JP2012048677A - Article information provision apparatus, article information provision method, system, program, and recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

A product information providing apparatus that can prevent a user from forgetting to purchase is provided.
A product information providing device 1 according to the present invention identifies user identification information for identifying a user transmitted from a store terminal, and a product handled in the store, which the user is interested in. A receiving unit 11 that receives the product identification information to be stored, a registration unit 15 that stores the user identification information and the product identification information in association with each other in the database 17, and the product identification information associated with the user identification information. The product detail information about the product specified by the above is acquired from the database 17, and a transmission unit 16 is provided for transmitting the product detail information to the user terminal of the user. Thereby, the user can confirm the goods which he registered at the store by looking at the user terminal, and can improve the convenience in purchasing the goods, such as preventing forgetting to buy.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a product information providing apparatus that provides users with information on products that the user is interested in, a product information providing method for such a product information providing apparatus, and a system including such a product information providing apparatus. The present invention also relates to a program for causing a computer to operate as such a product information providing apparatus, and a recording medium on which such a program is recorded.

  In daily life, when a user goes to a store for shopping, he / she finds a product he / she wants to purchase or a product he / she likes, but the purchase may be delayed for economic reasons. In this case, there may be a problem that the user forgets to purchase the product at a later date. In order to avoid the above problem, a method for preventing forgetting to purchase a product has been proposed. Patent Document 1 stores a purchase planned product list having a planned purchase start time and a planned purchase deadline for products that are repeatedly purchased by the user, and the product is stored by the planned purchase date of the products included in the planned purchase product list. A product purchase support system for notifying the user of the fact that the product has not been purchased is described.

JP 2003-346019 A (published on Dec. 5, 2003)

  However, when the user is in the store and finds an unscheduled product that the customer wants to purchase later, the product purchase support system described in Patent Literature 1 cannot register such a product. , It is impossible to prevent forgetting to buy a product other than the planned product.

  Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object thereof is to provide a product information providing apparatus that can prevent a user from forgetting to buy.

  In order to solve the above problems, the product information providing apparatus according to the present invention is user identification information for identifying a user and a product handled in a store, which is transmitted from a store terminal, and the user is interested in the product information providing device. Commodity identification information for identifying a product is received, receiving means, storage means for associating the user identification information received by the receiving means and the merchandise identification information in a storage device, and storing the storage means in the storage means Transmission means for acquiring detailed product information about the product specified by the product identification information associated with the user identification information from the storage device and transmitting the detailed product information to the user terminal of the user. It is characterized by having.

  In addition, in order to solve the above-described problem, the product information providing method of the product information providing apparatus according to the present invention includes user identification information for identifying a user transmitted from a store terminal, and products handled in the store, A receiving step for receiving product identification information for identifying a product that the user is interested in, a storage step for storing the user identification information and the product identification information received in the receiving step in association with each other in a storage device; Acquire product detailed information about the product specified by the product identification information associated with the user identification information stored in the storage step from the storage device, and transmit the product detailed information to the user terminal of the user And a transmission step.

  According to said structure, a merchandise information provision apparatus is a store by making a shop terminal read the user identification information which identifies a user, and the merchandise identification information which identifies the goods which the user was interested in. The user identification information and the product identification information transmitted from the terminal can be received, and information indicating the product that the user is interested in can be transmitted to the user terminal.

  Thereby, the user can confirm the product which he registered at the store by looking at the user terminal. The user forgets to forget to purchase the product he / she is interested in by checking the product and confirming the product detailed information when shopping at the store where the product is registered or at another store. Can be prevented.

  The receiving means receives user identification information and product identification information associated with the user identification information, and the storage means receives the user identification information received by the receiving means and the user. The product identification information associated with the identification information may be stored in the storage device.

  According to the above configuration, since the product information providing apparatus can simplify the process of associating the user identification information with the product identification information, it is possible to reduce the load on the product information providing apparatus.

  The storage means receives the user identification information from the store that transmitted the user identification information within a predetermined time after the receiving means receives the user identification information. And the product identification information are preferably stored in the storage device in association with each other.

  According to the above configuration, even in the case where a product that a plurality of users is interested in from a plurality of stores is transmitted from the store terminal, the user identification information of the user and the product identification information of the product that the user is interested in Can be associated.

  Moreover, it is preferable that the said transmission means transmits the email containing the said detailed product information to the user terminal of this user.

  According to the said structure, if it is a terminal which can receive an email, the said product detailed information can be confirmed anytime.

  Further, the product information providing device, a store terminal that transmits user identification information and product identification information to the product information providing device, and a user terminal that receives product detailed information transmitted from the product information providing device. If it is a system including this, the same effects as the product information providing apparatus are obtained.

