JP2010205023A - Internet shopping management device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To support simplification of a settlement procedure or the like by narrowing down the number of stores of purchase destinations and decision of whether or not purchase is low-priced shopping by a total money amount including carriage or the like, when simultaneously retrieving and purchasing a plurality of commodities in a site of Internet shopping wherein a plurality of stores are bundled. <P>SOLUTION: An Internet shopping management device allowing the purchase of the commodities placed by the plurality of stores includes: a retrieval condition reception means receiving a retrieval condition about the plurality of commodities from a user terminal; a retrieval execution means searching a commodity information database based on the received retrieval condition; a coincident ratio calculation means calculating a coincident ratio indicating a ratio at which the commodity designated by the retrieval condition is satisfied in each store from the retrieval condition and a retrieval result; a total money amount calculation means calculating the total money amount including the carriage of each store; and a retrieval result page generation-transmission means totaling the retrieval result in each store in order of a high coincident ratio, generating a retrieval result page added with the total money amount, and transmitting it to the user terminal. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a technology for buying and selling products via a network such as the Internet.

  Recently, buying and selling of products using the Internet has been actively performed, and such online shopping has become an indispensable existence in daily life.

  However, since there are many online shopping sites on the Internet, each site has been devised to capture customers.

  By the way, as a site for online shopping, in addition to sites that are actually operated by merchants that handle the products themselves, portal site operators etc. have opened, and multiple stores (virtual stores) by merchants that actually handle the products participate. There are large-scale sites that The latter is convenient because many products can be purchased at one site in a lump.

JP 2003-44709 A

  When a plurality of products are searched at the same time on the online shopping site where a plurality of stores are bundled as described above, conventionally, a plurality of products that match the search conditions are displayed together regardless of the store. .

  Therefore, if you decide on a product based solely on the price from the search results, it will often result in purchases across multiple stores, requiring payment procedures for each store and making operations complicated. There was a problem. In addition, since the shipping cost varies depending on the store, there is a problem that the total amount of money is not always cheap.

  On the other hand, in Patent Document 1, in order to increase the convenience of customers when purchasing a plurality of products online and reduce the purchase price, the total amount of the ordered products is compared with the customer for each store. The technique to be disclosed is disclosed.

  However, only the total amount for each store is presented, and it is not possible to determine whether or not all the products desired in one store can be purchased. There is no. Also, shipping costs are not taken into consideration, and it is not always possible to make cheap purchases.

  The present invention has been proposed in view of the above-described conventional problems, and the object of the present invention is to purchase a plurality of products at the same time by searching and purchasing on a web shopping site where a plurality of stores are bundled. It is an object of the present invention to provide an online shopping management apparatus capable of supporting the simplification of the settlement procedure by reducing the number of the previous stores and the determination of whether or not the shopping is cheap with the total amount including the shipping fee.

  In order to solve the above-described problem, according to the present invention, as described in claim 1, an online shopping management apparatus that enables purchase of products for sale in a plurality of stores, and a plurality of user terminals can be purchased. Search condition accepting means for accepting a search condition for the product, search execution means for searching the product information database based on the accepted search condition, and a matching rate indicating a rate at which the product specified by the search condition is satisfied for each store Match rate calculation means that calculates the search conditions and search results, total price calculation means that calculates the total price including the postage for each store, and the search results are aggregated for each store in descending order of match rate The gist of the present invention is a network shopping management device comprising search result page generation / transmission means for generating a search result page and transmitting it to the user terminal.

  In addition, as described in claim 2, in the online shopping management device according to claim 1, the match rate is calculated based on the total number of products specified in the search condition, based on the search result of the products that can be purchased in each store. It can be calculated by the ratio of the total number.

  Further, according to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a network shopping management method that enables purchase of products for sale in a plurality of stores, a search condition receiving step for receiving search conditions for a plurality of products from a user terminal, A search execution step of searching the product information database based on the received search condition, and a match rate calculation step of calculating a match rate indicating a rate at which the product specified by the search condition is satisfied for each store from the search condition and the search result And a total amount calculation step for calculating the total amount including the postage for each store, and a search result page for each store in a descending order of the matching rate, and a search result page with the total amount is generated and transmitted to the user terminal And a search result page generation / transmission step to be configured.

