WO2002019187A1

WO2002019187A1 - Multilingual shopping method, multilingual shopping system, and brokerage computer

Info

Publication number: WO2002019187A1
Application number: PCT/JP2000/005795
Authority: WO
Inventors: Seiho Matsuoka
Original assignee: Seiho Matsuoka
Priority date: 2000-08-28
Filing date: 2000-08-28
Publication date: 2002-03-07
Also published as: AU2000267328A1

Abstract

A multilingual shopping system for e-shopping by which the user of one of different countries can do e-shopping as if the user were in the user's country. Virtual shop brokerage computers (1a, 1b, 1c, ) are distributed in countries and connected to the Internet (2). In response to an access made through a terminal (3) by the user, a virtual shop brokerage computer in the country of the terminal (3) provides the terminal (3) with a country icon used for specifying a language and with commodity advertisement in the specified language. The virtual shop brokerage computer (1a) of the country of the user receives information on a commodity (Ai) purchased through the terminal (3) and the individual information (Bi) on the terminal (3), and sends the information on the commodity (Ai) and the information represented by the language of the country of the virtual shop brokerage computer that provides the commodity (Ai) to the virtual shop brokerage computer.

Description

Description Multilingual shopping method, multilingual shopping system, and mediation computer

The present invention relates to a multilingual shopping method and system that allows e-shopping to be performed as if foreigners of different races were in each country. Background art

In recent years, shopping has become possible using the Internet. For example, when using amazon.com or Rakuten, the manufacturer's computer provides a product advertisement to amazon.com or Rakuten server.

Then, the user operates the user's computer to access amazon.com or the Rakuten site to order a desired product.

In other words, such an amazon.com site displays products of various genres purchased by the company, provides them to users, and accepts orders. Rakuten also enables auctions between users and sells mail-order at discounted prices.

In such shopping using the Internet, advertisements are made in their own language (for example, Japan) even if the product is overseas (for example, the United States).

However, there are various races in one country. For example, Japan In the country, there are Americans, Koreans, Chinese, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, French, and Germans.

Even if such a person of different nationality sees a product such as amazon.com in Japan, it generally takes time to understand the advertising content of the product because it is in Japanese (English). May not understand.

Therefore, when a foreigner was in Japan, there was a problem that the foreigner could not do network shopping as if he were in his own country. Therefore, e-shoving was made possible on the network. Even so, it reduced purchasing motivation.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a multilingual shopping system in which foreigners of different races can perform e-shopping as if they were in each country. With the goal. Disclosure of the invention

In the multilingual shopping method according to the present invention, a server is arranged in each country using different languages to connect to a network, and the network is supplied with advertisement information of merchandise of domestic tenants. This is a shopping method in which a terminal for each tenant and a purchaser terminal are connected to purchase the product.

The terminal for each tenant in each country transmits the advertising information of the product in the language of the country to the domestic server via the network; In addition to accumulating advertising information on the product from the terminal of the Transmitting the advertisement information of the product of another country from the server of another country written in the language of the other country to the buyer terminal; And translating the advertisement information of the product into a language designated by the purchaser and providing the translated information.

In addition, the multilingual shopping system of the present invention provides a server in each country that uses a different language to connect to a network, and an advertisement for a product of the domestic tenant on the network. This is a shopping system in which a terminal for each tenant for supplying information and a purchaser terminal are connected to purchase the product.

The terminal for each tenant in each country comprises: means for transmitting the advertisement information of the product in the language of the country to the domestic server via the network; and the server in each country comprises: The advertisement information of the product from the terminal is stored in a database, and the advertisement information of the product is transmitted to a server in all other countries connected to the network or written in a language of another country. Means for accumulating advertisement information of products of another country from a server of another country on the database;

Means is to provide means for translating and storing the stored advertisement information of products from the home country or another country into a language designated by the purchaser of the purchaser terminal. .

Further, the brokerage computer according to the present invention is a computer for a plurality of brokerage computers which are arranged in each country using different languages and are connected to a network, and for each tenant in each country connected to the network. Means for prompting entry of product advertising information in the language of the country, storing the product advertising information from the terminal of each domestic tenant in a database, and advertising the product. Information is connected to the network Means for storing, in the database, advertisement information of products of another country transmitted from a server in another country written in a language of the other country to the server of all other countries, Or means for translating and providing advertisement information of products from other countries into a language designated by the purchaser of the purchaser terminal. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a multilingual shopping method according to the first embodiment. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of a home screen of a shopping mall. FIG. 3 is a multilingual shopping system. FIG.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram for explaining the generation of data in the country sorting section.

