JP2003132239A - Commodity information input support method and commodity information input support system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a commodity information input support method and commodity information input support system capable of reducing the labor and time for an input work of commodity information and facilitating the input of commodity information in a form according to a unified fixed format. SOLUTION: In this commodity information input method for supporting the input of commodity information by a client terminal 1 and a commodity information server 3, the client terminal transmits the e-mail of a user who inputs commodity information, and the commodity information server discriminates whether the information described in the e-mail is registered in a store commodity registration means or not, and supplies unedited commodity information to the client terminal on the basis of the discrimination result to promote the editing of the unedited commodity information.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a product information input support method and a product information input support system. For more information,
The present invention relates to a product information input support method and a product information input support system for simplifying the work of inputting product information.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, for the purpose of distributing product information to client terminals via the Internet, etc.,
BACKGROUND ART Product information is input into a server computer to build a product information database. Here, conventionally, the product information input method that is performed to construct the product information database is such that a person who inputs product information uses a client terminal such as a computer connected to a server computer through a communication line. For each product, detailed information on the product was input.

[0003]

However, since the product information is input from the client terminal for each product, there is an inconvenience that it takes a lot of time and labor to input the product information. In addition, regarding the same or similar products, considering the convenience of using the product information database, it is preferable to enter the order of input items, written texts, etc. in a unified manner. ,
The input information has to be intentionally created in a fixed format, and there is a disadvantage that the input work is difficult. In particular, when comparing product information entered in the product information database, there was a strong demand for unification of input information for each product information, so it is necessary to consciously work on unification of input information. There was an inconvenience.

The present invention was devised in view of the above points, and saves labor and time at the time of inputting merchandise information, and conforms to a fixed format that is easily unified. It is an object of the present invention to provide a product information input support method and a product information input support system that enable input of product information in different formats.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, a product information input support method according to the present invention is a product information input support method for supporting input of product information by a client terminal and a product information server. The client terminal includes a step of transmitting an electronic mail of a user who inputs product information through a communication line, and the product information server stores the information described in the electronic mail transmitted from the client terminal. A step of determining whether or not the product information is registered in the store product registration means of the information server, and as a result of the determination, if the product information is registered in the store product registration means, the product information registered in the store product registration means is not edited. Product information that is supplied to the client terminal as product information and registered in the basic information registration means if it is not registered in the store product registration means As unedited product information comprises the steps of providing the client terminal, and a step of prompting the editing of the unedited product information supplied to the user in the client terminal.

[0006] Here, by transmitting the information described in the e-mail to the merchandise information server in the step of transmitting the e-mail of the user who inputs the merchandise information through the communication line, the merchandise information registration means in the merchandise information server. The information to be targeted when determining whether or not the registration has been performed is specified. Further, the product information and the basic information registered in the store product registration means are determined by the step of determining whether the information described in the email transmitted from the client terminal is registered in the store product registration means of the product information server. It is determined which product information of the product information registered in the registration means is supplied as unedited product information. Further, as a result of the determination, when the product information registered in the store product registration means is supplied to the client terminal as the unedited product information, the product information registered in the store product registration means is not registered in the store product registration means. In the step of supplying the product information registered in the basic information registration means to the client terminal as unedited product information, the product information for which certain information has been input is supplied to the client terminal as unedited product information. . In addition, the final product information is input by the process of prompting the user to edit the unedited information supplied to the client terminal.

The product information input support method according to the present invention is a product information input support method for supporting the input of product information by a product information server, wherein the product information transmitted from a client terminal via a communication line is A step of receiving an email of a user who inputs, a step of determining whether or not the information described in the email is registered in a store product registration means of a product information server, and a result of the determination, store product registration If it is registered in the means, the product information registered in the store product registration means is supplied to the client terminal as unedited product information, and if it is not registered in the store product registration means, it is registered in the basic information registration means. The step of supplying the edited product information as unedited product information to the client terminal, and the unedited product information supplied to the client terminal to the user. And a step to encourage the editing of the article information.

