WO2022270610A1

WO2022270610A1 - Device, method, and program for plurality of users to perform gifting

Info

Publication number: WO2022270610A1
Application number: PCT/JP2022/025210
Authority: WO
Inventors: 幸一郎城戸; 蔵人南; 憲志朗田村
Original assignee: エンゲート株式会社
Priority date: 2021-06-23
Filing date: 2022-06-23
Publication date: 2022-12-29

Abstract

This method for a plurality of users to perform gifting provides motivation to perform gifting within a prescribed period of time. First, a device 100 receives a point issue request from a fan terminal 110 (S201), and issues points to a fan who is using the fan terminal 110 (S202). The device 100 receives setting information relating to an event from an organizer terminal 120 (S203). Next, the device 100 receives a participation application for the event from the fan terminal 110 (S204). The device 100 then receives, from the fan terminal 110, a request for purchasing a gift, the target of the gifting and the gift having been selected in the request (S206). The device 100 selects one or a plurality of fans from among the fans participating in the event, on the basis of selection criteria (S208), and transmits to an NFT server 130 a request for granting an NFT as a reward to the selected one or plurality of fans (S209).

Description

Device, method and program for gifting by multiple users

The present invention relates to a device, method, and program for gifting by a plurality of users.

The main sources of income for sports teams are admission fees for games held at stadiums, advertising income from sponsors, broadcasting rights income for broadcasting or distributing games, and merchandise sales of goods related to the team or affiliated players. Earnings thus obtained are used for player rewards, player development, and the like.

Of the above revenue sources, product sales, unlike admission fees, are possible at any time regardless of whether there is a game or not, and are promising as a means to strengthen the operational base of sports teams. It offers sports fans a mechanism called "Gifting" where content can be sold and given to a team or its players. On the website "Engate (registered trademark)" provided by the applicant, a web page for each team can be viewed, where the team or its players can be specified as the recipient of the gift. When gifting is performed, who gave which gift to whom is displayed on the page. For example, by giving gifts during a game, fans can convey their feelings about the content of the game, and by giving gifts before and after the game, they can express their expectations, support, etc. for the team or its players. I can convey my feelings.

As mentioned above, gifting can bring income to sports teams regardless of whether there is a game or not, and there is a need for a new method to increase the enthusiasm of fans and lead to gifting during times other than games. ing.

It can be said that this new method of motivating gift giving within an arbitrary predetermined period is not only targeted at sports fans, but is generally desired.

The present invention has been made in view of such problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus, method, and program for gifting by a plurality of users, and to provide a method and program for giving gifts within a predetermined period of time. is to give

In order to achieve such an object, a first aspect of the present invention is a method for a plurality of users to conduct gifting, wherein a device selects from an organizer terminal holding an event during the holding period. a step of receiving setting information including conditions and digital data; a step of the device receiving requests to participate in the event from a plurality of user terminals used by the plurality of users; a step of receiving, from at least one of terminals, a gift purchase request in which a gifting target and a gift are selected within the event period; and the device giving the one or more selected users an NFT with which the digital data is associated.

In addition, a second aspect of the present invention is the method of the first aspect, wherein the step of providing includes a step in which the device requests an NFT server that can communicate with the device to provide the NFT. include.

Also, a third aspect of the present invention is the method of the second aspect, wherein the step of providing is such that the device sends an organizer address corresponding to the organizer to an NFT server that can communicate with the device. requesting the issuance of an NFT and the association of said digital data to said NFT, as the owner of said device; requesting a transfer to the user address.

A fourth aspect of the present invention is the method according to the second aspect, wherein the digital data is a visually displayable image or video, and the step of providing includes: Generate corrected digital data by correcting the digital data so that the serial number is included when the data is displayed, and store the organizer address corresponding to the organizer in the NFT server that can communicate with the device as, requesting issuance of an NFT and association of the modified digital data to the NFT; requesting a transfer to a user address that

Also, a fifth aspect of the present invention is the method according to any one of the first to fourth aspects, wherein the selection condition is to gift a predetermined number of points or more within the holding period.

A sixth aspect of the present invention is the method according to any one of the first to fifth aspects, wherein the setting information designates a sports team, a sports organization, or a sports player belonging to it as a selection condition. include.

A seventh aspect of the present invention is the method according to any one of the first to sixth aspects, wherein the setting information includes designation of a person as a selection condition.

