KR20090000722A - Standard format generation method for multiple online shopping malls and product information automatic integration registration method using the same - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for generating a standard format for a plurality of online shopping malls and a method for automatically registering and registering product information using the same. More specifically, different formats required by each shopping mall in an e-market place are described. Downloading the product registration formats of the standard format target shopping malls so as to standardize and to automatically register in a desired shopping mall with only one registration in the standardized format; Checking common / non-common field values in the downloaded product registration format of each shopping mall; And selectively combining the non-common field with the common field to generate a standardized common format of standard format target shopping malls.

In addition, a method of registering product information in a plurality of online shopping malls, comprising: receiving product information conforming to a standardized common format when registering product information; Receiving at least one shopping mall information for registering the product information; And registering product information written in accordance with the standardized common format in the at least one shopping mall.

Description

Method for forming standard format of online shopping-mall and method for automatic registering product information using the same}

1 is an explanatory diagram showing the current E-marketplace market structure,

2 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of an E-market place market structure to which the present invention is applied;

3 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of a standard format generation process for automatic registration of product information according to the present invention;

4 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment of a method for generating a standard format according to the present invention;

5 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment of a method for automatically registering product information according to the present invention;

6 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of a data collection and standardization step for generating a product registration format standard according to the present invention;

7 is an explanatory diagram for a product registration format standardization process and generated data according to the present invention;

8 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a user interface of a product registration format standard for registering product information in a multi-shopping mall server according to one embodiment of the present invention;

9 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the automatic product information integrated registration system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

11: Customer System 12: E-Market Place System

13: Vendor 14: Manufacturer / source

15: Delivery company 16: Product information automatic registration system

601: Product registration format of A shopping mall

602: Original text of product registration format data HTML tag of A shopping mall

603 normalized data for registration of goods made in the process of the present invention

604: Tag indicating the product code in 602

605: Tag indicating input field name of product code among 602

606: Tag indicating detailed information of product code among 602

607: Tag indicating product registration date among 602

608: Tag indicating input field name of product registration date among 602

609: Tag indicating the input details of the product registration date of 602

610: Tag indicating a brand name in 602

611: Tag indicating the input field name of the product name in 602.

612: Tag indicating the input detailed information of the product name in 602.

613: Shopping Mall Identifier Field

614: Input field identification identifier field of 603

615: Input field code identifier field among 603

616: 603 input detail information field

701: Product registration normalization data of A shopping mall

702: Product registration normalization data of B shopping mall

703: Standardized Product Registration Data List

704: detailed data containing product registration information for each shopping mall

705: Common essential data area of A shopping mall and B shopping mall

801: Product Registration Format

802: shopping mall selection list where products are registered

803: Product Registration Button

900: product information automatic registration system

901: Database

902: receiving unit

903: storage unit

904: converter

905: Register

906: standardization and normalization function

907: reception of 906

908: Conversion of 906

909: Identification of 906

910: storage of 906

The present invention relates to a method for generating a standard format for a plurality of online shopping malls and a method for automatically registering and registering product information using the same. More specifically, different formats required by each shopping mall in an e-market place are described. It is to allow automatic registration in common with the desired shopping mall with one registration in standardized and standardized format.

In general, electronic commerce is a general term for commodity trading using the Internet or PC communication, and means that producers, intermediaries, and consumers trade each other using digital communication networks, and the physical market is a physical market. It may also mean a virtual market transaction or an E-market transaction as opposed to a market transaction. The electronic commerce is classified into an agreement electronic commerce and a broad electronic commerce according to the scope of the transaction.

First, negotiated electronic commerce means to trade goods in real time through a store opened as a homepage on the Internet. Commodities that are traded include services such as distance education and medical diagnostics, as well as realities such as electronic components. It also includes digital products such as news, audio, and software, and their proportion is growing.

In addition, broad e-commerce includes not only transactions with consumers, but also related activities with all institutions involved in the transaction, such as suppliers, financial institutions, government agencies, and transportation agencies.

On the other hand, the market place (marketplace) can be seen as a 'market place' existing in the virtual space. It is a kind of virtual market created by companies that have recently converted a wide range of trading networks, such as procurement and sales, into virtual networks suitable for the e-commerce environment. Increasingly, businesses are setting up e-marketplaces to increase efficiency and reduce costs. The effect is a supply chain integration that allows commodities to be traded in an integrated environment for materials supply, production, sales, distributors and end consumers.

