KR20180071446A - Method, system and computer program for providing information on use-by-date of products - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed are a method, a system, and a computer program for providing information on use-by date of a product purchased by a user. The method providing information on use-by date by a POS terminal comprises the steps of: obtaining identification information of a product by reading the barcode of the product; requesting information on a permission period by transmitting the identification information of the product to a server; calculating a use-by date of the product using the information on the permission period received from the server; and outputting information on the calculated use-by date and link information related to the information on the calculated use-by date to a receipt.

Description

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING EXPENDITURE DIMENSIONS, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and system for providing information on the expiration date of a product purchased by a user instead of the expiration date of the product, and a computer program therefor.

Sell By Date is the deadline for distributors to sell products such as food to consumers. Food that exceeds this deadline can not be sold, even if not corrupted or altered, and returned to the manufacturer.

Although the shelf life display method has an advantage in terms of safety, there is a problem of inducing the disposal of consumable food. In addition, even if the consumer purchases the product within the expiration date, it is difficult to determine whether the product should be discarded or consumed after the expiration of the expiration date.

Therefore, there has been a need to manage the use-by-date of the product. The expiration date refers to the expiration date of consumption, which is considered to be no problem for health or safety even though the consumer consumes it after the food is manufactured and circulated. This concept contrasts with the expiration date, which means the time limit for selling food at supermarkets or stores. Japan, and Europe, most of them are implemented in parallel with the implementation of the expiration date labeling system or the expiration date labeling system.

In Korea, after introducing the expiration date system in 1985, it tried to replace this system which has been maintained for 25 years with the expiration date. However, since there are not many products that show the expiration date other than the expiration date, it is very difficult for the consumer to accurately know the expiration date of the product he purchased.

In addition, even if the expiration date of the product is displayed, it is difficult for the consumer to remember the expiration date of the food stored in the home when the package is discarded, and the expiration date of the product packaging of many foods stored in the large refrigerator is managed Is very troublesome.

Therefore, it is urgent to develop a technology that provides information on the expiration date so that consumers can efficiently and conveniently manage the expiration date of the product.

Disclosure of Invention Technical Problem [8] Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above problems occurring in the prior art, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a method and system for providing expiration date information for allowing a consumer to confirm information on the expiration date of a purchased product through a terminal such as a receipt or a smartphone .

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing expiration date information by a POS terminal, the method comprising: reading a barcode of the product to obtain identification information of the product; Transmitting the acquired product identification information to a server to request permission period information; Calculating an expiration date of the product using the allowed period information received from the server; And outputting the calculated information on the expiration date to the receipt.

The step of outputting information on the expiration date includes: transmitting information on the expiration date to the server; Receiving barcode information from the server, the barcode information including link information for accessing a web page providing information on the expiration date; And printing the two-dimensional barcode on the receipt using the received barcode information.

The method includes the steps of: inquiring information on a buyer of the product and determining whether the user terminal having the dedicated application is present; And requesting the server to send a push message including information on the expiration date to the user terminal when it is determined that the purchaser has a user terminal having the dedicated application installed therein .

According to another embodiment of the present invention, a method of providing expiration date information by a server comprises the steps of: receiving identification information of a product from a force terminal, inquiring of permitted period information of the product, and transmitting the information to the force terminal; Dynamically constructing a web page including information on the expiration date and information on the product when the information on the expiration date of the product is received from the force terminal; Generating barcode information including link information for accessing the web page, and transmitting the generated barcode information to the force terminal.

The method may further include sending a push message including information on the expiration date to a user terminal owned by a buyer of the product.

The expiration date information providing system according to another embodiment of the present invention is a system for obtaining the expiration date information of a product and transmitting the information to the expiration date management server and storing the expiration date information of the product using the expiration date information received from the expiration date management server To the expiration date management server, and outputs the barcode information received from the expiration date management server to the receipt; Upon receipt of the identification information of the product from the force terminal, inquires of the allowance period information of the product and transmits it to the force terminal, and when receiving information on the expiration date of the product from the force terminal, And a consumption term management server for dynamically configuring a web page including information on the product, generating barcode information including link information for accessing the web page, and transmitting the generated barcode information to the force terminal.

According to the present invention, information on the expiration date of a product purchased by a consumer can be easily confirmed through a terminal such as a receipt or a smart phone, thereby efficiently managing the expiration date of various purchased products.

