JP2002297965A - Commodity sales method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for receiving an order for a commodity with puchaser's name, self-portrait, and logotype such as an own name ball and selling it via a telecommunication network such as the Internet. SOLUTION: A commodity sales server sends one or more types regarding a desired commodity from a commodity data base, fonts, colors or the like (a printing place and printing size) to a user terminal to an access from the user terminal on the telecommunication network and it has the user terminal select them. It receives a customization order such as a desired name or a logotype from the user terminal, prepares an image file by combining data selected by the user terminal and customized data, sends an image screen of the commodity to the user terminal, and sells a realized own commodity of an image commodity confirmed by the user terminal.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a computer-based product which enables a user terminal to purchase a custom-made product, such as a golf ball or the like, having a predetermined shape and displaying a unique mark such as an own name on a communication network such as the Internet. The present invention relates to a sales method, a computer system, and a computer program.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in order to purchase a product such as a golf ball with an own name that is a personal property, the purchaser requests the shop by designating fonts, colors, etc., and places an order from the shop to the manufacturer. . However, there is a case where the image of the own name desired by the purchaser does not appear on the actually completed special order product. The printed font, color, etc. may be different from the planned or designated font, color, etc. In addition, photos, designs, logos, etc. of custom-ordered products must be printed and printed, such as reprinted, to retailers.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to sell a product with a unique mark such as an own name on a communication network such as the Internet. Further, the present invention provides
The buyer purchases goods,
It is an object of the present invention to be able to freely select and custom-design a shape and a design, and to make a purchase order after confirming an image product in which the shape and the design of the selected product are combined.

[0004]

According to the present invention, there is provided a method for selling a product on a communication network such as the Internet, comprising: Presenting one or more designs to be given to the above types and shapes of the products, enabling the user terminal to select the types and designs of the products presented, and of a desired design other than the presented designs. Enables provision, automatically creates an image product in the image file that combines the selected design and the proposed design into the shape of the product of the type selected by the user terminal,
The created image product is displayed on the user terminal, whereby a purchase order is received from the user terminal for the embodied product of the image product confirmed by the user terminal and sold.

[0005] In order to achieve the above object, a computer system for selling goods on a communication network such as the Internet according to the present invention is characterized in that a computer assigns one or more kinds of specific goods having a predetermined shape to the shape. Means for storing one or more designs, means for transmitting a product type and design stored in the storage means to a user terminal, suggesting a selection for the product type and design to the user terminal, and Means for suggesting transmission of a desired design other than the one transmitted to the user, means for receiving the type and design of the product as the selection result transmitted from the user terminal, and data relating to the desired design, and Select the shape of the product of the type selected by the terminal Means for combining the design and the desired design to create an image product in an image file; means for transmitting the created image file to a user terminal; and means for allowing the user terminal to consider the image product in the image file; It is characterized by having means for receiving a purchase order from a user terminal for an embodied product.

In order to achieve the above object, a computer program for selling goods on a communication network such as the Internet according to the present invention comprises one or more types of goods having a predetermined shape and one or more types for giving the shape. A procedure for presenting the data relating to the above design to the user terminal, a procedure for suggesting the selection of the type of the product to the user terminal, a suggestion for selecting the design to the user terminal, and a proposal of a desired design other than the presented design. A procedure for suggesting, a procedure for receiving data from the user terminal as a result of selection regarding the type and design of the product, a procedure for receiving data about a desired design other than the presented design from the user terminal, and a procedure for receiving data from the user terminal. Of the type selected by the user terminal Creating an image product in which the selected design and the proposed design are combined in the shape of the product into an image file, sending the created image file to a user terminal, and transmitting the image product included in the image file to the user. The computer is caused to execute a procedure for causing the terminal to confirm, thereby performing a procedure for receiving a purchase request from the user terminal for the embodied product of the confirmed image product.

[0007] In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the goods include various sports goods such as golf, tennis, baseball, skiing, skating, mountain climbing, fishing goods, various balls such as golf balls, and of course, various packages. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the type is size, weight, hardness,
Includes various standards such as length and reference values. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the design includes various patterns and characters such as a picture, a photograph, a logo, a name, an address, a telephone number, an e-mail address. The design may include color, font, font thickness, font size, etc., and may also include placement and proportions to the product shape. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the image merchandise comprises a reprint. Here, the reprinting means a printing copy of graphics, characters, and the like.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below by taking a golf ball sale as an example. However, the present invention can be used not only for selling golf balls but also for selling various products having a predetermined shape. FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a computer-based system related to golf ball sales.
The general operation of the present system will be described with reference to FIG.
In FIG. 1, a golf ball sales system according to the present invention includes a sales server 10 of a golf ball maker 1 and a user terminal 2, and the sales server 10 and the user terminal 2 are connected via the Internet 5.