  In the online shopping management device of the present invention, when searching for and purchasing a plurality of products at the same time on an online shopping site in which a plurality of stores are bundled, a settlement procedure, etc. by reducing the number of stores at the purchase destination It is possible to support the judgment of whether or not the purchase is cheap with the total amount including simplification and shipping cost.

It is a figure which shows the structural example of the system concerning one Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the hardware structural example of a net shopping management server. It is a figure which shows the data structure example of a merchandise information database. It is a figure which shows the data structure example of a store information database. It is a sequence diagram which shows the process example of embodiment. It is a figure showing the example of a screen of a search page. It is a figure which shows the example of the search result of a search execution part. It is a figure which shows the example of a coincidence rate calculation result. It is a figure which shows the example of a simple total amount calculation result. It is a figure which shows the example of a total amount calculation result. It is a figure which shows the example of a screen of a search result page.

  Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described.

<Configuration>
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

  In FIG. 1, a network 1 such as the Internet is connected with a plurality of user terminals 2 such as PCs (Personal Computers), mobile phones, PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) operated by users of internet shopping. The user terminal 2 includes a general browser (Web browser) 21. The browser 21 performs request / acquisition / display of page data described in a language such as HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), transmission of form data, and the like according to HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) which is a standard protocol of the Internet. It has a function.

  On the other hand, connected to the network 1 is a network shopping management server 3 that manages the sale of products for access from the browser 21 of the user terminal 2 operated by the user.

  The online shopping management server 3 includes a product search processing unit 31 and a product purchase processing unit 32 as functional units. These functional units are realized by a computer program executed on hardware resources such as a CPU (Central Processing Unit), a ROM (Read Only Memory), and a RAM (Random Access Memory) of a computer constituting the net shopping management server 3. It is what is done. These functional units do not need to be arranged on a single computer, and may be distributed as necessary.

  The product search processing unit 31 includes a search condition reception unit 311, a search execution unit 312, a match rate calculation unit 313, a simple total amount calculation unit 314, a total amount calculation unit 315, a search result page generation unit 316, and a search result page transmission unit 317. And.

  In addition, a product information database 41 and a store information database 42 are provided as databases that the internet shopping management server 3 refers to. These databases systematically hold predetermined data on a storage medium such as an HDD (Hard Disk Drive) in a computer that holds the database.

  The product search processing unit 31 has a function of performing a search in response to a request from the browser 21 of the user terminal 2 operated by the user and providing a search result page to the browser 21 of the user terminal 2.

  The search condition receiving unit 311 has a function of receiving search conditions from the browser 21 of the user terminal 2 operated by the user.

  The search execution unit 312 has a function of searching the product information database 41 based on the search condition passed from the search condition receiving unit 311.

  The coincidence rate calculation unit 313 has a function of calculating the coincidence rate for each store based on the search condition and the search result passed from the search condition reception unit 311. Here, the coincidence rate for each store is an index indicating the rate at which the product designated by the search condition is satisfied for each store. More specifically, it refers to the ratio of the total number of products that can be purchased at a certain store to the total number of products specified by the user as a search condition. If the match rate is 100%, it means that desired products can be purchased together at the one store.

  The simple total price calculation unit 314 has a function of calculating a simple total price that does not include a shipping fee based on the search result and the match rate calculation result passed from the search condition reception unit 311.

  The total price calculation unit 315 has a function of referring to the store information database 42 based on the simple total price calculation result passed from the search condition reception unit 311 and calculating the total price including shipping charges.

  The search result page generation unit 316 has a function of generating page data of a search result page based on the search result passed from the search condition reception unit 311 and the total amount calculation result.

  The search result page transmission unit 317 has a function of transmitting the page data of the search result page to the browser 21 of the user terminal 2 based on the page data of the search result page passed from the search condition reception unit 311.

