JP2002169927A - System and method for providing contest - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system and method for providing a site capable of holding a contest on a communication network like the Internet, which can easily be implemented by any body. SOLUTION: The system and method for providing a contest in this present invention features in that a host server sends information about an announcement to open a contest, which is registered in a database of the host server, to a contest sponsor's terminal that applies to the opening of the contest, and asks contest sponsors to set the contents of the announcement when the host server collects sponsors the contest, receives contest applicants, and screens contests, via a communication network. The host sever generates a screen of the announcement, which fits the contest, on the basis of the contents of the announcement set by the contest sponsor's terminal, provides the contest participation information registered in the database of the server to an applicant terminal that applies to the screen of the announcement, and asks the applicant terminal to set contents of the contest participation. The host server also provides screening information registered in the database of the server to a screening terminal and asks it to set the contents of the screening.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a homepage on a communication network such as the Internet (hereinafter referred to as "HP") or the like. Concerning the provision of a contest holding system that can be done.
More specifically, the present invention packages and constructs a contest holding system such as a contest holding recruitment system, a contest notification system, a contest participation system, a contest screening system on the web, , A contest providing system and a method for use by contest judges.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Today, it is often practiced to announce that a contest will be held or to recruit contest participants on a communication network. However, the information provided is merely an individual offer of information regarding the solicitation, announcement, participation, or judging of the contest. No contest system or contest method has been proposed that packages the contest from solicitation to announcement, participation, and judging.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a system and a method by which anyone can easily hold various contests by using a communication network.

[0004]

To achieve the above object, a contest providing system according to the present invention provides a contest providing system including a hosting server, wherein the hosting server recruits contest organizers via a communication network. When accepting a contest application and conducting a contest review, provide information on the contest holding notice registered in the database of the host server to the contest holding terminal that applied for the recruitment of the contest organizer, and notify the information. Based on the contest notification content set by the contest holding terminal, the contest notification screen that conforms to the contest, for example, a contest holding page is created based on the content of the contest notification set by the contest holding terminal. The sponsored service Providing information on the participation in the contest registered in the database of the contest, setting the content of participation in the information on the participation in the contest, and providing the information on the examination registered in the database of the host server to the contest examination terminal. The content of the examination for the examination information is set.

[0005] A contest providing method according to the present invention for achieving the above object provides a contest organizer for recruiting contest organizers, accepting contest applications, and judging contests via a communication network. Providing the information on the contest holding notice registered in the database of the host server to the contest holding terminal that applied for the recruitment of the recruitment, and setting the notification content for the information on the contest holding notice,
Based on the content of the contest notification set by the contest holding terminal, a contest notification screen adapted to the contest, for example, a contest holding page is created, and a database of the hosting server is provided for the contest entry terminal applied for the contest notification screen. Providing information on the contest participation registered in the contest, setting the content of participation for the information on the contest participation, and providing information on the examination registered in the database of the sponsor server to the contest examination terminal, The content of the examination for the examination information is set.

[0006] Information on the contest announcement is as follows:
Includes contest recruitment requirements, judge qualifications, billing, etc. More specifically, the information on the contest announcement includes the name of the organizer, corporate name, address, e-mail, password, etc. as personal data for recruitment and registration of the contest organizer. Details of the event, such as the genre of the contest, name, theme, prize, application place, application period, application rules, presentation method, judging conditions, etc. are included as data for registration.

[0007] The contest notification screen may be a contest application screen for guiding a contest held on the communication network or outside the communication network and recruiting participants. The contest notification screen is classified according to genre, for example, text, music, software, planning, ideas, graphics, homepages, auditions,
It may be classified into other fields.

[0008] The contest notification screen includes the name of the contest organizer, the period, the image, the concept, the aim, the winning product, and the like. The contest entry terminal refers to a terminal from a participant who wishes to apply for the contest to be held, and information from the participation terminal includes a participant's name, attributes such as an ID password, a genre of the contest to be entered, Includes name, information on participating works, etc.

The contest judging terminal is a terminal from a judge who wishes to apply for a judge of a contest to be held, and the judge includes, for example, a general judge and a special judge. It shall be registered. In addition, the general judge may be registered by himself, and the special judge may be registered by the contest organizer. However, contests that can be judged by non-judges can also be held.

[0010] The information set by the judge includes identification of a contest to be judged, voting for a contest, a score, and the like. The examination may be an open examination or a closed examination on a communication network. Preferably, the examination result is published on a communication network such as the Internet.

[0011] The screening is performed by the host server automatically totalizing the number of votes, points, and the like of the judges, and the totaling result is made public on a communication network.

