JP2003006467A - Mediating method for medicating meeting of unspecified users and mediation program making computer perform processing by mediating method like that - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mediating method for mediating a meeting of unspecified users which is implemented on a mediation server connected through a network by a user, a store selling commodities, and a wholesaler wholesaling the commodities. SOLUTION: The mediating method for mediating the meeting of users on the mediation server connected through the network by the user, the store selling the commodities, and the wholesaler wholesaling the commodities has a reception procedure for receiving user information having meeting conditions for determining the meeting that the user specifies and store-related store information having commodity information that the store can provide, a matching procedure for making the user match with the store according to the meeting conditions and the commodity information, and a notice procedure for informing the user and store of the result of the matching procedure.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a meeting between unspecified users, which is executed in an intermediary server connected through a network by a user, a store that sells products, and a trader who wholesales products. It provides a mediation method for mediating.

The present invention also relates to an intermediary program for causing a computer to perform processing by such an intermediary method.

[0003]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, the spread of the Internet and the Web
With the spread of mobile terminals with functions, the use of “Gokon” introduction sites and the like is increasing. Such a "combined party"
There is a service on the introduction site, etc. that determines the participants of the “combined party” based on the personal information of the registrant and sets the banquet at the store recommended by the introduction site.

[0004]

However, on the above-mentioned conventional "combined party" introduction site, etc., the user is
It is not clear whether the meal provided at the venue suits the taste, or even if there is a field for inputting the taste information, it is not easy to input.

As a store that provides a venue, it is not possible to grasp the preference tendency of the layer belonging to the user. In addition, there is a problem that a company that supplies food ingredients cannot participate in the above-mentioned mechanism.

Therefore, a first object of the present invention is to execute an unspecified user, which is executed in an intermediary server connected through a network by a user, a store that sells products, and a trader who wholesales products. It is to provide an intermediary method for intermediating a mutual meeting.

A second object of the present invention is to provide an intermediary program for causing a computer to perform the processing by the intermediary method as described above.

[0008]

In order to solve the above first problem, the present invention provides a user, a store which sells products,
An intermediary method for intermediating a user's meeting, which is executed by an intermediary server connected to a merchandise wholesaler via a network, and has a meeting condition for determining a meeting designated by the user. A first reception procedure for receiving information, a second reception procedure for receiving store information about the store having product information that can be provided by the store, a meeting condition indicated by the user information, and a product indicated by the store information. It is configured to have a matching procedure for matching the user and the store based on the information, and a notification procedure for notifying the user and the store of the result of the matching procedure.

In such an intermediary method, since the user and the store match based on the meeting condition indicated by the user information and the product information indicated by the store information, the user's preference for the product is met. Matching can be done.

The merchandise information is information on goods or services.

The above-mentioned meeting conditions include a condition for a user to meet with another unspecified user, a condition for indicating a preference for a friendly meeting, and the like.

From the viewpoint that the store can consider the products to be handled in the future, the present invention provides a result management procedure for managing result information indicating the result of the matching procedure and result information managed by the result management procedure. And an information providing procedure for providing store result information indicating the number of users that can be acquired by handling products that are not handled by the store.

In such an intermediary method, since store result information indicating the number of users that can be acquired by handling products that are not handled in the store is provided, it is possible to use the result based on the large number of users in the future. You can consider how to handle the product.

In order to solve the above-mentioned second problem, the present invention may be an intermediary program for causing a computer to perform the processing by the above-mentioned intermediary method.

Further, as a means for solving the above first and second problems, the present invention may be a mediation server which realizes the above mediation method.

[0016]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

An intermediary site that realizes the meeting intermediation method according to the embodiment of the present invention constitutes, for example, a system as shown in FIG.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the system principle constituted by an intermediary site.

In FIG. 1, terminals of a plurality of stores 20,
The terminals of the plurality of traders 30 and the terminals of the plurality of users 40 are connected to the intermediary site 10 via a network (not shown).
Connect with 0. The store 20 is a restaurant, etc.
0 is a manufacturer who wholesales foodstuffs, drinks, etc. to any of the stores 20.

