JP2015197693A - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new auction service.SOLUTION: An item receiving section 51 receives service time provided by a seller, as an item to be sold. An item presenting section 52 presents the item to a plurality of purchasers. A purchase condition receiving section 53 receives purchase conditions from each of the purchasers. A successful bidder candidate determination section 54 determines a successful bidder candidate from among the purchasers, on the basis of the purchase conditions of the purchasers, and notifies the seller of it. A successful bidder receiving section 55 receives information that one of the successful bidder candidates has been decided as a successful bidder, from the seller. A successful bidder notification section 56 notifies the successful bidder of the successful bid.

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there are Web sites that sell products such as articles by auction (for example, see Patent Document 1).

Japanese Patent Application No. 2011-128839

  However, when a new form of auction service is required, it is difficult for conventional techniques including Patent Document 1 to meet such a request.

  The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and an object thereof is to provide a new form of auction service.

In order to achieve the above object, an information processing apparatus of one embodiment of the present invention provides:
A listing target acceptance means for accepting the time of services provided by the seller as a listing target;
An exhibition object presenting means for presenting the exhibition object to a plurality of buyers;
Purchase condition receiving means for receiving purchase conditions from each of the plurality of buyers;
Based on the purchase conditions of each of the plurality of buyers, successful bidder candidate determination means for determining a successful bidder candidate from the plurality of buyers and notifying the seller;
Successful bidder accepting means for accepting from the seller that one of the successful bidder candidates is confirmed as the successful bidder;
And a successful bidder notification means for notifying the successful bidder of the successful bid.

Here, the exhibition object receiving means further includes:
When listing the time of the service, accept the sale start price as a condition of the seller,
The exhibition object presentation means presents the sale start price together with the exhibition object to the plurality of buyers,
The purchase condition accepting means accepts purchase conditions equal to or higher than the sale start price from each of the plurality of buyers,
When the successful bidder provided with the service from the seller has evaluated the seller, an evaluation receiving means for receiving the evaluation;
A sale start price limiting means for limiting the maximum amount of the seller start price of the seller based on the evaluation;
May be further provided.

The exhibition object receiving means further accepts the type of service as the seller's condition when listing the time of the service,
The exhibition object presenting means presents the type of service to the plurality of buyers together with the exhibition object and the sale start price,
When the successful bidder provided with the service from the seller makes an evaluation of the seller, the evaluation receiving means receives the evaluation as to the type of the service,
The sale start price means limits a maximum amount of the seller start price of the seller for the service type based on the evaluation of the service type;
You may do it.

The sale start price means limits the maximum amount of the seller start price based on another factor along with the evaluation,
You may do it.

The winning bidder candidate determining means determines a plurality of winning bidder candidates and notifies the seller;
The successful bidder accepting means may accept from the seller that one of the plurality of successful bidder candidates has been determined as the successful bidder from the seller.

  An information processing method and program of one embodiment of the present invention are a method and program corresponding to the above-described information processing apparatus of one embodiment of the present invention. Therefore, the information processing method and program of one embodiment of the present invention have basically the same functions and effects as the information processing device of one embodiment of the present invention described above.

  According to the present invention, a new form of auction service can be provided.

1 is a block diagram illustrating an overall configuration of an information processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a schematic diagram which shows an example of the service of the time auction implement | achieved by the information processing system of FIG. It is a block diagram which shows the hardware structure of the server as one Embodiment of the information processing apparatus to which this invention is applied among the components of the information processing system of FIG. It is a functional block diagram which shows the functional structure for performing a time auction process among the functional structures of the server of FIG. It is a figure which shows the structural example of evaluation information input format data. It is a figure which shows one specific example of an evaluation contribution screen. It is a figure which shows the structural example of the management data of the sale start price upper limit managed by the sale start price restriction | limiting part of FIG. It is a flowchart explaining the flow of the time auction process which the server 1 of the functional structure of FIG. 4 performs. FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a time auction service realized by the information processing system of FIG. 1 and an example different from FIG. 2.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
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  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an overall configuration of an information processing system S according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In the present embodiment, when there are a predetermined seller and n buyers (n is an arbitrary integer value equal to or greater than 1), the service time provided by the seller is used as an exhibition target, and n buyers An auction service is provided in which each presents a predetermined purchase condition (for example, an amount), and a buyer who satisfies a certain condition (for example, a buyer who has presented a maximum amount as a purchase condition) is determined as a successful bidder.
As described above, the subject of the auction in this embodiment is not the conventional product but the service time provided by the seller. In this respect, in order to distinguish from the conventional auction, the auction in the present embodiment is particularly referred to as a “time auction”.
In the following description, explanation is given focusing on one seller, but it goes without saying that any person who receives the service can be a seller. In other words, n buyers can also become sellers by listing the time of services provided by themselves.

