JP2009217553A - Usable electronic coupon report device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a usable electronic coupon report device, capable of further promoting use of electronic coupons. <P>SOLUTION: The device comprises: an electronic coupon acquisition part 11 which acquires and registers an electronic coupon 100 from the outside; a storage part 12 which stores an electronic coupon list for electronic coupon information such as the electronic coupon 100 and a coupon issuing store name and store position for the electronic coupon 100, or the like; a current position detection part 13 which receives a GPS signal transmitted from a GPS satellite 2 and calculates a current position therefrom; a usable coupon specification part 14 which searches and specifies, based on the electronic coupon information or the like, a usable electronic coupon according to the current position; and a usable coupon report part 15 which reports the specified usable electronic coupon. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an available electronic coupon notification device for using an electronic coupon acquired via a network or the like and used via a mobile communication terminal.

  Since electronic coupons are more convenient than printed coupons, their use is promoted (see, for example, Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2), and the number of users is increasing. In order to promote the use of electronic coupons, for example, acquisition of electronic coupons has been considered through a portable communication terminal incorporating a non-contact IC card. Specifically, it has been considered or possible to issue an electronic coupon on the built-in contactless IC card in a contactless manner and display it in an image received via a one-segment mobile phone. .

Here, in recent years, mobile communication terminals having various functions have become widespread. In addition to the above-mentioned band communication terminals, portable communication terminals having a GPS (Global Positioning System) function that makes it possible to know the current position have become readily available.
JP 2003-141406 A JP 2005-215849 A

  However, the conventional mobile communication terminal has a problem that the user's use is not sufficiently promoted by holding an available electronic coupon. Specifically, the user forgets that he / she has an electronic coupon, or the number of electronic coupons he / she holds cannot be memorized.

  In view of the above current situation, an object of the present invention is to provide an available electronic coupon notification device that can promote the use of an electronic coupon more than ever.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides the following configurations.
The invention which concerns on Claim 1 receives the GPS signal, the present position detection part which detects the present position of an own apparatus, the available range of the electronic coupon and the electronic coupon for every area, and the location of the store which can use an electronic coupon And at least a storage unit for storing the electronic coupon, a usable location of the electronic coupon determined in accordance with the current location, the current location, and the location of the store where the electronic coupon can be used. An available coupon specifying unit and an available coupon notification unit for notifying a user of an available coupon are provided.

  The invention according to claim 2 is the available electronic coupon notification device according to claim 1, wherein the storage unit can store a plurality of locations of stores that can use the electronic coupon for one electronic coupon. It is characterized by that.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, a current position detection unit that receives a GPS signal and detects the current position of the device itself, an electronic coupon, an available range of electronic coupons for each area, and a store that can use the electronic coupon Identifies available electronic coupons based on the current location, the range of available electronic coupons determined according to the current location, and the location of stores where electronic coupons can be used To realize an available electronic coupon notification device capable of promoting the use of an electronic coupon more than ever since the available coupon specifying unit and the available coupon notification unit for notifying the user of the available coupon are provided. Can do.

  According to the invention of claim 2, in addition to the effect of claim 1, the storage unit can store a plurality of locations of stores that can use the electronic coupon for one electronic coupon. The use of coupons can be further promoted.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings showing examples.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram schematically showing an embodiment of an available electronic coupon notification system according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the available electronic coupon notification device 1 acquires an electronic coupon 100 from the outside and registers the electronic coupon 100, and a list of electronic coupon information about the electronic coupon 100 and the electronic coupon 100 (hereinafter, A storage unit 12 that stores an electronic coupon list), a current position detection unit 13 that receives a GPS signal transmitted from the GPS satellite 2 and calculates a current position, and based on the electronic coupon information and the like, In response, an available coupon specifying unit 14 that searches and specifies an available electronic coupon (hereinafter referred to as an available electronic coupon), and an available coupon notification unit 15 that notifies the specified available electronic coupon, Prepare.

  The electronic coupon acquisition unit 11 has, for example, a non-contact IC card, stores the electronic coupon 100 acquired in a non-contact manner via this in the storage unit 12, and registers the electronic coupon information in the electronic coupon list. Yes. However, the electronic coupon acquisition unit 11 may have a communication function and be configured to acquire an electronic coupon on a network.

  FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram conceptually illustrating a configuration example of the electronic coupon list. In the electronic coupon list 200, as shown in FIG. 2, the name of this list (electronic coupon list) 201 and the location where the electronic coupon can be used (hereinafter referred to as a coupon issue store) are shown for each electronic coupon. Information (hereinafter, this location is referred to as store location, and this information is referred to as store location information) 202, 203, coupon issue store name 204, and electronic coupon expiration date 205 are listed as electronic coupon information. . Here, the store position information may be composed of, for example, latitude 202 and longitude 203 indicating the location of the store, as shown in FIG. Moreover, when there are a plurality of stores that can be used for one electronic coupon, a plurality of store position information can be registered for one electronic coupon.

  In addition to the electronic coupon and the electronic coupon list, the storage unit 12 may store information indicating the available range of the electronic coupon for each region (hereinafter referred to as coupon usage range information). Hereinafter, it is assumed that coupon usage range information is stored in the storage unit 12.

  The current position detector 13 calculates the current position based on the received GPS signal. Since the technique for calculating the current position based on the GPS signal is well known, the description thereof is omitted.

  The available coupon specifying unit 14 determines the above-described area according to the current position, calculates an available range for the determined area, and searches for and uses an electronic coupon whose store position is included in the available range. It is specified as a possible electronic coupon. Here, the usable range may be represented as, for example, a region within a circle, and a radius that specifies the size of the circle may be stored in the storage unit 12 as coupon use range information for each region.

  The available coupon notification unit 15 includes, for example, a display, a speaker, and a driving circuit thereof, and notifies the available electronic coupon specified by the available coupon specifying unit 14 through display, voice output, and the like. In order to call attention, the available electronic coupon may be displayed while outputting a sound such as a chime or vibrating the vibrator.

  FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the available electronic coupon notification device according to the present invention, in which (a) relates to acquisition of an electronic coupon and (b) relates to notification of an available electronic coupon. First, processing for acquiring an electronic coupon will be described. The electronic coupon acquisition part 11 acquires an electronic coupon from the outside by a predetermined method (S111). Electronic coupons can be acquired by attaching to an e-mail, or acquired by non-contact IC cards in the available electronic coupon notification device 1 held in contact, or acquired by other methods. It may be done.

  Next, the electronic coupon acquisition part 11 extracts electronic coupon information from the acquired electronic coupon (S112), registers it in the electronic coupon list 200 (S113), and stores the electronic coupon 100 in the storage part 12 (S114).

  Next, processing for notification of an available electronic coupon will be described. First, the current position detection unit 13 receives a GPS signal transmitted from the GPS satellite 2 and calculates the current position (S121). Here, the current position is calculated in association with the store position of the electronic coupon list 200, and is represented by latitude and longitude in the example shown in FIG.

  Next, the available coupon specifying unit 14 determines the available range of the electronic coupon based on the current position (S122), and searches for and specifies the available electronic coupon based on the current position and the available range (S123). ). Next, the available coupon identification unit 14 notifies the available coupon notification unit 15 of the available electronic coupon (S124).

  The available electronic coupon notification device according to the present invention is built in a mobile communication terminal or the like, and can promote the use of electronic coupons. The communication industry used through these, the electronic component industry involved in their manufacture, It can be used in the electrical industry, commerce related to distribution, etc., and enhances the usefulness of such products.

It is a block block diagram which shows typically one Example of the useable electronic coupon notification system by this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows notionally one structural example of an electronic coupon list. It is a flowchart explaining operation | movement of the available electronic coupon notification apparatus by this invention, (a) is related with acquisition of an electronic coupon, (b) is related with the notification of an available electronic coupon.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Available electronic coupon notification apparatus 2 GPS satellite 11 Electronic coupon acquisition part 12 Storage part 13 Current position detection part 14 Available coupon specific part 15 Available coupon notification part 100 Electronic coupon 200 Electronic coupon list 201 List name 202 Store position information (latitude)
203 Store location information (longitude)
204 Name of coupon issuing store 205 Expiration date of electronic coupon

Claims (2)

  A current position detecting unit that receives a GPS signal and detects the current position of the device; a storage unit that stores at least an electronic coupon, an available range of the electronic coupon for each region, and a location of a store where the electronic coupon can be used; An available coupon identification unit that identifies an available electronic coupon based on the current location and the range of available electronic coupons determined according to the current location and the location of the store where the electronic coupon can be used. An available electronic coupon notification device comprising an available coupon notification unit for notifying a user of a coupon.   2. The available electronic coupon notification device according to claim 1, wherein the storage unit can store a plurality of locations of stores that can use the electronic coupon for one electronic coupon.

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