JP2009217338A - Merchandise introduction system, web server, server, and merchandise introduction method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technology allowing a merchandise introduction system for introducing merchandises by saving resources. <P>SOLUTION: This merchandise introduction system includes a database server for storing merchandise information and a Web page, a plurality of terminals, a Web server, and a mail server. The Web server is provided with an information distribution control part for distributing a Web page, according to the request of a first terminal, and for creating and storing memo information described, by associating the model number of one or more selected merchandise with one memo number in a database server, in response to a request for the selection of merchandise; a mail distribution control part, when accepting a request for the introduction of merchandise to a second terminal with a memo number from the first terminal, for transmitting electronic mail, to which the pertinent memo number is attached from the mail server to the second terminal; and a merchandise information extracting part, when accepting the introduction request including the memo number from the second terminal, for reading the model number described so as to have it associate with the memo number, and for extracting the merchandise information based on the model number, and for providing it to the second terminal. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a product introduction system, a web server, a server, and a product introduction method that provide product information via a network.

  As a system used for merchandise sales via a network, a system for creating a web page on which information of merchandise actually ordered by a purchaser has been proposed. For example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2006-146300 is proposed. Gazette).

  The system described in Patent Literature 1 includes a terminal used by a purchaser and a control device managed by a seller, and the terminal and the control device are connected to each other via a network. The control device includes a server and a database.

  In the system described in Patent Document 1, when a terminal is connected to a server by a purchaser's operation, the server provides the terminal with a web page displaying a list of information on a plurality of products having different model numbers (product codes). . The product information posted on the web page includes a model number, a sales price, a product image, and the like, which are stored in a database in advance.

  When the terminal notifies the server that one of a plurality of products is ordered by the purchaser's operation, the server provides an order receiving web page to the terminal. This web page includes the product name, sales price, and model number of the product selected by the purchaser, and is provided with input fields for a user ID and an email address.

  The purchaser operates the terminal to input the user ID and the mail address set on the terminal, and notifies the server that the order is to be confirmed. Then, the server provides a web page indicating that the order has been received to the terminal, and stores the information indicating the contents of the order and the customer code that is different for each purchaser in the database in association with each other.

  Subsequently, the server creates a customer home page that is a web page on which information about the product ordered by the purchaser is posted, and transmits an e-mail attached with the address of the created customer home page to the terminal.

  After the terminal receives the e-mail, when the terminal requests the server to provide a customer home page together with the address attached to the e-mail, the server provides the requested customer home page to the terminal.

  In the system described in Patent Document 1, the address of the customer home page is given for each purchaser (user ID). Therefore, when a purchaser places an order for a product that is not listed on the customer home page, information about the product is added to the customer home page. In other words, the customer home page also includes information on products ordered by the purchaser in the past.

According to the system described in Patent Document 1, since a customer homepage is created and provided to the purchaser when a product is ordered, the purchaser can confirm the product ordered by the purchaser. In addition, if the purchaser forwards the email sent from the server from his / her terminal to a third party's terminal (for example, a friend), the seller will introduce his / her product to more people through the buyer. This has the effect of
JP 2006-146300 A

  According to the system described in Patent Document 1, a purchaser can introduce his / her customer homepage. However, on this customer home page, information on all products ordered by the purchaser in the past is posted. Therefore, in the system described in Patent Document 1, product information that is unnecessary for the introduction partner may be provided. In this case, the introduction partner takes time to search for product information that he / she needs from the customer homepage.

  In addition, the system described in Patent Document 1 has a configuration in which an information source of product information to be posted on a customer homepage exists in a database for each customer homepage. Therefore, when there are a plurality of customers who have purchased the same product, a plurality of customer homepages having the same contents are created. As a result, in the system described in Patent Document 1, the same content information is redundantly stored in the database, and more resources than necessary are required.

  It is an object of the present invention to provide a technology for realizing a product introduction system, a web server, a server, and a product introduction method that are capable of efficiently and resource-saving product introduction.

In order to achieve the above object, the product introduction system according to the present invention is:
A product in which a database server that stores product information including each model number and a web page that introduces each product, a plurality of terminals, a web server, and a mail server are connected to each other via a network. An introduction system,
The web server is
In response to a request from the first terminal which is one of the plurality of terminals, a web page introducing each of the products stored in the database server is distributed, and from the first terminal that has received the web page An information distribution control unit that creates memo information in which the model numbers of one or more selected products are associated with one memo number and stores the memo information in the database server in response to a request to select a product of
When a request for introduction to the second terminal that wishes to introduce the memo information created by the information distribution control unit is received from the first terminal together with the memo number, an e-mail with the corresponding memo number attached is received. A mail delivery control unit for sending from the mail server to the second terminal;
When an introduction request including the memo number is received from the second terminal, a model number described in the memo information in association with the memo number is read, and the product information is stored in the database based on the read model number. A product information extraction unit that extracts from the server and provides the second terminal with the product information.

