JP2003099661A - Information system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To capture information and a URL about a current place immediately into a terminal of a user, record the information and the URL in the terminal, and allow collection of information and purchase of an article based on a Web page accessed according to the URL by means of a wide area communication means such as the Internet. SOLUTION: Information including a URL transmitted via a wireless communication means based on Bluetooth or the like from a store server with a data transmitting and receiving function installed in a store or the like is received and recorded by a portable terminal with a data communication function to the store server, so that the user who carries the portable terminal can easily acquire the information about the store. A Web page of the recorded URL can be accessed via the Internet for acquisition of detailed merchandise information about the store or for online shopping.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information system for collecting information about products from a store by a user terminal.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a method of transmitting information using an appropriate communication means has been used to collect merchandise information of a store by a user's mobile terminal or the like. By accessing the provider (hereinafter simply referred to as the provider), information can be retrieved, information can be obtained by requesting the provider to inform the future information, or the provider can ask all users On the other hand, there is a method of uniformly broadcasting.

[0003]

When it is desired to retrieve certain specific information such as the above-mentioned product information by using a communication means utilizing a public telephone network or other communication networks, the user provides the information. It is necessary to research the telephone number, URL, etc. in advance in order to access. Also,
In the future, when requesting the information provision from the provider, similar preliminary research is required. However, the first place I visited
It is difficult to research information such as store URLs in advance.

[0004] Furthermore, it is highly possible that information sent by general broadcasting (television, radio, etc.) will acquire a large amount of information that the user does not need, and it takes a lot of time to obtain the actually necessary information. There is a problem in that the desired information cannot be immediately acquired because it is highly likely to require.

For example, in the communication mechanism using FM broadcasting + public telephone network disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 8-154074, "Selective Information Collecting System and Selective Information Collecting Method", information is transmitted within a short distance. When there are a plurality of stores to which the call is to be sent, it is considered that each store needs to perform processing such as changing the frequency of FM broadcasting.

As a result, the receiver (moving body) needs to manually tune the frequency in order to obtain necessary information, which makes the operation troublesome.

When broadcasting is used as a means of providing information in an area where stores are crowded, information on a large number of stores cannot be provided if the stores cannot be divided into small groups and broadcasting facilities cannot be provided for economic reasons. Will be broadcast by one broadcast, and the receiver side will receive much information that the receiver does not need, and it is necessary to select useful information from among them, which is inconvenient.

Further, since the conventional terminal is not provided with means for recording the information and the telephone number received by FM broadcasting, the above information ends up as ad hoc information and can be used later. However, it will lack convenience.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, and an object thereof is to immediately send information and URLs around the user's place to a user's terminal by wireless communication means. Capturing, also
By recording the information and the URL in the terminal, it can be referred to at any time, and further, the information is collected and the goods are purchased based on a Web page accessed to the URL using a communication means such as a telephone network. It is to provide an information system that can do.

[0010]

In order to achieve the above object, a feature of the first invention is that an information system has a terminal having a data transmitting / receiving function and a function of transmitting / receiving data between the terminal and the terminal. A first network for performing wireless communication within a short range between the terminal and the server, wherein the server communicates with the terminal when the terminal enters the short range. Is automatically established through the first network, and then has a function of transmitting information and URL related to products handled by the store to the terminal, and the terminal holds the information and URL received from the server. The terminal has a function to
The user carrying the terminal has a function of accessing the Web page specified by the URL on the second network that performs wide area communication using the RL, and the user who carries the terminal accesses the URL acquired from the terminal. The purpose is to selectively obtain information and purchase goods based on a Web page on the second network.

A feature of the second invention is that in the above information system, the terminal has means for transferring the acquired information and URL to another terminal, and the other terminal is transferred from the terminal. The other terminal has a function of holding information and a URL, the other terminal has a function of accessing the acquired URL by using the second network, and the user who owns the other terminal is Web on the second network accessed by the acquired URL
The purpose is to selectively acquire information and purchase goods based on the page.

[0012] A third aspect of the invention is characterized in that, in the above information system, the terminal and the server are Bluetooth.
Is equipped with wireless communication means.

