Document issuance system

• US 20080059325A1
• Filed: 01/16/2007
• Published: 03/06/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Sato, Hiroyuki, Sugahara, Yasuo
• Application Number:
  US11/653,232
• Publication Number:
  US 20080059325A1
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces

Abstract

A document issuance system can cope with the special requests for issuing the invoice and the receipt while scheming to make efficient the invoice-and-receipt issuance management operation of the ordered merchandise. The document issuance system comprising an accepting unit accepting, together with an issuance request, inputted from on a terminal, of at least one document of a receipt and a invoice, special information related to the issuance request, a retaining unit retaining information about the issuance request and the special information that are accepted by the accepting unit as being related to order information of merchandise that is the subject of the issuance-requested document, and a generating unit generating a list screen displaying a list of issuance states with respect to the issuance-requested document retained by the retaining unit on a predetermined terminal and displaying identifying information specifying the special information about the document where the related special information exists.

Claims

1. A document issuance system comprising:

an accepting unit accepting, together with an issuance request, inputted from on a terminal, of at least one document of a receipt and a invoice, special information related to the issuance request;

a retaining unit retaining information about the issuance request and the special information that are accepted by the accepting unit as being related to order information of merchandise that is the subject of the issuance-requested document; and

a generating unit generating a list screen displaying a list of issuance states with respect to the issuance-requested document retained by the retaining unit on a predetermined terminal and displaying identifying information representing the special information about the document having the related special information.

2. A document issuance system according to claim 1, wherein the special information contains delivery destination information of a pre-delivery destination, and

the generating unit generates a list screen displaying, with respect to the document having the delivery destination information as the special information, identifying information representing that pre-transmission of the invoice addressed to the delivery destination information is required.

3. A document issuance system according to claim 1, wherein the accepting unit includes:

a request screen generating unit generating an issuance request screen on which the terminal inputs the issuance request and the special information;

an identifying unit identifying a user using the terminal; and

a request screen control unit performing control of the issuance request screen generated by the request screen generating unit if the user identified by the identifying unit is excluded from a predetermined user, and performing none of the control of the issuance request screen generated by the request screen generating unit if the user identified by the identifying unit is coincident with the predetermined user.

4. A document issuance system according to claim 1, further comprising:

an output unit outputting each of data files enabling operation documents necessary for issuing each of the issuance-requested documents to be printed; and

a re-output unit generating an already-issued list screen displaying a list of the documents already outputted by the output unit on the predetermined terminal, and re-outputting the data file enabling the operation document necessary for issuing the document selected from on the already-issued list screen to be printed.

5. A document issuance system according to claim 4, wherein the re-output unit includes an identifying unit identifying a user using the predetermined terminal, and, if the user identified by the identifying unit is coincident with a predetermined user, gets the already-issued list screen displayed on the predetermined terminal.

6. A document issuance system according to claim 1, wherein the document issuance system is configured in the form of including an online shopping server opened on a public network and a manufacturer server administered by a manufacturer company of the merchandise ordered by the online shopping server,

the accepting unit is provided in each of the online shopping server and the manufacturer server,

the retaining unit and the generating unit are provided in the manufacturer server,

the special information contains a message accepted by the accepting unit of the online shopping server, and

the generating unit generates a list screen displaying, with respect to the document having the message as the special information, identifying information representing that there are the message to the manufacturer company administering the manufacturer server.

7. A storage medium having stored therein a document issuance program executed on a computer, the document issuance program causing the computer to execute steps comprising:

an accepting step of accepting, together with an issuance request, inputted from on a terminal, of at least one document of a receipt and a invoice, special information related to the issuance request;

a retaining step of retaining information about the issuance request and the special information that are accepted in the accepting step as being related to order information of merchandise that is the subject of the issuance-requested document on a retaining unit; and

a generating step of generating a list screen displaying a list of issuance states with respect to the issuance-requested document retained on the retaining unit on a predetermined terminal and displaying identifying information representing the special information about the document having the related special information.

8. A storage medium having stored therein the document issuance program according to claim 7, wherein the special information contains delivery destination information of a pre-delivery destination, and

the generating step includes generating a list screen displaying, with respect to the document having the delivery destination information as the special information, identifying information representing that pre-transmission of the invoice addressed to the delivery destination information is required.

9. A storage medium having stored therein the document issuance program according to claim 7, wherein the accepting step includes:

a request screen generating step of generating an issuance request screen on which the terminal inputs the issuance request and the special information;

an identifying step of identifying a user using the terminal; and

a request screen control step of performing control of the issuance request screen generated in the request screen generating step if the user identified in the identifying step is excluded from a predetermined user, and performing none of the control of the issuance request screen generated in the request screen generating step if the user is coincident with the predetermined user.

10. A storage medium having stored therein the document issuance program according to claim 7, wherein the document issuance program further causes the computer to execute:

an output step of outputting each of data files enabling operation documents necessary for issuing each of the issuance-requested documents to be printed; and

a re-output step of generating an already-issued list screen displaying a list of the documents already outputted in the output step on the predetermined terminal, and re-outputting the data file enabling the operation document necessary for issuing the document selected from on the already-issued list screen to be printed.

11. A storage medium having stored therein the document issuance program according to claim 10, wherein the re-output step includes an identifying step of identifying a user using the predetermined terminal, and includes, if the user identified in the identifying step is coincident with a predetermined user, getting the already-issued list screen displayed on the predetermined terminal.

12. A storage medium having stored therein the document issuance program according to claim 7, wherein the document issuance program is structured in the form of including a first program executed by an online shopping server opened on a public network and a second program executed by a manufacturer server administered by a manufacturer company of the merchandise ordered by the online shopping server,

the accepting step is included in each of the first program and the second program,

the retaining steps and the generating step are included in the second program,

the special information contains a message accepted in the accepting step of the first program, and

the generating step includes generating a list screen displaying, with respect to the document having the message as the special information, identifying information representing that there are the message to the manufacturer company administering the manufacturer server.

13. A document issuance method comprising:

an accepting step of accepting, together with an issuance request, inputted from on a terminal, of at least one document of a receipt and a invoice, special information related to the issuance request;

a retaining step of retaining information about the issuance request and the special information that are accepted in the accepting step as being related to order information of merchandise that is the subject of the issuance-requested document on a retaining unit; and

a generating step of generating a list screen displaying a list of issuance states with respect to the issuance-requested document retained on the retaining unit on a predetermined terminal and displaying identifying information representing the special information about the document having the related special information.