Method for selling items using a network

• US 20070265939A1
• Filed: 07/03/2007
• Published: 11/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Inventors: Tokuhiro, Taro, Murakami, Hisanori, Yamaguchi, Seiichi
• Application Number:
  US11/825,074
• Publication Number:
  US 20070265939A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces

Abstract

Various items are sold through the Internet 10 which contains a site computer 20, vendor computers 30a, 30b, factory computers 40a, 40b, dealer computers 50a, 50b, and user computers 60a, 60b, 60c. General users access to the site computer 20 to purchase items dealt in by vendors belonging to various countries using the user computers 60a, 60b, 60c connected to the Internet 10. When the site computer 20 accepts an instruction of purchasing physical items, the site computer 20 instructs the vendor computers 30a, 30b in various countries to send out the physical items to the general users. Download items which can be downloaded are downloaded from the site computer 20 to the user computers 60a, 60b, 60c. When the vendor does not have the physical items in stock, the site computer 20 instructs the factory computers 40a, 40b to make and send out the items. The site computer 20 can be accessed from a dealer computer for purchasing items.

Claims

1. A site computer coinmunicable through a network with a vendor computer of a vendor selling items including a physical item composed of material beings and a download item composed of data and a user computer used by a general user,

said site computer executing the steps of:

enabling simultaneous designation of said physical item and said download item from said user computer by said general user, wherein said download item has been stored; and

downloading said download item to said user computer and instructing said vendor computer to send out said physical item to said general user under conditions of said simultaneous designation of said physical item and said download item from said general user.

2. A record medium storing a program used in a site computer communicable through a network with a vendor computer of a vendor selling items including a physical item composed of material beings and a download item composed of data and a user computer used by a general user,

said program containing the steps of:

enabling simultaneous designation of said physical item and said download item from said user computer by said general user; and

downloading said download item to said user computer and instructing said vendor computer to send out said physical item to said general user under conditions of said simultaneous designation of said physical item and said download item from said general user.

3. A method for selling items using a site computer communicable through a network with a vendor computer of a vendor selling said items and a user computer used by a general user, said items including a physical item composed of material beings and a download item composed of data,

said site computer executing the steps of:

enabling simultaneous designation of said physical item and said download item from said user computer by said general user; and

downloading said download item to said user computer and instructing said vendor computer to send out said physical item to said general user under conditions of said simultaneous designation of said physical item and said download item from said general user.