INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20140108202A1
• Filed: 10/15/2012
• Published: 04/17/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Rakuten, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Rakuten, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Masuko, Soh
• Application Number:
  US14/115,426
• Publication Number:
  US 20140108202A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26.63
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0627 using item specifications

Abstract

An information apparatus acquires a size of a specified item for sale specified according to a request of a request user from a purchase history storage means storing the purchase history of an item for sale to be worn. The size of the specified item for sale was purchased by other user who purchased the specified item for sale. The information apparatus acquires body size information related to a body size of the request user and body size information related to a body size of the other user. The information apparatus specifies an evaluation by the other user for the acquired size. The information apparatus estimates a size of the specified item for sale that fits the request user on the basis of a size relationship between the body size information of the request user and the body size information of the other user, the size of the specified item for sale purchased by the other user, and the evaluation for the size. The information apparatus outputs the estimated size.

Claims

1-20. -20. (canceled)

21. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a size acquisition unit that, from a purchase history storage unit storing a purchase history of an item for sale to be worn, acquires a size of a specified item for sale specified according to a request of a request user, the size of the specified item for sale having been purchased by other user who purchased the specified item for sale, there being a plurality of sizes of the item for sale;

a body size information acquisition unit that acquires body size information related to a body size of the request user and body size information related to a body size of the other user;

an evaluation specification unit that specifies an evaluation by the other user for the size acquired by the size acquisition unit;

an estimation unit that estimates a size of the specified item for sale that fits the request user on the basis of a size relationship between the body size information of the request user and the body size information of the other user, the size of the specified item for sale purchased by the other user, and the evaluation for the size; and

an output unit that outputs the size estimated by the estimation unit.

22. The information processing apparatus according to claim 21, wherein

when, on the basis of a return history of the item for sale stored in a return history storage unit, it is determined that the other user who purchased a plurality of the specified items for sale whose sizes are different from each other returned at least one but not all of the plurality of the specified items for sale, the evaluation specification unit specifies the evaluation so that the evaluation for the size of the specified item that was not returned is higher than the evaluation for the size of the specified item that was returned.

23. The information processing apparatus according to claim 21, wherein

the evaluation specification unit acquires the evaluation input by the other user.

24. The information processing apparatus according to claim 22, wherein

when, on the basis of a non-purchase history stored in a non-purchase history storage unit storing the non-purchase history indicating that the other user determined to purchase the item for sale and thereafter cancelled the purchase, it is determined that the other user selected a size of the specified item for sale and thereafter cancelled the size and purchased another size, the evaluation specification unit specifies the evaluation so that the evaluation for the size that was purchased is higher than the evaluation for the size that was cancelled.

25. The information processing apparatus according to claim 21, wherein

when, on the basis of a return history of the item for sale stored in a return history storage unit, it is determined that the other user who purchased a plurality of the specified items for sale whose sizes are different from each other returned at least one but not all of the plurality of the specified items for sale, the evaluation specification unit specifies the evaluation so that the evaluation for the size of the specified item that was not returned is higher than the evaluation for the size of the specified item that was returned,

when the evaluation is input from the other user, the evaluation specification unit acquires the input evaluation, and

the estimation unit estimates the size by valuing the evaluation specified based on the return history more than the evaluation input from the other user.

26. The information processing apparatus according to claim 21, wherein

when the evaluation is input from the other user, the evaluation specification unit acquires the input evaluation,

when, on the basis of a non-purchase history stored in a non-purchase history storage unit storing the non-purchase history indicating that the other user determined to purchase the item for sale and thereafter cancelled the purchase, it is determined that the other user selected a size of the specified item for sale and thereafter cancelled the size and purchased another size, the evaluation specification unit specifies the evaluation so that the evaluation for the size of the specified item that was purchased is higher than the evaluation for the size of the specified item that was cancelled, and

the estimation unit estimates the size by valuing the evaluation input from the other user more than the evaluation specified based on the non-purchase history.