  The product purchase processing unit 32 has a function of performing product purchase processing in response to a user operation on the search result page displayed on the browser 21 of the user terminal 2.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a hardware configuration example of the net shopping management server 3.

  In FIG. 2, the net shopping management server 3 is connected to a CPU 302, ROM 303, RAM 304, NVRAM (Non-Volatile Random Access Memory) 305, I / F (Interface) 306, and I / F 306 connected to a system bus 301. Also provided are an I / O (Input / Output Device) 307 such as a keyboard, mouse, monitor, CD / DVD (Compact Disk / Digital Versatile Disk) drive, HDD 308, NIC (Network Interface Card) 309, and the like. M is a medium (recording medium) such as a CD / DVD in which a program or data is stored.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of the data structure of the product information database 41, and includes items such as “product code”, “product name”, “store ID”, “unit price”, and “stock quantity”. “Product code” is a symbol for identifying individual products. “Product name” is the name of the product. “Store ID” is a symbol for identifying a store (virtual store) that sells the product. “Unit price” is the unit price of the product in the store. “Stock quantity” is the stock quantity of the product in the store.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of the data structure of the store information database 42, and has items such as “store ID”, “store name”, and “shipping cost”. “Store ID” is a symbol for identifying a store. “Store name” is the name of the store. “Shipping fee” is a fee in the store for transporting the purchased item to the user. The “shipping cost” may be given conditions depending on the number and delivery area.

<Operation>
FIG. 5 is a sequence diagram showing a processing example of the above embodiment.

  In FIG. 5, when the user of the user terminal 2 performs a search for purchasing a product, the browser 21 of the user terminal 2 accesses the search condition reception unit 311 of the net shopping management server 3 to make a search page request (step S101). ). For the page request, a message including a GET method according to HTTP, a standard protocol of the Internet, a request URI (Uniform Resource Indicator), and the like is transmitted from the browser 21 of the user terminal 2 to the search condition reception unit 311 of the net shopping management server 3. It is done by doing.

  In response to this, the search condition reception unit 311 of the net shopping management server 3 returns the page data of the search page stored or dynamically generated to the browser 21 of the user terminal 2 (step S102). The page data is described in HTML or the like, and is transmitted from the search condition reception unit 311 of the net shopping management server 3 to the browser 21 of the user terminal 2 according to an HTTP response or the like.

  The browser 21 of the user terminal 2 displays a search page (step S103), and the user inputs search conditions (step S104). FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a screen example of the search page, which is provided with a column for inputting a product name / product code and a column for inputting the number of products. The user inputs characters and numbers in the input field by keyboard operation or the like and presses the “search” button to complete the input.

  Returning to FIG. 5, when the input to the search page is completed, the search condition is transmitted from the browser 21 of the user terminal 2 to the search condition reception unit 311 of the net shopping management server 3 (step S105). The input content is transmitted from the browser 21 of the user terminal 2 to the search condition accepting unit 311 of the net shopping management server 3 as data added to the HTTP POST method or PUT method, etc., or as a parameter added to the GET method. The

  Receiving the search condition, the search condition receiving unit 311 of the online shopping management server 3 makes a search request with the search condition to the search execution unit 312 (step S106), and the search execution unit 312 is based on the search condition. 41 is searched (step S107). That is, when the product name / product code character / numeric string of the search condition is compared with the items of “product code” and “product name” in the product information database 41 (FIG. 3) and they are matched (including partial matches). Further, the number corresponding to the search condition is compared with the item “stock quantity” in the product information database 41 (FIG. 3), and if the stock quantity is greater than the requested quantity, the record is acquired. For example, when “AAA” “4” or the like is input as a search condition as shown in FIG. 6, the product information “YA-111” or the like with the product name “AAA” from the product information database 41 of FIG. Multiple records are acquired.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a search result of the search execution unit 312, and at least “product code”, “product name”, “store ID”, and “unit price” are extracted from the records of the product information database 41 (FIG. 3). In addition, the “number of pieces” that can be purchased is stored in association with each other. The number of pieces that can be purchased is the same as the number entered as the search condition if the inventory quantity satisfies the quantity entered as the search condition, and the inventory quantity if the inventory quantity does not satisfy the quantity entered as the search condition. It becomes.

