Patent Publication Number: US-2005132076-A1

Title: Method and system for showing web pages over internet and wireless communication networks in specific page designs and colors to indicate specific meanings of analytic information

Description:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION  
      The present invention relates to a method and system for showing web pages over Internet and wireless communication networks in specific page designs and colors to indicate specific meanings of analytic information obtained on the basis of personal information, psychology, and various eastern and western theories about fortune telling, particularly the denomination science, for telling a user&#39;s fortune on a web site. Personal information is entered by the user and corresponded to and analyzed according to data stored in a background databank to generate an analytic result about the user&#39;s fortune. The fortune result is shown on a specific page design and in a specific color, so that the user may know within what grade or type of fortune the analytic information falls as soon as seeing the specific color. Therefore, increased fun is created in fortune telling on a web site.  
     BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION  
      It is very popular to provide services about fortune telling based on analysis of a user&#39;s name over Internet and many other wireless communication networks. There are many web sites that provide fortune-telling services and have become a large group that may be searched at different portal sites, indicating that fortune telling is widely welcome by users over Internet.  
      The web site providing the service of fortune telling usually uses information about a user&#39;s background to provide an analysis of the user&#39;s fortune at the time the information is provided. For example, a fortune analyzing web site using the denomination science as a basis to provide basic analyses and suggestions about a user&#39;s fortune, marriage, business, property, etc. Currently, all the existing web sites providing the analytic information about the user&#39;s fortune simply show the web pages displaying the analytic information, either boding well or ill, in the same color and design. Different results from the analysis representing different grades of well and ill fortune are not distinguished with colors or color shades. Therefore, whatever the user has about the analytic information is always descriptive words on a monotonous page without providing the user with special fun in fortune telling. The fortune telling web site is therefore less attractive to users.  
      Therefore, it is desirable to develop a method and system to show the analytic information about a user&#39;s fortune on a web site in a manner that is more attractive to users.  
     SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION  
      A primary object of the present invention is to provide a method and system for showing web pages over Internet and wireless communication networks in specific page designs and colors to indicate specific meanings of analytic information about a user&#39;s fortune. Each of the colors indicates a specific condition of the user&#39;s fortune, so that the user sees the specific color to immediately know his or her fortune.  
      Another object of the present invention is to provide a method and system for showing web pages over Internet and wireless communication networks in specific page designs and colors to indicate specific meanings of analytic information about a user&#39;s fortune. A page providing a discount coupon is shown when the displayed page design and color represent an analytic result of fortune that does not meet a preset low standard, so that the user is encouraged to buy products or services provided by the web site to, for example, get more suggestions on his or her fortune.  
      With the above arrangements, fortune telling over a web site is not limited to monotonous word description. On the contrary, the user may enjoy the fun of fortune telling through operating a computer when different colors and page designs are shown on the web pages. Since the method and system of the present invention works on a platform that may be applied on the Internet and other wireless communication networks, it is very easy and interesting for a user to interact with the fortune telling web sites through a computer system. 
    
    
     BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS  
      The structure and the technical means adopted by the present invention to achieve the above and other objects can be best understood by referring to the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments and the accompanying drawings, wherein  
       FIG. 1  is a flowchart showing steps included in the method of the present invention;  
       FIGS. 2A and 2B  show two dialog boxes separately for confirming a membership&#39;s email address ( FIG. 2A ) and updating a membership&#39;s email address;  
       FIG. 3  shows an introductory page of the system of the present invention, on which a user may enter his personal information, such as name and sex;  
       FIG. 4  is a fortune result reference table showing different analytic results of fortune and specific colors corresponding to the different fortune results;  
       FIG. 5  is a first example of the pages included in the system of the present invention;  
       FIG. 6  is a second example of the pages included in the system of the present invention;  
       FIG. 7  is a third example of the pages included in the system of the present invention;  
       FIG. 8  is a fourth example of the pages included in the system of the present invention;  
       FIG. 9  is a fifth example of the pages included in the system of the present invention;  
       FIG. 10  is a sixth example of the pages included in the system of the present invention;  
       FIG. 11  is a page included in the system of the present invention, on which a user may enter to select printing a discount coupon;  
       FIG. 12  shows the discount coupon provided by the system of the present invention through the page of  FIG. 11 ; and  
       FIG. 13  is a block diagram showing a systematic framework of the present invention. 
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS  
      Please refer to  FIG. 1  that is a flowchart showing steps included in a method of the present invention for showing web pages over Internet and wireless communication networks in different page designs and colors to indicate specific meanings of analytic information for telling a user&#39;s fortune. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a system in which the denomination science is used as a basis to analyze a person&#39;s fortune, and the analytical result is represented using a specific page design in a specific color.  
      The method of the present invention mainly includes the following steps: 
          open a “membership” page and determine whether the user is a membership (Step A 1 );     if the user is not a membership, an inviting page is shown to invite the user to obtain the membership (Step A 11 ;     an introductory page is opened to introduce the functions of the system, and the user may enter his or her name and sex on this page (Step A 2 );     the user is prompted to confirm that the entered data on the introductory page is correct (Step A 3 );     correspond a string of the entered data to a background databank (Step A 4 ), and verify the user&#39;s email address at the same time (Step A 41 ); if the user, who is now a membership, wants to change his or her email address, a dialog box is shown for the user to update the email address (Step  42 );     a fortune result is generated according to data in the databank corresponding to the entered data (Step A 5 ); and     when a score representing the fortune result is lower than a preset low standard, a “Print Discount Coupon” page is shown (Step A 6 ), and the user may select to print a discount coupon or not.        