An E-market place refers to the construction of an existing marketplace online. That is, in the case of the conventional market, for example, there is a certain area (eg, Namdaemun market, Dongdaemun market), and the seller opens a store in the market to sell the product, and a general consumer can purchase the product. It would be. In comparison, an E-Market Place is an online market where a variety of sellers register and sell products on a single site registered online, and a program is organized so that various buyers can purchase products.

The construction of such an E-market place has a very low barrier to entry compared to the construction of the real market, and as a result, competition between similar products and sites is fierce, and various promotion methods and sales promotion methods are being devised. In order to gain an edge in this competition, a large number of members are required. The importance of such membership is not only found in E-market places but also in general shopping malls and Internet sites, and various ways of securing members are being sought.

Looking at the current E-market place market structure with reference to Figure 1, each vendor 13 that supplies goods to the shopping mall (E-market place system 12) is required by each shopping mall of the E-market place system 12 Product information such as image, price, feature, inventory, etc. should be registered and revised by visiting the relevant shopping malls (Gmarket, Auction, etc.) according to different product registration formats. That is, each vendor company 13 downloads a product registration format of each shopping mall (market) that wants to sell the product, and writes various factors such as a product image and a product price according to the regulations of the product registration format to the corresponding shopping mall (market). Registered and used.

Then, when the customer (customer system 11) orders the goods through any shopping mall (Gmarket, auction, etc.) of the E-market place system 12, the shopping mall (Gmarket, auction, etc.) is ordered / invoice To the vendor 13 (in this case, the delivery method may be a known telephone, E-mail, FAX, and other electronic documents (EDI), etc.), the vendor 13 is the manufacturer / source (14) of the goods (In this case, the delivery method is based on a known method).

Thereafter, the manufacturer / source 14 requests the delivery company (courier company 15) to deliver the goods, and the delivery company (courier company 15) receives the goods and delivers them to the customer.

However, as shown in FIG. 1, many domestic and foreign companies (or individual businesses, etc.) (bender company 13) currently open market (G market, Auction, etc.) and direct market (direct market) such as E-market place system (12). ), They realize their sales and profits, and the type of product registration required by each shopping mall with different inclinations in registering the products they want to sell by entering the shopping mall (Gmarket, Auction, etc.) The reality is that you have to adjust the format manually.

For example, if a company A participates in multiple shopping malls and wants to sell MP3s to an unspecified customer, the company A may use the images and prices of MP3s in different product registration formats required by each shopping mall. You must accept the inefficiency of entering and posting custom, feature, and inventory.

As such, corporations, business owners, and individuals who want to conduct online shopping malls must manually input product information (images, prices, features, etc.) they want to sell to every shopping mall (Gmarket, Auction, etc.) who wants to sell them. There are inconveniences in that the product registration format that is operated for each (market) is also different. Even if the product registration is completed in all shopping malls, not all problems are over. If the stock runs out, you will have to go through the many shopping malls and fix them.

Such a problem may cause a decrease in sales, and may act as a deterrent to content activation.

The present invention has been proposed to solve the above problems, and to standardize different formats required by each shopping mall of the E-market place, and to automatically register in a desired shopping mall with only one registration in the standardized format. It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for generating a standard format for a plurality of online shopping malls and a method for automatically registering product information using the same.

The objects of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned objects, and other objects which are not mentioned will be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a method for generating a standard format for a plurality of online shopping malls, the method comprising: downloading product registration formats of standard format target shopping malls; Checking common / non-common field values in the downloaded product registration format of each shopping mall; And selectively combining the non-common field with the common field to generate a standardized common format of standard format target shopping malls.

Meanwhile, the present invention provides a method of registering product information in a plurality of online shopping malls, comprising: receiving product information conforming to a standardized common format when registering product information; Receiving at least one shopping mall information for registering the product information; And registering product information written in accordance with the standardized common format in the at least one shopping mall.

 The present invention may further include automatically changing product information registered in the at least one shopping mall when the product information is changed.

