JP2001357301A - Commodity purchase system, commodity information delivery device used for the system, and transmission/ reception terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a purchase system which enables a customer to easily, surely, and quickly purchase a desired commodity on a desired condition. SOLUTION: A commodity information delivery device stores commodity information, shop information, and route information transmitted from the shop side in a storage means and selects shop information which meets desire information for purchase transmitted from the transmission/reception terminal side, from stored information and transmits it to the transmission/reception terminal side together with route information.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a merchandise purchasing system, and more particularly to a technique using a transmitting / receiving terminal such as a transmitting / receiving terminal.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, the development of car navigation systems has been remarkable, and VICS (Vehicle I) which provides road traffic information has been developed.
(nformation and Communication System) services, and information providing services have begun to be developed mainly by automobile manufacturers and car navigation manufacturers. For example, a driver of a car equipped with a car navigation system can obtain desired information to some extent when desired.
For example, when driving in an unknown land and wanting to know what stores are nearby, information can be obtained by operating a car navigation system. Furthermore, by specifying a place to go, the car navigation system can display a route and guide the driver to the destination. For a method of acquiring information on a store and a price of a desired product, see, for example,
There is a technique described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 1-252533.

[0003]

When a certain product is desired, information of a store selling the product is obtained by a car navigation system, and it is possible with the current system to reach the store. However, when you want multiple products, for example, when you want fresh foods and compact discs, it is troublesome to search for a store for each product type. is there. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to display, when there is a desired product (a product to be purchased), a store that meets the requirement that the desired product can be purchased and the price is the lowest, easily and reliably. The purpose is to provide a purchasing system that shows a route and guides the user to the route. Further, another object of the present invention is to enable purchase of a product as soon as it arrives at a store where a desired product can be purchased, so that there is no need to search for the product in the store and it is possible to know the purchase price of the product in advance. To provide a purchasing system.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides: 1) a store, a product information distribution device for managing product information and store information, and a transmitting / receiving terminal connected by a communication network; The transmission / reception terminal transmits desired product information to the product information distribution device, receives store information and route information suitable for purchase for each product from the product information distribution device, and transmits a route or required route to the store. Displaying or notifying the route information including time, the merchandise information distribution device accumulates at least merchandise information and store information transmitted from the store side, and stores the desired merchandise information transmitted from the transmitting / receiving terminal. A store suitable for purchase is selected from the stored information and transmitted to the transmitting / receiving terminal together with the route information. 2) A merchandise information distribution device for configuring a merchandise purchasing system connected to a store and a transmitting / receiving terminal via a communication network,
Communication means for exchanging information with the transmitting / receiving terminal, store information of a plurality of stores, store data information obtaining means for obtaining product information, and storing data obtained by the store data information obtaining means. Store data information storage means, order data information obtaining means for obtaining the ordered product data information transmitted from the transmitting / receiving terminal,
A route start / end point information obtaining means for obtaining information of a start point and an end point of a route for a user of the transmitting / receiving terminal to go to a store where a product is purchased from the transmitting / receiving terminal, and an order placed from a result of the order data information obtaining means. A configuration comprising: a store extracting unit that extracts a store candidate that can provide a product from the stored store data information; and a route information creating unit that forms information on a route or required time to each store extracted by the store extracting unit. And

[0005] 3) A merchandise information distribution device for composing a merchandise purchase system connected to a store and a transmitting / receiving terminal via a communication network is provided by a communication means for exchanging information with the store and the transmitting / receiving terminal; Store data information acquisition means for acquiring the store information and product information of the store, store data information accumulation means for accumulating the data acquired by the store data information acquisition means, and the ordered product data transmitted from the transmission / reception terminal. Order data information acquiring means for acquiring information, route origin / end point information acquiring means for acquiring from the transmitting / receiving terminal information on the starting point and the ending point of the route for the user of the transmitting / receiving terminal to go to the store where the product is purchased, A store extracting means for extracting, from the stored store data information, a store candidate capable of providing the ordered product from the result of the order data information obtaining means, With respect to the candidate store extracted by the store extraction unit, a store negotiation unit for negotiating whether or not the ordered product can be provided by the transmission / reception terminal, and from the store candidates that can provide the product as a result of the store negotiation, Selected store information, selected store information obtaining means for obtaining from the transmitting / receiving terminal, route information generating means for forming information on a route or required time to each store determined by the above-mentioned store negotiation means, and the candidate store information And distribution data creation means for forming the selected store information or the information by the route information creation means as delivery data and transmitting the delivery data to the transmission / reception terminal side.

