KR20210144125A - A System for Collection of Product Status Information on the Price Comparison Site for Online Sellers - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system for collecting product status information on a price comparison site for an online seller, which helps modifying product selling prices such that the product selling price of a seller maintains a rank, at which the product is to be positioned in a corresponding chart, while automatically and frequently checking a product price chart on the price comparison site. The present invention includes: an input module (102) sending information on an online seller, information on a product owned by the seller, a search condition for each corresponding sale product, etc. to a data collection unit; the data collection unit (104) sending sets of information to a data processing unit wherein the sets of information are acquired by crawling the price comparison site based on the input information sent by the input module (102); the data processing unit (106) analyzing the sets of information sent by the data collection unit (104), and sending analyzed information, resulted from completion of the analysis, to an output and notification module (108); and the output and notification module (108) sending the analyzed information, sent by the data processing unit (106), to an application of a platform used by the online seller.

Description

A System for Collection of Product Status Information on the Price Comparison Site for Online Sellers}

The present invention relates to a system for collecting product status information, and more particularly, automatically checking the price chart of the product on a price comparison site (eg, Enuri, Danawa, etc.) from time to time and positioning the seller's product selling price in the chart It relates to a system for collecting product status information in a price comparison site for online sellers that helps to modify the selling price of a product to keep it in a desired ranking.

As the Internet has become widespread, product sellers or sales agents have built a virtual market on the Internet called an Internet shopping mall. Accordingly, product buyers can purchase specific products or goods they want to purchase through the virtual market without directly visiting the store.

Using such an Internet shopping mall can reduce the time and cost caused by the purchaser's visit to the shopping mall, so the number of purchasers using the Internet shopping mall has gradually increased.

Meanwhile, the Internet shopping mall is divided into a general shopping mall and an open market according to an operating entity. The general shopping mall is directly operated by the seller of the product, and the open market is operated by a sales agent (open market operator) who has been commissioned by the product seller as a sales agent.

However, the selling prices in these Internet shopping malls are different for each Internet shopping mall even if the products are the same. Accordingly, buyers have a desire to purchase products from the Internet shopping mall that offers the lowest price. have appeared

The competitiveness of the price comparison site can be said to be the speed and accuracy of the product information provided. In particular, the prompt provision of frequently changing price information among product information and the accuracy of the provided price information are the most important issues in price comparison sites. Therefore, if the product information of the price comparison site is being collected and updated from time to time, several cases have been filed with the Korean Intellectual Property Office.

Among the above-mentioned cases, the patent filed with the Korean Intellectual Property Office with the filing date of October 27, 2010, Application No. 10-2010-0097633 The claims of the application are "a web server for a price comparison site that provides web pages to clients through a price comparison site, and a web page that provides web pages to a client through an open market registered when a seller signs up as a member of the price comparison site. A method of updating product information of a price comparison product sold in an open market performed by a web server for an open market, wherein (A) the web server for the price comparison site, which has received a product information update request from the seller, is performed in the open market web server for

requesting a list of products from the seller; (B) providing, by the web server for the open market, a web page for providing a product list with the product list as content; (C) storing the web server for the price comparison site after parsing the web page for providing the product list; (D) providing, by the web server for the price comparison site, a web page for updating product information including at least a portion of product information for each of the products included in the product list as content to the seller; and (E) updating, by the web server for the price comparison site, product information or newly registering only the products selected by the seller on the product information update web page among the products included in the product list; A method of updating product information of a price comparison product sold in an open market, comprising: " am.

However, in the method of updating product information of price comparison products sold in the conventional open market, sellers selling products on price comparison sites try to maximize sales by exposing the products,

In order to maintain the desired ranking of the seller's product selling price on the price comparison site, it is necessary to frequently check the price comparison site, and there is a difficulty in management in the repeated act of modifying the seller's product selling price based on the obtained selling price information. there was.

In addition, in the conventional method of updating product information of price comparison products sold in open markets, price comparisons in open markets (eg, Gmarket, Auction, 11st, etc.) change frequently. There is a problem in that the price exposed on the site frequently changes, and the seller has to check these items from time to time and repeat the act of modifying the selling price to maintain the selling price of the product desired by the seller.

