answer number. May be. The same applies to the fourth to sixth embodiments described later.

  Further, the additional response request unit 23 can determine for each column whether the cumulative number of response information has reached the final target response number, or whether the predetermined end time has been reached. A sequence that has reached a number or a sequence that has reached a predetermined end time can be terminated. The same applies to the fourth to sixth embodiments described later.

  From the viewpoint of collecting the answer information of the final target answer number in a shorter time, as shown in FIG. 9A, it is conceivable to execute the answer request step and the additional answer request step in parallel for a plurality of users. This is because there is no need to set a group, and answer information can be collected easily and quickly. In this case, in order to collect response information in a shorter time without waste, it is conceivable that the number of columns when executed in parallel is the same as the number of final target responses.

<Fourth embodiment>
Next, a fourth embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the answer information collection method according to the present embodiment, an additional answer request step is performed for a plurality of users and / or groups, and the answer information is transmitted when the waiting time is completed in the answer request step and the additional answer request step. The right to answer users who have not done so is lost.

  With reference to FIG. 10, the answer information collecting method according to the fourth embodiment will be described from the viewpoint of the answer right possessed by the user. FIG. 10 is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of a flow of granting answer rights in the answer information collecting method according to the fourth embodiment.

  In FIG. 10, arrows X and Y indicate the flow of granting the answer right as in FIG. FIG. 10A is an example of the case where the additional answer request step is executed for a plurality of users. FIG. 10B is an example of the case where the additional response request step is executed for a plurality of groups. FIG. 10C is an example of the case where the additional answer request step is executed for the user and the group. FIG. 10D is an example of a case where the second and subsequent additional response request steps are executed for a plurality of users.

  In the example shown in FIG. 10, it is possible to increase the number of users and groups to which a transmission request for response information is requested in the additional response request step according to the response results in the response request step.

<Fifth Embodiment>
Next, a fifth embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the answer information collection method according to the present embodiment, an additional answer request step is performed for a plurality of users, and the answer information is not transmitted at the time when the waiting time ends in the answer request step and the additional answer request step. The right to answer is lost. In the additional response requesting step, the number of users who are requested to transmit response information is increased each time the number is repeated.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 11, the answer information collecting method according to the fifth embodiment will be described from the viewpoint of answer rights possessed by the user. FIG. 11 is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of a flow of giving an answer right in the answer information collecting method according to the fifth embodiment.

  In FIG. 11, the arrows X and Y indicate the flow of granting the answer right as in FIG. When the answer request step is executed, an answer right is given to the user 1. When the first additional answer request step is executed, answer rights are given to two users, user 2 and user 11. When the second additional answer request step is executed, answer rights are given to three users, user 3, user 12, and user 21. When the third additional response request step is executed, response rights are given to four users, user 4, user 13, user 22, and user 31.

  As shown in FIG. 11, it is possible to increase the number of pieces of answer information per unit time by increasing the number of users who are subject to a reply information transmission request. Note that some or all of the users shown in this embodiment may be grouped.

<Sixth Embodiment>
Next, a sixth embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the response information collection method according to this embodiment, the flow of granting the response right is the same as that in the third embodiment, but selecting a group that makes a transmission request for response information according to the response results of the user, It is possible to select a user who makes a transmission request for answer information according to the answer record.

  With reference to FIG. 12, the reply information collection method according to the sixth embodiment will be described from the viewpoint of the reply right possessed by the user. FIG. 12 is a diagram schematically showing an example of a flow of giving a response right in the response information collecting method according to the sixth embodiment.

  In FIG. 12, arrows X and Y indicate the flow of response right granting as in FIG. In the example shown in FIG. 12A, first, an answer request step is executed for the user 1. Although not shown, the user extraction unit 25 selects a plurality of users constituting the group 1 from the user information storage unit 24 according to the answer record of the user 1. Thereafter, an additional response request step is executed for group 1.

  In the example illustrated in FIG. 12A, it is possible to request the transmission of response information by positioning the user 1 as a pilot user, and select the group 1 that is assumed to have a high response rate according to the response performance of the user 1.

  When the response rate of group 1 is lower than expected, it is effective to review pilot users in order to efficiently collect response information. Therefore, the user extraction unit 25 selects the user 2 from the user information storage unit 24 in accordance with the answer record of the group 1 in order to select a new pilot user. Thereafter, an additional response requesting step is executed for the user 2. The user extraction unit 25 selects a plurality of users constituting the group 2 from the user information storage unit 24 according to the answer record of the user 2, and thereafter, an additional response request step is executed for the group 2. When the answer rate of group 2 is lower than expected, similarly, user 3 is selected as a new pilot user, and an additional answer request step is executed for user 3. Thereafter, the group 3 is selected according to the answer record of the user 3, and the additional answer request step is executed for the group 3.

  Next, in the example shown in FIG. 12B, an answer request step is first executed for the user 1, and then an additional answer request step is executed for the users 2 and 3. Thereafter, the user extraction unit 25 selects a plurality of users constituting the group 1 from the user information storage unit 24 according to the response results of the user 1, the user 2 and the user 3, and performs an additional response request step for the group 1 Is executed. Thereafter, an additional response requesting step is executed for groups 2 and 3 which are further different groups.

  In the example shown in FIG. 12B, a plurality of users are positioned as pilot users, a response information transmission request is made, and groups 1 to 3 that are expected to have a high response rate are selected according to the response performance of the plurality of users. It is possible.

  As shown in FIG. 12, it is possible to collect response information more efficiently by setting a group according to the response performance of the user.

  As mentioned above, although the form for implementing this invention was explained in full detail, it is possible to produce the reply information collection method concerning each above-mentioned embodiment as a program, and to implement | achieve it by arithmetic units, such as CPU with which a computer is provided. That is, the present invention may be understood as an invention of a program for causing a computer to execute the above-described answer information collecting method. For example, the program may be stored in a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium such as a non-volatile memory such as a USB memory, an HDD, or a CD that records the program, or distributed via a network. May be.

  The present invention can also adopt the following forms. In addition, each structure and each processing function in the form demonstrated below can be selected and combined arbitrarily.

  (1) An answer information collecting method performed via a network, an answer request step for requesting transmission of answer information to a user terminal, and an answer acceptance for receiving and determining the answer information from the user terminal And an additional response requesting step for requesting transmission of the response information to another user terminal that has not made the transmission request in accordance with the determination result of the response accepting step. The response information collecting method, wherein the requesting step is repeated until a final target answer number is reached or a predetermined end time is reached.

  (2) In addition to the other user terminal, the additional reply requesting step is also performed for a user terminal owned by an unanswered user who has already received a transmission request but has not yet transmitted reply information. The method for collecting answer information as described in (1) above.

  (3) The said (1) or (2) description which the said additional reply request step is performed when the completion | finish determination of the waiting time set in order to wait for reception of the said reply information is made in the said reply acceptance step Answer information collection method.

  (4) The additional response requesting step is executed when it is determined that the response information is received before the end of the waiting time set for waiting for reception of the response information in the response receiving step. The answer information collecting method according to item (1) or (2).

  (5) The above (3) or (4), wherein the right to answer the user who has not transmitted the answer information at the time when the waiting time is completed in the answer request step and / or the additional answer request step is lost. Answer information collection method.

  (6) The answer information collecting method according to any one of (3) to (5), wherein the waiting time is set before the answer request step is performed.

  (7) The waiting time is set based on the response results of the response request step and / or the additional response request step that has already been executed, and the response information collection according to any one of (3) to (5) Method.

  The following (8) to (16) show the case where the target of the response information transmission request is a group.

  (8) The answer information collecting method according to (1), wherein the user terminal is a group configured by a plurality of user terminals.

  (9) The additional response requesting step is owned by an unanswered user who has not yet transmitted the response information that has already received the transmission request, in addition to another group that has not yet transmitted the response information transmission request. The answer information collecting method according to the above (8), which is also performed for a user terminal that performs the above.

  (10) The above-mentioned (8) or (9), wherein the additional response requesting step is executed when it is determined that the waiting time set for waiting for reception of the response information is completed in the response receiving step. Answer information collection method.

  (11) In the additional response requesting step, when it is determined that the reception state of the response information satisfies a predetermined condition before the end of the waiting time set for waiting for reception of the response information in the response reception step. The answer information collecting method according to (8) or (9), which is executed.

  (12) The answer information collecting method according to (11), wherein the predetermined condition is the number of answers or the answer rate in the group.

  (13) In the answer request step and / or the additional answer request step, when the waiting time ends, the answer right of the user who has not transmitted the answer information is lost. ) The response information collection method described in any one of (1).

  (14) The answer information collecting method according to any one of (10) to (13), wherein the waiting time is set based on a number of user terminals belonging to the group.