[0006] 4) A transmission / reception terminal for configuring a product purchase system which is connected to a store and a product information distribution device via a communication network, and communicates with the product information distribution device or a communication satellite to store information including a store position. Communication means for acquiring the location information of the route or the start and end points of the route including the location information, and the information of the store location and the information of the start and end points of the route obtained from the product information distribution device by the communication means, A configuration is provided that includes a route information creating unit that determines a route or required time to go to a store, and a route instruction unit that indicates the determined route. 5) A merchandise information distribution device for configuring a merchandise purchase system connected to a store and a transmitting / receiving terminal via a communication network,
Communication means for exchanging information with the transmitting / receiving terminal, store information of a plurality of stores, store data information obtaining means for obtaining product information, and storing data obtained by the store data information obtaining means. Store data information storage means, order data information obtaining means for obtaining the ordered product data information transmitted from the transmitting / receiving terminal,
A route start / end point information obtaining means for obtaining information of a start point and an end point of a route for a user of the transmitting / receiving terminal to go to a store where a product is purchased from the transmitting / receiving terminal, and an order placed from a result of the order data information obtaining means. A store extracting means for extracting a store candidate capable of providing a product from the stored store data information, and a negotiating process for negotiating whether the ordered product can be provided to the candidate store extracted by the store extracting means with the transmitting / receiving terminal. Store negotiation means, selected store information obtaining means for obtaining, from the transmitting / receiving terminal, store information selected from candidate stores that can provide a product as a result of the store negotiation, and each store determined by the store negotiation means Route information creation means that forms information on the route or required time to reach the store, the price of the product to be paid for each store, the total price of the product to be paid to all stores, or Or a price calculating means for calculating a system use price, the candidate store information, the selected store information,
And a distribution data generating means for forming the information by the path information generating means or the price information as distribution data and transmitting the distribution data to the transmitting / receiving terminal side.

[0007]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of the overall configuration of the first and second embodiments of the present invention. First, FIG.
The first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 10
0 is a shopping information center, 200 is a car, 201 is a car navigation system, 300 is a plurality of stores, 400 is home terminals, 500 and 600 are carriers, 700 is a communication satellite, and 800 is a public network. Next, the operation of each unit will be described. The shopping information center 100 manages information of a plurality of stores 300 and always keeps information on which stores handle which products as the latest information. Further, the shopping information center 100 includes a car navigation system 201.
Based on the product order data received from the home terminal 400 or the home terminal 400, a store candidate that can provide the product is extracted, negotiations are made to prepare the product at the store, and the car navigation system 201 and the home terminal 400 On the other hand, it provides information on the store position and the purchase price, or in addition to such information, route information to the store, information on the required time to the store, and the like. The car 200 is a car on which a user of the product purchase system rides, and has a car navigation system 201 mounted thereon. The car navigation system 201 shows the route information sent from the shopping information center 100 to the driver, and guides the automobile 200 to the store. Multiple stores 300
Provides the shopping information center 100 with information on handled products, bargain information, store advertisement information, and the like. In addition, when a product is ordered from the car navigation system 201 to the store through the shopping information center 100, the store negotiates with the shopping information center 100 whether the product can be provided. When the user who got on the car 200 arrives at the store, the merchandise can be immediately delivered to the user. The home terminal 400 is a terminal used by a user of the product purchase system, and is installed, for example, at the user's home. The home terminal 400 is connected to the shopping information center 10 via the public line network 800.
0 and the car navigation system 20
1 via a recording medium or a public line network 800. The product order information input by the user to the home terminal is directly sent to the shopping information center 1 via the public line network 800.
00 or once, car navigation system 2
01. Once the product order information is input to the car navigation system 201, it is input via the public line network 800 or in advance into the home terminal 400 and stored in a recording medium. It becomes possible by attaching. The carrier 500 relays data exchanged between the car navigation system 201 and the shopping information center 100 or the home terminal 400. The carrier 600 relays data transmitted from the shopping information center 100 to the car navigation system 201 via the public line network 800 or the communication satellite 700. The communication satellite 700 transmits information transmitted from the carrier 600 to the car navigation system 201. The public network 800 is a communication network for connecting the shopping information center 100, the car navigation system 201, the multiple stores 300, the home terminal 400, and the like.

Hereinafter, the overall operation will be described. The user of the merchandise purchase system has the car navigation system 201
Enter the product name you want to purchase. The product may be one type or a plurality of types. Entered product name (eg egg, milk, CD with title)
) Relays the carrier 500, and furthermore, the public network 8
00 to the shopping information center 100. At this time, together with the transmitted product name information, the car navigation system 201 or the ID information for specifying the user and the start and end point information of the route for going around the store are simultaneously transmitted. In the shopping information center 100, based on the received product name information, a store considered appropriate is selected from an internal database for each product, and whether or not the product can be provided to the store is negotiated. In this way, for all desired products, candidates for stores that sell and provide the products are determined. The shopping information center 100 transmits candidate information of a store that can provide a product to the car navigation system 201, and
The user selects a desired store from the store candidates and returns a selection result to the shopping information center 100. The shopping information center 100 includes the car navigation system 20
1. The route to the store is searched from the selection result of the store and the start / end information of the route received from 1 and the route instruction information, the information of the store, the required time to the store, the purchase price information of the product, etc. are transmitted to the carrier 600 and the communication satellite. The data is transmitted to the car navigation system 201 via the communication line 700. In addition, the shopping information center 100 notifies the store selected by the user of the car navigation system 201 that the user will visit the shop by communication, and makes a formal order.