In addition, in the conventional method of updating product information of price comparison products sold in the open market, not only the seller's product selling price is corrected, but also the part about whether the seller's product selling price modified on the price comparison site is normally exposed on a regular basis. There is a problem that not only does not confirm the seller's product, but also does not recognize the fact that the seller's product selling price is not being exposed on the price comparison site.

Accordingly, the present invention has been improved and invented to solve various problems according to the prior art, and the object of the present invention is to automatically check the price chart of products on price comparison sites (eg, Enuri, Danawa, etc.) from time to time. The purpose of this is to provide a system for collecting product status information on price comparison sites for online sellers that helps the seller to modify the selling price of the product to maintain the seller's product selling price in the desired ranking on the chart.

However, the object of the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned objects, and other objects not mentioned will be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

A system for collecting product status information in a price comparison site for an online seller according to the present invention for achieving the above object,

an input module 102 for sending online seller information, information on products owned by the seller, and search conditions for each sold product to the data collection unit;

a data collection unit (104) that crawls the price comparison site based on the input information sent from the input module (102), and sends the retrieved information to the data processing unit;

a data processing unit 106 that analyzes the information sent from the data collection unit 104 and sends, to the output and notification module, the analysis work completion information, the analysis work being completed;

and an output and notification module 108 for sending the analysis job completion information sent from the data processing unit 106 to the application of the platform used by the online seller.

As described above, the system for collecting product status information on a price comparison site for an online seller according to the present invention automatically checks the price chart of the product on the price comparison site from time to time and places the seller's product selling price on the chart. By helping to modify the selling price of a product to maintain a high ranking, it has the effect of reducing the amount of work that an online seller has to perform and shortening the time required.

In addition, the present invention has the effect of easily checking the information on the price comparison chart of the current seller's product, checking the discount rate being applied, and checking whether the product is normally exposed on the price comparison site.

1A is a configuration diagram schematically showing a system for collecting product status information in a price comparison site for an online seller according to the present invention;
Figure 1b is a block diagram of the output and notification module of Figure 1;
FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a method for collecting product status information using the product information collection system in a price comparison site for an online seller of FIG. 1 .

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of a system for collecting product status information in a price comparison site for an online seller according to the present invention will be described.

In the following description of the present invention, if it is determined that a detailed description of a related known function or configuration may unnecessarily obscure the gist of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted.

1A is a block diagram schematically illustrating a product status information collection system in a price comparison site for an online seller according to the present invention, and FIG. 1B is a block diagram of an output and notification module of FIG. 1 .

1A and 1B, the product status information collection system 100 in the price comparison site for online sellers according to the present invention,

an input module 102 for sending online seller information, information on products owned by the seller, and search conditions for each sold product to the data collection unit;

a data collection unit (104) that crawls the price comparison site based on the input information sent from the input module (102), and sends the retrieved information to the data processing unit;

a data processing unit 106 that analyzes the information sent from the data collection unit 104 and sends, to the output and notification module, the analysis work completion information, the analysis work being completed;

and an output and notification module 108 for sending the analysis job completion information sent from the data processing unit 106 to the application of the platform used by the online seller.

Here, the product status information collection system 100 in the price comparison site for the online seller further includes a database (DB, not shown), and includes an input module 102, a data collection unit 104, and a data processing unit. 106 , the output and notification module 108 is controlled by a control unit (not shown).

The data collection unit 104,

Based on the input information sent from the input module 102, a crawler module (not shown) is used to crawl the price comparison site input for each product, and after extracting the data of the price comparison data from the price comparison site, the data processing unit a list extraction module 110 that sends to (106) and crawls all products at a repeating cycle determined by the online seller to crawle the next product again;

When a URL requiring state extraction is accessed, the URL is crawled to extract information about the product (product name, selling price, shipping fee, seller discount rate, price comparison site discount coupon, etc.) and a state extraction module 112 sent to

Here, the state extraction module 112 is a module for collecting data necessary for recommendation in the data processing unit 106 or the state of the online seller product.

