JP2004246409A - Vote processing method and vote processing server, and program for same - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vote system for acquiring a vote result based on proper value judgement by excluding irresponsible vote. <P>SOLUTION: A vote processing server 1 transmits a picture where contents are displayed to a user terminal. The user terminal displays the picture, and a user selects the contents by viewing the displayed picture, and inputs the number of votes. When the ID of the selected contents and the number of votes inputted by the user are transmitted to the server 1, the server 1 writes the contents ID and the number of votes transmitted from the user terminal into a vote log DB 17, and then summarizes the data of the vote log DB 17. The server 1 extracts the user who has voted the most for the target of vote the number of which is large in the summarization. Also, the server 1 charges the user with the price of the contents. This price is determined based on the number of votes of the user. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI

Description

[0001]
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a voting processing method, a voting processing server, and a program associated with a monetary value.
[0002]
[Prior art]
Conventionally, various types of popularity voting have been conducted on the Internet, but in many cases, the voting is free, and irresponsible voting is performed in many cases. In addition, even if there is no feedback to the voter, even if there is no feedback, the method of determining the user to give the feedback is not the content of the vote but a method of providing feedback only to the voter who won the lottery. Could not be raised well. Note that no prior art corresponding to the present application has been found.
[0003]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and introduces a concept of monetary value exchange in a vote by associating content sales with a voting function, thereby eliminating irresponsible voting and providing appropriate value. It is an object of the present invention to provide a voting processing method, a voting processing server, and a program that can obtain a voting result based on a judgment.
Further, another object of the present invention is to provide a mechanism that allows some feedback to a voter who has contributed to selecting a good work based on the result of the vote, thereby increasing the voter's willingness to participate. A processing method, a voting processing server, and a program are provided.
[0004]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problem. According to the invention of claim 1, a user performs voting for content by a user terminal, and a voting processing server having received the voting result converts the content to the content. In the voting system for transmitting to the user terminal and counting the voting results, the voting processing server transmits a screen displaying the content to the user terminal, the user terminal displays the screen, and the user displays the displayed screen. The user terminal sends the ID of the content selected by the user and the number of votes input by the user to the voting processing server, and the voting processing server writes the content ID and the number of votes transmitted from the user terminal into the storage means. The voting processing server counts the data in the storage means, and the voting processing server The price of the serial contents are voting processing method, characterized by billing to the user.
[0005]
According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the voting processing method according to the first aspect, when the voting processing server aggregates data, the voting processing server determines a content having a large number of votes or a user who has frequently voted for a voting target corresponding to the content. It is characterized by extracting.
According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the voting processing method according to the first or second aspect, the voting processing server determines a point per vote determined in advance for each content or voting target. The number of votes is converted into a number of points, written into the storage means, and the number of points is read from the storage means and totalized.
[0006]
According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the voting processing method according to the third aspect, the point per one vote is determined based on the number of votes obtained by the content or the voting target corresponding to the content in a fixed period in the past. It is characterized by being able to.
According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the voting processing method according to any one of the first to fourth aspects, the voting processing server provides a premium service based on a totaled result of data in the storage means. It is characterized by determining the presence or absence.
According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the voting processing method according to any one of the first to fifth aspects, the price of the content is determined by the number of votes.
According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, in the voting processing method according to any one of the first to fifth aspects, a price of the content is determined by an administrator of the voting processing server. .
[0007]
The invention according to claim 8 is a voting system in which a voting processing server, a content sales site, and a user terminal are connected via a communication network, wherein the content sales site sells the content to the user, The ID, the voting object, the number of votes, the amount, and the contents of the betting ticket are transmitted to the voting processing server, and the voting processing server issues a voting ticket ID, and the voting ticket ID, expiration date, site ID, voting object, and voting. The number and the amount are embedded in the content of the betting ticket as an electronic watermark and transmitted to the content selling site, the content selling site transmits the content of the betting ticket to the user terminal, and the user terminal sends the content to the voting processing server. Upload the content of the voting ticket received from the content sales site, the voting processing server The digital watermark information embedded in the content of the betting ticket received from the user terminal is read, the read information is written in a storage unit, the voting processing server totals the data in the storage unit, and the voting processing server A voting method is characterized in that a fee is charged to the content sales site.
