AFFILIATE MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AFFILIATE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AFFILIATE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING THE PROGRAM

摘要

An affiliate management device according to one embodiment includes an access monitoring unit that, in accordance with a user's click on an affiliate link, stores click information associating a publisher of the affiliate link, a linked shop from the affiliate link and the user into a specified storage unit, an acquisition unit that acquires purchase information indicating a purchaser of an item and a selling shop of the item, a specifying unit that specifies a click history indicating click on affiliate links by the purchaser based on one or more click information corresponding to the purchaser acquired from the specified storage unit, and a determination unit that determines one or more publishers to receive an affiliate fee from the selling shop and an affiliate fee to be paid to each publisher based on the click history.

主权项

1. An affiliate management device comprising:
an access monitoring unit that, in accordance with a user's click on an affiliate link, stores click information associating a publisher of the affiliate link, a linked shop from the affiliate link and the user into a specified storage unit, the access monitoring unit overwriting another click information with new click information when the another click information corresponding to a linked shop and a user indicated by the new click information to be stored is already stored in the specified storage unit; an acquisition unit that acquires purchase information indicating a purchaser of an item and a selling shop of the item; a specifying unit that specifies a click history indicating click on affiliate links by the purchaser based on one or more click information corresponding to the purchaser acquired from the specified storage unit, the acquired click information including past click information related to affiliate links clicked on before when an affiliate link is clicked on last and last click information related to an affiliate link clicked on last; and a determination unit that determines one or more publishers to receive an affiliate fee from the selling shop and an affiliate fee to be paid to each publisher based on the click history, wherein the determination unit determines the publisher indicated by the last click information as a first payee of an affiliate fee from the selling shop and, when the linked shop indicated by the past click information and the selling shop are the same, determines the publisher indicated by the past click information as a second payee of an affiliate fee from the selling shop.