METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A REMOTE PATTERN

• US 20100106720A1
• Filed: 10/24/2008
• Published: 04/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences
• Original Assignee: National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences
• Inventors: CHAO, Kuo-Jen, Lee, Ching-Chang
• Application Number:
  US12/257,392
• Publication Number:
  US 20100106720A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/728
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00209 Transmitting or receiving image data, e.g. facsimile data, via a computer, e.g. using e-mail, a computer network, the internet, I-fax
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00307 with a mobile telephone apparatus constructional features of portable telephone sets H04M1/0202; mobile radio systems H04W84/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47815 Electronic shopping payment schemes, payment architectures or payment protocols for electronic shopping systems G06Q20/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6582 Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8405 represented by keywords
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

For clearly identifying a product recorded in an image file provided by a client terminal, a method for identifying a remote pattern method is provided for preventing disputes between consumers and shopping websites. Such disputes are often caused when a conventional shopping website just searches products required by a consumer based on messages provided by the consumer. In the provided method, an image file of a required product of a consumer is identified by a customer service terminal for generating a plurality of keywords related to the required product. The keywords are then inputted into a database for searching. Detailed information about the required product is found according to search results. After the detailed information is examined by the customer service terminal, the examined detailed information is returned to the client at the client terminal.

Claims

1. A method for identifying a remote pattern comprising the acts of:

receiving an image file of a product uploaded from a client terminal;

transmitting the image file to a customer service terminal for generating multiple keywords;

searching a database with the keywords to obtain preliminary identifying results;

transmitting the preliminary identifying results to the customer service terminal to generate latter identifying results; and

sending the latter identifying results to the client terminal.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the image file is generated by capturing an image from a website.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the image file is generated by taking a picture using a photographic device.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the photographic device is selected from the group consisting of a digital camera, a cell phone and a web-cam.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the image file is generated by scanning an image.