JP2002150154A - Purchase information managing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a purchase information managing system capable of efficiently and correctly managing purchase information, and useful for the saving of resources. SOLUTION: A register 10 and a mobile telephone 20 are connected through a wire or wirelessly, and the register 10 transmits the purchase information relating to the purchase by a customer to the mobile telephone 20 in the arithmetic processing of the merchandise purchase by the customer. The mobile telephone 20 transmits the received purchase information to a data server 30 on the Internet. The purchase information stored in the data server 30 is read on a personal computer 40 at home.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a purchase information management system for managing purchase information when shopping at a supermarket or a vending machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, when shopping at a supermarket,
A cashier goes to a cashier to have the clerk calculate the total amount of shopping at the register, pays the total amount to the clerk, and in response, the clerk issues a receipt describing purchase information at the register and hands it to the customer. The receipt at this time is generally made of paper.

On the other hand, in recent years, electronic transactions and the like using personal computers and mobile telephones have become popular. Recently, it has become common to manage household accounts with software on a personal computer.

[0004]

However, it is inefficient to input purchase information into a personal computer while looking at a receipt made of paper passed at a supermarket, and there is also a problem in terms of saving paper resources. There is. In addition, when a product is purchased at a vending machine, there is no receipt issued, so that the purchase amount is forgotten and the management of the household account book becomes inaccurate.

[0005] The present invention has been made in view of the above points,
It is an object of the present invention to provide a purchase information management system capable of managing purchase information efficiently and accurately, and contributing to resource saving.

[0006]

A purchase information management system according to the present invention has a connection device for connecting to a mobile telephone by wire or wirelessly. The purchase information relating to purchase of a customer at the time of payment processing or sale of goods. A register or vending machine transmitting from the connection device, and connected to the connection device of this register or vending machine by wire or wirelessly, while receiving the purchase information transmitted from the connection device, the received purchase information A mobile phone for transmitting to the data server via the base station and the internet network, a data server for receiving and storing the purchase information transmitted from the mobile phone, and a data server connected to the data server via the internet network; A personal computer for browsing purchase information stored in the data server.

In such a purchase information management system, it is preferable that the mobile telephone automatically transmit the purchase information received from the register or the vending machine to the data server. Further, it is preferable that the data server edits and stores the received purchase information. Further, it is preferable that the personal computer can download and edit purchase information stored in the data server in addition to browsing.

[0008]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, an embodiment of a purchase information management system according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a purchase information management system of the present invention. This purchase information management system includes a register 10, a mobile telephone 20, a data server 30
And a personal computer 40.

The register 10 is a register placed in a supermarket or the like, and includes a bar code reading unit (not shown), a key input unit 10a, a calculation unit, a storage unit (both not shown), a display unit 10b, a receipt issuing unit 10c, and the like. It can read the barcode attached to the product and calculate the total price of the product purchased by the customer, calculate change, and issue a receipt. The register 10 includes a connection device 11 for connecting to the mobile telephone 20 by wire or wirelessly.
And the purchase information related to customer purchase (purchase date, purchase name, unit price, quantity, total by product, consumption tax, total sum,
The connection device 11 transmits a deposit amount, a change amount, and the like, which are the same as or similar to the information described in the receipt. The connection device 11 is an external connection terminal when connected to the mobile phone 20 by wire, and is a power-saving wireless device when connected to the mobile phone wirelessly. The power-saving wireless device is a system that performs short-distance two-way wireless communication between a master and a slave, and has a frequency band of ISM (2.4 GHz band) that can be used almost universally without requiring a special license. )
Use As shown in FIG. 2, this power-saving wireless device uses protocol 1 of the power-saving wireless device as software.
1a as well as a baseband unit 11b and an RF unit 11c as hardware. Note that the connection device 11 can also receive information from the mobile phone 20 side.

The mobile telephone 20 is a single mobile telephone or a mobile telephone incorporated in a personal digital assistant (PDA). The mobile telephone 20 is connected to the connection device 11 of the register 10 by wire or wirelessly. The transmitted purchase information can be received, and the information can be transmitted to the register 10. Here, when the mobile telephone 20 is connected to the register 10 by wire, the mobile telephone 1
The external connection terminal 0 (not shown) is connected to the connection device 11 (external connection terminal) of the register 10 by a cord. On the other hand, when the mobile telephone 20 is connected to the register 10 wirelessly, the mobile telephone 20 is connected to the same power-saving wireless device as the power-saving wireless device of the register 10 outside the mobile telephone circuit 21 as shown in FIG. An apparatus 22 is provided. This power-saving wireless device 22
Is protocol 2 of the power-saving wireless device as software
2a and a baseband unit 22b and an RF unit 22c as hardware. On the other hand, the mobile phone circuit 21 has a communication protocol (PDC, 3GPP, etc.) 21a of the mobile phone as software, and has a baseband unit 21b and R as hardware as hardware.
F section 21c. Reference numeral 23 denotes a key operation unit or L
Man-machine interface (MMI) such as CD display
And the mobile telephone circuit 21 and the power-saving wireless device 2
2 is connected.

