Apparatus for realizing personal shops in an electronic commerce business

• US 20010011235A1
• Filed: 01/23/2001
• Published: 08/02/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: E--Net Incorporated
• Original Assignee: E--Net Incorporated
• Inventors: Lee, Byoung Il, Lee, Sang Keun, Kim, Ki Yeol
• Application Number:
  US09/767,643
• Publication Number:
  US 20010011235A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06375 Prediction of business process outcome or impact based on a proposed change
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0202 Market predictions or forecasting for commercial activities
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces

Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus for realizing personal shops in electronic commerce business. It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus for realizing personal shops in an electronic commerce business, which enables users to use shopping malls easily and conveniently by presenting contents screens fit for the member specialties by members and recommending goods suitable for the purchase pattern of the users.

Further according to the present invention, the apparatus for realizing personal shops in electronic commerce business comprises foods management unit for managing goods information; a web server for providing a member registration web page to connected users, receiving users information from the users upon the member registration if the users are initiated to a membership, provides shopping malls if the users who are registered as members are logged-in, generating data from all materials during the use of the shopping malls by providing the shopping malls if the user who are registered as members, receiving goods data from the goods management unit by using analyzed customers tendency data if the users are logged-in again, and realizing and providing a unique personal shop screen to each user; a members management unit for databasing the users information from the web server and the itemized materials inputted during the use of the shopping malls with the users logged-in; and a customers information analysis unit for providing customers information, goods information, order and delivery information, customers navigation information, and so on from the members management unit, systematically processing the information, and providing to the web server the processed information of goods purchase forecast values by customers, goods interest degrees by customers, goods purchase degrees by customers, and so on.

Claims

1. An apparatus for realizing personal shops in electronic commerce business, comprising:

foods management unit for managing goods information;

a web server for providing a member registration web page to connected users, receiving users information from the users upon the member registration if the users are initiated to a membership, provides shopping malls if the users who are registered as members are logged-in, generating data from all materials during the use of the shopping malls by providing the shopping malls if the user who are registered as members, receiving goods data from the goods management unit by using analyzed customers tendency data if the users are logged-in again, and realizing and providing a unique personal shop screen to each user;

a members management unit for databasing the users information from the web server and the itemized materials inputted during the use of the shopping malls with the users logged-in; and

a customers information analysis unit for providing customers information, goods information, order and delivery information, customers navigation information, and so on from the members management unit, systematically processing the information, and providing to the web server the processed information of goods purchase forecast values by customers, goods interest degrees by customers, goods purchase degrees by customers, and so on.

2. The apparatus as claimed in

claim 1

, wherein the customers information analysis unit includes:

a collection unit for collecting diverse information on the users from the web server;

a learning unit for calculating diverse forecast information on the customers through the learning of the information collected through the collecting unit in use of statistical method or methods of collaborative filtering and so on; and

a production unit for outputting to the web server the diverse forecast information calculated through the learning unit.

3. The apparatus as claimed in

claim 2

, wherein the collection unit includes:

a collector for collecting all customers information such as general web page navigation information, customers goods search information, purchase information, claims information, and so on, from the web server; and

a collection control unit for controlling the collector under established particular collection rules.

4. The apparatus as claimed in

claim 2

, wherein the learning unit includes:

a normalizer for normalizing the users activity information in the web server received from the collection unit into scores of a certain range;

an analyzer for calculating into certain values the relations between the periods and subjects through a statistical analysis method of the values normalized by the normalizer; and

a forecaster for calculating customers forecast activities by using the calculated results by the analyzer.

5. The apparatus as claimed in

claim 4

, wherein the method used in the forecaster provides information fit to customers by using similarity degree calculation, neighboring group extraction, and extracted neighboring group with the collaborative filtering and forecasting expected activities of potential users not in action in the electronic commerce business.

6. The apparatus as claimed in

claim 3

, wherein the production unit includes:

a producer for producing the information learned from the learning unit to the corresponding fields of the web server; and

a production control unit for controlling the producer under established particular production rules.

7. A dynamic web page-changing system, comprising:

client units for requesting users to input certain information to servicing dynamically changing sites to the users in the dynamic web page-changing sites, or establishing it in a system itself, and outputting on the screens web pages received through a communication network according to the dynamically changing site services;

a web server having information on plural sites differently designed in corresponding to the same web sites and activation information for activating one site information of plural site information, and, in case that the users connect to the sites by using the client units, extracting the activation information by using the information on the connection times and users, and transferring the sites corresponding to the activation information;

a dynamic site producing unit for producing site path information to be provided to the users by searching sites information built in a database, and outputting to the client units web pages manufactured by a site-structuring template unit according to the produced site path information;

a database unit for storing at least one or more site information in which times information to be activated is included; and

a site-structuring template unit structured by respective sites, and for manufacturing web pages corresponding to certain sites according to information inputted from the dynamic site producing unit and transferring them to the client units.

8. The system as claimed in

claim 7

, in order to provide sites dynamically changed by the main server, further comprising:

a site schedule setting unit for setting a schedule for determining times to be activated with respect to respective sites manufactured by the site-structuring template unit;

a time-based activation schedule setting unit for setting site structures to be activated at present time by analyzing the schedule information set in the site schedule setting unit; and

a site management unit for registering at least one or more site structures in the database or managing the site structure by modifying and deleting the site structure stored in the database.