  Returning to FIG. 5, the search execution unit 312 delivers the search result to the search condition reception unit 311 (step S108). Since the communication between the search condition reception unit 311 and the search execution unit 312 is communication within the network shopping management server 3, it can be in any data format.

Next, the search condition receiving unit 311 that has received the search result makes a match rate calculation request to the match rate calculation unit 313 with the search condition and the search result (step S109), and the match rate calculation unit 313 calculates the match rate. (Step S110). That is, the coincidence rate calculation unit 313 calculates the sum of the number of each product requested by the search condition (requested total number) and the sum of the number of records for each store ID of the search result (FIG. 7) Matching rate = total number of specific store purchases / total number of requests x 100 [%]
Is calculated for each store ID. FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of the coincidence rate calculation result, and the calculated coincidence rate is held in association with the store ID.

  Returning to FIG. 5, the coincidence rate calculation unit 313 delivers the coincidence rate calculation result to the search condition reception unit 311 (step S111). Since the communication between the search condition reception unit 311 and the coincidence rate calculation unit 313 is communication within the network shopping management server 3, it can be in any data format.

  Next, the search condition reception unit 311 that has received the coincidence rate calculation result makes a simple total amount calculation request to the simple total amount calculation unit 314 with the search result and the coincidence rate calculation result (step S112). In 314, a simple total amount is calculated (step S113). That is, the simple total amount calculation unit 314 calculates the simple total amount by multiplying the unit price and the number (purchasable number) of each product by the store ID of the search result (FIG. 7) and summing them up. FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of a simple total amount calculation result, an item of “simple total amount” is added to the coincidence rate calculation result (FIG. 8), and the calculated simple total amount is stored in association with the store ID. Has been.

  Returning to FIG. 5, the simple total amount calculation unit 314 delivers the simple total amount calculation result to the search condition reception unit 311 (step S114). Since communication between the search condition reception unit 311 and the simple total amount calculation unit 314 is communication within the net shopping management server 3, any data format can be used.

  Next, the search condition reception unit 311 that has received the simple total amount calculation result makes a total amount calculation request to the total amount calculation unit 315 with the simple total amount calculation result (step S115), and the total amount calculation unit 315 Is calculated (step S116). In other words, the total price calculation unit 315 refers to the store information database 42 (FIG. 4) based on the store ID of the simple total price calculation result (FIG. 9) and acquires the corresponding shipping cost and also acquires the store name. And a mailing cost is added to the simple total amount of a simple total amount calculation result, and a total amount is calculated. When conditions are attached to the shipping fee, the shipping fee is acquired by applying the condition. Since the store name is used for display on the search result page, it is included in the total amount calculation result. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of the total amount calculation result. Items of “store name” and “total amount” are added to the simple total amount calculation result (FIG. 9), and the store information database 42 is stored in “store name”. The store name acquired from is stored in association with the store ID, and the calculated total amount is stored in “total amount” in association with the store ID.

  Returning to FIG. 5, the total amount calculation unit 315 delivers the total amount calculation result to the search condition reception unit 311 (step S117). Since communication between the search condition reception unit 311 and the total amount calculation unit 315 is communication within the net shopping management server 3, any data format can be used.

  Next, the search condition reception unit 311 that has received the total amount calculation result makes a search result page generation request with the search result and the total amount calculation result to the search result page generation unit 316 (step S118), and the search result page generation unit In 316, a search result page is generated (step S119). That is, as shown in FIG. 11, the search result page generation unit 316 displays the store names in descending order of the total amount when the match rate is the same, starting from the store with the highest match rate in the total amount calculation result. After that, the product name and the number of items that can be purchased (number of items that can be purchased) are listed, and the page data of the search result page in which the total amount and the “purchase” button are laid out is generated.

