JP2003050944A - Information providing device, information managing device, information providing method, information managing method, and program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information providing device which permits merchandising on the Internet in such a style that a user of the Internet use more easily. SOLUTION: The information providing device 100 which provides information for the user is equipped with a selection part which selects the information to be provided for the user and an information providing part which provides the information selected by the selection part for the user. The selection part has an evaluation point calculation part which calculates 1st evaluation points by 1st evaluation and 2nd evaluation points by 2nd evaluation for the information and an evaluation point judgment part which weights the 1st evaluation points calculated by the evaluation point calculation part and judges whether the information is selected by using at least one of the 1st and 2nd evaluation points after the weighting.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information providing device, an information managing device, an information providing method, an information managing method, and a program. Particularly, the present invention relates to an information providing device, an information providing method, and a program that provide information to a user, and an information management device, an information management method, and a program that manage information.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, the Internet has become widespread, and it has become possible to trade products on the Internet.

[0003]

It is desired that a user who uses the Internet conducts transactions on the Internet in a form that is easier to use.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide an information providing device, an information managing device, an information providing method, an information managing method, and a program that can solve the above problems. This object is achieved by a combination of features described in independent claims of the invention. The dependent claims define further advantageous specific examples of the present invention.

[0005]

That is, according to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information providing apparatus for providing information to a user, the selecting unit selecting the information to be provided to the user, and the selection. An information providing unit that provides the user with the information selected by the unit. The selection unit calculates an evaluation score calculation unit that calculates a first evaluation score based on a first evaluation and a second evaluation score based on a second evaluation for the information; and the calculation unit calculates the evaluation score. The first evaluation point is weighted and includes an evaluation point determination unit that determines whether or not to select the information by using at least one of the weighted first and second evaluation points.

The evaluation point calculating section may further calculate a total evaluation point of the information from the first evaluation point and the second evaluation point, and the evaluation point judging section may calculate the total evaluation point as the total evaluation point. Alternatively, it may be determined that the information is selected when the previous comprehensive evaluation score is larger than the reference comprehensive evaluation score by comparing with the reference overall evaluation score serving as a criterion for the determination.

When the first evaluation point is higher than a reference first evaluation point serving as a criterion for judgment, the evaluation point calculation unit determines that the total evaluation point calculated from the first evaluation point is The first evaluation point may be weighted so as to be larger than the reference evaluation point, and the total evaluation point may be calculated from the second evaluation point and the weighted first evaluation point.

[0008] The information may be information on services to be provided to the user. The information processing apparatus may further include a ranking unit that ranks the plurality of pieces of information to be provided to the user according to the number of times the user has received the service. The information providing unit may provide the user with the information so that the rank of each piece of information ranked by the ranking unit can be recognized.

The information providing unit may provide the user with information that the information providing unit has not provided to the user, instead of the information ranked lower by the ranking unit.

The information may be information on services to be provided to the user. It may further include an intermediary fee determining unit that determines an intermediary fee to be charged to the service provider according to the rank given to each piece of information by the ranking unit.

An evaluation acquisition unit for acquiring evaluation information indicating an evaluation of the service from the service monitor may be further provided. The evaluation point calculation unit may calculate the first evaluation point and the second evaluation point by using the evaluation information acquired by the evaluation acquisition unit.

[0012] From a plurality of evaluation contents, an evaluation selection unit for selecting the contents of the first evaluation and the second evaluation to be used when evaluating the information, and the evaluation contents selected by the evaluation selection unit. May further include an evaluation distribution unit that distributes to the monitor. The evaluation point acquisition unit may acquire the evaluation information corresponding to the content of the evaluation distributed by the evaluation distribution unit.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information management device for managing information, wherein a purchase acceptance unit for acquiring purchase information indicating that a user purchases a product, and that the product has arrived. An arrival reception section that acquires the arrival information shown,
A purchase history that stores the user identification information for identifying the user who purchases the product and the arrival information of the product in association with the product identification information for identifying the product by using the information received by the purchase receiving unit. A database and a delivery permission unit that permits delivery of the plurality of products to the user when a plurality of products associated with the user are received in the purchase history database.

The purchase acceptance unit further acquires the purchase date and time when the user purchased the product, the purchase history database further stores the acquired purchase date and time in association with the product, and the delivery permission unit In the purchase history database, among the products associated with the user, when a plurality of products purchased during a predetermined period arrive, a plurality of products may be delivered to the user.

