JP2001306894A - Server for notifying store information - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a store information notifying device which can call user's attention to a specified date and enables the user to easily obtain information such as needed store URL, etc., even though the user does not perform an operation such as retrieval. SOLUTION: This server is provided with a 1st registering means 6a for registering the specified date and a specified target, a 2nd registering means 6b for registering store information, and a notifying means 5 for notifying a user terminal of the store information related to the specified target, selected from the store registered in the means 6b together with the specified data and the specified target within a prescribed term including the specified date.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a server for notifying store information to a user terminal.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, as a means for purchasing a present to be given on a specific day such as a birthday or a wedding anniversary, a method of selecting a store by searching a homepage or an online shop through the Internet has been actively performed in recent years.

[0003] A search engine is used for searching for a homepage or an online shop through the Internet as described above. When a keyword or phrase such as the name of a product to be given is input, the search engine causes the search engine to enter the keyword. UR determined to be related to keyword
L is output.

[0006] The URL searched as described above is accessed, and a product is purchased by inputting in a predetermined form.

[0005]

However, when a homepage or an online shop is searched through the above-described conventional process, not only the URL of the store but also all URLs related to the input keyword are output. , Unnecessary URLs are also output. Therefore, it is not possible to selectively output only the necessary URL, and an extra URL must be opened, resulting in a problem that it takes much time and effort.

On the other hand, a specific date such as a birthday or a wedding anniversary is
It is usually memorized, but it may be inadvertently forgotten when the day approaches or on the day. Also, even if you write notes to remember
Since people tend to not look at what they wrote unless they are conscious of it, they sometimes forget to look at the notes they have written.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve such a problem, and can alert a user to a specific date, and can easily perform a necessary operation without performing a search operation or the like. It is an object to provide a store information notification server that can obtain information such as a URL of a store.

[0008]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a store information notification server for registering a specific date and a specific purpose, comprising: A second registration unit for registering information; and information of a store related to the specific purpose selected from the stores registered in the second registration unit, the information being stored in the predetermined date including the specific date. And a notifying means for notifying the user terminal together with the specific purpose. As described above, the information of the store related to the specific purpose selected from the stores registered in the second registration unit is provided to the user together with the specific date and the specific purpose within a predetermined period including the specific date. If the notification means for notifying the terminal is provided, the user is notified of the specific date, so that the user can be alerted that the specific date is near or past. Further, the notification unit notifies the information of the store related to the specific purpose without the user performing any operation such as searching. Therefore, the user can easily obtain the information of the store related to the specific purpose.

Here, the specific day is a birthday, a wedding anniversary, a memorial service, an entrance ceremony, a graduation ceremony, a company establishment or a store opening day, etc.
The concept includes not only days that have already been determined, but also days that are predicted in advance, such as scheduled completion dates for new construction or remodeling of houses and companies, and expected birth dates. The specific purpose is the significance of a specific day. Further, a store related to a specific purpose refers to a store that provides goods or services according to the specific purpose.

[0010] In the server according to the present invention, as described in claim 2, when the store related to the specific purpose is located near the residence of the user who registered the specific date, the user can purchase the product to be purchased. It is easy to visit stores and services and check them directly.

[0011]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a notification system using a store information notification server according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a store information notification server according to the present invention. In FIG. 1, 1 indicates a store information notification server (hereinafter, simply referred to as a server),
Reference numeral 2 denotes a user terminal that can be connected via the Internet 4, and reference numeral 3 denotes a terminal of a store that has established an online shop. As the user terminal 2 and the shop terminal 3, for example, personal computers are used.

In FIG. 2, reference numeral 5 denotes a mail delivery unit provided as a notification means for delivering, for example, an electronic mail to the user terminal 2 provided in the server 1;
Are respectively provided in the server, the first registration unit and the second
4 shows a hard disk as a registration unit. In the present embodiment, the first registration unit 6a and the second registration unit 6b
The area of one hard disk is divided and used.
The mail distribution unit 5 is a functional unit having a function of creating and transmitting a mail, and is directly controlled by a control unit of the server 1 described later. In the first registration means 6a, specific day information such as a specific day, a person who is a target of the specific day, a specific purpose, and the like input by the user from the terminal 2 is registered. In the second registration means 6b, the advertising information of the store such as the URL of the store opening the online shop or the store opening the homepage, the address of the store, the contact information such as the telephone number, the price range of the product, etc. Is registered.