  The product information providing apparatus may be realized by a computer. In this case, the product information providing apparatus is controlled by the computer by causing the computer to operate as each unit of the product information providing apparatus. A program and a computer-readable recording medium on which the program is recorded also fall within the scope of the present invention.

  Since the product information providing apparatus according to the present invention can register a product that the user wants to purchase later when the user is in a store and can transmit detailed product information about the product to the user terminal of the user. There is an effect of improving convenience in purchasing products, such as preventing forgetting.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the merchandise information provision apparatus of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the system containing the merchandise information provision apparatus of FIG. It is a figure which shows the example of the data memorize | stored in the database, (a) shows the user table which is the user detailed information about the user memorize | stored previously, (b) shows the product memorize | stored beforehand. The product table which is the product detailed information about is shown, (c) is a purchase wish list table showing the user identification information and product identification information stored in the registration unit. It is a figure which shows the other example of the system containing the merchandise information provision apparatus of FIG.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

(System overview)
First, an overview of the system 100 in the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating a configuration example of the system 100. As shown in FIG. 2, the product information providing apparatus 1 is connected to a store terminal 2 and a television (user terminal) 4 installed in the store, and a system 100 is configured by these devices. Note that the connection between the product information providing apparatus 1 and the store terminal 2 and the connection between the product information providing apparatus 1 and the television 4 are not limited as long as the above devices can communicate with each other. It may be a wireless communication network.

  The store shown in FIG. 2 handles, for example, a product a, a product b, and a product c, and each product incorporates an RFID tag storing information (product identification information) for identifying each product. It is. The product identification information stored in the RFID tag of the product is, for example, a product number that is a product number.

  In addition, there is a user who carries the mobile terminal 3 in the store, and the mobile terminal 3 incorporates an RFID tag in which information (user identification information) for identifying the user is stored. The user identification information stored in the RFID tag of the mobile terminal 3 is, for example, a member number that is a member number of the store.

  A store terminal 2 is installed in the store. The store terminal 2 is an RFID tag reader that reads an RFID tag, and transmits information read from the RFID tag to the product information providing apparatus 1 connected via a network.

  A user in a store finds a product he / she wants to purchase or a product he / she likes, that is, a product he / she is interested in, and registers the product in the product information providing apparatus 1 when he / she wants to purchase the product at a later date. Specifically, the RFID tag incorporated in the user's mobile terminal 3 and the RFID tag of the product of interest are read by the store terminal 2 installed in the store. The store terminal 2 stores information obtained by reading the RFID tag incorporated in the user's mobile terminal 3, that is, information for identifying the user (user identification information) and information obtained by reading the RFID tag of the product, that is, the product. Information for identifying (product identification information) is transmitted to the product information providing apparatus 1.

  The product information providing apparatus 1 stores the received user identification information and product identification information in association with each other. Further, the product information providing apparatus 1 acquires product detailed information of the product specified by the product identification information associated with the user identification information from the product table, and transmits the product detailed information to the television 4 of the user. . Here, the product detail information is information such as the product name and price of the product.

(Configuration of Product Information Providing Device 1)
Next, the configuration of the product information providing apparatus 1 in the system 100 shown in FIG. 2 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of the product information providing apparatus 1.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the product information providing apparatus 1 includes a receiving unit (receiving unit) 11, a user specifying unit 12, a product specifying unit 13, an associating unit 14, a registering unit (storage unit) 15, a transmitting unit (transmitting unit). ) 16 and database 17. The database 17 is included in a storage device (not shown). Note that the storage device including the database 17 may be configured differently from the product information providing device 1 instead of the product information providing device 1. The processing of each part of the product information providing apparatus 1 will be described in detail in the product information providing method.

(Table structure of database 17)
FIG. 3 shows a configuration example of a table stored in the database 17. (A) shows the user table which is the user detailed information about the user stored in advance, (b) shows the product table which is the product detailed information about the product stored in advance, (c ) Shows a purchase wish list table showing user identification information and product identification information stored in the registration unit 15. Here, the user detailed information is information such as the user's name and address.

  As shown in FIG. 3A, the user table includes a membership number (user identification information) that is information for identifying a user, and a name and an address that are user detailed information about the user. The configuration of the user table is not limited to this. For example, the user table may include a user's email address as detailed user information.

  The product table shown in FIG. 3B includes a product number (product identification information) that is information for identifying a product, and a product name and price that are product detailed information about the product. Note that the configuration of the product table is not limited to this, and for example, the product detailed information may include a product photo, a manufacturer, a date of manufacture, and the like.