  (15) The answer information collecting method according to any one of (10) to (14), wherein the waiting time is set before the answer request step is performed.

  (16) The answer information according to any one of (10) to (14), wherein the waiting time is set based on an answer record of an already executed answer request step and / or additional answer request step. Collection method.

  The following (17) to (20) show a case where a transmission request for response information is implemented for a plurality of user terminals and / or groups.

  (17) The answer information collecting method according to any one of (1) to (7), wherein the answer request step and / or the additional answer request step is performed on a plurality of user terminals.

  (18) The answer information collecting method according to any one of (8) to (16), wherein the answer request step and / or the additional answer request step is performed for a plurality of groups.

  (19) The addition request step is performed in parallel for each of the plurality of user terminals with respect to a group configured by another user terminal that has not yet made the transmission request or a plurality of user terminals. 17) The answer information collection method described.

  (20) The response information collection method according to (18), wherein the addition request step is performed in parallel from each of the plurality of groups to another user terminal or group that has not made the transmission request yet.

  The following (21) shows the answer information collecting system according to the present invention, the following (22) shows the answer information collecting apparatus according to the present invention, and the following (23) shows the program according to the present invention.

  (21) An answer information collecting system in which a user terminal and an answer information collecting device are connected via a network, wherein the answer information collecting device makes an answer information transmission request to the user terminal; An answer receiving unit comprising: a receiving unit that receives the answer information from the user terminal; a determination unit that performs determination on the answer information; and the transmission request according to a determination result of the answer receiving unit. An additional response requesting unit that makes a transmission request for the response information to another user terminal that has not yet been performed, and the additional response requesting unit reaches the final target answer count or at a predetermined end time. A reply information collection system that repeats the reply information transmission request until the answer information is reached.

  (22) An answer request unit that makes a transmission request for answer information to a user terminal, a receiving unit that receives the answer information from the user terminal, and a determination unit that makes a decision about the answer information. An additional response requesting unit that makes a transmission request for the response information to another user terminal that has not made the transmission request according to a determination result of the response receiving unit; The additional response request unit repeats the transmission request for the response information until the final target number of responses is reached or until a predetermined end time is reached.

  (23) An answer request step for requesting the answer information collection device to send answer information to the user terminal, an answer accepting step for receiving and determining the answer information from the user terminal, and an answer accepting step. Depending on the determination result, an additional response requesting step for requesting transmission of the response information to another user terminal that has not made the transmission request yet, and reaching the final target response number or reaching a predetermined end time And a process for repeating the additional response requesting step.

<Seventh embodiment>
First, with reference to FIG. 13, the whole structure of the coupon provision system 11 which concerns on 7th Embodiment of this invention is demonstrated. FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating an example of the configuration of the coupon grant system 11 according to the seventh embodiment. In the coupon grant system 11, the coupon grant apparatus 12 and the user terminal 13 are connected via a network 14 so as to be communicable. Although three user terminals 13 are illustrated in FIG. 13, the number of user terminals is not limited to three.

  The present invention can also be understood as an invention of a coupon grant method including various processes (steps) executed by a computer such as the coupon grant device 12 and the user terminal 13 included in the coupon grant system 11. Further, as long as at least the object of the present invention can be achieved, a part of various processes (steps) described in the present embodiment may be omitted. Furthermore, the answer information collection system 1 and the coupon grant system 11 may be configured by the same system, that is, a configuration in which one system has the functions of both the answer information collection system 1 and the coupon grant system 11 is also conceivable. .

  The coupon granting device 12 is a computing device such as a CPU (Central Processing Unit) that executes program computing processing, a RAM 14 that stores a computer program or data, a storage device such as a ROM and a hard disk drive, a network 14 such as the Internet or a LAN It is a computer provided with the communication apparatus etc. which transmit / receive data via LAN. In the coupon grant apparatus 12, the operation of the coupon grant apparatus 12 is controlled by executing various processes by the arithmetic device.

  The user terminal 13 is a communication terminal owned by the user, such as a smartphone, a mobile phone, a tablet computer, or a personal computer.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 13, the function structure of the coupon grant apparatus 12 which concerns on this embodiment is demonstrated. As illustrated in FIG. 13, the coupon grant apparatus 12 includes an authority grant unit 121, a condition determination unit 122, and an additional authority grant unit 123. Specifically, the coupon grant apparatus 12 functions as the authority grant part 121, the condition determination part 122, and the additional authority grant part 123 by performing various processes according to the program memorize | stored in the said memory | storage device. In addition, a part or all of the authority grant unit 121, the condition determination unit 122, and the additional authority grant unit 123 may be configured by circuit modules. The coupon granting device 12 is not limited to one computer, and may be a computer system in which a plurality of computers operate in cooperation. Moreover, the coupon provision apparatus 12 is provided with the some arithmetic device, and the various processes performed with the said response information collection device 2 may be performed by a some arithmetic device distributedly.

  The authority grant unit 121 grants a coupon acquisition authority to the user. More specifically, the authority granting unit 121 grants a coupon acquisition authority to the user by transmitting information necessary for granting a coupon acquisition authority to the user terminal 13.

  “Granting coupon acquisition authority” is to give a user the authority to acquire a coupon, and not to give the coupon itself to the user. Whether or not the coupon is actually acquired can be arbitrarily determined by the user who is given the acquisition authority.

  The means for giving the coupon acquisition authority is not particularly limited. For example, an email with coupon data attached may be transmitted to the user terminal 13. Alternatively, the URL of a site on the Internet on which a coupon is posted may be transmitted by e-mail to prompt the owner of the user terminal 13 to access the URL. For example, the authority granting unit 121 manages the presence or absence of each user's coupon by storing the coupon in the user database in association with each user, and the user logs in to the coupon granting device 12 using the user terminal 13. By doing so, it is possible that the coupon matched with self is acquirable. When the user terminal 13 is a personal computer or a smartphone, the coupon or the URL may be displayed on the user terminal 13 through an application installed in the user terminal 13. Moreover, when the user terminal 13 is a smart phone, you may notify a coupon or said URL using a push notification function.

  The condition determination unit 122 determines whether or not a predetermined condition is met. Moreover, the condition determination part 122 can memorize | store one or two or more target time, and can perform the determination according to the said target time.

  In order to gather customers in a shorter period of time, it is conceivable that the predetermined condition is when one of the following (A) to (D) falls within the first target time.

(A) When information indicating that the coupon has been acquired from the user or information indicating that the acquisition authority has been abandoned has not been received.
(B) When information indicating that a coupon has been acquired from the user is received.
(C) When information indicating that the acquisition authority has been abandoned is received from the user.
(D) When acquisition authority cannot be given to the user.

  First, the first target time will be described.

  The first target time can be arbitrarily determined. For example, a specific date and time may be set as the first target time, such as “January 1, 2016 12:00:00”. Moreover, you may set the elapsed time from the time the authority grant part 121 gave the acquisition authority of a coupon as a 1st target time, for example, "30 from the time the authority assignment part 121 granted the acquisition authority of a coupon. “After minutes” may be set as the first target time.

  In addition, the first target time may be set before the authority granting unit 121 grants the coupon acquisition authority. Moreover, the set target time may be changed after that, and in this case, the first target time may be determined according to the response of the user who is given the coupon acquisition authority.

  Next, the conditions (A) to (C) will be described.

  The condition determination unit 122 can receive information indicating that the coupon has been acquired (coupon acquisition information) or information indicating that the acquisition authority has been abandoned (coupon acquisition authority abandonment information), and within the first target time, It can be determined whether coupon acquisition information or coupon acquisition authority waiver information has been received from the user. For example, the condition determining unit 122 may receive the information by receiving a mail transmitted from the user terminal 13 or may receive the information via a coupon site on the Internet. When the coupon granting device 12 transmits information necessary for granting the coupon acquisition authority to the user terminal 13 using the push notification function, a reply field is provided in the push notification. May be. The condition determination unit 122 can receive coupon acquisition information or coupon acquisition authority abandonment information transmitted by the user using a push notification reply function.

  Next, the condition (D) will be described.

  The case where the coupon acquisition authority could not be granted to the user means that, for example, the authority granting unit 121 transmitted information necessary for granting the coupon acquisition authority to the user terminal 13 by email, but the email is Examples include a case where the terminal 13 has not been reached, or a case where transmission is performed using the push notification function but no notification is displayed on the user terminal 13 side.

  With continued reference to FIG. 13, the additional authority assigning unit 123 will be described. The additional authority granting unit 123 grants a coupon acquisition authority to another user who has not been granted a coupon acquisition authority based on a predetermined condition. More specifically, the additional authority granting unit 123 transmits the information necessary for granting the coupon acquisition authority to the user terminal 13 based on the predetermined condition, whereby the coupon acquisition authority is given to the user. Is granted. Hereinafter, the granting of coupon acquisition authority by the additional authority granting unit 123 is also simply referred to as “additional authority grant”.