The data processing unit 106,

A new list is created using only the data that meets the conditions input by the online seller from among the entire list extracted by crawling in the list extraction module 110, and the generated data list is sent to the product and list comparison module, and the online seller among the data lists a data classification module 114 that checks whether the inputted product exists and, if it exists, sends the extracted information of the corresponding product to the internal product status check module, and sends it to the exposure status check module if it does not exist;

The product URL information entered by the online seller is sent to the status extraction module 112 as to whether the currently input product is normally displayed at the selling price and is exposed on the open market. an exposure status check module 116 that generates an error message packet for “to be” and generates an error message packet for “needs to check the product registration status” when extraction fails and sends it to the output and notification module;

Extracts a dedicated URL from the list to my (online seller) product and sends it to the state extraction module 112 to extract the data of the dedicated URL, and the selling price, current selling price, and current seller exposed on the price comparison site My product status check module 118, which extracts information on the current status of my product, such as discount price, coupon price provided by the corresponding price comparison site, discount cost due to the coupon, and shipping cost, and sends it to the product and list comparison module;

The data list that has been arranged and sent from the data classification module 114 and the data of the current state of my product that has been arranged and sent from the my product status check module 118 is compared with the online seller for the list condition selected by the online seller. It includes a product and list comparison module 120 that calculates the recommended selling price for the price of , generates the derived value as a packet, and sends it to the output and notification module.

Here, the exposure status checking module 116 is a module informing the online seller to confirm after checking the one-dimensional problem that the corresponding product is not exposed.

The output and notification module 108,

an output module 122 that reprocesses the data so that the user can see the result data with good readability, exposes it to the application of the platform used by the online seller, and enables easy reading;

and a notification module 124 that corrects the selling price of my product to a selling price that matches the selling price set by the online seller or additionally applies a seller's discount to expose the desired selling price on a price comparison site.

Here, to explain the notification module 124 a little more, it is possible to change the selling price and online seller discount by integrating several open markets through the corresponding app, and the online seller can modify the price of the product desired by the online seller in the corresponding app. let it be

Therefore, you can immediately edit the price of your product without directly accessing the open market, and when you use the app, you can create a chart consisting of only competitors selected by the seller, not multiple seller charts, on existing price comparison sites. It is possible for the seller of the app to narrow the scope of competition by selecting only the current product price information of the companies, and it is possible to check the selling price in the open market rather than the price currently exposed on the current price comparison sites of competitors.

Also, I set up a group of my products to prevent price competition between products registered in multiple open markets of online sellers, that is, between my products on the price comparison site with the app, so that competition between my products does not occur.

The operation of the product status information collection system 100 in the price comparison site for online sellers according to the present invention included as described above will be described as follows.

First, the input module 102 is a data collection unit 104 including the list extraction module 110 and the state extraction module 112 for information on the online seller, information on the products the seller owns, and search conditions for each sold product. send to

In addition, the data collection unit 104 including the list extraction module 110 and the state extraction module 112 crawls the price comparison site based on the input information sent from the input module 102 and collects the information brought It is sent to the data processing unit 106 including the data classification module 114 , the exposure status check module 116 , the my product status check module 118 , and the product and list comparison module 120 .

Here, the list extraction module 110 crawls a price comparison site input for each product using a crawler module (illustration omitted) based on the input information sent from the input module 102, and crawls a price from the price comparison site. After extracting the data of the compared data, it is sent to the data processing unit 106, and crawling of the next product is performed again with respect to the entire product at a repeating cycle determined by the online seller.

The state extraction module 112 crawls the URL when a URL requiring state extraction is accessed, extracts information about the corresponding product (product name, sales price, shipping fee, seller discount rate, discount coupon on a price comparison site, etc.) and converts it into an object. It is converted and sent back to the data processing unit 106 .

In addition, the data processing unit 106 including the data classification module 114 , the exposure state confirmation module 116 , the product state confirmation module 118 , and the product and list comparison module 120 is from the data collection unit 104 . After analyzing the sent information, the analysis work completion information is transmitted to the output and notification module 108 including the output module 122 and the notification module 124 .

Here, the data classification module 114 creates a new list using only the data that meets the conditions input by the online seller among the entire list extracted by crawling in the list extraction module 110, and uses the generated data list with the product and list comparison module. Sends to 120, checks whether the product entered by the online seller in the data list exists, and if it exists, sends the information of the extracted product to the my product status check module 118. If it does not exist, the exposure status check module (116).