In order to achieve the above object, a web server according to the present invention provides:
For a plurality of products, a database server that stores product information including each model number and a web page that introduces each product, a plurality of terminals, and a mail server are connected to each other via a network to constitute a product introduction system. A web server,
In response to a request from the first terminal which is one of the plurality of terminals, a web page introducing each of the products stored in the database server is distributed, and from the first terminal that has received the web page An information distribution control unit that creates memo information in which the model numbers of one or more selected products are associated with one memo number and stores the memo information in the database server in response to a request to select a product of
When a request for introduction to the second terminal that wishes to introduce the memo information created by the information distribution control unit is received from the first terminal together with the memo number, an e-mail with the corresponding memo number attached is received. A mail delivery control unit for sending from the mail server to the second terminal;
When an introduction request including the memo number is received from the second terminal, a model number described in the memo information in association with the memo number is read, and the product information is stored in the database based on the read model number. A product information extraction unit that extracts from the server and provides the second terminal with the product information.

The server according to the present invention for achieving the above object is
A server that stores product information including each model number and a web page that introduces each product for a plurality of products, and is connected to each of a plurality of terminals via a network,
In response to a request from the first terminal, which is one of the plurality of terminals, a web page introducing each of the products stored in the storage unit is distributed, and from the first terminal that has received the web page An information distribution control unit that creates memo information in which the model number of one or more selected products is associated with one memo number and stores the memo information in response to a request to select the product,
When a request to introduce the created memo information to the second terminal that wishes to introduce the memo information is received together with the memo number from the first terminal, an e-mail attached with the corresponding memo number is sent to the second terminal. A mail delivery control unit to send;
Upon receiving an introduction request including the memo number from the second terminal, the model number described in the memo information in association with the memo number is read, and the product information is stored based on the read model number. A product information extraction unit that is extracted from the unit and provided to the second terminal.

In addition, the product introduction method according to the present invention for achieving the above object is as follows:
A product introduction method that includes a storage unit that stores product information including each model number and a web page that introduces each product for a plurality of products, and that is performed by a server connected to each of a plurality of terminals via a network,
In response to a request from the first terminal, which is one of the plurality of terminals, a web page introducing each of the products stored in the storage unit is distributed, and from the first terminal that has received the web page In response to a request to select a product, a memo information in which the model number of one or more selected products is associated with one memo number is created and stored in the storage unit,
When a request to introduce the created memo information to the second terminal that wishes to introduce the memo information is received together with the memo number from the first terminal, an e-mail attached with the corresponding memo number is sent to the second terminal. Send
Upon receiving an introduction request including the memo number from the second terminal, the model number described in the memo information in association with the memo number is read, and the product information is stored based on the read model number. Is extracted from the unit and provided to the second terminal.

  In the present invention, when the introducer uses the first terminal and the introduction partner uses the second terminal, the web server can provide only the information on the product selected by the introducer to the introduction partner. That is, it is possible to provide only information on products that the introduction partner needs to the introduction partner.

  In the present invention, the web server extracts the product information introduced by the introducer from the product information stored in the database server based on the memo number and the model number, and collectively provides the information to the introduction partner. Yes. As a result, the information source of information used for product introduction is unified with the product information stored in the database server, so that product introduction can be performed without having to store the same information in duplicate in the database server.

  As mentioned above, it is possible to provide only product information required by the referral partner and to introduce products without having to store the same information in duplicate in the database server. Can be performed.

  The product introduction system of this embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of a product introduction system according to the present invention.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the product introduction system of the present embodiment includes a terminal 1 used by an introducer who introduces a product that can be purchased via a network, a terminal 2 used by an introduction partner, and a seller of the product. A database server 3, a web server 4, and a mail server 5 are managed. Note that the terminal 1, the terminal 2, the database server 3, the web server 4, and the mail server 5 are connected via the network 100.

  First, the terminal 1 and the terminal 2 will be described.

  The terminal 1 and the terminal 2 are personal computers, and have a function of performing information communication with the web server 4 and a function of transmitting and receiving e-mails using a preset mail address.

  Next, the database server 3 will be described.

  The database server 3 includes a storage unit 31 and an information management unit 32. The storage unit 31 stores product information, user information, memo information, introduction information, and web pages provided to a plurality of terminals through the web server 4. Here, information stored in the storage unit 31 will be described.

