Product evaluation information delivering system and product evaluation information delivering method

• US 8,650,087 B2
• Filed: 06/05/2006
• Issued: 02/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fugaku Tsuun Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Fugaku Tsuun Company Limited
• Inventors: Asanuma, Katsuhide
• Primary Examiner(s): OBAID, FATEH M
• Application Number:
  US11/916,588
• Publication Number:
  US 20090228467A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,808 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 705/22
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3224 Transactions dependent on location of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0603 Catalogue ordering
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/145 PLU-management

Abstract

A system and a method for delivering information related to the evaluation values of products. The system includes an evaluation database (DB) for storing evaluation information; a user terminal for reading the product codes of products; and an inventory information DB for storing inventory information. The evaluation information is read, based on a product barcode obtained by the user terminal, from the evaluation DB, and a retail store within a predetermined distance from the user is searched based of the positional information (GPS) of the user terminal. Then, the inventory information DB, which is connected to the POS server of the retail store, is searched to acquire and display the inventory status of the product on the user terminal. Additionally, when the product is purchased, the evaluator who provided the evaluation information of the product is given points and paid a reward.

Claims

1. A product evaluation information delivering system comprising:

retail store location information database storing longitude(s) and latitude(s) of retail stores;

an evaluation information database storing evaluation information of products in conjunction with product codes; and

a computer capable of accessing said retail store location information database and said evaluation information database;

wherein said computer comprises

an evaluation information storing unit storing in said evaluation information database evaluation information inputted by from a user terminal,

a receiving unit receiving from a user terminal a product code of a product and longitude(s) and latitude(s) of the user terminal obtained from GPS information of the user terminal,

a retail store location searching unit searching in said retail store location information database for retail stores located at a predetermined distance from the location of the user terminal using the received longitude(s) and latitude(s) obtained from GPS information of the user terminal,

an inventory information obtaining unit obtaining inventory information of the product corresponding to the received product code in the searched retail stores,

an evaluation information obtaining unit obtaining from said evaluation information database evaluation information of the product corresponding to the received product code,

a sending unit sending to the user terminal the longitude(s) and latitude(s) of the searched retail stores, the obtained inventory information of the product and the obtained evaluation information of the product; and

wherein said system further comprises an evaluator information database storing information of evaluators providing evaluation information of products, wherein said computer further comprises a point storing unit storing in said evaluator information database points given to the evaluators for providing evaluation information of products, the points given comprising higher affiliate points given for purchase of a related product related to a targeted product than affiliate points given for purchase of the targeted product.

2. The product evaluation information delivering system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said computer further comprises

a related product information storing unit storing in said evaluation information database evaluation information and product codes of products related to the targeted product,

a related product information searching unit searching in said evaluation information database for evaluation information of products related to the targeted product, and

a related product information sending unit sending to the user terminal the inventory information of the searched related product.

3. A method for delivering product evaluation information using a system comprising a retail store location information database storing longitude(s) and latitude(s) of retail stores;

an evaluation information database storing evaluation information of products in conjunction with product codes; and

a computer capable of accessing said retail store location information database and said evaluation information database, said method comprising;

storing in said evaluation information database evaluation information inputted from a user terminal,

receiving from a user terminal a product code of a product and longitude(s) and latitude(s) of the user terminal,

searching, via said computer, in said retail store location information database for retail stores located at a predetermined distance from the location of the user terminal using the received longitude(s) and latitude(s) obtained from GPS information of the user terminal,

obtaining, via said computer, inventory information of the product corresponding to the received product code in the searched retail stores,

obtaining, via said computer, from said evaluation information database evaluation information of the product corresponding to the received product code,

sending to the user terminal the longitude(s) and latitude(s) of the searched retail stores, the obtained inventory information of the product and the obtained evaluation information of the product, wherein said system comprises an evaluator information database storing information of evaluators providing evaluation information of products; and

storing, via said computer, in said evaluator information database points given to the evaluators for providing evaluation information of products, the points given comprising higher affiliate points given for purchase of a related product related to a targeted product than affiliate points given for purchase of the targeted product.

4. The method as set forth in claim 3, further comprising:

storing in said evaluation information database evaluation information and product codes of products related to the targeted product,

searching in said evaluation information database for evaluation information of products related to the targeted product, and

sending to the user terminal the inventory information of the searched related product.