Control method, data structure, server, and recording medium

    公开(公告)号:US12229757B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-18

    申请号:US17385131

    申请日:2021-07-26

    Abstract: A control method includes: receiving first transaction data related to a sign-up for service and storing the first transaction data received into the distributed ledger included in each of the plurality of servers, the service offering, if a goal condition predetermined for the service is satisfied, a token to a participant that is a user who signs up for the service; storing, into the distributed ledger, second transaction data indicating that the user is offered the token predetermined for the service, if it is determined that the goal condition is satisfied; and storing, into the distributed ledger, third transaction data indicating that the user is offered a deposit that is a temporary token predetermined for the service, at a predetermined timing included in a period from the storing of the first transaction data into the distributed ledger until when determination of whether the goal condition is satisfied is performed.

    Incentive determination method, server, and recording medium

    公开(公告)号:US12132584B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-29

    申请号:US18197925

    申请日:2023-05-16

    CPC classification number: H04L12/2823 H04L12/283

    Abstract: A method includes: recording provision record information in which provider identification information which identifies a data provider, data identification information which identifies each of one or more items of provided data generated by a home appliance, and value reference information which serves as a reference for calculating a data value of each of the one or more items of provided data are associated with one another; and when the one or more items of provided data include used data that is data used by a data user, determining an incentive for the data provider of the used data based on the provision record information. The value reference information includes an index value determined by each of a plurality of value indexes.

    METHOD, SERVER, AND RECORDING MEDIUM
    3.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240095287A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-21

    申请号:US18521060

    申请日:2023-11-28

    CPC classification number: G06F16/95

    Abstract: A method includes: associating one or more data managers with mutually different models of a plurality of home appliances the one or more data managers managing data items generated by the plurality of home appliances; recording provision record information in which data identification information and manager identification information are associated with each other, the data identification information identifying each of one or more data items generated by the plurality of home appliances, the manager identification information identifying each of the one or more data managers; and determining, when the one or more data items include a used data item used by a data user, an amount to be transferred to a data manager that manages the used data item, based on the provision record information.

    Advertisement distribution method and advertisement distribution system

    公开(公告)号:US10984454B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-20

    申请号:US16898601

    申请日:2020-06-11

    Abstract: To provide an advertisement distribution method of determining a distribution destination of an advertisement of a product that has a low direct relevance to execution pieces of information collected from home appliances. The advertisement distribution method includes: a collecting step of collecting, from each of one or more of home appliances owned by each of users, one or more pieces of execution information each indicating a function that has been executed by the home appliance; a detecting step of, with respect to each user, detecting an unused function that has not been used in each home appliance by analyzing the collected pieces of execution information and functions of the home appliance; and a transmitting step of extracting a user who is expected to purchase a product based on a detection result, and transmitting an advertisement to one or more of the home appliances owned by the extracted user.

    Method for controlling information terminal apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US10292213B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-14

    申请号:US15791778

    申请日:2017-10-24

    Abstract: A method for controlling an information terminal apparatus is disclosed. The method includes, receiving first display data indicating a condition to permit collecting selection information indicating recipe information selected by a user, and recipe information for selection. Once a recipe is selected by the user, selection information indicating selected recipe information is received. Based on the received information, a determination of whether the selected recipe information has a specific health identifier, and a determination of whether the user has granted a comprehensive permission for collecting the selection information under the indicated condition are made. When the selected recipe information is determined to include the specific health identifier and it is determined that the user has granted the comprehensive permission, the selected recipe information is uploaded to a server without requesting an individual permission from the user.

    Information provision method and information processing method

    公开(公告)号:US10043141B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-07

    申请号:US14408654

    申请日:2014-04-10

    Abstract: An information providing method includes: transmitting, in response to a user's access using a display terminal, first display data, including multiple check items to be used by the user who is choosing a service provider to be allowed to use a target device's log information to check the reliability of that service provider, to a display terminal; receiving selection information representing a set of selected check items including at least one check item selected from the check items included in the first display data using the display terminal; transmitting second display data representing a set of reference check items including, among multiple check items received from other users' terminals, check items which are either similar to, or the same as, check items included in the set of selected check items represented by the selection information, to the display terminal; afterward receiving editing information representing an edited set of check items obtained by editing the set of selected check items, from the display terminal after that; and providing the log information to a computer of the service provider who has been chosen based on the edited set of check items.

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