EA010039B1 - A method of organization of trade of goods and/or providing services by using a telecommunications network - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a method of organization of trade of goods and/or providing services by using a telecommunications network, particularly the Internet computer system. The method consists in that a customer preliminarily chooses goods and/or services by means of remote or local access to the information resources of a seller; after that the customer passes the information containing customer's characteristics and/or the parameters of an item concerning which the customer has chosen the goods and/or services to the seller; after that the seller based on the parameters of preliminarily chosen goods and/or services and on the information received from the customer builds a digital model describing an estimated design and/or the other characteristics of the chosen goods and/or the results of the services realized with regard to the information received from the customer; then the built digital model is passed through the telecommunications network to the customer; after that the customer based on the received digital model takes a decision about purchasing chosen goods and/or services and informs the seller about said decision. Consequently, the seller sends the chosen goods to the customer and/or provides the chosen services.

Description

The invention relates to a method of organizing trade in goods and / or the provision of services using a telecommunications network, in particular a computer network on the Internet.

The greatest use of the present invention will find in the field of distance, without the physical presence of the buyer, the sale - the acquisition of goods and services, in particular in the network of Internet trade and mail-order trade, as well as trade in goods through catalogs.

Nowadays, a method of remote acquisition of goods and services using the computer network Internet is widely used, in which the buyer selects a product and / or service selection using the information about a product or service provided remotely and then orders and pays for the goods and services he needs , after which the goods are delivered to the buyer or the service is realized.

However, this method of remote acquisition of goods and services has significant and fundamental flaws, namely:

a) the buyer in a number of cases cannot adequately assess the suitability for himself of the goods or services being purchased, for example, when purchasing clothes, shoes, accessories;

b) in the event that the product or service for some reason is not suitable for the buyer, then it is difficult and time consuming to return it to the seller and return the money paid by the buyer for the product.

And this, as the practice of Internet commerce has shown, is the main disadvantage of commerce using telecommunication networks, both for the seller and for the buyer.

Here and in the future, the term “buyer” means the applicant any person who purchases goods and / or purchases services, but the buyer’s parameters refer to the customer’s personal parameters as well as the person for whom the buyer purchases goods and / or purchase a service.

The present invention is based on the task of creating such a method of organizing trade in goods and / or providing services using a telecommunications network, in which the buyer could adequately assess the suitability of the purchased goods and / or services for himself using additional procedures and thereby minimize the probability procedures for returning the goods to the seller or refusing the service.

In other words, the claimed method should, in particular, ensure the possibility of an adequate choice of the goods by the buyer without his physical fitting and visual inspection.

This problem is solved in the method of organizing trade in goods and / or the provision of services using a telecommunications network, in which the buyer, using remote or local access to the information resources of the seller, pre-selects the goods and / or services;

after which the buyer transfers to the seller information containing the parameters of the buyer and / or the parameters of the item in relation to which the buyer has chosen the product and / or service;

then the seller, based on the parameters of the goods and / or services previously selected by the buyer and the information received from the buyer, builds a digital model describing the intended appearance and / or other properties of the selected product and / or the results of the service being implemented in relation to information received from the buyer ;

the resulting digital model is transmitted over the telecommunications network to the buyer;

the buyer, on the basis of the received digital model, makes a decision on the purchase of the selected product and / or purchase of the selected service and informs the seller about it;

the seller sends the selected product to the buyer and / or implements the service chosen by the buyer.

By implementing the proposed method, the following result is achieved:

a) the buyer can adequately and objectively use the digital model to assess the suitability of the purchased goods and / or services for himself;

b) if the goods did not fit the buyer and / or the service turned out to be unsuitable for the buyer, for example, the procedures for returning the goods to the seller and / or refusing to pay for the services by the buyer and procedures for returning the money to the buyer for the goods or services are excluded.

Technically, it would be advisable that the seller, with the consent of the buyer, could save his personal data in his database and the next time the buyer bought did not transfer personal information, but only went through the procedure of his identification by the seller.

It is also technically feasible that the interaction of the seller and the buyer be carried out via a secure communication channel that ensures the confidentiality and immutability of the information transmitted through it.

To increase the efficiency of payment, it is advisable to use electronic or non-cash funds to pay for services and / or goods.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail in the following detailed description of a clothing distance selling system with reference to the attached figure, schematically depicting a block diagram of said system.

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The system presented here implements the above described method, declared in the framework of this patent application, in full.

The system, shown schematically in the attached figure, includes a customer’s subscriber unit 1, which can be the customer’s personal computer, his mobile phone or a separate terminal for purchasing goods that are connected to the unit using a telecommunications network that is the subject of the present invention. 2 seller’s remote resource displaying information about the seller’s products, its assortment, etc. The digital model building block 3, on the basis of the customer’s chosen product and customer’s personal information, generates a digital model that describes the intended appearance and other properties of the selected product in relation to the customer’s personal data, and delivers this information directly to the customer. The storage of goods is represented by block 4, for payment for services they use the buyer's payment instrument, represented by block 5.

The system of distance selling clothes works as follows. The buyer connects to block 2, which is the seller’s remote resource and displays information about the seller’s product, in this case displaying information about the clothing models sold, including their cut, material, size and other options. The buyer, remotely using the information resource of block 2, selects the clothing model he needs and transmits with the help of block 1 via the telecommunications network information about his choice to block 2. In addition, from block 1 the buyer sends the seller his personal information containing the specific parameters of the buyer to In this case, growth, tailoring sizes or full parameters of the three-dimensional figure of the buyer to clarify the parameters of the selected product. The seller, having received from the buyer information about the choice of goods and information about the buyer, using block 3 to build a digital model, based on the parameters of the selected product and personal information of the buyer, obtained from block 2, a digital model describing the intended appearance and other properties of the selected product in relation to the personal data of the buyer. This information is a three-dimensional mannequin, corresponding to the figure of the buyer with the purchased clothes on. This information is then delivered to the buyer via the telecommunications network, after which the buyer notifies the seller of his intention to make or reject the purchase and, if made, instructs his payment instrument 5 about transferring the necessary amount of money to the seller, after receiving the money, the seller sends the buyer the selected item of clothing from Storage 4 products.

Compared with all known methods of organizing remote and mail-based trade, known to the applicant, the invention disclosed in the patent application is characterized by a significant increase in the efficiency and efficiency of trade.

Claims (4)

CLAIM 1. A method of organizing trade in goods and / or providing services using a telecommunication network, in which the buyer, using remote or local access to the seller’s information resources, pre-selects the goods and / or service; after which the buyer transmits to the seller information containing the parameters of the buyer and / or the parameters of the item in relation to which the buyer has previously selected the goods and / or service; after which the seller, based on the parameters of the goods and / or service pre-selected by the buyer and the information received from the buyer, builds a digital model that describes the expected appearance and / or other properties of the selected product and / or the results of the service being implemented with respect to information received from the buyer ; the resulting digital model is transmitted over the telecommunications network to the buyer; the buyer, on the basis of the received digital model, makes a decision on the purchase of the selected product and / or the purchase of the selected service and informs the seller about this; the seller sends the buyer the selected product and / or implements the service selected by the buyer. 2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the seller, with the consent of the buyer, can store the information received by him from the buyer in his database. 3. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the information is transmitted through a secure communication channel that ensures the confidentiality and immutability of the information transmitted through it. 4. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the buyer uses electronic or non-cash funds to pay for services and / or goods.