Further, the mobile telephone 20 stores the address of the data server 30 on the Internet so that the purchase information received from the register 10 can be stored in the base station 5.
0 and can be transmitted to the data server 30 on the Internet via the Internet network. The data server 30 includes editing software, and edits and stores the received purchase information in a household account book format.

The personal computer 40 is a personal computer placed at home. When the personal computer 40 accesses the data server 30 via the Internet, the purchase information stored in the data server 30 is transmitted to the personal computer 40 at home. You can browse with household account book software. Further, the personal computer 40 can download the purchase information in the data server 30 and can further edit the purchase information in the data server 30.

The management of purchase information by the above system will be described with reference to the sequence of FIG. When a customer purchases a product (step S1), he goes to the cashier with the product. Then, the clerk uses the register 10 to calculate the price of the product purchased by the customer (step S2). Customers
The money corresponding to the calculated amount is paid (step S3).
At this time, the money can be paid using a credit card. Then, the clerk inputs the deposit amount into the register 10, or sets the credit card in the register 10, and then operates the register 10 to calculate change and issue a receipt (step S4).

At this time, the purchase information relating to the purchase of the customer is transmitted from the register 10 to the mobile telephone 20 owned by the customer in a wired or wireless manner (step S5). Register mobile phone 20 as register 1
0). Then, in the mobile phone 20,
The purchase information is simply displayed on the MMI 23 (LCD display unit) in FIG. 3 (step S6). The customer can check the contents of the purchase information by looking at it (step S7). Mobile phone 20
Are stored in the mobile phone 20 and returned from the mobile phone 20 to the register 10 (step S8). Then, the register 10 determines whether the purchase information transmitted to the mobile phone 20 matches the purchase information returned (received) from the mobile phone 20 (step S9). Retransmission, reception, and coincidence determination of information are repeated.

On the other hand, when the register 10 determines that the transmitted purchase information matches the returned purchase information and the mobile telephone 20 has correctly received the purchase information, an OK signal is transmitted from the register 10 to the mobile telephone 20. Is performed (step S10). Then, the mobile telephone 20 automatically transmits the stored purchase information to the data server 30 on the Internet via the base station 50 and the Internet based on the stored address (step S11).
The data server 30 receives the transmitted purchase information, edits the information with editing software, and stores the purchase information in a household account book format. Then, after returning to their home, the customer
By accessing the data server 30 through the Internet connection by using “0”, the purchase information stored in the data server 30 can be browsed by the personal computer 40 at home. further,
The purchase information stored in the data server 30 can be downloaded to the personal computer 40 at home, and the purchase information in the data server 30 can be edited by the personal computer 40 at home.

As described above, according to the above system,
For example, when shopping at a supermarket, purchase information is automatically transmitted from the register 10 to the data server 30 on the Internet via the customer-owned mobile telephone 20 and stored in the data server 30 in the form of a household account book. After returning to, the purchase information in the data server 30 can be viewed on the personal computer 40 at home. Therefore, there is no need to input purchase information into the personal computer while looking at the receipt made of the paper given at the supermarket, and the purchase information can be managed efficiently.
In the above description, the receipt is issued. However, it is also possible to omit the receipt to save paper resources.

In the above embodiment, the purchase information is transferred from the vending machine when shopping at a supermarket or the like and performing a checkout process at the register 10. Also, when a product is purchased at the vending machine. The data can be transmitted to the mobile phone 20 and further transmitted from the mobile telephone 20 to the data server 30 for storage. In this way, even if the vending machine does not issue a receipt, the purchase information can be accurately described in the household account book (data server 30), and the management of the purchase information becomes accurate.

[0018]

As described in detail above, according to the purchase information management system of the present invention, purchase information can be managed efficiently and accurately, and it is also useful for saving resources.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a purchase information management system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a circuit configuration of a power-saving wireless device provided in a register as one embodiment of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a circuit configuration of a mobile phone used as one mode in an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a sequence diagram showing the operation of the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Register 11 Connecting device 20 Mobile telephone 30 Data server 40 Personal computer 50 Base station

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Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A register or vending machine having a connection device for connecting to a mobile telephone by wire or wireless, transmitting purchase information relating to customer purchase from the connection device at the time of payment processing or product sales. Connected to the register or the connection device of the vending machine by wire or wirelessly, receives the purchase information transmitted from the connection device, and transmits the received purchase information to the data server via the base station and the Internet network. A mobile phone, a data server for receiving and storing purchase information transmitted from the mobile phone, and a data server connected to the data server via an Internet network;
A purchase information management system, comprising: a personal computer that browses purchase information stored in a data server. 2. The purchase information management system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile telephone automatically transmits the purchase information received from the register or the vending machine to the data server. 3. The purchase information management system according to claim 1, wherein the data server edits and stores the received purchase information. 4. The purchase information management system according to claim 1, wherein the personal computer can download and edit the purchase information stored in the data server in addition to browsing.