Electronic shop providing method, site search method, and bulletin board providing method
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1. A method for providing an electric shop using a network comprising:
- a step to transmit information in order to solicit a purchase will of merchandise to a terminal of a user via a network;
a step to receive purchase information indicative of a purchase will of a commodity sent from the terminal of the user via the network;
a step to calculate a quantity of stock of the commodity in response to received purchase information by way of a computer; and
a step to transmit information about an out-of-stock of the commodity to the terminal of the user having transmitted purchase information via the network when the quantity of stock of the commodity is below a given quantity.
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Abstract
A service provider places a server at a data center and a service user searches a website, connecting a terminal to the Internet. When the service user specifies URL of a website server via a terminal accessable to the Internet, data of content stored onto the server is read out and transmitted to the server of the service user. Content has seven classified categories such as a membership registration, all-new information, product information, a service/support, an on-line album, an on-line shop and a community.
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46 Claims
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1. A method for providing an electric shop using a network comprising:
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a step to transmit information in order to solicit a purchase will of merchandise to a terminal of a user via a network;
a step to receive purchase information indicative of a purchase will of a commodity sent from the terminal of the user via the network;
a step to calculate a quantity of stock of the commodity in response to received purchase information by way of a computer; and
a step to transmit information about an out-of-stock of the commodity to the terminal of the user having transmitted purchase information via the network when the quantity of stock of the commodity is below a given quantity. - View Dependent Claims (2, 6)
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3. A method for providing an electric shop using a network comprising:
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a step to transmit information in order to solicit a purchase will of merchandise to a terminal of a user via a network;
a step to receive purchase information indicative of a purchase will of a commodity sent from the terminal of the user via a network;
a step to calculate a quantity of stock of the commodity in response to received purchase information by way of a computer;
a step to detect whether or not the quantity of stock of the commodity becomes below a first given quantity by a computer; and
a step to transmit information indicating that the quantity of stock of the commodity becomes below the given quantity to the terminal of the manager of merchandise via the network when it is detected that the quantity of stock of the commodity becomes below the first given quantity for the first time since a given time. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5)
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7. A method for providing an electric shop using a network comprising;
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a step to receive information demanding transmission of stock management information from a terminal of a stock manager of merchandise via a network;
a step to transmit stock management information for entering a fluctuation of the quantity of stock per each commodity to a terminal of the stock manager via a network;
a step to receive information about the fluctuation of the quantity of stock of a commodity from the terminal of the stock manager via a network; and
a step to calculate a quantity of stock of the commodity based upon received information about the fluctuation of the quantity of stock by a computer. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method for providing an electric shop using a network comprising:
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a step to store merchandise information about a plurality of commodities and various kinds of measures to be executed by a computer when a quantity of stock of per commodities becomes below a given quantity onto a memory;
a step to set a measure per commodities out of various kinds of measures;
a step to store a measure set per commodities onto a memory by being corresponded to per commodities;
a step to detect a quantity of stock of a commodity; and
a step to execute a measure applied to the commodity by the computer when the quantity of stock of the commodity becomes below the given quantity. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16)
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17. A method for providing an electric shop that manages merchandise based upon merchandise identifier information given per commodities comprising:
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a step to register different merchandise identifier information varying with a given measure to be taken to even identical commodity onto a memory; and
a step to manage identical commodity as different commodity based upon the merchandise identifier information by a computer. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19)
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20. A method for providing an electric shop using a network comprising:
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a step to transmit information for soliciting a purchase will of merchandise to a terminal of a user via the network;
a step to receive purchase information indicative of a purchase will of a commodity sent from the terminal of the user via the network;
a step to calculate a stock of the commodity in response to the received purchase information; and
a step to transmit information advising an advance order for the commodity to the terminal of the user via a network, when a quantity of stock of the commodity is below a given quantity. - View Dependent Claims (21)
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22. A method for providing an electric shop using a network comprising:
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a step to transmit information prompting more participation in a lottery for a winning prize on a network to a terminal of a user that purchases a commodity on the electric shop;
a step to receive participation information sent from the terminal of the user via the network;
a step to carry out a lottery in response to the participation information by a computer; and
a step to instruct to deliver the commodity and the winning prize to the user at the same time by a computer, when a prize is won.
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23. A method for providing an electric shop using a network comprising:
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a step to receive purchase information of purchasing a plurality of commodities from a same user from a terminal of a user via the network;
a step to judge whether or not a deliverable date of the plurality of commodities varies with each commodity by a computer; and
a step to transmit information asking if the plurality of commodities are delivered at a time or separately to the terminal of the user via the network, when the deliverable date of the plurality of commodities varies with each commodity.
