KR101750985B1 - Method for providing search service in online shopping, recordable medium which program for executing method is recorded - Google Patents

Abstract

In the present invention, a product information DB is constructed in a search service server so that each product to be searched can be searched by dividing the searched items into basic specifications, such as manufacturer, model name, price, and specifications according to characteristics such as material, weight, color, size, In this way, the user can search desired products in a manner of selecting specifications according to basic specifications + characteristics or characteristics, thereby effectively satisfying various service needs of users of search services.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to a search service method for online shopping and a recording medium on which a program for executing the search service method is recorded. ≪ Desc / Clms Page number 1 >

The present invention relates to a search service technique for online shopping. More particularly, the present invention relates to a search service method for online shopping, And a recording medium on which a program for executing a search service method is recorded.

Recently, as the spread of the Internet spreads, online purchasing methods for purchasing products online are rapidly spreading along with offline purchasing methods. In order to purchase such online products, a retrieval model for retrieving goods to be purchased is inevitably accompanied have.

For this purpose, in a general search model for online product purchase, a search service is provided to each client (user) by selecting a single or a combination of specifications such as manufacturer, model name, and price of each product, It also provides information on the price of each product searched and the shopping mall site selling it.

Accordingly, each client can acquire information about a desired product through a search service on a search site providing product information, and can receive a purchase service for a desired product.

However, the above-described conventional method of providing a product search service in a manner of selecting specifications such as a maker, a model name, and a price has a limit to meet various needs of users for shopping search.

For example, when a maker, a model name, and a price are referred to as a basic specification of a product, the material, weight, and structural characteristics of the product can be regarded as specifications according to characteristics. In this way, It is possible to effectively satisfy various service needs of users of the search service, but at present, there is no suggestion of such a specialized search service technique.

The present invention, in one aspect, provides a method of providing a search service for a plurality of goods through a search service server, the method comprising: receiving, from a particular client, at least one base specification of the search target product and at least one specific physical property specification The method comprising the steps of: receiving a search request message including search condition information including at least one item of search condition information; searching for a goods information DB based on the received search condition information; And providing the generated search list to the specific client, wherein the basic specification is a general specification related to the manufacture and the product classification of the search target product, Wherein the specification is a product specification related to a product characteristic of the search target product, The information includes general price information and lowest coupon information of the product to be searched for or the lowest price information per sale medium of the product and coupon application information, And a discount rate is automatically calculated in consideration of the sales commission to be provided from the shopping mall site, thereby providing a search service method for online shopping.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a computer-readable recording medium on which a program for executing the search service method of any one of claims 1 to 4 is recorded.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for providing a product search service to clients connected to a search service server, comprising: a product information DB storing basic specification information of each product, When a search request message including at least one basic specification of a search target product and search condition information of at least one specific physical characteristic is received, searches the goods information DB to search for product information corresponding to the search target product A retrieval list generating block for generating a retrieval list including at least one commodity breakdown based on the retrieved product information, and an interface block for providing the generated retrieval list to the specific client And provides a search service device for online shopping including the service provider.

According to the present invention, a desired product can be searched by a single or a combination selection method by dividing a basic specification such as a maker, a model name, a price, and specifications according to characteristics such as material, weight, color, size, function, capacity, It is possible to effectively satisfy various service needs of users.

1 is a block diagram of a search and shopping service system including a search service apparatus for online shopping according to the present invention;
2 is a flowchart illustrating a main process of providing a search service for online shopping according to the present invention;

The technical point of the present invention is that when receiving a search request message including at least one basic specification of a search target product and search condition information of at least one specific physical property specification from a specific client, And a search list including at least one product description corresponding to the search target product is generated through the search, and the search list is provided to a specific client. According to the present invention, The problems in the method can be effectively improved.

Here, the basic specification is a general specification related to the manufacture and product classification of the search target product, and the specification according to the characteristic may be a product specification related to the product characteristic of the search target product. The coupon application information may be provided from a shopping mall site that provides an online sale service for a product corresponding to a product description or may be determined through automatic discount rate calculation at a search service server.

