JP2002015197A - Electronic shopping system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To give privilege like discount of the amount of money for purchase to a purchaser meeting a privilege allowance condition preliminarily set at a shop in an electronic shopping system where a user can establish a connection to a virtual shop or shopping district over a network to purchase commodities or services. SOLUTION: The privilege allowance condition is set to a privilege allowance condition storage part 26 in a shop device (server) 2. For example, a condition that 2% discount is given at on increase of each 1,000,000 yen in the cumulative sales amount or a condition that 5% discount is given to the 1000th purchaser is preliminarily set as the privilege allowance condition. The sales amount or the number of purchasers is accumulated by an accumulation means 29. A privilege giving means 28 reports satisfaction of the condition and gives privilege to the purchaser whose sales amount has reached the privilege allowance condition or the purchaser by whom the cumulative number of purchasers has reached a prescribed number. If privilege is discount of the amount of money for purchase, this amount of money is discounted.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic shopping system capable of purchasing goods and services by connecting to virtual stores and shopping streets on a network. The present invention relates to an electronic shopping system capable of giving a privilege such as a discount of a purchase amount to a satisfied purchaser.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. Hei 10-78989 describes a point service system in a virtual shopping mall. This point service system includes means for issuing points according to a customer's shopping amount, means for storing points currently held by the customer, and means for reducing a customer's shopping payment amount according to the customer's point amount. And In addition, the point service system can set a point issue rate and a redemption rate for each of the shops constituting the virtual shopping mall.

[0003] Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 11-134408 describes an electronic shopping system in which an additional service can be presented according to a product to be purchased. Also, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 11-296587 describes an electronic mall server that can adopt a coupon system.

[0004]

In order to implement a privilege service (such as a discount) using points and coupons, the amount of points is managed for each customer, and issuance and use of various coupons are managed. In addition to this, an area for storing such management data is required. In order to provide an additional service for each product, it is necessary to define service contents in advance for each product. For this reason, an area for storing a large amount of data and a program for processing the large amount of data are required for performing the privilege service (discount), and the configuration of the electronic mall server and the like is complicated.

The present invention has been made to solve such a problem, and an object of the present invention is to provide an electronic shopping system capable of providing a privilege service with a simple configuration. More specifically, focusing on a store, when the store reaches a preset sales amount, the number of purchasers, etc.,
It is an object of the present invention to provide an electronic shopping system that can give a purchaser a privilege such as a discount.

[0006]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an electronic shopping system which stores a privilege provision condition storage unit for storing a preset privilege provision condition for a store, and satisfies a privilege provision condition. A privilege granting unit for granting a privilege to the purchaser.

[0007] The electronic shopping system according to the first aspect of the present invention provides a store with a privilege providing condition set in advance (for example, when the total purchase amount reaches a predetermined amount, for example, 100%).
For example, a purchaser who satisfies an individual purchaser can be given a privilege such as a discount on the purchase amount.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided an electronic shopping system which stores a target item for providing a privilege, a condition for generating a privilege, and a privilege granting condition storage unit for storing the contents of the privilege. The present invention comprises a totalizing means for totalizing the target items, and a privilege granting means for granting the contents of the privilege to the purchaser whose cumulative result satisfies the condition for generating the privilege.

The electronic shopping system according to the second aspect of the present invention accumulates, for a store, target items for granting benefits (for example, the total purchase amount, the total number of purchasers, and the like), and the cumulative result indicates a privilege generation condition. A privilege such as a discount on the purchase price can be given to a satisfied purchaser.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an electronic shopping system, wherein a sales amount accumulating means for accumulating sales amounts for a store, and a privilege is given to a purchaser when the accumulated amount of sales satisfies a preset condition. Privilege granting means. Thereby, when the cumulative sales amount of the store reaches the preset amount, a privilege such as a discount of the purchase amount can be given to the purchaser.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an electronic shopping system, comprising: a shop number accumulating means for accumulating the number of purchasers for a store; and a privilege for the purchaser when the cumulative number of purchasers reaches a preset condition. And a privilege granting means for granting Thus, when the cumulative number of purchasers is set in advance for the store, a privilege such as a discount on the purchase price can be given to the purchaser.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an electronic shopping system, comprising: a sales quantity accumulating means for accumulating a preset sales volume of a product for a store; and a purchaser when the cumulative sales quantity reaches a preset condition. And a privilege granting means for granting a privilege. Thereby, when the sales quantity of a specific product reaches a predetermined quantity, a privilege such as a discount on the purchase price can be given to the purchaser.

