JP2014109925A - Device and method for providing commodity information - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide information on commodities dealt with at an Internet supermarket of each store, at a shopping mall site, without applying any change to a server of a store which operates an Internet supermarket.SOLUTION: A storage unit 12 of a commodity information providing device 1 stores the address of the Internet supermarket site of each store and description positions of commodity information in screen description data of the Internet supermarket site. A commodity information obtaining unit 13 accesses the Internet supermarket site with the address stored in the storage unit 12 to read out screen description data and obtains commodity information on the basis of the description positions stored in the storage unit 12 to write it in the storage unit 12. A commodity information providing unit 14 generates commodity information display screen data in which the commodity information is displayed for each store to transmit the data to a user's terminal device. A connection control unit 15 connects the terminal device to the Internet supermarket site selling the commodity selected by the user from among commodities whose information has been displayed on the terminal device by the commodity information display screen data.

Description

  The present invention relates to a product information providing apparatus and a product information providing method.

  There is a technique for providing a net supermarket of a plurality of stores by a shopping mall site using the Internet (see, for example, Patent Document 1). In the online supermarket, a store such as a supermarket accepts orders from users for products actually sold in the store, and for orders received by a predetermined time, the user's home etc. There is a service to deliver goods.

JP 2011-159061 A

  When a store that already provides an online supermarket wants to open a store on a shopping mall site, it is necessary to register product information provided by the online supermarket in the shopping mall management server. However, the data structure of the product information and the type of information included are usually different between the net super management server and the shopping mall management server of each store. Therefore, in order to provide product information in a common display format at shopping mall sites, the product information stored in the net super management server of each store is converted into product information that can be handled by the shopping mall management server. There must be. In order to add this function to the Internet super management server, it takes a financial and time burden on the store.

  The present invention has been made in consideration of such circumstances, and information on products handled at the online supermarket of each store can be obtained on a shopping mall site without renovating the server of the store operating the online supermarket. A product information providing apparatus and a product information providing method that can be provided are provided.

  In order to achieve the above object, the invention described in claim 1 includes a store information storage unit that stores an address of a product sales site of each store and a description position of product information in screen description data of the product sales site. A product information storage unit that stores the product information for each store, and for each store, the product sales site is accessed by the address stored in the store information storage unit to read screen description data, and the product Product information that reads the description position stored in the store information storage unit corresponding to the sales site, acquires product information based on the description position information in the screen description data, and writes the product information in the product information storage unit In response to the product information distribution request transmitted from the acquisition unit and the terminal device of the user, the product information stored in the product information storage unit is It generates commodity information display screen data to be displayed in association with the acquisition source of the store information of goods information, a commodity information providing apparatus characterized by comprising: a commodity information providing unit, the to be transmitted to the terminal device.

  Moreover, invention of Claim 2 is the merchandise information provision apparatus of Claim 1, Comprising: The said merchandise information acquisition part acquires the said merchandise information for every shop, and memorize | stores it now in the said merchandise information storage part. The process of updating the product information of the store being repeated is repeated, and for the store for which product information could not be acquired, the product information of the store currently stored in the product information storage unit is retained for a certain period of time from acquisition. It is characterized by.

  The invention according to claim 3 is the product information providing apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the store information storage unit includes addresses and priority of a plurality of product sales sites corresponding to the stores. The product information acquisition unit reads the screen description data by accessing the product sales site by the address stored in the store information storage unit in the order of priority for each store. The process of reading the description position stored in the store information storage unit corresponding to the product sales site and acquiring the product information based on the information of the description position in the read screen description data, It repeats until the number of the merchandise information acquired about reaches a predetermined number.

  The invention according to claim 4 is the product information providing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the store information storage unit further stores a delivery area for each store. The product information providing unit identifies the store including the delivery destination indicated by the delivery destination information received from the terminal device in the delivery area, and is stored in the product information storage unit corresponding to the identified store. The product information display screen data that displays the product information associated with the store information is generated and transmitted to the terminal device.

  The invention according to claim 5 is the product information providing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the product information includes a name of a product, a price, a description, and an image. The product information acquisition unit acquires the name, price, description, and image storage position of the product based on the description position information in the read screen description data, and stores the acquired information in the image storage position The product image data being read is read out.

  The invention described in claim 6 is the product information providing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the product information acquisition unit displays the size of the acquired product image data by the product information display screen data. The product information is converted in accordance with the size of the product image display area to be processed, and the product information including the product image data whose size has been converted is written in the product information storage unit.

  The invention according to claim 7 is the product information providing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the product information providing unit receives a product information distribution request from a user terminal device. The display order of the store is determined at random every time is transmitted, and the product information display screen data for displaying the product information stored in the product information storage unit is generated for each store according to the determined display order. It is characterized by that.