The intermediary site 100 is a server computer, and includes a communication control processing unit 101 and an installer 10.
2, an input control processing unit 103, and a display control processing unit 104
An output control processing unit 105, a registration receiving unit 111, a store registration receiving unit 112, a matching processing unit 113, a notification processing unit 114, an information providing processing unit 115, a user information table 121, and store information. It has a table 122 and an opportunity loss information table 123.

The communication control processing unit 101 is a processing unit that controls data transmitted and received via a network.
It has a communication unit for connecting to a network through a telephone line or a LAN (Local Area Network).

The installer 102 is, for example, a CD set in the CD-ROM drive of the server computer.
-Read the program according to the present invention from the ROM 120 and install the read program in, for example, an auxiliary storage device. Then, when a mediation process or the like described later is activated, a CPU (central processing unit) that controls the entire computer starts the process according to the program installed in the auxiliary storage device. still,
The medium for storing the program is not limited to the CD-ROM, and any computer-readable medium may be used.

The input control processing unit 103 is a processing unit that controls data from an input unit such as a mouse and a keyboard, and is input by the administrator of the intermediation site 100 in order to perform intermediation processing as described below. Control the various information needed.

The display control processing unit 104 is a processing unit for controlling data displayed on a display unit such as a display, and causes the display unit to display various information required by the administrator under the control of the CPU.

The output control processing unit 105 is a processing unit for controlling data output to an output unit such as a printer, and outputs the processing result or designated information to the output unit.

The registration acceptance unit 111 allows the user 40 to use a computer terminal, a mobile terminal with a Web function, or the like,
When the user information is registered in the intermediation site 100 directly or through the homepage 32 of the trader 30, the user information input by the user 40 is registered in the user information table 121.

When the store 20 uses the computer terminal, the mobile terminal with the Web function, or the like to register at the intermediation site 100, the store registration acceptance unit 112 registers the store information input by the store 20 in the store information 122. .

The matching processing unit 113 matches the conditions of each user information managed in the user information table 121 and each store information managed in the store information table 122, and the user information whose conditions match. And the store information are extracted and notified to the notification processing unit 114. Further, the matching processing unit 113 stores the extracted user information and store information in the opportunity loss information table 123.

The notification processing unit 114 is the matching processing unit 1
Based on the user information and store information notified by 13, the matching result is notified to each user 40 and each store 20.

The information provision processing unit 115 refers to the opportunity loss information table 123 to notify the store 20 of the opportunity loss information and the trader 30 of the potential demand information.

The opportunity loss information is, for example, information indicating that more customers can be acquired by devising products that can be provided.

The latent demand information is, for example, information indicating that if the trader 30 could wholesale the merchandise, he would have acquired more customers.

The user information table 121, the store information table 122, and the opportunity loss information table 123 are managed by, for example, the above auxiliary storage device.

An embodiment in which a plurality of beer makers (hereinafter referred to as beer makers 30) use the intermediary site 100 as the traders 30 will be described in detail below based on the above system principle.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of implementation of an intermediary site based on the principle configuration of FIG. 2, the same processing units and tables as those shown in FIG. 1 are designated by the same reference numerals, and the description thereof will be omitted. Further, for convenience of description, only a portion showing a characteristic configuration is shown.

In FIG. 2, for example, beer makers 30A and 30B of a plurality of beer makers 30 register their own beers A and B, respectively, on their advertising sites for banner registration for joint venture registration.

The store 20 accesses the intermediary site 100 via the network and registers the store information (S
1). Upon receiving the store information from the store 20 (S1), the store registration receiving unit 112 of the intermediation site 100 registers the store information in the store information table 122 (S2).

On the other hand, when the user 40 accesses, for example, one advertising site (home page) 32 of the beer maker 30 (S3), this advertising re-site 32 is
The registration acceptance processing unit 111 of the intermediation site 100 is linked (S4). The registration acceptance processing unit 111 is activated by this link, and the registration screen is displayed on the terminal of the user 40. The user information that is input by the user 40 and is necessary for the joint party is registered in the user information table 121 by the registration reception unit 111 (S5). The intermediation site 100 acquires which site the user 40 has accessed through a cookie or the like having the site identifier of the beer maker 30. User information including the site identifier is registered in the user information table 121.

