JP2003058773A - Auction system using internet - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an auction system which develops new circulation products and which is reliable by allowing the wholesale market side to handle a standard/size integrally and allowing purchasers to purchase desired products surely without product evaluation so as to put also off-specification and processed products to auction in the wholesale market by information bidding using a communication network such as the Internet. SOLUTION: The auction system using the home page of the Internet is provided with a means for transmitting shipping information to an auction server with a shipper terminal device, a unified standard information adding means for identifying product standard information include in the shipping information and generating unified standard information, a totaling means for sorting respective products according to the unified standard information to make the same standard product to be the same product, a means for displaying the totaled information in an auction homepage as the shipping information and auction information of the respective product, a means for transmitting bidding information to the auction server from a purchaser terminal device, and a successful bidding processing means for outputting the result of successful bidding from the auction information and the bidding information.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to electronic commerce (elec).
tronic commerce), and in particular, to a wholesale auction system for executing an auction of fresh products and the like via the Internet.

[0002]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Purchasing and selling over the Internet is developing rapidly and is expected to account for a significant percentage of commercial transactions for goods and services in the future.

In the field of electronic commerce, what has received special attention in recent years is an on-line auction.
s), there are many auction websites currently available on the Internet.

[0004] Such auction websites advertise the products to be auctioned on their webpages, and the period during which the (bid) is accepted and the current highest bid (high biddin).
Details of g) are published.

To access this auction website, the purchaser first registers on the site, purchaser information such as name and address, and a credit card for settlement when the auction is successful. Give instructions on such payment methods.

Next, when the purchaser desires to auction for a specific product group that has been auctioned on the site,
It is submitted by e-mail to the server of the auction house, where it is processed. The current bid for the product of interest displayed on the web page (bi
d price) is updated when a new bid is received. When the auction ends and the bid is successful, the person who succeeded in the auction is notified by email, payment is executed according to the payment method instructed by the successful auction, and the purchased product is delivered.

[0007] Among these commodity trades by auction, the wholesale market dealing with fresh foods, etc. is a specially developed form of merchandise trade as a place for facilitating smooth distribution of fresh foods and proper trade. Is.

[0008] In particular, the price formed in the wholesale market has a very large effect on the production area and on the consumption, and in the wholesale market system, the price affects the supply and demand relationship of fresh food products. As a background, it is said that it needs to be formed by a quick and fair evaluation, and sales transactions on the wholesale market are basically "bid or bid".

[0009] In response to these principles, due to the expansion of shipping origins and remoteness, as well as the large scale and consolidation of the retail sector, sales started instead of market transactions centered on bidding and bidding. Trading forms such as wholesale and futures trading before time are spreading.

In such a situation, "bid information transaction" using advance shipping information from the shipper is drawing attention. This bid information transaction is performed, for example, in Japanese Examined Patent Publication No. 7-1179.
Providing the shipping information from the shipper in No. 76 to the intermediary wholesaler and the buyer, the intermediary wholesaler and the buyer make a bid based on this shipping information, and the person with the highest price wins the bid. It is a method.

[0011] The shipper, for each item, the expected shipping date, brand,
The specifications such as the reference price are sent from the terminal to the host computer. The host computer collects individual information for each standard,
After categorizing by the standard price range and the planned shipping date, each item is classified and extracted into a group that aggregates by the same item, standard, and the same arrival date, and the appropriate amount of each item is assembled.

[0012] The purchaser side takes in the necessary information from the terminal device, and transmits to the host computer the selection designation of the brand, the necessary rate for the standard price, and the desired purchase quantity for each brand group of the same item, standard, and arrival date. .

After the deadline for bidding, automatic computer processing based on a fixed priority order is performed to determine the winning bidder, the winning bid price, and the winning bid quantity for each item.

Further, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-78992 discloses a technique of providing an automatic bidding method that enables bidding transactions on an open network such as the Internet.

This is to collect a plurality of bidding order information received through the online line, including the bid desired price, the number of purchases, and the maximum allowable price at the time of competition with respect to the desired price. If there is a bid request and the desired quantity is not met, compare the set price with (bid bid price + maximum allowable price in competition) to see if there is a bid request that matches. The decision is to raise the price until the desired quantity is met.

[0016] In each case, unlike the conventional wholesale market, it is not necessary to gather at a place and time for a bid, and a bid can be made without looking at the actual item.

[0017]

However, in the wholesale market by such information bidding, the purchaser does not evaluate by looking at the actual item, and therefore it is necessary to carefully consider the shipping information before bidding.

Particularly, as in Japanese Patent Publication No. 7-117976, shipping information is collected for each standard and classified by reference price band and scheduled shipping date, and then by the same item, standard, and same arrival date. , It is especially difficult to classify and aggregate standards and sizes when classifying and extracting each brand into a group, and performing appropriate quantity assembly for each item.

