WO2002031617A2 - Method and system for spreading love and hope between people in the global community through the internet - Google Patents

Method and system for spreading love and hope between people in the global community through the internet Download PDF

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WO2002031617A2
WO2002031617A2 PCT/KR2001/001708 KR0101708W WO0231617A2 WO 2002031617 A2 WO2002031617 A2 WO 2002031617A2 KR 0101708 W KR0101708 W KR 0101708W WO 0231617 A2 WO0231617 A2 WO 0231617A2
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  • the present invention relates to a method and a system for spreading love and hope between people in the global community through the internet.
  • Rapid development of information and communications technology enables real time bi-directional communications between people around the world through the use of a wired or a wireless communications network.
  • the internet is gaining popularity as a strong and effective means or a medium for the so-called knowledge and information revolution.
  • a method for spreading love and hope between people in the global community through the internet comprising the steps of: (a) determining a task proposed by a client (refered to as a task proposer) through a corresponding internet site as a determined task; (b) checking whether donating goods for the determined task is donated by the task proposer; (c) offering information on the determined task when the donating goods have been donated; (d) storing advice information on the determined task, the advice information being registered by one or more clients (referred to as advisors) based on the information on the determined task; (e) determining, by a predetermined selected advisor decider, one or more advisors as selected advisers among all the advisors who registered advice information and determining, by a predetermined distribution ratio decider, a distribution ratio of the donating goods for each of the selected advisors; and (f) distributing the steps of: (a) determining a task proposed by a client (refered to as a task proposer) through a corresponding internet site as a determined task; (b) checking whether
  • a system for spreading love and hope between people in the global community through the internet comprising: a web server for enabling clients to connect to a corresponding internet site of the system through a client interface and then search desired information and input desired information; a database (DB) for storing a task information inputted by a task proposer, advice information inputted by one or more advisors, membership information of the clients and donation information; a task management server for enabling clients including the task proposer and the advisors to access to the DB and retrieve or register desired information having the task information and the advice information; and a donation management server, wherein the donation management server enables the clients to access to the DB and then read or register desired information having the advice information and the donation information and the donation management server also enables the donation management server access to one or more donating goods receiving organizations and one or more transaction support organizations through an organization communication network and then input and identify information needed to perform donation of donating goods and distribution of the donating goods.
  • DB database
  • Fig. 1 shows a system for spreading love and hope between people in the global community through the internet in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention
  • Fig. 2 illustrates a flow chart for use in describing a method for spreading love and hope between people in the global community through the internet in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention
  • Fig. 3 depicts an exemplary web page viewing an input format of task information in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention
  • Fig. 4 presents an exemplary web page revealing an input format of determined task information in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention
  • Fig. 5 presents a web page which is given to a client who wants to offer advice information in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention
  • Fig. 6 presents a web page for use in advice information search and input of information for selected advisors in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
  • Fig. 7 gives a web page for use in viewing task completion information in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 1 shows a system 100 for spreading love and hope between people through the internet in the global community in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
  • the system 100 includes a web server 130, a task management server 140, a main database (DB) 150 and a donation management server 160.
  • DB main database
  • a donation management server 160 As systems connected to the system 100, there are a transaction support organization group 180, a donating goods receiving organization group 190 and client interfaces 111, 113 and 115.
  • the system 100 and the client interfaces 111, 113 and 115 are connected through a client communication network 120, e.g. the internet.
  • the transaction support organization group 180 and the donating goods receiving organization group 190 are connected to the system through a organization communication network 170, e.g., a value added network (VAN), respectively.
  • VAN value added network
  • the transaction support organization group 180 may include a financial institution 181 such as a commercial bank, an authentication authority 183 and a donating goods trustee institution 185.
  • the donating goods receiving organization group 190 have organizations which receive donating goods and use or distribute the donating goods in order to help people who are ill, handicapped, or very poor.
  • the donating goods receiving organization group 190 may have an UNICEF (United Nations International Children Emergency Fund) 191 and a national unemployed network (from now on referred to as NUN) 193.
  • UNICEF United Nations International Children Emergency Fund
  • NUN national unemployed network
  • the main DB 150 includes a task information DB 151, an advice information DB 153, a membership information DB 155 and a donation information DB 157.
  • the web server 130 enables clients to connect to a corresponding internet site, e.g., the main DB 150 through the task management server 140 and the donation management server 160 via client interfaces and the client communication network 120. With the aid of the web server 130, the clients can input data and/or search data to obtain desired information with respect to the system 100.
  • the main DB 150 stores task information suggested and inputted by a client, membership information of the clients, advice information inputted by one or more clients, i.e., advisors, donation information having information on a donating person or organization, donating goods, a donating method and a donating schedule, etc.
