METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING LOCAL INFORMATION OF PRODUCT

• US 20080319831A1
• Filed: 06/16/2008
• Published: 12/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Naver Corporation
• Original Assignee: NHN Corporation
• Inventors: KO, Kyungsun, CHI, Seok Woo
• Application Number:
  US12/139,962
• Publication Number:
  US 20080319831A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/016 After-sales
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/018 Certifying business or products

Abstract

A method and system for providing local information of a product is provided. The method includes the steps of: maintaining an original product register database which records an original product register to specify each product; providing a seller with the original product register so that the seller can select information about a product the seller sells or plans to sell, and receiving the selection information; and matching the product selected by the seller with a document provided to the seller.

Claims

1. A method for providing local information of a product, the method comprising the steps of:

maintaining an original product register database which records an original product register to specify each product;

providing a seller with the original product register so that the seller can select information about a product the seller sells or plans to sell, and receiving the selection information; and

matching the product selected by the seller with a document provided to the seller.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of providing and receiving comprises providing the seller with information about the product being selected according to a prescribed selection criterion and receiving the selection information after the seller is given an opportunity to amend the selection information, and wherein the step of matching comprises matching the product corresponding to the selection information amended by the seller with the document.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the document comprises information about shop selling the product selected by the seller.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the shop information comprises at least one of category of the product, name of the shop, contact information of the shop, mailing address of the shop, e-mail address of the shop, business hours of the shop, and uniform resource locator (URL) of online site of the shop.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising the step of linking products sold in the online site with products included in the original product register, wherein the step of matching includes matching the products linked to the products sold in the online site, from among the products included in the original product register, with the document.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein when at least one product is selected by the seller, the step of matching includes matching the selected product or each of the selected products with the document.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein when a product is selected by at least one seller, the step of matching includes matching the selected product with each document provided to the seller or each of the sellers.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

receiving a search query from a user; and

providing the user with a document as a search result, which is matched with a product associated with the search query.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein when the seller sells the product associated with the search query in on online site, the step of providing the user with the document includes providing the user with a document as a search result, which forwards the user to the online site via the URL.

10. A storage medium encoded with a machine-readable computer program for implementing a method for providing location information of a product, the method comprising the steps of:

maintaining an original product register database which records and maintains an original product register to specify each product;

providing a seller with the original product register so that the seller can select information about a product the seller sells or plans to sell, and receiving the selection information; and

matching the product selected by the seller with a document provided to the seller.

11. A system for providing local information of a product, the system comprising:

an original product register database configured to record an original product register to specify each product;

a product selection module configured to provide a seller with the original product register so that the seller can select information about a product the seller sells or plans to sell, and to receive the selection information; and

a document matching module configured to match the product selected by the seller with a document provided to the seller.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the product selection module provides the seller with the information about the product selected according to a prescribed selection criterion and receives the selection information after the seller is given an opportunity to amend the selection information, and the document matching module matches the product corresponding to the selection information amended by the seller with the document.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the document comprises information about shop selling the product selected by the seller.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the shop information comprises at least one of category of the product, name of the shop, contact information of the shop, mailing address of the shop, e-mail address of the shop, business hours of the shop, and URL of an online site of the shop.

15. The system of claim 14, further comprising a product link module configured to link products sold in the online site with products included in the original product register, wherein the document matching module matches the products linked to the products sold in the online site, from among the products included in the original product register, with the document.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein when at least one product is selected by the seller, the document matching module matches the selected product or each of the selected products with the document.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein when a product selected by at least one seller, the document matching module matches the selected product with each document provided to the seller or each of the sellers.

18. The system of claim 11, further comprising:

a search query receiving module configured to receive a search query from a user; and

a search result providing module configured to provide the user with a document as a search result, which is matched with a product associated with the search query.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein when the seller sells the product associated with the search query in an online site, the search result providing module provides the user with a document as a search result, which forwards the user to the online site via the URL.