Usually, in the case of fresh vegetables, each producer is classified according to the standard such as excellent, excellent, good, acceptable, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc., L, M, S or No. 1/2
It is classified according to size such as No. 3 and No. 3.

However, these standard symbols and size symbols are not the same conditions and ranges for all producers, but the present situation is that the applicable range is different for each producer. For example, the M size of mandarin oranges from producer A has a diameter of 5
cm to 8 cm, B producer's M size is 4.5
Different from each other, such as cm to 7.5 cm, and in order to distinguish them, the product of the desired size cannot be purchased unless the producer and the place of origin are clearly shown together with the size symbol.

In the wholesale market based on bidding information without physical evaluation, even if an attempt is made to purchase an inexpensive product, if actual specific information such as the manufacturer's standard or size cannot be obtained, the purchase has already been made. You will only be able to purchase from proven producers.

Further, in restaurants such as restaurants, since they are cooked and processed, they can be used even if the shape and appearance of the products are not necessarily good, but it is usually decided by the producer side. In terms of standards and sizes, it is not possible to buy a product that deviates somewhat from those standard sizes at a low price.

In particular, in the case of the above-mentioned restaurants, etc., it is often the case that vegetables or the like that have been primarily processed for cooking such as diced slices and shreds are used, but in this case too, odd products can be used Despite this, there was no market for non-standard products, and no inexpensive processed products were developed using these non-standard products.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and in the wholesale market by information bidding using a communication network such as the Internet, the wholesale market side can handle the standards and sizes in a unified manner. Therefore, the purchaser can definitely purchase the desired product without evaluating the actual product, and can develop a new distribution product that can also bid for non-standard products and processed products, and The challenge is to provide a highly reliable auction system.

[0025]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, according to the present invention, in an auction system using a homepage of the Internet, means for transmitting shipping information from a shipper terminal device to an auction server, and the shipping information. Uniform standard information adding means for identifying the standard information of the products included in the standard standard information and generating standard information, and a totaling means for classifying each product according to the standard information and making the same standard product group the same product, Means for displaying the affirmed information on the auction homepage as auction information together with shipping information of each product, and means for transmitting bid information from the buyer terminal device to the auction server.
A means for totalizing the bid information, and a successful bid processing means for outputting a successful bid result from the auction information and the bid information are provided.

The shipper terminal device may be any terminal device capable of accessing the auction server, and may be a personal computer terminal or a mobile phone terminal having an internet communication function.

The shipping information includes a shipper, a place of origin, an item, a product type, a collection date, a grade, a number of packages, a number of boxes sold, and the like.

The auction server is connected to the shipper terminal device and the purchaser terminal device via the Internet,
Web data of the auction homepage, shipping information, standard information, auction information, successful bid information, etc. are stored. Uniform information adding means, aggregating means, auction information displaying means,
Successful bid processing means are provided.

The uniform standard information adding means identifies the product standard information included in the shipping information received from the shipper, reads the shipper and its standard symbol, recognizes the standard condition, and the auction server administrator side This is to newly add a uniform standard symbol that conforms to the set standard to shipping information.

The totaling means classifies the respective commodities based on the uniform standard symbol added by the uniform standard information adding means, and those which meet the condition range of the uniform standard are registered in the auction information as the same commodity.

The auction information display means displays the auction information on a home page in a table format. It is recommended to be able to change the display of the shipping order, the product name, the Japanese syllabary order, the bid order, etc., if necessary.

As for the bid information, the purchaser selects a desired product from the tabular auction information displayed on the home page, opens the bid information input screen, inputs the bid data, and enters the auction server. Is to be sent to.

The successful bid processing means collates and classifies the bid information for each product, displays them in descending order of auction price, and displays them in descending order of bid price. When the sales quantity is reached, the winning bid price is determined and is displayed in a table form on the home page. The bid status is displayed with.

Further, the product standard information included in the shipping information includes special standard information for nonstandard products, and in the server, each product is classified according to the special standard information and the same standard product group is obtained. Is provided with a totaling means for making the same product.

The special standard information indicates a standard for products that are out of the standard products that are normally traded. For example, in general, five levels of LL, L, M, S, and SS are set in size. If there is a product that has been sold, products that are smaller than SS size or that are larger than LL size are not subject to trading. For sizes smaller than this SS size, U
If the size is the S size and is larger than the LL size, the UL size or the like can be designated as the nonstandard special size. In addition, a special standard that is out of the standard is set so that a deformed product or a product whose surface condition is different from normal can be handled as a product.

As a result, it becomes possible to circulate in the market a good quality product which has been out of specification in size and appearance.

Further, the processing information of each product is added to the totalizing means. It is a product that can be purchased in a processed state after being auctioned. For example, it is possible to trade vegetables that have been cut into square pieces.