As shown in FIG. 1, the information processing system S according to the present embodiment includes a server 1 managed by a person who manages and manages the time auction (a person who provides such a service), and a seller used by the seller. A terminal 2 and buyer terminals 3-1 to 3-n used for each of n buyers are connected to each other via a network 4.
In addition, when it is not necessary to distinguish each of buyer terminal 2-1 to 2-n, these are collectively called "buyer terminal 2".

  FIG. 2 shows an example of a time auction service realized by the information processing system S.

In the example of FIG. 2, the seller is assumed to be an orthopedic professor at a private university.
The seller is presented as “sale content” by the seller.
In the example of FIG. 2, the service provided by the seller is to give the buyer “2, an opinion in a specialized field”.
The service time is “1, the time is between 2 and 3 o'clock”.
Furthermore, in the present embodiment, the seller can present the sales start price as a condition when listing the time of the service. In the example of FIG. 2, the sale start price is “3, 20,000 yen or more per hour”.

The seller operates the seller terminal 2 to access a WEB auction (web site) operated by the server 1 and presents such “sale content” for sale.
Each of the n buyers operates his / her own buyer terminal 3 to access the WEB auction, sees the “sale contents” presented by the buyer, and presents predetermined purchase conditions (amount in the example of FIG. 2). To do.
Then, the server 1 determines a buyer who satisfies a certain condition (for example, a buyer who presents the maximum amount as a purchase condition) as a successful bidder candidate and offers it to the seller.
Here, the reason why the candidate is not the winning bidder is that the buyer has the right to reject the offered person as the winning bidder. This means that the successful bidder candidate does not have to be one person.
In other words, since one or more successful bidder candidates are offered from the WEB auction (server 1) via the seller terminal 2, the seller indicates that a desired one is accepted as a successful bidder. Notify server 1).
It should be noted that the seller can also notify the WEB auction (server 1) that no one is accepted as a successful bidder. In this case, the WEB auction (server 1) may determine a new successful bidder candidate and offer it again, or may end this auction.
In the example of FIG. 2, when receiving the service from the seller, the winning bidder pays the consideration directly to the seller with cash, and notifies the WEB auction (server 1) of the evaluation of the winning bidder. However, these are merely examples, and for example, the WEB auction (server 1) may execute the charging process.
In the example of FIG. 2, the service provider (WEB auction operating company) pays for the service provision as a success fee from the successful bidder, but this is only an example. It may be collected in advance, or may be collected from all n buyers as an auction participation fee.

  FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration of the server 1 as an embodiment of the information processing apparatus of the present invention.

  The server 1 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 11, a ROM (Read Only Memory) 12, a RAM (Random Access Memory) 13, a bus 14, an input / output interface 15, an input unit 16, and an output unit 17. A storage unit 18, a communication unit 19, and a drive 20.

The CPU 11 executes various processes according to a program recorded in the ROM 12 or a program loaded from the storage unit 18 to the RAM 13.
The RAM 13 appropriately stores data necessary for the CPU 11 to execute various processes.

  The CPU 11, ROM 12, and RAM 13 are connected to each other via a bus 14. An input / output interface 15 is also connected to the bus 14. An input unit 16, an output unit 17, a storage unit 18, a communication unit 19, and a drive 20 are connected to the input / output interface 15.

The input unit 16 includes various buttons and the like, and inputs various types of information according to user instruction operations.
The output unit 17 includes a display, a speaker, and the like, and outputs images and sounds.
The storage unit 18 is composed of a hard disk, DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory), or the like, and stores various data.
The communication unit 19 controls communication with the seller terminal 2 or the buyer terminal 3 via the network 4 including the Internet.

  A removable medium 31 made of a magnetic disk, an optical disk, a magneto-optical disk, a semiconductor memory, or the like is appropriately attached to the drive 20. The program read from the removable medium 31 by the drive 20 is installed in the storage unit 18 as necessary. The removable medium 31 can also store various data stored in the storage unit 18 in the same manner as the storage unit 18.

