KR100664033B1 - System and method for managing shopping list - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a shopping list management system and method. More particularly, the present invention relates to a shopping list management system and method for accurately purchasing a corresponding item of a shopping list to be purchased through wireless communication between a merchandise store and a terminal. It is about. To this end, the present invention is a portable terminal for registering the product information that the consumer wants to purchase in the shopping list, and transmitting the registered shopping list by a wireless communication method; Receives the shopping list from the portable terminal through the wireless communication method, and receives the goods information actually purchased by the consumer through the wireless communication method and compares the product information of the shopping list and the actually purchased goods information, and the comparison result A purchased goods checker for notifying whether any of the items on the shopping list are missing based on the purchased items; It consists of a purchase article for transmitting the article information stored through the wireless communication method in a wireless communication method.

Description

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGED SHOPPING LIST {SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING SHOPPING LIST}

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the purchase article checker according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the purchase article checker according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 4 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a shopping list management system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a flow chart showing a shopping list management method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

*** Explanation of symbols for main parts of drawing ***

10: portable terminal 11: wireless transceiver

12: keypad 13: memory

14: control unit 15: notification unit

ANT: antenna 20: purchase check

21: wireless article information identification unit 22: server

23: display unit 30: purchase goods

31: first wireless article information identification unit 32: server

33; Second wireless article information identification section 34: display section

The present invention relates to a shopping list management system and method, and more particularly, to a shopping list management system and method for providing services to accurately purchase a corresponding item of a shopping list to be purchased through short-range wireless communication between a merchandise store and a terminal. It is about.

In general, consumers carry a list of items to purchase in order to properly purchase the items they want to purchase when shopping. For example, after writing a purchase item on a paper such as a note paper, a consumer checks the shopping list on the note paper at a large discount mart, department store or supermarket that sells the product. In this case, the means for creating or registering a purchase item list as well as the memo may be a terminal.

However, in the case of shopping by writing a conventional shopping list on a memo sheet as described above, there is an inconvenience of having to do shopping while checking a purchased item and an item to be purchased while carrying the memo paper in hand. Moreover, when there are a lot of items to buy, it is not cumbersome to shop by checking the items purchased and the items to be purchased. In addition, in the case of shopping by checking only the shopping list visually without checking the memo, there is a problem in that it is possible to omit the shopping items while shopping.

Therefore, the present invention has been created to solve the above problems, a shopping list management system and method for providing a service to accurately purchase the corresponding item of the shopping list to be purchased through the short-range wireless communication between the merchandise store and the terminal. The purpose is to provide.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a shopping list management system and method for comparing a shopping list registered to a terminal with product information purchased by a consumer through a wireless communication method and informing the product information about goods not purchased by the consumer. have.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a shopping list management system and method for providing a service that enables a consumer to purchase a desired item by installing a shopping list on a portable terminal that is always carried with him. have.

The present invention for achieving the above object, the wireless transmission and reception unit for transmitting a radio signal according to the shopping list containing the item information to be purchased, and receiving a radio signal according to the purchased item information;

A program for managing the shopping list and a memory for registering and storing the shopping list;

Compare the purchased item information registered in the shopping list with the purchased item information received through the wireless transceiver, and based on the comparison result, a notification is determined according to whether there are missing items among the items in the shopping list. A controller for controlling differently;

Under the control of the control unit is characterized in that it comprises a notification unit for notifying the result value according to whether there are missing items among the items in the shopping list.

In addition, the present invention includes a wireless article information identification unit for receiving a shopping list input by the consumer through the wireless communication method and the purchase article information actually purchased by the consumer;

Stores the shopping list received by the wireless article information identification unit, compares the product information of the shopping list with the product information actually purchased by the consumer, and based on the comparison result, whether there are any missing items in the shopping list A server for controlling notification differently according to whether or not;

And a display unit for displaying whether or not the goods have been purchased correctly.