The sales server 10 includes an input / output unit 11 and a storage unit 1
2 and a processing unit 13. The input / output unit 11 has various operations, input / output, and display means for inputting golf ball production data and custom data from the user terminal 2 and displaying and outputting an image file 126 based on the custom data to the user terminal 2. The storage unit 12 stores program data necessary for selling golf balls, production data input from the input / output unit 11, custom data, and data output from the input / output unit 11, and includes a ball database 121, a logo database 124, a font A database 122, a color database 123, a user data file 125, and an image file 126 are included. The processing unit 13 has a function of creating a user data file 125 and an image file 126 based on the custom data input from the input / output unit 11 by the user terminal 2.

The golf ball production data is composed of data of the type, logo, font and color of the golf ball inputted to the input / output unit 11, and is registered in the ball database 121, logo database 124, font database 122 and color database 123, respectively. You. The data registered in each database is output to the user terminal 2, and the custom data selected by the user terminal 2 from the output data is stored in the user data file 125. The user data file 125 further stores desired original design data input from the input / output unit 11 by the user terminal 2. The image file 126 stores the user data file 12
5 is a golf ball image created by the processing unit 13 based on the custom-order data on the golf ball stored in the storage unit 5.

As shown in FIG. 3, the ball database 121 is composed of, for example, data on the types of balls that can be sold by the sales server 10. The types of balls are roughly divided into men's balls and women's balls. A, B, C, and D are registered for men and women, respectively. This type may be classified according to a predetermined standard such as hardness. Although not shown, the logo database 124 may be composed of a trade mark of a ball provided from the sales server 10, a catch phrase such as a dracon of a golf player preference, a pin, a character, a constellation, a zodiac sign, various other figures, and the like. As shown in FIG. 4, the font database 122 stores font examples A, B, C, D, and D as standard font samples.
A configuration in which data such as E and F are listed and included. As shown in FIG. 5, the color database 123 may be composed of a table listing standard sample colors 1-15, and a general color table stored in a typical personal computer may be used.

As shown in FIG. 6, the user data file 125 includes a user name, a communication destination, a product delivery destination, a type of a selected ball, a logo, a font, a color, and the like, and a custom logo, a selected font, and a selected color. Etc. The image file 126 is input from the golf ball maker 1 to the input unit 11 of the sales server 10, and is stored in the storage unit 1 by the processing unit 13.
A database 121-124 composed of data such as a logo, a font, and a color for giving to the ball type and the outer shape of the ball stored in the terminal 2 is output and presented to the user terminal 2 via the input / output unit 11, and is presented. From the input data, the selection data selected by the user terminal 2 and the data related to the original design provided by the user terminal input to the input unit 11 by the user terminal 2 separately from the selection data are combined into a product
That is, it is composed of an image product combined with the shape of a golf ball.

In the system shown in FIG. 1, the golf ball maker 1 entrusts a sales server 10 with a custom golf ball, ie, an original ball, to a general user, and the sales server 10 transmits general golf via a communication network 5 such as the Internet. An order is received for a request for a own golf ball from a user terminal 2 of a user represented by a player, an image file 126 is created for an image product of an ordered product when an order is received from the user terminal 2, and the created image file 126 is stored in the user terminal 2. To confirm
The image product of the image file 126 confirmed by the user terminal 2 is embodied in the golf ball maker 1. The own ball manufactured by the golf ball maker 1 is delivered to the user of the user terminal 2 by an appropriate transportation medium such as a home delivery service.
The cost of goods by the user of the user terminal 2 may be paid through a transport medium, a financial medium, or the like as appropriate.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a sales procedure between the sales server 10 and the user terminal 2 in FIG. The user terminal 2 accesses the sales server 10 (S201),
The sales server 10 receives this at the input unit 11 (S20).
2) Then, the product sales communication on the communication network 5 is started. The sales server 10 receiving the access from the user terminal 2 stores the ball database 1 relating to one or more types of balls registered in the storage unit 12.
21 is transmitted to the user terminal 2 (S203), and the user terminal 2 is suggested to select a desired ball type from the transmitted data. The transmission screen is shown in FIG. The user terminal 2 receives the transmission screen (S204),
One or more types of balls are selected from the transmission screen, and input by clicking the transmission screen (S205).
The sales server 10 receives this input (S206), and stores the type of ball selected by the user terminal 2 in the user data file 125 (S207).