Here, by the step of receiving the electronic mail of the user who inputs the product information transmitted from the client terminal via the communication line, it is determined whether or not the product information server has registered in the store product registration means. The target information when performing is specified.

In order to achieve the above object, the product information input support system according to the present invention is a product information input support system for supporting the input of product information by a client terminal and a product information server, wherein the client The terminal is provided with an electronic mail transmitting means for transmitting an electronic mail of a user who inputs product information through a communication line,
The product information server, a description content determination unit that determines whether or not the information described in the email transmitted from the email transmission unit of the client terminal is registered in the store product registration unit of the product information server, As a result of the discrimination by the described content discriminating means, when it is registered in the store commodity registering means, the commodity information registered in the store commodity registering means is supplied to the client terminal as unedited commodity information and registered in the store commodity registering means. If not, unedited product information supply means for supplying the product information registered in the basic information registration means to the client terminal as unedited product information, and the unedited product information supply means for the user to the client terminal. An editing promotion means for promoting editing of the supplied unedited product information.

Here, when the information written in the electronic mail is transmitted to the product information server by the electronic mail transmission means, it is possible to determine whether or not the product information server has registered in the store product registration means. Identify the target information. Further, the description content determination means determines which of the product information registered in the store product registration means and the product information registered in the basic information registration means is supplied as unedited product information. Further, the unedited product information supply means supplies the product information, to which certain information has been input, to the client terminal as unedited product information. In addition, the editing promotion means allows the user to input final product information.

The product information input support system according to the present invention is a product information input support system for supporting the input of product information by a product information server, and stores the product information transmitted from a client terminal via a communication line. An electronic mail receiving means for receiving an electronic mail of a user who inputs, and a description for determining whether or not the information described in the electronic mail received by the electronic mail receiving means is registered in the store product registration means of the product information server As a result of the discrimination by the content discriminating means and the described content discriminating means, when the information is registered in the store commodity registration means, the commodity information registered in the store commodity registration means is supplied to the client terminal as unedited commodity information, If it is not registered in the product registration means, the product information registered in the basic information registration means is regarded as unedited product information. Comprising the unedited product information supply means for supplying to the client terminal, and editing promoting means for prompting the editing of the unedited product information supplied to the client terminal by the relative user unedited product information supplying means.

Here, the electronic mail receiving means identifies the information to be used when determining whether or not the product information server has registered in the shop product registration means.

[0013]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings, for the understanding of the present invention.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram for explaining an example of a product information input support system to which the present invention is applied. The client terminal 1 shown here is configured to be able to mutually communicate with the product information server 3 via the Internet 2. Communication between the client terminal and the product information server is sufficient if the client terminal and the product information server can exchange information.
It is not necessary to use an internet connection, L
An AN (Local Area Network) connection or the like may be used.

Here, the client terminal has an electronic mail transmitting unit 4 and a product information transmitting unit 5, and the electronic mail transmitting unit is a name of the product for which the user inputs information,
The product image, the product format, the product type, etc. are configured to be transmitted to the product information server, and the product information transmitting unit is configured to transmit the product information in response to an editing request made by an editing promoting unit in the product information server described later. The product information obtained by editing the unedited product information supplied from the server can be transmitted to the product information server. It should be noted that the electronic mail transmitted by the electronic mail transmission means is sufficient as long as it can serve as a basis for identifying the product to be entered by the user, and the above-mentioned "product name", ""Productimage","Productformat",
It is not necessary to include all of the "product type" information,
Further, it goes without saying that information other than the four pieces of information described as examples may be included. Further, the product information transmitting means may edit the unedited product information supplied from the product information server and input the product information corresponding to the product for which information is input. If the product information can be input, it is not always necessary to send the product information edited by the product information transmitting means to the product information server. For example, the client terminal can access the product information server via the Internet. Of course, it is possible to selectively transmit only the product information that needs to be edited.

