Shopping assisting card, card issuing system, card issuing method, card issuing program, and storage medium

• US 7,325,730 B2
• Filed: 01/11/2006
• Issued: 02/05/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Nomura, Yasuhiro, Kimura, Seiji
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee; Michael G.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Savusdiphol; Paultep
• Application Number:
  US11/330,276
• Publication Number:
  US 20060151600A1
• Time in Patent Office: 755 Days
• Field of Search: 235/375, 235/380, 235/383, 705/16
• US Class Current: 235/383
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions

Abstract

A card issuing system that issues a shopping assisting card that provides support in purchasing an item includes a database that stores customer information including a language used by a customer as registered information, item information including items sold at a store as registered information, store information including an item recommended by the store among the items included in the item information as registered information, and format data registered corresponding to a plurality of languages and used for producing the shopping assisting card, a data extracting unit that extracts format data corresponding to the language used by the customer and the item recommended by the store from the database, a data producing unit that produces printing data for the shopping assisting card introducing the item recommended by the store in the language used by the customer based on the format data, and a printer that prints the shopping assisting card based on the printing data.

Claims

1. A card issuing system that issues a shopping assisting card that provides support in purchasing an item being an apparel product, comprising:

a database that stores customer information including a language used by a customer as registered information, item information including items sold at a store as registered information, store information including an item recommended by the store among the items included in the item information as registered information, and format data registered corresponding to a plurality of languages and used for producing the shopping assisting card, the item information including name data, price data, and image data of the items sold at the store, the customer information including size information for the customer, purchase inclination information for the customer, and purchase record information for the customer;

a data extracting unit that extracts format data corresponding to the language used by the customer and the item recommended by the store from the database, the item being recommended based on the size information, the purchase inclination information and the purchase record information;

a size converter that converts a size unit of the size information registered as the customer information into another size unit used at the store;

a data producing unit that produces printing data for the shopping assisting card based on the format data, the card introducing the item recommended by the store in the language used by the customer; and

a printer that prints the shopping assisting card based on the printing data;

wherein the shopping assisting card is printed with name data, price data, and image data corresponding to the recommended item, and with the size information in the size unit after the size conversion and wherein the data corresponding to the language used by the customer includes image data for characters in the language used by the customer.

2. The card issuing system according to claim 1, further comprising a rate converter that produces a rate conversion table between the currency of the customer'"'"'s country and a foreign currency used at the store based on an exchange rate between these currencies, the shopping assisting card being printed with the recommended item and the rate conversion table.

3. The card issuing system according to claim 1, wherein the purchase inclination information indicates the inclination of each customer in purchasing the apparel product as registered information.

4. The card issuing system according to claim 1, wherein the purchase record information indicates the purchase record of the apparel products by each customer.