Home terminal and shopping system

• US 5,870,716 A
• Filed: 10/04/1995
• Issued: 02/09/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Sugiyama, Taichi, Morimoto, Takafumi, Akimoto, Yukio, Tsuge, Yoshiyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Thomas, Joseph
• Application Number:
  US08/538,643
• Time in Patent Office: 1,224 Days
• Field of Search: 395/214, 395/216, 395/217, 395/218, 395/220, 395/221, 395/222, 395/223, 395/224, 395/225, 395/226, 395/227, 395/228, 395/229, 395/230, 395/233, 395/234, 395/235, 395/239 , 395/241, 705/14, 705/16-18, 705/20-30, 705/33-35, 705/39, 705/41, 705/8, 705/10, 705/28, 235/375, 235/378, 235/379, 235/380, 235/381, 235/383, 235/385, 902/22, 902/24, 902/25, 902/26, 902/27
• US Class Current: 705/26.43
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/20 Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/201 Price look-up processing, e.g. updating
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/202 Interconnection or interaction of plural electronic cash registers [ECR] or to host computer, e.g. network details, transfer of information from host to ECR or from ECR to ECR
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/203 Inventory monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/209 Specified transaction journal output feature, e.g. printed receipt or voice output
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0617 Representative agent
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/00 Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/00 Cash registers alarm indicators G07G3/00

Abstract

A shopping system includes store terminals for registering purchase and sale of items, a store processor for collectively managing the store terminals, electronic shelf labels capable of setting classification, etc., of the items, an item information data base for storing the classification of the items and the electronic shelf labels from information from the electronic shelf labels in such a manner as to correspond to each other, and home terminals for executing edition from the information from the store terminal or the store processor by a predetermined logic. The home terminal in this system accumulates the item information from the store terminal as history, determines a mean purchase interval of individual items, and decides and notifies the items to be purchased to the shopper by purchase item determination process of a next shopping day and a next-of-next shopping day inputted by the shopper.

Claims

1. A home terminal for editing information on purchase and sale items, comprising:

transmission/reception means for receiving item information on items;

input means for inputting desired data;

memory means for acquiring and storing purchase history data regarding the past purchase of items among said item information received from said transmission/reception means;

process means for comparing data from said input means with said purchase history data stored in said memory means, and determining an item or items to be purchased; and

output means for outputting the result of the item or items determined to be purchased by said process means, wherein;

said memory means acquires the purchase history data regarding the past purchase of each item included among said item information obtained from said transmission/reception mean, and stores a cycle obtained by determining the means of the purchase interval of the items from said purchase history data; and

said process means determines the mean of said purchase interval;

compares a next purchase day of a certain item input from said input means, a succeeding next purchase day of said item, a stock status representing the stock of said item, and the sum of the previous purchase date of said item stored in said memory means and the mean of the cycle of said purchase interval, using predetermined logic; and

decides the items which must be purchased.

2. A home terminal according to claim 1, wherein:

said memory means stores sales information of sales items in the store among said item information acquired from said transmission/reception means of said home terminal;

said process means retrieves object sales items stored in said memory means from among said items whose purchase is decided, and decides whether or not said sales items can be purchased from said sale information of said retrieved sales items; and

said output means outputs the decision result of said purchasable sales items.

3. A home terminal according to claim 1, wherein:

said transmission/reception means of said home terminal reads a desired one of said item information from a written medium.

4. A home terminal according to claim 3, wherein:

said transmission/reception means of said home terminal is IC control means; and

said medium is an IC card.

5. A home terminal according to claim 4, wherein:

said home terminal is a portable terminal which a shopper can carry.

6. A home terminal according to claim 1, wherein:

said home terminal is a portable terminal which a shopper can carry; and

said transmission/reception means of said portable terminal is an antenna enabling transmission/reception of said item information by wireless.

7. A home terminal for editing information regarding purchase and sale of items, comprising;

transmission/reception means for receiving item information regarding items;

input means for inputting desired data;

memory means for acquiring and storing sale information regarding sales items in a store among said item information received from said transmission/reception means;

process means for retrieving sales information regarding object sales items stored in said memory means among applicant purchase items of the shopper input from said input means, and deciding whether or not said object sale items can be purchased from said retrieved sale information regarding said object sales items; and

output means for outputting the result of said purchasable sales items decided by said process means,

said memory means acquires the purchase history data regarding the past purchase of each item included among said item information obtained from said transmission/reception means, and stores a cycle obtained by determining the mean of the purchase interval of the items from said purchase history data; and

said process means determines the mean of said purchase interval compares a next purchase day of a certain item input from said input means, a succeeding next purchase day of said item, a stock status representing the stock of said item, and the sum of the previous purchase date of said item stored in said memory means and the mean of the cycle of said purchase interval, using predetermined logic; and

decides the items which must be purchased.

8. A home terminal according to claim 7, wherein:

said transmission/reception means of said home terminal reads a desired one of said item information from a written medium.

9. A home terminal according to claim 8, wherein:

said transmission/reception means of said home terminal is IC control means; and

said medium is an IC card.

10. A home terminal according to claim 9, wherein:

said home terminal is a portable terminal which a shopper can carry.

11. A home terminal according to claim 7, wherein:

said home terminal is a portable terminal which a shopper can carry about; and

said transmission/reception means of said portable terminal is an antenna enabling wireless transmission/reception of said item information.