FIG. 5 is a sequence diagram for explaining the operation of the multilingual shopping system.

FIG. 6 is a sequence diagram illustrating the operation of the multilingual shopping system.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory view illustrating a screen Di for specifying a language in each country of the world shopping mall.

FIG. 8 is a schematic configuration diagram of a brokerage computer. BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

[Embodiment 1]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a multi-word shopping method according to the first embodiment. In this method, the virtual store 舖仲 brokerage computer 1a, lb, lc,… is expanded to multinational countries, connected to the Internet 2, and accessed from the user's terminal 3. The store brokerage computer provides country-specific icons to the terminal 3 to specify the language, and offers product advertisements in each country in the language of the specified country.

Then, the virtual store brokerage computer 1a in its own country receives the product A i purchased by the terminal 3 and the user information B i of the terminal 3 and the like, and provides the virtual store brokerage in the corresponding country that provided the product A i. The product is converted to the language of the country where the product A i is provided and sent to the computer.

The virtual store brokerage show in the country receiving the product A i and the personal information B i (e-mail address, ID, telephone number, address, name, country, etc.) of the terminal 3 provided the product A i The information is sent to the dealer, and the product and the information are sent to the International TA-Q-BIN5 to be delivered to the buyer. For example, in Fig. 1, in the case where virtual store brokerage computers (hereinafter simply referred to as brokerage computers) are located in countries A, B, and C in addition to their own country, the buyers in their own country will be able to use Tenant). A user in the home country operates the terminal 3 to access the virtual store brokerage computer 1a in the home country (purchase country), and obtains, for example, the terminal 3 in the shopping mall screen of the world shown in (a) of FIG.

This screen is provided after the Japanese icon is selected from the national language specification screen D i (not shown) that has a language specification icon for each country to specify the language. In Fig. 2 (a), an example of displaying a world-wide shopping mall screen V i that has a plurality of various shopping mall icons vi (va, vb, vc, one) in the original language Shows are doing. (B) in Fig. 2 is an example when the shopping mall icon Vb in Hong Kong is selected, and a screen in which various advertisements of Hong Kong tenants can be obtained in Japanese (Tenants by country) Advertising screen Hi).

In other words, this means that, for example, when people of different nationalities in Japan shop online using the Internet, they can see the products of each country in the same language as their own country. As a result, the tenants in each country that subscribes to this system increase their profits because they are more willing to purchase.

Next, a specific configuration of the multilingual shopping method described above will be described as a second embodiment.

[Embodiment 2]

FIG. 3 is a schematic configuration diagram of a multilingual shopping system according to the second embodiment. As shown in Fig. 3, the Internet 2 has a user terminal 3 (3a.3b, · ■■) in each country and an intermediary computer la, lb, lc…, and a tenant terminal 6a in each country. , 6b, 6c ..., 7a, 7b, 7c ... and 8a, 8b, 8c ... are connected.

The brokerage computer 1a in its own country, the brokerage computer 1b in country A, the brokerage computer 1 in country B, and the brokerage computer 1d in country C have the same functions. In the present embodiment, the structure will be described by taking a brokerage store in the home country as a representative.

As shown in Fig. 3, the home computer 1a in the home country has a homepage 10 on the national language designation screen D1 with language designation icons for each country to designate the language, and a shopping mall in each country. eye co-down _{_{V i (va, vb, vc}} , -) and the homepage 1 1 in the world the Shopping Mall screen V i having a plurality of, advertising off of each tenant of the country Airu 1 2 a, 1 2 b , 12 c,…, etc., which are linked.

Further, the middleman computer 1a includes a designated language conversion processing section 13, an order reception processing section 14, a country-specific sorting processing section 15, an order destination country language conversion processing section 16, and the like.

The designated country language conversion processing section 13 decodes the type of the icon di (d, db.,...) Of the designated country on the national language designation screen D i of the terminal 3 and carries out world shopping. When providing the mall screen V i, convert it to the language of the country where it was decoded.

In other words, the designated language conversion processing unit 13 has a translation software corresponding to each language designation icon. When the language designation icon is selected, the translation software is activated to perform language conversion, and Let the user's terminal 3 provide it. When the product Ai is specified in the advertisement page of the tenant in each country, the order reception processing section 14 orders the product data of the product Ai (product name, ordering country, ordering country, tenant name, quantity). Etc.) and personal information (collectively referred to as purchasing user information) including the user's terminal 3 mail address, passcode, ID, etc., and the mail address and ID of the purchasing user information are stored in advance. It is accepted when it exists in the user file. In other words, the order reception processing section 14 examines whether to accept access to this system.