In addition, the present invention is a portable terminal for registering the item information that the consumer wants to purchase in the shopping list, and transmits the registered shopping list by a wireless communication method;

Receives the shopping list from the portable terminal through the wireless communication method, and receives the goods information actually purchased by the consumer through the wireless communication method and compares the product information of the shopping list and the actually purchased goods information, and the comparison result A purchased goods checker for notifying whether any of the items on the shopping list are missing based on the purchased items;

Characterized in that the purchase consists of transmitting the article information stored in the wireless communication method through a wireless communication method.

In addition, the present invention comprises the steps of registering a shopping list of the goods to be purchased by the consumer to the portable terminal;

The purchase goods checker of the merchandise store includes the steps of receiving wireless purchase goods information from the registered shopping list and purchase goods purchased by the consumer by a wireless communication method;

Comparing all the wireless purchase article information corresponding to the article of the shopping list from the purchase article;

As a result of the comparison, if all the wireless purchase article information corresponding to the article of the shopping list has not been received from the purchase article, it is characterized in that it consists of a process of notifying that there are missing items among the items registered in the shopping list.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

It should be noted that in the following description, only parts necessary for understanding the operation and operation according to the present invention will be described, and descriptions of other parts will be omitted so as not to distract from the gist of the present invention.

In the following description, specific details according to the shopping list management system and method are presented to provide a more general understanding of the present invention. It will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art that the present invention may be readily practiced without these specific details and also by their modifications.

In describing the shopping list management system and method of the present invention, a portable terminal of a shopping list management system, a purchase item checker, and a shopping list management system of the mobile terminal and the purchase item checker will be described, and a shopping mall management method will be described. Describe in order.

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the wireless transceiver 11 transmits a radio signal according to a shopping list and receives a radio signal according to item information.

The keypad 12 has keys for inputting numeric and text information and function keys for setting various functions. In addition, the keypad 12 may include a shopping list management mode key, a direction key, a confirmation key, and the like according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The memory 13 may be composed of program memory and data memories. The program memory stores programs for controlling a general operation of the portable terminal and programs according to a shopping list management mode according to an embodiment of the present invention. In addition, the data memory temporarily stores data generated during the execution of the programs. In addition, a shopping list input through the keypad 12 is registered and stored in the data memory.

The controller 14 performs a function of controlling the overall operation of the portable terminal. In addition, the controller 14 registers and stores, in the memory 13, item information input to purchase in the shopping list management mode through the keypad 12. In addition, the control unit 14 recognizes the purchased goods through the product information received through the wireless transmitter 11 according to an embodiment of the present invention. In addition, the controller 14 compares the purchase information of the consumer recognized through the wireless transmitter 11 with the product information of the shopping list stored in the memory 13. In addition, the controller 14 controls the overall operation according to the shopping list management mode. In addition, the controller 14 may simply control to transmit only the shopping list registered in the memory 13 to the external device.

The notification unit 15 may include a display unit and a speaker. The display unit displays messages generated during program execution under the control of the controller 14. In addition, the display unit displays the user data according to the shopping list management mode under the control of the controller 14. In addition, the display unit displays an article name that is missing when all of the article information registered in the shopping list is not received through the wireless transceiver 11 under the control of the controller 14. Herein, when the display unit is implemented using a touch screen method, the keypad 12 and the display unit may be input units. In addition, the speaker outputs a notification sound for notifying all of the goods information registered in the shopping list through the wireless transceiver 11 under the control of the controller 14.

Referring to FIG. 1, the operation of the portable terminal, the controller 14 when the consumer operates the keypad 12 to execute the shopping list management mode to register the item to be purchased in the shopping list, the memory 13 ). Thereafter, the controller 14 receives the product information of the purchased article through the wireless transceiver 11. In this case, the information of the corresponding item is stored in the purchased item, and the stored item information is transmitted wirelessly, so that the wireless transceiver 11 can receive the item information. Then, the controller 14 checks whether the item information of the shopping list stored in the memory 13 and the item information of the purchased item received through the wireless transmission / receiving unit 11 match, and correctly purchases the items registered in the shopping list. Notify through the notification unit 15. The controller 14 notifies the consumer that the goods to be purchased are not purchased if the goods information registered in the shopping list is not received through the wireless transceiver 11. Here, the notification unit 15 notifies the consumer visually and aurally depending on whether or not the items of the shopping list are purchased correctly.