1 is a view for explaining a network configuration of a time limit information providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing expiration date information performed in a force terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a flowchart for explaining a method of providing expiration date information performed by a expiration date management server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a flowchart for explaining a method of providing expiration date information performed in the expiration date information providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5 illustrates an expiration date information screen provided to a user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The terms used in this specification will be briefly described, and the present invention will be described in detail.

While the present invention has been described in connection with what is presently considered to be the most practical and preferred embodiment, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments. Also, in certain cases, there may be a term selected arbitrarily by the applicant, in which case the meaning thereof will be described in detail in the description of the corresponding invention. Therefore, the term used in the present invention should be defined based on the meaning of the term, not on the name of a simple term, but on the entire contents of the present invention.

When an element is referred to as "including" an element throughout the specification, it is to be understood that the element may include other elements as well, without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention. The term " means ", "part "," module ", etc. in the specification means units for processing at least one function or operation, Lt; / RTI >

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art can easily carry out the present invention. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. In order to clearly illustrate the present invention, parts not related to the description are omitted, and similar parts are denoted by like reference characters throughout the specification.

1 is a view for explaining a network configuration of a time limit information providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1, the expiration date information providing system includes an expiration date management server 100, at least one store terminal 101, and at least one user terminal 102, and each device exchanges information with each other via a network .

The network used in the present invention is not limited to one kind of network, but may be composed of various kinds of networks. For example, the store terminal 101 and the expiration date management server 100 are connected to the Internet, and the expiration date management server 100 is connected to a message transmission server (not shown) of a mobile communication enterprise connected via the Internet, The message transmission server can send a message to the user terminal 102 through the mobile communication network. Also, the expiration date management server 100 can access the financial network through the value added communication network (VAN).

The store terminal 101 is a POS (Point of Sale) terminal provided at the store of goods. The POS terminal 101 is a kind of electronic cash register which is used to facilitate management of information on sales by informing the seller of various data accompanying sales of the goods at the seller of goods. The POS terminal 101 includes a data input means for inputting data, a central processing unit for processing the input data and processing various kinds of information on sale, a memory for storing data necessary for data processing, a data output means .

The data input means includes a keyboard, a barcode reader, an optical scanner or a card reader. The data output means includes a printer for outputting various processing results to a receipt or the like, and a display device for displaying an image. The force terminal 101 receives the identification information of the product through the data input means, and displays the goods price and the product name matching with the identification information through the data output means.

The POS terminal 101 reads a barcode displayed on a product such as food and obtains product sales information such as identification information on the product. The POS terminal 101 generates a message including identification information of the product and transmits it to the expiration date management server 100. At this time, the message transmitted to the server is a message for requesting the permission period information for the product.

The allowable period is a predetermined period for each type of product, and means a period during which the product can be consumed based on the point of sale. For example, the allowance period of the bread can be set at three days, and the confectionery at six months.

The expiration date management server 100 is a computing device including a central processing unit, a memory, an input / output device, a database, etc., and uses the product identification information received from the force terminal 101 to determine the type of product for which information is requested It inquires the allowed period of the product and transmits it to the force terminal 101.

 The POS terminal 101 analyzes a message received from the expiration date management server 100 to acquire a permitted period of the product, adds a permitted period to the sale date of the product, calculates a date corresponding to the expiration date of the product to be sold, Information on the expiration date of the product is output to the sales receipt in the form of a two-dimensional bar code. However, the output of the expiration date information is not limited to the two-dimensional bar code, and other types of information display methods such as a QR (Quick Response) code may be used. It is possible.

The user terminal 102 is a mobile terminal carried by a user such as a smart phone, and scans the bar code outputted to the receipt to obtain information on the use period and outputs the information on the screen.

The barcode printed on the receipt may directly include information on the expiration date of the purchased product, but may also include link information of the web page providing information on the expiration date.

In this case, the consumption term management server 100 forms a web page including the name and / or photograph of the product and the expiration date by using the identification information and the expiration date information of the product received from the force terminal 101 , And generates a two-dimensional barcode including link information for connection to the web page. The generated web page is personalized for each consumer, and is a web page that is dynamically generated every time a product is sold.

The expiration date management server 100 transmits the two-dimensional barcode generated as described above to the force terminal 101. The POS terminal 101 prints the barcode corresponding to the expiration date information on the receipt using the barcode information received from the expiration date management server 100. [

More specific and various embodiments of the method and system for providing information on the expiration date will be described below with reference to Figs. 2 to 5.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing expiration date information performed in a force terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the POS terminal 101 reads the barcode of the product to acquire the identification information of the product (S20), and transmits the acquired product identification information to the expiration date management server 100 (S22).

