KR101762875B1 - Shopping system for clothing where quration services are provided and method therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a clothing shopping system and a method thereof for a customer to shop clothes on a device such as a computer or a smart phone using a communication network such as the Internet and more particularly to a clothes shopping system and a method thereof, The present invention relates to a clothes shopping system and a method thereof for providing a curation service for recommending clothes according to the present invention.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a clothing shopping system and a method thereof,

The present invention relates to a clothing shopping system and a method thereof for a customer to shop clothing on a device such as a computer or a smart phone through a communication network such as the Internet and more particularly to a clothes shopping system and a method thereof, The present invention relates to a clothes shopping system and a method thereof for providing a curation service for recommending clothes.

In general, a customer who wants to purchase clothes online through a communication network using a device such as a computer or a smartphone accesses a site for selling clothes, browses clothing provided, selects clothes desired, You will go through the process of purchasing.

However, the site selling apparel updates new clothing items, ranging from dozens to hundreds of products, at least monthly, along with existing apparel items, so customers are choosing one of the more apparels It also suffers from an optional difficulty.

Therefore, in order to facilitate the selection of customers' clothes, a site selling clothes provides a service for recommending clothes for customers.

A user-based recommendation method and an item-based recommendation method are used as methods of recommending services of the conventional clothes.

The user-based recommendation method is a method for recommending clothes selected by other customers having similar physical conditions, preferred styles, and preferences of the customer to the customer.

On the other hand, the item-based recommendation method is a method of recommending clothing having similar physical condition, preferred style, and taste to the customer, which is similar to the clothing selected by the customer in the past.

However, the conventional methods of recommending garments have disadvantages in that objectivity is somewhat lacking because the measurement standard of similarity of garments is not constant. In order to apply the recommendation method, additional information for each product Physical condition, style and taste of the product, clicks of the product, etc.), so that the management demand of the apparel seller also increases.

In addition, according to the fashion characteristics of apparel, which are relatively rapidly changed in recent years, inventory goods of apparel vendors are increasing, and it is critical to develop a method of rapidly selling such apparel stocks.

On the other hand, as a method for selling a product to which the recommendation method is applied as described above, there is a shopping mall personalized display providing system of Korean Patent Registration No. 1502681, a shopping mall personalized display providing method using the same and Korean Patent Application Publication No. 10-2014-111225 A recommendation analysis system and a recommendation analysis method are known.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is directed to a clothing shopping system and method for providing a curation service of the present invention for solving the problems of the related art as described above, The apparel merchandiser receives the product information and the inventory information of the apparel from the apparel manufacturer and registers the apparel information and inventory information received when registering the apparel on the site, The present invention provides a clothes shopping system and a method thereof that can reduce the cost of a clothes shopping.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a clothing shopping system and method for providing a curation service, the clothing shopping system including a clothing shopping center providing a curation service for recommending clothes according to a physical condition of a customer, System and method thereof.

Effects of the clothes shopping system and the method of providing curation services of the present invention having the above-described features are as follows.

First, since clothing is recommended to customers based on an internal database that standardizes the style of the quantified clothing manufacturer, it is possible to perform relatively objective recommendation in accordance with the customer's body condition and preferred style and taste, Can be improved.

Secondly, since the apparel sellers need to receive the product information and inventory information of the apparel from the manufacturer, the management demand for giving additional information to the apparel for the recommendation of the customer in the past is greatly reduced, The operation of the clothing sales site can be efficiently performed.

Third, customized recommendation of clothing items that are objective, physical conditions, style, and taste is performed to the customer, thereby enhancing the shopping satisfaction of the customer and promoting the sale of the commodity to lead to the purchase of the apparel product.

Fourth, the garment shopping system and method of the present invention is different from the conventional method of producing and selling only popular products which satisfies an unspecified number of tastes regardless of the taste of the conventional customers, By recommending products that can be tailored to individual preferences, it is possible to draw out quickly the circulation of inventory clothing even for a small amount of inventory of small and medium enterprises, It is an invention.

1 is a block diagram of a garment shopping system of the present invention,
FIGS. 2 to 4 illustrate examples of screens displayed by executing an application program for installing a smartphone,
5 is a flowchart of a method of selling clothes of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, a garment shopping system and method for providing a curation service of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

It is to be noted, however, that the disclosed drawings are provided as examples for allowing a person skilled in the art to sufficiently convey the spirit of the present invention. Accordingly, the present invention is not limited to the following drawings, but may be embodied in other forms.