According to the present invention, for example, (advertisement) information transmitted using a wireless communication means from a server having a data transmission / reception function installed in a store and a Web page address provided by the store (hereinafter, simply referred to as URL). Is transmitted by a wireless communication means such as Bluetooth from a server having a data transmission / reception function installed in a store or the like when a person carrying a terminal having a data transmission / reception function with the server enters the wireless communication area. When the mobile terminal having the data communication function with the server receives the information to be stored, the user holding the mobile terminal easily acquires the information on the store.

[0014]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration according to an embodiment of the information system of the present invention.

The information system connects a movable terminal (hereinafter, simply referred to as a mobile terminal) 13 having a data transmission / reception function in an area 11 outside the house such as a store or inside the house 12 with an internet network 20 and at the same time as outside the house 11. The store server 14 in the area and the mobile terminal 13 in the area are connected by short-distance wireless connection.

In the home 12, another terminal 18 such as a personal computer is fixedly installed, and the mobile terminal 13 moves with the user in the areas of the home 12 and the exterior 11.
It should be noted that on the Internet network 20, the information provider Web
There are pages (online shopping and others) 21 and other web pages 22.

Here, the store server 14 is the portable terminal 1
3 to provide information to the wireless communication means 15 such as Bluetooth. Similarly, the mobile terminal 13 also includes a wireless communication means 15 such as Bluetooth as a communication means with the store server 14, whereby the frequency is automatically set between the store server 14 and the mobile terminal 13. Once established, the user does not need to set the frequency.

The store server 14 provides information to the mobile terminal 13 using the wireless communication means 15. The mobile terminal 13 enters the area 16 where wireless communication with the shop server 14 is possible, so that the shop server 14
It is possible to obtain said information in a communication 17 using the wireless communication means 15 from and to record it. The acquired information can be displayed by the mobile terminal 13, and the user can immediately obtain necessary information.

Further, the URL attached to the information is accessed from the portable terminal 13 by using a network (Internet network 20) using a public telephone network or another communication network to browse the Web page of the provider. By doing so, detailed product information can be obtained. Further, by browsing the other Web page 22 using the URL as a starting point, more information can be obtained.

The mobile terminal 13 has a recording function and can record the acquired information and URL. Therefore, unless the recorded information is erased, the information can be retrieved at any time.
Furthermore, the recorded information is transferred to another mobile terminal or another terminal 18 such as a personal computer in the home by communication 19 described later in detail, so that the information can be browsed from the other terminal 18. It is possible to access the URL using the Internet 20.

As a result, with the Web page 21 accessed from the portable terminal 13 and the other terminal 18 as a base point, it is possible to obtain more detailed product information from the provider or to purchase an item (online shopping). It will be possible.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the processing procedure of the above information system. The mobile terminal 13 having a data transmission / reception function with the store server 14 installed in a certain store is first set to the store information acquisition mode (communication mode by the first network) for performing communication with the store server 14. Then (step S011), the process waits until the mutual connection with the shop server 14 is established. The mobile terminal 13 is connected to the store server 14 via Bluetooth.
By entering the wireless communication area (step S0
12), mutual connection with the shop server 14 is automatically established, and communication is started (step S013).

When the communication is started, the portable terminal 13
Can obtain information and URL transmitted from the store server 14 by wireless communication using local wireless (step S014). Further, the mobile terminal 13
Records (saves) the information and the URL obtained from the shop server 14 in the recording area inside the mobile terminal 13, and displays the information acquired by using the display function of the mobile terminal 13 ( Step S015).

When the acquisition of information from the store server 14 is completed, the portable terminal 13 automatically or manually switches the communication mode with the store server 14 to OFF to interrupt the communication with the store server 14, or When the mobile terminal 13 is out of the wireless communication range with the shop server 14, the communication with the shop server 14 is automatically interrupted (step S016).

Next, the user having the portable terminal 13
Select whether or not to access the URL acquired from the store server 14 (step S017). If no access is made, and if the mode for communicating with the store server 14 continues, the process returns to step S012, If it is not accessed and the mode is the normal mode, the process returns to step S011 (step S018).

