Electronic shop management system

• US 20030033221A1
• Filed: 08/22/2002
• Published: 02/13/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Ogawa, Tsuyoshi, Fuwa, Tetsuji
• Application Number:
  US10/204,666
• Publication Number:
  US 20030033221A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/27
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0605 Supply or demand aggregation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0643 Graphical representation of items or shoppers

Abstract

Templates common to stamp suppliers are stored in a common template database and stamp supplier'"'"'s original templates are stored in an original template database. Templates offered in common to the stamp suppliers and the original templates of a stamp supplier stored in the original template database are seamlessly displayed together on Web browsers of purchaser computers. Therefore, the suppliers who open virtual stores in an electronic shopping mall can readily construct the virtual stores, and further be differentiated from other suppliers.

Claims

1. An online store management system for providing data on products that one supplier or a plurality of suppliers sell, to a communication terminal of a purchaser through a communication network, comprising:

common data storing means that stores common data on the products that are commonly sold by the plurality of the suppliers;

original data storing means that stores original data on the products that are originally sold by each supplier;

setting condition storing means that updatably stores setting conditions of the common data, the products associated with the common data, the original data, and the products associated with the original data, for the each supplier; and

editing means that edits data to be transmitted to the communication terminal of the purchaser, based on settings stored in the setting condition storing means.

2. The online store management system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the common data is common sample image data and the original data is original sample image data.

3. The online store management system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the editing means attaches the common data and the original data to a same Web page.

4. The online store management system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a supplier ID storing means that stores an ID of the each supplier in association with a password.

5. The online store management system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the products are unique information indicating products that indicate unique information.

6. A product data providing method for providing data for providing data on products that one supplier or a plurality of suppliers sell, to a communication terminal of a purchaser through a communication network, comprising:

transmitting common data on the products that are commonly sold by the plurality of the suppliers and original data on the products that are originally sold by each supplier, to the communication terminal of the purchaser, such that the common data and the original data are apparently indistinguishable by the purchaser.

7. A online store management server for providing data on products that one supplier or a plurality of suppliers sell, to a communication terminal of a purchaser through a communication network, comprising:

common data storing means that stores common data on the products that are commonly sold by the plurality of the suppliers;

original data storing means that stores original data on the products that are originally sold by each supplier;

setting condition storing means that updatably stores setting conditions of the common data, the products associated with the common data, the original data, and the products associated with the original data, for the each supplier; and

editing means that edits data to be transmitted to the communication terminal of the purchaser, based on settings stored in the setting condition storing means.

8. A computer-readable storage medium that stores a program to function an online store management system for providing data on products that one supplier or a plurality of suppliers sell, to a communication terminal of a purchaser through a communication network,

the program including:

a common data storing program for storing common data on the products that are commonly sold by the plurality of the suppliers;

an original data storing program for storing original data on the products that are originally sold by each supplier;

a setting condition storing program for updatably storing setting conditions of the common data, the products associated with the common data, the original data, and the products associated with the original data, for the each supplier; and

an editing program for editing data to be transmitted to the communication terminal of the purchaser, based on settings stored in the setting condition storing program.