The country sorting section 15 generates country sorting data F i obtained by sorting the purchase user information H i received by the order receiving section 14 by product country. As shown in Fig. 4 (a), each time the purchasing user information is input, the country-specific sorting section 16 stores the purchased product Ai, the name of the providing country, Generates user order decision data that associates tenant names with quantities. In other words, as for the products of each country purchased by the user from the home page of the world shopping mall screen Vi, products of different countries for each user are grouped.

Then, as shown in Fig. 4 (b), the user order determination data shows the purchaser's personal information ua, product name Ai, tenant name, quantity, etc. in the country where the product was provided (order destination country). The corresponding country sorting data F i (F a. F b,...) Is generated.

The order destination country language conversion processing unit 16 has translation software for converting to the language of each country for each country, converts the country sorting data F i into the language of the order destination country, and transmits this to the transmission processing unit ( (Not shown). For example, translate country, tenant, and product names into the language of the country.

In addition, each brokerage computer is a distributed database system that expresses information in a hypertext format, enabling information on the Internet to be obtained in a unified manner. Has a structure in which a boyfriend is embedded in the text and jumps to related information from there. The information is described in HTML, and by specifying a point-to-point link to the server. Jump to new text files one after another to get the information you need.

The multilingual shopping system configured as described above will be described with reference to the sequence diagrams in FIGS.

In this system, each time a tenant in each country renews an advertisement for a product, the new advertisement data is transferred to the brokerage computer in each country.

For example, in FIG. 5, a tenant (retail store) in Country B sends new product advertisement data ai to the brokerage computer ic in Country B via Internet 2 (d1). The brokerage computer 1b in Country B stores the advertisement data ai. In other words, you get a new advertising file.

The computer B in country B sends the advertising data ai to the computer 1b in country A, the computer 1d in country C and the computer 1b in its own country (d2, d3, d Four ) . In other words, the brokerage computers in Country A, Country C, and in their own country will also have new advertising data a i transmitted by the tenant in Country B, similar to the brokerage computer 1b in Country B.

Also, the tenant (retail store) in Country C sends the advertisement data b i of the new product to the brokerage computer 1 d in Country C via the Internet 2 (d5) o

The brokerage computer Id in Country C stores this advertising data b i. That is, you get a (new) notification file.

Then, the broker computer Id of the country C transmits the advertisement data bi to the broker computer lb of the country A, the broker computer lc of the country B, and the broker computer 1a of its own country (d6, d 7, d8). In other words, the brokerage computers of countries A, B, and own country also have new advertising data b i transmitted by the tenant of country C, similar to the brokerage computer 1d of country C.

In this way, the brokerage computer of each country stores the advertisement data of the tenant of each country in the database.

Then, as shown in FIG. 6, for example, the user terminal 3 in the home country accesses the mediation computer 1a in the home country (d10), and from the mediation computer 1a in the home country, the terminal 1 of the world shopping mall starts. Obtain the language-specific screen Di (d11). As shown in Fig. 7, each language selection screen D i The language designation icon di consisting of the country's national flag and the name of the country in the language of each country is preferred. In addition, for the above access, the order acceptance processing unit 14 examines the above explanation.

On this language designation screen D i, the user selects the language designation icon di of the country to which he is usually used (d 12). The designated country language change processing unit 13 reads the selected language designation icon di, and provides the world shopping mall screen V i converted into the language of the designated country (d13). For example, the world shopping screen shown in Fig. 2 (a) is provided.

Next, on the world shopping mall screen V i, when the user selects a shopping mall icon V i in any country of any country (d 14), the tenant in each of the selected countries is selected. Providing a country-specific tenant advertisement screen H i in which the advertisement has been converted to the language specified by the language specification icon di (d 15

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Next, the user designates a desired advertisement from the country-specific tenant advertisement screen Hi specified on the world shopping mall screen Vi and purchases the product (d16). The purchase on this screen H i is made for each advertisement by returning to the country tenant advertisement screen H i, or by returning to the world shopping mall screen V i to purchase the goods of the tenant in another country. Or to buy. The language of the advertisement at this time is in the language specified by the user.

These purchasing user information is accumulated by the brokerage computer 1a in its own country, and the country sorting processor 15 generates user order determination data as shown in, for example, (a) of FIG. Then, the purchase judgment processing unit 18 calculates the number of products and the total price of the user order determination data, and makes an inquiry to the financial institution using this as settlement information (d17). ', Available for purchase The judgment result (examination) of the ability is notified to the user (dl8). Then, when it is determined that the purchase is possible (d19), the country sorting data Fi as shown in (b) of FIG. 4 is generated for each user.