In addition, the search service method of the present invention connects a specific client to a shopping mall site that provides a sale service for a selected product when one of the products included in the product description in the search list is selected by a specific client , A shopping mall site provides a coupon application screen to a specific client, and when the coupon application screen is selected for a specific client, the shopping mall site provides a discount sale service to the client, which discounts the sale price of the purchased selected product It can further include technical ideas. Here, the coupon application screen may be provided in the form of a screen such as a pop-up, a layer, a layer pop-up, and a script window.

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

In the following description of the present invention, detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matter of the present invention rather unclear. It is to be understood that the following terms are defined in consideration of the functions of the present invention, and may be changed according to intentions or customs of a user, an operator, and the like. Therefore, the definition should be based on the technical idea described throughout this specification.

1 is a block diagram of a search and shopping service system including a search service apparatus for online shopping according to the present invention. The system includes a wired client group 102 composed of a plurality of wired clients 102/1 - 102 / n, A shopping mall site group 104 consisting of a wireless client group 104, a wired communication network 106, a wireless communication network 108, and a plurality of shopping mall sites 110/1 - 110 / n, (110), a search service server (112), and the like.

Referring to FIG. 1, the search service server 112 refers to a search service apparatus (or a search site) for online shopping according to the present invention. The search service server 112 includes an interface block 1121, a control block 1123, A goods information DB 1127, a search list creation block 1129, and the like.

First, each of the wired clients 102/1 - 102 / n in the wired client group 102 is connected to the search service server 112 (for example, the wired client group 102) through a wired communication network 106 including the Internet and the like using a dedicated line, ADSL, (E.g., a PC system, a notebook computer, a netbook, a wired communication terminal, etc.) connectable to the search service server 112 according to the present invention. The wired clients 102 / Or a product purchase service or the like may be provided from each of the shopping mall sites 110/1 - 110 / n in the shopping mall site group 110.

That is, when each wired client is provided with a search menu screen including a basic specification selection item and a property-specific property selection item from the search service server 112, the wired client selects the specification of the product based on the basic specifications and characteristics (A method of selecting a combination of specifications) or a method of selecting only a specification according to characteristics (a method of selecting a characteristic by characteristics). Here, the basic specifications include, for example, specifications such as manufacturer, model name, price, and the like, and specifications of the characteristics may vary depending on the type of the product group (for example, household appliances, office products, clothing products, , Weight, color, size, function, capacity, and so on. For example, assuming that the product is a bicycle, the specifications may be material, weight, gear, brake, and the like. Here, the basic specification refers to a general specification related to the manufacture and product classification of a product, and the specification according to characteristics may mean a product specification related to a product characteristic of the product.

1) Only one or two specifications by characteristic

2) Select one or two specifications by manufacturer + characteristics

3) Model name + Specification by characteristics 1 or 2 selection

4) Select one or two specifications by price + characteristics

Each of the wireless clients 104/1 - 104 / n in the wireless client group 104 is connected to wireless mobile terminals (e.g., mobile phone, PDA phone, DMB phone, PMP , A HSDPA phone, a smart phone, a smart pad, a netbook, a notebook computer, etc.) and connects to the search service server 112 via a connection path via the wireless communication network 108 and the wired communication network 106, The goods search service or the like according to the present invention may be provided or a goods purchase service may be provided from each of the shopping mall sites 110/1 - 110 / n in the shopping mall site group 110. [

Herein, the wired communication network 106 may refer to a communication network including the Internet and the like, and the wireless communication network 108 means a communication network that selectively includes, for example, a plurality of base stations, a plurality of base station controllers, can do.

Each of the shopping mall sites 110/1 - 110 / n in the shopping mall site group 110 means a computer or a server for providing goods purchase services to each wired client or wireless client, And provides information such as product information, product update information, information about coupon application information (discount information) for each product to the search service server 112, and the like.