The purchase acceptance unit further acquires information indicating a purchase source from which the user purchased the product, and the purchase history database stores the information indicating the purchase source in association with the product, The distribution permission unit may permit delivery of the plurality of products to the user when a plurality of products associated with a predetermined purchase source in the purchase history database are received.

[0016] The delivery permission unit may deliver the plurality of products to the user when a plurality of products associated with a purchaser in a predetermined area in the purchase history database have arrived.

A delivery information table that associates the product with delivery information related to delivery of the product, and a simultaneous delivery determination unit that uses the delivery information table to determine whether to deliver a plurality of the products at the same time. May be further provided. The delivery permission unit may permit delivery of the plurality of products to the user when a plurality of the products determined to be delivered simultaneously by the simultaneous delivery determination unit are received.

The above summary of the invention does not enumerate all the necessary features of the present invention, and sub-combinations of these feature groups can also be the invention.

[0019]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Hereinafter, the present invention will be described through embodiments of the invention, but the embodiments do not limit the claimed invention, and all combinations of the features described in the embodiments Is not always essential to the solution of the invention.

The "questionnaire" and "questionnaire result" in this embodiment are examples of "evaluation" and "evaluation information" described in the claims. Further, the “questionnaire selection unit” and the “questionnaire result acquisition unit” in the present embodiment are examples of the “evaluation selection unit” and the “evaluation acquisition unit” described in the claims, respectively.

FIG. 1 shows the entire information providing system including the information providing apparatus 100. The information providing apparatus 100 is connected to the product sales source 20 and the user terminal 30 via the Internet 10. The information providing apparatus 100 transmits the product introduction information to the user terminal 30. Here, the product introduction information is information that introduces the products sold by the product seller 20. The information providing apparatus 100 also receives, from the user terminal 30, a purchase instruction indicating that the product is to be purchased, with respect to the transmitted product introduction information. In this case, the information providing device 1
00 transmits a purchase instruction to the product seller 20.

FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram showing the functional configuration of the information providing apparatus 100. The information providing apparatus 100 includes a product listing request acquisition unit 102 and a questionnaire selection unit 104.
, Questionnaire result acquisition unit 106, and product selection unit 110
A purchase instruction acquisition unit 130, a ranking unit 132, an intermediary fee determination unit 134, an information providing unit 136, a questionnaire table 120, and a questionnaire destination table 122.
And a product information database 124.

The product posting request acquisition unit 102 acquires a product posting request from the product seller 20 via the Internet 10. Here, the product publication request is information indicating that a request to publish a predetermined product in the product introduction information is requested. Upon receiving the product publication request, the product publication request acquisition unit 102 sends the product information regarding the product indicated in the product publication request to the questionnaire selection unit 104. Here, the product information may be the name of the product seller 20, the product name, or information indicating the type of product such as food or meat.

The questionnaire table 120 stores a plurality of questionnaire contents. Questionnaire sender table 12
2 stores the address of the transmission destination to which the questionnaire should be transmitted.

The questionnaire selection unit 104 receives the product information from the product listing request acquisition unit 102. The questionnaire selection unit 104 selects the questionnaire contents that match the product information from the plural questionnaire contents stored in the questionnaire table 120. The questionnaire selection unit 104 further selects a transmission destination to which the questionnaire should be transmitted from the questionnaire transmission destination table 122. In addition, questionnaire selection section 1
04 may randomly select a questionnaire transmission destination, or, for example, a monitor may be registered in advance as a transmission destination and the registered monitor may be selected as a questionnaire transmission destination. In this case, questionnaire destination table 1
22 may store, for example, a monitor transmission destination for each type of product. The questionnaire selection unit 104 sends the questionnaire contents selected from the questionnaire table 120 to the destinations selected from the questionnaire destination table 122.
Send via the Internet 10.

The questionnaire result acquisition unit 106 receives the questionnaire results for the questionnaire contents transmitted by the questionnaire selection unit 104 via the Internet 10.
The questionnaire result acquisition unit 106 sends the received questionnaire results to the product selection unit 110.

At this time, the actual product is sent to the destination selected by the questionnaire selection unit 104 from either the information providing device 100 or the product sales source 20. This allows the monitor, which is the destination of the questionnaire contents, to prepare the questionnaire response for the actual product.
Therefore, the questionnaire result acquired by the information providing apparatus 100 can be expected to be more accurate information.

Further, for example, the information providing apparatus 100 first transmits the product information to the destination selected by the questionnaire selecting unit 104. Either the information providing apparatus 100 or the product sales source 20 may send the actual product only to the monitor that has responded to this.