  Returning to FIG. 5, the search result page generation unit 316 delivers the page data of the generated search result page to the search condition reception unit 311 (step S120). Since the communication between the search condition reception unit 311 and the search result page generation unit 316 is communication within the net shopping management server 3, it can be in any data format.

  Next, the search condition reception unit 311 that has received the page data of the search result page makes a search result page transmission request to the search result page transmission unit 317 with the page data of the search result page and the transmission destination information (step S121). As transmission destination information, transmission source information of an access message by HTTP or the like from the browser 21 of the user terminal 2 is used. Since the communication between the search condition reception unit 311 and the search result page transmission unit 317 is communication within the net shopping management server 3, it can be in any data format.

  The search result page transmission unit 317 transmits the page data of the search result page to the browser 21 of the user terminal 2 based on the transmission destination information (step S122), and the search result page is displayed on the browser 21 of the user terminal 2. (Step S123). The page data is transmitted from the search result page transmission unit 317 of the net shopping management server 3 to the browser 21 of the user terminal 2 according to an HTTP response or the like.

  When the user of the user terminal 2 selects a “Purchase” button corresponding to one of the stores from the search result page (step S124), the product purchase processing unit of the net shopping management server 3 from the browser 21 of the user terminal 2 The selected content is transmitted to 32 (step S125). The selected contents are transmitted from the browser 21 of the user terminal 2 to the product purchase processing unit 32 of the net shopping management server 3 as data added to the HTTP POST method or PUT method, etc., or as a parameter added to the GET method. The

  The product purchase processing unit 32 that has received the selection content performs purchase processing including determination of a settlement method, a receiving method, and the like with the browser 21 of the user terminal 2 (step S126).

<Summary>
As described above, according to the present embodiment, when searching for and purchasing a plurality of products at the same time on an online shopping site in which a plurality of stores are bundled, a settlement procedure by narrowing down the number of stores at the purchase destination, etc. It is possible to support the judgment of whether or not the purchase is cheap with the total amount including the simplification of the shipping cost and the like.

  The present invention has been described above by the preferred embodiments of the present invention. While the invention has been described with reference to specific embodiments, various modifications and changes may be made to the embodiments without departing from the broad spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the claims. Obviously you can. In other words, the present invention should not be construed as being limited by the details of the specific examples and the accompanying drawings.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Network 2 User terminal 21 Browser 3 Net shopping management server 31 Merchandise search processing part 311 Search condition reception part 312 Search execution part 313 Match rate calculation part 314 Simple total amount calculation part 315 Total amount calculation part 316 Search result page generation part 317 Search Result page transmission unit 32 Product purchase processing unit 41 Product information database 42 Store information database

Claims (3)

An online shopping management device that enables the purchase of products for sale in multiple stores,
Search condition receiving means for receiving search conditions for a plurality of products from a user terminal;
Search execution means for searching the product information database based on the received search condition;
A match rate calculation means for calculating a match rate indicating a rate at which the products specified in the search condition are satisfied for each store from the search condition and the search result;
A total amount calculation means for calculating the total amount including the postage for each store,
Online shopping management comprising search result page generation / transmission means that aggregates search results for each store in descending order of match rate, generates a search result page with a total amount, and transmits the search result page to the user terminal apparatus. In the net shopping management device according to claim 1,
The matching rate is calculated based on a ratio of the total number of products that can be purchased at each store from the search result to the total number of products specified by the search condition. An online shopping management method that enables the purchase of products for sale at multiple stores,
A search condition receiving step of receiving search conditions for a plurality of products from the user terminal;
A search execution step of searching the product information database based on the received search condition;
A matching rate calculation step of calculating a matching rate indicating a rate at which the product specified in the search condition is satisfied for each store from the search condition and the search result;
A total price calculation process to calculate the total price including shipping costs for each store,
A net shopping management comprising: a search result page generation / transmission step of collecting search results for each store in descending order of matching rate, generating a search result page with a total amount, and transmitting the search result page to the user terminal Method.

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