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US 2001/0027416 A1Published application
Method of attracting customers in bulletin board and system using bulletin board
OwnerKoji Nakamurainventor
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When a client connected to a server via the Internet contributes an article to a bulletin board supplied from a server, another client that has seen the article evaluates the article, and enters the evaluation in the bulletin board. For example, the other client votes for or against the contributed article. Depending on the evaluation, the client that has contributed the article is given a certain benefit. If the other client votes for or against the article, then the client that has contributed the article is given a benefit depending on the number or proportion of votes for the article. The client that has evaluated the article is also given a certain benefit depending on the number of reactions to the article in the bulletin board, i.e., the number of times that the evaluation is entered.
A method of attracting customers in a bulletin board supplied from a server connected to a plurality of clients, comprising the step of:
A method of attracting customers in a bulletin board, comprising the steps of:
A method of attracting customers in a bulletin board supplied from a server connected to a plurality of clients, comprising the step of:
A method of attracting customers in a bulletin board, comprising the steps of:
A system using a bulletin board, comprising:
A system using a bulletin board, comprising:
A server connected to a plurality of clients via the Internet, for supplying a bulletin board to said clients and giving a client a predetermined benefit depending on the level of a reaction from another client with respect to an article which has been contributed to the bulletin board by said client.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.