Patent ID: 7043527

Claim:
An information service offering system for realizing a service to receive information from contributors through a network and to offer the contributed information to a third party for pay, the information service offering system comprising: communication units for contributors; communication units for planners who plan services; communication units for service users who will purchase contributed information; an information sharing server; and a service execution device which executes provision of information to a service user on the basis of a request from the service user, wherein: the communication units for the contributors, the communication units for the planners, the communication units for the service users and the information sharing server are communicably connected to each other through a network; the information sharing server comprises: a plan registration device which registers information about each of the planners at a request from the planner; a plan exhibition device which shows planned pages opened by the planners to the service users; a contributor management device which manages the contributors who contribute information to the planned pages; a contributed information management device which manages the information contributed by the contributors; a service management device which accepts orders from the service users and manages in accordance with each order the corresponding service executed by the service execution device; a profit management device which manages a profit obtained as a charge for use of each service; a service use instance totalization device which totalizes instances of use of the service registered on the information sharing server and developed by each planner and instances of use of the contributed information with respect to each planner and with respect to each contributor; and a profit return amount computation device which computes, on the basis of the results of totalization obtained by the service user instance totalization device, an amount of money to be returned to each planner and an amount of money to be returned to each contributor as portions of a profit made by setting the contributed information; each of the communication units for the planners includes a device which transmits, to the information sharing server, data for application of registration of each planned page and the corresponding planner information in the information sharing server; each of the communication units for the contributors includes a device which transmits, to the information sharing server, contributed information treated as an object to be offered for pay and corresponding contributor information; and each of the communication units for the service users includes a device which transmits order data for purchasing desired contributed information by accessing the corresponding planned page opened by the planner.