Online merchandising system, online catalog presenting method, server, computer program product, and computer data signal
First Claim
1. An online merchandising system for an online shopping service using a telecommunications network comprising:
- an item information storage for storing information of items to be merchandised;
an item information presenter for presenting the item information stored in said item information storage to a user of the online shopping service via said telecommunications network;
a catalog generator for generating user'"'"'s own electronic catalogs; and
a catalog presenter for presenting the electronic catalog to the user concerned via said telecommunications network.
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Abstract
The shopping server provides an online shopping service with retrieving information of items handled, relations among the items, user'"'"'s purchase history, user'"'"'s request, and the like via the internet or the intrafirm network. The shopping server generates electronic catalogs personalized for each user based on the retrieved information so as to show useful and helpful information to each user. The catalogs are categorized in accordance with the purposes. Some of the categories are fulfilled by the automatic entry in accordance with the item relations or the user'"'"'s purchase through the online shopping service, while the others are fulfilled by the user'"'"'s arbitrary designation. The shopping server presents the generated catalogs to the users via the internet, so that the categories are switchable and customizable by the user.
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24 Claims
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1. An online merchandising system for an online shopping service using a telecommunications network comprising:
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an item information storage for storing information of items to be merchandised;
an item information presenter for presenting the item information stored in said item information storage to a user of the online shopping service via said telecommunications network;
a catalog generator for generating user'"'"'s own electronic catalogs; and
a catalog presenter for presenting the electronic catalog to the user concerned via said telecommunications network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. An online catalog presenting method being applicable to an online shopping service, comprising the steps of:
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storing information of items being handled by the online shopping service;
selecting items regarding to each user of the online shopping service from the stored items information;
generating plural kinds of catalogs personalized for each of the users to show information of the selected items; and
presenting the generated catalogs to the users via a telecommunications network, so that the plural kinds of the catalogs are switchable by the user and the items shown in the presented catalog are purchasable by the user through the online shopping service. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A server applicable to a provider of an online shopping service using a telecommunications network, comprising:
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an item information storage which stores information of items to be handled by the online shopping service;
a users'"'"' instruction accepting unit which accepts users'"'"' instructions given by user terminals of the users of the online shopping service via said telecommunications network, an item selecting unit which selects items regarding to users from the items represented by the information stored in said item information storage;
a selected item memory which stores information of the items selected by said item selecting unit with categorizing the information by the users;
a catalog generating unit which generates personalized electronic catalogs to be presented to the users through the online shopping service, showing items represented by the information stored in said selected item memory; and
a catalog presenting unit which presents the personalized catalogs generated by said catalog generating unit to said user terminal concerned via said telecommunications network, so as to enable the user concerned to order the items shown in the presented catalog through the online shopping service. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A computer program product storing a program which functions a computer as an online merchandising server for providing a online shopping service via a telecommunications network, comprising:
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a user information handler for storing information of users of the online shopping service, accepting users'"'"' instructions from user terminals being connected to the telecommunications network, and updating the user information in accordance with the users'"'"' instructions;
an item information handler for storing information of items to be merchandized through the online shopping service with updating the information constantly, and for selecting items in accordance with the user'"'"'s instruction or the updated user information handled by said user information handler with categorizing the selected items, and;
a catalog handler for generating categorized electronic catalogs for each user to show items selected by said item information handler, and for presenting the generated catalogs to the user terminals so that the catalog categories are switchable and customizable by the users.
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24. A computer data signal embodied in a carrier wave to be downloadable to a computer, by which said computer functions as an online merchandising server for providing an online shopping service via a telecommunications network comprising:
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a user information handler for storing information of users of the online shopping service, accepting users'"'"' instructions from user terminals being connected to the telecommunications network, and updating the user information in accordance with the users'"'"' instructions;
an item information handler for storing information of items to be merchandized through the online shopping service with updating the information constantly, and for selecting items in accordance with the user'"'"'s instruction or the updated user information handled by said user information handler with categorizing the selected items, and;
a catalog handler for generating categorized electronic catalogs for each user to show items selected by said item information handler, and for presenting the generated catalogs to the user terminals so that the catalog categories are switchable and customizable by the users.
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