The product information server includes a store product registration means 6, a basic information registration means 7, an electronic mail reception means 8,
It has a description content determination means 9, an unedited product information supply means 10 and an editing promotion means 11, and the store product registration means is configured so that a user who inputs product information can register product information that has already been input. The basic information registration method is
It is configured so that basic information about products can be registered. Further, the electronic mail receiving means is configured to be able to receive the electronic mail transmitted by the user by the electronic mail transmitting means of the client terminal, and the description content determining means is the description content of the electronic mail received by the electronic mail receiving means. Is configured to perform determination of
The unedited product information supply means is configured to be able to supply the product information registered in the store product registration means or the basic information registration means according to the determination result of the description content determination means. The means is configured to prompt the user to edit the supplied unedited product information.

In the product information input support system configured as described above, first, the electronic mail of the user who inputs the product information is transmitted to the product information server via the Internet using the electronic mail transmitting means of the client terminal. . In the product information server that received the email sent from the client terminal by the email receiving means,
It is determined whether the information described in the e-mail received by the description content determination means is the product information registered in the store product registration means of the product information server, and the result of the determination by the description content determination means is the electronic When the information described in the email is the product information registered in the store product registration means, the product information registered in the store product registration means is used as unedited product information by the client using the unedited product information supply means. Supply to the terminal. On the other hand, as a result of the determination by the description content determination means, if the information described in the e-mail is not the product information registered in the store product registration means, the product information registered in the basic information registration means is changed to the unedited product. The information is supplied to the client terminal using unedited product information supply means. Next, the editing promotion means urges the user to edit the unedited product information, the user edits the unedited product information, and the edited product information is sent to the product information transmission means of the client terminal. Send to the information server.

In the product information input support system to which the present invention is applied, it is possible to reduce the trouble and time required for the work of inputting product information, and to easily display the product information in a format conforming to a uniform format. You can enter.

[0019]

EXAMPLES The present invention will be described in more detail below with reference to examples.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram for explaining an embodiment of a used car information input support system to which the present invention is applied. The embodiment shown here is transmitted from a mobile phone 12 having a photographing function such as capable of taking a picture of a car and an e-mail transmitting function capable of transmitting an e-mail. A mailbox 13 for receiving an electronic mail, a client terminal registration means 14 for registering the information of the user of the system, a description content judgment means 15 for judging the information described in the electronic mail, a car handled by a used car dealer Related information, that is, the stock vehicle information registration means 16 for registering used car information already input by the user who inputs used car information, the basic information registration means 17 pre-registered by the system administrator, and the information not yet available to the user. It has an edit promotion means 18 for promoting the editing of the edited product information and an image information registration means 19 for registering the image information transmitted by the user.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining an electronic mail transmitted by a user in an embodiment of a used car information input support system to which the present invention is applied. Here, the e-mail to be sent is the image file 20 created by the user and attached to the e-mail, the user address input field 21 for inputting the user's e-mail address, and the destination address input field 22 for inputting the destination address of the e-mail. It has a subject name input field 23 for inputting the subject of the e-mail and a text description field 24 for writing the text of the mail.

In the used car information input support system configured as described above, first, the user takes a picture of the car using the photographing function of the mobile phone and creates an image to be transmitted to the product information server, A name is added to the created image file so that the type of car can be determined. Here, taking a picture of a car is sufficient if it is possible to create an image of the car, and if a car image can be created, it is not always necessary to use a mobile phone having a function of taking a picture of the car. It is needless to say that it is not necessary to take a picture of the car, and it is of course possible to create the car image by taking a picture of the car using a digital camera. Also, the name of the image file is sufficient if it can determine the type of car,
If it is possible to determine the vehicle type of the vehicle, it is not always necessary to attach the formal vehicle name of the photographed vehicle to the image file, and a part of the vehicle name, a common name, an abbreviation or the like may be attached. Furthermore, it suffices to send an e-mail to the product information server for sending the e-mail. If an e-mail can be sent to the product information server, a mobile phone having an e-mail sending function is not necessarily required. Needless to say, it is not necessary to send the electronic mail by using the electronic mail. For example, the electronic mail may be sent by using an electronic calculator or the like.

