JP2001236407A - Electronic shopping system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic shopping system which promotes sales of system constitution components for electronic shopping which handles the system constitution components as articles. SOLUTION: This system is equipped with a plotting means for planning a system article by combining system components and a means which allows an article purchase applicant to use the plotting means on the screen of a terminal. Furthermore, the system is equipped with a means, which displays the price of the system article which is planned by the plotting means in real time on the terminal of the article purchase applicant.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] The present invention relates to an electronic shopping system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As electronic shopping using the Internet becomes widespread, it is necessary to sell system components for forming a united system as electronic merchandise. May be required. For example, gardening supplies such as lawns, stones, plants, and figurines for gardening your home premises, furniture such as tables, chairs, and chests for planning your own interiors, and a computer system in your living room In this case, the user purchases products such as a personal computer, a printer, a scanner, a desk, and a chair.

[0003]

However, in purchasing system components as described above, the system components to be purchased are determined depending on what kind of system is to be formed. Even if an intriguing system component is displayed on the homepage, or even if a sample of the system is displayed, the system alone cannot clearly envision the system that it is trying to form. As a result, system components are not easily sold.

[0004] In view of the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide an electronic shopping system which is intended for electronic shopping using a system component as a product and can promote sales of the system component. I do.

[0005]

An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic shopping system which is connected to a terminal of a purchaser of a product via the Internet, wherein the products constitute a system product having a high degree of freedom in combination. Electronic equipment comprising: a drawing means for planning a system product by combining the system components; and a means for using the drawing means on a screen of a terminal of a product purchase applicant. Solved by the shopping system.

[0006] In this electronic shopping system, a product purchaser who has accessed the system homepage can plan a system that suits his or her preference by combining system components when purchasing system components. Therefore, it is possible to visually grasp the system to be formed by itself, to create a great opportunity to purchase system components, and to contribute to sales promotion of products.

In the case where the system is provided with a means for displaying the prices of the system products being planned by the drawing means on the terminal of the product purchaser in real time during the planning of the system, Planning can be carried out while always being aware of the costs necessary to form the product, and if it is unexpectedly expensive, you can reselect or delete products, When the budget is likely to be too high, it is possible to make a change such as reselecting to a more expensive product, thereby further increasing the motivation for purchase.

[0008] In the above electronic shopping system, the system product is related to a house owned by the product purchaser, and means for storing information on the house owned by the product purchaser as a database; Means for authenticating a product purchaser in response to a request for use of information from a customer terminal, and, if authenticated, sends information on the home of the product purchaser to the product purchaser terminal, Means for displaying information in the form of graphic data in the drawing area of the drawing means, and graphic data of system components in the drawing area of the drawing means in which the graphic data relating to the house are displayed, at the same scale as the drawing relating to the house. And means for displaying are preferably provided.

In this electronic shopping system, when purchasing a house-related product, it is determined whether or not the product is suitable for the house based on information on the house owned by the user. Whether the system components can be installed and installed in the building or premises of the house where they live, or whether the system components can be carried into the building or premises of the house where they live, etc. Can be visually checked on the spot, and the purchase by those who have abandoned the purchase because they cannot grasp the relationship between the information about their own home and the system components to be purchased is promoted. be able to.

[0010] In addition, although the information about the house that the user has is personal information related to privacy, in consideration of the fact, not everyone can obtain his / her own information. However, since the system can only access the information, the information is not abused.

The information to be stored in the database does not need to be newly created from scratch. Instead, based on existing information created by a house maker or the like in the construction of the house, the information can be used as it is or in an easy-to-use manner. It is sufficient to process the data and accumulate it, so that the database can be easily constructed. In other words, according to the present system, it is possible to effectively use information that has been used in a limited number of places, and to effectively and effectively use the information in electronic shopping.

In the case where the house-related system product is a garden of a house and the system component product is a gardening product for forming a garden, sales of the gardening product, which is hardly linked to sales in electronic shopping, are required. It becomes possible to promote.