[0008]
In a voting processing server connected to a user terminal operated by a user via a communication network and transmitting a content to the user terminal in response to a request from the user terminal, the invention according to claim 9 includes: Transmitting means for transmitting a screen displaying content to the user terminal in response to the request, writing means for writing the ID and the number of votes of the content transmitted from the user terminal to storage means, and data in the storage means And a billing means for billing the user terminal for the price of the content.
According to a tenth aspect of the present invention, in the voting processing server according to the ninth aspect, when the data is totaled, the totaling means extracts a user who has voted a lot of content or a voting target corresponding to the content with a large number of votes. It is characterized by doing.
[0009]
According to a twelfth aspect of the present invention, in the voting processing server according to the ninth or tenth aspect, the writing unit is configured to determine a point per vote determined in advance for each content or voting target. The number of votes is converted into a number of points and written into the storage means, and the totaling means reads out the total number of points from the storage means.
According to a twelfth aspect of the present invention, in the voting processing server according to the eleventh aspect, the point per one vote is determined based on the number of votes obtained by the content or the voting target corresponding to the content in a past fixed period. It is characterized by being able to.
[0010]
According to a thirteenth aspect of the present invention, in the voting processing server according to any one of the ninth to twelfth aspects, the counting means determines whether or not to provide a premium based on a result of counting data in the storage means. Is determined.
According to a fourteenth aspect of the present invention, in the voting processing server according to any one of the ninth to thirteenth aspects, the price of the content is determined by the number of votes.
According to a fifteenth aspect of the present invention, in the voting processing server according to any one of the ninth to thirteenth aspects, a price of the content is a predetermined value.
[0011]
A voting processing server connected to a content sales site and a user terminal via a communication network in a voting processing server according to claim 16, wherein a site ID, a voting object, the number of votes, an amount, and a voting ticket transmitted from the content sales site. Transmitting means for receiving the content of (1), embedding a betting ticket ID, an expiration date, a site ID, a voting object, the number of votes, and an amount in the content of the betting ticket as an electronic watermark and transmitting the content to the content sales site; A writing unit that reads the digital watermark information embedded in the content of the received betting ticket and writes the read information into a storage unit, a totalizing unit that totals the data in the storage unit, and a fee to the content sales site. A voting processing server comprising a requesting means for making a request.
[0012]
The invention according to claim 17 is a program used in a voting processing server which is connected to a user terminal operated by a user via a communication network and transmits a content to the user terminal in response to a request from the user terminal. And transmitting, to the voting processing server, a transmission procedure of transmitting a screen displaying content to the user terminal in response to a request from the user terminal, and storing the ID and the number of votes of the content transmitted from the user terminal in a storage unit. A program for executing a writing procedure for writing, a counting procedure for counting data in the storage means, and a billing procedure for billing the price of the content to the user terminal.
[0013]
According to an eighteenth aspect of the present invention, in the program according to the seventeenth aspect, in the tallying step, when data is tallyed, a user who has voted a lot of content or a voting target corresponding to the content is extracted. It is characterized by the following.
According to a nineteenth aspect of the present invention, in the program according to the seventeenth or eighteenth aspect, the writing procedure is performed based on points per vote determined in advance for each content or voting target. The number of votes is converted into the number of points and written into the storage means, and the totaling step reads the number of points from the storage means and totals the points.
[0014]
According to a twentieth aspect of the present invention, in the program according to the nineteenth aspect, the point per voting number is determined based on the voting number obtained by the content or the voting target corresponding to the content in a fixed period in the past. It is characterized by.
According to a twenty-first aspect of the present invention, in the program according to any one of the seventeenth to twentieth aspects, the counting step determines whether or not to provide a premium based on a counting result of the data in the storage unit. It is characterized by doing.
The invention according to claim 22 is the program according to any one of claims 17 to 21, wherein the price of the content is determined by the number of votes.
According to a twenty-third aspect of the present invention, in the voting processing server according to any one of the seventeenth to twenty-first aspects, the price of the content is a predetermined value.