  The additional authority granting unit 123 can determine whether the number of users who have acquired the coupon has reached the target number, or whether the predetermined end time has been reached, until the target number is reached, or the predetermined end Until the time is reached, additional authority can be given to another user.

  The target number is a target value of the cumulative number of coupons actually acquired by the user who has been granted the coupon acquisition authority, and can be set arbitrarily. The target number may be set in the additional authority granting part 123 before the authority granting part 121 grants the coupon acquisition authority, and the set target number may be changed thereafter.

  Similarly, the predetermined end time is set in the additional authority granting section 123 before the authority granting section 121 grants the coupon acquisition authority. The predetermined end time is a time when the additional authority granting unit 123 finishes the process of giving the additional authority. For example, a specific date and time such as “November 1, 2016 12:00:00” can be set as the predetermined end time. Moreover, you may set the elapsed time from the time the authorization granting part 121 gave the coupon acquisition authority as a predetermined end time, for example, “5 hours after the authorization granting part 121 gave the coupon acquisition authority. "May be a predetermined end time. The set predetermined end time may be changed thereafter.

  Moreover, after the authority granting part 121 or the additional authority granting part 123 grants the coupon acquisition authority to the user, the additional authority granting part 123 can cause the user to lose the coupon acquisition authority.

  The authority granting part 121 and / or the additional authority giving part 123 can give the acquisition authority of coupons having different contents to the user and another user.

  The coupon grant apparatus 12 according to the present embodiment can include a registered user storage unit 124. The registered user storage unit 124 stores information about the user terminal 13 and information about the attribute of the user who owns the user terminal 13. Information about the user terminal 13 includes information such as a telephone number, a mail address, and an IP address. Information related to user attributes includes the user's age, gender, address, current location, working location, preference, usage history, usage trend, average unit price during usage, and the like.

  The coupon grant apparatus 12 can include a user selection unit 125. The user selection unit 125 selects a user to be given a coupon acquisition authority from registered users registered in advance in the registered user storage unit 124. In this case, it can be considered that the user selection unit 125 selects a user based on the attribute of the registered user.

  Moreover, the user selection part 125 may select a user according to the coupon acquisition performance after the authority provision part 121 and the additional authority provision part 123 gave a coupon acquisition authority with respect to a user. Here, the “coupon acquisition record” refers to information related to the coupon acquisition record such as the number of coupon acquisitions, the time until the user acquires a coupon, and the coupon acquisition rate.

  Moreover, the coupon grant apparatus 12 can include a privilege grant unit 126. The privilege grant unit 126 grants a privilege to the user who acquired the coupon. The content of the benefits is not particularly limited, but for example, providing novelty, providing free products, providing discounts on products, granting free coupons, granting discount coupons, giving points, upgrading service content, extending service time, etc. Is mentioned.

  When the privilege granting unit 126 is provided, a second target time shorter than the first target time is set in the condition determination unit 122, and a privilege is given to a user who has acquired a coupon within the second target time. May be. The “second target time shorter than the first target time” means that the end time of the second target time is before the end time of the first target.

  The coupon grant apparatus 12 can include a notification unit 127. The notification unit 127 can make a notification that prompts the user to acquire a coupon before the target time set in the condition determination unit 122 ends when the user who has the coupon acquisition authority has not acquired the coupon.

  The “coupon” is a privilege that the user can enjoy as described above. The use scene of the coupon is not particularly limited. For example, the coupon may be used in a store providing a product or service (so-called “actual store”), or may be used in an online shop using EC (Electronic Commerce). Compared to online stores, actual stores have more restrictions on business hours, and it is important to attract customers during business hours, so there is a need to attract customers relatively early after distributing coupons. Is big. For this reason, the coupon grant system 11 which concerns on this embodiment is used suitably as a system which grants the coupon of a store. A “store coupon” is a privilege that a user can enjoy when using a real store. When the coupon grant system 11 which concerns on this embodiment is a store coupon grant system, the coupon grant apparatus 12 may be provided with the user information transmission part 128 which transmits the information of the user who acquired the coupon with respect to a store.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 14, an example of the flow of processing in the coupon grant system 11 according to the seventh embodiment will be described. FIG. 14 is a sequence diagram illustrating an example of a process flow in the coupon grant system 11 according to the seventh embodiment.

  First, the authority grant part 121 of the coupon grant apparatus 12 transmits information required for granting the coupon acquisition authority to the user terminal 131 (step S1001). The user terminal 131 that has acquired the coupon within the first target time transmits information indicating that the coupon has been acquired, and the condition determination unit 122 of the coupon granting device 12 receives the information (step S1002). The condition determining unit 122 of the coupon granting device 12 determines that the predetermined condition is met (step S1003), and grants additional authority to another user terminal 132 to which the additional authority granting part 123 has not granted the coupon acquisition authority. This is performed (step S1004).

  The user terminal 132 transmits information indicating that the coupon acquisition authority is abandoned within the first target time, and the condition determination unit 122 of the coupon granting apparatus 12 receives the coupon acquisition authority abandonment information (step S1005). The condition determination unit 122 of the coupon granting device 12 determines that the predetermined condition is met (step S1006), and the additional authority granting unit 123 grants additional authority to another user terminal 133 (step S1007).

  So far, the flow of processing when receiving information indicating that a coupon has been acquired from the user and when receiving information indicating that the acquisition authority has been abandoned has been described. In some cases, abandonment information is not received. That is, as shown in FIG. 14, when the condition determination unit 122 determines that the coupon acquisition information and the coupon acquisition authority abandonment information have not been received from the user terminal 133 within the first target time (step S1008), The additional authority may be given to the user terminal 134 (step S1009).

  Although not shown in FIG. 14, the condition determination unit 122 determines that the information necessary for granting the coupon acquisition authority to the user terminal cannot be transmitted, and the coupon acquisition authority cannot be granted to the user. In some cases, additional authority may be given to another user terminal.

  Thereafter, the additional authority is repeatedly given in the same manner, and when the additional authority granting unit 123 determines that the number of users who have acquired the coupon has reached the target number or has reached the predetermined end time (step S1010). ), The process ends.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 15, the coupon grant method according to the seventh embodiment will be described. FIG. 15: is a flowchart which shows an example of the procedure of the provision method of the coupon which concerns on 7th Embodiment.

  First, the authority granting unit 121 executes an “authorization step” for granting a coupon acquisition authority to the user (step S2001). More specifically, the authority granting unit 121 grants a coupon acquisition authority to the user by transmitting information necessary for granting a coupon acquisition authority to the user terminal 13.

  Next, the condition determination unit 122 executes a “condition determination step” for determining whether or not a predetermined condition is met (step S2002). When the condition determination unit 122 determines that the predetermined condition is satisfied (step S2002: Yes), the additional authority granting unit 123 determines whether the number of users who have acquired the coupon has reached the target number, or reaches a predetermined end time. If it is determined whether or not it has been reached (step S2003: No), the additional authority granting unit 123 determines the coupon for another user who has not been granted the coupon acquisition authority. An “additional authority granting step” (step S2004) for granting acquisition authority is executed. More specifically, the additional authority granting unit 123 grants a coupon acquisition authority to the user by transmitting information necessary for granting a coupon acquisition authority to the user terminal 13.

  Steps S2002, S2003, and S2004 are repeated until the number of users who have acquired coupons reaches the target number or until the predetermined end time is reached. When the target number is reached or the predetermined end time is reached (step S2003: Yes) ), The process is terminated. For example, when the steps S2002 to S2004 for giving the acquisition authority to another user who has not been given the acquisition authority are repeatedly executed until the number of users who have acquired the coupon reaches the target number It is possible to accurately distribute the target number of coupons.

  In the coupon grant method according to the present embodiment, an additional authority granting step is executed based on a predetermined condition, so that a user who is an object to be given a coupon acquisition authority is selected. There is no need to distribute coupons to the target. In other words, when granting the coupon acquisition authority, the target may be narrowed down to users who are highly likely to acquire coupons at an early stage, or conditions that urge the user to acquire coupons early may be added as the predetermined condition. it can. Since the user who acquired the coupon early is interested in the coupon, and is considered to be a user who is likely to actually use the coupon, in order to use the coupon, There is a high possibility of visiting a store that is a coupon issuer. Therefore, a short-term increase in customers can be expected as a coupon issuer.

  Next, a coupon grant method according to a first modification of the seventh embodiment will be described. The flowchart of this modification is the same as the flowchart of the seventh embodiment shown in FIG. 15 except that the predetermined conditions are as follows.