Upon receiving the permission period information from the expiration date management server 100 in response to the request, the expiration date of the product is calculated using the expiration period information (S24).

The calculation of the expiration date can be calculated by adding the permitted period to the date of sale based on the point of sale of the product.

According to another embodiment, the calculation of the expiration date may be based on the date of manufacture of the product or the date of release from the manufacturer. In this case, the expiration date of the product is determined by adding the permitted period to the date of manufacture or date of shipment It will be possible.

In step S24, the force terminal 101 outputs information on the expiration date to the receipt. In order to output information on the expiration date, the force terminal 101 transmits information on the expiration date to the expiration date management server 100 to request the barcode information. Upon receiving barcode information including link information for accessing a web page providing information on the expiration date from the expiration date management server 100, the two-dimensional barcode is printed on the receipt using the received barcode information.

On the other hand, the force terminal 101 inquires information on the buyer of the product, judges whether or not the user terminal having the dedicated application is installed, and judges that the buyer has the user terminal in which the exclusive application is installed , It may request the expiration date management server 100 to send a push message including information on the expiration date to the user terminal.

The expiration date management server 100 transmits the information read from the credit card or the membership card scanned by the force terminal 101 to the expiration date management server 100 in order to inquire information on the purchaser, The information of the purchaser can be inquired by the membership card number and the inquiry result can be returned to the POS terminal 101. [

3 is a flowchart for explaining a method of providing expiration date information performed by a expiration date management server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, when the expiration date management server 100 receives the information on the expiration date of the product from the force terminal 101 (S30), it generates a web page including information on the product and expiration date information (S32).

In addition, the expiration date management server 100 generates barcode information including link information for connection to the web page (S34) and transmits it to the force terminal 101 (S36).

4 is a flowchart for explaining a method of providing expiration date information performed in the expiration date information providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, when the user purchases a product, the POS terminal 101 reads the barcode printed on the product to identify the product (S40), and transmits the identification information to the expiration date management server 100 (S70). The expiration date management server 100 inquires the permitted period of the product represented by the identification information (S50). The permitted period of the product may be set for each product or for each type of product and stored in the database of the expiration date management server 100. The expiration date management server 100 delivers the inquired permission period to the force terminal 101 (S72).

The force terminal 101 calculates the expiration date of the product using the permissible period information (S42) and transmits it to the expiration date management server 100 (S74).

The expiration date management server 100 uses a web page or a dedicated application to provide information on the expiration date of the product to the consumer.

In the case of using a web page, the expiration date management server 100 dynamically generates a web page providing the expiration date information (S52). In addition, barcode information including address information capable of accessing the generated web page is generated and transmitted to the POS terminal (S76).

The POS terminal 101 prints the barcode on the purchase receipt using the barcode information received from the expiration date management server 100 (S44).

The user terminal 1 (102-1) can access the web page showing the expiration date information by scanning the barcode of the receipt (S64).

In the case of using a dedicated application, a procedure is required to check whether the telephone number of the user corresponding to the credit card number used at the time of purchase of the product is retrieved and whether a dedicated application is installed in the user terminal corresponding to the telephone number. This confirmation procedure may be performed by the force terminal 101, and may be performed by the expiration date management server 100, depending on the embodiment.

In the embodiment in which the exclusive use application is installed by the force terminal 101, if the purchaser has a user terminal installed with a dedicated application, the corresponding phone number is delivered to the consumption management server 100, The control unit 100 transmits a push message including the expiration date information to the telephone number (S78).

The expiration date management server 100 receives the credit card number of the purchaser for settlement together with the identification information of the product from the force terminal 101. In the case where the expiration date management server 100 confirms whether or not the dedicated application is installed , The expiration date management server 100 inquires of whether the user corresponding to the credit card number has the user terminal installed with the dedicated application or the telephone number of the corresponding terminal. The expiration date management server 100 transmits the push message including the expiration date information to the inquired telephone number (S78). The user terminal 2 (102-2) can directly check the expiration date without executing the barcode scan by clicking the push message and executing the dedicated application (S60)

According to the present invention, a variety of methods are available for consumers to confirm the expiration date of their purchased products.