The exposure status check module 116 sends the product URL information input by the online seller to the status extraction module 112 as to whether the currently input product is normally displayed at the selling price and is exposed on the open market, and normal extraction is performed. If it is completed, an error message packet is generated for “confirmation of the corresponding price comparison site is required”, and when extraction fails, an error message packet is generated for “confirmation of the product registration status is required” and output and notification module 108 ) to send

The my product status check module 118 extracts a dedicated URL connected to my (online seller) product from the list, sends it to the status extraction module 112, extracts the data of the dedicated URL, and exposes it to the corresponding price comparison site The product and list comparison module 120 by extracting information about the current status of my product, such as the current selling price, the current selling price, the current seller discount price, the coupon price provided by the price comparison site, the discount cost due to the coupon, and the shipping cost. send to

The product, list comparison module 120 compares and calculates the data list sent from the data classification module 114 and the data of the current state of my product that has been organized and sent from the my product status check module 118 through a comparison operation. For the list condition selected by the online seller, the recommended selling price is calculated for the price of the product, and the derived value is generated as a packet and sent to the output and notification module 108 .

And, the output and notification module 108 including the output module 122 and the notification module 124 transmits the analysis job completion information sent from the data processing unit 106 to the application of the platform used by the online seller.

Here, the output module 122 reprocesses the result data so that the user can see it with good readability, and exposes it to the application of the platform used by the online seller so that it can be easily viewed.

The notification module 124 corrects the selling price of my product to a selling price that matches the selling price set in advance by the online seller or additionally applies a seller's discount to expose the desired selling price on a price comparison site.

From the operation of the product status information collection system 100 in the price comparison site for online sellers according to the present invention that operates as described above, referring to FIG. 2 , the product status information collection method is as follows.

First, it is checked whether the member's product list is stored in the database (DB) (S1).

As a result of the check in step S1, if the member has the product list, it is checked whether the member's product list information can be used (S3).

As a result of the confirmation in step S3, if the member's product list information can be used, product search conditions are given and the member's product list information is searched in the database (DB) using a crawler (S5).

On the other hand, if the check result of step S1 does not hold the member's product list, if the check result of step S3 prevents the use of the member's product list information, the member's product list information is input (S7).

When the member's product list information is input in step S7, a product search condition is input (S9). At this time, the product search conditions are stored in the database (DB).

Then, it is determined whether all product list information has been searched after the step S5 (S11).

As a result of the determination in step S11, if all product list information has been searched, it is determined whether all product list information is being searched at a repeating cycle determined by the online seller (S13).

If it is determined in step S13 that all product list information cannot be searched at the repetition cycle determined by the online seller, it is determined whether the search for all product list information is being executed again at the repetition cycle determined by the online vendor (S15).

As a result of the determination in step S15, if the re-execution sentence is not performed, the execution is terminated.

If the product list information needs to be corrected as a result of the determination in step S17, the product search condition is modified and input in step S9.

Meanwhile, when the product list information search is completed, the data processing unit 106 receives data (S19) and generates an online selling price list (S21).

My (online seller) product information is searched for in the received product list information after step S19 (S23), and it is determined whether or not my product exists (S25).

As a result of the determination in step S25, if a product exists within the product, an object of product list information is generated by extracting a dedicated URL (S27).

When the online selling price list is created in step S21 and the object of product list information is created in step S21, price comparison data and recommendation data are generated (S29), and the generated price comparison data and recommendation data are sent to the notification module (S31) ) and output the change data (S33).

Here, the notification module 124 exposes the desired selling price to the price comparison site.

If, as a result of the determination in step S25, my product does not exist, it is checked whether the information on my product list is posted (S35).

As a result of the determination in step S35, if my product list information is posted, I request to confirm my product list information to a price comparison site (S37), and send the requested confirmation of my product list information to the notification module (S31).

As a result of the determination in step S35, if my product list information is not posted, I request to check my product list information (S39), and send the checked my product list information to the notification module (S31).

Here, the notification module 124 displays to correct the selling price of my product to a selling price that matches the selling price set in advance by the online seller.

The above detailed description of the present invention is merely illustrative of the present invention, which is only used for the purpose of describing the present invention and is not used to limit the meaning or the scope of the present invention described in the claims.

