Method and system for inquiring product exportation

• US 6,904,425 B2
• Filed: 11/28/2001
• Issued: 06/07/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Original Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Inventors: Sung, Min-Tzu
• Primary Examiner(s): Rones, Charles
• Assistant Examiner(s): Veillard, Jacques
• Application Number:
  US09/994,633
• Publication Number:
  US 20030101157A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,287 Days
• Field of Search: 707/1, 707/5, 707/10, 707/101, 707/102, 707/103.R, 707/104.1, 707/201, 707/204, 709/219, 709/229, 705/8, 705/23, 705/26, 705/27
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/208 Input by product or record sensing, e.g. weighing or scanner processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99935 Query augmenting and refining, e.g. inexact access
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing

Abstract

A method and system for inquiring product exportation are proposed, for allowing a user at a terminal device to inquire associated data relating to product exportation on a browser of the terminal device via a network communication system, wherein the system for inquiring product exportation includes an exporting station, a database and a database server. In the use of the method and system for inquiring product exportation, if a manufacturer receives a request of assembly replacement from a client, the manufacturer can inquire an exporting file stored in a database for obtaining exportation data of products delivered to the client. Therefore, the manufacturer can monitor true reasons for the assembly replacement, so as to avoid expense in non-necessary costs and increase profit.

Claims

1. A system for inquiring product exportation, for allowing a user at a terminal device to inquire associated data relating to product exportation on a browser of the terminal device via a network communication system;

the system comprising;

an exporting station for establishing an exporting file corresponding to each product exportation, and providing a dedicated identification code for the exporting file;

a database for storing the exporting file established by the exporting station; and

a database server for receiving an identification code inputted by the user at the terminal device, and for reading an exporting file in the database having an identification code corresponding to the received identification code, wherein a quotation and an exportation data report are established by the database server corresponding to the read exporting file, and transmitted to the browser at the terminal device, so as to allow the user to examine exported products and transmit the quotation and the exportation data report to a client who orders the exported products, for allowing the client to examine and pay for the exported products.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein if the database server determines that no exporting file in the database has an identification code exactly matching the identification code inputted by the user, the database server compares the identification code inputted by the user with identification codes of exporting files in the database, and determines if an exporting file in the database has an identification code similarly matching in a few first numerals the identification code inputted by the user;

if the similarly matching exporting file is available, a quotation and an exportation data report are established for the exporting file.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the identification code is a client sequence number or a product category sequence number.

4. A system for inquiring product exportation, for allowing a user at a terminal device to inquire associated data relating to product exportation on a browser of the terminal device via a network communication system;

the system comprising;

an exporting station for establishing an exporting file corresponding to each product exportation, and providing a client sequence number or a product category sequence number for the exporting file;

a database for storing the exporting file established by the exporting station; and

a database server for receiving a client sequence number or a product category sequence number inputted by the user at the terminal device, and for reading an exporting file in the database having a client sequence number or a product category sequence number corresponding to the received client sequence number or product category sequence number;

if the database server determines that no exporting file in the database has a client sequence number or a product category sequence number exactly matching the client sequence number or the product category sequence number inputted by the user, the database server compares the client sequence number or the product category sequence number inputted by the user with client sequence numbers or the product category sequence numbers of exporting files in the database, and determines if an exporting file in the database has a client sequence number or a product category sequence number similarly matching in a few first numerals the client sequence number or the product category sequence number inputted by the user;

if the similarly matching exporting file is available, a quotation and an exportation data report are established for the exporting file, and transmitted to the browser at the terminal device, so as to allow the user to examine exported products and transmit the quotation and the exportation data report to a client who orders the exported products, for allowing the client to examine and pay for the exported products.

5. A system for inquiring product exportation, for allowing a user at a terminal device to inquire associated data relating to product exportation on a browser of the terminal device via a network communication system;

the system comprising;

an exporting station for establishing an exporting file corresponding to each product exportation, and providing a dedicated identification code for the exporting file;

a database for storing the exporting file established by the exporting station; and

a database server for receiving an identification code inputted by the user at the terminal device, and for reading an exporting file in the database having an identification code corresponding to the received identification code, so as to transmit the read exporting file to the user at the terminal device, wherein the database server further includes a retrieving module;

if the database server determines that no exporting file in the database has an identification code exactly matching the identification code inputted by the user, the retrieving module compares the identification code inputted by the user with identification codes of exporting files in the database, and determines if an exporting file in the database has an identification code similarly matching in a few first numerals the identification code inputted by the user;

if the similarly matching exporting file is available, the exporting file is transmitted to the user at the terminal device.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the database server further includes a processing module for establishing a quotation and an exportation data report corresponding to the read exporting file, and the database server transmits the quotation and the exportation data report via the network communication system to the browser of the terminal device, so as to allow the user to examine exported products, and transmit the quotation and the exportation data report to a client who orders the exported products, for allowing the client to examine and pay for the exported products.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the identification code is a client sequence number or a product category sequence number.

