JP2003296546A - Purchase history management system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To previously prevent the generation of double purchase by answering 'purchased' or 'not purchased' in response to an inquiry from a user in a purchase history management system for managing purchase history of users. <P>SOLUTION: A portable telephone terminal 2 receives the purchase information from a POS terminal 3 with a wireless communication method, and transmits it to a purchase history management server 1 through the Internet 5. The purchase history management server 1 manages the received purchase information in a purchase history data base, and transmits an answer 'purchased' or 'not purchased' in response to an inquiry from the portable telephone terminal 2. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a purchase history management system for managing a purchase history of a user, and sends purchase information acquired from a POS terminal to a purchase history management server from a mobile phone terminal to manage the purchase history. The present invention relates to a purchase history management system in which a server gives a reply of "purchased" or "not purchased" for each product.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Products such as magazines and CDs may be mistakenly purchased in duplicate. This is because the memory about products purchased in the past can sometimes be ambiguous.

Further, the purchase history is usually managed by the seller for the purpose of sales promotion and the like, and is not disclosed to the purchaser.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in order to eliminate the above-mentioned drawbacks of the prior art, and its object is to provide a purchase history management system for managing the purchase history of a user. The problem is to prevent duplicate purchases by responding to the inquiry from the user whether the item is “purchased” or “unpurchased”.

[0005]

A purchase management history management system according to the present invention uses a wireless communication method for POS.
(Point of Sale) A purchase management history management system comprising a mobile phone terminal that can be connected to a terminal and also to the Internet, and a purchase history management server that is connected to the Internet.
The purchase information received from the S terminal by the wireless communication method is transmitted to the purchase history management server via the Internet, and the purchase history management server receives the purchase information and associates the received purchase information with the user to purchase. Stored in a history database, further receive product identification information from the mobile phone terminal, search the purchase history database for the received product identification information, and send whether it has already been purchased as an answer to the mobile phone terminal. It is characterized by doing.

The above wireless communication method is characterized by using infrared rays.

[0007]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiment 1. The present invention will be described below based on embodiments shown in the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a network environment according to the present invention. 1 is a purchase history management server, 2 is a mobile phone terminal, 3 is a POS terminal, 4
Is a bookstore server, 5 is the Internet, 6 is a cooperation device, 7 is a mobile phone network, 8 is a base station, and 9 is a bookstore network. The POS terminal 3 is a bookstore network 9
It is configured to connect to the bookstore server 4 via the, to receive the product information such as the product ID and the selling price, and to send the sales information. Further, the POS terminal 3 is configured to be capable of transmitting information to the mobile phone terminal 2 by a wireless transmission interface such as Bluetooth or an infrared interface (both are examples of interfaces of a wireless communication method). The mobile phone terminal 2 is configured to be able to receive information from the POS terminal 3 via the communication interface described above. In addition, the mobile phone terminal 2
Connects to the Internet 5 via the mobile phone network 7,
It is configured to be able to communicate with the purchase history management server 1. The purchase history management server 1 is configured to be able to communicate with the mobile phone terminal 2 via the Internet 5 and the mobile phone network 7.

When a user purchases a product at the sales floor, the purchase information is transmitted from the POS terminal 3 to the mobile phone terminal 2.
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a processing flow of the mobile phone terminal at the time of purchase. The mobile phone terminal 2 receives the purchase information from the POS terminal 3 (S201) and stores the received purchase information (S201).
202). The purchase information includes, for example, a purchase date, a product code, and a product name.

[0009] The user performs an operation of transmitting the above-mentioned purchase information to the purchase history management server 1. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a processing flow of purchase information upload from the mobile phone terminal. When the instruction to display the purchase information list is input (S3
01), display a list of stored purchase information (S3)
02). When the user selects the purchase information to be transmitted on this list (S303), the previously stored mail address of the purchase history management server 1 is read (S304), and the selected purchase information is mailed to the read mail address. (S305).