On the other hand, in order to access the acquired URL, the portable terminal 13 uses the UR attached to the information by Internet communication using a public telephone network or the like.
By accessing L (step S019) and browsing the web page 21 specified by the provider and other web pages 22 accessible from the web page, more detailed product information, online shopping guidance, etc. can be obtained. Is possible (step S020).

If there is a product to be ordered (step S021), an (electronic) order form including the desired product name / number etc. is transmitted from the portable terminal 13 according to the guide (step S022), and the order is placed. Information such as inventory information and total price of the purchased products is acquired (step S02).
3). When purchasing the ordered product (step S0
24), payment procedure is performed (step S025). However, processing such as payment procedure and collation of personal information relating to the payment procedure is not always performed by the server of the Web page 21.

By carrying out the above processing, the portable terminal 1
3 receives the notification that the payment procedure is completed (step S026), and ends the online shopping. The client who purchased the product from the mobile terminal 13
You can receive the items ordered later. That is, in the mobile terminal 13, it becomes possible to obtain more detailed information and to use services such as online shopping on the other web page 22 accessible from the web page 21.

The information and URL stored in the portable terminal 13 can be transferred to the other terminal 18 in the house 12 or the like by the communication 19. As a method of transferring the information and the URL by the communication 19, for example, when the mobile terminal 13 and the other terminal 18 are within a short distance, Bl is used.
It is possible to transfer information by using Bluetooth. Further, when they are in a long distance, it is possible to transfer information by Internet communication (e-mail, etc.). Therefore, the other terminal 18 can easily browse the Web page 21 designated by the provider by accessing the URL attached to the information acquired by the transfer via the Internet network 20.

As a result, also in the other terminal 18,
It is possible to obtain more detailed product information and to use services such as online shopping on the Web page 21 and other Web pages 22 accessible from the Web page 21.

According to this embodiment, when the portable terminal 13 is set in the store information acquisition mode and the user holds the portable terminal 13 and approaches the predetermined range 16 from the store, the store server 1
The URL containing the advertisement information of the product and the detailed information of the product handled by the store can be automatically received and wirelessly stored from 4 to be automatically stored and displayed.

After that, by accessing the Web page 21 of the URL from the portable terminal 13 via the Internet network 20, detailed information on the product can be obtained and the user can also purchase the product of his / her interest through online shopping. .

[0033]

As described in detail above, according to the present invention, a server installed in a store and a wireless communication means capable of transmitting and receiving data between a mobile terminal carried by a user are now provided. You will be able to instantly get information about the stores around your location. Further, by recording such information in the mobile terminal, it becomes possible to immediately retrieve the recorded information when needed later. Furthermore, the URL specified by the store in the information
By adding the above, it is possible to obtain information based on the Web page accessed by the URL using the Internet network and perform smooth online shopping.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration according to an embodiment of an information system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of the information system shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols] 11 Outside the house (store, etc.) 12 home 13 Mobile terminal 14 store server 15 Wireless communication means 17, 19 Communication 18 Other terminals 20 Internet network 21 Web page of information provider 22 Other web pages

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A terminal having a data transmission / reception function, a server having a function of transmitting / receiving data to / from the terminal, and a first network for performing wireless communication within a short range between the terminal and the server. And the server, when the terminal enters the short range,
After automatically establishing communication with the terminal via the first network, information relating to products handled by the store and U
The terminal has a function of transmitting an RL to the terminal, the terminal has a function of holding information and a URL received from the server, and the terminal performs wide area communication using the acquired URL. We identified by the URL on our network
The user who has the function of accessing page b and carries the terminal can obtain the U
An information system characterized by selectively acquiring information and purchasing an article based on a Web page on the second network accessed by RL. 2. The information system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal has means for transferring the acquired information and URL to another terminal, and the other terminal is information transferred from the terminal. And UR
L has a function of holding, the other terminal, by using the second network,
The user who has a function of accessing the acquired URL and who owns the other terminal is
On the second network accessed by
An information system characterized by selectively acquiring information and purchasing goods based on page b. 3. The information system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the terminal and the server are provided with a wireless communication means by Bluetooth.