  The invention according to claim 8 is the product information providing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the screen displayed by the product information display screen data is a product for each store. Including a list display area, the product list display area includes a plurality of product information display areas for displaying the product information, and the product information providing unit is configured to display each store in the screen displayed by the product information display screen data. In the product list display area, the product information display area for displaying the product information read from the product information storage unit corresponding to the store is determined at random.

  The invention according to claim 9 is the product information providing device according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein the product information is displayed on the terminal device by the product information display screen data. The apparatus further includes a connection control unit that connects the terminal device to the product sales site that sells the product selected by the user from the selected products.

  The invention described in claim 10 is a product information providing method used in a product information providing device, wherein the product information providing device includes an address of a product sales site of each store and a screen description of the product sales site. A store information storage unit that stores the description position of the product information in the data, and a product information storage unit that stores the product information for each store. In the product information providing apparatus, the product information acquisition unit includes: Each time the product sales site is accessed by the address stored in the store information storage unit and the screen description data is read out, and stored in the store information storage unit corresponding to the product sales site. A process of reading the description position, acquiring product information based on the description position information in the screen description data, and writing it into the product information storage unit is repeated. The product information acquisition process to be returned, and the product information providing unit obtains the product information stored in the product information storage unit in response to the product information distribution request transmitted from the user terminal device. A product information providing method comprising: generating product information display screen data to be displayed in association with store information and transmitting the product information to the terminal device.

According to the inventions of claims 1 and 10, the product information providing apparatus acquires product information of products handled at the net supermarket of each store without renovating the server of the store operating the net supermarket, It can be provided at a shopping mall site.
According to the invention of claim 2, the product information providing device periodically crawls the product information provided at the shopping mall site, and caches the product information when the product information cannot be acquired from the shopping mall site due to an error or the like. Product information can be provided. Moreover, since the product information providing apparatus deletes the cached product information after a predetermined time has elapsed, old product information is not provided to the user.
According to the invention of claim 3, the product information providing apparatus can preferentially acquire the product information of the product for which the store places an emphasis on sales at the internet supermarket, and can provide it on the shopping mall site.
According to the invention of claim 4, the product information providing apparatus can provide product information of products handled at a net supermarket of a store including a user's residence area as a delivery destination at a shopping mall site.
According to the invention of claim 5, the product information providing device uses the screen description data of the net super site of each store to provide the name, price, description, and image data of each product provided on the shopping mall site. Obtain as information. Therefore, the merchandise information contained at least in common at the online super site of each store can be provided at the shopping mall site.
According to the invention of claim 6, the product information providing apparatus converts the size of the image data of the product according to the screen of the shopping mall site and stores it, so that the screen description data of the shopping mall site can be generated. Such time can be shortened.
According to the invention of claim 7, the product information providing apparatus can introduce the net supermarket of each store to the user fairly.
According to the invention of claim 8, the merchandise information providing apparatus, in the shopping mall site, determines whether the merchandise information of the merchandise handled by the online supermarket of each shop is a recommended merchandise of the shop and the category to which the merchandise belongs. There is no need to present them separately. Therefore, the product information providing apparatus does not need to acquire information for classifying the product information, and only needs to acquire common product information for various products from the screen description data of the net super site, thereby reducing processing. The
According to the invention of claim 9, when the user selects a product based on the product information, the product information providing device connects the user's terminal device to a net super site that sells the selected product. Can do.

It is a lineblock diagram of a shopping mall system by one embodiment of the present invention. It is a block diagram which shows the internal structure of the merchandise information provision apparatus by the embodiment. It is a block diagram which shows the internal structure of the net super management apparatus by the embodiment. It is a block diagram which shows the internal structure of the terminal device by the same embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of the shop information by the embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of the description position information by the embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of the merchandise list information by the embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of the display screen of the shopping mall site by the embodiment. It is a figure which shows the processing flow of the merchandise information collection process which the merchandise information provision apparatus by the embodiment performs. It is a figure which shows the processing flow of the merchandise information provision process which the merchandise information provision apparatus by the embodiment performs.

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

  FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a shopping mall system according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the shopping mall system is configured by connecting a product information providing device 1 of a shopping mall site operator, a net super management device 3 of each store, and a user terminal device 5 via a network 9 such as the Internet. Is done.

  Each network supermarket management device 3 of each store such as a supermarket provides a network supermarket to the user through its own implementation. The net super management device 3 provides information on products actually sold in the store to the user terminal device 5 at the net super site (product sales site), and receives orders for the products through the network 9. For an order received by a predetermined time, the store delivers the product to the user's home or the like within the same day. For this reason, the user of the internet supermarket is usually limited to a store or an area where a store distribution center is located.