First, according to the embodiment in which the date corresponding to the expiration date is directly output to the receipt, the consumer can directly confirm the expiration date through the receipt.

Second, according to an embodiment in which link information for obtaining information on the expiration date on the receipt is output in the form of a bar code or a QR code, the consumer scans the corresponding code to the user terminal 102, You can access the web page providing the due date information directly.

Third, in the embodiment in which the expiration date management server 100 transmits the push message to the user terminal, the expiration date information can be confirmed through the dedicated application only by selecting the received push message.

FIG. 5 illustrates an expiration date information screen provided to a user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 5, the consumer can confirm the expiration date of the purchased product through the web page or the dedicated application providing the expiration date information, and the information such as the photograph of the purchased product, the product name, Can be provided.

On the other hand, the user can delete the already consumed product in this screen, so that only necessary information is included in the corresponding page.

In addition, the user can set an alarm through a dedicated application to notify the push message of information about a product that has not expired. For example, if the date of the alarm is set to one day before, the expiration date management server 100 generates a push message to notify the information of the remaining product when the expiration date is less than one day, and transmits the push message to the user terminal 102 Will give.

The method according to an embodiment of the present invention can be implemented in the form of a program command which can be executed through various computer means and recorded in a computer-readable medium. The computer-readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, and the like, alone or in combination. The program instructions recorded on the medium may be those specially designed and constructed for the present invention or may be available to those skilled in the art of computer software. Examples of computer-readable media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks and magnetic tape; optical media such as CD-ROMs and DVDs; magnetic media such as floppy disks; Magneto-optical media, and hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute program instructions such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Examples of program instructions include machine language code such as those produced by a compiler, as well as high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments, It belongs to the scope of right.

100: Expiration date management server
101: POS terminal
102: user terminal

Claims (8)

A method for providing expiration date information by a force terminal,
Reading the bar code of the product to obtain identification information of the product;
Transmitting the acquired product identification information to a server to request permission period information;
Calculating an expiration date of the product using the allowed period information received from the server;
And outputting the calculated information on the expiration date to the receipt. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the step of outputting information on the expiration date includes:
Transmitting information on the expiration date to the server;
Receiving barcode information from the server, the barcode information including link information for accessing a web page providing information on the expiration date;
And printing the two-dimensional barcode on the receipt using the received barcode information. The method according to claim 1,
Inquiring information on a buyer of the product and determining whether the user terminal having the dedicated application is present;
And requesting the server to send a push message including information on the expiration date to the user terminal when it is determined that the purchaser has the user terminal having the dedicated application installed therein The method comprising: A computer program recorded on a recording medium for performing a method of providing expiration date information by a force terminal,
A method for providing expiration date information by a force terminal,
Reading the bar code of the product to obtain identification information of the product;
Transmitting the acquired product identification information to a server to request permission period information;
Calculating an expiration date of the product using the allowed period information received from the server;
And outputting information on the calculated expiration date to the receipt. In a method for a server to provide expiration information,
Receiving the identification information of the product from the POS terminal, inquiring the allowed period information of the product and transmitting the information to the POS terminal;
Dynamically constructing a web page including information on the expiration date and information on the product when the information on the expiration date of the product is received from the force terminal;
Generating barcode information including link information for accessing the web page, and transmitting the generated barcode information to the force terminal. 5. The method of claim 4,
Further comprising the step of sending a push message including information on the expiration date to a user terminal owned by a buyer of the product. A computer program recorded on a recording medium for performing a method of providing information on expiration date by a server,
Receiving the identification information of the product from the POS terminal, inquiring the allowed period information of the product and transmitting the information to the POS terminal;
Dynamically constructing a web page including information on the expiration date and information on the product when the information on the expiration date of the product is received from the force terminal;
Generating barcode information including link information for accessing the web page, and transmitting the generated barcode information to the force terminal. Acquiring identification information of the product, transmitting the identification information of the product to the expiration date management server, calculating the expiration date of the product using the expiration period information received from the expiration date management server, and transmitting the expiration date to the expiration date management server, A POS terminal for outputting barcode information received from a server to a receipt;
Upon receipt of the identification information of the product from the force terminal, inquires of the allowance period information of the product and transmits it to the force terminal, and when receiving information on the expiration date of the product from the force terminal, And a consumption term management server configured to dynamically configure a web page including information on the product, generate barcode information including link information for accessing the web page, and transmit the generated barcode information to the force terminal Expiration date information providing system.

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