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National Strategic-level Business Model Patent Patent No. 7315938: Related to Coupon Business ~(2) Specific explanation of the patent contents: Chat GPT Explanation (3) Enabling Licensing Agreements for the Future

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The Point Organization, Inc. (Head Office: Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo), Yuki Takeuchi, President of the Company, is currently working on obtaining approximately 27 business model patents, and two patents were granted in November 2025 and two more will be granted in December 2025.

Prior to obtaining the patents, the licensing agreement for "Patent No. 7315938" will be initiated.

The Point Organization is a sales consulting company that provides sales improvement and cost reduction services to business owners by introducing a system (A-GEL System: A-GEL Gift Points & A-GEL Gift Cards) for zero yen (post-paid success fee type) using the original coupons and original points of the customer. We are developing this business as a sales consulting company to improve sales and reduce costs.


We came up with the idea of this patent because we want to realize that "coupon recipients" receive many coupons, "coupon recipients" want to support their daily lives (lower their living expenses) as much as possible, "coupon companies" and "stores that give coupons" want to reduce the burden on them, and "stores that let coupons be used" want to reduce their costs. We want to reduce the cost burden on "coupon companies" and "stores that give coupons", optimize coupons, and make coupons more convenient. We want to eliminate losses for everyone. This patent was conceived with the desire to increase sales and reduce costs for small and medium-sized businesses.


YouTube video explanation of the contents of patent No. 7315938

https://youtu.be/6j15YxGLpts?si=gp6Qqi2AfS-QpIp3


The YouTube video is described in more detail in the explanation summary.

The following is an explanation of patent No. 7315938 with concrete examples that you can visualize.



Anyone can understand: "New world" created by the coupon patent.

In a nutshell... this patent is a technology that will end the "world where the couponer loses money" and make it possible for coupons to be used at other stores, so that "the issuer will receive a profit. The greatest feature of this technology is that it uses coupons (free value) instead of points.



Specific story including commercials and campaigns (complete version)

In this section, we will summarize the impact of the manufacturer-issued coupons, in-store usage, and commercials and campaigns into a single flow.

<Three main actors

The manufacturer (issuer)

Stores (merchants: the place where the coupon is used)

The user (the person who uses the coupon)


STEP 1: Manufacturers distribute coupons through commercials and advertisements.

The manufacturer advertises through TV commercials, YouTube ads, SNS ads, etc.

<Manufacturers

New product launch! 100 yen coupon present!" → Users can use the "coupon" from the app.

→ Users receive the coupon "for free" from the application. The coupon always includes the discount amount (100 yen) and the issuing ID (manufacturer ID). This is the patent issuance step.


STEP 2: The user uses the coupon at the store (merchant store).

<User> "Please ask for a 100 yen discount with this coupon.

"Please give me a 100 yen discount with this coupon!

<Store (merchant)

"Yes, I'll give you 100 yen off!

But originally...the store should lose 100 yen (the manufacturer gains and the store loses). (The manufacturer gains, the store loses.)


STEP 3: The patent is resolved! The "Settlement Step" is activated.

The coupon sales promotion circulation system automatically determines that "this 100 yen coupon was issued by the manufacturer,

→ The manufacturer automatically reimburses (settles) the merchant for the 100 yen (the amount of the subscription) deposited by the manufacturer in advance.

<The merchant is automatically compensated (liquidated).

The merchant is automatically compensated (liquidated) for the 100 yen (the amount of the underwriting) deposited by the manufacturer in advance! Thank you!


[This is not the end of the process, the real work begins here.

STEP 4: The effects of the commercials and campaigns are converted into "circulating value.

The manufacturer makes a commercial.

Users have coupons

↓ Users shop at merchant stores.

Users shop at merchants

↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓

Merchant store sales increase

↓ Increase in sales at the merchant store

Merchant pays "contribution" of increased sales to the merchant → system (success fee)

↓Payment to the merchant

System → Payment to manufacturer (return)

In other words, even if the manufacturer distributes coupons, the money is rather returned due to the effect of the commercial.

<Example

Manufacturer A: "100 yen drink coupon

→ Mass distribution via TVCM, user uses coupon at convenience store B

→ Convenience store B sells +150 yen. Convenience store B makes part of the increase in sales (e.g., +15 yen) as a contingency fee.

→ The system deducts expenses from the +15 yen and returns +10 yen to Manufacturer A.

<Result

Manufacturer A discounts 100 yen, but gets 10 yen back as a reward. This is the "sales promotion circulating" mechanism as the name of the patent implies.


STEP 5: Campaigns also cause "profit circulation to the issuer".

Member stores independently offer "Triple points if you use the coupon! Coupon can be used in advertisements! Coupon 10% increase! etc., the coupons that are actually used are identified with the manufacturer's ID, so the success fee is circulated to the manufacturer as well. In other words, the merchant's campaign also benefits the manufacturer, a structure that has never existed before.