9. The system as claimed in

claim 7

, further comprising:

a members management unit for databasing the users information from the web server and the itemized materials inputted during the use of the shopping malls with the users logged-in; and

a customers information analysis unit for providing customers information, goods information, order and delivery information, customers navigation information, and so on from the members management unit, systematically processing the information, and providing to the web server the processed information of goods purchase forecast values by customers, goods interest degrees by customers, goods purchase degrees by customers, and so on, wherein the web server provides to the respective users the web sites manufactured according to the users characteristics by using users tendency analysis data provided from the customers information analysis unit.

10. The system as claimed in

claim 8

, further comprising:

a members management unit for databasing the users information from the web server and the itemized materials inputted during the use of the shopping malls with the users logged-in; and

a customers information analysis unit for providing customers information, goods information, order and delivery information, customers navigation information, and so on from the members management unit, systematically processing the information, and providing to the web server the processed information of goods purchase forecast values by customers, goods interest degrees by customers, goods purchase degrees by customers, and so on, wherein the web server provides to the respective users the web sites manufactured according to the users characteristics by using users tendency analysis data provided from the customers information analysis unit.

11. An electronic commerce business system having intelligent shopping cart functions, comprising:

a communication network for performing data communications between undefined individuals connected through communication lines;

plural client units having communication environments for connections to the communication network, and for displaying on screens plural goods information data inputted from external upon using an electronic commerce business, and outputting to the external key signals of selecting goods the users who identify the plural goods information data inputted from the external wish to purchase or reserve; and

a web server for outputting to the corresponding client units the retained goods information data according to the communication connections of the plural users of the client units, classifying the corresponding goods information into the purchase and reservations and recording them at the same time with outputting to the corresponding client units the goods information data to be recorded on the intelligent shopping cart window if purchase or reservation key signals are inputted by the corresponding users of the client units, analyzing and databasing purchase tendencies through the purchase and reservation data of the users of the client units, recording the corresponding goods information in the intelligent shopping cart windows of the corresponding users if the users of the client units choose the purchase goods through different communication units, providing to the intelligent shopping cart windows of the corresponding users different goods information related to the goods that the corresponding users of the client units choose, and storing the goods information stored in the intelligent shopping cart windows of the corresponding users.

12. The system as claimed in

claim 11

, wherein the web server includes:

a data input unit for inputting operation programs related to the electronic commerce business and plural goods information data to be purchased to the plural client unit users, and inputting purchase goods proxy request signals requested by particular users;

a main control unit for controlling a storage of the plural goods information data inputted through the data input unit, outputting retained goods information data to the corresponding client unit if the plural client unit users are connected, if a purchase or a reservation key signal that the corresponding client unit users choose after confirming the goods information data is inputted, recording and the corresponding goods information data in the intelligent shopping cart windows and outputting them to the corresponding client units, controlling the storage of analyzed purchase tendency data, recording the corresponding goods information in the corresponding intelligent shopping cart windows if the users input the purchase goods proxy request signals through the data input unit, extracting different goods information related to the goods the respective users choose and outputting it to the intelligent shopping cart windows of the corresponding users, and controlling the storage of the data recorded in the intelligent shopping cart windows of the corresponding users;

a database for storing members registration data of the users of the client units according to a control of the main control unit, information data of plural goods on sale online, and data recorded in the intelligent shopping cart windows of the corresponding users according to the uses of the electronic commerce business, receiving and storing the purchase tendency data from the main control unit according to the goods purchases of the corresponding users; and

a communication control unit for outputting to the corresponding client units the plural goods information data outputted from the main control unit according to the communication connections of the plural client units, outputting to the main control unit the goods purchase or the goods reservation key signals inputted from the client units, and outputting to the corresponding client units the goods purchases or reservations information outputted from the main control unit and selected by the corresponding client unit users, recommendation goods information extracted according to goods purchases and reservations, and the intelligent shopping cart data including the goods purchase information inputted according to the goods purchase proxy requests of the users.

13. The electronic commerce business system as claimed in

claim 11

, wherein the intelligent shopping cart window includes:

a purchase goods display part for displaying the goods information data that the client unit users select for purchases;

a reservation goods display part for displaying the goods information data that the client unit users select for reservations; and

a recommendation goods display part for displaying different goods information data related to the goods information data recorded in the purchase goods display unit out of the goods information data stored in the web server.

14. The electronic commerce business system as claimed in

claim 11

, wherein the web server incessantly provides to the corresponding users the related goods information based on the purchase goods information built in the database according to the electronic commerce business of the client unit users.

15. The electronic commerce business system as claimed in

claim 11

, wherein the web server provides to the intelligent shopping cart window the goods information corresponding to an shortage amount in order for a total purchase amount of the goods the corresponding client unit users to reach a certain amount.

16. The electronic commerce business system as claimed in

claim 11

, wherein the web server temporarily stores the purchase information data recorded in the intelligent shopping cart window that each client unit user uses for goods purchase in a state of a non-member, and automatically updates the temporarily stored purchase information data to the intelligent shopping cart window of the corresponding user if a regular member registration is made for the corresponding user.