Here, the application price of an all-around coupon (the discount price aiming at the lowest price) is the lowest price-oriented one that the search portal (search portal operated by the search service server) provides to the client separately from various discounts and points provided by each shopping mall site Discount prices. For example, such an all-around coupon application price may be set as a sales commission (a commission fee) to be paid to each search mall site by each shopping mall site that has entered the search portal. That is, the present invention of providing an all-around coupon application price can be regarded as a service model in which each shopping mall site further discounts a commodity purchasing client by a sales commission to be paid to a search portal (or a part of a sales commission).

In addition, each shopping mall site is provided with a coupon application price (discount coupon) screen of a corresponding product in the form of a popup, a layer, a layer popup or a script window when a specific client is accessed via the search service server 112 The client can provide a service for discounting the sales price of the product when the customer purchases the product after obtaining the application price of the coupon by clicking the coupon application screen.

Next, the interface block 1121 in the goods service server 112 transmits a search request message (i.e., search request message) transmitted from the wired client or the wireless client via the wired communication network 106 or the wired communication network 106 and the wired communication network 106 A search request message including search condition information of at least one of the basic specifications of the target product and at least one of the characteristics of the target product), a goods purchase request message, and the like to the control block 1123, (Discount information) and the like to the control block 1123 and transmits search list information transmitted from the search list generation block 1129 to the wired client or the wireless client And the like. Here, the search condition information may include a product name, a specification (specification according to characteristics), a delimiter information of a wired or wireless client, and the like.

The control block 1123 includes, for example, a microprocessor that performs overall operation control in a search service server. The control block 1123 includes product information, product update information, Information and the like) are stored in the product information DB 1127. When a search request message is input from the interface block 1121 together with search condition information, a search command for the corresponding product is generated and transmitted to the information search block 1125 And so on.

In addition, when the client selects one of the products included in the product details of the search list provided to the client, the control block 1123 transmits the client to the corresponding shopping mall site providing the sales service for the selected product In response to this, the shopping mall site provides the coupon application display item (or the coupon application display screen) to the client in response to this, and when the specific client selects the coupon application display item, The discounted sales service will be provided to a specific client, which discounts the sale price of the selected product to the coupon application price.

In response to the search command provided from the control block 1123, the information search block 1125 searches the goods information DB 1127 by referring to the search condition information to fetch the goods information for the goods, To the search list creation block 1129. The search list generation block 1129 may be configured to receive the search results from the search result list 1129. [ Here, the commodity information may include, for example, basic specification information related to the commodity, specification information of the selected commodity, price (general price) information, information about the coupon applicable price (near discount price), URL information of the corresponding shopping mall site .

That is, in the present invention, the general price information (or the lowest price information) and the information about the coupon applicable price (discount price information) are simultaneously provided to the client. The general price information includes the lowest price information for each country of origin Application information or information on the lowest price of each sales medium (e.g., a department store, a home shopping, a shopping mall, etc.) and the corresponding information about the coupon application. Here, providing the client with the lowest price for each country of origin of goods and the lowest price information per sales medium is for the client to be able to diversify the purchase option for the same commodity according to the country of origin and the sales medium.

For this purpose, the product information DB 1127 stores basic information of each product to be searched, specification information by characteristics, general price information (lowest price per origin, lowest price per sales medium) Information and the like are stored. Here, the application coupon for an all-around coupon can be determined in a server (for example, a control block in the server) in such a manner that the coupon application price is provided from the corresponding shopping mall site or the related discount rate is automatically calculated (reflected) . ≪ / RTI >

Next, the search list generation block 1129 generates a search list including at least one item description using the goods information provided from the information search block 1127, and generates a search list (search result list) Is transmitted to the corresponding client (wired or wireless client) through the interface block 1121. [ Here, each commodity (commodity description) included in the search list can be listed up, for example, in an advanced material sequence, a weight sequence, a price sequence, and the like.

Next, a series of processes for providing a search service specialized for wired or wireless clients using the search service apparatus of the present invention having the above-described configuration will be described.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a main process of providing a search service for online shopping according to the present invention.