[0013]

Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Figure 1
1 is an overall block configuration diagram of an electronic shopping system according to the present invention.

[0014] The purchaser side device (client) 1 and the store (shopping mall) side device (server) 2 are connected via the Internet 3. Buyer's device (client) 1
Is an apparatus body 1 composed of a personal computer or the like.
1, an image display device 12 such as a CRT display device or a liquid crystal display device, an input device 13 such as a keyboard and a pointing device, and an auxiliary storage device 14 such as a floppy (registered trademark) disk device, a hard disk device, and a CD-ROM device. And a network interface unit (NWIF unit) 15 for transmitting and receiving data. A WWW browser (world wide web browser) 16 is incorporated in the apparatus main body 11.

The store-side device (server) 2 is a network interface unit (NWIF unit) for transmitting and receiving data.
21, a WWW server 22, a product information providing unit 23,
It includes a purchase processing unit 24, a database 25, a privilege granting condition storage unit 26, and a privilege granting unit 27. The privilege granting unit 27 includes a privilege granting unit 28 and a cumulative unit 29.
The database 25 includes a member database (member DB) 25a that stores various information about registered members, and a store database (store D) that stores various information about registered stores.
B) 25b, a product database (product DB) 25c storing various information on the product, purchase request date and time, purchaser,
A purchase database (purchase DB) 25d for storing various information related to purchase, such as a purchase store, a purchased product, a purchase price, a settlement method, and a delivery destination, is provided. This database 25
For example, it is configured using a hard disk device or the like. WW
W server 22, product information providing unit 23, purchase processing unit 24,
The privilege giving unit 27 and the like are configured by program control using a computer system for a server or the like.

The WWW server 22 has a WWW browser 16
Communicates with When the WWW server 22 receives a search request for a store or a product from the purchaser-side device (client) 1 (WWW browser 16), the WWW server 22 supplies the search request to the product information providing unit 23. The product information providing unit 23 accesses the database 25, generates page screen information including information serving as a response to the search request, and supplies the page screen information to the WWW server 22. The WWW server 22 transmits the page screen information and the like generated by the product information providing unit 23 to the purchaser-side device (client) 1 (WWW browser 16) that is the request source. As a result, the search result is displayed on the image display device 12 of the purchaser's device (client) 1. When the purchaser specifies a specific product, the store-side device (server) 2 provides detailed information of the specified product to the purchaser-side device (client) 1.

When the purchaser designates a product desired to be purchased, the purchase processing unit 24 in the store-side device (server) 2 generates page screen information for performing a purchase procedure and the like, and the purchaser-side device (client) 1 (WWW browser 16). The purchaser confirms the store, the product, the price, etc. based on the page screen for performing the purchase procedure, and specifies the purchase quantity, the delivery destination, the payment method, and the like. When the purchaser performs a purchase confirmation operation, the above-described various information related to the purchase request is transmitted to the store-side device (server) 2 and supplied to the purchase processing unit 24.

When a purchase request is supplied, the purchase processing unit 24 activates the privilege giving unit 27. The privilege granting unit 27 determines whether a condition for granting a privilege has been reached by this purchase request, and supplies the content of the privilege to the purchase processing unit 24 when the condition for granting the privilege has been reached. The privilege granting unit 27
If the cumulative amount of sales reaches, for example, an amount that gives a 10% discount privilege by this purchase request, the purchase processing unit 24 is informed that the 10% discount privilege is given. The purchase processing unit 24 calculates 10 based on the accumulated sales amount.
In addition to generating a message indicating that the privilege of the percent discount is given, a purchase confirmation screen in which the purchase price is discounted by 10 percent is generated and transmitted to the purchaser's device (client) 1 (WWW browser 16). Then, the purchase processing unit 24 causes the purchase database 25d to store various information related to the purchase request based on the purchase amount provided with the 10% discount privilege.

The privilege granting condition storage section 26 stores in advance the target items for granting the privilege, conditions for generating the privilege, and the contents of the privilege. Here, the target item for giving the privilege is the cumulative amount of sales for each store, and the condition for generating the privilege is that the cumulative amount of sales is, for example, 1,000,000, 200,000.
It is assumed that the time has been set to exceed one million yen. For example, the cumulative amount of sales is 1
5% for purchasers over 100,000 yen,
For example, it is assumed that 10% is set for the purchaser when the cumulative sales amount exceeds 10 million yen.

The accumulating means 29 in the privilege granting section 27 accumulates the target items based on the target items for granting the privilege. Here, the sales amount (purchase amount) is accumulated. The privilege granting unit 28 compares the cumulative result with the condition for generating the privilege, and determines whether or not to grant the privilege. Then, when the condition for generating the privilege is satisfied, the privilege granting unit 28 transmits the content of the privilege to the purchase processing unit 2.
Notify 4.

The contents of the privilege may be determined based on a game or the like. When the privilege provision condition is satisfied, a program such as a roulette game or a dice game is supplied from the store-side device (server) 2 to the purchaser-side device (client) 1. Then, the game is executed by the purchaser-side device (client) 1, and the result of the game is transmitted to the store-side device (server) 2. Based on the result of the game, any one of preset discount rates such as 2% discount, 5% discount, 10% discount, and 20% discount is determined.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing details of the privilege granting unit and the specific granting condition storage unit according to the first embodiment. The privilege granting unit 30 shown in FIG. 2 grants a privilege based on the cumulative amount of sales. The privilege grant condition storage unit 33 stores a condition (cumulative sales amount) for granting a privilege and the contents of the privilege (discount rate or discount amount) for each target store. For example, in the entire shopping district, a discount amount of 1000 yen is set for every 1 million yen of accumulated sales. In store A, a discount rate of 2% is set for every 500,000 yen of cumulative sales.
It is set that the store B does not execute the privilege service based on the accumulated sales amount. In store C, a discount rate of 5% is set for each one million yen of accumulated sales.

The privilege granting unit 31 is activated when a new purchase process is performed by the purchase processing unit 24. Upon receiving the purchase store and the purchase price from the purchase processing unit 24, the privilege granting unit 31 supplies the information to the sales amount accumulation unit 32. The sales amount accumulating means 32 accumulates the sales amount for each target store. Here, the total for each store and the total for the entire shopping street are made. For example, if the store A has a sales amount of, for example, 10,000 yen, the cumulative sales amount of the store A increases by 10,000 yen, and the cumulative sales amount of the entire mall also increases by 10,000 yen.

The privilege granting unit 31 accesses the privilege granting condition storage unit 33 and obtains, for example, the privilege granting condition of the store A and the privilege granting condition of the entire mall. Then, the privilege granting unit 31 determines whether or not the privilege granting condition is satisfied based on the cumulative sales amount of the store A accumulated by the sales amount accumulating unit 32 and the privilege granting condition of the store A. In addition, the privilege granting unit 31 determines whether or not the privilege granting condition is satisfied based on the total sales amount of the entire shopping street accumulated by the sales amount accumulating unit 32 and the privilege granting condition of the entire shopping street. When the privilege granting condition is satisfied, the privilege granting unit 31 supplies the content of the privilege to the purchase processing unit 24 to make the purchase amount discount.

For example, when a purchaser purchases at store A,
Is increased by more than 500,000 yen from the previous privilege granting point, a 2% discount privilege is granted to the purchaser. Further, as a result of the purchaser purchasing at any of the stores, if the cumulative sales amount of the entire shopping mall has increased by more than one million since the last privilege grant, the purchaser is discounted by a maximum of 1,000 yen. In addition, if the buyer obtains both the privilege at store A and the privilege at the entire shopping street at the same time,
Both benefits may be provided, or for example, only benefits at the store A may be provided, and benefits at the entire mall may be provided to the next purchaser. Alternatively, the discount amount corresponding to the discount rate of 2% of the store A may be compared with the discount amount of 1000 yen, and the one with the larger discount amount may be adopted.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the details of the privilege granting unit and the specific granting condition storage unit according to the second embodiment. The privilege granting unit 40 shown in FIG. 3 accumulates points according to the sales amount and grants the privilege. The privilege provision condition storage unit 43 stores point generation conditions, privilege generation conditions, and discount rates for each store. Here, store AA earns 1 point for every 100 yen of sales, and store BB earns 5 points for sales.
1 point for every 00 yen, 1000 for sales at store CC
An example in which one point is generated for each circle is shown. In addition, the store AA gets 2 every time the sales point reaches 100 points.
An example is shown in which a privilege of a percent discount is given, and the store BB gives a privilege of a 5% discount every time the sales point reaches 1000 points. The store CC shows an example in which a 2% discount is given each time the sales point reaches 100 points, and a 5% discount is given each time the sales point reaches 1000 points.

When the store and the sales amount of the store are supplied from the purchase processing section 24 via the privilege provision section 41, the sales point accumulation section 42 stores the point of the store stored in the privilege provision condition storage section 43. The sales points are calculated based on the occurrence conditions, and the total of the sales points is obtained to update the total number of points.

The privilege granting means 41 determines whether or not the privilege granting condition is satisfied based on the privilege generating condition of the store and the total number of points. If the privilege granting condition is satisfied, the privilege of the store is determined. The contents (discount rate) are supplied to the purchase processing unit 24, and the purchase amount is discounted.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing details of a privilege granting unit and a specific granting condition storage unit according to the third embodiment. The privilege granting unit 50 shown in FIG. 4 grants a privilege based on the total number of purchasers. The privilege granting condition storage unit 43 stores a privilege generating condition, a start date and time, and a discount rate for each store. Here, in the entire shopping district, a 5% discount privilege is given to every 1000th purchaser, and the store “a” accumulates the number of purchasers from 0:00 on the first day of every month to the 100th purchaser. A 2% discount privilege is given to the store b, and the total number of purchasers is 100
An example is shown in which a 2% discount privilege is granted to every purchaser, and the store c accumulates the number of purchasers every day from 0:00 and grants a 7% discount privilege to the seventh purchaser. ing. The hyphen in the column of the starting date and time of the entire shopping area indicates that the total number of persons is not reset (the total purchase from the point when the shopping area started the service (business)). The number of participants).

The privilege granting unit 51 is activated when a new purchase process is performed by the purchase processing unit 24. Upon receiving the purchase store information from the purchase processing section 24, the privilege provision section 51 supplies the information to the purchaser totaling section 52. The number-of-purchasers accumulating means 52 accumulates (+1) the number of purchasers at the store where the purchase has been made, and accumulates (+1) the number of purchasers of the entire shopping street. Further, the number-of-purchasers totaling means 52
Sets the cumulative number of purchasers of the corresponding store to 0 when the corresponding date and time is reached based on the starting date and time of each store set in the privilege provision condition storage unit 53. The current date and time data is supplied from a clock unit (not shown). The privilege granting unit 51 determines whether or not the cumulative number of purchasers satisfies the privilege granting condition, and when the privilege granting condition is satisfied, supplies the contents of the corresponding privilege to the purchase processing unit 24 to reduce the purchase price. Make a discount.

For example, if the cumulative number of purchasers in the entire shopping mall reaches the 10,000th by this purchase, the privilege granting means 5
Reference numeral 1 denotes a message indicating that the purchaser is the 10,000th person in the shopping street and has been selected for the 5% discount privilege, and the message is transmitted to the purchaser side device 1 via the purchase processing unit 24 and the like.
And causes the purchase processing unit 24 to give a 5% discount.

Also, the privilege granting means 51 supplies a message such as "You are the 200th customer at this store this month. You have won the 2% discount" to the 200th purchaser at the store a. And the purchase processing unit 24
Have a percent discount. The privilege granting means 51 supplies a message such as "You are the 100th customer at this store this week. You have won the 2% discount" to the 100th purchaser at the store c, for example. Let 24 give a 2 percent discount. Privilege granting means 51
Supplies a message such as "You are the 7th customer today at this store. You have won the 7% discount" for the 7th purchaser at store d, and 7% to the purchase processing unit 24. Let the discount.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing details of a privilege granting unit and a specific granting condition storage unit according to the fourth embodiment. The privilege granting unit 60 shown in FIG. 5 grants a privilege based on the cumulative number of sales of a specific product. Privilege grant condition storage unit 63
Stores the code of the product for which the privilege is to be generated, the number of the privilege to be generated, and the discount rate for each store. Here, in store aa, the product code is aa-SG01-1.
234 products are discounted by 2% to the first five buyers, and the product code is aa-
For the SG02-ABC product, a discount of 5% is set for the 100th purchaser. Further, in the store bb, the product group is bb-SG
It is set that a discount of 5% is given for every 10th product for the 03 product. The product code "bb-
The symbol * in “SG03- *” is a symbol indicating an arbitrary character string.

The sales quantity accumulating means 62 accumulates the sales quantity of each product for which a privilege is to be generated. Also,
The sales quantity accumulating means 62 accumulates the sales quantities of the products included in the product group for each product group for which the privilege is to be generated. Each time the purchase process is started, the privilege granting unit 61 checks whether or not the purchased product is a product for which a privilege is to be generated. Check if the number of occurrences has been reached. When the privilege generation condition is satisfied, the privilege granting unit 61 notifies the purchaser that the discount privilege has been won based on the number of units sold, and sets the purchase processing unit 24 in advance. Supply a discount rate to have the purchase amount discounted.

It is to be noted that the privilege granting section 60 may set a start date and time at which the cumulative number of sales units starts, and may provide a discount privilege based on the cumulative sales units from the start date and time. In the present embodiment, the discount of the purchase price is illustrated as a privilege, but a prize (for example, a gift certificate or an admission ticket for an entertainment facility or the like) may be delivered to the purchaser as the privilege. Also, a plurality of prizes may be presented to the purchaser who has obtained the privilege, and the prize desired by the purchaser may be selected from the plurality of prizes.

Further, in the present embodiment, the configuration is described in which the store-side device (server) 2 is a virtual shopping mall composed of a plurality of virtual stores, but the store-side device (server) 2 is formed of a single virtual store. It may be something. Further, the store-side device (server) 2 is configured to be able to access the privilege granting condition storage unit 26 from the management device or the like of each store (not shown) via the Internet. 26 may be configured to be able to update the privilege provision condition.

The store-side device (server) 2 has a function similar to that of a credit company in Internet trading.
Therefore, the price is postpaid to the store via the operator of the store-side device (server) 2 or the like. Since the payment is postpaid, the purchaser can stop the payment if the product does not arrive, so that the purchase can be made with confidence. The store, which is the seller, can surely pay the price via the store-side device (server) 2 or the like even though it is postpaid, so that the seller can still sell the product with confidence. Store-side device (server) 2
Operators take a commission (for example, 5% of the purchase price) for the brokerage of the purchase and sale. A certain ratio (for example, 1% of sales) is accumulated from the commission as resources for granting benefits, and the store is returned to the purchaser when the store has been accumulated to some extent. This facilitates trading. In addition, the store side can advertise that the store has a sales record enough to return the privilege and that the store is credible.

[0038]

As described above, the electronic shopping system according to the present invention provides the purchase amount to the purchaser when the total purchase amount reaches the predetermined amount for the store or the purchaser for every 100th person, for example. Benefits such as discounts. Purchase (sales) as a condition for granting benefits
By using the total amount, the total number of purchasers, and the like, a chance of a privilege can be given to a new registered member or a non-registered member.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall block configuration diagram of an electronic shopping system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating details of a privilege granting unit and a specific granting condition storage unit according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating details of a privilege granting unit and a specific granting condition storage unit according to the second embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating details of a privilege granting unit and a specific granting condition storage unit according to a third embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram illustrating details of a privilege granting unit and a specific granting condition storage unit according to a fourth embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Buyer side apparatus 2 Store side apparatus 3 Internet 16 WWW browser 22 WWW server 23 Merchandise information provision part 24 Purchase processing part 25 Database 26,33,43,53,63 Privilege grant condition storage part 27,30,40,50, 60 Privilege granting units 28, 31, 41, 51, 61 Privilege granting means 32 Cumulative sales amount means 42 Cumulative sales point means 52 Cumulative means of purchasers 62 Cumulative means of sales volume

Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Junko Suginaka 3-10-4 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo Toranomon Garden 408 (72) Inventor Shigeru Fujino 3-22-2 Sakura, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo (72) Inventor Yasuo Akita 3-10-4 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo Toranomon Garden 408 F-term (reference) 3E042 AA10 CC04 CC06 CC10 CD04 EA01 5B049 BB11 CC00 CC10 CC38 GG02

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. An electronic apparatus comprising: a store for storing a privilege provision condition set in advance for a store; and a privilege provision unit for providing a privilege to a purchaser who satisfies the privilege provision condition. Shopping system. 2. A store for storing a target item for granting a privilege, a condition for generating a privilege, and a content of the privilege, and a accumulating means for accumulating the target item based on the target item. And an award providing means for providing the content of the privilege to a purchaser whose cumulative result of the cumulative means satisfies the condition for generating the privilege. 3. The electronic shopping system according to claim 2, wherein the content of the privilege is a discount rate or a discount amount, and the privilege granting unit performs a discount from a purchase price. 4. A store has a sales amount accumulating means for accumulating the sales amount, and a privilege providing means for giving a privilege to a purchaser when the cumulative amount of the sales satisfies a preset condition. An electronic shopping system, characterized in that: 5. A shop number accumulating means for accumulating the number of purchasers for a store, and a privilege granting means for granting a privilege to the purchaser when the cumulative number of the purchasers reaches a preset condition. An electronic shopping system comprising: 6. A sales quantity accumulating means for accumulating a preset sales volume of merchandise for a store, and a privilege for granting a privilege to a purchaser when the cumulative sales quantity reaches a preset condition. An electronic shopping system comprising: an application unit.