JP2005056365A - System where character collects desired coupon ticket in behalf of user and transmits information to portable terminal such as cellular telephone - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To overcome the problem associated with conventional coupon tickets that finding a coupon ticket to be used from the massive coupon tickets takes much labor including input, time, and operations when the coupon ticket to be used is located in the Internet. <P>SOLUTION: A user personally finds no coupon ticket desired by the user from a huge number of coupon tickets. A character forms general user coupon information by periodically and automatically collecting information on the coupon tickets to be used by the user in behalf of the user. The obtained general user coupon information is transmitted and received to and from a cellular telephone or a portable information terminal and the like. Thus, the user easily and simply obtains the regional coupon ticket or the industry-specific coupon ticket which the user desires to use. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a system for collecting coupon coupons desired by a character instead of a user and sending information to a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone.

  The Internet site where information on coupons is gathered can contain various types of coupons as the number of coupons increases enormously. Finding a coupon that a user wants through a normal search on an information terminal that is difficult to input requires a lot of input, time and operation. Likewise, a lot of input, time, and operations are required for a PC.

  It is difficult to use coupons published in magazines published in each region unless it is in that region.

  User information is registered in the user information database by having the user register the ID, password, e-mail address, nearest station, frequently used station and address on the Internet.

  There are multiple characters in the character database in advance, each with its own characteristics. By changing the character of the character, the user becomes a user's own character, so it is possible to efficiently search for a coupon that the user wants to use.

  The coupon information is registered in the coupon database. Stores and companies that want to issue coupons can register, change or delete coupons from the Internet.

  When a user registers user information in the above user information database and selects a character from the above-mentioned multiple characters, the coupon that the character wants to use from the basic user information in the user information database and the coupon database The user general coupon information is created periodically and automatically, and is transmitted to and received from a mobile phone or a portable information terminal.

  User comprehensive coupon information that the user turns into a user and collects coupon information that the user wants to use regularly and automatically, instead of the user searching for the coupon that the user wants from a vast number of coupons By sending and receiving to / from a mobile phone or a portable information terminal, the user can easily and easily obtain coupons for a region or type of business that the user wants to use.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

  In FIG. 1, the basic network configuration of the system is shown. The user information database, the character database, the coupon data base, and the user comprehensive coupon information are in a system server connected to the Internet. The mobile phone and the information terminal that is carried are transmitted and received using the Internet.

  When a user registers an ID, password, e-mail address, date of birth, nearest station, etc. from a computer, mobile phone, or portable information terminal, the system server is registered in the user information database as Y1. The

  When a user selects a character having a characteristic of C1 from a plurality of characters, a character having a characteristic of C1 from the character database is regularly and automatically suitable for the user from the user information Y1 and the coupon database. Collect coupon information, create user comprehensive coupon information, and send and receive to mobile phones and portable information terminals.

  When the user changes, adds, or deletes the character characteristics of the character database, the user's own character is created and automatically registered in the character database. The user's own character, like other characters, collects coupon information suitable for the user periodically and automatically from the user information and coupon database, creates user comprehensive coupon information, mobile phone and information that can be carried Send and receive to the terminal.

  Stores, companies and products that users want to use can be registered in the user general coupon information. When the coupon is issued, it is automatically added to the user comprehensive coupon information.

It is the system figure which showed the relationship of the user in this invention, a user information database, a character database, a coupon database, and user comprehensive coupon information.

Explanation of symbols

Y1 to Y5 Numbers automatically assigned when the system server registers the user when the user registers. C1 to C6 Characters in the character database K1 to K8 Coupons in the coupon database

Claims (3)

  Using the Internet, the user registers user information and selects a character from multiple characters. The user data selected by the user and the database of coupons are regularly and automatically suitable for the user. A system for sending and receiving coupon information to mobile phones and portable information terminals.   A system that allows users to change, add, and delete character features, and create their own characters.   When a user registers a store, company, or product that the user wants to use, when the coupon is issued, it is automatically added to the user's coupon information.

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