  Although illustration is omitted, each of the seller terminal 2 and the buyer terminal 3 has basically the same configuration and function as the CPU 11 to the drive 20 of FIG.

  FIG. 4 is a functional block diagram showing a functional configuration for executing a series of processes for realizing a time auction (hereinafter referred to as “time auction process”) among the functional configurations of the server 1.

  When the time auction process is executed, in the CPU 11 of the server 1, the exhibition object reception unit 51, the exhibition object presentation unit 52, the purchase condition reception unit 53, the successful bidder candidate determination unit 54, and the successful bidder reception unit 55. Then, the successful bidder notifying unit 56, the evaluation receiving unit 57, and the sale start price limiting unit 58 function.

  In the present embodiment, as described with reference to FIG. 2, as described above with reference to FIG. 2, in the present embodiment, the above-described exhibition object reception unit is executed by a WEB auction (Web site) managed by the server 1. It is assumed that the functions of 51 to the sales start price limiting unit 58 are realized. That is, the seller terminal 2 and the buyer terminal 3 can access the WEB auction and input / output various information.

  The exhibition target receiving unit 51 receives the service time provided by the seller from the seller terminal 2 as an exhibition target.

The exhibition object presentation unit 52 presents the exhibition object to a plurality of buyers by posting it in a WEB auction.
That is, the buyer operates the buyer terminal 3 to access the WEB auction and browses a page or the like on which the exhibition object is posted, thereby presenting the exhibition object.

The purchase condition reception unit 53 receives purchase conditions from each of a plurality of buyers.
That is, each of the n buyers operates each of his / her buyer terminals 3-1 to 3-n and inputs a purchase condition on the purchase condition reception page of the WEB auction, and then presses a decision button or the like. An instruction to confirm the purchase conditions such as pressing is made. Upon receipt of the instruction, the purchase condition receiving unit 53 receives the purchase condition.

Here, the purchase condition is an amount to be paid as consideration in the present embodiment, but is not particularly limited thereto.
For example, a point distributed within a time auction, that is, a point that can be used by both a seller and a buyer, is provided, and this point can be adopted as a purchase condition.
Also, for example, the seller's own time can be adopted as a purchase condition. Thereby, a cross-time auction can also be realized. A cross-time auction is a so-called commodity exchange converted into time and converted into an auction system. That is, instead of the winning bidder obtaining the right of time for service A provided by the seller, the winning bidder gives the seller the right of time for service B provided by the seller. In this case, not only the amount of time but also whether service A and service B are mutually necessary or not is a major factor in whether or not a successful bid is made, and a time auction in which simple amounts are presented as purchase conditions Compared to, a unique time auction is realized.

The winning bidder candidate determination unit 54 determines a winning bidder candidate from the plurality of buyers based on the purchase conditions of each of the plurality of buyers, and notifies (offers) the seller via the seller terminal 2.
Here, the successful bidder candidate need not be one person as described above.
For example, if a condition is set in advance such that a person who presents more than the selling start price of the seller as a purchase condition is set as a successful bidder candidate, the successful bidder candidate determination unit 54 selects all those who satisfy the condition as a successful bidder. Can be determined as a candidate.
Specifically, for example, in the example of FIG. 2, the selling start price is 20,000 yen, so three people presenting “20,000 yen”, “30,000 yen”, and “50,000 yen” as purchase conditions, respectively. Buyers are determined as successful bidder candidates.

Of course, as in a general auction, a buyer who presents the maximum amount may be a successful bidder candidate.
In this case, the buyer who presents the maximum amount may be automatically determined as the winning bidder without setting it as the winning bidder candidate, but for the following reason, it is preferable to select the winning bidder candidate without determining.
In other words, in a time auction, not only articles are subject to listing, but the service time provided by the buyer is subject to listing. That is, in a time auction, unlike a general auction, it is a premise that close exchange is performed between a seller and a successful bidder.
For this reason, it is considered that many buyers aim not only for money but also for friendly exchange with successful bidders. Therefore, the buyer should have the right to refuse the successful bid if he / she decides whether or not the person who received the offer as a successful bidder candidate can make a friendly exchange. .
For this reason, in this embodiment, the successful bidder candidate determination unit 54 does not automatically determine the successful bidder, but determines one or more successful bidder candidates and offers them to the seller via the seller terminal 2. It is.

  The successful bidder reception unit 55 receives from the seller via the seller terminal 2 that one of the successful bidder candidates has been determined as the successful bidder.