The wireless transceiver 11 may be, for example, an RFID tag and an RFID reader based on a radio frequency identification (RFID) scheme. Here, the RFID tag is a passive tag that operates by receiving power from a signal of an RFID reader without a battery according to whether a battery is included therein, and an active tag including a power source or a central processing unit (CPU). Divided. However, the passive RFID tag and the active RFID tag are almost identical in terms of the function of storing data or exchanging information.

Now, the operation according to the technical configuration of the purchased goods checker will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the purchase article checker according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the wireless article information identification unit 21 is provided as a wireless transceiver, and wirelessly receives the shopping list and the purchased article information purchased by the consumer and transmits it to the server 22. At this time, if wireless communication with an external terminal is possible, the server 22 receives whether or not the goods to be purchased correctly by the server and transmits to the terminal. Here, the device that receives whether or not the article was purchased correctly may be the above-described portable terminal.

The server 22 receives and stores a shopping list from the wireless item information identification unit 21, compares the item information of the shopping list with the purchase item information of the consumer, and displays whether or not the item has been purchased correctly. Mark on. At this time, if wireless communication with an external terminal is possible, it is output to the wireless article information identification unit 21 whether the consumer purchased the article to be purchased correctly.

Under the control of the server 22, the display unit 23 displays whether or not the consumer purchases exactly the item to be purchased without missing any items.

Referring to FIG. 2, the operation of the purchase goods checker, the wireless goods information identification unit 21 receives the shopping list registered in advance by the consumer and transmits it to the server 22. In this case, the shopping list is received by the terminal capable of transmitting the registered shopping list in a wireless manner. Here, the wireless method may be RFID, for example. Then, the server 22 compares the received shopping list with the purchased goods information and displays on the display unit 23 whether the goods in the shopping list are correctly purchased, and through the wireless goods information identification unit 21. The external terminal also notifies this.

In addition, when the above-described purchased article checker 20 includes a plurality of wireless article information identification units 31 and 33 as shown in FIG. 3, the article that the consumer wants to purchase in the first wireless article information identification unit 31. Receives a shopping list of, and the second wireless article information identification unit 33 receives the information of the purchase article actually purchased by the consumer. Then, the server 32 compares the data received through the first wireless article information identification unit 31 with the data received through the second wireless article information identification unit 33 and does not drop out of the items of the shopping list and make a purchase. Check for any missing items. As a result of the check, the article information is displayed on the display unit 34 for the items that were not purchased.

The operation according to the combination of the portable terminal 10 and the purchase goods checker 20 according to the above will be described.

4 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a shopping list management system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, first, in order for the shopping list management system to operate according to the present invention, item information is stored in each item and starts on the premise that the item information is transmitted by wireless communication.

The shopping list management system 100 acquires a shopping list by performing wireless communication with the portable terminal 10 in which the shopping list is registered, and the portable terminal 10, and the obtained shopping list and the actually purchased purchase item ( It is composed of a purchase article checker 20 for comparing the article information received from 30).

