TWI556182B - Shopping method - Google Patents

Description

Shopping method

The present invention relates to an e-commerce method, and more particularly to an e-commerce method for shopping.

In addition to shopping in physical stores, modern people have a relatively high proportion of online shopping through online shopping platforms; but whether it is physical store shopping or online shopping, people are still in the price comparison or selection of items. It took too much time.

Most of the existing online shopping platforms have the function of "Desire Wall" to allow buyers to store a tracking list of the items they want to purchase. As long as they are viewed by the buyer on the online shopping platform, they can be stored in The tracking list is used for tracking and checking the items in the future; however, the functions of the above-mentioned desire wall can provide a limited variety of items, and the items stored in the tracking list are limited to those sold on the online shopping platform. article.

In the physical store shopping, especially in the purchase of daily necessities, people often miss the original items they want to purchase at the time of purchase, or they do not make purchase plans and cause impulsive consumption. Therefore, for the above shortcomings of online shopping and physical store shopping, we must seek ways to improve.

Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a shopping method.

Therefore, the shopping method of the present invention is executed by a mobile device, a cloud server, and a plurality of shopping platform servers connected to each other through a network.

The shopping method includes the following steps:

Step (a): The mobile device scans a code of an item to obtain a pair of item identification information that should be barcoded, and transmits the item identification information to the cloud server.

Step (b): searching, by the cloud server, the plurality of selling prices corresponding to the items on the shopping platform servers on the shopping platform servers according to the item identification information, and comparing the sales prices Price to obtain a minimum price in these prices.

Step (c): repeating steps (a) and (b), and accumulating the item identification information, the lowest selling price corresponding to the item identification information and the corresponding shopping platform information corresponding to the shopping platform server to A shopping list for the cloud server.

Step (d): After logging in to one of the shopping platform servers by the mobile device, transmitting a notification to the cloud server, after receiving the notification, the cloud server is based on the login shopping platform servo Corresponding to the shopping platform information, searching for the item identification information corresponding to the logged-in shopping platform server in the separately identified item identification information, and transmitting the item identification information to the logged-in shopping platform server .

The effect of the present invention is that by setting the shopping list in the cloud server, a user can operate the mobile device to conveniently formulate a shopping plan, and the lowest price is sold for the item on the shopping platform servers. Buy the item at the price.

1‧‧‧ mobile device

11‧‧‧Shopping program

2‧‧‧Cloud Server

21‧‧‧ shopping list

3‧‧‧Shopping Platform Server

41~47‧‧‧Steps

Other features and effects of the present invention will be apparent from the embodiments of the present invention. FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating an embodiment of the shopping method of the present invention, which is a mobile device connected to each other through a network. A cloud server and a plurality of shopping platform servers are jointly executed; FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of steps included in the embodiment of the shopping method; and FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating a user operating the mobile device One of the shopping platform servers performs online shopping.

Before the present invention is described in detail, it should be noted that in the following description, similar elements are denoted by the same reference numerals.

Referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, an embodiment of the shopping method of the present invention is performed by a mobile device 1, a cloud server 2, and a plurality of shopping platform servers 3 connected to each other through a network. The mobile device 1 is, for example, a smart phone or a tablet computer and includes a shopping program 11 . The shopping platform server 3 is, for example, a yahoo, a PCHome, a RT-Mart, and Love to buy servers for online shopping services provided by shopping platforms.

The various steps of an embodiment of the shopping method are detailed below. First, in step 41, a user operates the mobile device 1 to execute the shopping program 11 to register an account on the cloud server 2. After the user registers, the cloud server 2 automatically generates a pair of shopping lists 21 that should account.

Next, in step 42, the user operates the mobile device 1 to execute the shopping program 11 in daily life, scans the barcode of an article containing a barcode to obtain a pair of barcodes and includes an article name and a The item identification information of the category tag is transmitted to the cloud server 2. Wherein, the barcode may be a linear barcode or a matrix barcode.

For example, if the user has an interest in purchasing "AA jeans" during shopping, the mobile device 1 may first operate the barcode of the AA jeans and transmit the corresponding item identification information to the cloud server 2.