The winning bidder notifying unit 56 notifies the winning bidder that the winning bidder has made a successful bid via the buyer terminal 3 of the winning bidder.
For example, in the example of FIG. 4, the buyer who owns the buyer terminal 3-k (k is an arbitrary integer value between 1 and n) is the winning bidder, and the buyer has made a successful bid from the winning bidder notification unit 56. The buyer is notified via the terminal 3-k.
In addition, although the arrow is not attached | subjected in the example of FIG. 4, the successful bidder notification part 56 is each buyer terminal 3-1 to 3-n with respect to the other buyers (however, except the buyer terminal 3-k). ) May be used to notify that no successful bid has been made.

By such notification of the successful bidder notification unit 56, the time auction itself for the seller's listing object ends.
Thereafter, the seller provides services to the winning bidder according to the contents of the exhibition target. In the present embodiment, it is assumed that the winning bidder evaluates the seller after receiving the service. Specifically, it is assumed that the successful bidder operates the buyer terminal 3-k to access a WEB auction (web site) and inputs an evaluation on the evaluation posting screen.

FIG. 5 shows an example of the structure of the evaluation information input format data.
As shown in FIG. 5, the evaluation information input format data includes a “large item” column, a “small item” column, and a “format” column.
“Physician”, “medical consultation”, “surgical consultation”, etc. as “small items” are associated with “doctor” as “large item”. Furthermore, a “check box” as a “form” is associated with each of “health diagnosis”, “internal medicine consultation”, “surgical consultation”, and the like.

  The evaluation receiving unit 57 in FIG. 4 generates data on the evaluation posting screen as shown in FIG. 6 based on the evaluation information input format data in FIG.

FIG. 6 shows a specific example of the seller's evaluation posting screen by the successful bidder.
The evaluation posting screen shown in FIG. 6 includes a message image indicating each column of “large item” and “small item” in the evaluation information input format data shown in FIG. 5 and “evaluation information input format data shown in FIG. It consists of a GUI (Graphical User Interface) corresponding to the entries in the “Form” column.
“Doctor” as a major item indicates a major classification (qualification, etc.) of services provided by the seller. “Health diagnosis”, “Medical consultation”, “Surgery consultation” as minor items corresponding to the major item Etc. indicate a small classification (a type of service actually provided) of the service provided by the seller.
A check box is associated with each of these small items.
The winning bidder operates the buyer terminal 3 to check the check box for the type of service actually received from the seller among these small items, thereby evaluating the seller.
In the example of FIG. 6, assuming that a five-level evaluation is performed, when a successful bidder performs an evaluation K (K is an arbitrary integer value of 1 to 5) for a predetermined small item, Check K out of 5 check boxes. That is, for the highest evaluation 5, all five check boxes are checked, and for the lowest evaluation 1, only one check box is checked.
It goes without saying that the example of FIG. 6 is an example, and for example, a box for inputting a comment or the like may be provided on the evaluation posting screen.

Returning to FIG. 4, the evaluation receiving unit 57 receives the evaluation when the successful bidder provided with the service from the seller evaluates the seller via the buyer terminal 3-k.
The sale start price restriction unit 58 restricts the maximum sale start price of the seller based on the evaluation.
Here, the method of restriction is not particularly limited, but if a method is adopted in which the lower the evaluation, the lower the maximum sale start price becomes lower, and the higher the evaluation, the higher the maximum sale start price becomes. Is preferred. For sellers, the higher the evaluation, the higher the starting price, which leads to motivation to improve the quality of services provided by the seller. In addition, since the start price for sale according to the quality of the seller's service is presented to the buyer, the risk of paying a high price to the seller with a low quality of service is reduced. In other words, it is convenient for the buyer to determine the purchase conditions while balancing his / her budget and the required level of service quality.