Since the size or appearance standard before processing does not matter because it is processed, it is possible to process and trade high-quality products that are not subject to the standard, resulting in cheaper transactions.

Further, in the present invention, it is included in the above shipping information, auction information, bid information, successful bid information, and the like.
The display of the shipper or purchaser is replaced with a preset unique code. For example, the display of the shipper named Tokyo Farm Co., Ltd. is replaced with a code such as ABC0123, and all the auction transactions from the shipping information to the successful bid information are performed using the shipper display with this code. is there.

Since the product standards are unified, even if the shipper and the purchaser are coded, they can trade without problems.
Also, a request can be made by using a unique code. Further, the shipper and the purchaser can secure anonymity with each other, can freely and boldly set prices, and can inexpensively distribute high-quality products.

[0041]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of an auction system according to the present invention.

The auction system comprises a shipper terminal device 1, a purchaser terminal device 2, and an auction server 3, which are connected to each other via the Internet 4.

Shipper terminal device 1 and purchaser terminal device 2
Is a personal computer for browsing the auction website and entering data. A mobile phone having an internet communication function may be used.

The auction server 3 is the aforesaid shipper terminal device 1.
And an input / output management unit 5 for managing input / output between the purchaser terminal device 2, a uniform standard information management unit 6 for adding uniform standard information to shipping information, and classification / classification according to the uniform standard information.
An information aggregating unit 7 for aggregating, an auction information database 8 for recording the auction information thus aggregated, a bid information database 9 for recording bid information entered by the purchaser,
A successful bid processing unit 10 for analyzing the auction information and the bid information and outputting a successful bid result, and a successful bid information database 11 for recording successful bid information of each auction item are provided.

The input / output management unit 5 manages the auction homepage data, and transmits / receives the homepage data at the request of the shipper terminal device 1 or the purchaser terminal device 2. In each piece of information transmitted and received at this time, the display of the shipper and the display of the purchaser are replaced with the display of the unique code designated in advance and transmitted.

The unified standard information management unit 6 analyzes the shipping information, extracts the standard information of the product, and adds the unified standard information conforming to the standard conditions of the product to the shipping information.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the unified standard information management unit. The unified standard information management unit 6 includes a standard information recognition unit 61.
A standard information collating unit 62, a unified standard output unit 63, an existing standard database 64 and a unified standard database 65.
And a processing information database 66.

In the standard information recognition unit 61, the existing standard DB 6
4, the standard information in the shipping information is read, the standard information collating section 62 collates the standard conditions of the existing standard and the standard with the standard information DB 65, and extracts the conforming standard information. The uniform standard output unit 63 adds the uniform standard information to the shipping information and outputs it to the homepage data of the input / output management unit 5.

It is also possible to extract the corresponding processing conditions from the processing BD 66 and add the processing information to the shipping information.

The information totaling section 7 classifies and totalizes the products of the same standard based on the standardized information, and records them in the auction information database 8.

The successful bid processing section 10 extracts the auction information and the bid information from the auction information database 8 and the bid information database 9 and collates them to create successful bid data and records them in the successful bid information database 11.

In addition, in the configuration of this auction system,
The case where the shipper or the purchaser has a terminal device (such as a personal computer) having an Internet connection function has been described, but the caller 22 is called from the shipper and the purchaser using the telephones 20, 21 and the like.
2 may access the auction server 3 via the Internet 4 to participate in the auction or make an inquiry about the auction status.

Next, the processing operation of this auction system will be described. FIG. 3 is an initial screen of an auction system home page according to the present invention. Of course, in order to display this auction home page, an ID number and a password are input to display the initial screen as in the case of a general pay home page.

The right side frame of the initial screen shows shipping information, and shipping information of fresh vegetables is posted on this page. The numbers in parentheses indicate the number of shipments.

In the left frame of the screen, six kinds of auction item selection buttons, product information buttons, and spot auction buttons are provided in order from the top. The auction item buttons are vegetables, fruits, seafood, Fresh flowers, meat, and other 6 kinds of selection buttons are provided, and you can move to each shipping information page by clicking each auction item button.

When the product information button is clicked, explanatory information on the size and grade classification which are the standard conditions for the product displayed in the right frame is displayed. When you click the spot auction button, the search screen is displayed and you can search for the desired product.

When a desired product is selected from the shipping information screen and clicked, an auction status screen is displayed as shown in FIG. This screen displays the arrival date, the deadline for the auction, the remaining time, the item, the product type, the grade, the number of boxes, the number of boxes sold, the number of boxes ordered, and the bid price (the lowest bid price at the time of display).

At the right end of the screen, a product detail button and a bid confirmation button are provided. When the product detail button is clicked, a detailed explanation screen of the auction product is displayed as shown in FIG.