  The merchandise information includes a merchandise name, a merchandise image, a sales price, a merchandise description, and a selected COP (Configuration option), which are stored in the database server 3 in association with the merchandise model number. The selected COP indicates product specifications (for example, capacity when the product is a memory).

  User information is information which shows a name, a user ID, etc. for every user of the goods introduction system of this embodiment. The user information is stored in the database server 3 by the web server 4 provided by each terminal.

  The memo information is information related to the product selected by the introducer from the product information stored in the database server 3 and provided from the database server 3 to the plurality of terminals through the web server 4.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of memo information.

  The memo information is selected by the user at the same time, as shown in FIG. 2A, the user ID of the introducer who requested the creation of the memo information, the memo title, and the registration date indicating the date when the memo information was stored in the storage unit 31. The product content indicating the content of the purchased product is information described in association with each memo number. The memo number is a number for identifying memo information, and is set every time the web server 4 creates memo information. The memo title is a title given to the memo information by the introducer and is input by operating the terminal 1.

  As shown in FIG. 2B, the product content includes an item number indicating the order in which information of products selected by the introducer is displayed at the same time, a model number, a unit price, a quantity, a discount amount, etc. for the product selected by the introducer. Is described.

  Since the memo information has a data configuration in which the model numbers of a plurality of products are associated with one memo number, the introducer can store a plurality of products with different model numbers in the database server 3 as one memo information. In addition, since the memo information includes a memo number, the introducer can store a plurality of memo information in the database server 3 according to the introduction partner.

  The introduction information is information indicating the history of the memo information actually introduced by the introducer in the memo information. The introduction code, the user ID of the introducer, the memo number of the memo information provided to the introduction partner, the memo information The destination e-mail address is shown.

  The information management unit 32 stores memo information, introduction information, and the like provided from the web server 4 in the storage unit 31. Further, the information requested by the web server 4 is provided from the information stored in the storage unit 31. In addition, the information management part 32 is good also as deleting memo information about what passed the predetermined period from the registration date. In this case, the amount of information stored in the database server 3 can be suppressed.

  Next, the web server 4 will be described.

  The web server 4 includes an information distribution control unit 41, a mail distribution control unit 42, and a product information extraction unit 43.

  The information distribution control unit 41 provides a web page stored in the database server 31 in response to a request from the terminal 1 and creates memo information in response to a request from the terminal 1.

  In response to a request from the terminal 1, the mail delivery control unit 42 causes the mail server 4 to transmit an electronic mail with a memo number attached to the terminal 2.

  The product information extraction unit 43 extracts product information corresponding to the memo number attached to the e-mail transmitted to the terminal 2 in response to a request from the terminal 2 and provides the product information to the terminal 2.

  Next, the mail server 5 will be described.

  The mail server 5 transmits an e-mail based on the control of the mail delivery control unit 42.

  Next, in the product introduction system of the present embodiment, an operation performed when providing information on the product selected by the introducer to the introduction partner will be described.

  FIG. 3 is a sequence diagram showing operations of the terminal 1, the terminal 2, the database server 3, the web server 4, and the mail server 5 when providing information on the product selected by the introducer to the introduction partner.

  In the present embodiment, the terminal 1 is in a state where access to the web server 4 is permitted by the input of the user ID, and displays a web page on which product information provided by the information distribution control unit 41 is posted. I will do it.

  First, the terminal 1 requests the web server 4 to store information on the product selected by the introducer (step S1). Then, the information distribution control unit 41 creates memo information and transmits the memo information to the database server 3, and transmits a web page posting that the memo information has been created to the terminal 1. (Step S2). The information management unit 32 of the database server 3 stores the memo information from the control unit 41 in the storage unit 31 (step S3).

  FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a web page on which the memo information has been created.

  The web page 400 shown in FIG. 4 includes a list of memo information created by the information distribution control unit 41 in response to an introducer's request. The list includes a memo number, a memo title, and an issue date ( In addition to the (registration date), a display button 401 and an introduction button 402 are shown.

  A display button 401 is a button for an introducer to confirm the contents of memo information. When the introducer operates the terminal 1 and presses the display button 401, a web page on which memo information corresponding to the pressed display button 401 is posted is provided from the web server 4 to the terminal 1 and displayed.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a web page on which memo information is posted.

  As shown in FIG. 5, in addition to information stored in the database server 3 such as a memo number and a model number, a web page for posting memo information includes a discount amount of a product to be discounted and precautions regarding product purchase. It is posted.