  • the task management server 140 enables clients to access the main DB 150 and then retrieve or register desired information including the task information and the advice information.
  • the donation management server 160 enables the clients to access to the main DB 150 and then read or register desired information including the task information and the donation information. Further the donation management server 160 enables the main DB 150 and the web server 130 to connect to the transaction support organization group 180 and the donating goods receiving organization group 190 through the organization communication network 170 and the donation management server 160 inputs and identifies the information needed to perform donation of donating goods, i.e., goods donated by corresponding clients, and distribution of the donating goods.
  • the client communication network 120 is typically the internet using the so-called hyper text transfer protocol (HTTP) .
  • HTTP hyper text transfer protocol
  • a cable TV network, a satellite communication network or a wireless mobile communication network can be used as the client communication network 120.
  • the client interfaces 111, 113 and 115 are typically personal computers (PCs) having web browsers installed therein, but not limited to PCs.
  • PCs personal computers
  • Fig. 2 illustrates a flow chart for use in describing a process of a method for spreading love and hope between people in the global community through the internet in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention. As illustrated in Fig. 2, the method, i.e., the process of the present invention is stared at a task determination step 210.
  • a client accesses the web server 130 of a corresponding internet site through a client interface, e.g., a client interface 111, by way of the client communication network 120 and then performs a log-in process. Then, the client registers task information.
  • a client who registered task information is referred to as a task proposer.
  • This task information proposed and registered by a task proposer is stored, i.e., registered in the task information DB 151 by the task management server 140 at the task determination step 210. From now on, the registered task is referred to as a determined task.
  • the process flows to a step 220 for checking donation of goods.
  • a master or a manager of the system 100 can perform an inspection for the task proposed by the task proposer before determining the proposed task as a determined task in the task determination step 210.
  • the system manager can reject the proposed task if contents of the proposed task is immoral or nonsense. Namely, the system manager may provide the client with an opportunity to register the task when the contents of the proposed task satisfies predetermined minimum moral and logical conditions.
  • information for the proposed task may include a title thereof, detailed description thereof, goods donating agreement information having a kind of donating goods, amount of the donating goods, a scheduled date of donation and a deposit bank account, etc.
  • Fig. 3 depicts an exemplary web page 300 viewing an input format of the task information in accordance with a preferred embodiment , of the present invention.
  • the client may input necessary information by using the input format of the task information on the web page 300 with the aid of searching windows and/or help menus therein.
  • the task information items include a title thereof, goods donating agreement, distribution ratios of donating goods, detailed description of the proposed task, etc.
  • the goods donating agreement information has a kind of the donating goods, an equivalent price or amount of the donating goods, a scheduled data of the donation, a deposit bank account, method of donation, etc.
  • the system 100 may provide a client with an advice search function. Namely, before carrying out the task determination step 210, the client may access the task information DB 151 and the advice information DB 153 through the task management server 140 and then search tasks and advices stored therein which he or she has concerns, thereby obtaining desired information relating to the tasks and the advices .
  • step 220 whether the client really donates the donating goods is checked, e.g., by the donation management server 160 of the system 100.
  • the donating goods may be money, an electronic cash, a stock, bond or other alienable material.
  • the client may input corresponding deposit information, e.g., the name of the client, a donation date and an amount of the donating goods through the web server 130. Then, this corresponding deposit information is stored in the donation information DB 157 through the donation management server 160, thereby completing step 220.
  • the step 220 may be carried out while the client's interface is connected to the system 100 through the client communication network 120 if the client wants to use a credit card to donate money or an unauthenticated electronic cash through on-line.
  • a necessary authentication and deposit process can be executed by the information communication through the corresponding client interface, the client communication network 120, the web server 130, the donation management server 160, the organization communication network 170 and the transaction support organization group 180 including the financial institution 181 and the authentication authority 183. Since the authentication and deposit process with the aid of the financial institution 181 and the authentication authority 183 is well-known in the art, the detailed description therefor is omitted herein for simplicity.
  • the goods are first transferred to the donating goods trustee institution 185, e.g., by the task proposer. Then, the information for the donating goods transferred and trusted in the donating goods trustee institution 185 is offered to the donation management server 160, e.g., by the proposer. This information is stored in the donation information DB 157 through the donation information server 160, thereby completing step 220. After step 220, the process goes to step 230.
  • step 230 information (referred to as determined task information) for a determined task is offered to clients through the web server 130 when corresponding goods have been donated to the determined task, wherein the determined task information is constructed and viewed in a preset format based on the task information and the donation information stored in the task information DB 151 and the donation information DB 157, respectively.
  • the clients can access the web server 130 and then see the determined task information.