[0013]

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

The electronic shopping system according to the present embodiment relates to gardening, and sells various gardening supplies, which are system components for building up a garden at home as a system as a system with unity and unity as a product. The present invention is applied to an electronic shopping system, and an information providing system is also incorporated in the electronic shopping system.

There are various types of gardening articles as commodities.
There are a group of products related to plants and a group of products related to figurines. The ground-related products include lawns, wooden boards, slabs, various tiles, bricks, gravel, sand, etc.
It includes various trees and flowers, and the figurine-related items include tables, chairs, vases, and stone statues. These are the products handled in the system of the present invention.

In the present system, a user who accesses the homepage of the present system via the Internet in hopes of purchasing a product plans the garden on the screen of the user's terminal by using the above gardening supplies. You can go. In addition, at the time of planning, graphic information relating to a house building or site owned by the user is displayed on this screen, and this information can be used for planning.

As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG.
Is composed of a system main body 2 of an electronic shopping system and an Internet communication network 4 connecting the system main body 2 to user terminals 3... The user can access the provided homepage 6 and purchase gardening supplies. When an application for purchase is made, as shown in FIG. 2, an order for a product is placed from the system body 2 to a product exhibition shop 5 such as a home center, and the product is delivered to the user.

As shown in FIG. 1, the system body 2 includes:
A database, processing means, and the like are provided.

The processing means includes a drawing means 7 for planning, a means 8 for providing information on a house owned by the user, a means 9 for processing authentication of a user who wants to use the information on the house, and a product total in the planning process. It includes a unit 10 for calculating and displaying a price, a quotation creation display unit 11 and the like.

The database includes a database 12 about commodities, a database 13 about houses owned by the user, a database 14 used for user authentication, a database 15 for registering user planning data, and the like.

The database 12 relating to commodities includes, as individual data of gardening supplies as commodities, data for specifying the commodities, commodities detailed data which describes the commodities by images and sentences, and planning. Stores information on product graphics to be used, data on product prices, and the like. These are shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 5, the information is created based on information collected from an exhibit shop 5 such as a home center that provides products.

The house database 13 contains information necessary for planning a garden, for example,
Stores information about residential premises and buildings. As shown in FIG. 2, the database 13 can be easily created based on, for example, information on a house owned by a customer managed by a customer information management section 16 of a house maker. This information is personal information related to the privacy of the user. When registering this information in the database 13, as shown in FIG. 2, agreement between the user 16 who has this information legally and the user, and information It goes without saying that the condition is that a contract relationship between the owner 16 and the administrator of the system main body 2 is established. In this system 1, the processing means 9 for user authentication and the database 14 for processing function as a fort for preventing other persons from misusing the personal information on the house thus stored in the database 13 of the system body 2. I do. Therefore, as long as such agreements and contractual relationships are properly made, the system is not limited to mediating the provision of information about houses between a particular house maker and the person who purchased the house from that manufacturer, Of course, it is also possible to function as a system for mediating the provision of information on houses between a plurality of house makers and those who have purchased houses from each of these makers. That is, there may be a plurality of persons 16 who legally have information about the house.

In addition, it goes without saying that the system main body 2 includes processing means for settlement and a database therefor, but their description is omitted here.

A user can purchase a gardening article as follows. That is, as shown in FIG. 3, when the user connects to the Internet using the terminal 3 and accesses a homepage for gardening provided by the system body 2, an initial screen of the homepage is displayed on the screen of the terminal 3 of the user. (S1, S2, S
3). FIG. 4 shows an example of a screen displayed on the terminal 3.

As shown in FIG. 4, the screen 6 is provided with portions 17 and 18 for inputting a user name and a password, and a logon button 19 is provided beside the portions.
A place 20 for inputting the name of the new plan is provided, and a button 21 for opening a new plan is provided beside the place 20. In addition, a place 23 for selecting a registered plan
Is provided, and a button 24 for opening the selected registration plan is provided beside it.