Further, an eighth aspect of the present invention is the method of any one of the first to seventh aspects, wherein in response to the device receiving an NFT collection display request for displaying an NFT collection, the NFT including a display element representing one or more NFTs identified by one or more NFT identifiers associated with the user identifier included in the NFT collection display request to the user terminal that sent the NFT collection display request The method further includes transmitting display information for displaying the collection display screen.

A ninth aspect of the present invention is a program for causing a device to execute a method for a plurality of users to give gifts, wherein the device comprises an organizer terminal for holding an event. a step of receiving setting information including an event period, selection conditions and digital data from, said device receiving applications to participate in said event from said plurality of user terminals used by said plurality of users; said device receiving, from at least one of the plurality of user terminals, a gift purchase request in which a gifting target and a gift are selected within the event period; Selecting one or more users from the plurality of users who participated in the event, and giving the selected one or more users an NFT associated with the digital data. including.

A tenth aspect of the present invention is a device for a plurality of users to give gifts, which receives setting information including an event period, selection conditions, and digital data from an organizer terminal that holds an event. receives applications to participate in the event from a plurality of user terminals used by the plurality of users, and selects a gifting target and a gift from at least one of the plurality of user terminals within the holding period; receiving the purchase request for the gift, wherein the device selects one or more users among the plurality of users who participated in the event based on the selection conditions, and the selected one or more users is given an NFT associated with the digital data.

According to one aspect of the present invention, one or a plurality of users are selected from among a plurality of users who participated in an event held on the gifting service within a predetermined period, and the selected users are given settings for the event. Giving an NFT associated with the digital data contained in the information can provide incentives for gifting within an arbitrary predetermined period of time.

Fig. 2 shows a device for gifting according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 2 illustrates a method flow for gifting according to an embodiment of the present invention; It is a figure which shows an example of the event setting information input screen concerning one Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure showing the flow of NFT provision according to one embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a device according to one embodiment of the present invention. The device 100 communicates with a user terminal 110 used by a user via an IP network such as the Internet, and provides a gifting service in which the user can participate in an event for a predetermined period and give a gift. In addition, the device 100 communicates with the organizer terminal 120 used by the organizer of the event, and receives event setting information from the organizer terminal 120 . In addition, the device 100 communicates with an NFT server 130 that issues a non-fungibility token (hereinafter referred to as “NFT”) via an IP network such as the Internet, and selects one of a plurality of users who participated in the event. grant NFT to one or more users. Here, "gifting" means that a user purchases digital content called a gift for a specific target, and "purchasing" means paying the consideration. Examples of such targets include organizations such as sports teams, sports groups, and music groups, and persons such as athletes, artists, and entertainers.

The device 100 includes a communication unit 101 such as a communication interface, a processing unit 102 such as a processor and a CPU, and a storage unit 103 including a storage device or storage medium such as a memory and a hard disk. can be configured by running a program to do so. Device 100 may include one or more devices, computers or servers. Also, the program may include one or more programs, and may be recorded on a computer-readable storage medium to be a non-transitory program product. The program can be stored in a storage device or storage medium such as the database 104 accessible from the storage unit 103 or the device 100 via the IP network, and can be executed by the processing unit 102 . Data described below as being stored in storage 103 may be stored in database 104, and vice versa.

In the following, an example in which a sports fan makes a gift for an athlete, a sports team, or a sports organization will be described, but as described above, the present invention can be applied to people other than sports fans.

Figure 2 shows the flow of the method for fans to make gifts. First, the device 100 receives a point issuance request requesting the issuance of points from the fan terminal 110 (S201). In response to the point issuance request, the device 100 issues points corresponding to the amount of consideration included in the point issuance request to the fan using the fan terminal 110, and provides the gifting service provided by the device 100. It is stored in storage unit 103 in association with the fan identifier of the fan (S202). Here, points have been described as payment means having property value that are issued upon payment of consideration, but may be issued without requiring payment of consideration.

The device 100 receives event setting information from the organizer terminal 120 (S203). The setting information includes the period for holding the event and the conditions for selecting the grantee to whom the NFT is granted. Here, although the device 100 receives the setting information after the fan purchases the points, the order may be reversed.