Next, the golf ball sales server 10 causes the user terminal 2 to select a design to be imparted to the previously selected ball shape. In this case, the sales server 10 allows the user terminal 2 to select whether to provide a design such as a logo provided by the sales server or to desire to provide a unique design such as the original logo of the user terminal 2 (S208).
The transmission screen is shown in FIG. When the user terminal 2 selects the addition of the logo provided by the sales server, the user clicks “logo designated by us” in the transmission screen (S209). Transmits design data including one or more server-designated logos or the like registered in the logo database 124 to the user terminal 2 (S210), and causes the user terminal 2 to select one or more designs. 2 clicks the selected design (S211),
If this is received by the sales server 10 (S212),
The sales server 10 stores the selected design in the user data file 125 (S213).

If the design of the selected logo or the like includes characters and the font can be selected,
Font database 1 containing data on several fonts
The sales server 10 transmits the data of No. 22 to the user terminal 2 (S214). The user terminal 2 clicks a font to be selected from the transmitted data (S215). The sales server 10 receives the input from the user terminal 2 (S216),
The received font data is stored in the user data file 122 (S217). Further, when the color can be selected for the design of the selected logo or the like, the sales server 10 transmits the color database 123 including a predetermined color table.
Is transmitted to the user terminal 2 (S218). The user terminal 2 clicks a color to be selected from the transmitted data (S219). The sales server 10 receives the input from the user terminal 2 (S220), and stores the received color data in the user data file 122 (S221).

Further, if the arrangement, arrangement, and ratio of the design of the selected logo or the like with respect to the shape of the product such as a ball can be appropriately selected, the sales server 10 is executed in the same manner.
Provides data to the user terminal 2 and allows the user terminal 2 to make a selection. When the sales server 10 asks the user terminal 2 in step 208 whether or not to select the design provided by the sales server 10, the user terminal 2 that has selected no can transmit the desired original logo data (S22).
2). In this way, the sales server 10 is connected to the user terminal 2
From the original design (S22)
3) The received design data is stored in the user data file 122 (S224).

If the original design transmitted by the user terminal 2 is a complete copy for printing corresponding to a reprint logo or the like, the sales server 10 transmits data relating to further designs to the user terminal 2. Need not require the user terminal 2 to provide additional data. However, if the transmitted original logo or the like further requires data on other design elements such as fonts and colors, the above steps on the characters and color data can be repeated.

In the present invention, whether a design provided by the sales server 10 or an original design desired by the user terminal is selected depends on whether the user terminal user's own property, that is, the uniqueness is exhibited by the design. There is or not. Therefore, it is desirable that the sales server 10 design the computer program so as to allow the user terminal 2 to select one or both of the design provided by the sales server and the design provided by the user terminal.

Next, the sales server 10 uses the processing unit 13 to comprehensively combine the design data and the ball type data selected by the user terminal 2 and stored in the user data file 122 as described above. The image ball is created in the image file 126 by adding a design to the outer shape of the golf ball of the type selected by the user terminal 2 by combining and adjusting the image ball (S22).
5) The created image file is transmitted to the user terminal 2 (S226). As understood from the transmission screen of FIG. 11, the image file is of the type C selected by the user terminal 2.
Is displayed on the outer shape of the golf ball having the attribute of the graphic ball selected by the user terminal 2 and the logo displaying the desired font, color and size of the user terminal 2 are displayed. (FIG. 11
Shows an achromatic image ball, but in an actual communication screen, the color selected from the color table is colored.) Thus, the image file is received (S227).
The user terminal 2 that has selected and confirmed from the reception screen whether the image ball selected and specified is as desired (S228),
After confirmation, the purchase quantity is designated (S230) in response to the quantity designation input request (S229) from the sales server 10.
I do. The sales server 10 receives the purchase quantity of the golf ball from the user terminal 2 (S231), and stores the quantity data in the user data file 125 (S232).

As described above, the sales server 10 having obtained all the data necessary for producing the own golf ball,
The data stored in the user data file 125 is transmitted to the user terminal 2 for confirmation (S233), and after confirming the data content of the transmission screen of the user terminal 2, a purchase order is placed for a physical ball that embodies an image ball. (S
234). The sales server 10 receives the order (S23).
5) The sales on the Internet are terminated. In the merchandise sales procedure, the number of golf balls ordered is specified in the process immediately before the confirmation of the contents of the user data file 125. However, the process is performed in the process before selecting a design such as a logo after selecting the type of ball. May be programmed as follows. Further, the order of the steps such as the selection of the ball, the selection of the design, the selection of the font, and the selection of the color may be appropriately adjusted before and after. Further, if the image ball does not match the image of the user terminal 2 in step 228, it is possible to change the items that need to be changed, that is, change design elements such as logos, design, fonts, or colors,
You can repeat the steps for the items you need. This is the same for the types of balls.