[0009] On the other hand, the store prepares the product at the time of receiving the order for the product. The user in the car 200 checks the information such as the name of the store, the advertisement information, and the price of the product shown in the car navigation system 201, and arrives at the store according to the route instruction to the store. A user arriving at the store can immediately purchase the already prepared product. When negotiating with the store, the shopping information center 100 estimates the time required for preparation of the merchandise, and when the preparation time is longer than the time when the car 200 arrives at the store, when the car 200 leaves the current location of the car 200 The car navigation 201 or the home terminal 400 is notified of whether to do so. This is convenient because, when an order for a product is input from the home terminal 400 and the product name is directly transmitted to the shopping information center, it is convenient to know when to leave from home.

According to this embodiment, the user of the product purchase system inputs the name of the product to be purchased and the start / end information of the route to the car navigation system 201 or the home terminal 400 and transmits the information to the shopping information center 100. The shopping information center 100 selects an appropriate store candidate, the user selects a desired store from the candidate stores, and the selected store immediately prepares a product, and the user indicates to the car navigation system 201. Check the information such as the name of the store and advertisement information, the price of the product, the preparation time of the product, the time required to reach the store, etc., and it is possible to arrive at the store according to the indicated route information, and when arriving at the store You can immediately purchase the product. When the information of the product to be purchased is input from the home terminal 400, the user of the product purchase system uses the home terminal 400 to store the name and advertisement information, the price of the product, the preparation time of the product, and the route information to the store. And the time required to reach the store. In addition, the starting point and the end point information of the route input by the user can be set to predetermined values. For example, it is possible to use the starting point as the current point of the car navigation system 201 and the end point is not particularly set. .

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of the shopping information center 100 shown in FIG. 1 in the first embodiment. 100 is a shopping information center, 101 is communication means, 10
2 is an order data acquisition unit, 103 is a route start / end point acquisition unit, 104 is a store negotiation unit, 105 is a route creation unit, 106 is a distribution data creation unit, 107 is a store data acquisition unit, 108 is a store data storage unit, 109 is a store extracting means, and 111 is a selected store information obtaining means. The communication unit 101 transmits communication data created inside the shopping information center 100 to the outside, that is, to the plurality of stores 300, the car navigation system 201, and the home terminal 400,
Conversely, communication data from a plurality of stores 300 and communication data from the car navigation system 201 and the home terminal 400 are received in the shopping information center 100. The order data obtaining means 102 is provided in the car navigation system 201.
And a function of acquiring the product order data transmitted from the home terminal 400. Route start / end point acquisition means 103
Acquires the start and end point information of the route input from the car navigation system 201. When the user of the car navigation 201 sets the start point information as the current point of the car navigation system 201, the current point information of the car navigation system 201 is acquired from the car navigation system 201 as the start point information. The store negotiation means 104 negotiates whether or not a product can be provided to the candidate shop extracted by the store extraction means 109, and further obtains information on the time required to prepare the product and the purchase price from the store. Further, as a result of the negotiation, the information of the store where the product can be provided is output to the distribution data creating means 106, and the information is transmitted to the car navigation system 201 by the communication means 101. Furthermore, when negotiations with the store are established at the end, the latest store information, for example, information on special merchandise and time service is acquired from the store and output to the distribution data creation means 106. Route creation means 105
Creates a route so that the car 200 equipped with the car navigation system 201 can reach the store finally decided by the store negotiation means 104 by an optimal route. The distribution data creation unit 106 creates communication data to be finally transmitted to the car navigation system 201. The store data acquisition means 107 acquires information on a plurality of stores 300, for example, store names, addresses, merchandise handled, advertisement information, bargain sale information, and the like. The store data storage unit 108 stores information acquired by the store data acquisition unit 107. When a product order is transmitted from the car navigation system 201, the store extraction unit 109 obtains the start and end point information of the route obtained by the route start / end point obtaining unit 103, and based on the information, determines the ordered product. A store candidate which is considered to be available is extracted from the store data storage means 108, and the store negotiation means 104
Output to The selected store information obtaining unit 111 obtains the result of the user selecting a desired store from the store candidates indicated in the car navigation system 201.