In addition, unless otherwise defined, the terms used in the description of the present invention have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention belongs. In the following description and the accompanying drawings, A detailed description of known functions and configurations that may be unnecessarily blurred is omitted.

1 is a block diagram of a clothes shopping system according to the present invention.

Referring to the drawings, an apparel shopping system (hereinafter, abbreviated as 'apparel shopping system') providing a curation service of the present invention includes a mediation server 20, a mediation server 20, 10) for executing the stored apparel shopping application program.

The user equipment 10 refers to a wired or wireless communication device through which a user using the apparel shopping system can access the mediation server 20 through a communication network to transmit and receive information.

Examples of the user device 10 include an ordinary computer, a mobile phone, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), and a tablet computer. Preferably, the mediation server 20 The smartphone includes a display device such as an LCD and a memory device. The smart phone includes a display device such as an LCD, and a memory device.

The mediating server 20 receives merchandise information of clothing from a manufacturer server 30 to be described later, stores it in an interfaced mediating database 21, and stores the stored merchandise information in an apparel shopping application (Hereinafter referred to as " shopping application ") for convenience of explanation.

In addition, the mediating server 20 receives input information according to a user's physical condition, a preferred style and taste through a shopping application executed in the connected user device 10, And provides a list of recommended apparel products to the user device 10 as a result of the curation.

In addition, the mediating server 20 proceeds with a payment process for purchasing a product selected by the user.

In order to perform the curation, the mediating server 20 receives the commodity information of the apparel from the apparel producer server 30, constructs a curation database in which the commodity information of the received apparel is standardized, .

At this time, rules and standards for standardizing the merchandise information of the garment are provided by the mediation server management unit 40 interlocked with the mediation server 20. [

The mediating server management unit 40 is a terminal of a computer or the like of an operator of the mediating server 20. The mediating server management unit 40 manages the rules Explain an example.

1) Price information:

  - cheap: low price (KRW 1,000 ~ KRW 20,000)

  - modest: normal price (20,000 won to 50,000 won)

  - noble: Medium price (50,000 won to 80,000 won)

  - expensive: expensive (80,000 won ~ 200,000 won)

  - luxury: luxury goods (400,000 ~ 1,000,000 won)

2) Purpose of Style

   - casual: tee, jeans, general casual boutiques

   - office: blouse, jacket, suit shop

   - date: One-piece shop

   - total: specialty stores and casuals

   - officetotal: office 70%, casual 30% style point

   - casualtotal: 70% casual, 30% office style

   - outwear: climbing gear

3) Style Preference

   - unique: Unique trend look (a unique style that precedes fashion but does not work well for others)

   - stylish: stylish look (sensual style not related to fashion)

   - trendy: basic look (popular fashion style)

   - daily: Daily wear (daily wear style)

   - basic: basic (non-special basic style)

4) Style Taste

   - simple: Simple minimalist style

   - chic: chic (chic style)

   - pure: Girl's Pure Pure (Girl's Pure Pure Pure Style)

   - cute: cute point look (cute style with something)

   - lovely: Lovely (basic style of lovely feeling)

   - romantic: flower, chiffon one-piece look (very feminine flower, chiffon, etc.)

   - lady: wedding guest, blind date look (mature style)

   - feminine: stylish and feminine style (slightly feminine)

   - elegant: elegant woman, dress-style dress

   - sexy: club, sexy look (sticky sexy style)

   - classic: traditional design

   - dandy: Boyish look

   - ethnic: exotic ethnic look

   - european: emotional fashion style

   - Formal

   - miz: Missy look (style to hide your body)

   - easy: easy to wear look

   - home: Homeware

   - corny: cliche style

   - special: unique style

   - unusual: unusual style

   - otaku: otaku style

   - colorful: excellent in color

   - point: style that points out

   - boxy: body cover style

   - bigsize: Big size style

   - vintage: vintage look

   - K pop star: idol look

   - celebrity: celebrity look

   - hiphop: hip hop look

   - gentle: gentle look

   - unisex: Unisex look

5) Size (based on size of women's clothing)

- FREE SIZE

- XS: 44 (25)

- Q: 55 (26, 27)

- M: 66 (28, 29)

- L: 77 (30, 31)

- XL: 88 (32, 33)

- XXL: 99 (34)

That is, the mediating server 20 receives product information of the apparel from the manufacturer server 30 of the apparel and receives the price, style, style preference, style preference And stores the information of the apparel product in the intermediation database 21 according to the size.