On the initial screen 6, the user first inputs a user name and a password, and presses the logon button 19 to transmit (S4). Then, the information is
The information is received by the system main body 2 (S5), and the authentication processing means 9 of the system main body 2 searches the authentication information database 14 (S6) to determine whether the user is a registered user. Then, only when it is determined that the user is a legitimate user, the user is permitted to use the system 1 and to use information on the house owned by the user (S7, S8).

Thereafter, on the initial screen 6, the plan name is input to the input section 20 for the new plan name, and the open button 21 is pressed (S9). Then, a screen 25 for performing planning as shown in FIG. 5 is transmitted from the system main body 2 to the user terminal 3 and displayed, and planning can be performed (S10, S11, S12, S12).
13).

The planning screen 25 shown in FIG. 5 includes an area 26 for drawing, a button 27 for using information on a house owned by the user, a product selection frame 28, and layout, selection, and deletion operations for drawing and editing. A section 29, a layer list 30, a place 31 for displaying the total price of commodities in the middle of planning, a button 32 for creating an estimate after planning is completed, and the like are displayed.

For planning, using this screen 25,
For example, it can be performed as follows. That is, first, the house information use button 27 is pressed. Then, FIG.
As shown in (a), a plan view 33 of the house owned by the user is displayed in the drawing area 26. Therefore, the site portion 33a where gardening is to be performed is selected, and that portion is enlarged and displayed as shown in FIG. In addition, site information obtained by dividing information on a house for each part that can be gardened is registered in the database 13, and by selecting which part of the house is to be gardened, a graphic as shown in FIG. Data may be called, or another calling method may be adopted.

Thereafter, the product selection frame 2 shown in FIG.
8, using the editing operation unit 29 and the layer list 30,
The gardening supplies to be purchased are planned on the site 33a displayed in the drawing area 26.

In the commodity selection frame 28, the commodity is roughly divided into a figurine, a plant, and the ground. As shown in FIG. 7A, when one of the commodities is selected, for example, a figurine is pressed and a commodity search button is pressed. Product data on the figurine is listed in the form of a table. When one of the products displayed in this table is specified and the product detail button is pressed, the detailed information of the product is displayed in the form of, for example, a photograph or a sentence.

By selecting "arrangement" in the editing operation section 29, designating "table 2" in the commodity selection frame 28 as a commodity, and designating the arrangement location in the drawing area 26, the graphic data of the commodity is displayed. Is attached to the designated portion in the drawing area 26. In the case where a lawn is planted on the ground, in the product selection frame 28, the lawn is specified as a product from the classification of the ground, and the arrangement area is specified in the drawing area 26, so that the graphic data of the product is obtained. The image is pasted on the designated area in the drawing area 26. These product graphics are, for example, as shown in FIG.
a ..., 37a ... are created, and these are stored in the database 12 of the system main body 2.

Further, by selecting "selection" in the editing operation unit 29, designating the commodity figure pasted in the drawing area 26, and dragging it, the commodity figure can be moved or copied. And the editing operation unit 29
By pressing the "delete button" while designating the product figure pasted in the drawing area 26 while selecting "select" in the above, the product can be deleted from the drawing area 26. . In addition, it goes without saying that various editing functions provided in CAD, such as a zoom function and a scroll function, are provided in a range necessary for planning.

Further, the product graphic pasted in the drawing area 26 is pasted at the same scale as the house graphic 33a displayed in the drawing area 26, and the product is actually placed on the site of the house. You can proceed with the planning in the same sense as you do.

Using the drawing and editing function described above, for example, first, as shown in FIG.
a on the ground 35a, and then FIG.
, Plants 36a, such as trees and flowers, are arranged, and as shown in FIG. 8B, figurines 37c, such as tables, are arranged. In the drawing area 26, the site graphic 33a to be gardened of the house is displayed, so that the planning can be performed while visually comparing the size and the like of the product to be purchased with the site graphic 33a. If a function capable of displaying the entire product three-dimensionally is provided as appropriate, it is possible to confirm the site where the goods are arranged in a three-dimensional image.