Next, the country-specific sorting data F i is converted into the language of the order destination by the translation software provided for each country in the language conversion processing section 16 of the order destination country, and is ordered to the middle-man computer in the order destination country. (D20).

For example, depending on the merchandise, an order is placed with a brokerage computer in countries A, B and C. The brokerage computer of the order receiving the order data distributes the order data to the corresponding tenant via the Internet, sorting the products by the name of the tenant who provided the product (d21).

The tenant in the country that has received the order data sends the order data (ordering country name, product name, e-mail address, address, name, quantity) to International TA-Q-BIN to have the goods shipped.

For this shipment, if the goods ordered are stored on the International TA-Q-BIN side, the order data and the sender data are transmitted on the Internet. Alternatively, contact the International TA-Q-BIN company to collect the goods, perform customs clearance, and deliver them to the user in the ordering country. Then, a delivery completion notice is sent to the middleman in the country where the order was received after the delivery (d22). Upon receiving the delivery completion notice, the broker computer communicates with the user's (buyer's) financial institution on a predetermined date to make a withdrawal request. In other words, the brokerage computer has a function to make a screening request based on personal information and credit information of the company to determine whether it can be sold, and to generate a payment database for the user or company that has been approved.

That is, as shown in Fig. 8, the brokerage computer is roughly divided into an ordering system 20 and an order receiving system 21. The ordering system 20 For example, a mall in Country A, a mall in Country B, a mall in Country C, etc. are stored, and these malls store product advertisements for each country, and these product advertisements are selected by the user terminal 3 In addition, users are sorted by country for each user, and orders (order data) are placed in the corresponding country.

In addition, when receiving order data from a brokerage computer (1a, 1b, 1c or 1d) in another country, the order receiving system 21 sorts by tenant who provided the product indicated by the order data. And tenant-specific sorting processing 21a for transmitting shipping instruction data to each tenant.

In addition, there is a process 21b that informs the user that the product has been delivered to the user by International TA-Q-BIN (shipping information) from the tenant and informs the brokerage computer in the country where the product was ordered of the shipping mail by a shipping e-mail. I have.

In addition, when the ordering system 21 receives the shipping e-mail from the brokerage computer in the country where the product is provided, the ordering system 21 translates the mail after the home country and notifies the user by e-mail (shipped mail).

Therefore, it is possible for foreigners to perform network shopping at the same time from various countries as if they were in their own country, and to ensure that the tenant of the country that delivered the product to the buyer in the foreign country Can be notified that both parties have passed, so that both parties can conduct international shopping with confidence. Industrial applicability

As described above, according to the shopping method of the present invention, a server is connected to a network in each country using a different language, and the server in each country can advertise a product of a tenant in each country. Information is collected in the language of the country, and for buyer terminals connected to the network, It translates and provides advertising information for tenant products into the language specified by the buyer.

As a result, foreigners of different races can purchase products from overseas or domestic tenants as if they were in each country, which has the effect of increasing the willingness to purchase.

In addition, according to the multilingual shopping system, a server is located in each country that uses different languages to connect to the network, and a tenant that supplies the network with advertising information of domestic tenant products. Each terminal and the purchaser's terminal are connected, and the server of each country collects the advertisement information of the product of the tenant of each country in the language of that country, and the buyer connected to the network For the terminal, it translates the advertising information of the products of the tenants in each country into the language specified by the buyer and provides it.

For this reason, foreigners of different races can purchase products from overseas or domestic tenants as if they were in each country, and this has the effect of providing a global system that can increase purchase motivation. Have been obtained.

In particular, the server provides the purchaser's terminal with a language designation screen having a plurality of language designation icons on the purchaser's terminal. In this screen, the server translates the language into a desired language and provides advertisement information of the product in the desired country. I have.

For this reason, foreigners of different races can read product advertising information simply by operating the icons as if they were in each country.

Further, the server sorts the products for each purchaser and every day in the country in which the product is provided, and transmits the data as order data of the product of the buyer in the home country to the server in the country that provided the product.

Because of this, you can buy different products at once The effect of being able to do is obtained.

Further, according to the brokerage computer of the present invention, the advertisement information of the products of the tenants in each country is collected in the language of the country, and the purchaser terminal connected to the network receives the advertisement information of each country. It translates the advertising information of the tenant's product into the language specified by the buyer and provides it.

This has the effect of making it possible for foreigners of different ethnicities to purchase products from overseas or domestic tenants as if they were in their respective countries in the middle of the mediation. .

In addition, each country's language designation screen having a plurality of language designation icons is provided to the purchaser's terminal, and this screen is translated into a desired language to provide advertisement information for products in the desired country. .