In this case, the monitor member may be provided with the product at a price lower than the actual product price.
Further, when the monitor purchases a product, points corresponding to money, for example, may be given to the monitor. Furthermore, points may be added again when the questionnaire result is received from the monitor. This allows more monitors.

The product selection unit 110 includes an evaluation point calculation unit 112.
And an evaluation point determination unit 114. Evaluation point calculation unit 11
2 calculates the evaluation score for the contents of the questionnaire. The evaluation point calculation unit 112 in the present embodiment calculates a first evaluation point for the first questionnaire content and a second evaluation point for the second questionnaire content. Evaluation point calculation unit 112
Further calculates an overall evaluation score from the first evaluation score and the second evaluation score. In this way, the evaluation point calculation unit 112
Using the questionnaire result acquired by the questionnaire result acquisition unit 106, the first evaluation score and the second evaluation score can be calculated, and further the total evaluation score can be calculated. The evaluation score calculation unit 112 calculates the first evaluation score when calculating the total evaluation score.
The first evaluation point weighted by weighting the evaluation points of
An overall evaluation score is calculated using the second evaluation score.

The evaluation point judging section 114 is provided with an evaluation point calculating section 11
When the comprehensive evaluation score calculated by 2 is higher than the reference evaluation score which is the criterion for judgment, it is determined that this product is a product to be included in the product introduction information. Here, the reference evaluation point is an evaluation point serving as a reference for determining whether or not the product targeted for the questionnaire, that is, the product indicated in the product publication request, is to be posted in the product introduction information. That is, the information providing device 10
0 determines whether or not to include it in the product introduction information by using the standard evaluation score.

The evaluation point determination unit 114 further determines that the total evaluation point is larger than the reference evaluation point when the first evaluation point is higher than the reference first evaluation point which is a reference for determining the first evaluation point. The first reference evaluation point is weighted and calculated so that Therefore, the evaluation point determination unit 114 can select the product to be posted by placing more importance on the first evaluation point.

The information providing unit 136 uses the information stored in the product information database 124 to create product introduction information to be provided to the user terminal 30, and the Internet 10
Deliver via. In addition, the information providing unit 136 periodically recreates the product introduction information.

As a result, the information providing apparatus 100 can deliver the product introduction information about the product selected by the product selection unit 110 based on the questionnaire result from the monitor to the user. As a result, the information providing device 10
0 can introduce more reliable products to the user. The information providing apparatus 100 can also use the result of the questionnaire to select the product seller 20 to trade.

The purchase instruction acquisition unit 130 acquires, from the user terminal 30 via the Internet 10, a purchase instruction indicating that a pair is to be purchased for the product listed in the product introduction information.
When the purchase instruction acquisition unit 130 receives the purchase instruction, the ranking unit 132 determines the purchase order of the products introduced in the product introduction information.

The product information database 124 stores products whose overall evaluation score is higher than the reference evaluation score, that is, the product selection unit 1
Item information and questionnaire results of the item selected by 10
It is stored in association with a product ID for identifying each product.

The brokerage fee determining unit 134 uses the information stored in the commodity information database 124 to determine the brokerage fee to be charged to the commodity seller 20 for listing the commodity in the commodity introduction information. The intermediary fee determination unit 134 sets an intermediary fee for each product. Intermediary fee determination unit 134
For example, a cheap intermediary fee may be set for a product that has received many purchase instructions from the user, that is, a product ranked higher in purchase order. In this way, since the intermediary fee is determined according to the number of sold products and the repeater degree, the information providing apparatus 100 can introduce the product at an appropriate intermediary fee.

FIG. 3 shows the total evaluation points for all combinations of the evaluations used by the product selection section 110. The first evaluation and the second evaluation in this figure are taste evaluation and quantity / price evaluation, respectively. Product posting request acquisition unit 1
The product indicated by the product listing request acquired by 02 is food. The first evaluation, that is, the weighting of the taste evaluation points with respect to the taste evaluation will be described with reference to FIG.

The evaluation of taste and quantity / price shown in this figure is a five-level evaluation. In addition, when the weighting for taste evaluation is 60%, 65%, and 70%, the comprehensive evaluation points are shown. On the other hand, it is assumed that the evaluation point determination unit 114 is set to determine that a product having a total evaluation score of 120 or more is to be posted in the product introduction information, for example. In this case, as shown in the figure, when the weights for the taste evaluation points are 60% and 65%, if the taste evaluation is 4 and the quantity / price evaluation score is 1, the overall evaluation score is 1. Are 112 and 118 points, respectively. That is, it will not exceed 120 points. Therefore, this product
Not listed in product introduction information.