  In the first modification of the seventh embodiment, a first target time is set in the condition determination unit 122, and the condition determination unit 122 performs the following (A) to (D) within the first target time. ) To determine whether it falls under any one of the following.

(A) When information indicating that the coupon has been acquired from the user or information indicating that the acquisition authority has been abandoned has not been received.
(B) When information indicating that a coupon has been acquired from the user is received.
(C) When information indicating that the acquisition authority has been abandoned is received from the user.
(D) When acquisition authority cannot be given to the user.

  In the coupon grant method according to this modification, when the condition determination unit 122 determines that any one of the above (B) to (D) falls within the first target time, the additional authority grant unit 123 The additional authority granting step is executed for another user terminal without waiting for the end of the first target time. As a result, it is possible to grant more coupon acquisition authority per unit time, and it is possible to shorten the time until the number of coupon acquisitions reaches the target number. It can be done more efficiently.

  The first target time can be arbitrarily determined. For example, a specific date and time may be set as the first target time as the first target time, and an elapsed time from when the coupon acquisition authority is granted may be set as the first target time.

  The time from the start to the end of the first target time, that is, the length of the first target time is not particularly limited as long as the effect of the present invention is not impaired. For example, it may be set in minutes such as 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 30 minutes, or may be set in hours such as 1 hour, 5 hours, 10 hours, etc. It may be a daily unit. The length of the first target time is preferably 1 minute or more from the viewpoint of giving the user time to acquire a coupon, and customers can visit the store at an early stage after granting the coupon acquisition authority. From the viewpoint of increasing the short-term customer attraction effect, it can be considered to be within 3 days.

  In addition, for example, the first target time is 5 minutes when using the push notification function of a smartphone as a means for giving a coupon acquisition authority, and 1 hour when using an e-mail. Accordingly, the first target time may be different.

  The first target time may be set before the authority granting step, or may be set according to the response of the user who has been given the coupon acquisition authority by the authority granting step or the additional authority granting step. For example, when the number of users who have acquired coupons is less than expected, the first target time is shortened, and the coupon acquisition authority is granted to more users per unit time. Coupon acquisition authority can be granted.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 16, the coupon provision method which concerns on the 2nd modification of 7th Embodiment is demonstrated. FIG. 16: is a flowchart which shows an example of the procedure of the provision method of the coupon which concerns on the 2nd modification of 7th Embodiment.

  In the second modified example of the seventh embodiment, in addition to the configuration of the first modified example, the condition determination unit 122 is set with a second target time shorter than the first target time. Moreover, the coupon grant apparatus 12 is provided with the privilege provision part 126, and provides a privilege with respect to the user who acquired the coupon within 2nd target time.

  As shown in FIG. 16, the authority granting unit 121 executes an authority granting step for granting a coupon acquisition authority to the user (step S3001). More specifically, the authority granting unit 121 grants a coupon acquisition authority to the user by transmitting information necessary for granting a coupon acquisition authority to the user terminal 13.

  Next, the condition determination unit 122 determines whether or not any one of the conditions (A) to (D) shown in the first modified example is satisfied within the first target time. A step is executed (step S3002). Note that, in the condition determining step, it is not limited to determining whether any one of the conditions (A) to (D) is satisfied, but only determining whether the condition (A) is satisfied, for example. Is also conceivable as another embodiment.

  If it is determined that any one of the above conditions (A) to (D) is satisfied within the first target time (step S3002: Yes), the condition determining unit 122 determines that the corresponding condition is the above condition ( It is determined whether or not B) (step S3003). When the applicable condition is the above condition (B), that is, when coupon acquisition information is received from the user within the first target time (step S3003: Yes), the condition determination unit 122 sets the coupon acquisition information. It is determined whether or not the received time is within the second target time (step S3004). When it is within the second target time (step S3004: Yes), the privilege granting unit 126 grants a privilege to the user who acquired the coupon (step S3005).

  Thereafter, the additional authority granting unit 123 determines whether or not the number of users who have acquired the coupon has reached the target number, or whether or not the predetermined end time has been reached (step S3006), and determines that the number has not been reached. In the case (step S3006: No), the additional authority granting unit 123 executes an additional authority granting step (step S3007) for granting the coupon acquisition authority to another user who has not been granted the coupon acquisition authority. More specifically, the additional authority granting unit 123 grants a coupon acquisition authority to the user by transmitting information necessary for granting a coupon acquisition authority to the user terminal 13.

  On the other hand, when the condition determining unit 122 determines that the corresponding condition is not the condition (B), that is, it is determined that any one of the conditions (A), (C), and (D) is satisfied. In the case (step S3003: No), it progresses to step S3006. In addition, the condition determination unit 122 determines that the condition (B) is satisfied within the first target time (step S3003: Yes), but the time point corresponding to the condition (B) is not within the second target time. (Step S3004: No), the process proceeds to step S3006.

  Steps S3002 to S3007 are repeated until the number of users who have acquired coupons reaches the target number or until the predetermined end time is reached, and when the target number is reached or the predetermined end time is reached (step S3006: Yes), End the process.

  Thus, in the coupon grant method according to this modification, a privilege is granted to a user who has acquired a coupon within a second target time shorter than the first target time. Thereby, since a user will acquire a coupon in a short time for the purpose of privilege provision, the improvement of a short-term customer attraction effect can be anticipated.

  In addition, the privilege may be uniformly given to the user who has acquired the coupon within the second target time, but depending on the time from when the coupon acquisition authority is granted until the coupon is acquired, the user You may change the contents of the privilege given to. From the viewpoint of increasing the short-term customer attracting effect, it is conceivable that a larger privilege is given as the time until a coupon is acquired is shorter. This is because a user who aims at a large privilege can obtain a coupon more quickly.

  Next, although not shown, a preferred form common to the coupon giving method according to the seventh embodiment, the first modified example and the second modified example of the seventh embodiment will be described.

  The coupon grant method according to the seventh embodiment and the first and second modifications of the seventh embodiment is a user who selects a user from registered users in advance based on the attributes of the registered user. It is conceivable to perform further selection steps. In other words, the user may be a user selected by the user selection unit 125 based on the attributes from the registered users stored in the registered user storage unit 124. The registered user storage unit 124 stores various user attributes such as the user's age, gender, address, current location, work location, preference, usage history, usage trend, and average unit price at the time of use. Alternatively, the user can be selected based on two or more attributes.

  By adopting such a configuration, it is possible to narrow down to users who are more likely to acquire coupons and to grant coupon acquisition authority, so it is possible to increase the coupon acquisition rate and improve the ability to attract customers. is there. In addition, when a store that is a coupon issuer wants to cultivate a new customer segment, it is possible to select a user based on the attributes of the customer targeted for new cultivating. Can be determined according to the coupon issuer's strategy.

  From the viewpoint of convenience, the user often prefers to use a store near the current location or the place where the user lives. Therefore, in order to further improve the coupon acquisition rate, it is conceivable that the user selection unit 125 selects a user based on the registered user's address or current location. The current location can be grasped by acquiring position information using the GPS function of the user terminal 3.

  Furthermore, when the user having the coupon acquisition authority has not acquired a coupon, the notification unit 127 notifies the user to acquire a coupon before the target time set in the condition determination unit 122 ends. It is conceivable to perform a notification step. By notifying so-called reminder, the coupon acquisition rate can be improved.

  Further, in the authority granting step and / or the additional authority granting step, it is conceivable to give a user and another user acquisition authority for coupons having different contents. For example, in the authority granting step, the authority to acquire a discount coupon for the product X can be given to the user, and in the additional authority step, the authority to acquire the discount coupon for the product Y can be given to another user. .

  In this case, from the viewpoint of increasing the coupon acquisition rate and improving the ability to attract customers, the authority granting unit 121 and / or the additional authority granting unit 123 is based on the user attribute selected by the user selection unit 125, It is conceivable to select a coupon content suitable for the above.

  The coupon may be, for example, a coupon used in a store providing a product or service (so-called “actual store”), or a coupon used in an online shop using EC (Electronic Commerce). . The above-mentioned coupon is a store because there is a greater need for customers to visit customers as soon as possible within the business hours after coupon distribution, compared to online shops with fewer business hours constraints. It is suitable that it is a coupon. When the coupon is a store coupon, the user information transmission unit 128 may perform a user information transmission step of transmitting the information of the user who acquired the coupon to the store. Thereby, the shop side can utilize the user information transmitted from the user information transmission part 128 for shop management.