  • Fig. 4 presents an exemplary web page 400 revealing an input format of the determined task information in a preset format in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
  • the determined task information may include a title of the determined task, detailed description of the determined task, an advice collection period information and amount of the donating goods, etc as shown in Fig. 4.
  • determined tasks There may be diverse determined tasks. Several examples of determined tasks are as follows: impressions of a book which is written by a candidate novelist; comfort to a girl who had a disappointment in love; and consumer opinions for newly developed tooth powder on the market.
  • the determined task information includes a title of the task, detailed description of the task and distribution ratios (e.g., recommended or determined by the task proposer) of the donating goods for one or more selected advisors and one or more donating goods receiving organizations (from now on referred to as "DGRO") (e.g., recommended or determined by the task proposer) .
  • DGRO donating goods receiving organizations
  • one or more clients i.e., advisors connect to the corresponding internet site, e.g., a web server 130 in the system 100 and then perform log-in processes.
  • the clients search and select a determined task and then read corresponding task information.
  • the clients i.e., the advisors register their advice information therefor by using a web page of a preset information input format.
  • the advice information on the determined task is registered by the advisors based on the information on the determined task and then stored in the advice information DB 153 through the task management server 140.
  • Fig. 5 presents a web page 500 which is given to a client, i.e., advisor who wants to offer advice information in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention. It is believed that those who skilled in the art can vary advice information input format referring to Fig. 5.
  • the advice information includes a title of advice, advisor identification information having an E-mail address and/or a telephone number thereof, detailed description of the advice and bank account information of the advisor.
  • step 250 part or all of advice information of other advisors previously stored in the advice information DB 153 can be offered to an advisor through the task management server 140.
  • the process flows to step 250.
  • one or more advisors are determined as selected advisors by a predetermined selected advisor decider, e.g., the task proposer or a predetermined person (or an institute) among the advisors who registered advice information within a predetermined advice information registration period.
  • a distribution ratio of the donating goods for each of the selected advisors is determined by a predetermined distribution ratio decider, e.g., the task proposer or a predetermined person or a representative selected advisor.
  • the representative selected advisor will be described later.
  • information e.g., a member ID and a distribution ratio of the donating goods for each of the selected advisors is inputted and stored in the advice information DB 153 through the web server 130, e.g., by the predetermined distribution ratio decider.
  • the selection of selected advisors and determination of the DGRO at step 250 are performed within a predetermined period, e.g., 10 days after step 240, e.g., by a corresponding task proposer, i.e., the client who registered the corresponding task information.
  • step 240 and before step 250 dialogue or communication, e.g., the so- called chatting, between the task proposer and the advisors can be executed.
  • This chatting process promotes the communication between the task proposer and the advisors.
  • a web page to enable the predetermined selected advisor decider and the predetermined distribution ratio decider to search registered advice information and information for the advisors.
  • Fig. 6 presents a web page 600 for use in advice information search and input of information for selected advisors in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention
  • the predetermined selected advisor decider searches and estimates the registered advice information by employing a search window 610 and then determines one or more selected advisors, e.g., by marking on corresponding positions in a selected advisor information input window 620 as shown in Fig. 6. Thereafter, the predetermined distribution ratio decider, e.g., the task proposer inputs distribution ratios on corresponding positions in the selected advisor information input window 620 and then registers information of the selected advisors, e.g., by clicking a information registration menu 630 as shown in Fig. 6.
  • This registered information of the selected advisors is stored in the advice information DB 153 through the task management server 140.
  • the process goes to step 260.
  • the process may be ended after step 250 by distributing the donating goods to each of the selected advisors in accordance with a corresponding determined distribution ratio.
  • one or more DGRO are determined as selected organizations by a predetermined DGRO decider.
  • the predetermined DGRO decider may be a task proposer or a representative selected advisor.
  • the representative is a selected advisor chosen or elected among all the selected advisors in accordance with a preset rule. For example, a selected advisor who has a highest selection frequency (i.e., number of selections divided by number of advices) or largest accumulated received goods may be such a representative selected advisor.
  • one or more DGRS are recommended or suggested by a task proposer as shown in Fig. 4 and then one or more DGRS are determined as selected organizations among the recommended ones, e.g., by the predetermined DGRS decider as illustrated in Fig. 5.
  • the DGRS may be determined by a third party recommended by the task proposer or the representative selected advisor.
  • the predetermined DGRS decider inputs information, e.g., corresponding names of selected organizations. Then, this information is stored in the donation information DB 157 through the donation management server 160. Then, the process goes to step 270.
  • distribution ratios of the donating goods for one or more selected organizations are determined by a predetermined distribution ratio decider, e.g., the representative selected advisor.
  • a predetermined distribution ratio decider e.g., the representative selected advisor.