Therefore, the weighting condition is that the evaluation point determination unit 114 adds 70% of the evaluation points for the tastes so that the products with taste evaluations of 4 or more are also included in the product introduction information. This weighting condition may be predetermined. In this way, by weighting the taste evaluation points, the product selection unit 110 can be set so as to select products for which the taste evaluation is 4 or more.
Further, as described above, the evaluation point determination unit 114 only compares the total evaluation point with the reference evaluation point of 120, and selects the product with the total evaluation point of 120 or more and the product with the taste evaluation of 4 or more. You can choose.

As described above, by weighting the predetermined evaluation points among the plurality of evaluation points, the weighted evaluation can be emphasized.

FIG. 4 shows the data structure of the product information database 124. The product information database 124 includes a product ID field, a product name field, a sales source field, an evaluation point field, an evaluation point rank field, a purchase count field, and a repeater degree field.
It has a purchase order field.

The product ID field is used for the product selection section 110.
The product ID of the product selected by, that is, the product to be published in the product introduction information is stored. The product name field stores the product name of the product. The seller field stores the name of the product seller 20 who sells the product.

The evaluation score field stores the total evaluation score calculated by the product selection unit 110 for the product. The evaluation score rank field stores the evaluation score rank determined based on the overall evaluation score of the product. The evaluation point ranking field may further store an evaluation point ranking for each type of product.

The purchase count field stores the number of purchases of this product by the user. That is, the purchase count field stores the number of times the purchase instruction for this product has been received. The repeater degree field stores the number of users who have purchased a predetermined product multiple times.

As another example, the repeater degree field may store, as the repeater degree, the number of users who have purchased the corresponding merchandise a plurality of times and an evaluation score based on the number of times the same merchandise is purchased.

The purchase order field stores the purchase order determined using the number of purchases and the repeater degree. For example, the purchase order may be determined in consideration of the number of purchases and the repeater degree in each proportion. Further, for example, the purchase order may be determined only from the number of purchases, or may be determined only from the repeater degree.

As described above, the product information database 124
Stores information about a product in association with a product ID. Therefore, the information providing unit 136 can use the product information database 124 to create product introduction information. Since the product information database 124 also stores the order of purchase and the order of evaluation points, the information providing unit 136.
Furthermore, the product introduction information can be created by using these pieces of information. That is, the user can acquire such information before purchasing the product.

The products may be posted in the order of purchase on the product introduction page, and, for example, the product introduction information may be composed of a plurality of pages created for each genre of each product.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the information providing apparatus 100. First, the product listing request acquisition unit 102 uses the Internet 10 to sell the product 20
Receive a product listing request from. Next, the questionnaire selection unit 104 uses the questionnaire table 120 to select the questionnaire content corresponding to the product indicated by the product publication request acquired by the product publication request acquisition unit 102 (S10).
2). Next, the questionnaire selection unit 104 uses the questionnaire transmission destination table 122 to select a transmission destination to which the selected questionnaire content should be transmitted. Questionnaire selection section 10
4 transmits the questionnaire contents to the destination (S1
04).

Next, the questionnaire result acquisition unit 106 acquires the questionnaire result for the questionnaire transmitted by the questionnaire selection unit 104 via the Internet 10 (S106). Next, the evaluation score calculation unit 112 of the product selection unit 110 determines an overall evaluation score for this product (S).
108). Next, when the comprehensive evaluation score is larger than the predetermined standard comprehensive evaluation score (S110), the evaluation score determination unit 1
14 stores this product in the product information database 124. At this time, the evaluation point determination unit 114 compares the total evaluation points of other products stored in the product information database 124, determines the evaluation point rank of this product, and stores it in the product information database 124 (S112).

When the total evaluation score is smaller than the reference total evaluation score in S110, the evaluation score judgment unit 114
Determines not to list this product in the product introduction information.
In this case, the merchandise distributor 20 may be notified that the information is not further posted.

In this case, the operation of the information processing apparatus 100 ends here.

Next, the information providing unit 136 uses the product information stored in the product information database 124 to create product introduction information and distributes it via the Internet 10 (S114). The information providing unit 136 may create product introduction information so that the products are displayed based on the order of purchase.

When the purchase instruction acquisition unit 130 acquires the purchase instruction (S116), the ranking unit 132 updates the purchase order of each product stored in the product database 124. The information providing unit 136 uses the updated information to create product introduction information (S118). If the purchase instruction is not received in S116, the process jumps to S120.