  For example, if the number of users who have acquired coupons is very large and the number of visitors is expected to increase, the store will adjust the work shift of part-time workers in advance and respond to customer service with an increase system. Can be taken. In addition, by analyzing the tendency of users who have acquired coupons and granting coupon acquisition authority to users who are more likely to acquire coupons, it is possible to increase customer collection efficiency. Furthermore, since the acquisition of the coupon is executed in a concentrated manner within a certain period of time, the traffic volume (communication amount) between the user terminal 3 and the coupon grant apparatus 12 or the processing of the coupon grant apparatus 12 It is possible to easily assume a load or the like. Thereby, for example, for a plurality of coupons from the coupon granting device 12, it is possible to easily determine the grant timing when granting the acquisition authority to the user terminal 3 in consideration of the traffic amount or the processing load. In other words, the specifications of the coupon granting device 12 are simplified within a range in which the required traffic amount or the processing load is allowed for the coupon granting authority grant frequency or the number of acquisition authority grants. Is possible. Moreover, when many coupons are transmitted to each user terminal 13, the coupon which a user does not use will be accumulate | stored in the user terminal 13, but in the coupon provision system 11 which concerns on 7th Embodiment, a user terminal Accumulation of unnecessary coupons at 13 is suppressed.

  Next, another modified example of the seventh embodiment will be described. Before the description, supplementary explanation will be given regarding the coupon acquisition authority and the loss of the coupon acquisition authority that the user has.

  The user can acquire a coupon only when the user has the coupon acquisition authority, and loses the coupon acquisition authority when the coupon is acquired. Also, when the coupon acquisition authority is abandoned, the coupon acquisition authority is lost. When the coupon granting device 12 cannot grant the coupon acquisition authority to the user, there is no concept of loss of the coupon acquisition authority because the user does not have the coupon acquisition authority.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 17, the coupon provision method in the coupon provision system 11 which concerns on the 3rd modification of 7th Embodiment is demonstrated from a viewpoint of the coupon acquisition authority which a user has. FIG. 17: is a figure which shows typically an example of the flow of the coupon acquisition authority provision in the provision method of the coupon which concerns on the 3rd modification of 7th Embodiment.

  The additional authority grant part 123 can lose the coupon acquisition authority which a user has. In this modified example, when the condition (A) in the second modified example of the seventh embodiment is satisfied, that is, the information that the coupon has been acquired from the user within the predetermined first target time or the acquisition authority is abandoned. When the information to the effect is not received, the coupon acquisition authority of the user is lost. Since the other processing flow is the same as that of the second modification of the seventh embodiment, description thereof is omitted.

  In FIG. 17, an arrow X indicates a flow of coupon acquisition authority grant when the authority grant step is executed. The arrow Y has shown the flow of the coupon acquisition authority grant in the case of performing an additional authority provision step. First, when the authority granting step is executed, the coupon acquisition authority is given to the user 1. Next, when the additional authority granting step is executed, the coupon acquisition authority possessed by the user 1 is lost, and the coupon acquisition authority is granted to the user 2. Next, when the additional authority granting step is executed, the coupon acquisition authority that the user 2 had is lost, and the coupon acquisition authority is granted to the user 3. Thereafter, the loss and grant of the coupon acquisition authority are repeated until the number of users who have acquired the coupon reaches the target number or until the predetermined end time is reached.

  In the coupon grant method according to this modification, the user loses the coupon acquisition authority if the user does not acquire the coupon before the end of the first target time, so that the coupon is acquired more quickly. Become. Thereby, the timing which uses a coupon also becomes early and it can improve a short-term customer attraction effect.

  The means for losing the coupon acquisition authority is not particularly limited. For example, you may set a coupon provision apparatus so that a coupon cannot be acquired from the user terminal which the user who lost the coupon acquisition authority owns. Moreover, when acquiring a coupon via the site on the internet, you may set so that the access from the user terminal which the user who lost the acquisition privilege of the coupon in the site concerned may be refused.

<Eighth Embodiment>
Next, an eighth embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the coupon grant method according to the present embodiment, the target to which the coupon acquisition authority is granted is a group 130 constituted by a plurality of user terminals 13. In the following embodiments, points different from the seventh embodiment will be described, and the same points will be denoted by the same reference numerals and the description thereof will be omitted.

  First, with reference to FIG. 18, the whole structure of the coupon provision system 110 which concerns on 8th Embodiment is demonstrated. FIG. 18 is a diagram illustrating an example of the configuration of the coupon grant system 110 according to the eighth embodiment.

  The group 130 is a group configured by a plurality of user terminals 13, and the coupon granting device 12 transmits information necessary for granting a coupon acquisition authority to the plurality of user terminals 13 constituting the group 130. Thereby, the acquisition authority of a coupon is provided with respect to the some user who comprises a group.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 18, the function structure of the coupon provision apparatus 12 which concerns on 8th Embodiment is demonstrated.

  The authority grant unit 121 grants coupon acquisition authority to users belonging to the group. More specifically, the authority granting unit 121 transmits information necessary for granting a coupon acquisition authority to the user terminals 13 constituting the group 130, thereby providing a plurality of users constituting the group. Grant coupon acquisition authority.

  The additional authority granting unit 123 can determine whether or not the coupon acquisition rate in the group has reached the target acquisition rate, and grant additional authority to another user until the target acquisition rate is reached. Can do. The “acquisition rate in the group” is a ratio of the number of users who have acquired coupons to the number of users who belong to the group and have the coupon acquisition authority.

  The authority granting part 121 and / or the additional authority giving part 123 can give the acquisition authority of coupons having different contents to a plurality of users for each user or for each group.

  The user selection unit 125 can select a plurality of users constituting the group 130 from registered users registered in advance in the registered user storage unit 124 based on the attributes of the registered users. From the viewpoint of improving the coupon acquisition rate, the attribute may be the registered user's address or current location. Moreover, the user selection part 125 may select a group according to a coupon acquisition performance.

  Further, the user selection unit 125 can select a plurality of users having common attributes based on the registered user attributes registered in the registered user storage unit 124 and set the users as a group. The authority grant unit 121 and the additional authority grant unit 123 can grant a coupon acquisition authority to users belonging to the group set by the user selection unit 125.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 19, the coupon grant method according to the eighth embodiment will be described. FIG. 19 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a procedure of a coupon grant method according to the eighth embodiment.

  First, the authority granting unit 121 executes an authority granting step for granting a coupon acquisition authority to users belonging to the group (step S4001). More specifically, the authority granting unit 121 grants the coupon acquisition authority to the user by transmitting information necessary for granting the coupon acquisition authority to the user terminals belonging to the group 130.

  Next, the condition determination unit 122 executes a condition determination step for determining whether or not a predetermined condition is met (step S4002). When the condition determination unit 122 determines that the predetermined condition is satisfied (step S4002: Yes), the additional authority granting unit 123 determines whether the number of users who have acquired the coupon has reached the target number, or reaches a predetermined end time. If it is determined whether or not it has been reached (step S4003: No), the additional authority granting unit 123 grants the coupon acquisition authority to the group to which the coupon acquisition authority is not granted. An additional authority granting step (step S4004) is executed. More specifically, the additional authority granting unit 123 grants the coupon acquisition authority to the user by transmitting information necessary for granting the coupon acquisition authority to the users belonging to the group 130.

  Steps S4002, S4003, and S4004 are repeated until the number of users who have acquired coupons reaches the target number or until the predetermined end time is reached. When the target number is reached or the predetermined end time is reached (step S4003: Yes) ), The process is terminated.

  Thereby, compared with the case where a coupon acquisition authority is provided in a user unit, it is possible to increase the number of users to be authorized. Therefore, since it is possible to give more coupon acquisition authority per unit time and to shorten the time until the number of coupon acquisition reaches the target number, granting of coupon acquisition authority can be performed more efficiently. it can.

  The predetermined condition in step S4002 may be when the coupon acquisition rate in the group 130 has reached the target acquisition rate, and may proceed to the next process (step S4003) when the target acquisition rate is reached.

  In the authority granting step and / or the additional authority step, a plurality of users can be given authority to acquire coupons having different contents for each user or for each group. For example, among a plurality of users belonging to the A group, a user who is in his 20s can be given a discount coupon acquisition right for the product X, and a user who is in his 30s can be given a right to get a discount coupon for the product Y. . Further, a user belonging to the A group can be given a discount coupon acquisition right for the product X, and a user belonging to the B group can be given a right to obtain a discount coupon for the product Y.

<Ninth Embodiment>
Next, a ninth embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the coupon grant method according to the present embodiment, an authorization step is performed for a plurality of users and / or groups, and the user and / or group is within a predetermined first target time in the additional privilege grant step. If the information indicating that the coupon has been acquired or the information indicating that the coupon acquisition authority has been abandoned has not been received, the coupon acquisition authority of the user and a plurality of users belonging to the group is lost. Then, from each of the plurality of users and / or groups, to another user who has not yet been granted the coupon acquisition authority, or a group constituted by a plurality of other users who have not yet been granted the coupon acquisition authority On the other hand, the additional authority granting step is executed in parallel.