  The introduction button 402 is a button for requesting the server to introduce the memo information actually selected by the introducer from the memo information list to the introduction partner from the terminal. When the introducer operates the terminal 1 to request introduction of memo information (step S4), the information distribution control unit 41 provides the terminal 1 with a web page that accepts transmission of memo information by e-mail (step S5). . This web page includes an e-mail address as an e-mail destination and an input field for comments from the introducer to the introduction partner.

  The introducer operates the terminal 1 to input a mail address and a comment, and requests the web server 4 to send an e-mail (step S6). Then, the mail delivery control unit 42 creates introduction information and transmits it to the database server 3, and causes the mail server 5 to transmit an e-mail addressed to the mail address input at the terminal 1 (step S 7). In this embodiment, it is assumed that the mail address input at the terminal 1 matches the mail address set at the terminal 2.

  The information management unit 32 stores the introduction information from the mail delivery control unit 42 in the storage unit 31 (step S8).

  The mail server 5 transmits an electronic mail to the terminal 2 (step S9). Here, the electronic mail distributed by the mail server 5 will be described in detail.

  The e-mail will show the product display page, which is a web page with information about the product introduced by the introducer, comments made by the introducer, the name of the product introduced by the introducer, and information about the product introduced by the introducer. A URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is attached. This URL includes a memo number.

  When the terminal 2 receives the e-mail from the mail server 2 (step S10), the referral partner operates the terminal 2 to request the web server 4 to provide a product display page specified by the URL attached to the e-mail. (Step S11). Then, the product information extraction unit 43 creates a product display page and provides it to the terminal 2 (step S12). Here, the operation of step S12 will be described in detail.

  The merchandise information extraction unit 43 first acquires the memo number included in the URL. Next, the model number described in association with the corresponding memo number in the memo information is read. Then, the product information including the read model number is extracted from the storage unit 31 and a product display page is created and provided to the terminal 2.

  When a plurality of products are stored in the memo information, the product information extraction unit 43 sequentially reads out the model numbers, extracts the product information including the read model numbers from the storage unit 31, and displays the product display page. Create

  FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a product display page.

  A product display page 600 illustrated in FIG. 6 is an example of a product display page created by the product information extraction unit 43 when the model numbers of three products are described in association with memo numbers in the memo information. In the product display page 600, the product name, model number, image, and product description are posted for each product.

  When the product display page created by the product information extraction unit 43 as described above is provided to the terminal 2, the terminal 2 displays the provided product display page (step S13). Thereby, the information of the product introduced by the introducer is provided to the introduction partner.

  In the present embodiment, the web server 4 can provide only information on the product selected by the introducer to the introduction partner. In other words, it is possible to provide only information on products that the referral partner needs.

  In the present embodiment, the web server 4 provides a product display page in which information on a plurality of products introduced by the introducer is collectively posted to the introduction partner. At this time, the web server 4 creates the product display page by extracting the product information stored in the database server 3 based on the memo number and the model number. As a result, the information source of information used for the product introduction is unified with the product information stored in the database server 3, so that the product introduction can be performed without storing the same content information redundantly in the database server 3.

  According to this embodiment, it is possible to provide only product information required by the referral partner, and it is possible to introduce the product without duplicating and storing the same content information in the database server 4. And resource saving.

  In the present embodiment, the product introduction can be performed even if the introducer does not actually order the product. So, for example, when an introducer does not know what to purchase for a product with the same usage but different specifications, the introducer can introduce a product suitable for the introducer without purchasing it. Become.

  Note that the present invention is not limited to the configuration in which the database server 3, the web server 4, and the mail server 5 are separated as in the above-described embodiment, and each server is configured as an integrated server. It may be. In this case, the information management unit 32 is included in the configuration of the information distribution control unit 41. Even if the server has such a configuration, the information source of the product display page can be unified with the product information, and thus the same effect as the configuration of the above-described embodiment can be obtained.

  In the present invention, an e-mail attached with the URL of the product display page may be transmitted to a plurality of terminals at once. In this case, the same product can be efficiently introduced to a plurality of people.

  In the present invention, when the introduction partner purchases a product through the product display page, points may be given to both the introduction partner and the introducer, and a discount amount may be set according to the point. In this case, it is conceivable that the number of times the product display page is created increases as the number of users increases. However, since the web server can create a product display page without increasing the amount of information stored in the database server, it is possible to introduce products with reduced resources.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of one Embodiment of the merchandise introduction system by this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of memo information. It is a sequence diagram which shows operation | movement of each structure of the goods inquiry system of this embodiment when providing the information of the goods which the introducer selected to the referral partner. It is a figure which shows an example of the web page which posts that it created memo information. It is a figure which shows an example of the web page which publishes memo information. It is a figure which shows an example of a goods display page.