Reference numeral 7 denotes a control unit for controlling the entire server 1. The control unit 7 includes the first registration unit 6a and the second registration unit 6a.
It is connected to the registration means 6b and is composed of, for example, a general-purpose microcomputer, a dedicated LSI, or the like. The control unit 7 is connected with a keyboard, a mouse, a hard disk as an external storage device, and the like, which are used for input / output and data storage. Further, the control unit 7 is provided with a lower control unit, and is configured by firmware such as a ROM, software, or the like. Such a hierarchical control configuration is a well-known technique, and thus the description is omitted.

Further, the server 1 is provided with a search unit 8 for searching for a store of a preset business type. The search unit 8 is a function unit directly controlled by the control unit 7. The search unit 8 scans a business from information of stores registered in the second registration unit 6b, Has a function of performing processing for outputting the URL of the store to a predetermined e-mail when it matches. In the present embodiment, the type of business set in the search unit 8 is set for each specific purpose.

Next, a method of notifying a specific date or the like using the server described above will be described below. First, a store opening an online shop, a store opening a homepage, or the like accesses the server 1 using the terminal 3 that can be connected to the server 1 via the Internet, and is configured as shown in FIG. 3, for example. The registration form 10 is input.

The registration form 10 includes, for example, a store name 10a, a store type 10b, a store location 10c, a telephone number 10d, a contact address to the store such as a store URL 10e, and a product example 10f handled by the store. , The price 10g, the price range of the product being dealt with 10h, and so on. The input registration form 10 is registered in the second registration means 6b. Note that, when a search is performed by selecting a business type, the business type of the store is associated with the URL and store name of the store so that the URL and store name of the store of the relevant business type can be searched.

Next, the user enters the user name from the terminal 2 connectable to the server 1 into the user registration form 11.
11a, an e-mail address 11b, a specific date 11f, information on a person targeted for the specific date, a specific purpose (in FIG. 4,
11e) is registered. Information on the target person includes, for example, name (or nickname) 11c, gender 11l, age 11d, hobby 11i, annual income 11j.
And the like. The specific purpose includes, for example, birthdays, wedding anniversaries, legal affairs, entrance to school, graduation, establishment and opening of companies, new construction and remodeling of homes, births, and other celebrations and events. On a specific day,
Specific purpose days, such as birthdays, wedding anniversaries, legal affairs, entrance ceremonies, graduation ceremonies, company founding and opening days, scheduled completion dates for new construction or renovation of homes and companies, and scheduled birth dates. Is mentioned.

Also, a user registration form 1 shown in FIG.
In addition to the above items, 1 has a check box 11g to check whether notification is made every year or this year only, and a budget 11h.
, A genre of gift 11k is provided as an item. Fill in the above items and enter the user registration form 11
Is completed and the registration is performed, the data input to the user registration form 11 is registered in the first registration means 6a.

As described above, the advertisement information of the store and the specific date information are registered in the second registration means 6b and the first registration means 6a in the server 1, respectively.

Next, the registered specific date, for example, 7
If the day before, the search unit 8 selects an industry related to a specific purpose on the specific day. That is, in the search unit 8, a business type corresponding to a specific purpose is set in advance, and stores of the set business type are extracted. For example, if the specific purpose is a birthday or wedding anniversary celebration, the business type of the store is accessories, miscellaneous goods, clothes, flowers, cakes, etc., and if it is a legal memorial service, it is a food delivery service, sweets, flowers, etc. .

The store extracted by the search unit 8 is transmitted to the mail distribution unit 5, and is distributed to the mail address of the user who registered the specific date along with the specific date, the specific purpose, and the like (see FIG. 5).

Note that the store has the user introduce the company by paying a predetermined amount to the company that owns the server by a monthly or yearly contract. Further, when a user purchases at a registered store, the store pays a predetermined amount of margin to the company that owns the server, so that the company that owns the server can earn profit.

As described above, since the server notifies the user of the specific date and the specific purpose, it is possible to call attention that the specific date such as a birthday related to a friend or the like is near. Therefore, the specific date can be surely recalled, and it is possible to prevent the user from forgetting the specific date and lacking thanks.

Further, since the server notifies the user of the store information corresponding to the specific purpose, the user can easily store the information of the store related to the specific purpose without taking the trouble of further searching. And presents can be easily selected. In particular, if the purchase is made at an online shop, the present can be mailed to a person targeted for a specific purpose without going to the store.

The registered specific date information such as a specific date can be confirmed by connecting to the server from a terminal, and can be added or deleted as appropriate.

In the present embodiment, only stores that have established a homepage or online shop are registered in the second registration means, but stores without a URL can also be registered. In such a case, only the items other than the URL are registered, and the search unit may be configured to indicate the store name, address, and telephone number in place of the URL in the store information when attached to the mail.