  The purchase wish list table shown in FIG. 3C includes a member number (user identification information), a product number (product identification information) associated with the member number, and a product number stored by the registration unit 15. Including the price of the product identified by. The configuration of the purchase wish list table is not limited to this, and any configuration including a member number and a product number may be used.

(Product information provision method)
Next, (1) product registration and (2) product detailed information transmission, which are processing contents of the product information providing method executed by the product information providing apparatus 1, will be described with reference to FIG.

(1) Product Registration The receiving unit 11 transmits user identification information for identifying a user, which is transmitted from the store terminal 2, and product identification information for identifying products that are handled in the store and that the user is interested in. And the received user identification information and product identification information are output to the associating unit 14.

  The associating unit 14 associates the user identification information output from the receiving unit 11 with the product identification information. The association unit 14 supplies the associated user identification information and product identification information to the registration unit 15.

  The associating unit 14 receives the user identification information from the store that has transmitted the user identification information within a predetermined time after the reception unit 11 receives the user identification information. Is associated with the product identification information. As a result, even when a product in which a plurality of users are interested from a plurality of stores is transmitted from the store terminal, the user identification information of the user is associated with the product identification information of the product in which the user is interested. be able to.

  The registration unit 15 stores the associated user identification information and product identification information supplied from the association unit 14 in the database 17. The database 17 stores, for example, user identification information and product identification information in a configuration like a purchase wish list table shown in FIG.

(2) Product detailed information transmission The user identification unit 12 refers to the user identification information stored in the database 17 by the registration unit 15 and identifies the user. In addition, the user specifying unit 12 acquires user detailed information about the specified user from the database 17 and supplies the acquired user detailed information to the transmitting unit 16. Here, the user detailed information is stored in advance in the database 17 in a configuration like a user table shown in FIG.

  The product specifying unit 13 specifies the product with reference to the product identification information stored in the database 17 in the registration unit 15. The product specifying unit 13 acquires product detailed information about the specified product from the database 17 and supplies the acquired product detailed information to the transmission unit 16. Here, the detailed product information is stored in advance in the database 17 with a configuration such as a product table shown in FIG.

  The transmission unit 16 specifies, in the user specifying unit 12, product detailed information about the product specified by the product identification information specified by the product specifying unit 13 and associated with the user identification information of the user. To the user's television 4.

  The user's television 4 displays the detailed product information transmitted from the product information providing apparatus 1 to the television 4.

  Examples of the method for transmitting the product detail information include a method for transmitting an e-mail including product detail information to the television 4. The user can confirm the product information registered by the user by looking at the product detail information included in the e-mail transmitted to the television 4 capable of receiving an e-mail from the product information providing apparatus 1.

  The method for transmitting the detailed product information is not limited to e-mail. For example, a method may be used in which the television 4 makes an inquiry about the product detailed information to the product information providing apparatus 1 through communication such as the Internet, and the product information providing apparatus 1 transmits the product detailed information which is the inquiry result to the television 4. .

  In this case, the television 4 and the mobile terminal 3 are linked such that the same RFID tag information (user identification information) is stored, and the television 4 uses the user identification information to The information providing apparatus 1 is inquired about the detailed product information associated with the user identification information. The merchandise information providing apparatus 1 transmits to the television 1 merchandise detailed information about the merchandise identified by the merchandise identification information associated with the user identification information. The television 4 displays the received product detailed information, which is the inquiry result, so that the user can check the product detailed information.

  The electronic mail including the product detail information described above may be transmitted from the product information providing apparatus 1 when a request for confirmation of the product detail information is received from the user, or automatically from the product information providing apparatus 1. It is good also as a structure transmitted automatically.

  Further, when the user requests the product information providing apparatus 1 to check whether or not a certain product is registered in the database 17, the product detailed information and the user identification information of the product are transmitted. 3 may be used to inquire a purchase wish list table as shown in FIG. 3C, and the product information providing apparatus 1 may send the product detail information of the product as a result of the inquiry to the television 4. .

  Thereby, if it is a terminal which can receive an electronic mail, or a terminal which can inquire detailed product information, the detailed product information can be confirmed at any time. In addition, after returning home, the user can check the product registered at the store by watching the television 4 at home where the e-mail is received. When a user makes a purchase at a store where the product is registered or other stores at a later date, by checking the detailed product information, the user can forget to forget to buy a product that he or she is interested in. Can do.

(Receive email when changing information)
When the product information registered in the product information providing device 1 is changed at the store where the product is registered, the product information providing device 1 transmits an e-mail including product detailed information of the product to the television 4. Also good. For example, when the price of the product is changed or when the arrival status of the product is changed, the product information providing apparatus 1 transmits an e-mail including the change information of the product to the television 4.