  For convenience of explanation, in the case of executing the authority grant step and the additional authority grant step shown in the figure, information indicating that coupons have been acquired from all users within the first target time or that the coupon acquisition authority has been abandoned Assuming that no information has been received, the coupon acquisition authority of all users is lost. The determination as to whether or not the user is the target of the loss of coupon acquisition authority is made on a user basis, not on a group basis. The same applies to the tenth to twelfth embodiments described later.

  With reference to FIG. 20, the coupon grant method according to the ninth embodiment will be described from the viewpoint of the coupon acquisition authority possessed by the user. FIG. 20 is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of the flow of granting the coupon acquisition authority in the coupon granting method according to the ninth embodiment.

  20, arrow X and arrow Y indicate the flow of granting the coupon acquisition authority, as in FIG. FIG. 20A is an example of the case where the authorization step is executed for a plurality of users. FIG. 20B is an example when the authorization step is executed for a plurality of groups. FIG. 20C is an example of a case where an authorization step is executed for a user and a group.

  As shown in FIG. 20, since it is possible to grant coupon acquisition authority to a plurality of users and / or groups in parallel, it is possible to give more coupon acquisition authority per unit time, and It is possible to shorten the time until the coupon acquisition number reaches the target number. Therefore, this embodiment can give coupon acquisition authority more efficiently. 20A to 20C show the flow of granting the coupon acquisition authority by two columns, but the number of columns is not limited to two, and may be three or more. In order to shorten the time until the number of users who have acquired coupons reaches the target number, it is conceivable that the number of columns is the same as the target number of coupon acquiring users. The same applies to the tenth to twelfth embodiments described later.

  Further, the additional authority granting unit 123 may determine whether or not the user who acquired the coupon has reached the target number or whether or not the predetermined end time has been reached for each column. The processing may be ended from the processed column or the column that has reached a predetermined end time. The same applies to the tenth to twelfth embodiments described later.

  In order to shorten the time until the number of coupon acquisitions reaches the target number, as shown in FIG. 20A, it is conceivable to execute the authority granting step and the additional authority granting step in parallel for a plurality of users. This is because it is not necessary to set a group, and the coupon acquisition authority can be granted simply and quickly.

<Tenth Embodiment>
Next, a tenth embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the coupon grant method according to the present embodiment, an additional authority grant step is performed for a plurality of users and / or groups, and in the additional authority grant step, a coupon is acquired within a predetermined first target time. The process of losing the coupon acquisition authority to the users and groups that have not received the information or the information indicating that the coupon acquisition authority has been abandoned is performed.

  With reference to FIG. 21, the coupon grant method according to the tenth embodiment will be described from the viewpoint of the coupon acquisition authority possessed by the user. FIG. 21 is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of a flow for granting a coupon acquisition authority in the coupon grant method according to the tenth embodiment.

  In FIG. 21, arrows X and Y indicate the flow of granting the coupon acquisition authority as in FIG. 17. FIG. 21A is an example when the additional authority granting step is executed for a plurality of users. FIG. 21B is an example when the additional authority granting step is executed for a plurality of groups. FIG. 21C is an example of the case where the additional authority granting step is executed for users and groups. FIG. 21D is an example of a case where the second and subsequent additional authority grant steps are executed for a plurality of users.

  In the example shown in FIG. 21, it is possible to increase the number of users and groups to which the coupon acquisition authority is given according to the user's coupon acquisition results. Thereby, since the acquisition authority of a coupon can be narrowed down to the user with higher possibility of acquiring a coupon, it is possible to raise a coupon acquisition rate and to improve the ability to attract customers.

<Eleventh embodiment>
Next, an eleventh embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the coupon grant method according to the present embodiment, an additional authority grant step is performed for a plurality of users, and in the additional authority grant step, information indicating that a coupon has been acquired within a predetermined first target time or a coupon A process of losing the coupon acquisition authority to the user and group that did not receive the information indicating that the acquisition authority has been abandoned is performed. In the additional authority granting step, the number of users to whom the coupon acquisition authority is granted is increased each time the number of times is increased.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 22, the coupon grant method according to the eleventh embodiment will be described from the viewpoint of the coupon acquisition authority possessed by the user. FIG. 22 is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of a flow of granting the coupon acquisition authority in the coupon granting method according to the eleventh embodiment.

  In FIG. 22, the arrow X and the arrow Y indicate the flow of granting the coupon acquisition authority as in FIG. 17. When the authorization step is executed, the coupon acquisition authority is granted to the user 1. When the first additional authority granting step is executed, coupon acquisition authority is granted to two users, user 2 and user 11. When the second additional authority granting step is executed, the coupon acquisition authority is granted to three users of the user 3, the user 12, and the user 21. When the third additional authority granting step is executed, coupon acquisition authority is granted to the four users of the user 4, the user 13, the user 22, and the user 31.

  In the example shown in FIG. 22, the number of users and groups to which the coupon acquisition authority can be granted can be increased in stages, and the number of users and groups to which the coupon acquisition authority is granted according to the coupon acquisition performance in the additional authority grant step. It is possible to increase. Moreover, since it is possible to give more coupon acquisition authority per unit time and to shorten the time until the number of coupon acquisition reaches the target number, it is possible to more efficiently grant the coupon acquisition authority. it can. Note that some or all of the users shown in this embodiment may be grouped.

<Twelfth embodiment>
Next, a twelfth embodiment of the present invention will be described. The coupon granting method according to the present embodiment is the same as that of the ninth embodiment in the procedure for granting the coupon acquisition authority, but it is possible to select a user or a group that grants additional authority according to the coupon acquisition results. .

  With reference to FIG. 23, the coupon grant method according to the twelfth embodiment will be described from the viewpoint of the coupon acquisition authority possessed by the user. FIG. 23 is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of a flow of granting the coupon acquisition authority in the coupon granting method according to the twelfth embodiment.

  In FIG. 23, the arrows X and Y indicate the flow of granting the coupon acquisition authority, as in FIG. In the example shown in FIG. 23A, first, an authorization step is executed for the user 1. Although not shown, the user selection unit 125 selects a plurality of users constituting the group 1 from the registered user storage unit 124 according to the coupon acquisition results of the user 1. Thereafter, an additional authority granting step is executed for group 1.

  In the example illustrated in FIG. 23A, the user 1 is positioned as a pilot user, the coupon acquisition authority is granted, and the group 1 that is more likely to acquire a coupon according to the coupon acquisition results of the user 1 is selected. Is possible.

  When the coupon acquisition rate of group 1 is lower than expected, it is effective to review the pilot users in order to efficiently increase the number of coupon acquisitions. Therefore, the user selection unit 125 selects the user 2 from the registered user storage unit 124 according to the coupon acquisition results of the group 1 in order to select a new pilot user. Thereafter, an additional authority granting step is executed for the user 2. The user selection unit 125 selects a plurality of users constituting the group 2 from the registered user storage unit 124 according to the coupon acquisition results of the user 2, and then executes an additional authority granting step for the group 2. When the coupon acquisition rate of group 2 is lower than expected, similarly, user 3 is selected as a new pilot user, and an additional authority granting step is executed for user 3. Then, the group 3 is selected according to the coupon acquisition results of the user 3 and an additional authority granting step is executed for the group 3.

  Next, in the example illustrated in FIG. 23B, the authority grant step is first executed for the user 1, and then the additional authority grant step is executed for the users 2 and 3. Thereafter, the user selection unit 125 selects a plurality of users constituting the group 1 from the registered user storage unit 124 according to the coupon acquisition results of the user 1, the user 2, and the user 3, and grants additional authority to the group 1 Perform steps. After that, an additional authority granting step is executed for further groups 2 and 3.

  In the example illustrated in FIG. 23B, a group 1 that is assumed to have a higher possibility of acquiring a coupon according to the coupon acquisition results of the plurality of users by giving a plurality of users as pilot users and giving a coupon acquisition authority. ~ 3 can be selected.

  As shown in FIG. 23, by setting a group according to the coupon acquisition results of the user, it is possible to narrow down to users who are more likely to acquire coupons and to grant coupon acquisition authority. It is possible to improve the ability to attract customers.

  As mentioned above, although the form for implementing this invention was explained in full detail, it is possible to create the coupon provision method concerning each above-mentioned embodiment as a program, and to implement | achieve it by arithmetic units, such as CPU with which a computer is provided. That is, the present invention may be understood as an invention of a program for causing a computer to execute the above-described answer information collecting method. For example, the program may be stored in a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium such as a non-volatile memory such as a USB memory, an HDD, or a CD that records the program, or distributed via a network. May be.

  The plurality of embodiments can be implemented in combination as long as there is no contradiction in the configuration and operation.

