Order processing method and system for commodities having dimensional specifications

• US 20030144920A1
• Filed: 09/27/2002
• Published: 07/31/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Juken Sangyo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Juken Sangyo Company Limited
• Inventors: Kanbara, Takashi, Uemura, Yoshio, Nakamoto, Yusho
• Application Number:
  US10/256,470
• Publication Number:
  US 20030144920A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing

Abstract

A server connected with a portable terminal via a network manages commodity data and quotation data in a database, sends the commodity data or the quotation data to a portable terminal and displays the commodity data or the quotation data on a screen in response to an inquiry from the portable terminal, and sends a sequence of ordering screens for commodities which have dimensional specifications to the portable terminal and displays the sequence of ordering screens on the screen at a request from the portable terminal, which in turn places orders by entering commodity specifications including dimensional specifications according to the displayed sequence of ordering screens.

Claims

1. An order processing method for commodities with dimensional specifications, the method comprising:

managing commodity data and quotation data in a database at a server being connected with a portable terminal via a network;

sending the commodity data or quotation data from the server to the portable terminal in response to an inquiry from the portable terminal to display the commodity data or quotation data on a screen of the portable terminal;

sending a sequence of ordering screens for commodities which have dimensional specifications from the server to the portable terminal in response to a request from the portable terminal to display the sequence of ordering screens on the screen of the portable terminal; and

placing orders by entering commodity specifications having dimensional specifications according to the sequence of ordering screens displayed on the screen of the portable terminal.

2. An order processing method for commodities with dimensional specifications according to claim 1, wherein the sequence of ordering screens for commodities which have dimensional specifications includes a setting screen for dimensional data.

3. An order processing method for commodities with dimensional specifications according to claim 1, wherein the server prepares quotation data and returns the data to the portable terminal in real time by calculating delivery time and design prices based on the commodity specifications entered by the portable terminal on the ordering screens.

4. An order processing method for commodities with dimensional specifications according to claim 1, wherein the commodities with dimensional specifications are building materials.

5. An order processing method for commodities with dimensional specifications according to claim 4, wherein the building materials include stairs and window frames.

6. An order processing system comprising:

a portable terminal having a screen; and

a server being connected with the portable terminal via a network to receive an order for commodities with dimensional specifications from the portable terminal,

wherein the server further comprises;

means for sending in-stock commodity data or related first quotation data to a portable terminal in response to an inquiry from the portable terminal to display the in-stock commodity data or related first quotation data on the screen of the portable terminal;

means for sending a sequence of ordering screens for commodities which have dimensional specifications to the portable terminal in response to a request from the portable terminal to display the sequence of ordering screens on the screen of the portable terminal; and

means for preparing second quotation data by calculating delivery time and design prices based on the commodity specifications having dimensional specifications entered by the portable terminal to return the second quotation data to the portable terminal in real time.

7. An order processing system according to claim 6, wherein the commodities with dimensional specifications are building materials.

8. An order processing system according to claim 7, wherein the building materials include stairs and window frames.

9. An order processing server for commodities with dimensional specifications, the server comprising:

means for sending commodity data or first quotation data to a portable terminal in response to an inquiry from the portable terminal to display the commodity data or first quotation data on a screen of the portable terminal;

means for sending a sequence of ordering screens for commodities which have dimensional specifications to the portable terminal in response to a request from the portable terminal to display the sequence of ordering screens on the screen of the portable terminal; and

means for preparing second quotation data by calculating delivery time and design prices based on the commodity specifications having dimensional specifications entered by the portable terminal to return the second quotation data to the portable terminal in real time.