  The merchandise information providing apparatus 1 is a shopping mall management server, and provides information on merchandise sold at the net supermarket of each store whose delivery area is the user's residence area to the user terminal device 5 at the shopping mall site. . The merchandise information providing apparatus 1 periodically obtains information on merchandise provided at the shopping mall site from the net super site provided by the net super management apparatus 3 to the user terminal device 5.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an internal configuration of the product information providing apparatus 1 shown in FIG. 1, and only functional blocks related to the present embodiment are extracted and shown. The merchandise information providing apparatus 1 can be constituted by, for example, one or a plurality of computer servers. As illustrated in FIG. 1, the product information providing apparatus 1 includes a communication unit 11, a storage unit 12, a product information acquisition unit 13, a product information providing unit 14, and a connection control unit 15.

The communication unit 11 transmits and receives data via the network 9.
The storage unit 12 stores various data and includes a store information storage unit 121, a product information storage unit 122, and a format storage unit 123.
The store information storage unit 121 stores store information and description position information. The store information includes information about the store, such as the store name and delivery area of each store, and the address of the net super site. The description position information indicates the description position of the product information in the screen description data of the net super site.
The merchandise information storage unit 122 stores merchandise list information in which merchandise information collected from the screen description data of the online super site of each store is registered. In the present embodiment, the product information is a product name, price, product description, and product image.
The format storage unit 123 stores format data used for generating screen description data of a shopping mall site.

The product information acquisition unit 13 includes a basic information acquisition unit 131, a product image acquisition unit 132, and a product information registration unit 133.
The basic information acquisition unit 131 periodically accesses the net super management device 3 using the address indicated by the store information, and reads the screen description data of the net super site. The screen description data is, for example, web page data described in HTML (Hypertext Markup Language). The product information acquisition unit 13 acquires the description position of the product information corresponding to the net super site from the description position information, and based on the information in the screen description data of the acquired description position, the product name, price, and product description, The storage position of the product image is acquired from the screen description data.
The product image acquisition unit 132 reads the product image data from the net super management device 3 using the storage position of the product image acquired by the basic information acquisition unit 131. The product image acquisition unit 132 converts the size of the product image data read from the net super management device 3 according to the display area of the product image on the display screen of the shopping mall site.

  The product information registration unit 133 includes the product name, price, and product description acquired by the basic information acquisition unit 131 from the screen description data of the net super site for each store, and the product image data size-converted by the product image acquisition unit 132. Generate the set product information. The merchandise information registration unit 133 deletes the merchandise information currently registered in the merchandise list information for the store where the merchandise information is generated, and registers the newly generated merchandise information. Further, the product information registration unit 133 deletes product information for which a predetermined time has elapsed after registration in the product list information. Note that the time interval from registration to deletion of the product information in the product list information is set to be twice or more than the time interval at which the product image acquisition unit 132 periodically reads the screen description data of the net super site.

The product information providing unit 14 includes a store selection unit 141 and a screen generation unit 142.
The store selection unit 141 receives delivery destination information indicating the delivery destination of the product from the user terminal device 5. The store selection unit 141 specifies a store that includes the address or area of the delivery destination indicated by the received delivery destination information in the delivery area.
The screen generation unit 142 uses the format data read from the format storage unit 123 to generate product information display screen data for displaying the product information of the products sold at the store supermarket specified by the store selection unit 141. And transmitted to the terminal device 5 through the network 9. The product information display screen data is screen description data of a shopping mall site, for example, web page data described in HTML.

  The connection control unit 15 receives information on the product selected by the user from the products whose product information is displayed on the terminal device 5 of the user by the product information display screen data, and sells the selected product. The terminal device 5 is connected to the site.

  FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an internal configuration of the net super management apparatus 3 shown in FIG. 1, and only functional blocks related to the present embodiment are extracted and shown. The net super management apparatus 3 can be configured by one or a plurality of computer servers, for example. As shown in the figure, the net super management device 3 includes a communication unit 31, a storage unit 32, and a net super providing unit 33.

The communication unit 31 transmits and receives data via the network 9.
The storage unit 32 stores screen description data of the net super site. Further, the storage unit 32 stores the stock status of the product, the order contents received from the user terminal device 5, and the like.
The net supermarket providing unit 33 provides a net supermarket. The net super providing unit 33 transmits the screen description data of the net super site read from the storage unit 32 to the product information providing device 1 and the terminal device 5 via the network 9. Further, the net super providing unit 33 receives the order contents from the terminal device 5 and writes them in the storage unit 32, and updates the inventory status stored in the storage unit 32.

  FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an internal configuration of the terminal device 5 shown in FIG. 1, and only functional blocks related to the present embodiment are extracted and shown. The terminal device 5 is a computer terminal such as a personal computer, a tablet terminal, or a smartphone. As shown in the figure, the terminal device 5 includes a communication unit 51, a processing unit 52, a display unit 53, and an input unit 54.