[Additional Notes]
Hereinafter, the outline of the invention extracted from the above-described embodiment will be additionally described. Each configuration and each processing function described in the following supplementary notes can be selected and arbitrarily combined.

<Appendix 1>
A method for granting a coupon via a network,
An authorization step for granting coupon acquisition authority to the user;
An additional authority granting step for granting the acquisition authority to another user who has not been granted the acquisition authority based on a predetermined condition;
A coupon grant method including

<Appendix 2>
The coupon granting method according to appendix 14, wherein the predetermined condition is when it is determined that any one of the following (A) to (D) falls within a predetermined first target time.
(A) When information indicating that the coupon has been acquired from the user or information indicating that the acquisition authority has been abandoned has not been received.
(B) When information indicating that the coupon has been acquired is received from the user.
(C) When information indicating that the acquisition authority has been abandoned is received from the user.
(D) When the acquisition authority cannot be given to the user.

<Appendix 3>
The coupon grant method according to supplementary note 2, wherein a privilege is granted to the user who has acquired the coupon within a second target time shorter than the first target time.

<Appendix 4>
4. The coupon grant method according to any one of appendices 1 to 3, wherein the additional authority granting step is repeated until a user who has acquired the coupon reaches a target number or until a predetermined end time is reached.

<Appendix 5>
The coupon granting method according to any one of appendices 1 to 4, wherein the acquisition authority of the user is lost in the additional authority granting step.

<Appendix 6>
The coupon is given according to any one of appendices 1 to 5, wherein the user is selected from registered users registered in advance based on the attribute of the registered user.

<Appendix 7>
7. The coupon grant method according to appendix 6, wherein the attribute is the address or current location of the registered user.

<Appendix 8>
In the authorization step and / or the additional authorization step,
The coupon granting method according to any one of appendices 1 to 7, wherein a right to acquire coupons with different contents is given to the user and the other user.

<Appendix 9>
The coupon giving method according to attachment 1, wherein the user is a group composed of a plurality of users.

<Appendix 10>
The coupon provision method according to appendix 9, wherein the predetermined condition is when the coupon acquisition rate in the group reaches a target acquisition rate.

<Appendix 11>
The coupon granting method according to attachment 9 or 10, wherein the group is configured by users having a common attribute.

<Appendix 12>
The plurality of users are selected from registered users registered in advance based on the attributes of the registered users,
The coupon is given according to any one of appendices 9 to 11, wherein the attribute is an address or a current location of the registered user.

<Appendix 13>
In the authorization step and / or the additional authorization step,
The coupon granting method according to any one of appendices 9 to 12, wherein a right to obtain coupons with different contents is given to the plurality of users for each user or for each group.

<Appendix 14>
The coupon is a coupon for a store, and the coupon granting method according to any one of appendices 1 to 13, further performing a user information transmission step of transmitting information of a user who has acquired the coupon to the store.

<Appendix 15>
The coupon granting method according to any one of appendices 1 to 14, wherein the authority granting step and / or the additional authority granting step is performed for a plurality of users.

<Appendix 16>
The coupon according to supplementary note 15, wherein the additional authority granting step is performed in parallel for each of the plurality of users with respect to another user who has not yet given the acquisition authority or a group constituted by a plurality of users. How to give

<Appendix 17>
A coupon grant system in which a terminal owned by a user and a coupon grant device are connected via a network,
The coupon giving device is
An authority granting unit for granting coupon acquisition authority to the user;
A condition determination unit for determining a predetermined condition;
A coupon grant system comprising: an additional authority grant unit that grants the acquisition authority to another user who has not been granted the acquisition authority based on the result of the condition determination unit.

<Appendix 18>
An authority granting unit for granting coupon acquisition authority to the user;
A condition determination unit for determining a predetermined condition;
A coupon grant apparatus comprising: an additional authority granting unit that grants the acquisition authority to another user who has not been granted the acquisition authority based on the result of the condition determination unit.

<Appendix 19>
In the coupon giving device,
An authorization step for granting coupon acquisition authority to the user;
A program for realizing an additional authority granting step of granting the acquisition authority to another user who has not been granted the acquisition authority based on a predetermined condition.

Claims (33)