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24. A method for providing an electric shop using a network comprising:
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a step to receive purchase information of purchasing a plurality of commodities from a same user from a terminal of a user via the network;
a step to judge whether or not a deliverable date of the plurality of commodities varies with each commodity by a computer; and
a step to transmit information asking if a payment of the plurality of commodities is made at a time or separately to the terminal of the user via the network, when the deliverable date of the plurality of commodities varies with each commodity.
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25. A method for providing an electric shop using a network comprising:
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a step to store 3-D image data corresponding to a plurality of commodities onto a memory;
a step to receive information of selecting a first commodity and a second commodity different from the first commodity from a terminal of a user;
a step to read out a first 3-D image data corresponding to the first commodity and a second 3-D image data corresponding to the second commodity out of the memory only when a combination of the first commodity and the second commodity is usable;
a step to process the first 3-D image data and the second 3-D image data in an integrated manner so as to enable to use the combination of the first commodity and the second commodity; and
a step to transmit to the terminal of the user image data that was processed in the integrated manner. - View Dependent Claims (26)
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27. A method for providing an electric shop using a network comprising:
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a step to record onto a memory information about related commodity prepared every a plurality of commodities and registration information about a plurality of users;
a step to authenticate a user based upon authentication information sent from a terminal of the user via the network by a computer;
a step to search for commodity information owned by the user out of registration information of an authenticated user by a computer;
a step to search for related commodity in relation to commodity the user owns by a computer; and
a step to transmit information about related commodity in relation to commodity the user owns to the terminal of the user via the network. - View Dependent Claims (28)
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29. A method for searching a plurality of content registered onto a website comprising:
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a step to search for a search text or a search character string sent from a client on the plurality of content;
a step to classify information indicative of a location where a retrieved text or character string is registered per each of content;
a step to rearrange information classified per each of the content;
a step to extract a given number of information in high order per each of content with regard to rearranged information classified per each of the content; and
a step to transmit extracted information to the client. - View Dependent Claims (30)
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31. A method for searching a plurality of content registered onto a website comprising:
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a step to regard a text or a character string as a search text or a search character string when a text or a character string related to a provider of the content is included in information for creating a page screen to be sent to a client;
a step to search for the search text or the search character string on the content respectively in response to information indicative of a search instruction;
a step to classify information indicative of a registration location of a retrieved search text or character string per each of content;
a step to rearrange information classified per each of the content;
a step to extract a given number of information in high order per each of content with regard to rearranged information classified per each of the content; and
a step to transmit extracted information to the client.
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32. A method for searching a plurality of content registered onto a website comprising:
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a step to include information about a search text or a search character string in advance into information for creating a page screen to be transmitted to a client;
a step to search for the search text and the search character string on each of a plurality of the content in response to information indicative of a search instruction to be transmitted from the client;
a step to classify information indicative of a registration location of a retrieved text or character string per each of content;
a step to rearrange information that was classified per each of content;
a step to extract a given number of information in high order per each of content with regard to post-rearranged information classified per each of content; and
a step to transmit extracted information to the client. - View Dependent Claims (33)
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34. A method for searching a plurality of content registered onto a website comprising:
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a step to search for a search text and a search character string sent from a user on each of a plurality of the content respectively;
a step to classify information indicative of a registration location of a retrieved text or character string per each of content; and
a step to transmit the classified information to the user. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37)
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38. A method for searching a plurality of pages comprising:
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a step to provide a start device to command a search on a given page;
a step to receive a signal indicative of the start device being turned on by the user;
a step to search for a page related to the given page in response to the signal reception; and
a step to transmit a search result to the user. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44)
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45. A method for providing an electric bulletin board carrying an article sent from a user comprising:
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a step to make an article in the electric bulletin board classifiable per a plurality of categories in order to enable the article to be browsed per a category and store the classifiable article per the plurality of categories onto a memory;
a step to make image data in an electric album classifiable per a plurality of same categories as those in the electric bulletin board in order to enable image data to be browsed per a category and store the classifiable image data per the plurality of categories onto a memory;
a step to receive an instruction to browse an article falling under the given category in the electric bulletin board sent from a terminal of a use via a network; and
a step to transmit to a terminal of a user via the network bulletin board information added by article information classified into a category as per instructed and album information in order to enable image data in a same category as per instructed to be browsed. - View Dependent Claims (46)
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