The shopping information center 10 will be described with reference to FIGS.
The operation of 0 will be described. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the internal operation of the shopping information center 100. Via the communication means 101,
Merchandise order data and route start and end point information are received from the car navigation system 201 or the home terminal 400 by the order data acquisition unit 102 and the route start / end point acquisition unit 103, respectively. Order data acquisition means 102 and route start / end point acquisition means 103
Outputs the received data to the store extraction means 109.
The route start / end point obtaining means 103 obtains the start / end point of the obtained route.
The end point information is also output to the route creation means 105. The store extraction means 109 accesses the store data storage means 108 and considers the ordered product and the route start / end information,
A plurality of suitable stores are extracted as candidates and output to the store negotiation means 104 as store information. Store negotiation means 10
4 negotiates whether the product can be provided to the store, if it can be provided, how long it takes to prepare the product, how much the price will be, etc. If both requirements are satisfied, the store is determined as a candidate store Then, the store candidate information is output to the distribution data creation means 106. The distribution data creating means 106 creates the candidate information of the store as distribution data. The distribution data is transmitted to the car navigation system 201 by the communication means 101. On the other hand, the user of the car navigation system 201
A desired store is selected from the store candidates received from, and returned to the shopping information center 100. The data returned from the car navigation system 201 is acquired by the selected store information acquisition unit 111, and the selected store information, which is the content of the data, is output to the store negotiation unit 104 and the route creation unit 105. In the store negotiation means 104,
The store selected by the user is finally notified that the store has been selected, and the store prepares to immediately deliver the product to the user. Route creation means 10
5 searches for a route from the location of the starting point acquired by the route starting / ending point acquiring unit 103 to the selected and determined store and a route from the store to the end point,
06 is output. Here, there is naturally a case where there are a plurality of stores, and in such a case, an optimal traveling route is searched. The distribution data creating means 106 is provided in the car navigation system 20.
As communication data to be transmitted to the first or home terminal 400, route information, store information, and the like are formed.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of the car navigation system 201 in the first embodiment. 201 is a car navigation system, 202 is
GPS antenna, 203 is a mobile phone, 204 is a communication means,
205 is a control means, 206 is a route instruction means, 207 is a receiving antenna, and 208 is an input means. The GPS antenna 202 receives position information of the automobile 200 from a communication satellite. The mobile phone 203 is used for data communication with the shopping information center 100. The communication unit 204 controls the GPS antenna 202 and the mobile phone 203. Control means 205
Controls the means in the car navigation system 201. The route instruction unit 206 instructs the driver on the route information received from the shopping information center 100 via the mobile phone 203. The receiving antenna 207 receives VICS information and the like. The input unit 208 is a unit for inputting information when a user of the car navigation system 201 selects a desired store from candidate stores based on desired product information and route start / end information.

Hereinafter, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 100 is a shopping information center, 200 is a car, 201 is a car navigation system, 300 is a plurality of stores, 400 is home terminals, 500 and 600 are carriers, 700 is a communication satellite, and 800 is a public network. First, the shopping information center 100 manages information on a plurality of stores 300, and always keeps information on which stores handle which products as the latest information. Further, the shopping information center 100 includes a car navigation system 201.
Based on the product order data received from the home terminal 400 or the home terminal 400, a store that can provide the product is extracted, negotiations are made to prepare the product in the store, and the car navigation system 201 and the home terminal 400 It provides location and purchase price information, or route information to the store, information on the time required to the store, and the like, in addition to the information. The car 200 is loaded with a car navigation system 201 by a user of the product purchase system. The car navigation system 201 calculates the route to the store from the information on the store position sent from the shopping information center 100 and instructs the driver to the route. When calculating the route, the route is determined in consideration of the product preparation status sent from the shopping information center 100 and the traffic information acquired by the user.
The plurality of stores 300 provide the shopping information center 100 with information on handled products, bargain information, store advertisement information, and the like. In addition, for the store, the car navigation system 2
When a product is ordered from 01 through the shopping information center 100, the store negotiates with the shopping information center 100 whether or not the product can be provided. When the user arrives at the store, the product should be ready for delivery to the user. The home terminal 400 is a terminal used by a user of the product purchase system, and is installed, for example, at the user's home. The home terminal 400 is connected to the shopping information center 100 via a public line network 800, and furthermore, a car navigation system 201 and a recording medium or a public line network 8 are connected.
00 is connected. The product order information input by the user to the home terminal can be directly transmitted to the shopping information center 100 or once to the car navigation system 201 via the public line network 800. Once the product order information is input to the car navigation system 201, the information is entered via the public line network 800 or in advance into the home terminal 400 and stored in a recording medium. It becomes possible by attaching. The carrier 500 includes the car navigation system 201 and the shopping information center 100.
Alternatively, data exchanged with the home terminal 400 is relayed. The carrier 600 is the shopping information center 100
From the public line network 8 to the car navigation system 201
00 and data transmitted via the communication satellite 700. The communication satellite 700 transmits information transmitted from the carrier 600 to the car navigation system 201. The public network 800 is a communication network for connecting the shopping information center 100, the car navigation system 201, the multiple stores 300, the home terminal 400, and the like.

The overall operation will be described below. The user of the merchandise purchase system has the car navigation system 201
Enter the product name you want to purchase. The product may be of one type or a plurality of types. Entered product name (eg egg, milk, CD with title)
Etc.) are relayed through the carrier 500 and further sent to the shopping information center 100 via the public line network 800.
At this time, together with the transmitted product name information, ID information for specifying the car navigation system 201 or the user and information indicating the current position of the car navigation system 201 are simultaneously transmitted. Shopping information center 10
In the case of 0, based on the received product name information, a suitable store candidate is selected from an internal database for each product, and it is negotiated whether or not the product can be provided to the selected store. In this way, for all desired products, candidates for stores that sell and provide the products are determined. Next, the shopping information center 100 transmits to the car navigation system 201 the candidate information of the store that can provide the product, and the user of the car navigation system 201 selects a desired store from the store candidates, The selection result is returned to the shopping information center 100. Shopping information center 10
0 searches for a route to a store based on the store selection result and route start / end information received from the car navigation system 201, and provides route instruction information, store information, time required to store information, and purchase price information for a product. Carrier 6 etc.
00 and the communication satellite 700 to the car navigation system 201. In addition, the shopping information center 100
Notifies the store selected by the user of the car navigation system 201 by communication that the user is going to shop and makes a formal order. The car navigation system 201 inputs the start / end point information of the route, the information of the store position sent from the shopping information center 100, the information of the product preparation status, and the traffic information acquired by the car navigation system 201 by the user. Considering this, the route to the store is determined, and the driver is instructed.