In the present embodiment, the exhibition target receiving unit 51 receives the type of service as the seller's condition when the seller exhibits the time of the service. The type of service here corresponds to the “small item” in FIGS. 5 and 6.
The exhibition target presentation unit 52 presents the types of services to the plurality of buyers together with the exhibition target and the sale start price. For example, if the seller considers only “health consultation” as a service, only “health checkup” is presented to the buyer.
Thus, by presenting the type of service, a mismatch between the seller and the buyer can be prevented.
In other words, for example, when only a doctor is presented to the buyer as seller information, the successful bidder was expecting medical consultation, but when the seller is a surgeon and not good at medical consultation, A mismatch occurs between. As a result, the winning bidder will not receive a satisfactory service, and for the seller, a bad rating will probably be given by the winning bidder and will be distrusted. That is, it leads to a disadvantageous result for both, the frequency of use of the time auction is reduced, and it is also disadvantageous for the service provider (operating company) of the time auction.
Therefore, in this embodiment, the seller specifies the types of services to be listed at the time of listing.
When the successful bidder who is provided with the service by the seller makes an evaluation of the seller, the evaluation receiving unit 57 receives the evaluation regarding the type of the service. For example, in the above example, a five-step evaluation is accepted only for “health consultation”.
The sale start price restriction unit 58 restricts the maximum sale start price of the seller for the service type based on the evaluation of the accepted service type.

FIG. 7 shows an example of the structure of the management data of the sale start price upper limit managed by the sale start price restriction unit 58.
As shown in FIG. 7, the management data includes an “ID” item column, a “large item” column, a “small item” column, a “title” column, an “average evaluation” column, a “previous service” The column “Provided date” and the “Upper sale price upper limit” column are provided.
In “ID”, an identifier uniquely assigned to a person registered as a seller is stored.
In the “major item”, a major classification (qualification, etc.) of the seller of the ID is stored.
The “small item” stores a small classification (type of service that can be provided) of the seller of the ID.
In the “title”, a title given by the service provider based on the evaluation made to the seller of the ID is stored for each small item. By assigning such titles to sellers, it is possible for sellers to obtain titles with better evaluations, leading to motivation to improve the quality of services provided by themselves. For buyers, titles are divided into small categories. For example, if the doctor is ID1, the “surgical consultation” is “master” and high level, but the “health consultation” is “ This is convenient because the low-level feature of “apprenticeship” can be recognized immediately. As a result, it is possible for the service provider to prevent so-called user separation.
In “average evaluation”, an average value of evaluations received by the seller of the ID so far is stored for each small item. In the present embodiment, the sale start price upper limit is determined (restricted) based on the average evaluation.
In the “previous service provision date”, the date when the seller of the ID provided the service to the previous successful bidder is stored for each small item. In the present embodiment, not only the average evaluation but also the last service provision date is taken into consideration, and the sale start price upper limit is determined (restricted). For example, a seller whose service provision date is too old is determined (restricted) so that the upper limit of the sale start price becomes lower. As a result, the seller will be motivated to use the time auction because the upper limit of the sale start price is lowered unless the time auction is used. For the service provider, it is possible to prevent so-called user separation.
The previous service provision date is merely an example. That is, the sale start price restriction unit 58 can restrict the maximum amount of the sale start price of the seller based on any other factors such as the previous service provision date as well as the evaluation (average evaluation in this example).
The “selling start price upper limit” stores the selling start price upper limit determined (restricted) for the seller of the ID for each small item.

Next, point management processing executed by the server 1 having the functional configuration shown in FIG. 4 will be described with reference to FIG.
FIG. 8 is a flowchart for explaining the flow of the time auction process executed by the server 1 having the functional configuration shown in FIG.

In step S <b> 1, the exhibition target receiving unit 51 determines whether or not the seller is presented by the seller.
When the seller terminal 2 does not access the WEB auction (web site), it is determined as NO in Step S1, and the process proceeds to Step S13.
In step S <b> 13, the exhibition target receiving unit 51 determines whether an instruction to end the process has been given.
The instruction to end the process is not particularly limited, and for example, an instruction to turn off the power of the server 1 can be adopted as an instruction to end the process.
When such an instruction to end the process is given, it is determined as YES in Step S13, and the time auction process ends.
On the other hand, if the instruction to end the process is not given, it is determined as NO in step S13, the process returns to step S1, and the subsequent processes are repeated. That is, when the end of the process is not instructed and the seller terminal 2 does not access the WEB auction (web site), the loop process of steps S1NO and S13NO is repeatedly executed, and the time auction process is set in the standby state. Become.
When access is made from the seller terminal 2 to the WEB auction (web site) and there is an exhibition target, YES is determined in step S1, and the process proceeds to step S2.