[0012]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a contest providing system according to the present invention. The contest providing system is a hosting server 10 of a contest organizer, which packages information necessary for contest holding in order to provide a contest on a communication network such as the Internet 50 and provides the packaged information to contest holders.
A contest organizer who wishes to hold a contest using the contest holding system provided by the contest organizer 20 and a contest judge recruited by the organizer server 10, and further provided by the organizer server 10. It is composed of a contest judging terminal 30 for judging a contest entry or a participant, and a contest entry terminal 40 wishing to participate in a contest notified on the Internet 50 by the hosting server 10.

The host server 10 has an input / output unit 11, a main storage unit 12, and a processing unit 13. The input / output unit 11 outputs the information on the contest held in the main storage unit 12 to the contest holding terminal 20, the contest judging terminal 30, and the contest participation terminal 40, and also outputs the contest holding terminal 20, the contest judging terminal 30, and the contest. It has a function of receiving information input from the participating terminal 40.

The main storage unit 12 stores the organizer database 12
2. It has a contest organizer database 123, a judge database 124, a participant database, a contest tally database 126, and the like. The host database 122 stores information to be output by the host server 10 to user terminals (the contest holding terminal 20, the contest screening terminal 30, and the contest participation terminal 40) that use the contest providing system, and the host database 123 stores the contest holding terminal 20. The data on the contest organizer and the contents of the contest inputted from the user to the input / output unit 11 are stored.
The participant database 125 stores the data on the participating works and the participants input from the contest contest participant terminal 40 to the input / output unit 11, and stores the data on the judges entered from 0 to the input / output unit 111. The tallying database 126 is for the contest entry terminal 4
It has a function of storing information on the contest entry works, the judging method, the judging progress, and the judging result input from 0.

Note that a content database may be separately provided as a database for storing the contest entries themselves. The processing unit 13 includes a CPU and the like, has various control functions, various arithmetic functions, and the like, and controls each unit of the host server 10. As illustrated in FIG. 2, the organizer database 122 is used for recruiting and registering contest organizers who output to the contest organizing terminal 20 that has accessed the organizing server 10 and require input from the contest organizing terminal 20. Basic data (organizer name, corporate name,
Address (e-mail, e-mail, password, etc.), data for notification page creation and registration (details of held items) are registered.
The basic information (items) related to the content of the contest announcement is information on the contest organizer, the genre, name, theme, prizes, application place, application period,
Includes application rules, presentation methods, screening conditions, etc.

Further, in the organizer database 122, data relating to the registration of the judge, which is output from the organizer server 10 to the examination terminal 30 and requires input from the examination terminal 30, and similarly output to the contest entry terminal 40 The registration and registration of participants and data related to work submission are registered and managed. As shown in FIG. 3, the contest organizer terminal 20 stores the organizer database 123 in the organizer database 123.
Of the contest organizer (organizer name, ID password) input to the contest, the name of the contest to be held by the contest holding terminal 20, the contest genre, contents, holding period, holding place, and so on, and the contest holding terminal 20 Various conditions such as a contest qualification, a screening qualification, and the like desired by the user are registered.

The contents of the contest announcement include the name of the contest, contents (theme), duration, qualification for participation, participation method,
Number of applicants (number of participants), judging method, prize, application (participation)
It consists of information such as the attribution of the work. Judge database 12
4, data relating to attributes such as a judge's name, ID password, and genre, as shown in FIG. 4, input to the sponsor server 10 from the examination terminal 30, and a contest currently participating as a judge The examination status regarding the name, etc., the past examination history, etc. are registered.

In the participant database 125, as shown in FIG. 5, the name and ID of the participant input from the contest participation terminal 40 to apply for the held contest.
Attributes such as password, genre of the contest you want to participate,
Participation contest names, information on participating works, and the like are stored. As shown in FIG. 6, data on participating works (genre, contest name, organizer, participating works, participants, judging method, judging progress, judging results, etc.) are registered in the contest tallying database 126, as shown in FIG. The tabulation of the progress, the examination result, and the like is tabulated by the processing unit 13, and the data is overwritten and updated. In this case, the participating works submitted and submitted by the participating terminal 40 to the contest are registered in a content database (not shown) for each contest.

The genres of the contest may be classified into general, text, music, software, planning (idea), graphics, homepage, audition, and other fields. FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the flow of the contest providing system. In FIG. 7, the hosting server 10 receives access to the input / output unit 11 from any of the user terminals, that is, the contest holding terminal 20, the contest examination terminal 30, or the contest participation terminal 40,
The contest navigator screen is transmitted to the user terminal (steps 701, 201, 401).

As shown in FIG. 8, the contest navigator screen has tools for contest organizers,
Includes tools for contest judges and for contest participants. When the user terminal that has accessed the hosting server 10 desires to hold a contest on a communication network such as the Internet 50, or simply desires only a contest holding guide on the Internet 50, for example, in the case of an audition, Also, if the contest holding terminal 20 wishes to create a contest holding notification site using the contest system provided by the hosting server 10, the contest holding terminal 20 transmits the contest “holding tool” from the transmitted contest navigator screen. It may be selected and executed (step 702).