The matching processing unit 113 is the registration receiving unit 1
The users who are accepted in 11 and stored in the user information table 121 are combined with each other to perform a joint party (S6). For this combination, items such as a favorite type, time zone, and place acquired as user information are used as a combination condition, and users may be combined with each other based on the combination condition. The items may be weighted.

Among the plurality of users 40 registered by the matching processing unit 113, the user 40α registered via the site of the beer maker 30A and the beer maker 3
It is assumed that the user 40β who has registered via the 0B site is selected.

Further, the matching processing section 113 extracts shop information which matches the above-mentioned combination condition from the shop information table 122 (S7). Furthermore, the matching processing unit 11
3 is the beer A of the beer maker 30A and the user 40α based on the site identifier that identifies the site used when the user 40α and the user 40β acquired by Cookie are registered. Of the beer B of the beer maker 30B. Then, the matching processing unit 113 is a store 20w that can provide both beer A of the beer maker 30A and beer B of the beer maker 30B based on the extracted store information.
Store information of (one of the plurality of stores 20) is extracted. In this case, the shop information is narrowed down by the AND condition of the combination condition and the preference condition based on the site identifier, but may be narrowed down by the OR condition.

Upon receiving the information extracted by the matching processing unit 113 (S8), the notification processing unit 114 sends the user 4 to the store 20w, which is one of the plurality of stores 20.
0α and user 40β will be notified by e-mail or the like, and beer A and beer maker 30B of beer maker 30A will be displayed in the menu provided to the participants.
It also notifies that the beer B of No. 1 is included (S9).
Further, the notification processing unit 114 performs a temporary reservation process.

Further, the notification processing unit 114 determines that the user 40α
Also, the user 40β is notified of the combination by e-mail indicating the combination partner, date and time, user shop, etc. (S10).

When the user 40α and the user 40β receive the combination notification from the intermediary site, the user 40α and the user 40β send a reply indicating whether or not to agree to the combination to the intermediary site for confirmation registration (S11).

The confirmation processing unit 116 is activated by a reply from the user 40α or the user 40β (S11). When the confirmation processing unit 116 receives the notification from the users 40α and 40β that they agree, the confirmation processing unit 116 activates the charging processing unit 117 (S12).

The billing processing unit 117 requests the financial institution to pay the reservation fee based on the user information of the users 40α and 40β (S13). Further, the charging processing unit 1
17 is a user 40α and a user 40β from a financial institution
When the deposit information relating to the reservation money is acquired (S14), the second notification processing unit 118 is activated (S15), and the application for the main reservation of the user 40α and the user 40β is sent to the store 20w that made the tentative reservation by e-mail. Etc. (S1
6). On the other hand, when the confirmation processing unit 116 does not receive the reply of the agreement from the user 40α and the user 40β, or the charging processing unit 117 causes the user 40α and the user 40β.
If you did not get the deposit information for the reservation fee from β, store 2
Notify 0w of cancellation of provisional reservation.

The information providing processing unit 115 provides the beer maker 30 or the store 20 with information on the handling items of the store 20 or the like or the number of lost opportunities (S17). As a result, the beer maker 30 shows that the number of introductions increases by handling the company's product to the store 20 that does not handle the company's product, and the promotion can be effectively performed. In addition, at the store 20, it is possible to know how many introduction opportunities increase by handling unhandled items.

In the example shown in FIG. 2, an example of a banquet with a beer maker has been described, but it goes without saying that the invention is not limited to beer makers and can be applied to other foodstuff makers. Also, without being limited to the banquet (store),
It may be a play, a movie, an amusement park, or another event.

Next, the processing executed by the matching processing unit 113 and the notification processing unit 114 will be described with reference to FIGS. 3, 4, 5, and 6.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart for explaining the matching and notification process.