Next, the operation on the purchase history management server side will be described. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the configuration of the purchase history management server. 41 is a purchase information receiving unit, 42 is a user database, 43 is a purchase history database, 44
Is a user authentication unit, 45 is a product identification information receiving unit, 46
Is a purchased product search unit, and 47 is an answer transmission unit.

The purchase history management server 1 registers users in advance and manages the users with the user database 42. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a configuration example of the user database. It has items of user ID 501, user name 502, mail address 503, and mobile phone number 504, and a record is provided for each user.

The processing when uploading the purchase information will be described. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a processing flow of the purchase history management server at the time of uploading purchase information. When the purchase information receiving unit 41 receives the purchase information by email (S60)
1) The user is specified by the sender address and the user ID is acquired (S602). Then, the purchase information is stored in the purchase history database 43 in association with the user ID (S603). In this way, the purchase information is stored in the purchase history management server 1.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a configuration example of the purchase history database. The purchase information is stored as a record in association with the user ID 701. Therefore, the purchase date 702, the product code 703, and the product name 704 are provided as items.

Next, the processing for the inquiry about the purchase history from the user will be described. FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a processing flow of the purchase history management server in response to an inquiry. The user accesses the website of the purchase history management server 1 from the mobile phone terminal 2 and sends the user name and password to the purchase history management server 1. User authentication unit 44
Receives the user name and password, determines whether or not the user name and password of the user database 42 match, and performs user authentication (S801). When the user authentication is successful, the user is identified by the user ID. The product identification information receiving unit 45 transmits to the mobile phone terminal 2 a screen that prompts the user to input a product code or product name to be inquired (both are examples of product identification information).
Receive the product code or product name to inquire (S
802). Then, the purchase product search unit 46 searches the purchase history database 43 using the received product code or product name as a key (S803). If the corresponding record exists, the response transmitting unit 47 transmits the response of “purchased” to the mobile phone terminal 2, and if the corresponding record does not exist, the response transmitting unit 47 displays “not purchased”. The answer is transmitted to the mobile phone terminal 2 (S80
4).

The purchase history management server 1 is a computer, and each element can execute processing by a program. Further, the program can be stored in a storage medium and can be read by the computer from the storage medium.

[0016]

The present invention relates to a purchase history management system for managing the purchase history of a user, and responds to the inquiry from the user whether it is "purchased" or "not purchased". Therefore, duplicate purchase can be prevented.

In particular, since the purchase information is acquired from the POS terminal by the communication method using infrared rays, the convenience is improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a network environment according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a processing flow of the mobile phone terminal at the time of purchase.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a processing flow of uploading purchase information from a mobile phone terminal.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a configuration of a purchase history management server.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a user database.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a processing flow of a purchase history management server at the time of uploading purchase information.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a purchase history database.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a processing flow of a purchase history management server in response to an inquiry.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Purchasing history management server, 2 mobile phone terminals, 3 PO
S terminal, 4 bookstore server, 5 internet, 6 cooperation device, 7 mobile phone network, 8 base station, 9 bookstore network, 41 purchasing information receiving section, 42 user database, 43 purchasing history database, 44 user authentication section, 45 products Identification information receiving unit, 46 purchased product search unit,
47 Response sending unit.

Continuation of front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁷ Identification code FI theme code (reference) G07G 1/12 351 G07G 1/12 351Z 1/14 1/14

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A purchase management history management including a mobile phone terminal that can be connected to a POS (point of sale) terminal by a wireless communication method and can also be connected to the Internet, and a purchase history management server connected to the Internet. In the system, the mobile phone terminal transmits the purchase information received from the POS terminal by the wireless communication method to the purchase history management server via the Internet, and the purchase history management server receives and receives the purchase information. The purchase information is stored in the purchase history database in association with the user, and the product identification information is received from the mobile phone terminal.
A purchase management history management system characterized by searching a purchase history database for received product identification information and transmitting whether or not the product has already been purchased as an answer to a mobile phone terminal. 2. The purchase management history management system according to claim 1, wherein the wireless communication method uses infrared rays.