After receiving the login from the contest holding terminal 20, the hosting server 10 confirms it and transmits a contest “holding tool menu” screen (FIG. 9) from the input / output unit 11 to the contest holding terminal 20 (step 7).
03). The “holding tool menu” illustrated in FIG. 9 includes log confirmation, basic information setting, preview, general judge extraction setting,
It consists of items for special judge registration, list of submitted works, display of judgment results, and disclosure settings.

The "basic information setting" menu includes basic information for enabling setting of the contents of notification by the contest holding terminal 20. Therefore, the 0 contest holding terminal 20 who wants to hold a contest can click the basic information setting item from the contest holding tool menu screen (step 704). Upon receiving the selection by the contest holding terminal 20, the hosting server 10 displays the basic information setting screen (FIG. 1).
0) to the contest holding terminal 20 (step 7).
05).

The basic information setting screen illustrated in FIG. 10 includes, for example, items such as a contest name, contents, participation qualification, period, participation method, number of recruitment, judging method, prize, and attribution of participating works. A desired item can be input by the contest holding terminal 20. When the contest holding terminal 20 inputs desired items on the basic information setting screen, sets the content of the contest notification, and transmits the content (step 706), the hosting server 10 sets the contest holding notification screen (contest) based on the set notification. Then, a preview screen (not shown) is transmitted to the contest holding terminal 20 by receiving a selective input of the contest holding terminal 20 (step 707). When the contest holding terminal 20 sets the confirmation of the preview screen, the contest holding notification data is registered in the organizer database 123.

If desired by the contest holding terminal 20, it is possible to select an examination method and various conditions for the examiner. For example, it is possible to set an extraction condition for a general judge as to which judge is to be judged. Furthermore, a special judge other than the general judge can be set. Here, the general judge may be registered by the principal in principle, and the special judge may be registered by the contest organizer. However,
It is also possible to hold contests that can be judged by non-judges.

With regard to the judging method, open judging or closed judging can be selected. Participating works can be judged by the preliminary judging function, and the number of participating works displayed in a list on the Internet 50 can be narrowed down. As an example of the judging method, the contest judge judges
For 0, you can give a score to the entry,
The host server 10 can count the scores.

With respect to the examination result, the result of the examination made by the general judge and the special judge by the selection of the contest holding terminal 20 is displayed on the Internet 50, and the progress of the examination before the deadline is displayed. be able to. If the contest holding terminal 20 wishes to set a judge, the process returns to the organizer tool menu screen and selects the item “general judge extraction setting” (step 708). Upon receiving this selection, the host server 10 transmits a predetermined judge request form (not shown) to the contest host terminal 20 (step 709). The contest holding terminal 20 inputs desired items into the sent judge request form and sends it to the host server 10 (step 710). The host server 10 selects the judges by referring to the list of judges already registered in the host server 10 based on the sent judge request form (step 711), and selects the judges in the judge database 124. The member is registered (206).

The contest holding terminal 20 inputs and sets predetermined items on a contest holding registration application screen (not shown) (step 712).
By registering the set data in the organizer database 123 (step 713), the contest application communication ends. The details of the contest held on the Internet 50 and the member number are transmitted to the contest holding terminal 20 by e-mail or the like at a later date by the host server 10, and the homepage contest applied by the contest holding terminal 20 upon the arrival of the predetermined date becomes the Internet 5
0 is introduced on. The details of the contest held items may include a guide of the judges selected by the host server 10 as desired by the contest holding terminal 20, and in such a case, the contest organizer may contact the contest judges. The contact contents can be stored in the organizer database 123 and the judge database 124 by providing information from the contest holding terminal 20 or the contest judging terminal 30 to the host server 10, and the host server 10 can refer to the history at any time. Can be.

On the other hand, if the user terminal that has accessed the host server 10 is the judging terminal 30 that desires a judge who wants to judge an entry in the contest, the judging terminal 30 displays the “judge tool” on the contest navigator screen (FIG. 8). "
Is selected and transmitted (step 202), the sponsor server 10 transmits a judge tool menu screen (step 203).

The judge tool menu screen includes a judge information setting menu for registering judge information for setting a new judge, and a list of contests currently in charge of the registered judge. The menu consists of an examination status menu made possible by 10 and an examination history menu of registered examiners. The examination terminal 30 that wishes to newly register an examiner selects and transmits an examiner information setting item (step 20).
4). Then, the hosting server 10 transmits a predetermined judge setting form to the contest holding terminal 20 (step 20).
5). The examination terminal 30 inputs predetermined items in the transmitted judge setting form and returns it to the host server 10 (step 206). (Step 207).