Preferably, when receiving the product information from the manufacturer server 30, it is preferable that the product information is created according to the standardization standard of the product information as described above, and the created product information is provided. It is not necessary to perform the generation of separate product information, and the listing of the goods can be performed quickly.

Here, the manufacturer server 30 refers to a server of a manufacturer that produces apparel products, but broadly, a distributor or a vendor that distributes or sells the produced apparel may be included.

The execution of the apparel commodity by the intermediary server 20 will be described with reference to an example of a screen displayed by executing an application program for installing a smartphone in which the apparel apparel selling method of Figs. 2 to 4 is performed .

As shown in FIG. 2, when the apparel merchandise is displayed on the screen of the smartphone together with the photograph and the user selects the apparel merchandise, the brokerage server 20 stores the style preference 3) and style preference (standardization standard number 4 of above product information).

3, a screen for selecting the purpose and size information of the style is displayed on the screen of the smartphone, and when the user selects the purpose of the style (casual 70%, suit 30%) and body size, The mediating server 20 collects the purpose of the style (the standardization reference number 2 of the product information) and the size information (the standardization reference number 5 of the product information).

Although not shown, the price information of the apparel product (the standardization reference number 1 of the above product information) is collected by displaying the detailed information of the apparel product when displaying the apparel product as shown in Fig. 2 .

Then, the mediating server 20 selects the commodities meeting the standardization standard of the collected commodity information from among the commodities stored in the commodity database 21, transfers them to the user device 10, and displays them, thereby recommending the commodity to the user You can give.

At this time, the mediating server 20 can recommend the product by referring to the item of interest, which is based on the product selected by the user even once, and the product purchased by the user in the past, In this case, it is also possible to rank a product reflecting the user's interest information in the list of goods meeting the standardization standard of the product information above the list.

In addition, when the apparel product is recommended, inventory information of the apparel may be provided together with reference to the purchase.

Therefore, according to the apparel shopping system that provides the curation service of the present invention, the intermediation server 20 can automatically recommend products corresponding to the price, the style purpose, the style preference, the style taste, and the size of the apparel product The convenience of shopping for clothes can be improved, and a product that the user can satisfy can be quickly provided.

Next, referring to FIG. 5, a clothing shopping method for providing the curation service of the present invention will be described in detail.

The apparel shopping method (hereinafter abbreviated as 'apparel shopping method') that provides the curation service of the present invention is transmitted from the intermediary server 20 to the user device 10 through the communication network from the intermediary server 20 A user device 10 on which a stored apparel shopping application program is executed, and a manufacturer server 30 for transmitting merchandise information of the clothes to the mediating server 20.

Preferably, the user device 10 is a conventional smart phone capable of receiving, installing, and executing an apparel shopping application program provided by the intermediary server 20 through a communication network.

Referring to FIG. 5, in order to sell clothing through the intermediary server 20 in the manufacturer server 30, the merchandise information of the apparel product is transmitted to the intermediary server 20 through the communication network (S 100).

Here, the product information of the apparel product may include information such as a photograph showing the appearance of the apparel, a price, an amount of inventory, a size, and the like.

Then, the mediation server 20 receives merchandise information of the garment from the manufacturer server 30 and stores the merchandise information on the garment in the interfaced mediation database 21 (S 101).

At this time, the mediating server 20 receives the goods information of the apparel from the apparel maker server 30, and compares the price, the style purpose, the style preference, the style preference, and the size And stores the information of the apparel product in the intermediation database 21.

Preferably, when the product information is received from the manufacturer server 30, the product information may be generated in accordance with the standardization standard for the product information as described above, and the created product information may be provided.

The standardization standards related to the price, the style purpose, the style preference, the style taste, and the size of the corresponding apparel product have been described above, so a detailed introduction will be omitted here.

Next, the user device 10 accesses the mediation server 20 through the communication network for shopping for apparel goods (S102). It is preferable that the connection of the user device 10 to the mediating server 20 as described above is connected to the mediating server 20 by executing the apparel shopping application program provided by the mediating server 20. [

When the user device 10 is connected to the intermediary server 20 as described above, the intermediary server 20 displays the items of clothing stored in the database on the user device 10, In step S103, the user device 10 receives necessary information from the user device 10 in response to the request.