The date for notifying the specific date is not limited to seven days before as in the above-described embodiment, but may be two days or more in consideration of the case of sending out a present or the like or visiting a store. Good. Also, for example, on the day of the entrance ceremony or the day of the graduation ceremony, the day itself does not have a special meaning, but it is meaningful to enter and graduate, so it is not necessarily before the specific day , May be notified after a specific date. The notification time can be changed according to the specific purpose, and it is also possible to set in advance whether to notify before or after the specific date, according to the specific purpose. The notification period is preferably within a period of about 10 days before and after the specific day.

Further, the number of notifications may be not only once as in the above-described embodiment, but may be plural times at predetermined intervals, for example, every two days.

The URL provided to the user for a desired specific purpose may be all the URLs stored in the server as in the above embodiment. A region near the user's address or residence, for example, a store within a radius of 10 km around the registered user's address, a municipal office where the user's address or residence is located, and a user's address or residence are present. The URL of a store existing in a prefecture or a prefecture adjacent to the prefecture may be displayed. Further, the user can select whether to display all URLs or only stores located in an area near the user's address or residence.

When registering a store, as in the above embodiment, not only a method in which a user inputs a registration form,
The same question as in the registration form may be entered by the user on a paper medium in advance, and may be input by the server administrator.

Further, the information on the target person does not necessarily need all the information described in the above embodiment.
It suffices if at least a nickname or the like or a name, such as a nickname, by which the user can determine who is the target person on the specific day is described. However, if you input a lot of information about the target person, it is possible to use the gender, age, etc. in addition to the specific purpose when searching and selecting the business type of the store with the search unit, so that the target It is possible to appropriately select the type of business of a store that sells goods and services that match the tastes of those who do. That is, it is possible to positively propose to the user in consideration of a specific request regarding a product to be given for a specific purpose.

Further, all of the above is not always necessary for store information. At a minimum, store name, industry,
If there is a URL, a URL is sufficient, and if there is no URL, an address and a telephone number are sufficient.

The advertisement information of the store is all associated with each other, and the search unit is set to scan each of the advertisement information of the store. As a result of the search by the search unit, if only the URL or the store name is obtained as the information of the store, In addition, if information on a product can be attached to an email, it is possible to search, for example, a product name corresponding to a budget and its price when searching for a store. As a result, for example, a product name and its price can be displayed together with the store name. By displaying in this way, it is possible to positively propose a product to be purchased to give to a target person for a specific purpose.

As described above, the store information notified by the server according to the present invention to the user includes not only the URL and the store name, but also
Also includes products and services provided by stores, such as product names, prices, and services.

As described above, all the advertisement information of the store is associated with each other, and the search unit is set so as to scan each of the advertisement information of the store. If it is possible to attach not only the name but also information about the product to the email,
More specific store information can be provided to the user. Therefore, the user can know in which store a product that meets the budget is sold, and a specific example of the product from the notified mail, and can save the trouble of further narrowing down the stores from the notified store names. be able to.

Alternatively, instead of the search unit, the operator who manages the server may select a store to be notified to the user by picking up a business type or store.

In the above embodiment, the first registration means and the second registration means are configured by dividing the area in the hard disk. However, separate hard disks may be used.

In the above embodiment, a personal computer is used as a terminal. However, other examples of the terminal include a telephone or a portable information device (watch type) having a communication function for connecting to e-mail or the Internet. Or an electronic organizer with a communication function, etc.).

Further, as the notification means, a device for transmitting a facsimile can be used.

[0040]

According to the server according to the present invention, the registered person (user) can surely remember that the specific date is near or past, and therefore, thank the target person on the specific date. As well as information about the stores related to a specific purpose,
Gifts can be easily selected.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a notification system using a server according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the structure of a server according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 shows an example of a store registration screen.

FIG. 4 shows an example of a user registration screen.

FIG. 5 shows an example of display contents of an e-mail notified to a user.

[Explanation of symbols]

Reference Signs List 1 server 2 user terminal 3 store terminal 4 internet 5 mail distribution unit 6a first registration unit 6b second registration unit 7 control unit 8 search unit

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Claims (2)

[Claims] A first registration unit for registering a specific date and a specific purpose; a second registration unit for registering store information;
Notification means for notifying the user's terminal together with the specific date and the specific purpose, within a predetermined period including the specific date, information of the store selected from the stores registered in the registration means, and including the specific date. Is provided, the store information notification server. 2. The store information notification server according to claim 1, wherein the store related to the specific purpose is located near the residence of the user who registered the specific date.