In FIG. 3, first, the matching processing unit 1
13 reads the user information for the new reception from the user information table 121 (S101). Next, one existing user information is read from the user information table (S10
2) It is determined whether or not the new user information read in step S101 matches the combination condition (S103). When the combination conditions match, the existing user information is stored in the temporary table 131 as a destination for each new user information (S104), the reading position is incremented by 1 (step S105), and the process is repeated from 1 Perform the process again. If the combination conditions do not match, the reading position is incremented by 1 (step S105), and the process is repeated from 1 again. It returns to the repetition 1 and the user information table 121
The existing user information corresponding to the reading position is read from (S102), and the same process as above is repeated until the reading of the existing user information is completed.

When it is judged that all the existing user information matches the combination conditions with the new user information, the process shown in FIG.
Step S106 is executed.

In FIG. 4, based on the temporary table 131, it is judged whether or not there is a partner (existing user information) that meets the combination condition for the new user information (S106). If there is no partner who meets the combination condition, new user information is registered in the user information table 121 as a partner wait (S107). The notification processing unit 114
Based on the new user information registered as waiting for the other party, the user 40 is notified by e-mail or the like that the user is in the waiting state for the other party (S108), and the matching and notifying process is ended.

On the other hand, in step S106, if there is a partner who meets the combination condition, the partner data is sorted in priority order for each new user information stored in the temporary table 131, and the new user information is sorted. The sorted destination data for each is stored in the temporary table 131 (S10).
9). The priority order is, for example, an order in which the number of matching combination conditions is large.

In FIG. 5, the head destination data is read from the temporary table 131 (S110). Next, the top store information is read from the store information table 122 (s
111). From the read store information, other conditions other than the handled products are determined (S112). If the conditions do not match, the process proceeds to step S117 in FIG. On the other hand, if the conditions match, it is further determined whether or not there is a handled product (S113). If there is a handled product, the matching processing unit 113 stores information about the combination in the opportunity loss information table 123, and the notification processing unit 114 is activated. Notification processing unit 114
Notifies the user 40 and the store 20 that can be combined of the temporary reservation (S114). Furthermore, the matching processing unit 11
3 registers a temporary reservation in the user information table 121 for new and existing user information that can be combined (S115). The matching and notification process ends. The determination steps S112 and S113 are, for example, similar to the description in the example of FIG.
It is possible to perform the determination processing based on the identifier of the advertising site or the like acquired by okie. User information table 121
The user information temporarily reserved is deleted by the confirmation processing unit 116 when the temporary reservation becomes the main reservation.

On the other hand, in steps S112 and S113, when it is determined that there is no merchandise to be handled although the other conditions are matched, the opportunity loss information is registered in the opportunity loss information table 123 as the shop information of the shop to be notified (S116).

In FIG. 6, the reading position of the store information table 122 is incremented by 1 (S117), and the process returns to step 3 of FIG. The next store information is read from the store information table 122, and steps S112 to S117 are repeated in the same manner as above until the determination of the combination condition is completed for all the store information stored in the store information table 122.

When the determination of the combination condition is completed for all the store information stored in the store information table 122, the reading position of the temporary table 131 is incremented by 1 (S118), and the process returns to the repeat 2 of FIG. The following user information is read from the temporary table 131, and the temporary table 1
Until the determination of the combination condition is completed for all the user information stored in 31, the same as the above step S1.
Repeat 11 to S118.

When the determination of the combination condition is completed for all the user information stored in the temporary table 131,
The matching and notification process ends.

Next, the processing executed by the information providing processing unit 115 will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

FIG. 7 is a flow chart for explaining the information providing process.

In FIG. 7, the information providing processing unit 115
Data is read from the opportunity loss information table 123 (S
201). The opportunity loss information is notified to the store 20 by performing a process of contacting the store person in charge from the store information (S202). Further, the person in charge of the trader 30 is notified of the latent demand information (S203). Opportunity loss information table 123
The reading position of is incremented by 1 (S204), and the process returns to step 4.

The information providing processing unit 115 returns to Repeat 4 and performs the same processing as described above until all the data stored in the opportunity loss information table is processed.

Next, a configuration example of the table will be described.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of the user information table.

In FIG. 8, the user information table 121
Is the record number No, the name of the user 40, the contact information of the user 40, the site name of the beer maker (trader) 30 acquired by Cookie, the user's 40 own system, the desired area for joint parties, the date and time of joint parties , Time zone of joint party, desired system of partner of joint party, etc.

