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Rental service server and rental service system

A server and product technology, applied in the fields of instruments, payment architecture, buying and selling/lease transactions, etc., can solve the problems of inability to arouse users' potential interest in renting products, insufficient and other problems

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-04-26
NEC CORP
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[0014] However, these existing technologies cannot arouse users' potential interest in rental products
[0015] That is, when a user searches for rental products, these existing technologies are not suitable for narrowing down rental products to products to watch or finding rental products in new ways based on insufficient information

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[0047] The following will refer to Figures 1 to 7 The configuration according to the first embodiment of the present invention will be described.

[0048] like figure 1 As shown, the rental service system according to the first embodiment of the present invention includes: user portable terminals 10 (10-1 to 10-n), rental service server 20, rental products 30, RF-ID tags (radio frequency identification system: also available called a radio tag) 31 , a 2D code 32 and a communication line 40 .

[0049] [User portable terminal 10]

[0050] The user portable terminal 10 is an information processing device used by a user, and may be, for example, a cellular phone, a personal computer, a PDA, or a PHS. The first embodiment assumes that a cellular phone is used as the user portable terminal 10 .

[0051] like figure 2 As shown, the user portable terminal 10 includes: rental reservation unit 11, radio transmission / reception unit 12, mail unit 13, camera unit 14, code analysis u...

no. 2 example

[0177] refer to Figure 8 A second embodiment of the present invention will be described.

[0178] The difference between the second embodiment and the first embodiment is that when the rental service server 20 sends the search result to the user portable terminal 10, it calculates the fee information including the discount of the rental product found and sends the fee information to the user's portable terminal 10. More specifically, in addition to image 3 In addition to the configuration of the rental service server 20 in the first embodiment shown, the rental service server 20 in the second embodiment includes a log DB 20m and a fee output unit 20n. The rest of the configuration is the same as in the first embodiment.

[0179] [log DB20m]

[0180] The log DB 20m is a storage unit (log information storage unit) that stores rental log information. The log DB 20m can hold product codes, renter's member IDs, rental periods (start date and end date), and the like. Data ca...

no. 3 example

[0187] refer to Figure 9 A third embodiment of the present invention will be described.

[0188] The third embodiment differs from the second embodiment in that it is possible to reserve a rental of a product that has not yet arrived or has not yet been released. More specifically, the rental service server 20 in the third embodiment includes a non-arrival DB 20o and an arrival registration unit 2Op in addition to the configuration of the second embodiment. The rest of the configuration is the same as in the second embodiment.

[0189] [Not in stock DB20o]

[0190] The non-arrival DB 20o is a storage unit that stores rental products that are not stored in the product DB 20b because they have not yet arrived or have not yet been issued. For example, data items in the non-arrival DB 20o are all or some types of product information described in the description of the product DB 20b and the member ID of the rental applicant.

[0191] [arrival registration unit 20p]

[0192] ...

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Abstract

A rental service server includes a storage unit and a search unit. The storage unit stores rental product information including rental product identification information and at least one feature information, rental information including information indicating whether the rental product has been rented, and reservation information including information indicating whether the rental product has been reserved. The search unit receives at least a part of the rental product identification information and the rental product feature information from at least one user terminal as search conditions, searches the storage unit according to the search conditions, specifies the corresponding rental product information and at least one of rental information and reservation information, and The specified rental product information and rental status information of the rental products are output to the user terminal. Also disclosed is a rental service system.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a rental service server and a rental service system capable of improving user-friendliness in rental services of video tapes, CDs, DVDs, and the like. Background technique [0002] Conventionally, when a user wishes to rent a product from a rental store, he visits the rental store, selects a product to be viewed from available products such as video tapes, CDs, and DVDs, and rents the selected product. [0003] When all the products desired by the user have been rented or cannot be traded, the user must visit a plurality of rental shops and search in order to rent the target product, or give up viewing. [0004] In recent years, some rental shops have provided a service of requesting a product to be rented on a website, issuing and returning the product by mail. By visiting the online rental store, the user can easily confirm the presence / absence of the product to be rented without actually visiting the store and searc...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G06Q20/00G06Q20/06G06Q30/06G06Q50/00
CPCG06Q10/02G06Q30/0645G06F16/951
Inventor 木村努
Owner NEC CORP