[0015]
The invention according to claim 24 is a program used in a voting processing server connected to a content sales site and a user terminal via a communication network, wherein the voting processing server transmits a program transmitted from the content sales site to the voting processing server. Receiving the ID, voting object, number of votes, amount of money, and the contents of the betting ticket, embedding the betting ticket ID, expiration date, site ID, voting object, number of votes, and amount as the electronic watermark in the contents of the betting ticket and selling the content A transmission procedure for transmitting to the site, a digital watermark information embedded in the content of the betting ticket received from the user terminal, a writing procedure for writing the read information to the storage unit, and a tabulation of the data in the storage unit To perform a tallying procedure and a billing procedure for charging a fee to the content sales site. Is a program.
[0016]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
(1st Embodiment)
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of a voting system according to a first embodiment of the present invention. In this figure, 1 is a voting processing server (hereinafter, referred to as a server), 2 is a communication network, and 3 is a voter. Terminal.
[0017]
FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram showing a functional configuration of the server 1, wherein 13 is a user information DB (database), 15 is a content DB, 17 is a voting log DB, 19 is a vote count DB, 21 is a content storage disk, 23 Is a voting order DB, 101 is an input unit, 103 is an output unit, 105 is a control operation unit, 107 is a transmission / reception unit, 109 is a main storage unit, 111 is a CPU (central processing unit), 113 is an authentication unit, and 115 is a content display. Reference numeral 117 denotes a voting reception unit, 119 denotes a voting number calculation unit, and 121 denotes a charge settlement unit.
[0018]
Hereinafter, the operation of the present voting system will be described with reference to FIGS.
In the present voting system, content corresponding to a voting object is registered in a server, and purchase of the content is regarded as voting for the voting object.
[0019]
[Content registration]
When the administrator of the server 1 registers the content in the server 1, the content ID uniquely assigned by the system to the content is used as the file name of the content and registered in the content storage disk 21. The voting target, content holder ID, content ID, and content storage directory determined by the content holder for the registered content are registered in the content DB 15 (see FIG. 6).
[0020]
Here, the voting object is a person or a work to be voted. For example, in the case of a popularity vote of an athlete, the athlete name is to be voted, and the content is, for example, a bromide of an athlete. In the case of a popularity vote for still images, the title of the still image work is the object of voting. A plurality of contents can be associated with one voting object, and a plurality of contents (bromide) may be registered for one athlete. In this case, even if different contents are purchased, if the voting objects corresponding to the contents are the same, the voting is performed for the same voting object.
In addition, a vote count DB 19 shown in FIG. 9 is created. The first column is assigned to a user ID input column, and the second to m + 1th columns are assigned to voting targets. Here, m is the number of voting objects.
[0021]
[Voter User Registration]
Upon receiving a user registration request from the user terminal 3, the authentication unit 113 sends the desired user ID, password, name, address, contact information, credit card No. to the terminal 3 of the user. Is displayed on which an input box for information relating to the user, such as, is written. When these pieces of information are input by the user, it is checked whether or not the same user ID has already been registered in the user ID column of the user information DB 13 (see FIG. 7). , The input information is written into the user information DB 13, and if the same user ID has already been registered, the user ID, password, name, address, contact information, credit card No. And repeats this until an unregistered user ID is entered.
When there is a write in the user information DB 13, the vote count calculation unit 119 writes the user ID in the n-th row of the first column of the vote count DB 19 (FIG. 9). Here, n is the current number of registered users.
[0022]
[Content purchase / voting]
When there is a connection request from the user terminal 3 (step S1 in FIG. 3), the content display unit 115 generates a top screen and transmits it to the user terminal 3 (step S2). A plurality of artist names are displayed on the top screen, for example, as shown in FIG. Here, when the user selects any artist, the server 1 next refers to the content storage destination directory of the content DB 15 (FIG. 6) (step S3), and displays all the contents of the artist selected by the user. As shown in FIG. 4 (b), a thumbnail is displayed on the user terminal 3 (step S4).
[0023]
Here, when the user selects the content, it is checked whether or not the user has already been registered (step S5). If the user has not been registered, registration is performed after inputting necessary information (step S6). Here, the server 1 checks whether the user registration is "OK" (step S7), and if it is not "OK", an error notification is made (step S8). If "OK", the registered contents are written in the user information DB 13 (step S9).