The input of the setting information is performed by transmitting setting information input screen display information for displaying a screen for inputting the setting information from the device 100 to the host terminal 120, and displaying the web browser on the display screen of the host terminal 120. or from the setting information input screen displayed above, or from the setting information input screen displayed on the application installed on the host terminal 120 (hereinafter referred to as "application"). can be done. In addition, "setting information input screen" can adopt various forms such as web page, modal window, pop-up window when displayed on the web browser, and when displayed on the application It can be used as one screen of an application. In any case, any screen that includes an area having input fields for inputting setting information corresponds to the setting information input screen.

FIG. 3 shows an example of an event setting information input screen according to one embodiment of the present invention. The event setting information input screen 300 includes, in this example, an event name 301, an event description 302, an event image 303 displayed on the participation screen for participating in the event, and rewards given to selected fans among the participants. includes a reward image 304 to associate with the NFT awarded, point conditions 305 for selecting NFT grantees, event start time 306, event end time 307, and giftee designation 308.

For example, if the organizer of the event is a sports team or sports organization, the reward image 304 may be an image related to the sports team or the sports organization, an image displaying athletes belonging to the sports team or the sports organization, or the like. can do. Although an example of an image has been given here, the reward is not limited to an image, and may be video, audio, or the like. More generally, arbitrary digital data can be input as a reward.

The point condition 305 is a condition related to the points that the user needs to gift in order to be selected as an NFT grantee, and the point condition 1 is the number of gifted points among the event participants. The point condition 2 selects users whose number of gifted points exceeds the set point number among the event participants. Although not shown in FIG. 3, when point condition 1 or point condition 2 is selected, an input screen for further inputting details of the condition may be displayed. As for the point condition 2, setting the number of points or setting a lottery targeting users who have exceeded the set number of points can be mentioned. In addition, as another point condition, if the total number of points of gifting made by multiple users who participated in the event exceeds the set number of points, all participating users or one of the participating users gave gifts Select all users. In addition, as other point conditions, users who are within the top predetermined ranking on a first-come-first-served basis are selected, and among users whose number of gifted points exceeds the set number of points, users who are within the top predetermined ranking on a first-come, first-served basis You can select users.

　In addition to the point conditions, the selection conditions can include that the gifting was made to the specified target. In the example of FIG. 3, for example, when the organizer of the event is a sports team or sports organization, in addition to gifting to the own team or organization or any player belonging to it, It is possible to set a selection condition that a gift has been given to a designated player. Although not shown in FIG. 3, an input screen for designating an individual player may be displayed when the target player designation 308 is selected.

Also, as for the holding period of the event, for example, an arbitrary predetermined period can be determined by the start time 306 and the end time 307 as shown. If the organizer of the event is a sports team or organization, the duration may or may not include the playing time of the team or organization. If the organizer of the event is a music group or its management company, the holding period may or may not include the live time of the music group.

Next, the device 100 receives from the fan terminal 110 a participation application for the event set based on the received setting information (S204). The participation application includes the fan identifier of the fan using fan terminal 110 . In the device 100, if necessary, based on the received application for participation, it is determined whether or not the fan identified by the fan identifier included in the application for participation can participate in the event that is the target of the application for participation. (S205).

The transmission of the participation application from the fan terminal 110 is performed by the fan applying for participation by clicking or tapping a "participation" button or the like on a web page that can be viewed by the device 100 in response to the reception of the setting information. It can be carried out. When an application that allows the use of the gifting service provided by the device 100 is installed in the fan terminal 110, at least one of the setting information transmitted from the device 100 to the fan terminal 110 in response to the reception of the setting information. Using the part, fans can apply for participation from the participation application screen displayed on the app.

Then, the device 100 receives a purchase request for purchasing the gift in which the target of the gifting and the gift are selected from the fan terminal 110 (S206). The purchase request includes a fan identifier, an object identifier for identifying the selected object, and a gift identifier for identifying the selected gift.

For example, the device 100 that has received the gift purchase request determines whether or not the points required for the gift identified by the gift identifier are equal to or less than the points given to the fan identified by the fan identifier (S207). ). If the points granted to the fan are sufficient, the gift identifier is associated with the target identifier and the fan identifier and stored in the storage unit 103 as a purchase process, and the points stored in association with the fan identifier are redeemed. Update your balance. The balance can be updated, for example, by subtracting the points required for purchasing the gift from the points stored in association with the fan identifier. By storing the gift identifier in association with the target identifier and the fan identifier in the storage unit 103, the fan identified by the fan identifier is identified by the gift identifier in the target such as the person identified by the target identifier. It will be recorded that the gift was sent, so to speak.