When the update date and time of the posted product arrives (S12
0), the information providing unit 136, among the products listed in the product introduction information currently provided, the product ranked lowest in the purchased product information, that is, the product having the lowest purchase order and the product introduction information. Out of the products not listed in, replace the product with the highest rating. That is, the information providing unit 136 updates the product to be posted in the product introduction information (S122). Further, the intermediary fee determination unit 134 determines the intermediary fee to be received from the product seller 20 of the product according to the purchase order of the product listed in the product introduction information. For example, the intermediary fee determination unit 134 may reduce the intermediary fee when the purchase order of the products is high.

FIG. 6 shows the product introduction information update step (S
FIG. 118 is a flowchart showing a detailed operation of the information providing apparatus 100 in 118). The purchase instruction acquisition unit 130
Upon receiving the purchase instruction, the purchase instruction acquisition unit 130 increases the number of purchases in the product information database 124 (S202). When the purchase instruction is acquired from the same user who has previously received the purchase instruction (S
204), the purchase instruction acquisition unit 130 increases the repeater degree of this product stored in the product information database 120 (S206). Next, the purchase instruction acquisition unit 130 uses the updated number of purchases and the repeater degree to determine the order of purchase of all products again (S208). Next, the information providing unit 136 creates the product introduction information again using the updated information stored in the product information database 124 (S210). In this way, every time the purchase instruction acquisition unit 130 acquires a purchase instruction, the purchase order of the products included in the product introduction information is updated. Therefore, the user can always browse the product introduction information in which the new purchase order is displayed.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a hardware configuration of the information providing apparatus 100. The information providing device 100 is a CPU
700, ROM 702, RAM 704, communication interface 706, hard disk drive 708
A database interface 710, a floppy (registered trademark) disk drive 712, and a CD-ROM
And a drive 714. CPU700 is ROM7
02 and the program stored in the RAM 704. The communication interface 706 communicates with the outside via the Internet 10. The database interface 710 writes data to the database and updates the contents of the database. A hard disk drive 708, which is an example of a storage device, stores setting information and a program for operating the CPU 700.

The floppy disk drive 712 reads data or a program from the floppy disk (trademark) 720 and provides it to the CPU 700. CD-ROM
The drive 714 reads data or a program from the CD-ROM 722 and provides it to the CPU 700. The communication interface 706 connects to the Internet 10 to send and receive data. Database interface 71
0 is connected to various databases 724 to send and receive data.

The software executed by the CPU 700 is
It is stored in a recording medium such as a floppy disk 720 or a CD-ROM 722 and provided to the user. The software stored in the recording medium may be compressed or uncompressed. The software is installed from the recording medium to the hard disk drive 708, and the RAM 704
Read out and executed by the CPU 700.

The software stored in the recording medium and provided, that is, the software installed in the hard disk drive 708 has, as functional configurations, a product listing request acquisition module, a questionnaire selection module, a questionnaire result acquisition module, and a product selection module. A purchase instruction acquisition module, an intermediary fee determination module, and an information providing module. The processing that each module causes the computer to cause the CPU 700 to perform is the same as the function and operation of the corresponding member in the information providing apparatus 100 of the present embodiment.
The description is omitted.

A floppy disk 720 or a CD-ROM 722 as an example of a recording medium shown in FIG. 7 stores some or all functions of the operation of the information providing apparatus 100 in all the embodiments described in the present application. can do.

These programs are read directly from the recording medium.
It may be read out to the AM and executed, or once installed in the hard disk drive and then read out to the RAM and executed. Further, the program may be stored in a single recording medium or a plurality of recording media. It may also be stored in encoded form.

As the recording medium, a floppy disk,
In addition to CD-ROM, optical recording media such as DVD, MD
And the like, a magneto-optical recording medium such as a PD, a tape medium, a magnetic recording medium, a semiconductor memory such as an IC card and a miniature card, and the like can be used. Further, a storage device such as a hard disk or a RAM provided in a server system connected to a dedicated communication network or the Internet may be used as a recording medium to provide the program to the information providing device 100 via the communication network. Such a recording medium is used only for manufacturing the information providing device 100, and the manufacture and sale of such recording medium as a business constitutes infringement of the patent right based on the present application. Is clear.

FIG. 8 shows the entire information management system in the second embodiment. The information management system includes an electronic mall 40 that sells products and the like via the Internet 10, a user terminal 30, and a user terminal 3.
0 includes an information management device 200 that manages information related to delivery of products purchased at the electronic mall 40.