In the planning process, every time the size, type, or number of the products 35a, 36a, 37a, ... in the drawing area 26 changes, the total price of the products at that time is updated and displayed on the display unit 31. It is supposed to be. The prices of the figurines 37a ... and the plants 36a ... are calculated by multiplying the unit price and the number, and the ground 35a such as a brick or lawn is calculated.
… Is calculated by the product of the unit price and the area.
The total price of these commodities above is displayed on the display unit 31. Therefore, it is possible to proceed with planning while always paying attention to the cost required for purchase, and when the plan is unexpectedly expensive, the user can reselect or delete the product, If there is too much to do, you can make changes, such as reselecting to a more expensive product.

When the estimation button 32 is pressed after finishing the planning in this way, a screen 38 of an estimate is displayed as shown in FIG. 10, and an image 39 of the plan and a price list 40 are displayed (S14, S15, S16, S17). Then, if you want to purchase a product with that plan,
When 1 is pressed, it is registered in the order record database of the system main body 2 (S18, S19, S20).

In the case where the planning work is temporarily interrupted in the middle and the planning is restarted at a later date, the planning state at that time is recorded in the database 15 of the system main body 2 so that the planning state is shown in FIG. By specifying and opening the plan name displayed in the registered plan column 23 of the homepage 6, planning can be resumed.

Although the embodiment of the present invention has been described above, the present invention is not limited to this, and various modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention. For example, system components handled by the electronic shopping system of the present invention include:
Not only gardening supplies for gardening as described above, but also system configuration furniture such as tables, chairs, and chests when planning the interior of the room by yourself, personal computers when building a computer system in the living room, It may be a system configuration product such as a printer, a scanner, a desk, and a chair. Of course, it is not limited to housing. Further, in addition to the information on the site of the house as described above, various information on the house such as information on the layout of the inside of the building, the size of the opening, and the type of the building material may be used, or the house stored in the database. Information is not limited to figures, specifications, instructions,
It may be various forms of information such as a table.

[0040]

As described above, since the present invention is as described above, it is possible to promote the sale of system components in electronic shopping using the system components as products.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the overall configuration of a system.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the entire business relationship.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an example of the flow of operation of the system.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of an initial screen displayed on a user terminal.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a screen for performing planning.

FIG. 6 (a) is a diagram showing a state in which a figure of a house is displayed in a drawing area, and FIG. 6 (b) is a diagram in which a site part to be gardened is enlarged and displayed.

FIG. 7A is a diagram showing details of a product frame, and FIG. 7B is a diagram in which the ground is planned in a drawing area.

FIG. 8A is a diagram in which a plant is further planned on FIG. 7B, and FIG. 8B is a diagram in which an ornament is further planned thereon.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a product graphic.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a screen of a quote.

[Description of Signs] 1. Electronic shopping system 2. System body 3. Terminal 4. Internet communication network

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Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An electronic shopping system connected to a terminal of a product purchaser via the Internet, wherein the product is a system component for configuring a system product having a degree of freedom in combination. An electronic shopping system comprising: a drawing unit for planning a system product by combining products; and a unit for using the drawing device on a screen of a terminal of a product purchase applicant. 2. The electronic shopping system according to claim 1, further comprising means for displaying the price of the system product being planned by the drawing means on the terminal of the product purchaser in real time during the planning of the system. system. 3. The system product is related to a house owned by a product purchaser, means for storing information on the house owned by the product purchaser as a database, and A means for authenticating a product purchaser in response to a request for information use, and, if authenticated, sends information about the house owned by the product purchaser to a product purchaser terminal and sends the information to a graphic data Means for displaying in the drawing area of the drawing means the drawing data of the system components in the drawing area of the drawing means on which the graphic data relating to the house is displayed; and The electronic shopping system according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising: 4. The electronic shopping system according to claim 1, wherein the house-related system product is a house garden, and the system component, which is a product, is a gardening article for forming a garden.