  • information having a name and a corresponding donating goods distribution ratio of each of the selected organizations is inputted and stored in the donation information DB 157 through the donation management server 160 by the predetermined distribution ratio decider.
  • the donating goods are distributed to each of the selected advisors and each of the selected organizations in accordance with corresponding determined distribution ratios of the donating goods therefor, respectively.
  • the distribution procedure may be performed by a system manager or a previously prepared system program. For example, within a preset period, e.g., 15 days from the completion of step 270, the donating goods are distributed and transferred to the selected advisors and the selected organizations based on the information therefor stored in the donation information DB 157 by the system manager or the previously prepared system program.
  • the authentication and identification processes are usually carried out through the financial institution 181 (or the donating goods trustee institution 185) and the authentication authority 183 for the selected advisors and the selected organizations and then the donating goods are distributed to the selected advisors and selected organizations, e.g., UNICEF 191 or NUN 193. Then, the process is ended.
  • a step for providing task completion information between step 270 and step 280.
  • Fig. 7 gives a web page 700 for use in viewing task completion information in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
  • the task completion information includes a title of a determined task, member IDs of selected advisors, titles of selected advices, names of selected organizations, distribution ratios for the selected advisors and the selected organizations.
  • step 230 step 220 can be performed.
  • step 220 there may be a link enabling a client to go to relating internet sites, e.g., those of DGRO, having relations to the system 100. This link promotes the activities of the DGRS and the clients' access to the relating internet sites.
  • a task proposer can obtain important advice information from many friendly advisors; all the advisors can offer helpful messages or information to the task proposer; selected advisors can take rewards for their own advices to the task proposer; and the donating goods receiving organizations can obtain valuable aids. Therefore it is believed that all the efforts of the task proposer, advisors and donating goods receiving organizations spread love and hope between people, thereby resulting in evolution and enhancing atman spirituality of the global community.

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In a method for spreading love and hope between people in the global community through the internet, a proposed task is determined as a determined task (210). Then, whether donating goods for the determined task are donated by the task proposer is checked (220) If they are, information on the determined task is offered (230). Thereafter, advice information on the determined task registered by one or more advisors are stored (240). Next, one or more advisors are determined as selected advisors among all the advisors and a distribution ratio of the donating goods for each of the selected advisors are determined (250). The donating goods are] distributed to each of the selected advisors in accordance with a corresponding determined distribution ratio (280). All the efforts of the task proposer and the advisors spread love and hope between people, thereby resulting in evolution and enhancing atman spirituality of the global community.

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METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPREADING LOVE AND HOPE BETWEEN PEOPLE IN THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY THROUGH THE INTERNET
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a method and a system for spreading love and hope between people in the global community through the internet.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Rapid development of information and communications technology enables real time bi-directional communications between people around the world through the use of a wired or a wireless communications network. Especially, the internet is gaining popularity as a strong and effective means or a medium for the so-called knowledge and information revolution.
In recent years, information is actively exchanged between individuals and organizations through the internet and electronic commerce transactions on the web are rapidly spread all around the world.
It is believed that the internet is a strong means for spreading love and hope between people and for drawing consensus to resolve important problems the global community faces with. Further, people can share and make advices about various difficulties or tasks they meet in their life to thereby help each other and enhance their spirituality through the use of internet. Since, however, conventional technologies utilizing the internet have been developed mainly for commercial and business purposes, there have been limitations in developing a system and a method for realizing communications between people to spread humanism and cosmopolitanism in the global community. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is, therefore, an object of the present invention to provide a method and system for spreading love and hope between people in the global community through the internet. In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for spreading love and hope between people in the global community through the internet comprising the steps of: (a) determining a task proposed by a client (refered to as a task proposer) through a corresponding internet site as a determined task; (b) checking whether donating goods for the determined task is donated by the task proposer; (c) offering information on the determined task when the donating goods have been donated; (d) storing advice information on the determined task, the advice information being registered by one or more clients (referred to as advisors) based on the information on the determined task; (e) determining, by a predetermined selected advisor decider, one or more advisors as selected advisers among all the advisors who registered advice information and determining, by a predetermined distribution ratio decider, a distribution ratio of the donating goods for each of the selected advisors; and (f) distributing the donating goods to each of the selected advisors in accordance with a corresponding determined distribution ratio.