The portable terminal 10 registers the product information input by the consumer to purchase by executing the shopping list management mode by operating the keypad 12. Thereafter, the portable terminal 10 in which the shopping list is registered is capable of wireless communication with the wireless article information identification unit 21 or the first wireless article information identification unit 31 of the purchase article checker 20 provided at the merchandise store. When a certain distance is reached, the registered shopping list is transmitted to the purchase goods checker 20. Accordingly, the purchase product checker 20 receives a shopping list. Here, the portable terminal 10 and the purchase product checker 20 communicate with each other through a prescribed wireless communication method. For example, in the present invention, the wireless communication method may be RFID. Then, the portable terminal 10 and the purchase item checker 20 should be provided with an RFID tag and an RFID reader. In addition, the wireless article information identification unit 21 should be located at the checkout side of the merchandise store, it is preferable that the first wireless article information identification unit 31 should be located at the front door of the merchandise store. The reason why the positions of the wireless article information identification section 21 and the first wireless article information identification section 31 are different will be described below.

The wireless article information identification unit 21 or the first wireless article information identification unit 31 which has received the shopping list transmits the received shopping list to the servers 22 and 32. The servers 22 and 32 store the received shopping list in the personal shopping list management server. At this time, the server 22, 32 is a shopping list of the terminal to the personal shopping list management server according to the mobile identification number (MIN: Mobile Identification Number) or manufacturing number (ESN: Electronic Serial Number) of the portable terminal 10 Save and manage.

After that, the consumer comes to the checkout at the merchandise store and finishes the shopping. Then, the wireless article information identification unit 21 or the second wireless article information identification unit 31 performs wireless communication with the purchased article 30 in the cart. In this case, the wireless article information identification unit 21 receives the shopping list registered in the portable terminal 10 as described above, and at the same time accurately compares the purchased article registered in the shopping list with the actually purchased purchase article 30. It is desirable to be located near the cashier's checkout counter. However, since the second wireless article information identification unit 33 is separated from the first wireless article information identification unit 31 that receives the shopping list, the second wireless article information identification unit 33 may be located near the checkout counter of a suitable goods store.

Therefore, when the consumer arrives at the checkout counter with the purchase item 30, the server 22 or 32 may drop out of the items registered in the shopping list and display the goods not purchased through the display units 23 and 34, or , To the portable terminal 10 side and transmits the goods information not purchased. Then, the consumer can know the goods that are missing and cannot be purchased through the purchase item checker 20 or the portable terminal 10 at the checkout counter of the merchandise store.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a shopping list management method according to an embodiment of the present invention. The following wireless communication method may be RFID, or may be other wireless communication method than RFID.

Referring to FIG. 5, in step 501, a consumer registers an item to be purchased in a shopping list by executing a shopping list management mode of the portable terminal 10.

In step 503, the portable terminal 10 determines whether the wireless communication with the purchase item identifier 20 is possible. That is, wireless communication is possible depending on whether the communication is located within a predetermined distance in which communication can be established by mutually regulated wireless communication.

As a result of the determination, if wireless communication is possible, the portable terminal 10 transmits the registered shopping list to the purchase product checker 20 in step 505. In operation 507, the shopping list is stored in the personal shopping list management server by the servers 22 and 32 of the purchase product checker 20.

After that, the consumer purchases the purchased article 30 to be purchased in the merchandise store and then moves to the checkout to calculate the purchased article 30.

In operation 509, the purchased goods checker 20 receives corresponding goods information from the purchased goods 30 reaching within a predetermined distance capable of wireless communication.

In step 511, the purchased goods checker 20 compares all the wireless purchased goods information corresponding to all goods information corresponding to the items of the shopping list, and proceeds to step 513 or proceeds to step 515.

As a result of the comparison, when all goods information about the goods registered in the shopping list is received, the purchased goods checker 20 notifies the purchase of the goods correctly through the display unit 23 or 34 in step 513 or the portable terminal. Notify through the notification unit 15 of (10). The process of transmitting whether the goods have been purchased correctly without dropping to the portable terminal 10 in the purchase goods checker 20 has been described in the operation process of FIG. 4, and thus description thereof will be omitted.

However, if any of the items registered in the shopping list is missing and purchased in the comparison result, the purchase item checker 20 in step 515 displays on the display unit 23 or 34 that the purchased items are missing and purchased. The notification unit 15 of the terminal 10 informs.