2, when a particular client (wired or wireless client) accesses the search service server 112 via the wired communication network 106 or wireless communication network 106 and wired communication network 106 (step 202) The server 112 generates a search menu screen including a basic specification selection item and a property selection item by property and transmits the search menu screen to the client (step 204). As a result, a search menu screen is displayed on the monitor of the corresponding client.

Accordingly, the client user selects (206) at least one or more of at least one of the basic specifications in the basic specification selection item and the specification-by-characteristic in the specification-based selection item for the desired product search service, Or a property-specific specification in the specification-by-property selection item (step 208).

If it is determined in step 206 that the client user has selected a combination of the basic specification and the specification (e.g., at least one of the basic specification and at least one of the specification) The information retrieval block 1125 in the retrieval service server 112 retrieves the product information DB 1127 with reference to the basic specification included in the retrieval condition information and the specification according to the characteristic at step 210, The retrieval list generating block 1129 retrieves the retrieval list screen (which includes at least one or more commodity details including the at least one commodity details) in response to the retrieval of the commodity information, Search list screen) and transmits it to the client through the interface block 1121 (step 214).

As a result, on the monitor of the client, a search list screen including basic specification information for each searched product, specification information for selected characteristics, general price information, information about the application of an allotment coupon is displayed (step 216) The user can recognize the detailed information of the product requested by the user. Here, the information about the applicable coupon applicable may be information provided from a shopping mall site that provides an online sale service for the product, or information to which a discount rate determined through automatic calculation by the search service server is applied.

If it is determined in step 208 that the corresponding client user has selected only the specification according to the characteristics (generation and reception of the search condition information), the information search block 1125 in the search service server 112 sets the search condition information The goods information DB 1127 is searched by referring to the specification of the included characteristics (step 212), and the goods information about the searched goods is fetched and transferred to the search list generation block 1129, The block 1129 generates a search list screen (a search list screen including at least one item description) using the product information and transmits the search list screen to the client through the interface block 1121 (step 214) The process proceeds to step 216 where the same process is performed.

Next, the client user can select one of the products on the search list screen as a purchase target. If the client user selects a specific product to be purchased (step 218), the client moves to the relevant shopping mall site The control block 1123 connects the client to the related shopping mall site (step 220). In response to this, the shopping mall site displays a coupon applicable price (discount coupon) display item such as a popup, a layer, , And a script window to the corresponding client (step 222).

Accordingly, the client user obtains the coupon applicable price by clicking on the coupon applied display item displayed on the monitor (screen) and then proceeds through a series of product purchase process (or discounted sale process) to purchase the corresponding product, (Or the lowest purchase service) (discount sale service on the shopping mall site side) receiving the discounted price of the sale price (step 224).

Meanwhile, although the service method of the present invention is omitted in FIG. 2, the service method of the present invention searches for a process of automatically performing settlement processing by automatically offsetting the application fee of an all-around coupon and the selling fee of a shopping mall site after the discount sale service at the shopping mall site is terminated This offsetting settlement can be immediately processed immediately upon execution of the discount sales service or can be integrated and batch processed in units of a predetermined period (e.g., one week, two weeks, one month, etc.) have.

On the other hand, the study plan service method of the present invention, which provides the embodiments as described above, can be implemented as a code that can be executed by a computer on a recording medium readable by a computer (or a portable computer) The recording medium may include any kind of recording device in which data that can be read by a computer system is stored. Examples of such computer-readable recording media include ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, floppy disk, optical data storage, and carrier wave (e.g., transmission over the Internet).

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is clearly understood that the same is by way of illustration and example only and is not to be construed as limiting the present invention. It will be readily apparent that such substitutions, modifications, and alterations are possible.