In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a system for spreading love and hope between people in the global community through the internet comprising: a web server for enabling clients to connect to a corresponding internet site of the system through a client interface and then search desired information and input desired information; a database (DB) for storing a task information inputted by a task proposer, advice information inputted by one or more advisors, membership information of the clients and donation information; a task management server for enabling clients including the task proposer and the advisors to access to the DB and retrieve or register desired information having the task information and the advice information; and a donation management server, wherein the donation management server enables the clients to access to the DB and then read or register desired information having the advice information and the donation information and the donation management server also enables the donation management server access to one or more donating goods receiving organizations and one or more transaction support organizations through an organization communication network and then input and identify information needed to perform donation of donating goods and distribution of the donating goods.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The above and other objects and features of the present invention will become apparent from the following description of preferred embodiments given in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
Fig. 1 shows a system for spreading love and hope between people in the global community through the internet in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 2 illustrates a flow chart for use in describing a method for spreading love and hope between people in the global community through the internet in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 3 depicts an exemplary web page viewing an input format of task information in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 4 presents an exemplary web page revealing an input format of determined task information in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention; Fig. 5 presents a web page which is given to a client who wants to offer advice information in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 6 presents a web page for use in advice information search and input of information for selected advisors in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention; and
Fig. 7 gives a web page for use in viewing task completion information in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
DESCRIPTION OF SPECIFIC EMBODIMENTS
Referring to Figs. 1 to 7, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described. Fig. 1 shows a system 100 for spreading love and hope between people through the internet in the global community in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
The system 100 includes a web server 130, a task management server 140, a main database (DB) 150 and a donation management server 160. As systems connected to the system 100, there are a transaction support organization group 180, a donating goods receiving organization group 190 and client interfaces 111, 113 and 115. The system 100 and the client interfaces 111, 113 and 115 are connected through a client communication network 120, e.g. the internet. The transaction support organization group 180 and the donating goods receiving organization group 190 are connected to the system through a organization communication network 170, e.g., a value added network (VAN), respectively.
The transaction support organization group 180 may include a financial institution 181 such as a commercial bank, an authentication authority 183 and a donating goods trustee institution 185. The donating goods receiving organization group 190 have organizations which receive donating goods and use or distribute the donating goods in order to help people who are ill, handicapped, or very poor. For example, the donating goods receiving organization group 190 may have an UNICEF (United Nations International Children Emergency Fund) 191 and a national unemployed network (from now on referred to as NUN) 193.
In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the main DB 150 includes a task information DB 151, an advice information DB 153, a membership information DB 155 and a donation information DB 157.
The web server 130 enables clients to connect to a corresponding internet site, e.g., the main DB 150 through the task management server 140 and the donation management server 160 via client interfaces and the client communication network 120. With the aid of the web server 130, the clients can input data and/or search data to obtain desired information with respect to the system 100.
The main DB 150 stores task information suggested and inputted by a client, membership information of the clients, advice information inputted by one or more clients, i.e., advisors, donation information having information on a donating person or organization, donating goods, a donating method and a donating schedule, etc. The task management server 140 enables clients to access the main DB 150 and then retrieve or register desired information including the task information and the advice information.
The donation management server 160 enables the clients to access to the main DB 150 and then read or register desired information including the task information and the donation information. Further the donation management server 160 enables the main DB 150 and the web server 130 to connect to the transaction support organization group 180 and the donating goods receiving organization group 190 through the organization communication network 170 and the donation management server 160 inputs and identifies the information needed to perform donation of donating goods, i.e., goods donated by corresponding clients, and distribution of the donating goods.
The client communication network 120 is typically the internet using the so-called hyper text transfer protocol (HTTP) . In a physical sense, a cable TV network, a satellite communication network or a wireless mobile communication network can be used as the client communication network 120.
The client interfaces 111, 113 and 115 are typically personal computers (PCs) having web browsers installed therein, but not limited to PCs. As a client interface, there may be employed various equipments such as a mobile phone, a kiosk, a personal digital assistance (PDA) or digital TV. Fig. 2 illustrates a flow chart for use in describing a process of a method for spreading love and hope between people in the global community through the internet in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention. As illustrated in Fig. 2, the method, i.e., the process of the present invention is stared at a task determination step 210. A client accesses the web server 130 of a corresponding internet site through a client interface, e.g., a client interface 111, by way of the client communication network 120 and then performs a log-in process. Then, the client registers task information. A client who registered task information is referred to as a task proposer.
This task information proposed and registered by a task proposer is stored, i.e., registered in the task information DB 151 by the task management server 140 at the task determination step 210. From now on, the registered task is referred to as a determined task. Next, the process flows to a step 220 for checking donation of goods. It should be noted that a master or a manager of the system 100 can perform an inspection for the task proposed by the task proposer before determining the proposed task as a determined task in the task determination step 210. In detail, the system manager can reject the proposed task if contents of the proposed task is immoral or nonsense. Namely, the system manager may provide the client with an opportunity to register the task when the contents of the proposed task satisfies predetermined minimum moral and logical conditions.
It is believed that those who skilled in the art can easily make or change detailed items and an input format of the task information. For example, information for the proposed task may include a title thereof, detailed description thereof, goods donating agreement information having a kind of donating goods, amount of the donating goods, a scheduled date of donation and a deposit bank account, etc.