For this reason, foreigners of different races can read product advertising information simply by operating icons as if they were in each country.

In addition, the products are sorted for each purchaser and each day in the country in which the product is provided, and this is transmitted to the server in the country that provided the product as order data of the product of the buyer in the home country.

This has the effect that different products can be purchased at one time across multiple countries.

Claims

The scope of the claims

1. A server is located in each country that uses different languages to connect to the network, and a terminal for each tenant and a purchaser terminal that supply advertising information of domestic tenant products to the network. A shopping method for purchasing the product by connecting

The terminal for each tenant in each country transmits the advertisement information of the product in the language of the country to the domestic server via the network, and the server in each country transmits each tenant in the country. The advertisement information of the product from the terminal of the other country is stored, and the advertisement information of the product is transmitted to the server of all other countries or the other country from the server of the other country written in the language of the other country. The process of accumulating advertising information for

A step of translating the accumulated advertisement information of the product from the home country or another country into a language designated by the purchaser and providing the translated advertisement information. Ping method.

2. The products purchased by operating the buyer terminal are sorted by purchaser and by product country, and this is used as the order data for the product by the buyer in their own country, and the country that provided the product. 2. The multilingual shopping method according to claim 1, further comprising: transmitting to the server.

3. When the server receives order data from another country, the server allocates the order data to the tenant indicated by the order data.

The multilingual shopping method described in Paragraph 1 or Paragraph 2 which has a special language.

4. Servers are located in each country that uses different languages to connect to the network, and the products of the domestic tenants are connected to the network. A terminal for each tenant that supplies the advertisement information of the tenant and a purchaser terminal for purchasing the product, wherein the terminal for each tenant in each country is: Means for transmitting the advertisement information of the product in the language to the domestic server via the network; and the server in each country, the database of the advertisement information of the product from the terminal of each tenant in the country And transmits the advertisement information of the product to a server in all other countries connected to the network or another server from another country written in a language of another country. Means for accumulating advertising information on national products in said database;

Means for translating the accumulated advertisement information of the product from the home country or another country into a language specified by the purchaser of the purchaser terminal and providing the translated information;

A multilingual shopping system characterized by having:

5. The server is

Means for providing, to the purchaser terminal, a country language designation screen having a plurality of language designation icons for designating a language for each country by access from the purchaser terminal in the country;

A translation software is provided for each of the language designation icons, and the accumulated advertisement information of the tenants in each country is linked to the language designation icon designated on the language designation screen for each country. Means to translate and provide with a translation software

The multilingual shopping system according to item 4, characterized by having

6. The server

Each time a product in the language translated by the translation software is purchased at the purchaser terminal in the country, the product is accumulated and stored for each purchaser and for the product. Means for sorting the goods in the providing country every day, and transmitting this as order data of the goods of the purchaser in the home country to the server in the country which provided the goods; Multilingual shopping system described in section.

7. When the server receives order data from another country, the server assigns the order data to the tenant indicated by the order data.

7. The multilingual shocking system according to paragraph 4, 5 or 6, characterized by having:

8. The server, when the delivery company notifies the buyer in the order destination country of the completion of delivery of the product, notifies the tenant terminal of the country of the completion of delivery, and

9. The multilingual shopping system according to any one of paragraphs 4 to 5, 5 or 6, characterized by having:

9. A plurality of brokerage computers connected to and connected to networks using different languages,

Means for prompting the terminal for each tenant in each country connected to the network to input advertising information of the product in the language of the country;

The advertisement information of the product from the terminal of each tenant in Japan is stored in a database, and the advertisement information of the product is transmitted to a server in all other countries connected to the network or otherwise. Means for storing, in said database, advertising information of products of another country from a server of another country written in the language of that country;

A brokerage computer characterized by having:

1 0. The brokerage computer

Means for providing, to the purchaser terminal, a country language designation screen having a plurality of language designation icons for designating a language for each country by accessing from the purchaser terminal in the country;

A translation software is provided for each of the language designation icons, and the accumulated advertisement information of the tenants of each country is linked to the language designation icon designated on the language designation screen of each country. Means to translate and provide with a translation software

10. The mediation computer according to item 9, wherein the computer has:

1 1.

Each time a product in the language translated by the translation software is purchased at the purchaser terminal in the country, the product is accumulated and sorted for each purchaser and each day of the country in which the product is provided. Means for transmitting to the server in the country that provided the product as order data of the product of the buyer of the item (c), wherein the middleman computer c.

12. The brokerage computer, when receiving order data from another country, allocates the data to the tenant indicated by the order data.

26. The brokerage computer according to paragraph 9, paragraph 10, paragraph 11, or paragraph 11, characterized by having: