CN1841425A - Mobile terminal shopping method and system thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to the communication field, and discloses a mobile terminal shopping method and system thereof, which enable the mobile terminal to recognize the price, specification and name of physical goods, thereby providing payment and purchase functions for more types of goods. In the present invention, the corresponding barcode image of the commodity is captured by the camera of the mobile terminal, and the barcode image is analyzed to obtain commodity identification information and commodity description, thereby obtaining the price, name and specification information of the commodity; the barcode can be a two-dimensional barcode; for After determining the commodity to be purchased, the mobile terminal requests payment from the network payment subsystem. After the payment is successful, the network payment subsystem feeds back the payment success message to the mobile terminal user and the product sales terminal, thereby completing the shopping.

Description

Mobile terminal shopping method and system thereof

technical field

The present invention relates to the field of communication, in particular to mobile terminals such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants with wireless modules (Personal Digital Assistant, referred to as "PDA") for identification and purchase payment technology for commodities.

Background technique

With the continuous development of computer technology, barcode technology, as an automatic identification technology, has been widely used in the fields of commerce, postal services, library management, warehousing, industrial production process control, transportation, and identification. Because barcode technology has the advantages of fast input speed, high accuracy, low cost and strong reliability, it plays a very important role in today's automatic identification technology.

The basic principle of using barcode technology to realize automatic identification is to arrange bars and spaces according to certain rules, so as to form corresponding graphic symbols to represent specific text and data information, and these graphic symbols can be recognized by special identification devices to reproduce the representation of barcodes. information for automatic identification. Those of ordinary skill in the art should know that different arrangement rules correspond to different code systems, so the required identification devices are also different.

The current barcodes can be mainly divided into one-dimensional barcodes and two-dimensional barcodes. One-dimensional barcodes carry one-dimensional information, and two-dimensional barcodes carry two-dimensional information. From the perspective of information volume, what one-dimensional barcodes carry is mainly the coded information of commodities. Those skilled in the art should know that the above-mentioned coded information can only be represented by numbers or letters; two-dimensional barcodes can carry images of commodities. , Commodity information, manufacturer information, etc. These information can be represented by text or images, so the amount of information carried by a two-dimensional barcode is more than that of a one-dimensional barcode.

Usually, one-dimensional barcodes use fixed-length bar-space sequences to represent the coding information of commodities. When using a one-dimensional barcode, it is necessary to establish a special database, and establish a corresponding relationship between the information code represented by the barcode graphic and the commodity information in the database in the database. The information is transmitted to the database, and then according to the corresponding relationship, the information of the corresponding commodity can be called out from the database for further operation and processing.

Since the one-dimensional barcode needs to extract information by linking to the database to clarify the meaning of the information expressed by the barcode, one-dimensional barcodes cannot be used in places where there is no database or where it is inconvenient to connect to the Internet. In addition, one-dimensional barcodes can only represent numbers or letters. Represent text and images, so two-dimensional barcodes gradually appeared. Two-dimensional barcodes can represent information in both horizontal and vertical directions. Not only can they represent more information than one-dimensional barcodes in the same range, but they can also represent text and images.

At present, two-dimensional barcodes can be mainly divided into stacked two-dimensional barcodes and matrix two-dimensional barcodes. Among them, the stacked two-dimensional barcode is developed from the one-dimensional barcode, and is usually stacked by multiple short-cut one-dimensional barcodes. However, due to the increase in the number of lines, the identification of lines and decoding algorithms are different from those of one-dimensional barcodes. Currently commonly used stacked 2D barcodes mainly include PDF417, Code16K, Supercode, Code49, etc. The matrix two-dimensional barcode is composed in the form of a matrix. The presence or absence of dots on the corresponding element positions of the matrix is used to represent binary 0 or 1, and the meaning of the barcode is expressed according to different combinations of dots. Those of ordinary skill in the art should know that the above-mentioned dots may be circular dots or square dots. At present, the matrix two-dimensional barcodes that are widely used mainly include DataMatrix, Maxicode, Vericode, Softstrip, Code1, Philips Dot Code, etc.

The above briefly introduces the principle and main classification of barcodes, and the following will briefly describe the current usual barcode recognition process. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a system using barcodes for transactions in the prior art. As shown in the figure, it mainly consists of three modules: a barcode recognition module 10 , a barcode decryption module 11 and an operation processing module 12 .

Among them, the barcode recognition module 10 is mainly used to recognize the barcode pattern and obtain the original barcode data information, which can usually be realized by a barcode scanner or a data collector.

The barcode decryption module 11 mainly performs a decryption operation on the barcode data information identified by the above-mentioned barcode recognition module 10 . Those skilled in the art should know that correct data information can only be obtained when the decryption algorithm is the same as the encryption algorithm. For one-dimensional barcodes, the decrypted data information indicates the coded information of the product, and the detailed information of the product is obtained through the correspondence between the coded information and the product information in the database; for two-dimensional barcodes, the decrypted data information can include Image information, product name, manufacturer information, time information, etc. of the commodity. If the data is not encrypted when the barcode is generated, this module is unnecessary.

The operation processing module 12 mainly performs operations on the decrypted commodities, such as warehouse-in and warehouse-out operations, printing invoices and other operations. Those of ordinary skill in the art should know that this module is mainly realized by a computer or a dedicated cash register.

When using the above-mentioned system to carry out transactions, the original data information of the bar code is first recognized by the bar code identification module 10, and then the information is sent to the bar code decryption module 11, and the original data information is decrypted to obtain the detailed information of the commodity. The operation processing module 12 completes the processing procedures such as the final outbound and inbound operation of commodities.

At the same time, with the development of communication technology, the application of mobile terminals such as mobile phones and PDAs is becoming more and more popular, and the SMS technology is becoming more and more mature. At present, SMS can be used to trigger the payment of service fees for some simple service services, so as to facilitate People purchase some services, such as weather forecast short messages, stock information short messages and other information services.

However, at present, mobile terminals cannot effectively identify the prices, specifications, and names of physical commodities such as food and clothing, resulting in the inability to pay and purchase physical commodities.

Contents of the invention

In view of this, the main purpose of the present invention is to provide a mobile terminal shopping method and its system, so that the mobile terminal can identify the price, specification and name of physical goods, thereby providing payment and purchase functions for more types of goods.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a mobile terminal shopping method, wherein the mobile terminal has a camera function, and the method includes the following steps:

A takes a barcode image through the mobile terminal, and the barcode contains commodity identification information and description information;

B, the mobile terminal parses the description information from the barcode image, and displays it to the user;

C. When the user confirms the purchase, the mobile terminal sends a payment request message to the network payment subsystem, and the message includes the commodity identification information;

D. The network payment subsystem responds to the payment request message, queries the price of the commodity according to the commodity identification information, completes the payment, and sends a payment success message to the mobile terminal and commodity sales terminal.

Wherein, the commodity description information includes the price, name and specification of the commodity; the payment request message also includes the price and quantity of the commodity.

In addition, when the mobile terminal is a prepaid user, the step D also includes the following sub-steps:

The network payment subsystem judges whether the account balance of the mobile terminal is greater than the price of the commodity, and if so, completes the payment; otherwise, sends a message to the mobile terminal indicating that the balance is insufficient.

In addition, the step B also includes the following sub-steps:

converting the barcode image information into a predefined data structure;

Organize the predefined data structure into user-readable text or image information.

The present invention also provides a mobile terminal shopping system, the system includes a mobile terminal, a network payment subsystem and a commodity sales terminal, wherein,

The mobile terminal also includes:

The camera is used to take images of barcodes, which contain product identification information and description information;

A parsing module, configured to parse out the commodity identification information and description information from the barcode image;

a display module, configured to display the explanatory information to the user;

An input module, configured to receive the user's purchase confirmation or purchase cancellation information for the commodity;

A network payment module, configured to send a payment request message to the network payment subsystem when the user confirms the purchase, and the message includes the commodity identification information;

The network payment subsystem is used to respond to the payment request message, query the price of the commodity according to the commodity identification information, complete the payment, and send a payment success message to the mobile terminal and commodity sales terminal.