FIG. 9 is a schematic block diagram showing the functional configuration of the information management device 200. The information management device 200 includes a purchase instruction acquisition unit 202, a simultaneous delivery determination unit 204, an arrival information acquisition unit 206, a delivery permission unit 208, a purchase history database 220, and a delivery information table 222.

The purchase instruction acquisition section 202 acquires a purchase instruction from the user terminal 30 via the Internet 10 to indicate that a predetermined product is to be purchased. The purchase instruction includes information indicating a product to be purchased, date and time of purchase, information indicating a product seller who sells the product, and the like. Purchase instruction acquisition unit 202
When the purchase instruction is acquired, stores the information indicated in the purchase instruction in the purchase history database 220. The purchase history database 220 stores the information received from the purchase instruction acquisition unit 202 in association with each user. The delivery information table 222 stores delivery information relating to delivery of the product in association with the product information including the product name of each product. The simultaneous delivery determination unit 204 uses the delivery information table 222 for the products purchased by the user who sent the purchase request, and determines whether the products should be delivered at the same time. That is, the simultaneous delivery determination unit 204 uses the purchase history database 220 to confirm the products purchased by the same user, and determines whether to deliver them at the same time, that is, in the same packaging. The simultaneous delivery determination unit 204 assigns the same delivery number to the products determined to be simultaneously delivered.

The arrival information acquisition unit 206 acquires arrival information indicating that a product has arrived. Arrival information acquisition unit 206
When the stock information is acquired, rewrites the stock information in the purchase history database. The delivery permission unit 208 permits delivery of the products stored in the purchase history database 220. When the delivery is permitted, the delivery permitting unit 208 notifies the electronic mall 40 or the delivery company or the like in charge of delivery via the Internet 10 of the information regarding the permitted product.

FIG. 10 shows the data structure of the purchase history database 220. The purchase history database 220 has a user ID field, a purchase date and time field, a purchase source field, a purchased product ID field, a delivery number field, and an inventory status field.

The user ID field stores a user ID for identifying the user. The purchase date / time field stores the date / time when the product was purchased. The source of purchase is
The purchase source of the product, that is, the product sales source is stored. The purchased product ID field is a purchased product I that identifies the purchased product.
Store D. The delivery number field stores the delivery number. Here, the same delivery number is assigned to the products that the simultaneous delivery determination unit 204 determines to deliver at the same time, that is, the products that are determined to be delivered in the same packaging.

The stock status field stores the stock status of the product. The stock status field in the present embodiment stores a flag when the product is in stock. In this way, the purchase history database 220 manages the products to be delivered to the user in association with each user ID. Therefore, the information management apparatus 200 can centrally manage the products currently purchased by each user by using the purchase history database 220. Further, since the information management device 200 manages the products to be delivered at the same time by allocating the same delivery number, it can also manage the delivery of each product.

FIG. 11 shows the data structure of the delivery information table 222. The delivery information table 222 has a product ID field, a product name field, a delivery deadline field, a product size field, and the like. The product ID field stores a product ID. The product name field stores the product name. The delivery deadline field stores the delivery deadline of the product. The delivery deadline is information indicating the period from receipt to delivery. For example, in the case of fresh fish, it must be transmitted on the day of arrival, so the delivery deadline is stored as that day. The product size field stores the size of the product.

As described above, the delivery information table 222 stores the delivery deadline and the product size. Therefore, the simultaneous delivery determination unit 204 can select the products to be delivered at the same time by using the purchase date and time and the delivery deadline. Therefore, the delivery permission unit 208 can deliver the plurality of products to the user when the plurality of products purchased in a predetermined period arrive. Therefore, for example, products purchased within a few days can be bundled in the same package and transmitted to the user. As a result, the delivery fee can be reduced and the delivery can be performed efficiently.

In this way, the delivery information table 222 contains
Information about delivery for each product is stored. Therefore, the simultaneous delivery determination unit 204 can select products to be delivered at the same time by using the delivery information table 222.

As another example, the simultaneous delivery determination unit 204
Holds the size of the carrier's delivery vehicle,
The products to be delivered in the same direction may be managed in consideration of the product size and the size of the delivery vehicle. In this case, the information management device 200 further manages the delivery destination of the product.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing the operation of the information management device 200. Introduction Purchase instruction acquisition unit 20
2 acquires a purchase instruction from the user terminal 30 via the Internet 10 (S300). Next, the simultaneous delivery determination unit 204 determines the product to be delivered at the same time as the product indicated in the purchase instruction (S302). When all the purchased products that the simultaneous delivery determination unit 204 has determined to deliver at the same time, that is, all the purchased products with the same delivery number arrive (S3
06), the delivery permission unit 208 permits delivery of the corresponding product (S308). With that, the operation of the information management apparatus 200 ends.