On the other hand, the store prepares the merchandise when receiving the order for the merchandise. The user in the car 200 checks the information of the store indicated by the car navigation system 201 and arrives at the store according to a route instruction to the store. The user arriving at the store can immediately purchase the already prepared product. When negotiating with the store, the shopping information center 100 estimates the time required for preparation of the merchandise, and when the preparation time is longer than the time when the car 200 arrives at the store, when the car 200 leaves the current location of the car 200 The car navigation 201 or the home terminal 400 is notified of whether to do so. Such a function can be performed by inputting a product name from the home terminal 400 and directly ordering the product.
This is convenient because when sending it to the shopping information center, it is possible to know when to leave from home. According to the present embodiment, the user of the product purchase system is able to
Car navigation system 2 using route start / end information
01 or input to the home terminal 400 and send it to the shopping information center 100, the shopping information center 100 selects an appropriate store candidate, and the user selects a desired store from the store candidates. Prepare the product immediately,
The user can arrive at the store in accordance with the route information indicated in the car navigation system 201, and can purchase a product immediately upon arrival at the store.
In addition, the starting point and the end point information of the route input by the user can be set to default values. For example, the starting point can be set to the current point of the car navigation system 201 and the end point is not particularly set. It is.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of the shopping information center 100 shown in FIG. 1 in the second embodiment. 100 is a shopping information center, 101 is communication means, 10
2 is order data acquisition means, 103 is route start / end point acquisition means, 104 is store negotiation means, 106 is distribution data creation means, 107 is shop data acquisition means, 108 is shop data storage means, 109 is shop extraction means, Reference numeral 111 denotes a selection determined store acquisition unit. The communication means 101 transmits communication data created inside the shopping information center 100 to the outside, that is, the plurality of stores 300 and the car navigation system 20.
1. Transmit to home terminal 400, and conversely,
Communication data from the car navigation system 20
1. The communication data from the home terminal 400 is received by the shopping information center 100. The order data obtaining means 102 has a function of obtaining the product order data transmitted from the car navigation system 201 or the home terminal 400.
The route start / end point acquisition means 103 acquires the start point and end point information of the route input from the car navigation system 201. When the user of the car navigation 201 sets the start point information as the current point of the car navigation system 201, the current point information of the car navigation system 201 is acquired from the car navigation system 201 as the start point information. Store negotiation means 104
Negotiates whether or not a product can be provided to the candidate store extracted by the store extraction means 109, and obtains information on the time required to prepare the product and the purchase price from the store.
Further, as a result of the negotiation, store information that can provide the product is output to distribution data creating means 106, and the information is transmitted to communication means 1
01 to the car navigation system 201. In addition, if negotiations with the store are finalized at the end,
The latest store information, for example, information on special merchandise and time service is acquired from the store and output to the distribution data creation means 106. The distribution data creation unit 106 creates communication data to be transmitted to the car navigation system 201. The store data acquisition unit 107 includes a plurality of stores 300
Related information, for example, the name of the store, address, merchandise, advertisement information, and bargain information. The store data storage unit 108 stores information acquired by the store data acquisition unit 107. When the product order is transmitted from the car navigation system 201, the store extraction means 109 acquires the start and end points of the route acquired by the route start / end point acquisition means 103, and, based on the information, the ordered product Is extracted from the store data storage means 108 and output to the store negotiation means 104. The selected store information acquiring unit 111 allows the user to select a desired store from the store candidates indicated in the car navigation system 201.

Referring to FIG. 5 and FIG.
The operation of 0 will be described. FIG. 6 is an operation flowchart of the shopping information center 100. Product order data and information on the start and end points of a route are received from the car navigation system 201 or the home terminal 400 by the order data acquisition unit 102 and the route start / end point acquisition unit 103 via the communication unit 101, respectively. Order data acquisition means 1
02 and the route start / end point acquisition means 103 output the received data to the store extraction means 109. Store extraction means 1
09 accesses the store data storage unit 108, extracts a plurality of suitable stores as candidates in consideration of the ordered product and the start / end point information of the route, and outputs the store information to the store negotiation unit 104. The store negotiation means 104 negotiates whether the product can be provided to the store, if it can be provided, how long it takes to prepare the product, how much the price will be, etc., and if both requirements are satisfied, the store The information is determined as a candidate, and the candidate information of the store is output to the distribution data creating means 106. The distribution data creating means 106 creates the candidate information of the store as distribution data. The distribution data is transmitted to the car navigation system 201 by the communication means 101. On the other hand, the user of the car navigation system 201 selects a desired store from the candidate stores received from the shopping information center 100 and returns the selected store to the shopping information center 100. The data returned from the car navigation system 201 is obtained by the selection determined store obtaining means 111, and the store selection information, which is the content of the data, is output to the store negotiation means 104. The store negotiation means 104 notifies the store selected by the user that the store has been finally selected, and the store prepares to immediately deliver the product to the user.

FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of the car navigation system 201 in the second embodiment. 201 is a car navigation system, 202 is a GP
S antenna, 203 a mobile phone, 204 a communication means, 2
05 is a control means, 206 is a route instruction means, 207 is a receiving antenna, 208 is an input means, and 105 is a route creation means. GPS antenna 202 is connected to car 2
00 position information is received. The mobile phone 203 is used for data communication with the shopping information center 100. The communication unit 204 controls the GPS antenna 202 and the mobile phone 203. The control means 205 is the car navigation system 2
01 is controlled. The route instruction means 206
The route information calculated by the route creating means 105 is instructed to the driver. The receiving antenna 207 receives VICS information and the like. The input unit 208 is a unit for inputting desired merchandise information, route start / end information, and information for selecting a desired store from candidate stores, by a user of the car navigation system 201. The route creation means 105 receives the route start / end information input by the user and the shopping information center 100 via the mobile phone 203,
The route to the store and the route from the route to the end point are determined in consideration of the position information of the selected store, the product preparation status, and the traffic information obtained via the reception antenna 207.

FIG. 8 shows the route creating means 1 of the first embodiment.
FIG. 05 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a route creation unit 105 according to the second embodiment. 105 is a route creation means, 1 is a product preparation status input terminal, 2 is a preparation status adaptive route search means, 3 is a route correction means, 4 is a route output terminal, 5 is a store position information input terminal, and 6 is a moving object position information input. Terminal, 7
Is a communication means connection terminal, and 8 is a traffic information acquisition means. First, the route creation unit 105 according to the first embodiment will be described below.
I will explain the inside. The product preparation status input terminal 1 is connected to the store negotiation means 104, and inputs information on the product preparation status of each store. The store position information input terminal 5 is connected to the store extraction means 109 and the store negotiation means 104, and inputs position information of each store. The route start / end point information input terminal 6 is connected to the route start / end point obtaining means 103,
Start point and end point information for calculating the route is input. The preparation status adaptive route search means 2 takes into account the product preparation status at each store input from the product preparation status input terminal 1, from the starting point of the route to the route to each store and from the last store to the end point on the route. To get directions.
The communication means connection terminal 7 is connected to the communication means 101.
The traffic information acquisition unit 8 acquires current traffic information via the communication unit 101. The route correction unit 3 corrects the route input from the preparation status adaptive route search unit 2 in consideration of the current traffic information input from the traffic information acquisition unit 8, and creates a final route. Route output terminal 4
Is connected to the distribution data creation means 106.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the operation of the route creation means 105. The overall operation will be described with reference to FIG. The preparation status adaptive route search means 2 acquires the product preparation status information, and searches and creates the shortest route accordingly. The traffic information acquisition means 8 acquires the current traffic information,
The route correcting means 3 performs a route correction according to the traffic condition on the route created by the preparation status adaptive route searching means 2 to create a final optimum route. Next, the configuration of the route creation unit 105 in the second embodiment will be described. The product preparation status input terminal 1 is connected to the control means 205, and inputs information on the product preparation status of each store obtained from the shopping information center 100. Store location information input terminal 5
Is connected to the control means 205 and the shopping information center 100
The location information of each store obtained from is input. Route origin /
The end point information input terminal 6 is connected to the input means 208, and receives information on the start point and end point of the route input by the user from the input means 208. Preparation status adaptive route search means 2
Searches for a route from the starting point of the route to each store and a route from the last store on the route to the end point while considering the product preparation status at each store input from the product preparation status input terminal 1. The communication means connection terminal 7 is connected to the control means 205 and receives information from the receiving antenna 207 connected to the communication means 204. The traffic information acquisition means 8 acquires current traffic information. Route correction means 3
Corrects the route input from the preparation status adaptive route search means 2 in consideration of the current traffic information input from the traffic information acquisition means 8, and creates a final route. The route output terminal 4 is connected to the control unit 205 and outputs the route information created by the route correction unit 3.

FIG. 10 is a block diagram in which a function is added to the route creation means 105. 9 is a required time calculating means, 1
0 is a required time output terminal. The required time calculation means 9
The route created by the route correcting means 3 and the traffic information from the traffic information acquiring means 8, and further the product preparation status input terminal 1
Based on the product preparation status at each store entered from
Time required for the car 200 to arrive at each store, and
The time when the car 200 should leave the starting position is determined, and is output to the required time output terminal 10. The required time output terminal 10 is connected to the distribution data generating means 106 and outputs information such as the required time calculated by the required time calculating means 9 to the distribution data generating means 106. In the first embodiment, the required time calculation means 9 is added, and the shopping information center 100 transmits information such as the required time to the car navigation system 201 or the home terminal 400, and the car navigation system 201 or the home terminal 400
Shows the received information to the user of the product purchase system. Thus, the user can know the time required to reach each store, and can know when to leave, particularly when it takes time to prepare products at each store. In the second embodiment, the information on the required time and the like is indicated to the user of the product purchase system by the route instruction means 206 via the control means 205, so that the user of the product purchase system can reduce the time required for each store. You can know
In particular, when it takes time to prepare products at each store, it is possible to know when it is appropriate to leave.