[0024]
Next, the server 1 displays an input box for inputting the purchase price of the content, the user ID, and the password on the user terminal 3 (see FIG. 4C). When the purchase price, the user ID, and the password are input (step S10), the authentication unit 113 performs user authentication with reference to the user information DB 13 (step S11). The data is transmitted to the terminal 3 (see FIG. 4D). Next, the server 1 starts a process of downloading the content (step S12), and the user acquires the content (step S13). If the authentication in step S11 is "NO", an error notification is made (step S15).
[0025]
Next, the voting reception unit 117 of the server 1 writes the current date and time, the user ID, the content ID, and the number of votes into the voting log DB 17 (FIG. 8) (Step S14). Note that the number of votes is the same value as the purchase amount. Entering the purchase amount by the user means that the user himself decides how much to purchase the content. Is considered.
[0026]
[Number of votes displayed]
When the user purchases the content and registers the date and time, the user ID, the content ID, and the number of votes in the vote log DB 17, the vote count calculation unit 119 writes the information in the vote count DB 19 (FIG. 9) as follows ( Step S14).
The number of votes cast in the column to be voted in the row of the user ID, that is, the purchase price, is added. Further, the total number of votes in the row of the user ID is calculated and written in the rightmost column, and the total number of votes in the column to be voted is calculated and written in the bottom row. When the writing is completed, the vote count DB 19 is displayed on the vote status screen of the server.
[0027]
Furthermore, the vote count calculation unit 119 sorts the total number of the lowest line of the vote count DB in descending order, and places the voting target names in the sorted order in the first row of the vote rank DB 23 (see FIG. 10). Write from the second column to the (m + 1) th column. In addition, for each voting target in the voting number DB 19, the column values are sorted in descending order, and the user IDs are written in the voting order DB 23 from the second row to the (n + 1) th row of the voting target column in the sorted order (see FIG. 5). ). By displaying the voting ranking DB 23, the current ranking of voting targets and the user ranking based on the number of votes for each voting target are always displayed.
[0028]
[Charge settlement]
The charge settlement unit 121 extracts data from the previous settlement date to the previous day from the voting log DB 17 on the settlement date, calculates the total purchase amount for each user, and sets it as the charge amount. In addition, the total purchase amount is calculated for each content ID, and is set as the payment amount to the content holder.
[0029]
The above is the operation of the first embodiment of the present invention. According to this embodiment, the user will vote for the voting object he or she really supports according to the size of his support, and will pay an amount equal to the number of votes. . As a result, irresponsible voting can be avoided, and voting based on appropriate value judgment can be obtained. Further, it is possible to extract users who have frequently voted for popular voting targets based on the voting ranking DB 23, thereby providing a mechanism that can provide some kind of feedback to users who have voted for popular voting targets. be able to.
In the first embodiment, instead of the voter determining the content purchase amount (the number of votes), the organizer may set the content amount in advance.
[0030]
(2nd Embodiment)
Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described.
The second embodiment is different from the first embodiment in that points are awarded according to the number of votes and a premium can be obtained according to the number of acquired points. A method in which a desired premium can be reserved. Details are as follows.
[0031]
When the user purchases the content and the voting log DB 17 is updated, the content is written into the point number DB 25 (FIG. 11) as follows. The number of votes currently voted is added as a point to the cumulative column and the remaining column of the corresponding voting target in the user ID row of the user as it is. On the premier provider side, the premier name, the premier reservation period, the number of premiers, and the required number of points (accumulated points or remaining points depend on the premier) are set in advance and displayed on the premier reservation screen. When the premium reservation period comes, the user can reserve a premium from the premier reservation screen.
[0032]
When there is a premier reservation request from the user terminal 3, the server 1 refers to the point number DB 25, and the point number of the user for the voting object is the required point number of the premier (accumulated point number or remaining point number). Check the above, and write the user information to the premium provider list. If the premier is such that the required points are subtracted from the remaining points, the required points are subtracted from the remaining points.
Also, when the premier is, for example, an artist's event participation right, the premier reservation screen is linked with the artist's scheduler, so that the user can browse the artist's schedule and select an event registered in the scheduler. It is also possible to adopt a method in which a premium reservation can be made.