The communication unit 51 transmits and receives data via the network 9.
The processing unit 52 causes the display unit 53 to display the screen of the web page based on the screen description data received from the product information providing device 1 or the net super management device 3 via the network 9. Further, the processing unit 52 transmits the information input by the input unit 54 to the product information providing apparatus 1 and the net super management apparatus 3 via the network 9. The display unit 53 is a display and displays an image. The input unit 54 is, for example, a keyboard, a mouse, a button, a touch panel, and the like, and receives information input by a user operation.

  Next, various information stored in the product information providing apparatus 1 will be described.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of store information stored in the store information storage unit 121.
The store information shown in the figure is composed of a plurality of records including store code, store name, delivery area, product information acquisition destination, and material data information of each store. The store code is store specifying information for uniquely specifying each store. The delivery area can be indicated by an address, latitude / longitude, postal code, distance from the store location, and the like. The merchandise information acquisition destination is an address of the net super site from which the merchandise information is acquired, and is indicated by a URL (Universal Resource Locator). For example, the product information acquisition destination is, for example, the URL of a site providing product information of one or more products, the URL of a net super site describing a link to a site providing product information, and the URL It may be indicated by a link description position, or may be indicated by a URL under which a site providing product information is subordinate. The material data is data to be displayed on the screen of the shopping mall site in addition to the product information, and is, for example, a logo image indicating a store logo or a notification image indicating a notification from a store or an online supermarket.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of description position information stored in the store information storage unit 121.
The description position information shown in the figure indicates the correspondence between the URL of the product information acquisition destination and the product name, price, product description, and description position of the product image link destination in the screen description data of the URL of the net super site. . When HTML is used for the screen description data, these description positions are indicated by, for example, HTML tags. Note that the product names, prices, product descriptions, and product image link destination description positions of a plurality of products may be associated with one screen description data. Further, instead of the description position of the product name, price, and product description in the screen description data, the description position of the link to the information in the screen description data may be set.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of product list information stored in the product information storage unit 122.
The product information shown in the figure is information in which a store code, product information acquisition date, URL, and product information are associated with each other. In the store code of the product list information, the store code of the store that provides the net supermarket that has acquired the product information is set. The URL of the merchandise list information is set to the URL of the net super site from which the merchandise information is acquired. The merchandise information includes a merchandise name, a price, and a merchandise description, and merchandise image data of three types of sizes, large, medium, and small.

  FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of a shopping mall site display screen using the format data stored in the format storage unit 123, and is displayed on the display unit 53 of the terminal device 5 based on the product information display screen data. The

  The shopping mall site display screen G1 shown in the figure includes a store list display region G10 and a store-specific display region G11. The store list display area G10 displays a list of store names, logos, and the like of stores that include the delivery destination indicated by the delivery destination information received from the user terminal device 5 in the delivery area. The display area G11 for each store is included in the display screen G1 by the number of stores displayed in the store list display area G10. When the number of stores is n (n is an integer equal to or greater than 1), the store-specific display region G11 displayed nth from the top is described as a store-specific display region G11-n.

  The store display area G11 includes a store display area G21 and a product list display area G22. In the store display area G21, a store name, logo, and product information acquisition date and time corresponding to the store-specific display area G11 are displayed. The product list display area G22 includes a notification display area G23 and product information display areas G24, G25, and G26 having different display sizes. In the notification display area G23, notifications and the like are displayed from the store corresponding to the store-specific display region G11 or the net super site of the store. The product information display areas G24, G25, and G26 have small, medium, and large display area sizes, respectively. Hereinafter, the six product information display areas G24 are described as product information display areas G24-1 to G24-6, respectively, and the two product information display areas G25 are described as product information display areas G25-1 to G25-6, respectively. . The product image and price are displayed in the product information display area G24, and the product image, product name, and price are displayed in the product information display areas G25 and G26. When the cursor is placed on the product information display areas G24, G25, G26, the product name, price, and product description are displayed by mouse over.

  The format data includes the color and display position of each display area constituting the display screen G1 of the shopping mall site, and the font used for the display position and display of various data in the display area (font type, size, color, typeface). ) Etc. For example, the format data includes the display position and color of the store list display area G10 and the store-specific display area G11 on the display screen G1, the display position of the store name and logo list in the store list display area G10, and the store-specific display area G11. Display position and color of store display area G21 and product list display area G22, display name and logo display position of store in store display area G21, notification display area G23 and product information display areas G24, G25, G26 in product list display area G22 Display position and size of the product information, display position and use font of the product data in the product information display areas G24, G25, and G26, the mouse over function of the product information display areas G24, G25, and G26, and the product information displayed by the mouse over function Define the display order and fonts used.