FIG. 11 is a block diagram in which functions are added to the shopping information system 100 in the first embodiment, and FIG. 12 is a block diagram in which functions are added to the shopping information system 100 in the second embodiment. 110 is an advertisement fee calculation means. The advertisement fee calculation unit 110 is connected to the store negotiation unit 104, and calculates an advertisement fee when each store issues an advertisement and displays the advertisement on the car navigation system 201 or the home terminal 400. When a certain store among the plurality of stores 300 wants to display an advertisement on the car navigation system 201 or the home terminal 400, the advertisement charge calculation unit 1
By charging the store for the advertisement fee calculated in step 10, the shopping information system 100 obtains income from the store.

FIG. 13 is a block diagram showing the internal structure of the advertisement fee calculating means 110. 110 is an advertisement charge calculating means, 11 is a connection terminal for a store negotiation means, 12 is a sales calculating means for each store, 13 is a sales data storing means for each store, 14
Is a store-specific advertisement charge calculation means. The store negotiation means connection terminal 11 is connected to the store negotiation means 104. The store-specific sales calculation means 12 calculates the sales of each store for each transaction performed by the user of the product purchase system. The store-specific sales data storage means 13 stores the calculation result of the store-specific sales calculation means 12 for each store. The store-specific advertisement charge calculating means 14 stores the store-specific sales data storing means 1
In step 3, an advertisement fee for each store is determined according to the total sales amount of each store accumulated in the past, and output to the store negotiation means 104. With the configuration shown in FIG. 13, the advertising fee can be determined for each store according to the total sales thus far, so that the advertising fee can be set as fairly as possible for all the stores. Further, the merchandise information distribution device (shopping information center) includes means for calculating the price of the merchandise to be paid for each store, the total price of the merchandise to be paid to all stores, or the system use price. A configuration that is formed as distribution data and transmitted to the transmitting / receiving terminal is also within the scope of the present invention.

It should be noted that, in the invention related to the invention described in the claims, the invention described in the above embodiment includes:
(1) a merchandise information distribution device including an advertisement charge calculating means for calculating an advertisement insertion charge of a store; (2) as an advertisement charge calculation means, a store-specific sales amount calculation means for calculating a sales amount of a product for each store; A merchandise information distribution device comprising store-specific sales data accumulating means for accumulating information, wherein a store advertisement charge is determined in accordance with the stored store-specific sales amount information; A merchandise information distribution method using a merchandise information distribution device connected to a transmitting / receiving terminal via a communication network, wherein merchandise information transmitted from the store side, store information, and route information including a route or a required time to the store. Accumulating in the accumulating means; receiving the desired product information transmitted from the transmitting / receiving terminal by the product information distribution apparatus; A commodity information distribution method comprising: selecting a store from the stored information; and transmitting at least the selected store information and the route information to the transmission / reception terminal side. (4) Communication between the store and the transmission / reception terminal A merchandise information distribution method using a merchandise information distribution device connected by a network, wherein merchandise information transmitted from the store side, store information, and route information including a route or a required time to the store are stored in a storage unit. Receiving the desired product information transmitted from the transmission / reception terminal by the product information distribution device, extracting a store suitable for purchase for the desired product information from the stored information, Obtaining a start point and an end point of a route for traveling around a designated store, a route from the start point to each store, or required time information. And the like.

[0026]

According to the present invention, desired products can be purchased simply, reliably and quickly under desired conditions.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of a first embodiment and a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a configuration example diagram of a shopping information center.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an operation of a shopping information center.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of a car navigation system.

FIG. 5 is a configuration example diagram of a shopping information center.

FIG. 6 is an operation flowchart of the shopping information center.

FIG. 7 is a configuration example diagram of a car navigation system.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of a route creating unit;

FIG. 9 is an operation flowchart of a route creation unit.

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of a route creation unit.

FIG. 11 is a configuration example diagram of a shopping information center.

FIG. 12 is a configuration example diagram of a shopping information center.

FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of an advertisement fee calculating unit.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Product preparation status input terminal, 2 ... Preparation status adaptive route search means, 3 ... Route correction means, 4 ... Route output terminal, 5 ... Store location information input terminal, 6 ... Route starting point
/ End point information input terminal, 7 ... communication means connection terminal, 8 ...
Traffic information acquisition means, 9 ... time calculation means, 10 ...
Required time output terminal, 11 ... connection terminal for store negotiation means,
12: store-specific sales calculation means, 13: store-specific sales data storage means, 14: store-specific advertisement rate calculation means, 1
00: shopping information center, 101: communication means, 102
... Order data acquisition means, 103: Route start / end point acquisition means, 104: Store negotiation means, 105: Route creation means, 106: Distribution data creation means, 107
... store data acquisition means, 108 ... store data storage means,
109: store extraction means, 110: advertisement charge calculation means, 111: selection determined store acquisition means, 200: automobile, 201: car navigation system, 202
... GPS antenna, 203 ... Mobile phone, 204 ...
Communication means 205 control means 206 route instructing means 207 receiving antenna 208 input means
300: multiple stores, 400: home terminal, 500
... Carrier, 600 ... Carrier, 700 ... Communication satellite, 800 ... Public network.