      Please refer to  FIGS. 2A and 2B  in which a Membership dialog box  10  and an Email Address Change dialog box  11  are shown. Please also refer to  FIG. 3  that shows an introductory page  20  for introducing the functions of the system and requesting the user to enter his or her personal information, such as name and sex. The page  20  is shown in the Step A 2  of the method of the present invention.  
       FIG. 4  is a fortune result reference table showing all possible analytic results of fortune generated in the Step A 5  of the method of the present invention. In the reference table of Step A 5 , the fortune results are divided into two categories, namely, well and ill, and may be further divided into six grades from well to ill. The first grade means extremely well and is represented with a red color, and shown on an “extremely well” page  21 ; the second grade means very well and is represented with a cardinal red color, and shown on a “very well” page  22 ; the third grade means well and is represented with a khaki color, and shown on a “well” page  23 ; the fourth grade means ill and is represented with a green color, and shown on an “ill” page  24 ; the fifth grade means very ill and is represented with a turquoise color, and shown on a “very ill” page  25 ; and the sixth grade means extremely ill and is represented with a mandarin blue color, and shown on an “extremely ill” page  26 .  
      FIGS.  5  to  10  are six result pages  211 ,  221 ,  231 ,  241 ,  251 , and  261  sequentially showing first to sixth examples of associating the fortune results generated at the Step A 5  with their respective corresponding pages  21  to  26 . These result pages are sequentially referred to as the “extremely well” result page  211 , the “very well” result page  221 , the “well” result page  231 , the “ill” result page  241 , the “very ill” result page  251 , and the “extremely ill” result page  261 .  
       FIG. 11  is a page included in the system of the present invention, on which a user may enter to select printing a discount coupon; and  FIG. 12  shows the discount coupon provided by the system of the present invention through the page of  FIG. 11 . When the fortune result generated in the Step A 5  is associated with a corresponding page  21 ,  22 ,  23 ,  24 ,  25  or  26 , a specific result page  211 ,  221 ,  231 ,  241 ,  251  or  261  is created. When the result page is any one of the “ill” result page  241 , the “very ill” result page  251 , and the “extremely ill” result page  261 , a “Print Discount Coupon” page  30  is opened, and the user may select to print a discount coupon  31  or not. The above-mentioned fortune result obtained in the Step A 5  is scored according to specific scoring standards, and the “ill” result page  241 , the “very ill” result page  251  and the “extremely ill” result page  261  all have a score lower than a preset low standard.  
       FIG. 13  is a block diagram showing a framework of the system of the present invention. As shown, the system of the present invention includes an input program B 1  capable of reading and storing a string entered by the user; a logic decision program B 2  for conducting logic operation on the string stored in the input program B 1 ; a background databank B 3 , to data stored therein the string having been logically operated by the logic decision program B 2  is corresponded to generate an analytic result; a fortune result reference table B 4  including more than one page, with one of which the corresponding analytic result from the background databank is associated to generate a result page; and an output device B 5  for showing the result page having associated the page from the fortune result reference table B 4  with the analytic result. The input program B 1  may be included in a web page of a web site to provide more than one input field for the user to enter personal information, such as the user&#39;s name. The pages of the fortune result reference table B 4  are shown in different colors, such as, for example, red, cardinal, khaki, green, turquoise, and mandarin blue to indicate different fortune results. And, the pages of the fortune result reference table B 4  includes at least two types, namely, well and ill pages, each of which may be further divided into three grades. Therefore, there are at least six pages to separately indicate six grades of well and ill, namely, the “extremely well” page  21 , the “very well” page  22 , the “well” page  23 , the “ill” page  24 , the “very ill” page  25 , and the “extremely ill” page  26 . And, the result pages generated from the fortune result reference table B 4  include at least two types that may be further divided into six types, namely, the “extremely well” result page  211 , the “very well” result page  221 , the “well” result page  231 , the “ill” result page  241 , the “very ill” result page  251 , and the “extremely ill” result page  261 .  
      The output device B 5  may be a screen of a computer, a screen on a mobile phone, or a screen on a personal digital assistant (PDA).  
      In brief, the present invention provides a method and a system for showing different web pages over Internet and wireless communication networks in specific page designs and colors to largely increase the efficiency of reading and determining the meaning of analytic information about fortune shown on the pages and to create increased fun in fortune telling over the Internet and the wireless communication networks, the present invention is therefore inventive when compared with the prior art.  
      The present invention has been described with a preferred embodiment thereof and it is understood that many changes and modifications in the described embodiment can be carried out without departing from the scope and the spirit of the invention that is to be limited only by the appended claims.