STEP 6: Exclude self-promotion customers (regulars) → 100% fairness

If a user is a "regular customer of a merchant store",

→ If the user is a "regular customer of the merchant store," the store's own sales promotion (self-promotion) cannot be said to be a contribution to the manufacturer's coupon. The patent makes a complete distinction here. The patent is the world's first system to correctly evaluate the effect of sales promotions.


[STEP 7: Manufacturer does not lose money even for coupons left unused for long periods of time.

The patent goes further.

<In the event that a coupon is not used for a long period of time (coupon withheld), the manufacturer will receive a refund.

→ The manufacturer is refunded (the original funds are returned).

→ If the coupon is used later, it is automatically re-purchased and liquidated.

This system eliminates "waste" on the part of the coupon issuer.


Summary

How will this patent change the environment?

(1) No loss for the issuer (manufacturer/retailer)

(2) No loss in liquidation, profit returned by contingency fee, retained coupons refunded

→ Coupons will become a sales promotion weapon with zero cost.


(2) Member stores only gain from increased sales

Zero loss from discounting; success fees are part of the sales increase, so they do not hurt.

→ "Coupons are welcome" at more stores


(3) Convenient for users

Both manufacturers and stores give out the coupons, the app automatically logs in, and they can be used anywhere

→ Coupon culture expands quickly


(4) Effects of commercials and campaigns "circulate

<(Japan's first and the world's first system)

A's advertising leads to B's sales, B pays a success fee, and profits return to A. Since advertising costs are "recoverable," a cycle of CM investment, recovery, and reinvestment occurs, and the economic sphere grows.



■Patent Rank Class

<Evaluation Factors

Technological uniqueness (world class)

Difficulty of avoidance (6-level structure of ID x liquidation x promotional reward x history x exception x reservation)

Market scale (nationwide coupon, advertisement, and sales promotion market is several hundred billion scale)

Applicable to more than 20 industries (manufacturers, retailers, municipalities, shopping malls, e-commerce, applications)

Economic infrastructure (clearing and distribution infrastructure)


<Final Evaluation

National strategic level to ultra-national strategic level (a type of patent that fundamentally changes the market structure)


<Reasons

(1) The "issue loss problem" of coupons has been completely solved by technology. (2) Sales promotion and advertising costs have been reduced to a "minimum".

(2) Convert sales promotion and advertising expenses into "circulating assets.

(3) An economic system that benefits everyone: stores, manufacturers, local governments, and users (4) An economic system that cannot be circumvented by existing technology

4. a multi-stage structure that cannot be avoided with existing technology.



Finally

The shortest sentence you can understand

This patent is for a technology that creates a world where you don't lose money by handing out coupons; the more coupons you hand out in commercials and campaigns, the more sales contribution you get back automatically from coupons used at other stores.


1. The world realized by this patent 7315938

This patent is for a "circulatory sales promotion system" in which stores and manufacturers that issue coupons "do not lose money" and "receive money back for their contribution" even if the coupons are used at other stores. This patent was established by using a coupon (free value).


2. who uses what, to whom, and how (high accuracy x anyone can understand)

<Who (issuer)

Retailers (Store A), manufacturers (manufacturer-issued coupons), brand headquarters, franchise headquarters, shopping arcades, local governments

In other words, "anyone can be the issuer" (it can be Store A, the manufacturer, or the local government)

<To whom (recipient)

Users (general consumers)

<What to use (technical core)

1. coupon with issuer ID (maximum inventoried points)

  Number of coupon points (discount amount), issuer ID (store A, manufacturer, local government...) 2.

2. clearing database (management of who has the discount source)

Algorithm to generate success fees (sales promotion fees)

→ 3) Algorithm to generate success fees (sales promotion fees) 4) Mechanism to return money from used stores (recipients) back to the issuer

4. fair distribution based on ownership and appropriation rates

→ Extremely strong technical scope of rights

5. exception handling (self-promotion customers = regulars are excluded)

→ "anti-fraud brain" that returns rewards only to the right people

6. coupon refund function (zero waste burden on the issuer)


How it works (simplest flow from Fig. 1 to Fig. 8)

The following can be established for both store-issued and manufacturer-issued coupons.

Step (1): Issuer distributes coupons

<In the case of store A

Store A: "100 yen coupon present for app members!

<In the case of a coupon issued by the manufacturer

Manufacturer: "Our new product campaign, issue a 100 yen coupon!

Here, the system generates data for the number of coupon points, issuing source ID (Store A or manufacturer), and user ID. Corresponds to S101-S107 in Fig. 3.


Step (2): The discount source (subscription amount) is deposited by the issuing source.

If the coupon is issued by Store A, Store A deposits the coupon resource (100 yen).

If the coupon is issued by the manufacturer, the manufacturer bears the cost.

→ The clearing DB records "The source of this coupon is Store A (or the manufacturer).

Fig. 3 S102


Step (3): Customer uses the coupon at another store (destination)

<Example

Coupon issued by store A → used at store B, Coupon issued by manufacturer → used at store C

This will increase sales at the store where the coupon is used.

Figure 4 S201-S203


Step (4): The system compensates (clears) the "Issuer → Recipient".