In step S2, the exhibition target receiving unit 51 determines whether or not the sale start price is equal to or less than the limit.
Specifically, for example, the exhibition object receiving unit 51 recognizes the type of service for the presented exhibition object and the sale start price requested by the seller, and compares it with the management data in FIG. Determines whether or not the value is below the limit.
Specifically, for example, when the doctor of ID1 requests a sales start price of 35,000 yen for “internal medicine consultation” as a seller, the upper limit (limit) of the sales start price of “internal medicine consultation” in FIG. Since it exceeds ¥ 1,000, it is determined as NO in step S2, and the process proceeds to step S13, and the subsequent processes are executed. That is, the processes of steps S1YES, S2NO, and S13NO are repeated until the sale start price becomes equal to or less than the limit, and the time auction process enters a standby state.
On the other hand, when the doctor of ID1 requests a sales start price of 28,000 yen for “internal medicine consultation” as a seller, the upper limit (limit) of the sales start price of “internal medicine consultation” in FIG. Since it is lower than 000 yen, it is determined as YES in step S2, and the process proceeds to step S3.

In step S3, the exhibition target receiving unit 51 receives a display target.
In step S4, the exhibition object presentation unit 52 presents the exhibition object to a plurality of buyers by posting it in a WEB auction.

In step S5, the purchase condition receiving unit 53 determines whether or not a purchase condition has been transmitted from the buyer.
When the WEB auction (web site) is not accessed from any of the buyer terminals 3-1 to 3-n, it is determined as NO in Step S5, and the process proceeds to Step S7.
In step S <b> 7, the purchase condition receiving unit 53 determines whether or not to close the purchase condition reception.
The deadline conditions are not particularly limited, and for example, conditions such as a predetermined time may be employed.
If the deadline condition is not satisfied, NO is determined in step S7, and the process returns to step S5.
Here, when purchase conditions are transmitted from one buyer terminal 3, it determines with YES in step S5, and a process progresses to step S6.
In step S6, the purchase condition accepting unit 53 accepts purchase conditions from the buyer.
Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S7. In other words, unless the deadline condition such as the elapse of a predetermined time is satisfied, the loop process of steps S5 to S7 is repeatedly executed, and the purchase condition is sequentially accepted every time the purchase condition is transmitted from the buyer. Here, even if it is the same buyer, when a purchase condition (high amount) good for the seller is newly transmitted, the purchase condition (high amount) is accepted.
If the deadline condition such as elapse of a predetermined time is satisfied, it is determined as YES in Step S7, and the process proceeds to Step S8.

  In step S8, the successful bidder candidate determination unit 54 determines a successful bidder candidate from the plurality of buyers based on the purchase conditions of each of the plurality of buyers, and notifies the seller via the seller terminal 2 (offer) )

  In step S <b> 9, the successful bidder receiving unit 55 receives, from the seller, via the seller terminal 2, the fact that one of the winning bidder candidates has been determined as the winning bidder, that is, the winning bidder instructed by the seller.

  In step S <b> 10, the successful bidder notification unit 56 notifies the winning bidder that the winning bidder has made a successful bid via the buyer terminal 3 of the winning bidder.

By such notification of the successful bidder notification unit 56, the time auction itself for the seller's listing object ends.
Thereafter, the seller provides services to the winning bidder according to the contents of the exhibition target. In the present embodiment, as described above, the successful bidder operates the buyer terminal 3-k to access the WEB auction (web site), and inputs the evaluation on the evaluation posting screen. Thereby, a process progresses to step S11.

In step S11, the evaluation reception unit 57 acquires the seller's evaluation from the successful bidder.
In step S12, the sale start price limit unit 58 updates the limit of the seller start price. The update here includes 0 update, that is, maintaining the upper limit of the sale start price without changing.
Thereby, the process proceeds to step S13, and the above-described process is executed.

  As mentioned above, although embodiment of this invention was described, this invention is not restricted to embodiment mentioned above. Further, the effects described in the present embodiment are merely a list of the most preferable effects resulting from the present invention, and the effects of the present invention are not limited to those described in the present embodiment.

For example, in the above-described embodiment, the seller is a qualified person (expert) such as a doctor. However, the seller is not particularly limited thereto, and may be any person who can provide any service.
For example, a small business owner that a customer wants can be employed as a seller.
For example, as a seller, hire any person who can provide any service (including consultation and teaching) for service, beauty, massage, tutoring, language, sports, hobbies, etc. Can do.
For example, an employer with time and place restrictions can be employed as a seller.
For example, owners and employees of restaurants, hotels, sports facilities, etc. can be employed as sellers.
For example, if a restaurant owner suddenly cancels a reservation, the restaurant owner can auction the time frame generated by the cancellation to a third party. Such an example will be described with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 9 shows an example of a time auction service realized by the information processing system S, and shows an example different from FIG.