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Claims (8)

[Claims] A store, a merchandise information distribution device for managing merchandise information and store information, and a transmitting / receiving terminal are connected via a communication network, and the transmitting / receiving terminal transmits desired merchandise information to the merchandise information distributing device. Receiving store information and route information suitable for purchase for each product from the product information distribution device, and displaying or notifying route information including a route to the store or a required time; Store at least the merchandise information and store information transmitted from the store side in a storage unit, and select a store suitable for purchase from the stored information for the desired merchandise information transmitted from the transmission / reception terminal; A product purchase system configured to transmit the data to the transmitting / receiving terminal. 2. A merchandise information distribution device for configuring a merchandise purchasing system connected to a store and a transmitting / receiving terminal via a communication network, comprising: a communication unit for exchanging information with the store and the transmitting / receiving terminal; Store data information acquiring means for acquiring store information and product information of a plurality of stores; store data information accumulating means for accumulating data acquired by the store data information acquiring means; and an order transmitted from the transmitting / receiving terminal. Order data information obtaining means for obtaining product data information; and route start / end point information obtaining from the sending / receiving terminal information on the starting and ending points of the route for the user of the sending / receiving terminal to go to the store where the product is purchased. Means for extracting, from the stored store data information, a store candidate that can provide the ordered product from the result of the order data information obtaining means. A product information distribution device comprising: a stage; and route information creating means for forming information on a route or required time to each store extracted by the store extracting means. 3. A merchandise information distribution device for configuring a merchandise purchasing system connected to a store and a transmitting / receiving terminal via a communication network, comprising: communication means for exchanging information with the store and the transmitting / receiving terminal; Store data information acquiring means for acquiring store information and product information of a plurality of stores; store data information accumulating means for accumulating data acquired by the store data information acquiring means; and an order transmitted from the transmitting / receiving terminal. Order data information obtaining means for obtaining product data information; and route start / end point information obtaining from the sending / receiving terminal information on the starting and ending points of the route for the user of the sending / receiving terminal to go to the store where the product is purchased. Means for extracting, from the stored store data information, a store candidate that can provide the ordered product from the result of the order data information obtaining means. And negotiation means for negotiating with the candidate store extracted by the store extraction means whether the ordered product can be provided by the transmitting / receiving terminal. Selected store information obtaining means for obtaining, from the transmitting / receiving terminal, store information selected from among the following; a route information generating means for forming information on a route or required time to each store determined by the store negotiation means; And a distribution data generating means for forming the candidate store information, the selected store information, or the information from the route information generating means as distribution data, and transmitting the distribution data to the transmission / reception terminal side. apparatus. 4. The route information creating means according to claim 1, wherein
/ Including the position information of the start point and the end point of the route obtained by the end point information obtaining means, the position information of the store extracted by the store extracting means, and the preparation status information of the product obtained by the store negotiation means. 3. The apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a preparation state adaptive route search means for searching for a route or a required time from the transmitting / receiving terminal position to the store based on the information.
Or the product information distribution device according to claim 3. 5. The route information creating means comprises a traffic information acquiring means for acquiring traffic information on a route searched by the preparation status adaptive route searching means, and a route correcting means for correcting a route. The product information distribution device according to claim 4. 6. A transmission / reception terminal for configuring a product purchase system connected to a store and a product information distribution device via a communication network, the store information including a store position communicating with the product information distribution device or a communication satellite. Communication means for acquiring own position information or information on the start and end points of a route including the position information; and information on the store position and information on the start and end points of the route obtained from the product information distribution device by the communication means. A transmission / reception terminal, comprising: route information creating means for calculating a route or a required time to go to the store; and route instruction means for indicating the determined route. 7. A route from a transmitting / receiving terminal to a store based on position information of a start point and an end point of the route, position information of a store, and information on preparation status of a product, obtained by the communication unit. 7. The apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising: a preparation state adaptive route search unit for searching for a required time; a traffic information obtaining unit for obtaining traffic information of the searched route; and a route correction unit for correcting a route. Sending and receiving terminals. 8. A merchandise information distribution device for configuring a merchandise purchase system connected to a store and a transmitting / receiving terminal via a communication network, comprising: communication means for exchanging information with the store and the transmitting / receiving terminal; Store data information acquiring means for acquiring store information and product information of a plurality of stores; store data information accumulating means for accumulating data acquired by the store data information acquiring means; and an order transmitted from the transmitting / receiving terminal. Order data information obtaining means for obtaining product data information; and route start / end point information obtaining from the sending / receiving terminal information on the starting and ending points of the route for the user of the sending / receiving terminal to go to the store where the product is purchased. Means for extracting, from the stored store data information, a store candidate that can provide the ordered product from the result of the order data information obtaining means. And negotiation means for negotiating with the candidate store extracted by the store extraction means whether the ordered product can be provided by the transmitting / receiving terminal. Selected store information obtaining means for obtaining, from the transmitting / receiving terminal, store information selected from among the following; a route information generating means for forming information on a route or required time to each store determined by the above-mentioned store negotiation means; Price calculation means for calculating the price of the product to be paid for each, the total price of the product to be paid to all stores, or the system usage price, and the information by the candidate store information, the selected store information, and the route information creation device Or distribution data creation means for forming the price information as distribution data and transmitting the distribution information to the transmission / reception terminal side. Information distribution device.