Wherein, the commodity sales terminal is an automatic vending machine, which is used to provide corresponding commodities to the user in response to the payment success message from the network payment subsystem.

In addition, the commodity sales terminal is used to respond to the payment success message from the network payment subsystem, and display the information of the user's payment success to the salesperson.

In addition, the parsing module also includes:

A barcode image recognition submodule, configured to convert the barcode image information into a predefined data structure;

The information organizing sub-module is used to organize the predefined data structure into user-readable text or image information.

In addition, the network payment subsystem is also used to judge whether the account balance of the mobile terminal is greater than the price of the commodity when the mobile terminal is a prepaid user, and if so, complete the payment, otherwise send a message to the mobile terminal A message indicating insufficient balance.

In addition, the barcodes in the mobile terminal shopping method and the mobile terminal shopping system may be two-dimensional barcodes.

Through comparison, it can be found that the main difference between the technical solution of the present invention and the prior art is that the corresponding barcode image of the product is captured by the camera of the mobile terminal, and the barcode image is analyzed by the built-in analysis module of the mobile terminal to obtain product identification information and product information. Instructions, thereby obtaining the price, name and specification information of the commodity; the above-mentioned barcode can use a two-dimensional barcode with a large information capacity; for the commodity that needs to be purchased, the mobile terminal requests payment from the network payment subsystem, and the network will pay after the payment is successful The subsystem feeds back the successful payment message to the mobile terminal user and the commodity sales terminal, thereby completing the shopping.

The difference in this technical solution has brought obvious beneficial effects, that is, effectively identifying the price, name and specification information of the goods that mobile terminal users are interested in, and realizing the payment for more physical goods through the network payment subsystem and purchase functions.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is a system block diagram of using barcodes for transactions in the prior art;

2 is a schematic flow diagram of a mobile terminal shopping method according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a schematic structural diagram of a mobile terminal shopping system according to a fifth embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of mobile terminal shopping according to a sixth embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed ways

In order to make the object, technical solution and advantages of the present invention clearer, the present invention will be further described in detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

In general, the principle of the present invention is to use the camera of the mobile terminal to read the barcode pattern of the product into the mobile terminal, and add a built-in analysis module in the mobile terminal, thereby parsing out the corresponding information of the product and displaying it to the mobile terminal. The user, for the product that the user wishes to purchase, the mobile terminal requests payment from the network payment subsystem, and the network payment subsystem completes the payment after identification, and notifies the user of the mobile terminal and the commodity sales terminal. Thus, the present invention realizes the payment and purchase functions for physical goods through the camera and the built-in analysis module.

In principle, the present invention can use one-dimensional barcodes, but the information capacity of one-dimensional barcodes is relatively small. In order to carry more explanatory information (such as commodity names, commodity models, manufacturers, production dates, and quality guarantees) of more commodities with smaller barcodes, Years, etc.), it is more convenient to use a two-dimensional barcode.

As shown in Figure 2, the flow process of the first embodiment of the mobile terminal shopping method of the present invention is as follows:

First, at step 210, when the user finds a commodity that he is interested in or has already determined to purchase, the two-dimensional barcode image of the commodity is captured and saved through the mobile terminal. It should be pointed out that the two-dimensional barcode includes commodity identification information and description information. Among them, the identification information refers to the information that can uniquely identify the product, such as an identification number, which must achieve the function of uniquely identifying the product in the online payment subsystem.

Thereafter, enter step 220, the mobile terminal parses the description information from the two-dimensional barcode image, and displays it to the user. In this step, the two-dimensional barcode image of the product can be realized by adding an analysis module in the mobile terminal. The parsing module first converts the two-dimensional barcode image information into a predefined data structure; then organizes the predefined data structure into user-readable text or image information.