Next, the operation of the shopping mall system will be described. The product information acquisition unit 13, the product information providing unit 14, and the connection control unit 15 of the product information providing apparatus 1 are connected via the communication unit 11, and the net super providing unit 33 of the net super management device 3 is connected via the communication unit 31. The processing unit 52 of the user's terminal device 5 transmits / receives data to / from other devices via the communication unit 51. Hereinafter, description of this processing will be omitted and the operation of the shopping mall system will be described.
In the shopping mall system, store information and description position information are registered in the store information storage unit 121 in advance.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a processing flow of product information collection processing executed by the product information providing apparatus 1.
The merchandise information acquisition unit 13 of the merchandise information providing apparatus 1 starts the merchandise information collection process periodically once to several times a day. First, the basic information acquisition unit 131 of the product information acquisition unit 13 selects one record in the store information (step S105), and reads the store code and the product information acquisition destination from the selected record (step S110). Hereinafter, the store specified by the read store code is referred to as a “processing target store”.

  The basic information acquisition unit 131 accesses the net super management device 3 of the processing target store using a URL that has not been used for access among URLs indicated by the product information acquisition destination read in step S110 (step S115). When the URL and the priority order are registered in the product information acquisition destination, the basic information acquisition unit 131 selects the product information acquisition destination that has not been used for access yet and selects the highest priority order. Access the super management device 3. Alternatively, when the product information acquisition destination is indicated as the URL and the link description position, the basic information acquisition unit 131 accesses the URL to read the screen description data of the net super site, and the link description from the read screen description data. The location URL is read out and used as the product information acquisition destination for access. Further, when the product information acquisition destination is indicated as a subordinate of a URL, the basic information acquisition unit 131 reads the URL under the URL from the net super management device 3 and uses it as the product information acquisition destination for access. The net supermarket providing unit 33 of the net supermarket operating device 3 of the store to be processed reads the screen description data of the net super site corresponding to the URL used for access from the storage unit 32 and returns it.

  The basic information acquisition unit 131 of the product information providing apparatus 1 reads the description position of the product information corresponding to the URL used for accessing the net super management apparatus 3 in step S115 from the description position information. The product information acquisition unit 13 acquires the product name, price, product description, and product image link destination of one or more products described in the read description position from the received screen description data (step S120). . When the description position information includes the product name, price, and description position of the link to the product description, the product information acquisition unit 13 performs processing using the link acquired from the description position in the screen description data. It accesses the net super management device 3 of the target store and requests information on the product name, price, and product description. The net super providing unit 33 of the net super management device 3 reads the product name, price, and product description information corresponding to the link used for access from the storage unit 32 and returns the information to the product information providing device 1.

  The product image acquisition unit 132 uses the product image link destination acquired by the basic information acquisition unit 131 in step S120 to access the net super management device 3 of the processing target store and requests product image data (step S125). The net super providing unit 33 of the net super management device 3 reads out the product image data stored in the product image link destination used for access from the storage unit 32 and returns it. The product image acquisition unit 132 converts the product image data read from the net super management device 3 into a size that matches the size of the product image (product image display region) displayed in each of the product information display regions G24, G25, and G26. (Step S130).

  For each product, the product information registration unit 133 stores the product name, price, and product description acquired by the basic information acquisition unit 131 in step S120, and the product image acquisition unit 132 uses three types of product image data in step S130. Is generated (step S135), and the process of step S140 is executed.

  In step S140, the product information registration unit 133 determines whether the number of product information generated for the processing target store has reached a predetermined number. When the product information registration unit 133 determines that the number of product information has not reached the predetermined number (step S140: NO), the basic information acquisition unit 131 reads from the store information in step S110, or in step S115. It is determined whether there is a merchandise information acquisition destination that has not yet been accessed among screen description data of the net super site or the merchandise information acquisition destination read out from the net super management device 3 (step S145).

  In step S120, the basic information acquisition unit 131 cannot read the screen description data from the net super management device 3, or the product name, price, product description, or product image link destination from the read screen description data. If the product image acquisition unit 132 cannot acquire the product image data from the internet super management device 3 in step S125, the product information registration unit 133 executes the process of step S145.

  When the basic information acquisition unit 131 determines that there is a product information acquisition destination that has not yet been accessed (step S145: NO), the product information acquisition unit 13 repeats the processing from step S115. On the other hand, when the basic information acquisition unit 131 determines that all product information acquisition destinations have been used for access (step S145: YES), the product information registration unit 133 determines whether product information has been generated for the processing target store. (Step S150).

  The product information registration unit 133 determines that the number of product information generated for the processing target store in step S140 has reached a predetermined number (step S140: YES), or generates product information for the processing target store in step S150. If it is determined that it has been completed (step S150: YES), the product information generated for the processing target store is registered in the product list information (step S155). Specifically, the product information registration unit 133 deletes the record in which the store code of the processing target store is set from the product list information stored in the store information storage unit 121. The merchandise information registration unit 133 associates the store code of the processing target store, the merchandise information acquisition date and time, the merchandise information generated in step S135, and the URL of the screen description data used to generate the merchandise information, and the merchandise list Register for information. As the product information acquisition date and time, the date and time when reading of the screen description data from the net super management device 3 of the processing target store is set is set.