FIG. 7 shows an initial screen transmitted to the user terminal 2 in response to access from the sales server 10. In this initial screen, "Please select the quantity" which allows the selection of the type of the ball and the quantity of the ball, the ball sales server 10
"Customer-specified logo" and "Customer-designed font" to enable selection of provided designs, and "Customer-specified logo" to enable provision of original designs by user terminal 2.
In the case of selecting a company-designated logo and / or a company-designated font, a menu is displayed that allows the user to select the font, color, and bold / thin font. The user terminal 2 can sequentially execute the steps in FIG. 2 according to the instructions on the screen. FIG. 8 shows the sales server 1
0 shows an example of a screen transmitted to allow the user terminal 2 to select the type of ball in step 203 of FIG. On the transmission screen, data on the types of balls registered in the ball database of FIG. 3, A, B, and
C, D and A, B for women are displayed, and the user terminal 2 can select any one or more types from this data. The user terminal 2 executes step 20 in FIG.
At 5, the user clicks one of the displayed ball types according to the suggestion of "Please select a ball" on the transmission screen.

FIG. 9 shows that the user terminal 2 selects “C” as the type of ball, and then selects 3 dozens as the number of balls in the same manner. In step 209 of FIG. 13 shows an example of a transmission screen after selection. In step 209, the user terminal 2 determines whether to select a design provided by the sales server 10 as a design to be given to the ball and / or to select a desired original design of the user terminal 2. User terminal 2
Clicks on the “Customer Designated Logo” menu if the user wants the user's own original design, and clicks on “Our Designated Logo” when selecting the design provided by the sales server 10. Select a logo.

The design provided by the sales server 10 corresponding to the “designated company logo” in the transmission screen of FIG. 9 is registered in the logo database 124. As described above, the logo database 124 may include a trademark, a catch phrase, a character, a constellation, a zodiac sign, and the like of the ball of the sales server 10.

FIG. 10 shows that the user terminal 2 inputs “M.SG” after clicking “customer designated logo” in FIG.
Further, it is a transmission screen that allows selection of a font of “MS Gothic”. In this transmission screen, by clicking a font menu, a font other than “MS Gothic” registered in the font database 122 is displayed on the screen. By clicking another font from the displayed font data, the font of "MS Gothic" can be changed.

FIG. 11 shows that when the user terminal 2 clicks a desired font other than “MS Gothic” from the font data transmitted in FIG. 10 to the font of the clicked logo, it is transmitted to the user terminal 2. Screen. As can be understood from the transmission screen of FIG. 11, the user terminal 1 can select the color, the thickness of the character, etc. from the menu screen in the same manner as in the case of the font, and click “Select color” from the menu in the screen. By doing so, the color database 12
The color table stored in 3 is displayed on the screen, and by clicking a desired color from the displayed color table, the selected logo can be colored.

FIG. 12 shows a screen transmitted from the sales server 10 when the user terminal wants to add a design such as an original logo other than the logo provided from the sales server 10 to the selected ball in step 209 of FIG. By selecting the "Customer-specified logo" menu,
A case where a menu screen of “send a reprint” or “attach a logo data file” is transmitted from the sales server 10 is shown. Reprinting generally means sending a copy of the composition outside the Internet 5, but in the present invention, this menu selection is not particularly useful. In the present invention, rather than "attaching a logo data file", the processing unit 13 of the sales server 10 immediately combines the logo of the attached file with other selected data to create an image file 126 of the image golf ball. And transmitting the created image file from the sales server 10 to the user terminal 2 is significant.

Therefore, it is desirable that the user terminal 2 clicks the menu of “attach a logo data file” and transmits the logo data file to the sales server 10 as a desired design. FIG. 13 shows the sales server 1 from the user terminal 2.
7 shows an example of a screen of a logo data file transmitted to the “0”. FIG. 14 is an image of a state in which the sales server 10 combines the transmitted logo design with the selected type of ball when the logo of the logo data file transmitted in FIG. 13 can be given to the ball as it is. Create a ball,
This is an order confirmation screen in which the created image file is selected by the user terminal 2 and transmitted to the user terminal 2 together with other data stored in the user data file 125 to confirm the contents of the special order.