Specific details of other embodiments are included in the detailed description and the drawings.

Advantages and features of the present invention and methods for achieving them will be apparent with reference to the embodiments described below in detail with the accompanying drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments disclosed below, but may be embodied in various forms, and the present embodiments are merely provided to make the disclosure of the present invention complete and the general knowledge in the art to which the present invention belongs. It is provided to fully inform the person having the scope of the invention, the invention is defined only by the scope of the claims. Like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

2 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of an E-marketplace market structure to which the present invention is applied, and FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of a standard format generation process for automatic registration of product information according to the present invention. . For convenience of description, FIGS. 2 and 3 will be described together.

The automatic product information registration system 16 collects different product registration formats of each shopping mall (market) on the E-market place system 12 as shown in FIG. Create a format. In this case, since each product registration format is different for each shopping mall (ie, there are common field input values and non-common field input values), a standard combining a common / non-common field value is used. Create a format.

For example, a product image, a price, a feature, and a stock field are common fields in a product registration format of a shopping mall A, a shopping mall B, and a shopping mall C. Unlike other shopping malls, a recommended product field is further included in the shopping mall A. Assuming that the shopping mall B further includes a recommendation product field and a popular product field, and the shopping mall C further includes a popular product field and a new product field, " commodity image, price, feature, inventory field " A standard format is generated using "recommended products, popular products, and new product fields" as "non-common fields." Of course, the standard format may require the common field and may selectively configure only a part of the non-common fields. For example, a standard format may be generated by combining only the recommendation product field and the popular product field in the common field.

Accordingly, the vendor company 13 who intends to perform the online shopping mall business by standardizing the different formats required by each shopping mall (market) of the E-marketplace system 12 in the automatic product information registration system 16, In other words, corporations, sole proprietors and individuals need to register only once in a standardized format, and at this time, simply designate a shopping mall (Gmarket, auction, etc.) to sell product information (image, price, characteristics, etc.) to sell. It is automatically registered in the shopping mall (market). For example, a field in a standard format (i.e., a standard format with "product image, price, feature, stock field" as "common field" and "recommended, popular, and new product field" as "non-common field"). If you enter a value and specify the shopping mall (market) that you want to register as shopping mall A (for example, G market) or shopping mall C (for example, auction), the shopping mall A (G market) and shopping mall C (auction) Product information of the vendor company 13 is registered.

Therefore, each vendor 13 who intends to conduct an online shopping mall business, namely, a corporation, individual business owner, or individual shopping mall (Gmarket, auction, etc.) who wants to sell product information (image, price, characteristics, etc.) to sell. There is no need to enter and register while browsing, and you can easily change the information of the shopping mall (market) where product information is registered with one change without having to search and modify the shopping mall (market) even when changing product information such as stock change. Will be.

Therefore, referring to the E-marketplace market structure with reference to FIG. 2 according to the present invention, each vendor company 13 supplying a product to a shopping mall (E-marketplace system 12) is automatically integrated product information registration system (16). If you specify a shopping mall (market) that you want to register and register in the standardized common format of each shopping mall provided by), the product information of the vendor company 13 is registered in the shopping mall (for example, G market, auction, etc.). .

Then, if the customer (customer system 11) orders the goods through any shopping mall (Gmarket, auction, etc.) of the E-market place system 12, the shopping mall (Gmarket, auction, etc.) The invoice is delivered to the vendor 13. At this time, the delivery method may be a known telephone, E-mail, FAX, other electronic documents (EDI). In this case, the order form / invoice may be configured in a standardized format.

Then, the vendor company 13 will deliver it to the manufacturer / publisher 14 of the product, where again, the delivery method is based on a known method.

Finally, the manufacturer / source 14 requests the delivery company (courier company 15) to deliver the goods, and the delivery company (courier company 15) receives the goods and delivers them to the customer.

4 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment of a method for generating a standard format according to the present invention.

In order to generate a standard format, the product information automatic registration registration system 16 firstly uses different product registration formats (e.g., G market, auction, etc.) of the e-marketplace system 12. Format (401), field values are extracted from the product information registration format of each shopping mall (market) (402), and common / non-common field values are generated (403).