Next, as shown in FIG. 3, the image file is attached to the mail, the e-mail address of the user who inputs the used car information is input in the user address input field, and the product information server is input in the destination address input field. Enter the e-mail address to send the e-mail to, enter the subject of the e-mail in the subject input field, enter the body of the e-mail in the text entry field, and use the e-mail sending function of the mobile phone Send an email to. Here, it is possible to determine the vehicle type of the captured vehicle not only by the name of the image file described above, but also by the subject of the email entered in the subject input field or the text of the email described in the text entry field. Therefore, if it is possible to determine the vehicle type etc. by the subject entered in the subject input field or the text written in the text entry field, the name of the image file is a name unrelated to the name of the vehicle taken. It doesn't matter. That is, it suffices to be able to determine the vehicle type of the photographed vehicle based on any of the name of the image file, the subject of the email, and the body of the email.

Next, when the e-mail is received by the mailbox having the function of receiving the e-mail sent from the mobile phone and the e-mail is received by the mailbox, the e-mail address of the user who sent the e-mail is the client. It is determined whether or not it is registered in the terminal registration means. If the user's e-mail address is not registered as a result of determining whether it is registered in the client terminal registration means, the e-mail received in the mailbox is discarded and the user's e-mail address is registered. If so, the description content determination means determines the information described in the electronic mail. The information about the client terminal to be registered in the client terminal registration means is sufficient as long as it is possible to determine whether or not the registered client terminal is sending an e-mail. If it is possible to determine whether or not there is any, it is not necessary to limit to the e-mail address of the user who sent the above-described e-mail.

Whether or not the information described in the e-mail by the description content determination means, that is, the name of the image file with a name by which the vehicle type of the photographed vehicle can be determined is registered in the stock vehicle information registration means. If the image file name is registered in the inventory vehicle information registration means, the inventory vehicle information registered in the inventory vehicle information registration means is supplied to the mobile phone as unedited used vehicle information, and the editing promotion means Prompts the user to edit the unedited used car information. On the other hand, when the name of the image file is not registered in the stock car information registration means, the stock car information registered in the basic information registration means is supplied to the mobile phone as unedited used car information,
Prompt the user to edit unedited used car information by means of editing promotion.

Here, when the user accesses the product information server through the mobile phone after the unedited used car information has been supplied to the product information server, the image file attached to the e-mail sent by the user from the mobile phone is displayed. Unedited used car information as shown in FIG. 4 is displayed for “□□□”, which is the vehicle type name specified based on the name. Subsequently, the user compares the information of the used car for which information is input with the unedited used car information, appropriately edits the unedited used car information, and creates the used car information as shown in FIG.

When the user finishes the editing work and registers the used car information in the product information server, the edited used car information is registered in the stock car information registration means as needed for the purpose of supporting the used car information input in the future. . On the other hand, the image file is
Register in the image information registration means. When the used car information that has been edited is accessed and browsed by the product information server, the screens shown in FIGS. 6 and 7 can be browsed.

[0028]

As described above, according to the merchandise information input support method and merchandise information input support system to which the present invention is applied, it is possible to reduce the labor and time required for the work of inputting merchandise information, and at the same time, it is easy. It is possible to input product information in a format that conforms to a uniform format standardized in.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram for explaining an example of a product information input support system to which the present invention has been applied.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram for explaining an embodiment of a used car information input support system to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining an electronic mail transmitted by a user in an embodiment of a used car information input support system to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing unedited used car information in an embodiment of a used car information input support system to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing used car information obtained by editing the unedited used car information shown in FIG.

FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining a browsing screen when accessing a product server for used car information that has been edited.