[0033]
(Third embodiment)
The third embodiment is a method of changing the number of points given by the number of votes according to the popularity of a voting object. If the voting period is long, the popularity of the voting object may change. Therefore, the number of points given per vote is changed according to the popularity at that time. In order to change the number of points per vote every day, calculate the number of points per vote each day for each voting object and create a table of points per vote (see Fig. 12 (c)). I do. The number of points is calculated by calculating the number of votes obtained in the past x days (for example, 60 days) for each voting object from the voting log DB 17 and obtaining points according to the number of votes from the table of FIG. The values in the table of FIG. 12A are set in advance. For example, if the number of votes obtained by artists (voting targets) 1 to 5 between January 28, 2002 and March 27, 2002 is as shown in FIG. The number of points per vote on March 28, 2008 is as shown in FIG. 12 (C) from the table of FIG. 12 (A).
[0034]
Next, for example, as illustrated in FIG. 13A, it is assumed that the users 1 to 4 purchase content on March 28, 2002, and the voting content is registered in the voting log DB 17 as illustrated. In this case, when the number of points acquired by each user is calculated based on FIG. 12 (C), the result is as shown in FIG. 13 (B). This point number is written in the point number DB 25 as shown in FIG. That is, the number of points (FIG. 13 (b)) corresponding to the number of votes currently voted is added to the cumulative column and the remaining column (see FIG. 13 (c)) of the corresponding voting object on the previous day of the user. Here, when the user 1 and the user 2 apply for the premier of the artist 2 (100 points are deducted), the point number DB 25 is as shown in FIG.
[0035]
By setting the number of points per vote as shown in the table of FIG. 12A, a user who has voted when popularity is low can obtain many points with a small number of votes. This is because, for example, in popularity voting of unknown artists before their debut, it is considered that there are many users who vote in anticipation of artists likely to become popular in the future, and the value of the voting object (artist popularity) is determined at that time. At least, there is an effect that a large number of votes can be obtained.
[0036]
(Fourth embodiment)
FIG. 14 is a diagram showing an overall configuration of a voting system according to the fourth embodiment. In this figure, reference numeral 31 denotes a voting site by a voting processing server configured similarly to the server 1 of FIG. 2, 32 denotes a content selling site, and 3 denotes a user terminal. This system is a voting system that, when a user purchases content corresponding to a voting object at a content selling site 32 completely different from the voting site 31, can regard this as a vote for the voting object. In this system, the content sales site 32 is affiliated with the voting site 31 in advance, and when the user purchases the content, an ID or the like issued by the voting site 31 called “voting ticket” is embedded with a digital watermark at the same time. When the content is transmitted to the user terminal 3 and the user uploads the betting ticket to the voting site 31 later, the voting site 31 processes the vote as if the number of votes according to the content of the digital watermark has been voted.
[0037]
The specific flow is as follows.
(1) Content is sold between the user and the content selling site 32 by a normal content selling method.
(2) The content sales site 32 transmits to the voting site 31 the four pieces of information of the site ID, the voting object, the number of votes, and the amount, and the contents of the betting ticket (assuming a still image created by the content sales site). At this time, the communication is transmitted using SSL (Secure Socket Layer; encrypted communication) so that the communication is not eavesdropped.
(3) The voting site 31 issues a unique betting ticket ID within the voting site 31.
[0038]
(4) The voting site 31 arranges the betting ticket ID, the expiration date, the site ID, the voting object, the number of votes, and the amount in a predetermined format, encrypts them with the key managed in the voting site 31, and provides a content sales site. The electronic watermark is embedded in the content of the voting ticket sent from No. 32.
(5) The voting site 31 transmits the content of the betting ticket in which the digital watermark is embedded to the content selling site 32. At this time, the communication is transmitted using SSL so as not to be wiretapped.
[0039]
(6) The content sales site 32 transmits the contents of the betting ticket to the user. At this time, the communication is transmitted using SSL so as not to be wiretapped.
(7) The user accesses the voting site 31, authenticates the user with the user ID and password registered in the voting site 31, and then uploads the contents of the betting ticket. At this time, the communication is transmitted using SSL so as not to be wiretapped.
(8) The voting site 31 reads the digital watermark information embedded in the content of the voting ticket, decrypts the read information with a key managed by the voting site 31, and obtains the voting ticket ID, expiration date, site ID, Clarify the object of voting, the number of votes, and the amount. Then, it checks whether or not the betting ticket ID is an ID issued on the voting site 31, whether or not the same ID has already been uploaded, and whether or not the validity period has expired.