The contact address indicates an electronic mail address for notifying the result of combination and the like by electronic mail.

Items such as the site name, the user's 40 own system, the desired area of the joint party, the date and time of the joint party, the time zone of the joint party, the desired system of the partner of the joint party, etc. are set in step S103 of FIG.
In, it is used as a combination condition. Further, the site name is referred to as one of the combination conditions as the user's preference, and when the store 20 is selected, the site name shown in FIG.
It is referred to in the handling product determination in step S112.

In the user information table 121, for example, when the record number is No "001", the contact result "aa @ bb" of the name "Taro Yamada" is notified from the intermediary site 100 of the combination result and the site name. The values of items such as “A draft beer”, own system “trend”, desired area “Shinjuku”, date and time “3/20”, time zone “18:00”, desired system “comedy”, etc. are referred to as a combination condition.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of a store information table.

In FIG. 9, the store information table 122.
Has a record number, a store name of the store 20, a location area of the store 20, a product handled by the store 20, and the like. The handled products further include product items such as A draft beer, B beer Kosei, and B beer Otoguro. When there are many types of products, the product table associated with the store name or the identifier of the store 20 may be managed separately.

The products handled are step S112 in FIG.
It is referred to in the handling product judgment in.

The location area is the step S1 in FIG.
It is referred to in the other condition determination in 13.

In the store information table 122, for example, when the record number is No. "001", the store name "Sake Restaurant Beer Senka" is located in the area "Shinjuku", and the products handled are "A draft beer" and "B". It indicates that "Beer Kou" and "B Beer Otoguro" are provided.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of the opportunity loss information table.

In FIG. 10, opportunity loss information table 1
23 is the No. indicating the record number, the store name of the store 20,
It has items such as the number of people introduced to this store 20 and the number of unintroduced people who could not be introduced due to lack of handling. The number of non-introduced people who are not handled further includes product items such as A draft beer, B beer Kosei, and B beer Otoguro.
The number of people who could not be introduced because the product was not handled is shown.

In the opportunity loss information table 123, for example, when the record number is No. "001", the store name "Beer Kobo" shows the number of introduced people "40" as the actual result, and A draft beer indicated by the number of unintroduced people. “40” is shown as the number of people who could not be introduced because they did not handle the product.

Next, the store 20 is opened by the intermediary site 100.
The opportunity loss information notified to the customer and the potential demand information notified to the trader 30 will be described with reference to FIGS. 11 and 12.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a display example of the opportunity loss information notified to the store.

In FIG. 11, display example 3 of opportunity loss information
00 is provided to the store 20 as the “customer introduction status” displayed in the title display region 301, and the store name display region 302 of the store 20 and the period display region 3 indicating the aggregation period of information 3
03 and referral status display area 310 showing a list of referral statuses
And a handling product display area 30 showing the handling products of the store 20
4 and a comment display area 305 indicating a comment.

The introduction status display area 310 includes a date indicating an introduction date, an introduction status column 312 indicating the number of people introduced in a product handled by the store 20 corresponding to the date, and a date. The potential customer status column 313 which can be introduced when the store 20 deals with the above. Further, the potential customer status column 313 shows the number of people who could be introduced for each product not handled by the store 20, and the subtotal corresponding to the date.

Further, the introduction status display area 310 shows a total for each product in the introduction status column 312 and the potential customer status column 313.

In the display example 300 of the opportunity loss information indicated as “Customer introduction status” in the title display area 301,
For example, in the store name display area 302, "Beer Garden Co., Ltd.
Sama ”, in the period display area 303,“ March 21st to April 20th ”
"For the day", the referral status column 31 in the referral status display area 310
2 and potential customer status column 313, in the handling product display area 304, "your company handling product status ■ A draft beer
□ B Beer Kosei □ B Beer Otoguro (for example, ■ indicates handling, □ indicates not handling), comment display area 305 “(* 1) Other conditions are the same, but your product There are no customers' favorite products, so it is the number of people who introduced us to other stores. ”Is displayed.