In the example of FIG. 9, it is assumed that the seller is a restaurant owner.
The seller is presented as “sale content” by the seller.
In the example of FIG. 9, the service provided by the seller is the provision of food and drinks in the restaurant.
The service time is “1, the time is from 7 to 9 o'clock”.
Further, as described above, the seller can present the sales start price as a condition when listing the time of the service. In the example of FIG. 9, the sale start price is “2, course fee 10,000 yen”. Here, the course fee may be the same as the fee posted on the normal menu, may be set higher, or may be set lower. This is because the time auction is based on the concept of selling time for providing services, and the price may change depending on the time.

The seller operates the seller terminal 2 to access a WEB auction (web site) operated by the server 1 and presents such “sale content” for sale.
Each of the n buyers operates his / her buyer terminal 3 to access the WEB auction, sees the “sale contents” presented by the buyer, and presents predetermined purchase conditions (amount in the example of FIG. 9). To do.
Then, the server 1 determines a buyer who satisfies a certain condition (for example, a buyer who presents the maximum amount as a purchase condition) as a successful bidder candidate and offers it to the seller.
In the example of FIG. 2, purchase conditions are presented by the buyer at or above the sale start price, but in the example of FIG. 9, purchase conditions are presented by the buyer at or below the sale start price.
In other words, since one or more successful bidder candidates are offered from the WEB auction (server 1) via the seller terminal 2, the seller indicates that a desired one is accepted as a successful bidder. Notify server 1).
It should be noted that the seller can also notify the WEB auction (server 1) that no one is accepted as a successful bidder. In this case, the WEB auction (server 1) may determine a new successful bidder candidate and offer it again, or may end this auction.
In the example of FIG. 9, when receiving the service from the seller, the winning bidder pays the consideration directly to the seller in cash and notifies the WEB auction (server 1) of the evaluation of the winning bidder. However, these are merely examples, and for example, the WEB auction (server 1) may execute the charging process.
In the example of FIG. 9, the service provider (WEB auction operating company) pays for the service provision as a success fee from the seller. However, this is merely an example. It may be collected, or it may be collected from the buyer side.

In short, the information processing apparatus to which the present invention is applied is not limited to the server 1 of the above-described embodiment, and may be an information processing apparatus such as the following, for example, a general-purpose personal computer.
That is, the information processing apparatus
A listing target acceptance means for accepting the time of services provided by the seller as a listing target;
An exhibition object presenting means for presenting the exhibition object to a plurality of buyers;
Purchase condition receiving means for receiving purchase conditions from each of the plurality of buyers;
Based on the purchase conditions of each of the plurality of buyers, successful bidder candidate determination means for determining a successful bidder candidate from the plurality of buyers and notifying the seller;
Successful bidder accepting means for accepting from the seller that one of the successful bidder candidates is confirmed as the successful bidder;
Is provided.
In this way, a time auction service can be realized as a new auction.
That is, if mankind is fair, the time of mankind (things and services related to mankind, not just human beings) should be used fairly and reasonably for mankind. Is preferred.
In other words, the seller can use his / her own (I) time and the time of things and services related to himself / herself for a person (not only a natural person but also a corporation or all of these). The seller's own (I) time and the time for goods and services related to him / her are determined by the auction where the buyer is located. However, the seller (successful bidder) can be determined by the seller's intention.
Such a new type of auction can be realized by a time auction.

The series of processes described above can be executed by hardware or can be executed by software.
In other words, the functional configuration of FIG. 4 is merely an example, and is not particularly limited. That is, it is sufficient if the server 1 has a function capable of executing the above-described series of processing as a whole, and what functional block is used to realize this function is not particularly limited to the example of FIG.
In addition, one functional block may be constituted by hardware alone, software alone, or a combination thereof.

When a series of processing is executed by software, a program constituting the software is installed on a computer or the like from a network or a recording medium.
The computer may be a computer incorporated in dedicated hardware. The computer may be a computer capable of executing various functions by installing various programs, for example, a general-purpose personal computer.