FIG. 7 is another diagram for explaining a browsing screen when accessing a product server for used car information that has been edited.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 client terminal 2 Internet 3 product information server 4 E-mail sending means 5 Product information transmission means 6 store product registration means 7 Basic information registration means 8 E-mail receiving means 9 Content determination means 10 Unedited product information supply means 11 Editing promotion means 12 mobile phones 13 mailbox 14 Client terminal registration means 15 Content determination means 16 Stock vehicle information registration means 17 Basic information registration means 18 Editing promotion means 19 Image information registration means 20 image files 21 User address input field 22 Destination address input field 23 Subject input field 24 Text entry field

Claims (10)

[Claims] 1. A product information input support method for supporting input of product information by a client terminal and a product information server, wherein the client terminal transmits an electronic mail of a user who inputs product information via a communication line. The product information server comprises a step of determining whether or not the information described in the email transmitted from the client terminal is registered in the store product registration means of the product information server, and the result of the determination. , If the product information registered in the store product registration means, the product information registered in the store product registration means is supplied to the client terminal as unedited product information, and if not registered in the store product registration means, basic information registration The process of supplying the product information registered in the means to the client terminal as unedited product information, and the Product information input support method comprising the step of prompting the editing of the unedited product information supplied to the Ant terminal. 2. A product information input support method for supporting the input of product information by a product information server, comprising the step of receiving an electronic mail of a user who inputs product information transmitted from a client terminal via a communication line. A step of determining whether or not the information described in the e-mail is registered in the store product registration means of the product information server, and as a result of the determination, if the information is registered in the store product registration means, the store product The product information registered in the registration means is supplied to the client terminal as unedited product information, and when it is not registered in the store product registration means, the product information registered in the basic information registration means is edited as unedited product information in the client terminal. And a step of urging the user to edit the unedited product information supplied to the client terminal. Multi-address input support method. 3. The product information input support method according to claim 1, wherein an image file is attached to the electronic mail transmitted from the client terminal. 4. The product information server according to claim 1, wherein the product information server comprises a step of determining whether or not the client terminal that sends the electronic mail is registered in the client terminal registration means of the product information server. The product information input support method described in item 3. 5. The product information server comprises a step of registering the product information edited by the client terminal in a store product registration means of the product information server.
The product information input support method according to claim 2, claim 3, or claim 4. 6. A product information input support system for supporting input of product information by a client terminal and a product information server, wherein the client terminal transmits an electronic mail of a user who inputs product information via a communication line. E-mail sending means is provided, and the product information server determines whether or not the information described in the e-mail sent from the e-mail sending means of the client terminal is registered in the store product registration means of the product information server. As a result of the determination by the description content determination unit and the description content determination unit, when the product information is registered in the store product registration unit, the product information registered in the store product registration unit is supplied to the client terminal as unedited product information. , If the product information registered in the store product registration means is not registered, the product information registered in the basic information registration means is not edited. An unedited product information supply unit that supplies the client terminal as collection product information, and an edit promotion unit that prompts the user to edit the unedited product information supplied to the client terminal by the unedited product information supply unit. Product information input support system. 7. A product information input support system for supporting the input of product information by a product information server, which receives an electronic mail of a user who inputs product information transmitted from a client terminal via a communication line. The receiving means, the description content determining means for determining whether or not the information described in the email received by the email receiving means is registered in the store product registration means of the product information server, and the description content determining means As a result of the determination, when the product information is registered in the store product registration means, the product information registered in the store product registration means is supplied to the client terminal as unedited product information, and when the product information is not registered in the store product registration means. The product information registered in the basic information registration means is supplied to the client terminal as unedited product information. A product information input support system comprising: a supply unit; and an editing promotion unit that prompts a user to edit the unedited product information supplied to the client terminal by the unedited product information supply unit. 8. The product information input support system according to claim 6 or 7, wherein an image file is attached to the electronic mail transmitted from the client terminal. 9. The product information server according to claim 6, wherein the product information server includes a client terminal determination unit that determines whether or not the client terminal that sends the electronic mail is registered in the client terminal registration unit of the product information server.
Alternatively, the product information input support system according to claim 8. 10. The product information registration means for registering the product information edited by the client terminal in the shop product registration means of the product information server, as claimed in claim 6, claim 7, claim 8 or claim 10. The product information input support system according to claim 9.