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AssigneesFujitsu Limited, FFC Limited
InventorsAkio Yamamoto, Takehiko Toyosawa, Hiroshi Yamagishi
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This invention provides a trade system of contribution articles, which enables information gathered by many people to be efficiently used in the mass media such as a newspaper or a magazine. First, the contributor photographs an image of an accident or the like using a contributor terminal 7. Besides, position verification information of the accident locale is acquired from a position verification authentication server 3. Then, the image information of the accident or the like and the position verification information are registered into a contribution market server 13 by the contribution terminal 7. A person in charge at the mass medium operates a mass medium terminal 11 to access to the contribution market server 13, and finds out articles for which purchase priority is to be acquired. For example, when knocking down the purchase priority by the auction, the contribution market server 13 extracts an investigator in the vicinity of the locale of the accident or the like for the corroborative investigation, and transmits them to the mass medium terminal 11. The investigation request is transmitted to an investigator terminal 9 of the investigator. If there is no problem in the corroborative investigation, a purchase procedure is carried out. Incidentally, the contributor can set a condition concerning a selling destination and/or a sum of money, and according to that, a successful bid is determined.
An information processing method on a contribution trade market, comprising:
A program for a contribution trade market, embodied on a medium, said program causing a computer to execute:
A contribution trade market system, comprising:
An information processing method for a contribution trade market, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.
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Commerce: buying, selling or leasing transactions
Electronic shopping [e-shopping]: by investigating goods or services
Managing shopping lists, e.g. compiling or processing purchase lists: replenishment orders; recurring orders
Finance
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This application is a continuing application, filed under 35 U.S.C. section 111(a), of International Application PCT/JP01/02085, filed Mar. 16, 2001, it being further noted that foreign priority benefit is based upon Japanese Patent Application 2000-345070, filed Nov. 13, 2000.
The present invention relates to an information processing technique associated with the trade market of a scoop photograph etc. of an accident or the like.
In recent years, the performance of a portable terminal, a cellular phone or the like is remarkably improved, and in addition to access to the Internet and transmission and reception of e-mail, even the cellular phone or the like can take a static image or a moving image. Since a dedicated photographing equipment also becomes light and inexpensive, the number of persons carrying it has increased. Besides, in a next-generation mobile communication system such as IMT-2000, high speed data communication also becomes possible. Thus, it is becoming possible to transmit the taken static image or moving image in real time.
FIG. 1 is a drawing showing the outline of a system according to one embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a flow diagram of the whole business;
FIG. 3 is a drawing showing an example of information stored in a contributor DB;
FIG. 1 shows the outline of a system according to one embodiment of the present invention. A network 1 which is, for example, the Internet is connected with a position verification authentication server 3 for detecting the position of a portable terminal or a cellular phone and issuing positional verification information, a contribution market server 13 having a Web server function and performing a main processing of this embodiment, and a mass medium terminal 11 which is, for example, a personal computer installed with a Web browser and is operated by a person working in a mass medium. Besides, a contributor terminal 7, which is, for example, a cellular phone having a built-in digital camera 7a and is operated by a contributor, and an investigator terminal 9, which is, for example, a cellular phone and is operated by a reporter (investigator) of a mass medium can also be connected to the network 1. Incidentally, the contributor terminal 7 may acquire position verification information by accessing the position verification authentication server 3 through a cellular phone network 5 not the network 1. Besides, the contributor terminal 7 and the investigator terminal 9 can exchange e-mails.
The contributor terminal 7 may be a communication equipment, which does not have the built-in digital camera 7a and can receive information of static images or moving images from a digital camera or a digital video camera. Besides, a cellular phone may be connected to a portable terminal having no communication function.
The contribution market server 13 manages a contributor database (DB) 131 in which a contributor capable of registering an article or the like on the contribution market is previously registered, a mass media DB 133 in which mass media capable of using the contribution market are previously registered, an article DB 135 in which information of contributed articles or the like is stored, and an investigator position DB 137 in which position information of investigators of respective mass media, who were previously registered by the mass media, is stored at predetermined time intervals. For example, the position of the investigator terminal 9 detected by the position verification authentication server 3 is transmitted to the contribution market server 13 at predetermined time intervals, and the transmitted position information is stored in the investigator position DB 137.