As described above, the information management apparatus 200 according to the present embodiment can determine whether or not to deliver a plurality of products to be sent to the same destination at the same time. . Therefore, the product can be efficiently delivered.

The hardware configuration of the information management apparatus 200 according to the present embodiment is the same as the hardware configuration of the information providing apparatus 100 according to the first embodiment described with reference to FIG. In this case, the software stored in the recording medium has, as functional configurations, a purchase instruction acquisition module, a simultaneous delivery determination module, an arrival information acquisition module, and a delivery permission module.

Although the present invention has been described using the embodiments, the technical scope of the present invention is not limited to the scope described in the above embodiments. Various changes or improvements can be added to the above-described embodiment. It is apparent from the scope of the claims that the embodiments added with such changes or improvements can be included in the technical scope of the present invention.

As a first example of such a modification, a product purchased from a product sales source in a predetermined area may be a product to be delivered at the same time. As a result, the delivery company in this area can efficiently collect the products to be delivered.

[0081]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention, the user can obtain useful information from the information providing apparatus of this embodiment.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an entire information providing system including an information providing apparatus 100.

2 is a schematic block diagram showing a functional configuration of the information providing device 100. FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a total evaluation score for each evaluation.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a data structure of a product information database 124.

5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the information providing device 100. FIG.

6 is a flowchart showing a detailed operation of the information providing device 100 in a product introduction information updating step (S118) of FIG.

7 is a diagram showing a hardware configuration of the information providing device 100. FIG.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an entire information management system in a second embodiment.

9 is a schematic block diagram showing a functional configuration of an information management device 200. FIG.

10 is a diagram showing a data structure of a purchase history database 220. FIG.

11 is a diagram showing a data structure of a distribution information table 222. FIG.

12 is a flowchart showing the operation of the information management device 200. FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 Internet 20 product distributors 30 user terminals 100 Information providing device 102 Product Listing Request Acquisition Department 104 Questionnaire selection section 106 Questionnaire result acquisition unit 110 Product selection section 112 Evaluation point calculator 114 Evaluation point judgment unit 120 questionnaire table 122 Survey destination table 124 Product information database 130 Purchase instruction acquisition unit 132 Rank section 134 Brokerage Fee Determination Department 136 Information Service Department 200 Information management device 202 Purchase instruction acquisition unit 204 Simultaneous delivery determination unit 206 Arrival Information Acquisition Department 208 Delivery Permission Department 220 Purchase History Database 222 Delivery information table 700 CPU 702 ROM 704 RAM 706 Communication interface 708 hard disk drive 710 database interface 712 floppy disk drive 714 CD-ROM drive 720 floppy disk 722 CD-ROM 724 Various databases