8. A method for inquiring product exportation, for use with a system for inquiring product exportation, for allowing a user at a terminal device to inquire associated data relating to product exportation on a browser of the terminal device via a network communication system, wherein an exporting station of the system for inquiring product exportation pre-establishes an exporting file corresponding to each product exportation, and stored the established exporting file in a database;

the method comprising the steps of;

(1) inputting a dedicated identification code of an exporting file for inquiry via the user at the terminal device through the browser of the terminal device and the network communication system;

(2) after receiving the identification code transmitted from the terminal device via the system for inquiring product exportation, determining via the retrieving module if an exporting file has an identification code in the database exactly matching the identification code inputted by the user, wherein if the exactly matching exporting file is available, then the step (5) is followed;

or else, step (3) is followed;

(3) comparing via the retrieving module the identification code inputted by the user with identification codes of exporting files in the database, and determining if an exporting file in the database has an identification code similarly matching the identification code inputted by the user, wherein if the similarly matching exporting file is available, then the step (3) is followed;

or else, step (2-3) is followed; and

(4) informing the user at the terminal device of failure in searching an exactly matching or similarly matching exporting file via the system for inquiring product exportation; and

(5) transmitting the available exporting file to the user at the terminal device via the system for inquiring product exportation.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein in the step (2—

2), the identification code inputted by the user is compared in a first few numerals with the identification codes of the exporting files in the database.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the system for inquiring product exportation further comprises a processing module for processing the read exporting file in the step (2) to be a report form, and the step (3) further comprises the steps of:

(3-1) establishing a quotation and an exportation data report corresponding to the read exporting file via the processing module activated by the system for inquiring product exportation;

(3-2) transmitting the quotation and the exportation data report via the system for inquiring product exportation to the browser of the terminal device through the network communication system, so as to allow the user to examine exported products;

(3—

3) transmitting the quotation and the exportation data report via the user at the terminal device to a client who orders the exported products; and

(3-4) examining the exported products via the client according to the exportation data report, and paying for the products according to the quotation upon receiving the quotation and the exportation data report.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the system for inquiring product exportation comprises:

the exporting station;

the database; and

a database server for receiving the identification code inputted by the user at the terminal device, and for reading an exporting file in the database having an identification code corresponding to the received identification code.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the identification code is a client sequence number or a product category sequence number.

13. A method for inquiring product exportation, for use with a system for inquiring product exportation, for allowing a user at a terminal device to inquire associated data relating to product exportation on a browser of the terminal device via a network communication system, wherein an exporting station of the system for inquiring product exportation pre-establishes an exporting file corresponding to each product exportation, and stored the established exporting file in a database;

the method comprising the steps of;

(1) inputting a client sequence number or a product category sequence number for inquiry via the user at the terminal device through the browser of the terminal device and the network communication system;

(2) reading an exporting file having a client sequence number or a product category sequence number in the database corresponding to the client sequence number or the product category sequence number inputted by the user after receiving the client sequence number or the product category sequence number transmitted from the terminal device via the system for inquiring product exportation;

(3) establishing a quotation and an exportation data report corresponding to the exporting file via the system for inquiring product exportation;

(4) transmitting the quotation and the exportation data report via the system for inquiring product exportation to the browser of the terminal device, so as to allow the user to examine exported products; and

(5) transmitting the quotation and the exportation data report via the user at the terminal device to a client who orders the exported products, so as to allow the client to examine the exported products.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the step (2) further comprises the steps of:

(2-1) determining via the system for inquiring product exportation if an exporting file has a client sequence number or a product category sequence number in the database exactly matching the client sequence number or the product category sequence number inputted by the user, wherein if the exactly matching exporting file is available, then the step (3) is followed;

or else, step (2—

2) is followed;

(2—

2) comparing via the system for inquiring product exportation the client sequence number or the product category sequence number inputted by the user with client sequence numbers or product category sequence numbers of exporting tiles in the database, and determining if an exporting file in the database has a client sequence number or a product category sequence number similarly matching the client sequence number or the product category sequence number inputted by the user, wherein if the similarly matching exporting file is available, then the step (3) is followed;

or else, step (2-3) is followed; and

(2-3) informing the user at the terminal device of failure in searching an exactly matching or similarly matching exporting file via the system for inquiring product exportation.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein in the step (2—

2), the client sequence number or the product category sequence number inputted by the user is compared in a first few numerals with the client sequence numbers or the product category sequence numbers of the exporting files in the database.