If a coupon of 100 yen is used: The issuer (Store A or manufacturer) bears the cost and the recipient (Store B) is compensated 100 yen so that the recipient does not lose money.

Fig. 4 S206-S208 This is the first step of fairness.


Step (5): Success fee (sales promotion fee)

This is the most important revolutionary point of this patent.

Store B pays a "success reward (sales promotion reward)" to the system according to the sales because Store B's sales increased due to Store A's (or the manufacturer's) coupon.

<Example

If Store B's sales increased by 1,000 yen due to the coupon of 100 yen, it pays "20 yen as a sales promotion reward.

Fig. 5 S213~S215


Step (6): Success fees are returned to the issuer (circulation)

The success fee received by the system, excluding the system operation cost, is "returned" to the issuer, so the issuer of the coupon does not lose money, but rather, profits are returned.

Fig. 5 S217 and S218


Step (7): Fair distribution based on ownership and allocation rates

When multiple companies issue coupons, they are distributed strictly based on the ownership rate (the percentage of coupons held by users) and the appropriation rate (the percentage of coupons used by which stores).

131a and 131b in Fig. 4 and Fig. 5 → Extremely precise and difficult-to-avoid scope of rights.


Step (8): Exception handling (exclusion of self-promotion customers)

If a customer is a regular customer of Store B, his sales are not a contribution of Store A coupons

→ Success fees are not generated.

Fig. 5 S211-S212 → World's first function to prevent "lies" in sales promotion effects


Step (9): Retention coupon refund function (zero burden on the issuer)

<If the coupon has not been used for a long period of time

Refund to the issuer (store A or manufacturer) (Fig. 7), if the coupon is used later, re-purchase and liquidate (Fig. 8) → The system completely eliminates the wasteful burden.


3. Who benefits and how will the world change if this patent is used?

(1) The issuer (A shop/manufacturer) "does not lose money".

<(2) The world will change to one in which the issuer (store A or manufacturer) "does not lose money.

If it is used in other stores, the issuer loses money.

<Conventional

Even if the coupon is used by another store, the issuer is compensated by liquidation, the success fee is circulated and the profit is returned, and the retained coupon is refunded → Zero loss structure is established.


(2) The recipient of the coupon (Store B or Store C) "only gains in sales".

(3) Even if a coupon is used, the customer is compensated, and a contingency fee is paid for the increase in sales.

→ (3) Profit is established to the extent that profits are positive.

Sales staffs will be "happy that coupons are used".


(3) Coupons issued by manufacturers are also supported

For manufacturer-issued coupons, source ID = manufacturer, source of funds = manufacturer, recipient of funds = merchant

The flow is the same.


1. used at the merchant

2. compensation to the merchant from the amount underwritten by the manufacturer

3. increase in sales at the merchant

4. sales promotion rewards to the system

5. system→return to manufacturer


<Example of corporate model

Beverage manufacturer x Convenience store

Cosmetics manufacturer x Drugstore

Food manufacturer x Supermarket

Food manufacturer × supermarket ・ Electric appliance manufacturer × electronics mass retailer

→ Ideal sales promotion collaboration" is established, with no loss for the manufacturer and increased sales for the retailer.


(4) Super convenient for users

Coupons from various stores can be obtained, automatic login with smartphones, use anywhere, and no loss for the store side, so campaigns increase.


(5) The entire market will evolve into a "cyclical" market

The more coupons are distributed, the more the entire economic sphere is activated, and an "eco-system" is established in which profits are circulated to the issuer.


4. "Rank Class" of this patent

<The following criteria are used to evaluate patents.

Technological uniqueness, difficulty in circumventing, social and market impact, commercialization (across industries), sales promotion DX, urban OS, shopping district, local government, EC, spillover to manufacturer's sales promotion



Overall rank: National strategic level (highest level)

Reasons

(1) World's first technology to solve the problem of unfairness of coupons (only the issuer loses money)

(2) "Universal structure" that can be applied to both manufacturers and retailers as well as local governments

3. implementation of the new economic principle of the cycle of success rewards as a technology

4. four brains of liquidation, distribution, exception handling, and retained refund are very strong in the scope of rights

5. the one and only invention that the effects of a commercial campaign are "circulated to the issuer" as well

6. applicable to at least 20 industries including retail, e-commerce, manufacturers, local governments, shopping malls, finance, etc.


Applicable to at least 20 industries

→Patent with the power to fundamentally change the structure of the coupon market (several hundred billion yen) = core IP of national strategic level



Conclusion

In a nutshell that anyone can understand

This patent is an invention that creates a "circular sales promotion economy" in which there is no loss even if free coupons are given out. The coupon issuer (store A, manufacturer, or municipality) receives money back only for the sales promotion contribution of the coupon used at other stores. This is a national-level patent with ultra-high value that can be introduced to all retailers, manufacturers, e-commerce companies, and local governments.



■Company Profile

Point Organization Co.

Location: Room 301, 3F HOUSE2717, 2-7-9 Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo


YouTube video explanation of the services provided by Point Organization, Inc. with this business model patent

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https://youtube.com/watch?v=N7QjlL0ad7s&feature=shared

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