This detailed display screen displays items, product types, grades, product sample photographs, and standard condition data (size, weight, appearance, shape, etc.). From this screen, it is possible to determine in detail whether the desired product is available.

The standard condition data is a standard condition stored in the standard database of the auction server, and is absolutely and unified by adapting to the standard based on the existing standard set by each shipper. It has been replaced with the standard conditions.

As a result, different standard conditions for each shipper can be handled in a unified manner, and the purchaser can purchase a product with desired standard conditions without requiring the shipper's knowledge of each standard. Is possible.

When the desired product is confirmed, the screen is returned to the auction status screen, and the bid confirmation button at the right end of the screen is clicked to display the bid status confirmation screen.

As shown in FIG. 6, the bid status confirmation screen shows the bid status at the present moment, and the bid date and time, the member number (a unique code designated by the purchaser in advance), the number of bid boxes, and the bid. The price and the bid price are displayed in order of the bid price.

In this example, since the purchaser's anonymity is taken into account and the member number (ID number) is displayed, it is difficult for other purchasers to know who has made a successful bid. The privacy of the person is protected, and it is possible to freely participate in the auction and make active transactions.

Here, if a bid is desired, the bid button at the upper right of the screen is clicked to display the bid input screen. The bid input screen is, as shown in FIG.
The screen for entering the bid price and the number of bids is displayed. The member number is automatically displayed, and the bid price and the number of bids are entered. After confirming the input, click the confirmation button in the upper right of the screen. The screen will return to the bid status confirmation screen and confirm the bid registration.

To change the bid amount, click the bid button again to display the bid input screen.
Since the previous input data has been input, the bid registration can be corrected by correcting the bid price and the like and clicking the confirmation button again.

After the deadline of the auction, the above bid status confirmation screen is displayed as a successful bid as shown in FIG. 8, and the bid price becomes the winning bid price.

Regarding the auction of processed products, the processed item is displayed in the processing section of the auction status screen of FIG. 4, and the processing conditions are described as the standard condition data on the detailed explanation screen shown in FIG.

[0069]

The present invention described in detail above has the following effects.

1) Since the standard of each product is displayed in a unified manner, the purchaser can purchase the product of the desired standard without requiring knowledge about the standard of each shipper in advance.

2) Since the standard conditions can be confirmed, it is possible to participate in the auction without special knowledge.

3) Since a special standard for nonstandard products is set, nonstandard products of good quality can be purchased at low cost.

4) Since the patented standard for processed products is set, the shipper can auction non-standard products as processed products, and the purchaser can purchase at low cost.

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to easily and surely purchase a product satisfying the standard condition desired by the purchaser even in an auction in which the physical evaluation cannot be performed using the Internet, and the conventional distribution method has been adopted. It is possible to provide an auction system capable of auctioning unsuccessful nonstandard products.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of the overall configuration of an auction system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an embodiment of the configuration of a unified standard information management unit of the auction system according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of an initial screen of an auction system home page according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of an auction status screen of an auction system home page according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a detailed explanation screen for an auction item on the auction system home page according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a bid status confirmation screen of an auction system home page according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a bid input screen on the auction system home page according to the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a bid status confirmation screen on the auction system home page according to the present invention after a successful bid.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Shipper terminal device 2 Purchaser terminal device 3 auction servers 4 Internet 5 I / O management section 6 Unified Standards Information Management Department 7 Information totalization department 8 auction information database 9 bid information database 10 successful bid processing section 11 successful bid information database 20, 21 telephone 22 call center 61 Standard Information Recognition Unit 62 Standard Information Collation Unit 63 Standard output section 64 Existing standard database 65 Unified Standards Database 66 Processing Information Database BD

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. In an auction system using a homepage of the Internet, means for transmitting shipping information from a shipper terminal device to an auction server and product standard information included in the shipping information are identified to generate uniform standard information. Uniform standard information adding means, aggregating means for classifying each product according to the uniform standard information, and having the same standard product group as the same product, and the aggregated information together with shipping information of each product as auction information on the auction website. Means for displaying, means for transmitting bid information from the purchaser terminal device to the auction server, means for aggregating the bid information, and bid processing means for outputting a successful bid result from the auction information and the bid information An auction system using the Internet, which is characterized by including. 2. The product standard information included in the shipping information includes special standard information for nonstandard products, and the auction server classifies each product in accordance with the special standard information to obtain the same standard product. 2. The auction system using the Internet according to claim 1, further comprising a counting means for making the counties the same product. 3. The auction system using the Internet according to claim 1 or 2, wherein processing information of each product is added in the totaling means. 4. The display of a shipper and the display of a purchaser used for the auction information, bid information and successful bid information are replaced with a preset unique code and displayed. An auction system using the Internet according to claim 3.