  The recording medium including such a program is not only constituted by the removable medium 31 of FIG. 2 distributed separately from the apparatus main body in order to provide the program to the user, but also in a state of being incorporated in the apparatus main body in advance. It is comprised with the recording medium etc. which are provided in. The removable medium 31 is composed of, for example, a magnetic disk (including a floppy disk), an optical disk, a magneto-optical disk, or the like. The optical disk is composed of, for example, a CD-ROM (Compact Disk-Read Only Memory), a DVD (Digital Versatile Disk), or the like. The magneto-optical disk is configured by an MD (Mini-Disk) or the like. In addition, the recording medium provided to the user in a state of being preliminarily incorporated in the apparatus main body is configured by, for example, the ROM 12 in FIG.

  In the present specification, the step of describing the program recorded on the recording medium is not limited to the processing performed in time series along the order, but is not necessarily performed in time series, either in parallel or individually. The process to be executed is also included.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Server, 2 ... Seller terminal, 3 ... Buyer terminal, 11 ... CPU, 12 ... ROM, 13 ... RAM, 14 ... Bus, 15 ... Input / output Interface: 16 ... Input unit, 17 ... Output unit, 18 ... Storage unit, 19 ... Communication unit, 20 ... Drive, 31 ... Removable media, 51 ... Reception target acceptance , 52... Exhibition object presentation unit, 53... Purchase condition reception unit, 54... Successful bidder candidate determination unit, 55 .. successful bidder reception unit, 56. ..Evaluation reception part, 58 ... Sales start price restriction part

Claims (7)

A listing target acceptance means for accepting the time of services provided by the seller as a listing target;
An exhibition object presenting means for presenting the exhibition object to a plurality of buyers;
Purchase condition receiving means for receiving purchase conditions from each of the plurality of buyers;
Based on the purchase conditions of each of the plurality of buyers, successful bidder candidate determination means for determining a successful bidder candidate from the plurality of buyers and notifying the seller;
Successful bidder accepting means for accepting from the seller that one of the successful bidder candidates is confirmed as the successful bidder;
An information processing apparatus comprising: successful bidder notification means for notifying the successful bidder that a successful bid has been made. The exhibition object receiving means further includes:
When listing the time of the service, accept the sale start price as a condition of the seller,
The exhibition object presentation means presents the sale start price together with the exhibition object to the plurality of buyers,
The purchase condition accepting means accepts purchase conditions equal to or higher than the sale start price from each of the plurality of buyers,
When the successful bidder provided with the service from the seller has evaluated the seller, an evaluation receiving means for receiving the evaluation;
A sale start price limiting means for limiting the maximum amount of the seller start price of the seller based on the evaluation;
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: The exhibition object receiving means further accepts the type of service as the seller's condition when listing the time of the service,
The exhibition object presenting means presents the type of service to the plurality of buyers together with the exhibition object and the sale start price,
When the successful bidder provided with the service from the seller makes an evaluation of the seller, the evaluation receiving means receives the evaluation as to the type of the service,
The sale start price means limits a maximum amount of the seller start price of the seller for the service type based on the evaluation of the service type;
The information processing apparatus according to claim 2. The sale start price means limits the maximum amount of the seller start price based on another factor along with the evaluation,
The information processing apparatus according to claim 2 or 3. The winning bidder candidate determining means determines a plurality of winning bidder candidates and notifies the seller;
The successful bidder accepting means accepts from the seller that one of the plurality of successful bidder candidates is confirmed as the successful bidder from the seller.
The information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4. An information processing method executed by an information processing apparatus,
A listing step for accepting the hours of services provided by the seller as listing items;
An exhibition object presenting step for presenting the exhibition object to a plurality of buyers;
A purchase condition receiving step for receiving a purchase condition from each of the plurality of buyers;
A successful bidder candidate determination step of determining a successful bidder candidate from the plurality of buyers based on the purchase conditions of each of the plurality of buyers, and notifying the seller;
A successful bidder accepting step of accepting from the seller that one of the successful bidder candidates is confirmed as the successful bidder;
A successful bidder notification step of notifying the successful bidder of the successful bid;
An information processing method including: In the computer that controls the information processing device,
A listing step for accepting the hours of services provided by the seller as listing items;
An exhibition object presenting step for presenting the exhibition object to a plurality of buyers;
A purchase condition receiving step for receiving a purchase condition from each of the plurality of buyers;
A successful bidder candidate determination step of determining a successful bidder candidate from the plurality of buyers based on the purchase conditions of each of the plurality of buyers;
A successful bidder accepting step of notifying the seller of the successful bidder candidate and accepting confirmation from the seller as the successful bidder;
A program for executing a control process including a successful bidder notification step of notifying the successful bidder of a successful bid.

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