[0029]

As described above, according to the present invention, a method for selling goods on a communication network, a computer system for selling goods, and a computer program for selling goods are provided to a user terminal of a purchaser on a communication network such as the Internet. In addition to accepting orders of semi-order made products that allow a certain range of orders, it is possible to almost completely customize products that can specify the original design freely, and desired paintings, designs, photos,
It is possible to attach logos and other designs on the communication network, and to provide a design product that combines the attached design with the product shape virtually simultaneously with the provision of design data, enabling confirmation of custom designs. Since it is possible to grasp the image of the embodied product, it is possible to purchase a custom-made product after confirming whether or not the image matches the image. As a result, the orderer of the product of the user terminal does not have to be troubled by mailing a plate such as reprinting separately from Internet communication using a personal computer, i-mode, PHS, or the like. For the manufacturer, since the request comes directly to the manufacturer, and the data of the composition can be created at the same time as the request,
Work efficiency, production days and delivery time are reduced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing an example of a golf ball sales system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of the golf ball selling method of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration of a ball database that can be used in the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a configuration of a font database that can be used in the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a configuration of a color database that can be used in the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a user data file used in the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of an initial screen transmitted from the sales server 10 in the golf ball selling method according to the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a transmission screen for selecting a ball type in the golf ball selling method according to the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a view showing an example of a transmission screen for enabling selection of a logo provided by a sales server in the golf ball selling method according to the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of a transmission screen enabling selection of a font in the golf ball selling method according to the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of a transmission screen in which the font can be changed in the golf ball selling method according to the present invention.

FIG. 12 is an example of a transmission screen enabling transmission of a user terminal desired original logo in the golf ball selling method according to the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a view showing an example of a transmission screen showing a state in which a user terminal transmits a desired logo data file in the golf ball selling method according to the present invention.

FIG. 14 is a view showing an example of an order confirmation screen in the golf ball selling method according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Golf ball maker 2 ... User terminal 10 ... Sales server 11 ... Input / output part 12 ... Storage part 13 ... Processing part

Claims (11)

[Claims] 1. A method for selling a product on a communication network such as the Internet, the product sales server comprising: a user terminal for assigning one or more types of a specific product having a predetermined shape to the shape of the product; Presenting one or more designs, enabling the user terminal to select the type and design of the presented product, and providing a desired design other than the presented design; Automatically creating an image product in which an image product in which a design selected and / or a provided design is comprehensively combined with a product shape is displayed in an image file, and displaying the created image product on a user terminal. A purchase order from a user terminal for a product embodying the image product displayed in Kick product sales method. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the goods include various sports equipment such as golf, tennis, baseball, skiing, skating, mountain climbing, fishing equipment and the like. 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the goods include various balls such as golf balls. 4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the type includes various standards and reference values such as size, weight, hardness, and length. 5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the design includes various figures and characters such as pictures, photographs, logos, names, addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses. 6. The method of claim 1, wherein the design includes coloring. 7. The method of claim 1, wherein the design includes a font, a font thickness, and a font size. 8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the design includes an arrangement and a ratio with respect to a shape of the product. 9. The method of claim 1, wherein the image merchandise comprises a reprint. 10. A computer system for selling goods on a communication network such as the Internet, wherein one or more kinds of specific goods having a predetermined shape and one or more designs for giving the shape are provided. A means for transmitting the type and design of the product stored in the storage means to the user terminal; a desired design other than the type suggesting the type and design of the product to the user terminal and being transmitted to the user terminal. Means for suggesting the transmission of the product, means for receiving the type and design of the product as a result of the selection transmitted from the user terminal, and data relating to the desired design, and the type of product selected by the user terminal by integrating the received data. The selected and / or desired design Means for creating an image product in an image file by transmitting the created image file to a user terminal; means for causing the user terminal to confirm the image product of the image file; and a user terminal for the embodied product of the image product. A means for receiving a purchase order from a computer system. 11. A computer program for selling goods on a communication network such as the Internet,
The program includes one or more types of merchandise having a predetermined shape and one or more types for giving the shape.
Or a procedure of presenting data relating to the design to the user terminal, a procedure of suggesting the type of the product to the user terminal, a procedure of suggesting the selection of the design to the user terminal, and a design of a desired design other than the presented design. A step of suggesting a proposal, a step of receiving data from the user terminal as a result of selection regarding the type and design of the product, a step of receiving provision of data on a desired design other than the presented design from the user terminal, data received from the user terminal A step of creating an image product in which an image product in which the selected design and / or the proposed design is combined with the shape of the product of the type selected by the user terminal into an image file; and transmitting the created image file to the user terminal. Procedures for sending and images included in the image file Characterized in that to execute a procedure for confirmation of the item to the user terminal to the computer, whereby the computer program executing the steps of receiving a purchase request from the user terminal for implementing product images products that the confirmation.