  As a result, the user can be sent to the store again, and the effect of attracting customers can be improved.

(Product purchase method)
The user can purchase the product displayed on the television 4 at a store in which the product is registered or another store at a later date. Further, the user can purchase the product by performing a procedure for purchasing at a later date on the television 4 using the product detail information displayed on the television 4.

  Thus, the user can purchase the registered product without going to the store where the product is registered again.

(Ad display)
In addition to the product detail information of the product registered by the user displayed on the television 4, an advertisement such as a related product of the product may be displayed. In addition, the user may be configured to be able to purchase a product introduced by the advertisement using the advertisement displayed on the television 4.

(About the payment composition of products)
In addition, when a product purchase procedure is performed on the television 4, the store where the product is purchased may be a store where the product is registered, or may be another store. In the case of other stores, a part of the settlement amount may be returned (revenue share) to the store where the product is registered.

  In addition, when the purchase procedure for the product introduced by the advertisement displayed on the television 4 is performed, the revenue sharing may be performed with respect to the advertisement distribution company displaying the advertisement.

  The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications can be made within the scope shown in the claims. That is, embodiments obtained by combining technical means appropriately modified within the scope of the claims are also included in the technical scope of the present invention.

(Other examples of store terminal 2)
The mobile terminal 3, not the store terminal 2, reads the RFID tag of the product, information on the RFID tag (user identification information) mounted on the mobile terminal 3, and information (product identification information) obtained by reading the RFID tag of the product May be associated with each other and transmitted to the product information providing apparatus 1.

  Thereby, since the product information providing apparatus 1 can simplify the process of associating the user identification information with the product identification information, the load on the product information providing apparatus 1 can be reduced.

  In the above case, the mobile terminal 3 and the product information providing apparatus 1 are connected via a wireless communication network. For example, the mobile terminal 3 and the merchandise information providing apparatus 1 are realized by devices whose mutual connection is guaranteed by Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity).

(Other examples of the mobile terminal 3)
In the system 100 illustrated in FIG. 2, the mobile terminal 3 is illustrated as a medium that causes the store terminal 2 to read user identification information for identifying a user. However, the present invention is not limited to this, for example, a card with an RFID tag incorporated It may be.

(Other examples of TV 4)
In the system 100 shown in FIG. 2, the television 4 is described as an example of a user terminal used by the user. However, the user terminal is not limited to this, and has a display unit such as a mobile phone terminal or a personal computer. Any terminal can be used.

(User identification information and product identification information)
As user identification information and product identification information, description will be made using information recognized by reading an RFID tag registered in a user's mobile terminal 3 and information recognized by reading an RFID tag of a product as examples. Although it went, it is not limited to this. For example, the product identification information may be information recognized by reading a QR code and a barcode. In this case, instead of causing the store terminal 2 to read the RFID tag of the product, the product information may be registered in the product information providing apparatus 1 by causing the QR code and the barcode of the product to be read.

  In addition, by reading the QR code and bar code of the product on the mobile terminal 3 and reading the mobile terminal 3 on the store terminal 2, the QR code and the bar code associated with the user identification information of the mobile terminal 3 are read. The product information may be registered by transmitting the product information (product identification information) from the store terminal 2 to the product information providing apparatus 1.

  Moreover, you may comprise browsing permissible range designation | designated which designates the range which permits browsing of merchandise detailed information so that relatives etc. which are a user's related party can browse merchandise detailed information similarly. For example, there is a table in the database 17 describing a user, a person concerned, and a relation between the user and a person concerned. You may comprise so that the detailed product information memorize | stored in the purchase wish list table of another user can be browsed when using.

(Other forms)
The system in the present invention may be a system 100 ′ as shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 4, a plurality of shelves are installed in the store, and merchandise is displayed on each shelf. In addition, a store terminal 2 ′ serving as an RFID reader is installed for each shelf. The merchandise information providing apparatus 1 ′ is connected to the plurality of store terminals 2 ′ and the television 4, and a system 100 ′ is configured by these devices. In addition, the connection between the product information providing apparatus 1 ′ and the plurality of store terminals 2 ′ and the connection between the product information providing apparatus 1 ′ and the television 4 may be anything as long as the above-described devices can communicate with each other. It may be a wired communication network or a wireless communication network.

  The store terminal 2 ′ is a terminal that holds product identification information of a product displayed on the shelf on which the store terminal 2 ′ is installed, and the reader terminal on which the RFID tag of the user's mobile terminal 3 is installed on each shelf. By reading in, it is detected which merchandise position the store terminal 2 ′ has read. The store terminal 2 'associates the read information (user identification information) with the product identification information held in the store terminal 2' and transmits it to the product information providing apparatus 1 '.