Therefore, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various modifications and equivalent other embodiments are possible therefrom. Therefore, the true technical protection scope of the present invention should be determined by the technical spirit of the appended claims.

100: Product status information collection system on price comparison site for online sellers
102: input module
104: data collection unit
106: data processing unit
108: output and notification module
110: list extraction module
112: state extraction module
114: data classification module
116: exposure status check module
118: My product status check module
120: product, list comparison module
122: output module
124: notification module

Claims (5)

an input module 102 for sending online seller information, information on products owned by the seller, and search conditions for each sold product to the data collection unit;
a data collection unit (104) that crawls the price comparison site based on the input information sent from the input module (102), and sends the retrieved information to the data processing unit;
a data processing unit 106 that analyzes the information sent from the data collection unit 104 and sends, to the output and notification module, the analysis job completion information on which the analysis job is completed;
Product status information collection system in a price comparison site for an online seller, characterized in that it includes an output and notification module 108 for sending the analysis work completion information sent from the data processing unit 106 to an application of a platform used by the online seller. .
The method of claim 1,
The data collection unit 104,
Based on the input information sent from the input module 102, the crawler module is used to crawl the price comparison site input for each product, and after extracting the data of the price comparison data from the price comparison site, it is sent to the data processing unit 106, a list extraction module 110 that crawls all products at a repeat cycle determined by the online seller for crawling the next product again;
When a URL requiring state extraction is accessed, it crawls the URL, extracts information about the product, converts it into an object, and sends the state extraction module 112 back to the data processing unit 106 For online sellers Product status information collection system on price comparison sites.
The method of claim 1,
The data processing unit 106,
A new list is created using only the data that meets the conditions input by the online seller from among the entire list extracted by crawling in the list extraction module 110, and the generated data list is sent to the product and list comparison module, and the online seller among the data lists a data classification module 114 that checks whether the entered product exists and, if it exists, sends the extracted information of the corresponding product to the internal product status check module, and sends it to the exposure status check module if it does not exist;
The product URL information entered by the online seller is sent to the status extraction module 112 as to whether the currently input product is normally displayed at the selling price and is exposed on the open market. Including an exposure status check module 116 that generates an error message packet for “to be” and generates an error message packet for “needs to check the product registration status” when extraction fails and sends it to the output and notification module Product status information collection system in a price comparison site for online sellers, characterized in that.
The method of claim 1,
The data processing unit 106,
A new list is created using only the data that meets the conditions input by the online seller from among the entire list extracted by crawling in the list extraction module 110, and the generated data list is sent to the product and list comparison module, and the online seller among the data lists a data classification module 114 that checks whether the entered product exists and, if it exists, sends the extracted information of the corresponding product to the internal product status check module, and sends it to the exposure status check module if it does not exist;
The product URL information entered by the online seller is sent to the status extraction module 112 as to whether the currently input product is normally displayed at the selling price and is exposed on the open market. an exposure status check module 116 that generates an error message packet for “to be” and generates an error message packet for “needs to check the product registration status” when extraction fails and sends it to the output and notification module;
Extracts a dedicated URL from the list to my (online seller) product and sends it to the state extraction module 112 to extract the data of the dedicated URL, and the selling price, current selling price, and current seller exposed on the price comparison site My product status check module 118, which extracts information on the current status of my product, such as discount price, coupon price provided by the corresponding price comparison site, discount cost due to the coupon, and shipping cost, and sends it to the product and list comparison module;
The data list that has been arranged and sent from the data classification module 114 and the data of the current state of my product that has been arranged and sent from the my product status check module 118 is compared with the online seller for the list condition selected by the online seller. Product status information in a price comparison site for online sellers, characterized in that it includes a product, list comparison module 120, which calculates the recommended selling price for the price of a product, generates a derived value as a packet, and sends it to the output and notification module collection system.
The method of claim 1,
The output and notification module 108,
an output module 122 that reprocesses the data so that the user can see the result data with good readability, exposes it to the application of the platform used by the online seller, and enables easy reading;
Online, characterized in that it includes a notification module 124 that displays the desired selling price on a price comparison site by modifying the selling price of my product to a selling price that matches the selling price set by the online seller or applying a seller discount additionally. A system for collecting product status information on price comparison sites for sellers.

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