27. The information processing apparatus according to claim 21, wherein

the body size information acquisition unit acquires a body size of at least one of the request user and the other user as the body size information from a body size storage unit storing a body size registered from a user for each user.

28. The information processing apparatus according to claim 27, wherein

on the basis of the purchase history, the later a time when the other user purchased the specified item for sale is, the more the estimation unit values the evaluation from the other user and thereby estimates the size.

29. The information processing apparatus according to claim 21, wherein

on the basis of the purchase history, the body size information acquisition unit acquires at least one of a size of a first item for sale which the request user has ever purchased and a size of a second item for sale which the other user has ever purchased as the body size information.

30. The information processing apparatus according to claim 29, wherein

the estimation unit estimates the size by using the evaluation from the other user who purchased the specified item for sale and who purchased the second item for sale belonging to the same category as that of the first item for sale, and

the later a time when the request user purchased the first item for sale, the more the estimation unit values the evaluation from the other user who purchased the second item for sale that belongs to the same category as that of the first item for sale and thereby estimate the size.

31. The information processing apparatus according to claim 29, wherein

the smaller a difference between a time of purchase of the second item for sale of the other user and a time of purchase of the specified item for sale of the other user is, the more the estimation unit estimates the evaluation from the other user and thereby estimates the size.

32. The information processing apparatus according to claim 21, wherein

the estimation unit estimates the size by not using information acquired based on the purchase histories of the items for sale that are ones of the items for sale for women and the items for sale for men, a ratio of the ones of the items for sale for women and the items for sale for men to the items for sale purchased by the user being smaller than or equal to a threshold value preset to a value smaller than 50%.

33. The information processing apparatus according to claim 21, wherein

the estimation unit estimate the size by not using information acquired based on the purchase history which indicates that the user who is an adult purchased the item for sale for children.

34. The information processing apparatus according to claim 21, wherein

when the request user is an adult and the specified item for sale is the item for sale for children, the output unit does output the size.

35. The information processing apparatus according to claim 21, wherein

the estimation unit specifies the other user whose body size is included in the same range as that of the body size of the request user on the basis of the size relationship of the body size information and estimates the size of the specified item for sale that fits the request user on the basis of a size of the specified item for sale purchased by the specified other user and the evaluation for the size.

36. The information processing apparatus according to claim 21, wherein

the estimation unit specifies the other user whose body size is smaller than that of the request user and the other user whose body size is greater than that of the request user on the basis of the size relationship of the body size information, estimates a first size of the specified item for sale that fits the other user whose body size is smaller than that of the request user and a second size of the specified item for sale that fits the other user whose body size is greater than that of the request user on the basis of sizes of the specified item for sale purchased by the specified other users and the evaluations for the sizes, and estimates the size between the first size and the second size to be the size that fits the request user.

37. The information processing apparatus according to claim 21, wherein

the estimation unit obtains an approximate expression of a distribution of combinations of the body size information of the other user and a size of the specified item for sale purchased by the other user by weighting the combinations based on the evaluations from the other users, and estimates the size calculated based on the approximate expression and the body size information of the request user to be the size that fits the request user.

38. An information processing method performed by a computer, the method comprising:

a size acquisition step of, from a purchase history storage unit storing a purchase history of an item for sale to be worn, acquiring a size of a specified item for sale specified according to a request of a request user, the size of the specified item for sale having been purchased by other user who purchased the specified item for sale, there being a plurality of sizes of the item for sale;

a body size information acquisition step of acquiring body size information related to a body size of the request user and body size information related to a body size of the other user;

an evaluation specification step of specifying an evaluation by the other user for the size acquired in the size acquisition step;

an estimation step estimating a size of the specified item for sale that fits the request user on the basis of a size relationship between the body size information of the request user and the body size information of the other user, the size of the specified item for sale purchased by the other user, and the evaluation for the size; and

an output step of outputting the size estimated in the estimation step.