Those of ordinary skill in the art should know that such intelligible and identifiable information is generally represented by words or images.

Next, in step 230, the user confirms that the product needs to be purchased, and then sends a payment request message to the network payment subsystem through the mobile terminal. In the present invention, the payment request message includes the commodity identification information.

Thereafter, in step 240, the network payment subsystem responds to the payment request message, queries the price of the commodity according to the commodity identification information, and completes the payment. Those of ordinary skill in the art can understand that in this step, the payment can be realized by deducting the phone charge of the mobile terminal. However, it is not limited thereto, and the specific implementation manner may also be negotiated between the merchant and the mobile service operator. After successful payment, the above-mentioned network payment subsystem sends a payment success message to the mobile terminal and the commodity sales terminal.

In the second embodiment of the present invention, the above commodity description information includes the price, name and specification of the commodity. Of course, those skilled in the art can understand that other information can be included in the product description information.

In the third embodiment of the present invention, a further supplement is made to the payment request message in step 230, the message includes the price and quantity of the commodity, which can clarify the purchase intention of the mobile terminal user more clearly.

In the fourth embodiment of the present invention, the mobile terminal is a prepaid mobile phone user, in this case, step 240 is implemented in this way: the network payment subsystem judges whether the account balance of the mobile terminal is greater than the price of the commodity, if If yes, the payment is completed; otherwise, a message prompting that the balance is insufficient is sent to the mobile terminal.

The fifth embodiment of the mobile terminal shopping system of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIG. 3 .

As shown in the figure, in this embodiment, the system includes a mobile terminal, a network payment subsystem, and a commodity sales terminal.

The mobile terminal includes a camera, an analysis module, a display module, an input module and a network payment module, wherein the analysis module is newly added in the present invention. The functions and interrelationships of each module are described in detail below.

The camera is used to capture the two-dimensional barcode image of the commodity. As mentioned above, the two-dimensional barcode contains commodity identification information and description information. The parsing module is used for parsing out the product identification information and description information from the two-dimensional barcode image, making them into text or image information readable by users. The display module is used to display the description information to the user, and the payment success message sent back by the network payment subsystem to the mobile terminal. The input module is used for receiving purchase confirmation or purchase cancellation information of the product from the user. The network payment module is used to send a payment request message to the network payment subsystem when the user confirms the purchase. As mentioned above, the payment request message includes the commodity identification information.

The network payment subsystem in the present invention is used to respond to the payment request message of the mobile terminal user, query the price of the commodity according to the commodity identification information, and complete the payment. It should be noted that, the payment process in this step can be realized by using the relatively perfect method of deducting mobile terminal phone charges in the prior art, or it can be negotiated by the merchant and the mobile service operator. After the payment is successful, the network payment subsystem will send a payment success message to the mobile terminal and the commodity sales terminal.

In this embodiment, the commodity sales terminal may be an automatic vending machine, which responds to the payment success message from the network payment subsystem and provides corresponding commodities to the user. It can also be a counter with a salesperson. In this case, the commodity sales terminal will respond to the payment success message from the network payment subsystem, display the information of the user's successful payment to the salesperson, and instruct to provide corresponding commodities to the mobile terminal user.

Fig. 4 shows the sixth embodiment of the mobile terminal shopping system of the present invention. In this embodiment, the parsing module is composed of a two-dimensional barcode image recognition submodule and an information sorting module. Others are the same as the fifth embodiment, and are not mentioned here. Let me repeat.

In this embodiment, the two-dimensional barcode image recognition sub-module is used to convert the commodity two-dimensional barcode image information captured by the camera into a predefined data structure; the information organizing module is used to organize the predefined data structure into a user-readable text or image information.

According to the content mentioned above, it can be understood that in the mobile terminal shopping system proposed by the present invention, the product description information may include the price, name and specification of the product; the payment request message may also include the price and quantity of the product. And, when the mobile terminal is a prepaid user, the network payment subsystem will also judge whether the account balance of the mobile terminal is greater than the price of the commodity, if yes, then complete the payment, otherwise send a message indicating that the balance is insufficient to the mobile terminal .

