Method and system of marketing and mass producing customized domestic furniture

• US 7,542,925 B2
• Filed: 06/07/2005
• Issued: 06/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Richfield Inc.
• Original Assignee: Richfield Inc.
• Inventors: Tung, Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): Rosen; Nicholas D
• Application Number:
  US11/147,798
• Publication Number:
  US 20060277119A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,456 Days
• Field of Search: 705/26, 705/27
• US Class Current: 705/26.2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0605 Supply or demand aggregation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0621 Item configuration or customization
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0643 Graphical representation of items or shoppers

Abstract

A system of marketing and mass producing customized domestic furniture includes a graphic customizing center and a service center. The graphic customizing center has an electronic database which contains a plurality of domestic floor plans and a plurality of furniture kits, wherein each of the domestic floor plans, which is simulated from a domestic environment to imitate the domestic furniture therein, has a plurality of customized areas preset on the domestic furniture to be customized for generating a plurality of custom made virtual domestic environments. The service center itemizes the furniture kits selected from the virtual domestic environments to mass-order the furniture kits for reducing a cost of the furniture kit in quantity manner.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of marketing and mass producing customized domestic furniture, comprising the steps of:

(a) computer-generating a plurality of custom made virtual domestic environments by different home owners, wherein at least one furniture kit is selected by each said home owner to match with said domestic furniture in a domestic floor plan, wherein the step (a) comprises the steps of;

(a.1) graphically displaying said domestic floor plans simulated from said virtual domestic environments to imitate said domestic furniture therein, wherein each of said domestic floor plans has a plurality of customized areas preset on said domestic furniture to be customized;

(a.2) selecting said furniture kit by said home owner to place on said customized area of said domestic furniture in said domestic floor plan so as to match said domestic furniture to generate said virtual domestic environment in a custom made manner; and

(a.3) previewing said domestic floor plan with said selected furniture kit on said domestic furniture to simulate a virtual domestic design of said domestic furniture in said virtual domestic environment for said home owner to confirm;

(b) itemizing said furniture kits from said virtual domestic environments, wherein each of said furniture kits contains an itemized code representing to said virtual domestic environment from said respective home owner;

(c) mass-ordering said furniture kits with respect to said itemized code thereof; and

(d) delivering each of said furniture kits to said respective home owner in accordance with said virtual domestic environment custom made by said home owner.

2. A computer-implemented method of marketing and mass producing customized domestic furniture, comprising the steps of:

(a) computer-generating a plurality of custom made virtual domestic environments by different home owners, wherein at least one furniture kit is selected by each said home owner to match with said domestic furniture in a domestic floor plan, wherein the step (a) comprises the steps of;

(a.1) graphically displaying said domestic floor plans simulated from said virtual domestic environments to imitate said domestic furniture therein, wherein each of said domestic floor plans has a plurality of customized areas preset on said domestic furniture to be customized;

(a.2) selecting said furniture kit by said home owner to place on said customized area of said domestic furniture in said domestic floor plan so as to match said domestic furniture to generate said virtual domestic environment in a custom made manner; and

(a.3) previewing said domestic floor plan with said selected furniture kit on said domestic furniture to simulate a virtual domestic design of said domestic furniture in said virtual domestic environment for said home owner to confirm;

(b) itemizing said furniture kits from said virtual domestic environments, wherein each of said furniture kits contains an itemized code representing said virtual domestic environment from said respective home owner;

(c) mass-ordering said furniture kits with respect to said itemized code thereof by mass-producing said furniture kits ordered from said home owners to reduce a manufacturing cost of said furniture kit; and

(d) delivering each of said furniture kits to said respective home owner in accordance with said virtual domestic environment custom made by said home owner.

3. The method as recited in claim 2, in step (b), further comprising a step of assigning said itemized code to each of said furniture kits selected in each of said virtual domestic environments from said respective home owner such that statuses of said furniture kits are adapted to be chased to ensure said furniture kits being ordered correctly and delivered on time.

4. The method, as recited in claim 3, wherein said virtual domestic environment with said furniture kits selected by said respective home owner is digitally recorded with said itemized codes as a home owner profile to assure said home owner of a corrected order of said furniture kits.

5. The method, as recited in claim 2, wherein said virtual domestic environment with said furniture kits selected by said respective home owner is digitally recorded with said itemized codes as a home owner profile to assure said home owner of a corrected order of said furniture kits.

6. A computer system of marketing and mass producing customized domestic furniture, comprising:

an electronic database which contains a plurality of domestic floor plans and a plurality of furniture kits, wherein each of said domestic floor plans, which is simulated from a domestic environment to imitate said domestic furniture therein, has a plurality of customized areas preset on said domestic furniture to be customized for generating a plurality of custom made virtual domestic environments;

means for customizing each of said furniture kits with said domestic furniture, having said customized areas preset on said domestic furniture; and

means for itemizing said furniture kits selected from said virtual domestic environments to mass-order said furniture kits for reducing a cost of said furniture kits in quantity manner.

7. The system, as recited in claim 6, wherein each of said furniture kits selected in said virtual domestic environment is digitally stored in said electronic database and is assigned with an itemized code for said service center mass-ordering said furniture kit.

8. The system, as recited in claim 7, wherein each of said furniture kits graphically displays a specific texture and color to be customized with said domestic furniture.

9. The system, as recited in claim 6, wherein each of said furniture kits graphically displays a specific texture and color to be customized with said domestic furniture.

10. A computer-implemented method of customizing domestic furniture in a virtual domestic environment, comprising the steps of:

(a) selecting one of domestic floor plans stored in an electronic database, wherein said domestic floor plan, which is simulated by a processor of a virtual simulator from a domestic environment to imitate said domestic furniture therein, has a plurality of customized areas preset on said domestic furniture to be customized so as to generate a custom made virtual domestic environment;

(b) selecting a furniture kit stored in said electronic database to place on said customized area of said domestic furniture in said domestic floor plan so as to match said domestic furniture with said virtual domestic environment; and

(c) previewing said domestic floor plan with said selected furniture kit on said domestic furniture through a virtual viewer of said virtual simulator to simulate a virtual domestic design of said domestic furniture in said virtual domestic environment.

11. The method as recited in claim 10, before the step (a), further comprising the steps of:

computer-generating a plurality of fixed areas of said domestic furniture in said virtual environment as said customized areas in each of said floor plans respectively,

categorizing said furniture kits into a plurality of kit groups such that each of said kit groups contains at least one said furniture kit, wherein each of said kit groups is allowed to be selected in said particular customized area of each of said floor plans.

12. The method, as recited in claim 11, wherein each of said furniture kits graphically displays a specific texture and color to be customized with said domestic furniture.

13. The method, as recited in claim 12, further comprising a step of systematically categorizing said floor plans into a plurality of floor plan classes, wherein said floor plans in each of said classes has a common attribute for being previewed so as to allow said user to select said floor plans in an organized manner.

14. The method, as recited in claim 13, further comprising a step of periodically updating said floor plans and said furniture kits to incorporate a most recent development of said domestic furniture.

15. The method, as recited in claim 11, further comprising a step of systematically categorizing said floor plans into a plurality of floor plan classes, wherein said floor plans in each of said classes has a common attribute for being previewed so as to allow said user to select said floor plans in an organized manner.

16. The method, as recited in claim 11, further comprising a step of periodically updating said floor plans and said furniture kits to incorporate a most recent development of said domestic furniture.

17. The method, as recited in claim 10, wherein each of said furniture kits graphically displays a specific texture and color to be customized with said domestic furniture.