[0040]
(9) The voting site 31 writes the uploaded date and time, the user ID, and the number of votes in the voting log DB 17 (FIG. 8). Then, as in the first to third embodiments, the vote count DB 19, the vote rank DB 23, and the point count DB 25 are updated.
(10) The voting site 31 requests the content selling site 32 for an amount obtained by multiplying the amount by a predetermined commission rate.
[0041]
According to the fourth embodiment, the content sales site 32 can expect an increase in the number of content sales by cooperating with the voting site 31. On the other hand, the voting site 31 can obtain a fee from the content sales site 32 and embed information as an electronic watermark in the betting ticket content, so that less data needs to be managed each time the content is sold ( Betting ticket ID only). Further, the user can vote without informing the content sales site 32 of the user ID registered in the voting site 31. This has the advantage of being able to cooperate with voting no matter what payment method the content sales site 32 employs, including prepaid payment.
[0042]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the present invention, by associating the content sale with the voting function, the concept of monetary value exchange is introduced in the vote, so that irresponsible voting is eliminated and voting based on appropriate value judgment is performed. There is an effect that a result can be obtained. Further, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a mechanism capable of providing some feedback to a voter who has contributed to selecting a good work, based on the result of the vote, thereby increasing the willingness of the voter to participate. effective.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a system using a voting processing server according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of the voting processing server.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the voting processing server.
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a screen displayed on a terminal 3 in FIG.
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of data of a vote count DB19 and a vote ranking DB23 in FIG. 2;
FIG. 6 is a diagram showing data items stored in a content DB 15 in FIG. 2;
FIG. 7 is a diagram showing data items stored in a user information DB 13 in FIG. 2;
FIG. 8 is a diagram showing data items stored in a voting log DB 17 in FIG. 2;
FIG. 9 is a diagram showing data items stored in a vote count DB 19 in FIG. 2;
10 is a diagram showing an example of data stored in a voting order DB 23 in FIG.
FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of data stored in a point number DB 25 in the second and third embodiments of the present invention.
FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of data for explaining a third embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of data for explaining a third embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 14 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a system using a voting processing server according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention.
[Explanation of symbols]
1: Server (voting server)
2. Communication network
3. User terminal
13 ... User information DB
15 Content DB
17: Voting log DB
19 ... Number of votes DB
21 ... Content storage disk
23: Voting order DB
25 ... Point number DB
31 ... Voting site (voting processing server)
32 ... Content sales site

Claims (24)

In a voting system in which a user performs voting on content by a user terminal and a voting processing server that receives the voting result transmits the content to the user terminal, and tallies the voting result,
The voting processing server transmits a screen displaying content to the user terminal,
The user terminal displays the screen,
The user terminal transmits the ID of the content selected by the user on the displayed screen and the number of votes input by the user to the voting processing server,
The voting processing server writes the content ID and the number of votes transmitted from the user terminal into storage means,
The voting processing server totals the data in the storage means,
The voting processing method, wherein the voting processing server charges the price of the content to the user. The voting processing method according to claim 1, wherein the voting processing server extracts a user who has voted a lot of content or a voting target corresponding to the content when counting the data. The voting processing server converts the number of votes into a number of points based on points per number of votes determined in advance for each content or voting object, writes the converted number in the storage unit, and stores the number of points in the storage unit. 3. The voting processing method according to claim 1, wherein the voting processing is performed by reading out the voting data. 4. The voting method according to claim 3, wherein the point per voting number is determined based on the voting number obtained by the content or the voting target corresponding to the content during a fixed period in the past. The voting processing method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the voting processing server determines whether or not to provide a premium based on a totaled result of the data in the storage unit. The voting processing method according to claim 1, wherein a price of the content is determined based on the number of votes. The voting processing method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the price of the content is determined by an administrator of the voting processing server. In a voting system that connects a voting processing server, a content sales site, and a user terminal via a communication network,
At the same time that the content sales site sells the content to the user, transmits the site ID, the voting object, the number of votes, the amount and the content of the betting ticket to the voting processing server,
The voting processing server issues a voting ticket ID, embeds the voting ticket ID, expiration date, site ID, voting object, number of votes, and amount as an electronic watermark in the content of the voting ticket, and transmits the content to the content sales site. ,
The content sales site transmits the content of the betting ticket to the user terminal,
The user terminal uploads the content of the betting ticket received from the content sales site to the voting processing server,
The voting processing server reads digital watermark information embedded in the content of the betting ticket received from the user terminal, and writes the read information to storage means.
