Data collecting method

• US 20030074254A1
• Filed: 03/22/2002
• Published: 04/17/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Iijima, Junichi
• Application Number:
  US10/102,815
• Publication Number:
  US 20030074254A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/387 Payment using discounts or coupons relating to marketing G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0238 at point-of-sale [POS]
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/14 Systems including one or more distant stations co-operating with a central processing unit data transmission in general H04L; telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station H04Q9/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 5/00 Receipt-giving machines cash registers giving receipts G07G1/00

Abstract

The server of the commodity supplier receives the transaction number printed on the receipt held by the consumer who purchased the specific commodity from the terminal of the consumer, and extracts the transaction data having the commodity information in all the commodities sold in a sales processing corresponding to the transaction number from the transaction database accumulated in the POS system of the shop. Therefore, procuring the information (related purchase information) in the other commodities purchased along with the specific commodity.

Claims

1. A data collecting method for collecting data on other commodities sold along with a specific commodity, comprising the steps of:

by means of a POS terminal of a shop, executing sales processing of a plurality of commodities including the specific commodity, issuing a receipt on which a transaction identifier of the sales processing and an entry coupon associated with the specific commodity are printed, creating a transaction data including at least the transaction identifier and a data on the plurality of commodities sold by the sales processing, and accumulating the transaction data in a transaction database connected to the POS terminal via a network; and

by means of a server, accepting, via the network, entry information which is sent froma terminal of a consumer having the receipt and which includes contents of the transaction identifier and of the entry coupon printed on the receipt, making an access to the transaction database, and acquiring, from the transaction database, the transaction data corresponding to the transaction identifier included in the entry information.

2. A data collecting method according to claim 1, wherein the POS terminal in the sales processing makes an access to a commodity database that accumulates commodity information corresponding to a commodity code of each of the plurality of commodities, to acquire commodity information corresponding to the commodity code of the specific commodity, and

if entry coupon print instruction information is included in the commodity information of the specific commodity, then the POS terminal prints the entry coupon on the receipt.

3. A data collecting method according to claim 1, wherein

the entry information further includes data on the consumer, and wherein

the server creates a database which the data on the plurality of commodities included in the transaction data is associated with a data on the consumer included in the entry information.

4. A data collecting method according to claim 1, wherein

the data on the plurality of commodities included in the transaction data has at least a commodity name or a commodity code of each of the plurality of commodities.

5. A data collecting system for collecting data on other commodities sold along with a specific commodity, comprising:

a POS terminal which executes sales processing on sales processing of a plurality of commodities including the specific commodity, issues a receipt on which a transaction identifier of the sales processing and an entry coupon associated with the specific commodity are printed, and creates a transaction data including at least the transaction identifier and a data on the plurality of commodities sold by the sales processing;

a transaction database which receives and accumulates the transaction data from the POS terminal; and

a server which accepts, via a network, entry information which is sent from a terminal of a consumer having the receipt and which includes contents of the transaction identifier and of the entry coupon printed on the receipt, makes an access to the transaction database, and acquires, from the transaction database, the transaction data corresponding to the transaction identifier included in the entry information.

6. A data collecting system according to claim 5, wherein

the POS terminal in the sales processing makes an access to a commodity database that accumulates commodity information corresponding to a commodity code of each of the plurality of commodities, to acquire commodity information corresponding to the commodity code of the specific commodity, and

if entry coupon print instruction information is included in the commodity information of the specific commodity, then the POS terminal prints the entry coupon on the receipt.

7. A data collecting system according to claim 5, wherein

the entry information further includes data on the consumer, and wherein

the server creates a database which the data on the plurality of commodities included in the transaction data is associated with a data on the consumer included in the entry information.

8. A data collecting method according to claim 5, wherein

the data on the plurality of commodities included in the transaction data has at least a commodity name or a commodity code of each of the plurality of commodities.