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1, 2 Terminal 3 Database server 4 Web server 5 Mail server 31 Storage unit 32 Information management unit 41 Information distribution control unit 42 Mail distribution control unit 43 Product information extraction unit

Claims (7)

A product in which a database server that stores product information including each model number and a web page that introduces each product, a plurality of terminals, a web server, and a mail server are connected to each other via a network. An introduction system,
The web server is
In response to a request from the first terminal which is one of the plurality of terminals, a web page introducing each of the products stored in the database server is distributed, and from the first terminal that has received the web page An information distribution control unit that creates memo information in which the model numbers of one or more selected products are associated with one memo number and stores the memo information in the database server in response to a request to select a product of
When a request for introduction to the second terminal that wishes to introduce the memo information created by the information distribution control unit is received from the first terminal together with the memo number, an e-mail with the corresponding memo number attached is received. A mail delivery control unit for sending from the mail server to the second terminal;
When an introduction request including the memo number is received from the second terminal, a model number described in the memo information in association with the memo number is read, and the product information is stored in the database based on the read model number. A product information extraction unit that is extracted from a server and provided to the second terminal;
A product introduction system. In the product introduction system according to claim 1,
The information delivery control unit describes a registration date indicating a date when the memo information is stored in the data server, describes the memo information in association with the memo number, stores the memo information in the data server,
The said database server is a goods introduction system which has an information management part which deletes the memo information in which the predetermined period passed from the said registration date. For a plurality of products, a database server that stores product information including each model number and a web page that introduces each product, a plurality of terminals, and a mail server are connected to each other via a network to constitute a product introduction system. A web server,
In response to a request from the first terminal which is one of the plurality of terminals, a web page introducing each of the products stored in the database server is distributed, and from the first terminal that has received the web page An information distribution control unit that creates memo information in which the model numbers of one or more selected products are associated with one memo number and stores the memo information in the database server in response to a request to select a product of
When a request for introduction to the second terminal that wishes to introduce the memo information created by the information distribution control unit is received from the first terminal together with the memo number, an e-mail attached with the corresponding memo number is received. A mail delivery control unit for sending from the mail server to the second terminal;
When an introduction request including the memo number is received from the second terminal, a model number described in the memo information in association with the memo number is read, and the product information is stored in the database based on the read model number. A product information extraction unit that is extracted from a server and provided to the second terminal;
Having a web server. A server that stores product information including each model number and a web page that introduces each product for a plurality of products, and is connected to each of a plurality of terminals via a network,
In response to a request from the first terminal, which is one of the plurality of terminals, a web page introducing each of the products stored in the storage unit is distributed, and from the first terminal that has received the web page An information distribution control unit that creates memo information in which the model number of one or more selected products is associated with one memo number and stores the memo information in response to a request to select the product,
When a request to introduce the created memo information to the second terminal that wishes to introduce the memo information is received together with the memo number from the first terminal, an e-mail attached with the corresponding memo number is sent to the second terminal. A mail delivery control unit to send;
Upon receiving an introduction request including the memo number from the second terminal, the model number described in the memo information in association with the memo number is read, and the product information is stored based on the read model number. Product information extraction unit that is extracted from the unit and provided to the second terminal;
Having a server. The server according to claim 4,
The information distribution control unit describes a registration date indicating a date when the memo information is stored in the storage unit, describes the memo information in association with the memo number, stores the memo information in the storage unit, and stores the predetermined date from the registration date. A server that deletes memo information after a certain period of time. A product introduction method that includes a storage unit that stores product information including each model number and a web page that introduces each product for a plurality of products, and that is performed by a server connected to each of a plurality of terminals via a network,
In response to a request from the first terminal, which is one of the plurality of terminals, a web page introducing each of the products stored in the storage unit is distributed, and from the first terminal that has received the web page In response to a request to select a product, a memo information in which the model number of one or more selected products is associated with one memo number is created and stored in the storage unit,
When a request to introduce the created memo information to the second terminal that wishes to introduce the memo information is received together with the memo number from the first terminal, an e-mail attached with the corresponding memo number is sent to the second terminal. Send
Upon receiving an introduction request including the memo number from the second terminal, the model number described in the memo information in association with the memo number is read, and the product information is stored based on the read model number. Product introduction method extracted from the department and provided to the second terminal. In the product introduction method according to claim 6,
A registration date indicating a date when the memo information is stored in the storage unit is described in the memo information in association with the memo number, and stored in the storage unit.
A product introduction method for deleting memo information for which a predetermined period has elapsed from the registration date.

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