The request for information necessary for the curation displays the selection screen as shown in FIGS. 2 to 4, and the user selects and inputs the style selection, the style taste, the style purpose, the body size, and the price information.

Then, the mediating server 20 performs qurating to assist the user in selecting clothes according to the input curation required information (S 105), and transmits a list of clothing items recommended as a result of the curation to the user device 10 (S 106).

Curling by the intermediary server 20 may be performed by selecting a list of goods meeting the standardization standard of the goods information of the style preference, the style taste, the style purpose, the body size and the price information inputted by the user from among the goods stored in the intermediate database 21 And transmitting the selected information to the user device 10 and displaying the selected information.

In performing the curating, the mediating server 20 refers to the information of the interest based on the product selected by the user even once at the recommendation of the apparel product, or the product purchased by the user in the past, In this case, it is possible to rank a product reflecting the interest information of the user in the list of products meeting the standardization standard of the above-described product information, on the list.

In addition, the mediating server 20 provides stock information of the apparel when referencing the apparel product by curating, so that it can refer to the purchase.

Then, if the user selects a desired product from among the list provided with the result of curation and requests payment (S 107), the intermediary server 20 proceeds to a payment process for purchasing a product (S 108).

When the settlement is completed, the mediating server 20 transmits a payment completion message to the user device 10 (S 109), and requests the delivery of the apparel article settled to the manufacturer server 30 (S 110).

Then, when the delivery of the manufacturer is completed and the delivery is completed, the manufacturer server 30 transmits information indicating that the delivery of the apparel item is completed to the brokerage server 20 (S 111) The server 20 transmits a delivery completion message to the user device 10 (S 112), and ends the shopping of the apparel product.

Therefore, according to the apparel shopping method of the present invention, the intermediation server 20 can automatically recommend products corresponding to the price, the style purpose, the style preference, the style taste, and the size of the apparel product The convenience of shopping for clothes can be improved, and a product that the user can satisfy can be quickly provided.

Meanwhile, the apparel shopping method for providing the curation service of the present invention may include information on style preference, style preference, and size information of a product stored by a user and information on purchase of the apparel product through the intermediary server 20 of the present invention, It is possible to recommend a product suitable for the user by continuously recording and analyzing the purchase pattern of the user by giving a weight to each piece of information based on the information designated as the item of interest and the record of inquiring the item.

For example, a weight of 25 is assigned to the style preference of the user, a weight of 35 is added to the style taste of the clothing purchased by the user, a weight of 20 is assigned to the style of the item designated as the interested item, And the recommendation of the product of the ranked scores of the summed scores can be given to the user.

At this time, when the user returns the purchased goods, the user's weight score may be subtracted. (For example, when returning a purchased item, a minus weight score of -20 points is given)

As described above, the style information to which the weight is applied for each user is scored and stored in the database, so that the mediating server 20 can finally derive the style information of the user, and the apparel product corresponding to the derived style information I can recommend it to you.

In addition, in the clothing shopping method for providing the curation service of the present invention, the clothes may include shoes. Accordingly, the clothing shopping method of the present invention can be applied to a method of shopping for shoes.

That is, the product information of the shoes is received from the manufacturer server producing the shoes, the product information of the shoes is standardized to build the curlation database, and when the user selects the shoe size as the example screen shown in FIG. 6 When the necessary information is input, the user can perform curating for oral selection based on the received information, and provide a list of recommended oral products to the user as a result of the curating.

At this time, for example, when a curation database is constructed for oral curation, the style preference of the oral style can be classified as follows.

* Office: heel (heels), pumps (pumps), bootee (booty), loafer (loafers)

* Lovely: mary jane shoes (Mary Jane shoes)

* Casual:

- flat shoes (flat shoes)

      - sandal (sandal)

      - wedge heel (Wedge Hill)

      - slip on (sleep on)

      - sneakers (sneakers)

      - running shoes (running shoes)

- outwear hiking boots

* The side of the shoe (mm) (standard size shoelaces in Europe are standard size in parentheses):

- 220 (36)

- 225 (36.5)

- 230 (37)

- 240 (38)

- 245 (38.5)

- 250 (9)

- 255 (39.5)

- 260 (40)

- 265 (40.5)

- 270 (41)

As described above, the garment shopping system and method for providing the curation service of the present invention has been described with reference to the drawings. However, these embodiments are illustrative and the scope of rights of the present invention is not limited thereto. The scope of the present invention will be defined in accordance with the matters set forth in the claims, including embodiments of the scope.