By providing such opportunity loss information to the store 20, the store 20 can know the taste of the customer by the number of introduced people. In particular, although it matches other combination conditions specified by the customer (user 40), it is possible to know the number of people who were not introduced because they did not handle a specific product, so they went to other stores as customers and sold. It is possible to efficiently review future products handled by the store 20 without observing the situation and the like.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a display example of potential demand information notified to the trader.

In FIG. 12, the display example 4 of the latent demand information is shown.
00 is provided to the trader 30 as the “latent demand situation” displayed in the title display area 401, and the trader name display area 402 of the trader 30 and the period display area 403 indicating the aggregation period of information.
And a latent demand status display area 41 showing a list of potential demand status
0, a legend display area 404 showing a legend, and a comment display area 405 showing a comment.

The potential demand situation display area 410 is a potential demand situation column which can be introduced when the dealer 30 deals with the introduction destination store name indicating the introduction destination store name and the introduction destination store name. It has 412 and a contact field 413 of the introduction destination store name. The potential demand status column 412 shows the number of people who can be introduced for each product that the trader 40 does not handle,
The total number of people that can be introduced for each product is shown.

[Potential demand status] is displayed in the title display area 401.
In the display example 400 of the latent demand information displayed as, for example, “B Brewery Co., Ltd. Kanto Branch Sales Promotion Department” in the trader name display area 402 and “March 2” in the period display area 403.
From 1st to 20th April ”, latent demand status display area 41
0 is a list of potential demand status column 412 and contact column 413 shown for each store, and “Legend:
“＊＊＊＊＊” indicates that your product is already handled. , ”(* 1) in the comment display area
Although the other conditions are the same, the number of customers who could not introduce to your store because your product is not available at that store. Is displayed.

By providing such potential demand information to the trader 30, the trader 30 can know the number of people who were not introduced because the specific store 20 does not handle the products of the trader 30. Therefore, the trader 30 is the identified store 20.
You can effectively promote products.

In the above-mentioned embodiment, the application example of the present invention in the case of matching a plurality of users is shown, but it may be an introduction to one user.

In the above embodiment, the process in the registration acceptance unit 111 shown in FIG. 1 corresponds to the first acceptance procedure, the process in the store registration acceptance unit 112 corresponds to the second acceptance procedure, and matching is performed. The processing in the processing unit 113 corresponds to the matching procedure, and the processing in the notification processing unit 114 corresponds to the notification procedure.

Additional notes will be given below. (Supplementary Note 1) A mediation method for mediating a meeting of users, which is executed in a mediation server connected via a network by a user, a store that sells products, and a trader who wholesales products. A first reception procedure for receiving user information having meeting conditions for determining a meeting specified by, a second reception procedure for receiving store information about the store having product information that can be provided by the store, and the user A matching procedure for matching the user and the store based on the meeting condition indicated by the information and the product information indicated by the store information, and a notification for notifying the user and the store of the result of the matching procedure. An intermediary method having a procedure. (Supplementary Note 2) In the intermediary method according to Supplementary Note 1, the first reception procedure is activated via a network by a link from the user to the connection to the supplier, and acquires the supplier identification information for identifying the supplier acquired from the supplier. An intermediary method that is used as part of user information. (Supplementary Note 3) In the intermediation method according to supplementary note 2, the vendor identification information includes product identification information for identifying a product handled by the vendor. (Supplementary note 4) In the intermediary method according to supplementary note 2 or 3, the matching procedure is based on the trader identification information and the product information indicated by the store information accepted in the second acceptance procedure, and the user An intermediary method that matches the store. (Supplementary note 5) In the intermediary method according to any one of supplementary notes 1 to 4, based on a result management procedure for managing result information indicating a result of the matching procedure and result information managed by the result management procedure, An information providing procedure for providing store result information indicating the number of users that can be acquired by handling a product that is not handled by the store. (Supplementary note 6) In the intermediary method according to supplementary note 5, the information providing procedure can be obtained by wholesale of the product to a store that does not sell the commodity to a trader based on the result information managed by the result management procedure. An intermediary method that provides vendor result information that indicates the number of users who become (Supplementary Note 7) In the intermediary method according to Supplementary Note 1, the user is charged based on the result of the matching procedure, and the user is matched with the payment notification corresponding to the charging process. An intermediary method having a charging procedure for notifying a store that matching has been confirmed. (Supplementary Note 8) An intermediary program for intermediating a meeting of users, which is activated in an intermediary server connected via a network by a user, a store that sells products, and a wholesaler who sells the products. A first reception procedure for receiving user information having meeting conditions for determining a meeting specified by, a second reception procedure for receiving store information about the store having product information that can be provided by the store, and the user A matching procedure for matching the user and the store based on the meeting condition indicated by the information and the product information indicated by the store information, and a notification for notifying the user and the store of the result of the matching procedure. An intermediary program having procedures. (Supplementary note 9) In the intermediary program according to supplementary note 8,
Based on the result management procedure that manages the result information indicating the result of the matching procedure and the result information managed by the result management procedure, the number of users that can be acquired by handling products not handled in the store is shown. An intermediary program having an information providing procedure for providing store result information. (Supplementary Note 10) A user, a store that sells products, and a dealer who sells products are connected via a network,
In a mediation server that mediates a meeting of users, first reception means for receiving user information having meeting conditions for determining a meeting designated by the user, and a store related to the store having product information that can be provided by the store Second receiving means for receiving information, meeting conditions indicated by the user information, and matching means for matching the user with the store based on the product information indicated by the store information, and the matching procedure A mediation server having a notification means for notifying the user and the store of the result.