Next, in step 43, the cloud server 2 searches the shopping platform server 3 for the plurality of selling prices corresponding to the items on the shopping platform server 3 according to the item name in the item identification information. And compare the prices to obtain a minimum price in the prices.

Next, in step 44, the cloud server 2 records the item identification information, the lowest selling price corresponding to the item identification information, and the shopping platform information corresponding to the corresponding shopping platform server to the shopping list 21, wherein the The shopping platform information includes the name of the shopping platform to which the shopping platform server 3 belongs.

Next, in step 45, the cloud server 2 further searches for the plurality of other items belonging to the same category as the item on the shopping platform server 3 according to the category mark, and correspondingly corresponding to the other items. The other item identification information searches for the respective selling prices of the other items on the shopping platform server 3, compares and obtains the lowest selling prices of the other items corresponding to the other items, and the same The other item identification information corresponding to at least one of the other items, the lowest selling price of the other items, and the shopping platform information corresponding to the shopping platform server 3 having the lowest selling price of the other items are recorded to the shopping list 21.

In particular, after steps 42 to 45 are repeated, the shopping list 21 records information about a plurality of items in which the user has an interest in purchasing. For example, refer to Table 1 below, which is an embodiment of the shopping list 21. Among them, the category corresponding to the AA jeans is marked as "trousers", and the lowest selling price is available in the RT-Mart shopping platform server 3. The shopping list 21 also includes three items belonging to the same category as the AA jeans, namely "BB casual pants", "CC cropped pants", and "DD shorts"; and the lowest selling price of the three items The shopping platform names corresponding to the shopping platform server 3 are Yahoo!, Aibu, and RT-Mart.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that the user can operate the mobile device 1 to execute the shopping program 11 to log in to the cloud server 2 to edit the shopping list 21, and delete items that have previously purchased interest but have no current purchase interest. The items stored in the shopping list 21 are all items of the user's current purchase interest.

Then, after step 45, the user has two ways to The shopping operation is performed, which are detailed in steps 46 and 47, respectively. At step 46, that is, the user operates the mobile device 1 to execute the shopping program 11 to log in to one of the shopping platform servers 3 for online shopping. After the user logs in, the mobile device 1 transmits a notification to the cloud server 2, and after receiving the notification, the cloud server 2, according to the shopping platform information corresponding to the logged-in shopping platform server 3, Searching the item identification information corresponding to the logged-in shopping platform server 3 in the item identification information recorded separately, and transmitting the item identification information to the logged-in shopping platform server 3 to generate a shopping corresponding to the logged in The purchase list of the platform server 3 enables the user to directly purchase at least one item of the shopping list 21 corresponding to the logged-in shopping platform server 3 on the logged-in shopping platform server 3 according to the purchase list. .

For example, referring to FIG. 3 and Table 1, the user logs in to the RT-Mart shopping platform server 3 for online shopping, and the mobile device 1 notifies the cloud server 2 to purchase the shopping list 21 corresponding to RT-Mart. The item identification information of the AA jeans, AA biscuits, and AA toothpaste of the platform server 3 is transmitted to the RT-Mart shopping platform server 3, so that the RT-Mart shopping platform server 3 can present the items of the above items in the purchase list shown in FIG. The name, category mark, and selling price are convenient for the user to purchase.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that, after the user records an item to the shopping list 21, the shopping operation may be performed after a short period of time, during which the minimum selling price of the item and the minimum selling price are available. The price of the shopping platform server 3 may have changed, so step 46 is In another embodiment, the cloud server 2 may be further searched on the shopping platform server 3 according to the item name of the at least one item corresponding to the logged-in shopping platform server 3 in the shopping list 21. The plurality of selling prices respectively corresponding to the items on the shopping platform server 3, and transmitting the lowest selling price of the selling prices and the shopping platform information corresponding to the shopping platform server 3 having the lowest selling price To the mobile device 1. Then, the user can operate the mobile device 1 to know whether the lowest selling price of the item changes, and can confirm whether to update the shopping list 21 on the cloud server 2, and whether to re-network shopping.

Referring to the example shown in FIG. 3, when the user logs in to the RT-Mart shopping platform server 3 for online shopping, the cloud server 2 is again in the AA jeans, AA biscuits, and AA toothpaste. The shopping platform server 3 searches for the selling price of each of the above items on the shopping platform server 3, and transmits the lowest selling price of each item and the corresponding shopping platform information to the mobile device 1, and The shopping program 11 of the mobile device 1 displays a prompt screen for the user to know whether the minimum selling price of each of the above items is changed.