Description of the Related Art [0002]
10; User device
20; Mediation Server
30; Producer Server
40; The mediation server management section

Claims (13)

CLAIMS 1. A system for shopping for clothing,
The product information of the apparel is received from the manufacturer server 30 and the product information of the received apparel is standardized and stored in the intermediation database 21,
The information on the stored goods is provided to the user device 10 to input information necessary for the curation for assisting the selection of the goods from the user device 10,
Performs curling for a user's clothing selection based on the information input from the user device 10,
A mediation server (20) for providing a list of recommended clothing items as a result of the curation to the user device (10); And,
The mediating server management unit 40 linked to the mediating server 20 provides the mediating server 20 with a standard for standardizing the merchandise information of the apparel,
The standard for standardizing the apparel product information is,
At least one of a price of a commodity, a purpose of a commodity, a style preference of the commodity, a style preference, and a size of the commodity, or a combination thereof,
Curling by the mediation server 20 may be performed by,
A product matching the information of the apparel product according to the standardization standard of the product information of the apparel is selected from the products stored in the brokerage database 21 and transferred to the user device 10 to display the apparel,
The mediating server 20 stores the information such as style preference, style preference and size information of a user, information on purchase of a corresponding apparel product, information on a corresponding commodity designated as an interested commodity, And stores the purchase pattern of the user, provides a curating service to the user based on the recorded purchase pattern, and subtracts the weight score when the user returns the purchased item.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the user equipment (10) is a smart phone capable of receiving, installing and executing an apparel shopping application program provided by the intermediary server (20) through a communication network.
delete delete delete The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the mediating server (20) recommends a product with reference to the information of interest based on a product read by the user or a product purchased by the user in the past when recommending the apparel product, For the system.
The method according to any one of claims 1, 2, and 6,
Wherein the garment comprises a shoe. ≪ RTI ID = 0.0 > 11. < / RTI >
In a clothing shopping method,
The intermediary server 20 receives the goods information of the apparel product from the manufacturer server 30 through the communication network (S100), stores the goods information in the interlinked database 21 and registers the goods information about the apparel ( S 101);
When the user device 10 accesses the mediation server 20 via the communication network to shop for the apparel product (S 102), the mediation server 20 displays the apparel product stored in the database on the user device 10, (S103) requesting the user device 10 to input the curation necessary information to help the selection of the user;
(S 104) the mediation server (20) receiving the culling necessary information from the user device (10);
The mediation server 20 carries out a curating process to assist the user in selecting the clothes according to the received curation required information (S 105), and provides the user device 10 with a list of recommended clothes items as a result of the curation 106); And,
The product information of the clothes stored in the intermediate database 21 is product information that normalizes the product information of the apparel,
Curling by the mediation server 20 may be performed by,
A list of goods meeting the standardization standard of the goods information is selected from the goods stored in the intermediate database 21 and transmitted to the user device 10,
The standard for standardizing the apparel product information is,
A price of the commodity, a purpose of the commodity, a style preference of the commodity, a style preference, and a size of the commodity, or a combination thereof,
When the mediation server 20 carries out the curating, information on the style preference, style preference and size of the goods stored by the user, information on purchase of the apparel product, information on the product designated as the interested item, The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising the step of providing a curation service to the user based on the recorded purchase pattern, and subtracting the weight score when the user returns the purchased item. Lt; / RTI >
delete delete 9. The method according to claim 8, wherein, when performing the curation by the mediation server (20)
Wherein the mediating server (20) recommends a product by referring to a recommendation of the apparel product by reference to a product read by a user or an interest information information based on a product purchased by the user in the past.
9. The method of claim 8,
Weights are assigned to the style preferences stored by the user, the style preference and the size information of the goods, the information of purchasing the apparel product, the information of the item designated as the interested item, and the record information of the item, And providing a curating service to the user based on the recorded purchase pattern.
The method according to any one of claims 8, 11 and 12,
Wherein the garment includes a shoe.

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