That is, the product image, price, feature, and stock fields are common fields in the product registration format of the shopping mall A, shopping mall B, and shopping mall C. Unlike other shopping malls, the shopping mall A is further provided with a recommended product field. In the case where shopping mall B further includes a recommendation product field and a popular product field, and shopping mall C further includes a popular product field and a new product field, "product image, price, feature, and stock field" are generated as 'common field'. In step 403, a “recommended product, popular product, and new product field” is generated as a “non-common field” (404), and a field value of a standard format that combines common / non-common field values is generated (405). ).

Of course, the standard format may be configured by selectively combining a "common field" composed of "product image, price, feature, inventory field" and a non-common field composed of "recommended product field and popular item field". have.

In this way, a common format including common and non-common fields is generated (406). As a result, even if it is a non-common field which differs for each shopping mall (market), the finally selected field becomes an essential field (standard format field) of a common format.

5 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment of a method for automatically registering product information in accordance with the present invention.

First, when a vendor company 13, ie, a corporation, an individual business operator, or an individual intends to register product information (501) to perform an online shopping mall business, each shopping mall (market) of the E-marketplace system 12 as shown in FIG. If product information (for example, product image, price, feature, inventory, recommendation product, popular product, and new product information) is input in a standardized common format that standardizes different formats required by the user (502), the product information Is stored in the product information table (503). That is, the product information is registered by inputting each field value of the standard format having the "product image, price, feature, inventory, recommendation product, popular product, new product field".

At this time, the vendor 13 additionally specifies at least one shopping mall (G market, auction, etc.) to sell the product information (image, price, characteristics, etc.) to be sold, and the shopping mall (market) where the corresponding product information is registered. 504 is selected. That is, if the shopping mall (market) that you want to register is designated as shopping mall A (for example, G market) and shopping mall C (for example, auction) (504), a common standard format is designated as shopping mall A (G market) and shopping mall. The format is converted to a format of C (auction) (505) and automatically registered in the shopping mall (eg, G market, auction, etc.) (506), and the result is stored in the registration result table (507).

6 collects only the necessary information from the product registration format for each shopping mall in order to generate a standard format for automatic integrated registration of product information according to the present invention, thereby creating normalized data 603 for creating a standardized registration format of the present invention. Illustrative diagram of an embodiment showing the process.

The product information automatic registration registration system 16 first downloads the product registration form of the actual shopping mall A, as shown in FIG. 6, in order to generate normalization data 603. Here, the product registration form 601 that actual users see through a web browser is a form in which the contents of the product registration format data HTML tag original text 602 are converted into a format that a user can see.

The automatic product information registration system 16 extracts input information for individual products from the product registration format data HTML tag original text 602 of each shopping mall, and generates and stores normalized data 603 for product registration.

For example, the product registration form 601 of the shopping mall A has a field of “product name” and the user directly inputs the “product name” of the product through the input field of the web browser and transmits it to the server of the shopping mall. This “product name” field is an input field name (611) that identifies the string when the HTML tag original text (602) is inquired, and the string (610) indicating the product name is transmitted to the server. ) And input details 612 for the input field.

The product automatic integration registration system 16 extracts information on each field from the input field classification identifier 614, input field code identifier 615, and input for each input item based on the shopping mall identifier 613. The detailed information 616 is stored.

In this case, the input detail information 616 essentially records whether each data acts as an essential element in the input format of the corresponding shopping mall, and defines and stores other elements that restrict the input of a string. However, the present invention is not necessarily limited thereto, and it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that modifications may be made such that the complexity of the shopping mall data input is further increased.

The normalized data thus generated is used as reference data for the product customer format conversion 505 through the standardization process of FIG. 7. In other words, the normalized data of each shopping mall made in FIG. 6 may be processed into standardized data used by the product information integrated registration system 16 after the normalization process of FIG. 7.

Here, it can be seen that normalization data generated through the product registration format of each shopping mall is configured in different forms as shown in the example of FIG. 7.

That is, the normalization data 701 of the shopping mall A includes "sold object" and "origin", and the normalization data 702 of the shopping mall B includes "sales classification" and "production cost". Other "Product Code", "Product Name", and "Product Registration Date" are registered as common fields, although all of them have different input field separators. In this case, the input fields commonly applied to the shopping mall A and the shopping mall B are registered as “mandatory” items in the standardized product registration data list 703, and the corresponding input field names and shopping mall information are recorded for the remaining input fields. .