At step 47, that is, the user can operate the mobile device 1 to perform physical shopping at a physical store of one of the shopping platform servers 3. At this time, the mobile device 1 downloads, from the cloud server 2, the item identification information of the at least one item of the shopping platform server 3 corresponding to the physical store in the shopping list 21, and an item set in the physical store. The management device performs electronic data interchange (EDI) to conveniently and quickly complete the entity at the entity store shopping. Taking the example shown in Table 1 as an example, when the user performs physical shopping at the physical store of RT-Mart, the mobile device 1 can be operated to download the shopping platform server corresponding to the RT-Mart in the shopping list 21 from the cloud server 2. 3 AA jeans, AA biscuits, and AA toothpaste article identification information, and electronic data exchange with the article management device to complete the purchase of the above three items.

In summary, the shopping method of the present invention enables the user to conveniently formulate a shopping plan by conveniently maintaining the shopping list 21 for the user in the cloud server 2, and conveniently shopping for each item. The platform server 3 buys the item at the lowest selling price, and can quickly complete the shopping and picking up at the physical store shopping, so the object of the present invention can be achieved.

However, the above is only the embodiment of the present invention, and the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, that is, the simple equivalent changes and modifications made by the patent application scope and the patent specification of the present invention are still It is within the scope of the patent of the present invention.

1‧‧‧ mobile device

11‧‧‧Shopping program

2‧‧‧Cloud Server

21‧‧‧ shopping list

3‧‧‧Shopping Platform Server

Claims (5)

A shopping method is jointly performed by a mobile device, a cloud server, and a plurality of shopping platform servers connected to each other through a network, the shopping method comprising the following steps: (a) scanning an item by the mobile device Obtaining a pair of item identification information that should be barcoded, and transmitting the item identification information to the cloud server; (b) searching, by the cloud server, the search server on the shopping platform server according to the item identification information a plurality of selling prices corresponding to the items on the shopping platform servers, and comparing the selling prices to obtain a lowest selling price of the selling prices; (c) repeating steps (a), (b) And accumulating the item identification information, the lowest selling price corresponding to the item identification information and the shopping platform information corresponding to the corresponding shopping platform server to a shopping list of the cloud server; and (d) by After the mobile device logs in to one of the shopping platform servers, a notification is sent to the cloud server, and after receiving the notification, the cloud server is based on the login shopping platform servo The item identification information corresponding to the information of the shopping platform, to such searches are recorded corresponding to the server platform is logged in the shopping item identification information, and transmitted to the server to be logged in shopping platform. The shopping method according to claim 1, further comprising a step (e): when the mobile device is connected to an item management device installed in an entity store When the electronic data exchange and the physical store correspond to one of the shopping platform servers, the mobile device downloads, from the cloud server, at least one item of the shopping platform server corresponding to the physical store in the shopping list. The item identification information is transmitted to the item management device. The shopping method of claim 2, wherein in step (a), the item identification information includes an item name, and the cloud server searches for the item on the shopping platform server according to the item name on the shopping platform. The corresponding price on the server. The shopping method of claim 3, wherein, in the step (a), the item identification information further includes a category tag, and the cloud server further searches for the item on the shopping platform server according to the category tag. a plurality of other items belonging to the same category, and searching for the price corresponding to the other items on the shopping platform servers according to the plurality of other item identification information corresponding to the other items, respectively, and comparing and obtaining The minimum selling price of the other items corresponding to the other items, and the identification information of other items corresponding to at least one of the other items, the lowest selling price of the other items, and the lowest selling price of the other items. The shopping platform information corresponding to the shopping platform server is recorded to the shopping list. The shopping method of claim 4, wherein, in step (d), the cloud server further searches for the item based on the item identification information of the at least one item of the shopping list server corresponding to the logged-in shopping platform server. Searching for the item on the platform server on the platform server Corresponding multiple selling prices, and transmitting the lowest selling price of the selling prices and the shopping platform information corresponding to the shopping platform server having the lowest selling price to the mobile device.