  After the merchandise information registration unit 133 executes the process of step S155 or when it is determined in step S150 that merchandise information could not be generated for the processing target store (step S150: NO), the basic information acquisition unit 131 stores the store information. Whether there is an unselected record is determined (step S160). When the basic information acquisition unit 131 determines that there is an unselected record in the store information (step S160: NO), the product information acquisition unit 13 repeats the processing from step S105. When the basic information acquisition unit 131 determines that all store information records have been selected (step S160: YES), the process ends.

  Note that when the information indicating that the product has been sold out is described in the screen description data, the product information acquisition unit 13 may exclude the product from the product information generation target.

  In addition, the merchandise information change flag is stored in the storage unit 32 of the net supermarket management device 3, and the merchandise information change flag is turned on when the price of the merchandise, the merchandise description, the type of the merchandise sold on the net supermarket, etc. You may make it set to. The merchandise information acquisition unit 13 of the merchandise information providing apparatus 1 accesses the net super management apparatus 3 and reads the merchandise information change flag at a time interval shorter than the time interval for executing the merchandise information collection process. When the merchandise information acquisition unit 13 determines that the merchandise information change flag is set to ON, the processing of steps S110 to S155 in FIG. May be executed. Thereby, for example, when a time sale is carried out at a store, the price of the time sale can be provided at a shopping mall site.

  Moreover, the merchandise information acquisition part 13 may change the time which performs merchandise information collection processing for every shop, and may perform the process of FIG.9 S110-step S155 about each shop. In addition, after determining NO in step S160, the product information acquisition unit 13 may execute the processing from step S105 after a predetermined time has elapsed. Thereby, the time which a load is applied to the product information providing apparatus 1 can be distributed.

  The product information acquisition unit 13 periodically performs expired product information deletion processing. Specifically, the product information registration unit 133 refers to the product information acquisition date and time of the product list information, and detects the product information acquisition date and time when a date and time that is a certain time before the current time is set. Delete records for which product information acquisition date is set. Thus, for example, the product information acquisition unit 13 executes the product information collection process every hour to cache the product information in the product list information, and if the product information cannot be acquired due to an error or the like, 3 hours If it is the product information acquired within, it can be provided at the shopping mall site, and the product information after 3 hours or more can be prevented from being provided.

  In addition, when providing cached product information on a shopping mall site, the product may already be sold out. In such a case, the terminal device 5 can access the net super site provided by the net super management device 3 based on the product information transmitted from the product information providing device 1, but on the net super site, The product is displayed as sold out. Thereby, even if the product information cached in the product information providing device 1 is different from the actual stock information managed by the net super management device 3, it is possible to prevent an order for a product that is not in stock. it can.

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a processing flow of the product information providing process executed by the product information providing apparatus 1.
First, the processing unit 52 of the user terminal device 5 transmits a merchandise information distribution request to the merchandise information providing apparatus 1 using the URL of the shopping mall site as an access destination, and also transmits delivery destination information. The store selection unit 141 of the product information providing apparatus 1 refers to the delivery region of each store registered in the store information of the store information storage unit 121, and the delivery region including the address or region indicated by the received delivery destination information is displayed. The set record is specified (step S205). Hereinafter, the store specified by the store code set in the specified record is referred to as “display target store”.

  The screen generation unit 142 reads the format data from the format storage unit 123. The screen generation unit 142 uses the format data to generate product information display screen data for displaying the display screen G1 of the shopping mall site including the store-specific display areas G11 for the number of display target stores (step S210). The screen generation unit 142 randomly determines the display priority of the display target store (step S215).

  When the screen generation unit 142 reads the store name and the logo image of the display target store from the store information record specified in step S205, the display priority of the store name and the logo image is displayed in the store list display area G10 of the product information display screen data. They are incorporated in order (step S220).

  The screen generation unit 142 selects the display target stores one by one in the order of display priority (step S225). Hereinafter, the selected display target store is referred to as “selected store”. Further, the display priority of the selected store is n.

  The screen generation unit 142 reads the product information acquisition date and time corresponding to the store code of the selected store from the product list information stored in the product information storage unit 122. The screen generation unit 142 incorporates the store name and logo image of the selected store and the product information acquisition date and time into the store display region G21 in the store-specific display region G11-n indicated by the product information display screen data (step S230).

  When the screen generation unit 142 reads product information corresponding to the selected store from the product list information stored in the product information storage unit 122 (step S235), the product information display region G24-1 for displaying the read product information. G24-6, G25-1 to G25-2, and G26 are determined at random (step S240).