Although FIGS. 1 and 2 illustrate that the device 100 receives an event participation application and a gift purchase request from a single fan terminal 110, in reality, from a plurality of fan terminals, Receive multiple participation requests and multiple purchase requests.

Based on the selection conditions included in the received setting information, the device 100 selects one or more fans from the plurality of fans who participated in the event set based on the setting information (S208). An application for participation in an event can be made during at least one of the period during which the event is held and before the period during which the event is held. Fan identifiers of a plurality of fans may be stored.

The device 100 transmits to the NFT server 130 an NFT grant request for granting an NFT as a gifting reward to each of the selected one or more fans (S209). The details of NFT provision will be described later.

Then, after receiving a notification from the NFT server 130 that the NFT grant has been completed (S210), the device 100 gives the NFT as a gifting reward to the fan terminal 110 of the fan who is the NFT grantee. A notification of this fact is transmitted (S211). The given NFT is associated with reward digital data included in the setting information.

In this way, one or more of the users who participated in the event held on the gifting service within a predetermined period are selected, and the selected users receive the digital By giving the NFT associated with the data, it is possible to increase the rarity of the digital data and provide a motivation for gifting within an arbitrary predetermined period.

In the above description, a request for NFT grant is transmitted to the NFT server 130 and NFT is granted to the grantee. good.

Details of NFT Assignment FIG. 4 shows the flow of NFT assignment in the NFT server according to one embodiment of the present invention. First, the NFT server 130 designates an NFT identifier such as a unique name, and uses the issuer address corresponding to the issuer identifier that identifies the issuer of the NFT, such as the organizer of the event, as the owner to issue the NFT. Issue (S401). Thereafter, the NFT identifier is designated to register the digital data included in the event setting information or its hash value (S402). As a result, the digital data is associated with the NFT identified by the NFT identifier, so to speak, converted into an NFT.

Then, the NFT server 130 transfers the owner of the NFT from the issuer address to the user address corresponding to the user identifier that identifies the user who is the grantee (S403). As an example, the issuer address and the user address are public keys in public key cryptography. By transferring an NFT issued with the issuer address as the owner in this way to the user address of the user who is the grantee, it becomes possible to verify that the NFT is officially issued, thereby It can be guaranteed that the digital data associated with the NFT is genuine digital data provided by the issuer. The verifiability of the NFT and the authenticity of the digital data obtained in this way are maintained even if the NFT is further distributed on the platform where the NFT issued by the NFT server 130 is managed.

Here, these processes are described continuously, but after the device 100 receives the event setting information, it requests the NFT server 130 to issue an NFT and associate the digital data, and the NFT to the user address. A transfer may be requested from the device 100 to the NFT server 130 after the grantee selection has been made.

In addition, although it was described that the digital data or its hash value is registered in the NFT after the NFT is issued, depending on the NFT method, it is also possible to set the digital data or its hash value from the beginning and issue the NFT. be done.

If the digital data included in the setting information is data such as images and videos that can be visually displayed, the corrected digital data that has been corrected so that the serial number is included when the digital data is displayed is associated with the NFT. By doing so, it is possible to further increase the rarity obtained by association with NFT. More specifically, the modified digital data associated with one or more NFTs given or transferred to the selected one or more users, the image displayed by the modified digital data Alternatively, by modifying the digital data so as to include the same serial number as the jersey number of the athlete included in the video, the rarity of the digital data can be overwhelmingly increased. The post-correction digital data can be generated by using the digital data included in the setting information in the device 100 by appropriately using image processing or video processing technology, and the post-correction digital data can be associated with the NFT by the device. 100 to the NFT server 130 .

The device 100 can hold an association between one or more users and one or more NFTs owned by each user. More specifically, one or more user identifiers are associated with one or more NFT identifiers that identify one or more NFTs whose owner is the user address corresponding to each user identifier, or one or more An association may be maintained between user addresses and one or more NFT identifiers that identify one or more NFTs for which each user user address is the owner. In the latter case, it is preferable to separately store a correspondence between one or more user identifiers and user addresses corresponding to each user identifier.

When the device 100 receives a display request for the NFT collection display screen from the user terminal 110, the device 100 determines one or more NFT identifiers associated with the user identifier included in the display request, and displays the one or more NFT identifiers NFT collection display screen display information for displaying one or more NFTs identified by can be sent to user terminal 110 . The NFT collection display screen can adopt various formats such as web pages, modal windows, pop-up windows, etc. when displayed on a web browser, and can be displayed on an app as a single screen of the app. can do. In any case, any screen including display elements representing one or more NFTs corresponds to the NFT collection display screen.