The voting processing server totals the data in the storage means,
The voting processing method, wherein the voting processing server charges a fee to the content sales site. In a voting processing server connected to a user terminal operated by a user via a communication network and transmitting a content to the user terminal in response to a request from the user terminal,
Transmission means for transmitting a screen displaying content to the user terminal in response to a request from the user terminal,
Writing means for writing the ID and the number of votes of the content transmitted from the user terminal into storage means;
Tabulation means for tabulating data in the storage means,
Claiming means for charging the price of the content to the user terminal,
A voting processing server comprising: 10. The voting processing server according to claim 9, wherein, when counting the data, the counting means extracts a user who has voted a lot of content or a voting target corresponding to the content with a large number of votes. The writing means converts the number of votes into a number of points based on points per one vote determined in advance for each content or voting object, and writes the converted points into the storage means. The voting processing server according to claim 9 or 10, wherein the number is read out from the storage means and totalized. The voting processing server according to claim 11, wherein the point per voting number is determined based on the voting number obtained by a content or a voting object corresponding to the content in a fixed period in the past. 13. The voting server according to claim 9, wherein the counting means determines whether or not a premium is provided based on a result of counting the data in the storage means. 14. The voting processing server according to claim 9, wherein a price of the content is determined by the number of votes. 14. The voting processing server according to claim 9, wherein the content price is a predetermined value. In the voting processing server connected to the content sales site and the user terminal via the communication network,
Upon receiving the site ID, voting object, number of votes, amount of money and the contents of the betting ticket transmitted from the content sales site, the contents of the betting ticket ID, expiration date, site ID, voting object, number of votes and the amount of the betting ticket are obtained. Transmitting means for embedding as a digital watermark in and transmitting to the content sales site;
Writing means for reading digital watermark information embedded in the content of the betting ticket received from the user terminal, and writing the read information to storage means;
Tabulation means for tabulating data in the storage means,
Means for charging a fee to the content sales site;
A voting processing server comprising: A program used in a voting processing server connected to a user terminal operated by a user via a communication network and transmitting a content to the user terminal in response to a request from the user terminal,
In the voting processing server,
A transmission procedure of transmitting a screen displaying content to the user terminal in response to a request from the user terminal,
A writing procedure for writing the ID and the number of votes of the content transmitted from the user terminal into storage means;
A counting procedure for counting data in the storage means,
A billing procedure for billing the user terminal for the price of the content,
The program to execute. 18. The program according to claim 17, wherein in the tallying step, when tallying the data, a user who has voted for a content having a large number of votes or a voting target corresponding to the content is extracted. The writing step converts the number of votes into a number of points based on points per one vote determined in advance for each content or voting object, and writes the converted points into the storage unit. 19. The program according to claim 17, wherein the number is read from the storage unit and totalized. 20. The program according to claim 19, wherein the point per vote is determined based on the number of votes obtained by the content or the voting target corresponding to the content in a fixed period in the past. 21. The program according to claim 17, wherein the counting step determines whether or not to provide a premium based on a counting result of the data in the storage unit. 22. The program according to claim 17, wherein a price of the content is determined by the number of votes. The voting processing server according to any one of claims 17 to 21, wherein the price of the content is a predetermined value. A program used in a voting processing server connected to a content sales site and a user terminal via a communication network,
In the voting processing server,
Upon receiving the site ID, voting object, number of votes, amount of money and the contents of the betting ticket transmitted from the content sales site, the contents of the betting ticket ID, expiration date, site ID, voting object, number of votes and the amount of the betting ticket are obtained. A transmission procedure of embedding as a digital watermark in and transmitting the content to the content sales site;
A writing step of reading digital watermark information embedded in the content of the betting ticket received from the user terminal, and writing the read information to storage means;
A counting procedure for counting data in the storage means,
A billing procedure for charging a fee to the content sales site,
The program to execute.

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