Commodity trading management device

• US 20050021448A1
• Filed: 06/09/2004
• Published: 01/27/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Junji, Shibusawa, Yasuo
• Application Number:
  US10/863,509
• Publication Number:
  US 20050021448A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/37
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0226 Incentive systems for frequent usage, e.g. frequent flyer miles programs or point systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0239 Online discounts or incentives
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange

Abstract

In response to the user'"'"'s click of a ‘Checkout Process’ button on an ordered commodity check window, a commodity trading management server of the invention reads cookie files stored in a client terminal and specifies the number of points currently possessed by the user of the client terminal (steps S100 to S120). When the specified number of points reaches a preset number of points, in response to the user'"'"'s requirement for application of a discount service on a discount service application window, the commodity trading management server applies a discount service and instructs the client terminal to delete the stored cookie files (steps S130 and S170 to S200). On completion of final purchase procedure on a checkout process window, the commodity trading management server sets the number of points to be given to the user this time and instructs the client terminal to generate cookie files corresponding to the setting number of points (steps S150 and S160).

Claims

1. A commodity trading management device that manages information on trading of commodities with multiple client devices connected via a communication line, said commodity trading management device comprising:

a data storage module that stores data;

a data reception transmission module that is capable of receiving and transmitting data from and to each of the multiple client devices;

an order acceptance control module comprising an order data reception control sub-module, a point data generation sub-module, and a point data transmission control sub-module, said order data reception control sub-module controlling said data reception transmission module to receive order data regarding an order of a commodity sent from one of the multiple client devices and storing the received order data into said data storage module, said point data generation sub-module reading the order data out of said data storage module in the course of execution of a series of order acceptance process relating to acceptance of the order corresponding to the order data and generating point data regarding a point to be given to a user of the client device based on the read-out order data, said point data transmission control sub-module controlling said data reception transmission module to send the generated point data to the client device in a storable manner; and

a service processing control module that controls said data reception transmission module to receive the point data stored in the client device in response to a predetermined request and executes a preset service based on the received point data.

2. A commodity trading management device in accordance with claim 1, said commodity trading management device functioning as a Web server,

wherein said point data transmission control sub-module of said order acceptance control module sends the point data as data of at least part of cookie files stored in the client device.

3. A commodity trading management device in accordance with claim 1, wherein said data storage module stores at least commodity identification information for identifying each commodity and price of each commodity as commodity data relating to commodities,

the order data includes commodity identification information on a commodity to be ordered and an order quantity, and

said point data generation sub-module of said order acceptance control module generates the point data, based on the price of the commodity stored in said data storage module, which corresponds to the commodity identification information of the order data, and the order quantity of the order data.

4. A commodity trading management device in accordance with claim 1, wherein said point data generation sub-module of said order acceptance control module generates the point data on completion of an order confirmation step in the series of order acceptance process.

5. A commodity trading management device in accordance with claim 1, wherein the point data includes at least a number of points, and

said service processing control module executes the preset service, based on the number of points included in the received point data.

6. A commodity trading management device in accordance with claim 5, wherein said point data transmission control sub-module of said order acceptance control module controls said data reception transmission module to send a certain number of preset electronic files corresponding to the number of points as the point data to the client device in a storable manner, and

said service processing control module controls said data reception transmission module to receive the preset electronic files stored in the client device and executes the preset service based on number of the received preset electronic files.

7. A commodity trading management device in accordance with claim 6, wherein said point data transmission control sub-module of said order acceptance control module controls said data reception transmission module to send the certain number of preset electronic files to be stored in a preset area in a storage medium of the client device, and

said service processing control module controls said data reception transmission module to receive the preset electronic files stored in the preset area in the storage medium of the client device and executes the preset service based on number of the received preset electronic files.

8. A commodity trading management device in accordance with claim 1, wherein the preset service is a discount service to discount price of each commodity, and

said service processing control module controls said data reception transmission module to receive the point data stored in the client device in the course of the series of order acceptance process, and executes the discount service based on the received point data.

9. A commodity trading management device in accordance with claim 1, wherein the preset service is a gift presentation service to present a gift, and

said service processing control module controls said data reception transmission module to receive the point data stored in the client device, in response to a request for execution of the gift presentation service sent from the client device, and executes the gift presentation service based on the received point data.

10. A commodity trading management device in accordance with claim 1, wherein said service processing control module determines whether execution of the preset service is allowed or not allowed, based on the received point data, and when it is determined that execution of the preset service is allowed, controls said data reception transmission module to send window data of a window to ask the user to enter requirement or non-requirement of execution of the preset service, to the client device.

11. A commodity trading management device in accordance with claim 1, wherein said service processing control module executes the preset service and controls said data reception transmission module to send a request for deletion of the point data stored in the client device, to the client device.

12. A storage medium in which a commodity trading management device program is stored, said commodity trading management device program causing a computer, which comprises a data storage module that stores data and a data reception transmission module that is capable of receiving and transmitting data from and to each of multiple client devices, to function as a commodity trading management device that manages information on trading of commodities with the multiple client devices connected via a communication line,

said commodity trading management device program stored in said storage medium comprising:

an order data reception module that controls said data reception transmission module to receive order data regarding an order of a commodity sent from one of the multiple client devices and stores the received order data into said data storage module;

a point data generation module that reads the order data out of said data storage module in the course of execution of a series of order acceptance process relating to acceptance of the order corresponding to the order data, and generates point data regarding a point to be given to a user of the client device based on the read-out order data;

a point data transmission control module that controls said data reception transmission module to send the generated point data to the client device in a storable manner; and

a service processing control module that controls said data reception transmission module to receive the point data stored in the client device in response to a predetermined request and executes a preset service based on the received point data.

13. A commodity trading management device that manages information on trading of commodities with multiple client devices connected via a communication line, said commodity trading management device comprising:

a data storage module that stores data;

a data reception transmission module that is capable of receiving and transmitting data from and to each of the multiple client devices; and

a control module comprising an order data reception control sub-module, a point data generation sub-module, and a point data transmission control sub-module, said order data reception control sub-module controlling said data reception transmission module to receive order data regarding an order of a commodity sent from one of the multiple client devices and storing the received order data into said data storage module, said point data generation sub-module reading the order data out of said data storage module in the course of execution of a series of order acceptance process relating to acceptance of the order corresponding to the order data and generating point data regarding a point to be given to a user of the client device based on the read-out order data, said point data transmission control sub-module controlling said data reception transmission module to send the generated point data to the client device in a storable manner.