[0093]

As described above, since the user and the store are matched based on the meeting condition indicated by the user information and the merchandise information indicated by the store information, the merchandise preference of the user. It is possible to perform matching according to.

Since the store result information indicating the number of users that can be acquired by handling the unhandled products is provided to the store, the future handling of the products will be performed based on the large number of users. Can be effectively considered.

[0095]

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system principle configuration diagram configured by an intermediary site.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of implementation of an intermediary site based on the principle configuration of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a matching and notification process.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a matching and notification process.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a matching and notification process.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a matching and notification process.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating an information providing process.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a user information table.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of a store information table.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of an opportunity loss information table.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a display example of opportunity loss information notified to a store.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a display example of potential demand information notified to a trader.

[Explanation of symbols]

20 stores 30 vendors 40 users 100 intermediary sites 111 Registration Reception Department 112 Store Registration Reception Department 113 Matching processing unit 114 Notification processing unit 115 Information provision processing unit 116 Confirmation processing unit 117 Charge processing unit 118 second notification processing unit 120 CD-ROM

   ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued front page    (72) Inventor Masao Morikawa             4-1, Kamiodanaka, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa             No. 1 within Fujitsu Limited

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A mediation method for mediating a meeting of users, which is executed in a mediation server connected through a network by a user, a store that sells products, and a wholesaler who sells the products. First reception procedure for receiving user information having meeting conditions for determining a meeting designated by a person, second reception procedure for receiving store information about the store having product information that can be provided by the store, and the above-mentioned use Based on the meeting condition indicated by the person information and the product information indicated by the store information, and a matching procedure for matching the user with the store, and the result of the matching procedure is notified to the user and the store. An intermediary method having a notification procedure. 2. The brokerage method according to claim 1, wherein the first acceptance procedure is activated through a network by a link from a user to a vendor and identifies a vendor acquired from the vendor. An intermediary method that makes information part of user information. 3. The intermediary method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the matching procedure is used based on the vendor identification information and the product information indicated by the store information accepted by the second acceptance procedure. An intermediary method that matches the person with the store. 4. The intermediary method according to claim 1, based on a result management procedure for managing result information indicating a result of the matching procedure, and result information managed by the result management procedure. And an information providing procedure for providing store result information indicating the number of users that can be acquired by handling products that are not handled by the store. 5. An intermediary program for intermediating a meeting of users, which is activated in an intermediary server connected via a network by a user, a store that sells products, and a trader who wholesales the products. First reception procedure for receiving user information having meeting conditions for determining a meeting designated by a person, second reception procedure for receiving store information about the store having product information that can be provided by the store, and the above-mentioned use Based on the meeting condition indicated by the person information and the product information indicated by the store information, and a matching procedure for matching the user with the store, and the result of the matching procedure is notified to the user and the store. An intermediary program having a notification procedure.