When the detailed data 704 including the actual input code identifier and the input field information that are applied differently for each shopping mall is connected to the list 703 thus created, each of the input fields, a plurality of standardized product registration data lists 703 are used. It is possible to create a standard format that can register the product registration format for the shopping mall.

8 illustrates an example of a user interface of a standardized product registration format for registering product information in a multi-shopping mall server according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 8, by using the product information automatic integration registration system 16, a user inputs information about a product he wants to register in a product registration format 801 integrated in one form, and then selects a shopping mall. It is understood that after selecting a plurality of shopping malls from a list of shopping malls that can be integratedly registered in the list 802, a product can be registered in a plurality of shopping malls specified in the selection list 802 through a single input operation through the product registration button 803. Can be.

9 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the automatic product information integrated registration system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The automatic product information registration system 900 according to the present embodiment includes a database 901, a receiver 902, a storage unit 903, a conversion unit 904, a registration unit 905, and a standardization and normalization function unit 906. The standardization and normalization function unit 906 may include a receiver 907, a converter 908, an identification unit 909, and a storage unit 910.

In the present embodiment, the database 901 is a product registration information database and maintains product registration format information of each shopping mall created through the standardization and normalization function unit 906. 6 and 7 show an example of the database 901, which has been described above.

First, a function of preparing data for the integrated product registration through the normalization and standardization process by extracting the product registration format from each shopping mall will be described.

The receiving unit 907 receives a product registration format from a specific shopping mall server, and the converting unit 908 converts the product registration format received from the receiving unit 907 into an automatic product information registration system 900 for standardizing the corresponding product registration information. Convert it to usable information.

The identification unit 909 compares the information generated by the conversion unit 908 with the contents of the database 901 to identify whether the information is a common format or a non-common format, and transfers the information to the storage unit 910 to provide a database ( 901).

Next, in the process of registering the standardized product information and registering it in a plurality of shopping malls, the receiving unit 902 receives the contents input by the user in the standardized product information format, which is standardized through the storage unit 903. The first step of storing in the first product information database 901, and the conversion unit 904 converts the contents stored in the database 901 according to the contents of the shopping mall selected by the user, and converts the converted data to the registration unit 905 And registering with each shopping mall.

Although embodiments of the present invention have been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains may implement the present invention in other specific forms without changing the technical spirit or essential features thereof. I can understand that. Therefore, the embodiments described above are to be understood in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive.

The present invention as described above, by standardizing the different formats required by each shopping mall of the E-Market Place, and can be automatically registered in common with the desired shopping mall with only one registration in the standardized format, currently operated by the respective markets There is an advantage to improve the inconvenience and inefficiency of the non-standardized product registration form. In particular, it is possible to reduce all costs related to fixed costs due to the simplification of work, support stable corporate management by increasing sales, and promote content activation.

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In the standard format generation method for a plurality of online shopping malls, Downloading product registration formats of standard format target shopping malls; Checking common / non-common field values in the downloaded product registration format of each shopping mall; And Selectively combining the non-common field with the common field to generate a standardized common format of standard format target shopping malls. The method of claim 1, The common standard format is The standard format generation method for a plurality of online shopping malls, characterized in that the common field as an essential component. In the method of registering product information in a plurality of online shopping malls, Registering product information in accordance with a standardized common format; Receiving at least one shopping mall information for registering the product information; And And registering the product information written according to the standardized common format in the at least one shopping mall. The method of claim 3, wherein When changing the product information, product information registration method for a plurality of online shopping malls further comprising the step of automatically changing the product information registered in the at least one shopping mall. The method according to claim 3 or 4, The standardized common format is Download the product registration format of the shopping malls of the standard format targets, check the common / non-common field values in the downloaded product registration formats of each shopping mall, and selectively create the common fields of the standard format target shopping malls by selectively combining non-common fields with the common fields. A product information registration method for a plurality of online shopping malls, characterized in that the standard format. The method of claim 5, wherein The common standard format is The product information registration method for a plurality of online shopping malls, characterized in that the common field as an essential component.

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