Meanwhile, in the detailed description of the present invention, specific embodiments have been described, but various modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be defined not only by the scope of the following claims, but also by those equivalent to the scope of the claims.

As described in detail above, the present invention makes it possible to register a shopping list on a portable terminal which is always carried, and receives the registered product information and the goods information purchased by the consumer wirelessly, and thus, among the items registered in the shopping list, By notifying the product information that has not been purchased, there is an effect that allows the consumer to purchase exactly without missing the item to be purchased.

In addition, the user can register the shopping list that he / she wants to purchase through a portable terminal that is always carried without having to write the shopping list on paper, thereby providing a service for the consumer to purchase the item that he / she wants to purchase. There is an effect of increasing the convenience of.

Claims (10)

A wireless transceiver for transmitting a radio signal according to a shopping list including item information to be purchased and receiving a radio signal according to the purchased item information; A program for managing the shopping list and a memory for registering and storing the shopping list; Compare the purchased item information registered in the shopping list with the purchased item information received through the wireless transceiver, and based on the comparison result, a notification is determined according to whether there are missing items among the items in the shopping list. A controller for controlling differently; The shopping list management system, characterized in that configured under the control of the control unit for notifying the result value according to whether there are missing items among the items in the shopping list. The shopping list management system of claim 1, wherein the shopping list management system is a portable terminal. According to claim 1, The wireless transceiver, A shopping list management system comprising an RFID tag using RFID and an RFID reader. A wireless article information identification unit for receiving a shopping list input by a consumer and information on purchase goods actually purchased by the consumer through a wireless communication method; Stores the shopping list received by the wireless article information identification unit, compares the product information of the shopping list with the product information actually purchased by the consumer, and based on the comparison result, whether there are any missing items in the shopping list A server for controlling notification differently according to whether or not; And a display unit for displaying whether the goods have been purchased correctly. The method of claim 4, wherein the wireless article information identification unit, A shopping list management system comprising an RFID tag using RFID and an RFID reader. A portable terminal which registers the product information to be purchased by the consumer in a shopping list and transmits the registered shopping list by a wireless communication method; Receives the shopping list from the portable terminal through the wireless communication method, and receives the goods information actually purchased by the consumer through the wireless communication method and compares the product information of the shopping list and the actually purchased goods information, and the comparison result A purchased goods checker for notifying whether any of the items on the shopping list are missing based on the purchased items; The shopping list management system, characterized in that consisting of the purchased goods for transmitting the stored goods information through the wireless communication method in a wireless communication method. The method of claim 6, wherein the purchase item checker, A first wireless article information identification unit for receiving a shopping list of the article to be purchased by the consumer; A second wireless article information identification section for receiving information of a purchase article actually purchased by a consumer; A server for comparing the shopping list received through the first wireless article information identification unit with the information of the purchased article received through the second wireless article information identification unit to check whether there are any items missing from the shopping list and not purchased; ; The shopping list management system, characterized in that consisting of a display unit for displaying the information of the goods that were missing and not purchased. Registering a shopping list of purchase items that a consumer wants to purchase in the mobile terminal; The purchase goods checker of the merchandise store includes the steps of receiving wireless purchase goods information from the registered shopping list and purchase goods purchased by the consumer by a wireless communication method; Comparing all the wireless purchase article information corresponding to the article of the shopping list from the purchase article; As a result of the comparison, when all the wireless purchase article information corresponding to the article of the shopping list has not been received from the purchase article, shopping list management, characterized in that the process consisting of a missing item among the items registered in the shopping list Way. The method of claim 8, wherein the receiving of the wireless purchase goods information comprises: Connecting wireless communication between the purchase goods checker and the portable terminal; When the wireless communication is connected, transmitting, by the portable terminal, the shopping list registered by the consumer to the purchase product checker; And storing the transmitted shopping list in a server. The method of claim 8, wherein the wireless communication scheme, The shopping list management method characterized in that the RFID (RFID).

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