A response information collection method performed via a network,
Depending on the computer
A response requesting step for requesting transmission of response information to the user terminal;
An answer receiving step for receiving and determining the answer information from the user terminal and storing a waiting time set for waiting for the answer information to be received in a storage unit;
In response to the determination result of the response acceptance step, an additional response request step for requesting transmission of the response information to another user terminal that has not yet performed the transmission request;
Run
The additional response requesting step is repeated until a predetermined end time is reached,
The additional response requesting step is performed to determine whether or not the waiting time stored in the storage unit has ended, and is executed when it is determined that the waiting time has ended,
In the response request step and the additional response request step, the response right of the user terminal that has not transmitted the response information at the time when the waiting time has ended is lost,
The additional response requesting step makes a transmission request for the response information to the other user terminal after the response right of the user terminal is lost in the response requesting step or the additional response requesting step.
Response information collection method. The additional answer request step includes:
The response information collection according to claim 1, which is also performed on a user terminal owned by an unanswered user who has already received a transmission request but has not yet transmitted the response information, in addition to the other user terminal. Method. A response information collection method performed via a network,
Depending on the computer
A response requesting step for requesting transmission of response information to the user terminal;
An answer receiving step for receiving and determining the answer information from the user terminal and storing a waiting time set for waiting for the answer information to be received in a storage unit;
In response to the determination result of the response acceptance step, an additional response request step for requesting transmission of the response information to another user terminal that has not yet performed the transmission request;
Run
The additional response requesting step is repeated until a predetermined end time is reached,
The additional response requesting step determines whether or not the response information has been received before the waiting time stored in the storage unit ends, and the response information is received before the waiting time ends. It is executed when it is judged,
Losing the answer right of the user terminal that has not sent the answer information at the time when the waiting time is ended in the answer request step and / or the additional answer request step,
The additional response requesting step makes a transmission request for the response information to the other user terminal after the response right of the user terminal is lost in the response requesting step or the additional response requesting step.
Response information collection method. The waiting time is set before performing the answer request step.
The response information collection method according to claim 1. The waiting time is set based on the response results of the response request step and / or the additional response request step that have already been executed.
The response information collection method according to claim 1. The user terminal is a group composed of a plurality of user terminals.
The response information collection method according to claim 1. The answer request step and / or the additional answer request step is performed for a plurality of user terminals;
The response information collection method according to claim 1.   The said addition request | requirement step is performed in parallel with respect to the group comprised by another user terminal which has not made the said transmission request yet from each of these user terminals, or several user terminals. Response information collection method. An answer information collecting system in which a user terminal and an answer information collecting device are connected via a network,
The answer information collecting device
A response requesting unit that requests transmission of response information to the user terminal;
An answer receiving unit comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive the answer information from the user terminal; and a determining unit configured to determine the answer information;
According to the determination result of the answer acceptance unit, an additional answer request unit that makes a transmission request for the answer information to another user terminal that has not made the transmission request yet,
The determination unit stores a waiting time set to wait for reception of the answer information in a storage unit, determines whether or not the waiting time stored in the storage unit has ended,
The additional response request unit repeats the transmission request for the response information when the determination unit determines that the waiting time stored in the storage unit has ended until a predetermined end time is reached,
The additional response request unit executes a transmission request for the response information when it is determined that the waiting time set for waiting for reception of the response information is completed by the response receiving unit.
The answer request unit and / or the additional answer request unit loses the answer right of the user terminal that has not transmitted the answer information at the time when the waiting time has ended,
The additional reply request unit, after which by the reply request unit or the additional reply requesting unit was lost answers right for the user terminal, performs a transmission request of the reply information to said another user terminal,
Answer information collection system. Answer accepting unit comprising: an answer requesting unit that makes a request for sending answer information to a user terminal; a receiving unit that receives the answer information from the user terminal; and a determining unit that makes a judgment on the answer information And an additional response request unit that makes a transmission request for the response information to another user terminal that has not made the transmission request according to the determination result of the response reception unit,
The determination unit stores a waiting time set to wait for reception of the answer information in a storage unit, determines whether or not the waiting time stored in the storage unit has ended,
The additional response request unit repeats the transmission request for the response information when the determination unit determines that the waiting time stored in the storage unit has ended until a predetermined end time is reached,
The additional response request unit executes a transmission request for the response information when it is determined that the waiting time set for waiting for reception of the response information is completed by the response receiving unit.
The answer request unit and / or the additional answer request unit loses the answer right of the user terminal that has not transmitted the answer information at the time when the waiting time has ended,
The additional reply request unit, after which by the reply request unit or the additional reply requesting unit was lost answers right for the user terminal, performs a transmission request of the reply information to said another user terminal,
Answer information collection device. In response information collection device,
A response requesting step for requesting transmission of response information to the user terminal;
An answer receiving step for receiving and determining the answer information from the user terminal and storing a waiting time set for waiting for the answer information to be received in a storage unit;
In response to the determination result of the response acceptance step, an additional response request step for requesting transmission of the response information to another user terminal that has not yet performed the transmission request;
A process for realizing the process of repeating the additional response request step until a predetermined end time is reached,
The additional response requesting step is performed to determine whether or not the waiting time stored in the storage unit has ended, and is executed when it is determined that the waiting time has ended,
Losing the answer right of the user terminal that has not sent the answer information at the time when the waiting time is ended in the answer request step and / or the additional answer request step,
The additional response requesting step makes a transmission request for the response information to the other user terminal after the response right of the user terminal is lost in the response requesting step or the additional response requesting step.
program. A method for granting a coupon via a network,
On the computer,
An authorization step of granting coupon acquisition authority to the user terminal ;
A determination step of storing a predetermined first target time in a storage unit and determining whether or not information indicating that the coupon has been acquired from the user terminal is received within the first target time;
When it is determined by the determination step that the information indicating that the coupon has been acquired from the user terminal is not received within the first target time, the acquisition authority of the user terminal is lost, and the user terminal After losing the acquisition authority, the step of granting the acquisition authority to another user terminal that has not been granted the acquisition authority, and an additional authority granting step that is repeated until a predetermined end time is reached ;
A coupon grant method for executing   The coupon grant method according to claim 12, wherein a privilege is given to a user who has acquired the coupon within a second target time shorter than the first target time.   The coupon granting method according to claim 12 or 13, wherein the additional authority granting step is repeated until a predetermined end time is reached. The said user terminal is the provision method of the coupon as described in any one of Claims 12-14 selected based on the attribute of the said registered user from the user terminals of the registered user registered previously.   The coupon assignment method according to claim 15, wherein the attribute is an address or a current location of the registered user. In the authorization step and / or the additional authorization step,
The coupon grant method according to any one of claims 12 to 16, wherein an acquisition authority for coupons having different contents is given to the user terminal and the another user terminal . The user terminal is a group constituted by a user terminal of a plurality of users,
The coupon grant method according to claim 12. Said additional authorization step, when the coupon acquisition rate in the group has reached the target acquisition rate, said a loss of the acquired authority of the user terminal, after which the allowed loss of acquired rights of the user terminal, wherein The coupon granting method according to claim 18, wherein the acquisition authority is given to another user terminal to which no acquisition authority is given. The said group is the provision method of the coupon of Claim 18 or 19 comprised by the user terminal of the user who has a common attribute. The plurality of users are selected from registered users registered in advance based on the attributes of the registered users,
The coupon assignment method according to any one of claims 18 to 20, wherein the attribute is an address or a current location of the registered user. In the authorization step and / or the additional authorization step,
The coupon grant method according to any one of claims 18 to 21, wherein the user terminal of the plurality of users is given the authority to obtain coupons having different contents for each user or for each group. The coupon is a store coupon, and the coupon is applied according to any one of claims 12 to 22, further performing a user information transmission step of transmitting information of a user terminal that has acquired the coupon to the store. Method. The coupon granting method according to any one of claims 12 to 23, wherein the authorization granting step and / or the additional privilege granting step is performed on a plurality of user terminals . Wherein from each of the plurality of user terminals, for a group constituted by another user terminal or multiple user terminals not the acquired rights still applied, said additional authorization steps are performed in parallel, according to claim 24 The coupon grant method described in 1. A coupon grant system in which a user terminal owned by a user and a coupon grant device are connected via a network,
An authority granting unit for granting a coupon acquisition authority to the user terminal ;
A condition determination unit for storing a predetermined first target time in a storage unit and determining whether information indicating that the coupon has been acquired from the user terminal is received within the first target time;
When it is determined by the condition determination unit that information indicating that the coupon has been acquired from the user terminal within the first target time has not been received, the acquisition authority of the user terminal is lost, and the user terminal An additional authority granting unit that repeatedly executes the additional authority granting step for granting the acquisition authority to another user terminal that has not been granted the acquisition authority until the predetermined end time is reached. Comprising
Coupon grant system. An authority granting unit for granting coupon acquisition authority to the user terminal ;
A condition determination unit for storing a predetermined first target time in a storage unit and determining whether information indicating that the coupon has been acquired from the user terminal is received within the first target time;
When it is determined by the condition determination unit that information indicating that the coupon has been acquired from the user terminal within the first target time has not been received, the acquisition authority of the user terminal is lost, and the user terminal An additional authority granting unit that repeatedly executes the additional authority granting step for granting the acquisition authority to another user terminal that has not been granted the acquisition authority until the predetermined end time is reached. Comprising
Coupon grant device. In the coupon giving device,
An authorization step of granting coupon acquisition authority to the user terminal ;
Storing a first target time defined in the storage unit, wherein it is judged whether or not the received information to the effect that acquired the coupon from the user terminal within the first target hours, before Symbol first If it is determined from the user terminal within a target hours and did not receive the information that has been acquired the coupon, the user terminal the acquired rights in a loss of the user terminal the acquisition after the authorization was allowed to loss of And a step of granting the acquisition authority to another user terminal to which the acquisition authority is not granted, and the additional authority granting step repeated until a predetermined end time is reached . When the response requesting step and / or the additional response requesting step is executed for the group, all users in the group are assumed to have not transmitted response information from all the user terminals belonging to the group. Losing your device ’s answer,
The answer information collecting method according to claim 6 or 8. The waiting time is set according to the type of the user terminal or a question to be transmitted at the time of the transmission request,
30. The response information collection method according to any one of claims 1 to 7 and 29. An answer information collecting system in which a user terminal and an answer information collecting device are connected via a network,
The answer information collecting device
A response requesting unit that requests transmission of response information to the user terminal;
An answer receiving unit comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive the answer information from the user terminal; and a determining unit configured to determine the answer information;
According to the determination result of the answer acceptance unit, an additional answer request unit that makes a transmission request for the answer information to another user terminal that has not made the transmission request yet,
The determination unit stores a waiting time set to wait for reception of the answer information in a storage unit, determines whether or not the waiting time stored in the storage unit has ended,
The additional response request unit repeats the transmission request for the response information until a predetermined end time is reached,
The additional response request unit determines whether or not the response information has been received before the waiting time stored in the storage unit ends, and the response information is received before the waiting time ends. If determined, execute a transmission request for the answer information,
The answer request unit and / or the additional answer request unit loses the answer right of the user terminal that has not transmitted the answer information at the time when the waiting time has ended,
The additional reply request unit, after which by the reply request unit or the additional reply requesting unit was lost answers right for the user terminal, performs a transmission request of the reply information to said another user terminal,
Answer information collection system. An answer request unit for requesting transmission of answer information to the user terminal;
An answer receiving unit comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive the answer information from the user terminal; and a determining unit configured to determine the answer information;
According to the determination result of the answer acceptance unit, an additional answer request unit that makes a transmission request for the answer information to another user terminal that has not made the transmission request yet,
The determination unit stores a waiting time set to wait for reception of the answer information in a storage unit, determines whether or not the waiting time stored in the storage unit has ended,
The additional response request unit repeats the transmission request for the response information until a predetermined end time is reached,
The additional response request unit determines whether or not the response information has been received before the waiting time stored in the storage unit ends, and the response information is received before the waiting time ends. If determined, execute a transmission request for the answer information,
The answer request unit and / or the additional answer request unit loses the answer right of the user terminal that has not transmitted the answer information at the time when the waiting time has ended,
The additional reply request unit, after which by the reply request unit or the additional reply requesting unit was lost answers right for the user terminal, performs a transmission request of the reply information to said another user terminal,
Answer information collection device. In response information collection device,
A response requesting step for requesting transmission of response information to the user terminal;
An answer receiving step for receiving and determining the answer information from the user terminal and storing a waiting time set for waiting for the answer information to be received in a storage unit;
In response to the determination result of the response acceptance step, an additional response request step for requesting transmission of the response information to another user terminal that has not yet performed the transmission request;
A process for realizing the process of repeating the additional answer request step until a predetermined end time is reached,
The additional response requesting step determines whether or not the response information has been received before the waiting time stored in the storage unit ends, and the response information is received before the waiting time ends. It is executed when it is judged,
Losing the answer right of the user terminal that has not sent the answer information at the time when the waiting time is ended in the answer request step and / or the additional answer request step,
The additional response requesting step makes a transmission request for the response information to the other user terminal after the response right of the user terminal is lost in the response requesting step or the additional response requesting step.
program.

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