102: Wired Client Group
102/1 - 102 / n: Wired client
104: Wireless Client Group
104/1 - 104 / n: Wireless client
106: Wired communication network
108: Wireless communication network
110: shopping mall site group
110/1 - 110 / n: Shopping mall site
112: Search service server
1121: Interface block
1123: control block
1125: Information retrieval block
1127: Product information DB
1129: Search list creation block

Claims (8)

A method of providing a search service for a plurality of goods through a server, the method comprising:
Receiving information on a merchandise to be sold from a plurality of shopping mall sites and storing the information in a merchandise information database of the server;
A web portal discount coupon information to be applied to each of the goods based on a type of each of the goods and a shopping mall site providing each of the goods for each of the goods, Wherein the web portal discount coupon information is used when a client purchases a product from one of the shopping mall sites through the server, the server is a server for a web portal, and the IP address Is different from each IP address of the shopping mall site,
Receiving a search request message including at least one basic attribute of a target product from the client and at least one specific physical characteristic attribute of the search target product; Wherein the at least one basic specification comprises at least one of a manufacturer, a model name, and a price group, and the at least one specific physical property specification includes at least one of a group of material, weight, color, size, However,
Retrieving a product information database based on the search request message;
Generating a list including candidates for the search target product, information about a base price of each of the candidates, and information about a discounted price of each of the candidates, wherein the discounted price is the base price Calculated by applying discount coupon information -
Providing the list to the client;
In response to the client selecting one of the candidates, connecting the client to a shopping mall site providing the selected candidate;
Transmitting information for identifying the selected candidate and the web portal discount coupon information to be applied to the selected candidate to the shopping mall site providing the selected candidate, wherein the transmitted web portal discount coupon information includes information for identifying the selected candidate Is applied to the base price of the selected candidate by the shopping mall site
Way.
The method according to claim 1,
The web portal discount coupon information is determined based on a commodity fee predetermined to be paid to the server by each of the shopping mall sites when goods are sold from each of the shopping mall sites through the server
Way.
The method according to claim 1,
The method may further include receiving shopping mall discount coupon information including discount information on the merchandise to be sold by the shopping mall site and storing the shopping mall discount coupon information in the merchandise information database,
The list may further include information on an additional discount price of each of the candidates, wherein the additional discount price is calculated by applying both the web portal discount coupon information and the shopping mall discount coupon information
Way.
delete A search service server for online shopping providing a search service,
An interface block for communicating with a client and a plurality of shopping mall sites to receive information on a product to be sold from the shopping mall site and providing a list generated in response to a search request message from the client,
A control block for generating web portal discount coupon information to be applied to each of the goods based on a type of each of the goods and a shopping mall site providing each of the goods with respect to each of the goods, Wherein the server is used for purchasing a product from one of the shopping mall sites via the server, the server is a server for a web portal, the IP address of the server is different from the IP address of each of the shopping mall sites,
A merchandise information database for storing information on the merchandise to be sold by the shopping mall site and the web portal discount coupon information;
An information retrieval block for retrieving the goods information database based on the retrieval request message in response to receipt of the retrieval request message, the retrieval request message including at least one basic specification of the retrieval object and at least one Wherein the at least one basic specification comprises at least one of a manufacturer, a model name, and a price group, and the at least one specific physical property specification comprises material, weight, color, size, And at least one of the groups of capacities,
A search list generating block for generating a list including candidates for the search target product, information on a base price of each of the candidates, and information on discounted prices of each of the candidates, And calculating by applying the web portal discount coupon information,
Wherein the control block connects the client to a shopping mall site providing the selected candidate in response to the client selecting one of the candidates and identifies the web portal discount coupon information to be applied to the selected candidate and the selected candidate To the shopping mall site providing the selected candidate,
The transmitted web portal discount coupon information is applied to the base price of the selected candidate by the shopping mall site when the client performs settlement for the selected candidate
Search service server.
6. The method of claim 5,
The web portal discount coupon information is determined based on a commodity fee predetermined to be paid to the server by each of the shopping mall sites when goods are sold from each of the shopping mall sites through the server
Search service server.
6. The method of claim 5,
The merchandise information database stores shopping mall discount coupon information including discount information on the merchandise to be sold by the shopping mall site, stores the shopping mall discount coupon information therein,
The list may further include information on an additional discount price of each of the candidates, wherein the additional discount price is calculated by applying both the web portal discount coupon information and the shopping mall discount coupon information
Search service server. delete

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