The judge setting form includes a judge setting / registration application, and as the judge information, for example, the examination terminal 30
In addition to inputting the name, address, etc. of the candidate who applied for the jury recruitment from, as information necessary for jury selection, for example,
Requires input of gender, educational background, age, qualifications, hobbies, etc.
Next, when the user terminal accessing the host server 10 is the contest participant terminal 40 wishing to apply for the contest to be held, the contest participant terminal 40 is transmitted from the host server 10 after logging in (step 7401).
"Participant Tool" on the contest navigator screen (Figure 3)
Click (Step 402). In response to this input, a contest participation registration application screen is transmitted from the host server 10 to the contest participation terminal 40 (step 40).
3). Then, the contest participation terminal 40 inputs a personal attribute such as a name, an ID password, and the genre of the desired contest name, and transmits a registration application (not shown) to the host server 10 (step 404). The transmitted participant data is registered in the participant database 125 (step 405).

The contest participation terminal 40 can obtain the contest information from the hosting server 10 by mailing list, mail magazine or the like by registering it in the hosting server 10 in advance. Further, the contest participation terminal 40 can easily search for a target contest based on information such as the contest content, category, application method, organizer, prize money, and the like. By accessing the homepage published on the contest site provided by the host server 10,
You can register as a participant when participating in the contest.

When the contest is held on the Internet 50, the contest entry terminal 40 transmits the entry to the host server 10 directly via the Internet 50. The hosting server 10 registers the participating works transmitted from the contest participating terminal 40 to the input / output unit 11 in a content database (not shown) and also registers the contest in the contest tallying database 126. Open and make the examination terminal 30 open or closed examination. Further, the host server 10 determines the progress of the examination according to the examination conditions set by the contest holding terminal 20.
And announces the examination result on the Internet 50, and notifies the contest holding terminal 20 and the contest participation terminal 40. The inspection tabulation is performed by the processing unit 13. Prizes to contest participants who have won the contest and rewards to the judges may be provided in an appropriate manner.

The contest participation and award histories of the contest participation terminal 30 are automatically stored in the participant database 125 of the hosting server 10 and can be used as search data for excellent human resources. Similarly, the contest holding history of the contest holding terminal 20 and the contest screening history of the contest screening terminal 30 are automatically stored in the organizer database 123 and the judge database 124, respectively.

Although the contest providing system and the contest providing method according to the present invention have been described assuming that they are open to the public, they can also be applied to contests between specific persons. For example, in schools and the like, teachers use the contest notification function according to the present invention to restrict the notification of passwords and email addresses, etc., so that only students can see it, that is, outsiders can not participate, It can also be used in content contests where students value each other.

[0035]

As will be understood from the above description, the contest providing system and method according to the present invention provide a place where anyone can easily hold a contest on a communication network such as the Internet, and anyone can hold a contest. Person,
The contest judges and the contest participants will be provided with a place where they can easily access it. Processing can be provided as a package.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an example of a contest providing system configuration diagram.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating data of a contest organizer database;

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating data of a contest organizer database;

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating data of a contest judge database;

FIG. 5 is a diagram exemplifying data of a contest participant database.

FIG. 6 is a diagram exemplifying data of a contest tally database.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a flow of providing a contest.

FIG. 8 is an example of a contest navigator screen.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of a contest organizer tool menu.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of contest holding announcement basic information.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of a contest judge tool menu.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A contest providing system comprising a host server, wherein the host server recruits contest organizers, accepts contest applications, and conducts contest review through a communication network. The contest holding terminal that has applied is provided with information on the contest holding notification registered in the database of the hosting server to set the notification content for the information, and based on the contest notification content set by the contest holding terminal. A contest notification screen that conforms to the contest is created, and information on the contest participation registered in the database of the hosting server is provided to the contest entry terminal that applied for the contest notification screen, and three A contest providing system comprising: setting an additional content; and providing information related to an examination registered in a database of the sponsor server to a contest examination terminal to set an examination content for the examination information. 2. In the contest providing method, when the host server recruits contest organizers, accepts contest applications, and judges contests via a communication network, the contest host terminal applied for recruitment of contest organizers. To provide information on the contest announcement that is registered in the database of the hosting server and set the announcement content for the information about the contest announcement, and based on the contest announcement content set by the contest announcement terminal, A contest notice screen that matches the contest is created, and information on the contest entry registered in the database of the host server is provided to the contest entry terminal that applied for the contest notice screen, and the contest notice information is entered. A contest providing method, wherein a contest examination terminal is provided with information on examinations registered in a database of the sponsoring server to set examination contents for the examination information.