  The screen generation unit 142 includes product information display areas G24-1 to G24-6, G25-1 to G25-2 included in the product list display area G22 in the store-specific display area G11-n indicated by the product information display screen data. Corresponding product information is incorporated into each of G26 (step S245). At this time, the screen generation unit 142 incorporates product image data with a small price and size into the product information display area G24, and incorporates product image data with a product name, price, and size into the product information display area G25. In the display area G26, product image data having a product name, a price, and a large size is incorporated. Further, the screen generation unit 142 incorporates the product name, price, and product description corresponding to the display area into the display contents by the mouse-over function of the product information display areas G24, G25, and G26 indicated by the product information display screen data. . Further, when the product information display areas G24, G25, and G26 are clicked, the screen generation unit 142 notifies the product information providing apparatus 1 of information that specifies the clicked product information display areas G24, G25, and G26. Embed the link. For example, this link is information that specifies product information corresponding to each of the product information display areas G24, G25, and G26, or information that can be converted into a URL described in the product list information corresponding to the product information. Etc. as parameters. Information that can be converted into the URL of the top page of the net supermarket may be used as a parameter. In this case, the store information storage unit 121 stores the URL of the top page of the store supermarket in advance.

  When it is determined that there is a display target store that has not yet been selected (step S250: NO), the screen generation unit 142 performs the processing from step S225. And when all the display object stores are selected (step S250: YES), the process of step S255 is performed.

  The screen generation unit 142 transmits the generated product information display screen data to the terminal device 5 that is the access source (step S255). The processing unit 52 of the user terminal device 5 causes the display unit 53 to display the product information display screen data received from the product information providing device 1. Thereby, the display part 53 displays the display screen G1 of a shopping mall site. When the user selects any of the product information display areas G24, G25, and G26 displayed on the display screen G1 of the shopping mall site displayed on the display unit 53 using the input unit 54, the processing unit 52 The merchandise information providing apparatus 1 is accessed with the links of the selected merchandise information display areas G24, G25, and G26 as destinations.

  The connection control unit 15 of the product information providing device 1 identifies the product selected by the user from the parameters set as the destination used by the terminal device 5 for access, and product list information is associated with the product information of the identified product. The URL of the net super site described in (1) is acquired (step S260). Alternatively, the connection control unit 15 converts the parameter set as the destination used by the terminal device 5 for access into the URL of the net super site selling the product selected by the user. The connection control unit 15 changes (redirects) the access destination of the terminal device 5 to the URL of the net super site (step S265). The redirection destination, that is, the net super providing unit 33 of the net super management device 3 that has become a new access destination reads out the screen description data of the net super site corresponding to the URL used as the redirection destination from the storage unit 32, and the user To the terminal device 5. The processing unit 52 of the user terminal device 5 causes the display unit 53 to display the screen description data received from the net super management device 3. Thereby, the display part 53 displays the screen of the net super site of the goods selected by the user.

  The processing unit 52 of the terminal device 5 transmits the order contents such as the product to be ordered, the number of orders, and the delivery destination to the net super management device 3 according to the input of the user by the input unit 54, and the net super management of the net super management device 3 provides The unit 33 writes the order contents in the storage unit 32 and updates the information on the stock quantity of the product. The store delivers the merchandise to the delivery destination according to the contents of the order received by the internet supermarket management apparatus 3.

  Note that the merchandise information providing apparatus 1 may perform the processing of steps S105 to S155 of FIG. 9 for the display target store identified in step S205 of FIG. 10 during the processing of steps S210 to S220. .

  According to the embodiment described above, the merchandise information providing apparatus 1 crawls merchandise information of the merchandise handled at the net supermarket of each store without modifying the net supermarket management apparatus 3 of each store, and the residence of the user It is possible to provide product information of products handled at an online supermarket having a region as a delivery region on a shopping mall site in a display format common to all stores. Further, the product information providing apparatus 1 caches the crawled product information, and when new product information can be acquired from the net super management apparatus 3, the cached product information is updated and cannot be acquired. In some cases, the cached merchandise information can be provided at the shopping mall site within a certain period of time.

  Note that the above-described product information providing device 1, the net super management device 3, and the terminal device 5 have a computer system therein. The product information acquisition unit 13, the product information provision unit 14, the connection control unit 15 of the product information provision device 1, the net super provision unit 33 of the net super management device 3, and the processing unit 52 of the terminal device 5 are operated. The process is stored in a computer-readable recording medium in the form of a program, and the above processing is performed by the computer system reading and executing this program. The computer system here includes a CPU, various memories, an OS, and hardware such as peripheral devices.