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[Claims] 1. An information providing apparatus for providing information to a user, comprising: a selecting unit for selecting information to be provided to the user; and an information providing unit for providing the user with the information selected by the selecting unit. The selection unit includes an evaluation point calculation unit that calculates a first evaluation point based on a first evaluation and a second evaluation point based on a second evaluation with respect to the information, and the evaluation point calculation unit. The calculated first evaluation point is weighted, and an evaluation point determination unit that determines whether or not to select the information by using at least one of the weighted first and second evaluation points. An information providing device comprising: 2. The evaluation score calculation unit further calculates a total evaluation score of the information from the first evaluation score and the second evaluation score, and the evaluation score determination unit determines the total evaluation score, The information providing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a comparison is made with a reference comprehensive evaluation score which is a criterion for judgment, and it is determined that the information is selected when the previous comprehensive evaluation score is larger than the reference evaluation score. . 3. The evaluation point calculation unit, when the first evaluation point is higher than a reference first evaluation point serving as a criterion for determination,
The first evaluation point is weighted so that the total evaluation point calculated from the first evaluation point is larger than the reference evaluation point, the second evaluation point, and the weighted first section. The information providing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the total evaluation score is calculated from the evaluation score of. 4. The information is information regarding services to be provided to a user, and ranks a plurality of pieces of information to be provided to the user according to the number of times the user has received the service. The information providing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a unit, wherein the information providing unit provides the information to the user so that the rank of each information ranked by the ranking unit can be recognized. 5. The information providing unit provides the user with information that the information providing unit does not provide to the user, instead of the information ranked by the ranking unit to a lower rank. The information providing device according to claim 4. 6. The information is information about a service to be provided to a user, and an intermediary that determines an intermediary fee to be charged to a service providing source according to the rank given to each information by the ranking unit. The information providing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a fee determining unit. 7. An evaluation acquisition unit for acquiring evaluation information indicating an evaluation of the service from a monitor of the service, wherein the evaluation point calculation unit uses the evaluation information acquired by the evaluation acquisition unit. The information providing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first evaluation point and the second evaluation point are calculated. 8. An evaluation selection unit that selects the contents of the first evaluation and the second evaluation used when evaluating the information from a plurality of evaluation contents, and the evaluation selected by the evaluation selection unit. An evaluation distribution unit that distributes the content of the above to the monitor, wherein the evaluation point acquisition unit acquires the evaluation information corresponding to the content of the evaluation distributed by the evaluation distribution unit. 7. The information providing device described in 7. 9. An information management device for managing information, comprising: a purchase acceptance unit for obtaining purchase information indicating that a product is purchased from a user; and a receipt acceptance for obtaining arrival information indicating that the product has arrived. Section, and the information received by the purchase accepting section is used to store user identification information for identifying a user who purchases the product and arrival information of the product in association with the product identification information for identifying the product. And a delivery permission unit that permits delivery of the plurality of products to the user when a plurality of products associated with the user are received in the purchase history database. Information management device characterized by. 10. The purchase acceptance unit further acquires a purchase date and time when the user purchased a product, the purchase history database further stores the acquired purchase date and time in association with the product, and the delivery permission is provided. In the purchase history database, the section delivers a plurality of products to the user when a plurality of the products purchased in a predetermined period among the products associated with the user are received. The information management device according to claim 9. 11. The purchase acceptance unit further obtains information indicating a purchase source from which the user purchased a product, and the purchase history database is associated with the product,
The information indicating the purchase source is stored, and the distribution permission unit delivers the plurality of products to the user when a plurality of products associated with a predetermined purchase source in the purchase history database are received. The information management device according to claim 9, wherein the information management device is permitted. 12. The delivery permitting unit delivers the plurality of products to the user when a plurality of products associated with a purchaser in a predetermined area in the purchase history database arrives. The information management device according to claim 11, which is characterized in that. 13. A delivery information table that associates the product with delivery information related to delivery of the product, and a simultaneous delivery determination that determines whether to deliver a plurality of the products at the same time using the delivery information table. The delivery permission unit may permit delivery of the plurality of products to the user when a plurality of the products determined to be delivered by the simultaneous delivery determination unit arrive at the same time. The information management device according to claim 9, characterized in that 14. An information providing method for providing information to a user, the selecting step of selecting information to be provided to the user, and the information providing step of providing the user with the information selected in the selecting step. And a calculating step of calculating a first evaluation point based on a first evaluation and a second evaluation point based on a second evaluation with respect to the information; One of the first and the second evaluation points that have been weighted, and the first
And an evaluation point determining step of determining whether to select the information by using at least one of the second evaluation points. 15. A program stored in a computer that provides information to a user, the selection module selecting information to be provided to the user, and the information providing the information selected by the selection module to the user. A selection module, wherein the selection module calculates a first evaluation point based on a first evaluation and a second evaluation point based on a second evaluation with respect to the information; Weighted one of the first and second evaluation points, and using at least one of the first and second evaluation points after weighting,
A program comprising: an evaluation point determination module that determines whether or not to select the information. 16. An information management method for managing information, comprising a purchase acceptance step of acquiring purchase information indicating that a product is purchased from a user, and a receipt acceptance of acquiring arrival information indicating that the product has arrived. And storing the user identification information for identifying the user who purchases the product and the arrival information of the product in association with the product identification information for identifying the product, using the information received in the purchase acceptance stage In the purchase history database,
And a delivery permission step of permitting delivery of the plurality of merchandise to the user when a plurality of merchandise associated with the user have arrived, the information management method. 17. A program stored in a computer that manages information, and a purchase acceptance module that obtains purchase information indicating that a user purchases a product, and an arrival information that indicates that the product has arrived. Using the receipt acceptance module and the information accepted by the purchase acceptance module,
User identification information for identifying a user who purchases the product,
In a purchase history database that stores the arrival information of the product in association with the product identification information for identifying the product, when the plurality of products associated with the user are received, the plurality of products are A program comprising a delivery permission module that permits delivery to a user.