In the above-described embodiments, if there is no description of "only" such as "based only on XX", "only in response to XX", or "only in the case of XX", in this specification Note that it is assumed that , may also consider additional information. Also, as an example, it should be noted that the statement ``do b in the case of a'' does not necessarily mean ``always do b in the case of a'' or ``do b immediately after a'' unless explicitly stated otherwise. want to be Moreover, the description of "each a constituting A" does not necessarily mean that A is composed of a plurality of constituent elements, but includes that the constituent elements are singular.

Also, just in case, any method, program, terminal, device, server, or system (hereinafter "method, etc."), even if there is an aspect that operates differently from the operations described in this specification, each of the present invention Aspects are directed to acts that are identical to any of the acts described herein, and that there are acts that are different from those described herein, the methods, etc. It should be added that it is not out of the scope of the embodiments.

Also, "start" and "end" shown in FIG. 4 are merely examples, and do not necessarily mean that the method according to the present embodiment always starts at S401 and ends at S403.

100 device 101 communication unit 102 processing unit 103 storage unit 104 database 110 user terminal 120 organizer terminal 130 NFT server 300 setting information input screen 301 event name 302 event description 303 event image 304 reward digital data 305 point conditions 306 event start Time 307 Event end time 308 Designation of gift recipient

Claims

A method for gifting by a plurality of users, comprising:
a step in which the device receives setting information including the holding period, selection conditions and digital data from the organizer terminal holding the event;
the device receiving requests to participate in the event from a plurality of user terminals used by the plurality of users;
a step in which the device receives a gift purchase request in which a gifting target and a gift are selected from at least one of the plurality of user terminals within the holding period;
a step in which the device selects one or more users among the plurality of users who participated in the event based on the selection conditions;
and the device providing an NFT with which the digital data is associated to the selected one or more users.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein
The step of providing
A step of the device requesting an NFT server communicable with the device to provide the NFT.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein
The step of providing
the device requesting an NFT server that can communicate with the device to issue an NFT and associate the digital data with the NFT, with the organizer address corresponding to the organizer as the owner;
said device requesting a transfer from said NFT server to a user address corresponding to an elected user of said NFT with which said digital data is associated.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein
The digital data is a visually displayable image or video,
The step of providing
The device generates corrected digital data by correcting the digital data so that the serial number is included when the digital data is displayed, and an NFT server that can communicate with the device corresponds to the organizer. requesting issuance of an NFT and association of the modified digital data to the NFT, with the organizer address as the owner;
said device requesting from said NFT server a transfer to a user address corresponding to an elected user of said NFT with which said modified digital data is associated.
A method according to any one of claims 1 to 4,
The selection condition is to gift a predetermined number of points or more during the holding period.
A method according to any one of claims 1 to 5,
The setting information includes designation of sports teams, sports organizations, or athletes belonging to them as selection conditions.
A method according to any one of claims 1 to 6,
The setting information includes designation of a person as a selection condition.
A method according to any one of claims 1 to 7,
In response to receiving the NFT collection display request for displaying the NFT collection, the device is associated with the user identifier included in the NFT collection display request to the user terminal that transmitted the NFT collection display request. and transmitting display information for displaying an NFT collection display screen including display elements representing one or more NFTs identified by one or more NFT identifiers.
A program for causing a device to perform a method for gifting by a plurality of users, the method comprising:
a step in which the device receives setting information including an event period, selection conditions, and digital data from an organizer terminal that holds an event;
the device receiving requests to participate in the event from a plurality of user terminals used by the plurality of users;
a step in which the device receives a gift purchase request in which a gifting target and a gift are selected from at least one of the plurality of user terminals within the holding period;
a step in which the device selects one or more users among the plurality of users who participated in the event based on the selection conditions;
and the device providing an NFT with which the digital data is associated to the selected one or more users.
A device for gifting by a plurality of users,
receiving setting information including an event period, selection conditions, and digital data from an organizer terminal that holds an event, and receiving an application to participate in the event from a plurality of user terminals used by the plurality of users;
receiving, from at least one of the plurality of user terminals, a gift purchase request in which a gifting target and a gift are selected within the holding period;
The device selects one or more users from among the plurality of users who participated in the event based on the selection condition, and the digital data is associated with the selected one or more users. Gives a new NFT.