  The merchandise information providing apparatus 1 ′ receives the user identification information transmitted from the store terminal 2 ′ and the merchandise identification information associated with the user identification information, and stores them in the database 17.

  Thereby, since the product information providing apparatus 1 ′ can simplify the process of associating the user identification information with the product identification information, it is possible to realize a system that reduces the load on the product information providing apparatus 1 ′. .

(Program and recording medium)
Moreover, each block of the product information providing apparatus 1 described above may be configured by hardware logic, or may be realized by software using a CPU as follows.

  That is, the product information providing apparatus 1 includes a CPU (central processing unit) that executes instructions of a control program that realizes each function, a ROM (read only memory) that stores the program, and a RAM (random access memory) that expands the program. ), A storage device (recording medium) such as a memory for storing the program and various data. The object of the present invention is to enable the computer to read the program code (execution format program, intermediate code program, source program) of the control program (authentication program) of the product information providing apparatus 1 which is software that implements the functions described above. This can also be achieved by supplying the recorded recording medium to the product information providing apparatus 1 and reading and executing the program code recorded on the recording medium by the computer (or CPU or MPU).

  Examples of the recording medium include a tape system such as a magnetic tape and a cassette tape, a magnetic disk such as a floppy (registered trademark) disk / hard disk, and an optical disk such as a CD-ROM / MO / MD / DVD / CD-R. Card system such as IC card, IC card (including memory card) / optical card, or semiconductor memory system such as mask ROM / EPROM / EEPROM / flash ROM.

  Further, the product information providing apparatus 1 may be configured to be connectable to a communication network, and the program code may be supplied via the communication network. The communication network is not particularly limited. For example, the Internet, intranet, extranet, LAN, ISDN, VAN, CATV communication network, virtual private network, telephone line network, mobile communication network, satellite communication. A net or the like is available. Further, the transmission medium constituting the communication network is not particularly limited. For example, even in the case of wired such as IEEE 1394, USB, power line carrier, cable TV line, telephone line, ADSL line, etc., infrared rays such as IrDA and remote control, Bluetooth ( (Registered trademark), 802.11 wireless, HDR (high data rate), mobile phone network, satellite line, terrestrial digital network, and the like can also be used. The present invention can also be realized in the form of a computer data signal embedded in a carrier wave in which the program code is embodied by electronic transmission.

  The present invention can be applied to a store server connected to a store via a network, a mail server that transmits mail to the user, a database server that provides information to the user, and the like.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Product information provision apparatus 11 Receiving part 12 User specific part 13 Product specific part 14 Association part 15 Registration part 16 Transmission part 17 Database 2 Store terminal 3 Mobile terminal 4 Television

Claims (8)

Receiving means for receiving user identification information for identifying a user and product identification information for identifying a product that is handled in the store and that the user is interested in, transmitted from the store terminal;
Storage means for associating the user identification information and the product identification information received by the receiving means with each other in a storage device;
Acquire product detailed information about the product specified by the product identification information associated with the user identification information stored in the storage means from the storage device, and transmit the product detailed information to the user terminal of the user A product information providing apparatus. The receiving means receives user identification information and product identification information associated with the user identification information,
2. The product information provision according to claim 1, wherein the storage unit stores the user identification information received by the receiving unit and the product identification information associated with the user identification information in a storage device. apparatus.   The storage means receives the user identification information and the user identification information when receiving the product identification information from a store that has transmitted the user identification information within a predetermined time after the receiving means receives the user identification information. The merchandise information providing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the merchandise identification information is stored in association with the merchandise identification information.   4. The product information providing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transmission unit transmits an e-mail including the product detail information to the user terminal of the user. 5. A receiving step for receiving user identification information for identifying a user and product identification information for identifying a product that is handled in the store and that the user is interested in, transmitted from the store terminal;
A storage step of associating the user identification information and the product identification information received in the reception step with each other in a storage device;
Acquire product detailed information about the product specified by the product identification information associated with the user identification information stored in the storage step from the storage device, and transmit the product detailed information to the user terminal of the user A product information providing method of the product information providing apparatus.   The merchandise information providing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4, a store terminal that transmits user identification information and merchandise identification information to the merchandise information providing apparatus, and the merchandise information providing apparatus. And a user terminal that receives the detailed product information.   A program for operating the commodity information providing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the program causes a computer to function as each of the means.   A computer-readable recording medium on which the program according to claim 7 is recorded.

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