Patent ID: 8326752
Filing Date: 2012-12-04
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A community gift system that, when giving a gift to a specified recipient, allows an organizer who plans gift giving and participants who do not include the organizer to form a community and collect money in the community as a cost of the gift giving, comprising: a database generator that receives organizer data including a name and contact address of the organizer, and recipient data including a name and address of the recipient, through a network from a terminal of the organizer, and generates a community database storing the organizer data and the recipient data, the community database being able to store participant data specifying the participants and data of money paid by the participants, in association with the stored organizer data and recipient data; a participation-acceptance-screen generation unit that generates a participation-acceptance-screen and holds the participation-acceptance-screen at a first network address, the participation-acceptance-screen accepting inputs of declaration of participation, participant data specifying the participant who input the declaration of participation, a desired amount of money to be paid by the participant, and a congratulatory message from the participant to the recipient; a storage unit that, when accepting the declaration of participation on the participation-acceptance-screen, stores the participant data and the desired amount of money in association with the organizer data and the recipient data, in the community database; a congratulatory message registration unit that registers, in the community database, the congratulatory message in association with the participation data specifying a participant who input the congratulatory message and the recipient data; an invitation generation order accepting unit that provides, through the network, participant terminals with an invitation generation order accepting screen which accepts a generation order of an invitation for inviting a prospective participant to the gift giving, when the declaration of participation is accepted on the participation acceptance screen and the participation data is stored in the community database; an invitation generator that, when receiving an invitation generation order from the invitation generation accepting screen, generates the invitation message including the first network address to be sent to the prospective participant terminal and provides the invitation message so that the participants directly send prospective participants the invitation through an email; a congratulatory message display screen transmitter that generates a congratulatory message display screen including a list of congratulatory messages registered in the community database, and that transmits the congratulatory message display screen to the recipient terminal when receiving an access to a second network address from the recipient terminal; a thank-you message acceptance screen transmitter that generates a thank-you message acceptance screen on which the recipient inputs a thank-you message and selects a participant to receive the thank-you message from a list of the participants, and that transmits the thank-you message acceptance screen to the recipient terminal when receiving an access to a third network address from the recipient terminal; and a thank-you message transmitter that transmits the thank-you message which is input on the thank-you message acceptance screen by the recipient, to the participant terminal selected on the thank-you message acceptance screen, by using the recipient data stored in the community database.