Further, the “computer system” includes a homepage providing environment (or display environment) if a WWW system is used.
The “computer-readable recording medium” refers to a storage device such as a flexible medium, a magneto-optical disk, a portable medium such as a ROM and a CD-ROM, and a hard disk incorporated in a computer system. Furthermore, the “computer-readable recording medium” dynamically holds a program for a short time like a communication line when transmitting a program via a network such as the Internet or a communication line such as a telephone line. In this case, a volatile memory in a computer system serving as a server or a client in that case, and a program that holds a program for a certain period of time are also included. The program may be a program for realizing a part of the functions described above, and may be a program capable of realizing the functions described above in combination with a program already recorded in a computer system.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Product information provision apparatus 3 Net super management apparatus 5 Terminal device 11, 31, 51 Communication part 12, 32 Storage part 13 Product information acquisition part 14 Product information provision part 15 Connection control part 33 Net super provision part 52 Processing part 53 Display part 54 Input unit 121 Store information storage unit 122 Product information storage unit 131 Basic information acquisition unit 132 Product image acquisition unit 133 Product information registration unit 141 Store selection unit 142 Screen generation unit

Claims (10)

A store information storage unit for storing the address of the product sales site of each store and the description position of the product information in the screen description data of the product sales site;
A product information storage unit for storing the product information for each store;
For each store, the product sales site is accessed by the address stored in the store information storage unit to read the screen description data, and is stored in the store information storage unit corresponding to the product sales site. A product information acquisition unit that reads the description position, acquires product information based on the description position information in the screen description data, and writes the product information in the product information storage unit;
Product information display that displays the product information stored in the product information storage unit in association with the information of the store from which the product information is acquired in response to a product information distribution request transmitted from the user's terminal device A product information provider that generates screen data and transmits the screen data to the terminal device;
A product information providing apparatus comprising: The product information acquisition unit repeats the process of acquiring the product information for each store and updating the product information of the store currently stored in the product information storage unit. Holding the product information of the store currently stored in the product information storage unit for a certain period of time from acquisition,
The product information providing apparatus according to claim 1. The store information storage unit stores addresses and priority information of a plurality of product sales sites corresponding to stores,
The product information acquisition unit reads the screen description data by accessing the product sales site by the address stored in the store information storage unit in order of priority for each store, and corresponds to the product sales site. The number of pieces of product information acquired for the store is determined by reading the description position stored in the store information storage unit and acquiring product information based on the description position information in the read screen description data. Repeat until the number reaches
The product information providing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the product information providing apparatus is a product information providing apparatus. The store information storage unit further stores a delivery area for each store,
The product information providing unit identifies the store that includes the delivery destination indicated by the delivery destination information received from the terminal device in the delivery area, and is stored in the product information storage unit corresponding to the identified store. Generating product information display screen data for displaying the product information in association with the store information and transmitting the data to the terminal device;
The product information providing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein The product information includes product name, price, description, and image data,
The product information acquisition unit acquires the name, price, description, and image storage position of the product based on the description position information in the read screen description data, and the product stored in the acquired image storage position Read image data,
The product information providing device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the product information providing device is provided. The product information acquisition unit converts the size of the acquired product image data according to the size of a product image display area to be displayed by the product information display screen data, and includes the product image data whose size has been converted. The product information is written in the product information storage unit,
The product information providing apparatus according to claim 5. The product information providing unit randomly determines a display order of stores every time a product information distribution request is transmitted from a user terminal device, and is stored in the product information storage unit for each store according to the determined display order. Generating product information display screen data for displaying the product information.
The product information providing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein The screen displayed by the product information display screen data includes a product list display area for each store,
The product list display area includes a plurality of product information display areas for displaying the product information,
The product information providing unit displays the product information read from the product information storage unit corresponding to the store in the product list display area of each store in the screen to be displayed by the product information display screen data. The product information display area to be randomly determined,
The product information providing device according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the product information providing device according to any one of claims 1 to 7 is provided. A connection control unit for connecting the terminal device to the product sales site for selling the product selected by the user from the products whose product information is displayed on the terminal device by the product information display screen data;
The product information providing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein A product information providing method used in a product information providing apparatus,
The product information providing device includes:
A store information storage unit for storing the address of the product sales site of each store and the description position of the product information in the screen description data of the product sales site;
A product information storage unit that stores the product information for each store;
In the product information providing apparatus,
For each store, the product information acquisition unit accesses the product sales site by the address stored in the store information storage unit to read the screen description data, and stores the store information corresponding to the product sales site. A product information acquisition process of reading the description position stored in a section, repeating the process of acquiring product information based on the description position information in the screen description data and writing it in the product information storage section;
In response to a product information distribution request transmitted from the user's terminal device, the product information providing unit associates the product information stored in the product information storage unit with information on the store from which the product information is acquired. Generating product information display screen data to be displayed, and sending product information to the terminal device;
A method for providing product information, comprising:

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