Fig. 3 depicts an exemplary web page 300 viewing an input format of the task information in accordance with a preferred embodiment , of the present invention. The client may input necessary information by using the input format of the task information on the web page 300 with the aid of searching windows and/or help menus therein. Referring to Fig. 3, the task information items include a title thereof, goods donating agreement, distribution ratios of donating goods, detailed description of the proposed task, etc. Further, in Fig. 3, it can be seen that the goods donating agreement information has a kind of the donating goods, an equivalent price or amount of the donating goods, a scheduled data of the donation, a deposit bank account, method of donation, etc.
The system 100 may provide a client with an advice search function. Namely, before carrying out the task determination step 210, the client may access the task information DB 151 and the advice information DB 153 through the task management server 140 and then search tasks and advices stored therein which he or she has concerns, thereby obtaining desired information relating to the tasks and the advices .
At step 220, whether the client really donates the donating goods is checked, e.g., by the donation management server 160 of the system 100. The donating goods may be money, an electronic cash, a stock, bond or other alienable material. At step 220, if the donating goods is money or an authenticated electronic cash, after the client deposited the donating goods in a predetermined deposit bank account, the client may input corresponding deposit information, e.g., the name of the client, a donation date and an amount of the donating goods through the web server 130. Then, this corresponding deposit information is stored in the donation information DB 157 through the donation management server 160, thereby completing step 220.
The step 220 may be carried out while the client's interface is connected to the system 100 through the client communication network 120 if the client wants to use a credit card to donate money or an unauthenticated electronic cash through on-line. In this case, a necessary authentication and deposit process can be executed by the information communication through the corresponding client interface, the client communication network 120, the web server 130, the donation management server 160, the organization communication network 170 and the transaction support organization group 180 including the financial institution 181 and the authentication authority 183. Since the authentication and deposit process with the aid of the financial institution 181 and the authentication authority 183 is well-known in the art, the detailed description therefor is omitted herein for simplicity.
Meanwhile, if the donating goods are not money but products, e.g., books, clothes or other relief goods, the goods are first transferred to the donating goods trustee institution 185, e.g., by the task proposer. Then, the information for the donating goods transferred and trusted in the donating goods trustee institution 185 is offered to the donation management server 160, e.g., by the proposer. This information is stored in the donation information DB 157 through the donation information server 160, thereby completing step 220. After step 220, the process goes to step 230.
At step 230, information (referred to as determined task information) for a determined task is offered to clients through the web server 130 when corresponding goods have been donated to the determined task, wherein the determined task information is constructed and viewed in a preset format based on the task information and the donation information stored in the task information DB 151 and the donation information DB 157, respectively. As a result, the clients can access the web server 130 and then see the determined task information.
Fig. 4 presents an exemplary web page 400 revealing an input format of the determined task information in a preset format in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention. Those who skilled in the art can make various modifications on the input format to reveal the determined task information. For example, the determined task information may include a title of the determined task, detailed description of the determined task, an advice collection period information and amount of the donating goods, etc as shown in Fig. 4.
There may be diverse determined tasks. Several examples of determined tasks are as follows: impressions of a book which is written by a candidate novelist; comfort to a girl who had a disappointment in love; and consumer opinions for newly developed tooth powder on the market.
In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the determined task information includes a title of the task, detailed description of the task and distribution ratios (e.g., recommended or determined by the task proposer) of the donating goods for one or more selected advisors and one or more donating goods receiving organizations (from now on referred to as "DGRO") (e.g., recommended or determined by the task proposer) . The distribution ratios of the donating goods and the DGRO will be described later in detail. After step 230, the process goes to step 240.
At step 240, one or more clients, i.e., advisors connect to the corresponding internet site, e.g., a web server 130 in the system 100 and then perform log-in processes. The clients search and select a determined task and then read corresponding task information. Then, the clients, i.e., the advisors register their advice information therefor by using a web page of a preset information input format. The advice information on the determined task is registered by the advisors based on the information on the determined task and then stored in the advice information DB 153 through the task management server 140.
Fig. 5 presents a web page 500 which is given to a client, i.e., advisor who wants to offer advice information in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention. It is believed that those who skilled in the art can vary advice information input format referring to Fig. 5. For example, the advice information includes a title of advice, advisor identification information having an E-mail address and/or a telephone number thereof, detailed description of the advice and bank account information of the advisor.