The structure of the mobile terminal shopping system proposed by the invention and the functions and associations of each part have been explained and illustrated above, and its dynamic working process will be briefly described below. First, the camera of the mobile terminal acquires the two-dimensional barcode image of the product that the user is interested in or determines to purchase, and converts it into recognizable and understandable information through the built-in analysis module, and displays it on the display module. After the mobile terminal user confirms that he needs to purchase the product, he confirms the purchase through the input module, and the network payment module sends a payment request message containing the product identification information to the network payment subsystem, and the network payment subsystem responds to the payment request message, according to the product identification The information queries the price of the product, and realizes the payment by deducting the phone charge of the mobile terminal, etc., and finally sends a payment success message to the mobile terminal and the product sales terminal.

Although the present invention has been illustrated and described with reference to certain preferred embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the present invention. The spirit and scope of the invention.

Claims (10)

1. A mobile terminal shopping method, wherein the mobile terminal has a camera function, It is characterized in that the method comprises the following steps: A takes a barcode image through the mobile terminal, and the barcode contains commodity identification information and description information; B, the mobile terminal parses the description information from the barcode image, and displays it to the user; C. When the user confirms the purchase, the mobile terminal sends a payment request message to the network payment subsystem, and the message includes the commodity identification information; D. The network payment subsystem responds to the payment request message, queries the price of the commodity according to the commodity identification information, completes the payment, and sends a payment success message to the mobile terminal and commodity sales terminal. 2. The mobile terminal shopping method according to claim 1, wherein the product description information includes the price, name and specification of the product; the payment request message also includes the price and quantity of the product. 3. The mobile terminal shopping method according to claim 1, wherein the barcode can be a two-dimensional barcode. 4. mobile terminal shopping method according to claim 1, is characterized in that, when described mobile terminal is a prepaid user, described step D also comprises the following sub-steps: The network payment subsystem judges whether the account balance of the mobile terminal is greater than the price of the commodity, and if so, completes the payment; otherwise, sends a message to the mobile terminal indicating that the balance is insufficient. 5. mobile terminal shopping method according to claim 1, is characterized in that, described step B also comprises following sub-step: converting the barcode image information into a predefined data structure; Organize the predefined data structure into user-readable text or image information. 6. A mobile terminal shopping system, characterized in that, The system includes a mobile terminal, a network payment subsystem and a commodity sales terminal, wherein, The mobile terminal also includes: The camera is used to take images of barcodes, which contain product identification information and description information; A parsing module, configured to parse out the commodity identification information and description information from the barcode image; a display module, configured to display the explanatory information to the user; An input module, configured to receive the user's purchase confirmation or purchase cancellation information for the commodity; A network payment module, configured to send a payment request message to the network payment subsystem when the user confirms the purchase, and the message includes the commodity identification information; The network payment subsystem is used to respond to the payment request message, query the price of the commodity according to the commodity identification information, complete the payment, and send a payment success message to the mobile terminal and commodity sales terminal. 7. The mobile terminal shopping system according to claim 6, wherein the commodity sales terminal is an automatic vending machine, which is used to provide corresponding commodities to the user in response to the payment success message from the network payment subsystem. 8 . The mobile terminal shopping system according to claim 6 , wherein the commodity sales terminal is configured to respond to the payment success message from the network payment subsystem, and display the information of the user's payment success to the salesperson. 9. mobile terminal shopping system according to claim 6, is characterized in that, described parsing module also comprises: A barcode image recognition submodule, configured to convert the barcode image information into a predefined data structure; The information organizing sub-module is used to organize the predefined data structure into user-readable text or image information. 10. The mobile terminal shopping system according to claim 6, wherein the network payment subsystem is also used for judging whether the account balance of the mobile terminal is greater than that of the commodity when the mobile terminal is a prepaid user Price, if yes, then complete the payment, otherwise send a message prompting insufficient balance to the mobile terminal.

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