In accordance another preferred embodiment of the present invention, just after or just before performing step 240, part or all of advice information of other advisors previously stored in the advice information DB 153 can be offered to an advisor through the task management server 140. After step 240, the process flows to step 250. At step 250, one or more advisors are determined as selected advisors by a predetermined selected advisor decider, e.g., the task proposer or a predetermined person (or an institute) among the advisors who registered advice information within a predetermined advice information registration period. Then, a distribution ratio of the donating goods for each of the selected advisors is determined by a predetermined distribution ratio decider, e.g., the task proposer or a predetermined person or a representative selected advisor. The representative selected advisor will be described later. In this case, information, e.g., a member ID and a distribution ratio of the donating goods for each of the selected advisors is inputted and stored in the advice information DB 153 through the web server 130, e.g., by the predetermined distribution ratio decider. In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the selection of selected advisors and determination of the DGRO at step 250 are performed within a predetermined period, e.g., 10 days after step 240, e.g., by a corresponding task proposer, i.e., the client who registered the corresponding task information.
Meanwhile, in accordance with another preferred embodiment of the present invention, after step 240 and before step 250, dialogue or communication, e.g., the so- called chatting, between the task proposer and the advisors can be executed. This chatting process promotes the communication between the task proposer and the advisors.
In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, for the performance of step 250, there may be offered a web page to enable the predetermined selected advisor decider and the predetermined distribution ratio decider to search registered advice information and information for the advisors. Fig. 6 presents a web page 600 for use in advice information search and input of information for selected advisors in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention
The predetermined selected advisor decider searches and estimates the registered advice information by employing a search window 610 and then determines one or more selected advisors, e.g., by marking on corresponding positions in a selected advisor information input window 620 as shown in Fig. 6. Thereafter, the predetermined distribution ratio decider, e.g., the task proposer inputs distribution ratios on corresponding positions in the selected advisor information input window 620 and then registers information of the selected advisors, e.g., by clicking a information registration menu 630 as shown in Fig. 6.
This registered information of the selected advisors is stored in the advice information DB 153 through the task management server 140. After step 250, the process goes to step 260. In accordance with another preferred embodiment of the present invention, the process may be ended after step 250 by distributing the donating goods to each of the selected advisors in accordance with a corresponding determined distribution ratio.
At step 260, one or more DGRO are determined as selected organizations by a predetermined DGRO decider. The predetermined DGRO decider may be a task proposer or a representative selected advisor. The representative is a selected advisor chosen or elected among all the selected advisors in accordance with a preset rule. For example, a selected advisor who has a highest selection frequency (i.e., number of selections divided by number of advices) or largest accumulated received goods may be such a representative selected advisor.
In accordance with another preferred embodiment of the present invention, one or more DGRS are recommended or suggested by a task proposer as shown in Fig. 4 and then one or more DGRS are determined as selected organizations among the recommended ones, e.g., by the predetermined DGRS decider as illustrated in Fig. 5. In accordance with yet another preferred embodiment of the present invention, the DGRS may be determined by a third party recommended by the task proposer or the representative selected advisor.
At step 260, the predetermined DGRS decider inputs information, e.g., corresponding names of selected organizations. Then, this information is stored in the donation information DB 157 through the donation management server 160. Then, the process goes to step 270.
At step 270, distribution ratios of the donating goods for one or more selected organizations are determined by a predetermined distribution ratio decider, e.g., the representative selected advisor. In this case, information having a name and a corresponding donating goods distribution ratio of each of the selected organizations is inputted and stored in the donation information DB 157 through the donation management server 160 by the predetermined distribution ratio decider.
Thereafter, at step 280, the donating goods are distributed to each of the selected advisors and each of the selected organizations in accordance with corresponding determined distribution ratios of the donating goods therefor, respectively. The distribution procedure may be performed by a system manager or a previously prepared system program. For example, within a preset period, e.g., 15 days from the completion of step 270, the donating goods are distributed and transferred to the selected advisors and the selected organizations based on the information therefor stored in the donation information DB 157 by the system manager or the previously prepared system program.
At step 280, the authentication and identification processes are usually carried out through the financial institution 181 (or the donating goods trustee institution 185) and the authentication authority 183 for the selected advisors and the selected organizations and then the donating goods are distributed to the selected advisors and selected organizations, e.g., UNICEF 191 or NUN 193. Then, the process is ended.
In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, there may be a step for providing task completion information between step 270 and step 280. Fig. 7 gives a web page 700 for use in viewing task completion information in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention. In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the task completion information includes a title of a determined task, member IDs of selected advisors, titles of selected advices, names of selected organizations, distribution ratios for the selected advisors and the selected organizations.
With reference to the task completion information, a task proposer, advisors and other clients can share the results of the efforts to solve the task and check errors which may occur in the process of the present invention. It should be noted that performing sequence may be changed in the method for spreading love and hope between people in the global community through the internet in accordance with the present invention. For example, after step 230, step 220 can be performed. Further, there may be a link enabling a client to go to relating internet sites, e.g., those of DGRO, having relations to the system 100. This link promotes the activities of the DGRS and the clients' access to the relating internet sites. As describe in the above, in accordance with the present invention, a task proposer can obtain important advice information from many friendly advisors; all the advisors can offer helpful messages or information to the task proposer; selected advisors can take rewards for their own advices to the task proposer; and the donating goods receiving organizations can obtain valuable aids. Therefore it is believed that all the efforts of the task proposer, advisors and donating goods receiving organizations spread love and hope between people, thereby resulting in evolution and enhancing atman spirituality of the global community.
While the present invention has been described with respect to certain preferred embodiments only, other modifications and variations may be made without departing from the sprit and scope of the present invention as set forth in the following claims.

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1. A method for spreading love and hope between people in the global community through the internet comprising the steps of:
(a) determining a task proposed by a client (refered to as a task proposer) through a corresponding internet site as a determined task;
(b) checking whether donating goods for the determined task is donated by the task proposer;
(c) offering information on the determined task when the donating goods have been donated;
(d) storing advice information on the determined task, the advice information being registered by one or more clients (referred to as advisors) based on the information on the determined task;
(e) determining, by a predetermined selected advisor decider, one or more advisors as selected advisers among all the advisors who registered advice information and determining, by a predetermined distribution ratio decider, a distribution ratio of the donating goods for each of the selected advisors; and
(f) distributing the donating goods to said each of the selected advisors in accordance with a corresponding determined distribution ratio.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein task is proposed with information therefor having a title thereof, detailed description thereof, goods donating agreement information containing a kind of donating goods, amount of the donating goods and a scheduled date of donation.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein said predetermined selected advisor decider is the task proposer.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein said predetermined distribution ratio decider is the task proposer.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the information on the determined task includes a title of the determined task, detailed description of the determined task, an advice collection period information and amount of the donating goods to be distributed to said selected advisors.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the advice information on the determined task includes a title of the advice, advisor identification information, detailed description of the advice and bank account information of the advisor.
7. A method for spreading love and hope between people in the global community through the internet comprising the steps of:
(a) determining a task proposed by a client (refered to as a task proposer) through a corresponding internet site as a determined task;
(b) checking whether donating goods for the determined task is donated by the task proposer;
(c) offering information on the determined task when the donating goods have been donated; (d) storing advice information on the determined task, the advice information being registered by one or more clients (referred to as advisors) based on the information on the determined task;
(e) determining, by a predetermined selected advisor decider, one or more advisors as selected advisers among all the advisors who registered advice information and determining, by a first predetermined distribution ratio decider, a distribution ratio of the donating goods for each of the selected advisors; (f) determining one or more donating goods receiving organizations (referred to as DGRO) as selected organizations by a predetermined DGRO decider;
(g) determining, by a second predetermined distribution ratio decider, a distribution ratio of the donating goods for each of the selected organizations; and
(h) distributing the donating goods for said each of the selected advisors and said each of the selected organizations in accordance with corresponding determined distribution ratios of the donating goods therefor, respectively.
8. The method of claim 7, wherein said first predetermined distribution ratio decider is said predetermined selected advisor decider.
9. The method of claim 7, wherein said second predetermined distribution ratio decider is either said predetermined selected advisor decider or a representative selected advisor.
10. The method of claim 7, wherein said predetermined selected advisor decider is the task proposer.
11. The method of claim 7, wherein the information on the determined task includes a title of the task, detailed description of the task, an advice collection period information and amount of the donating goods to be distributed to the selected advisors and the selected organizations .
12. The method of claim 7, further comprises the step of:
(gl) after said step (g) and before said step (h) , providing task completion information including a title of a determined task, ID information of selected advisors, titles of advices, names of selected organizations, distribution ratios for the selected advisors and the selected organizations .
13. The method of claim 7, wherein the donating goods is money.
14. A system for spreading love and hope between people in the global community through the internet comprising: a web server for enabling clients to connect to a corresponding internet site of the system through a client interface and then search desired information and input desired information; a database (DB) for storing a task information inputted by a task proposer, advice information inputted by one or more advisors, membership information of the clients and donation information; a task management server for enabling clients including the task proposer and the advisors to access to the DB and retrieve or register desired information having the task information and the advice information; and a donation management server, wherein the donation management server enables the clients to access to the DB and then read or register desired information having the advice information and the donation information and the donation management server also enables the DB and the web server to connect to one or more donating goods receiving organizations and one or more transaction support organizations through an organization communication network and then the donation management server inputs and identifies information needed to perform donation of donating goods and distribution of the donating goods.
15. The system of claim 14, wherein client interfaces include a personal computer.
16. The system of claim 14, wherein the organization communication network is a value added network.
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