Fashion Database Control for Clothing Rental and Disposal Timing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems for managing seasonal clothes, such as clothing rental and recycling, do not allow users to conveniently manage and make decisions about their unused clothes at desired timings, leading to space constraints and potential regret in disposal choices.
Innovation Solution
A fashion database system that includes a database managing user, merchant, and third-party information, with rental, transaction, and donation processing capabilities, allowing users to update availability information and process requests through a management server, and includes features for image recognition and advertisement based on user preferences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If clothes are kept at home for potential future use, then the user can wear them again, but room space becomes tight and storage becomes problematic
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a third-party intermediary service (clothing storage and management service) that mediates between the user's need to keep clothes and the space constraint. The service provider stores clothes in their facility, freeing up user space while maintaining the option to retrieve and wear clothes later. This resolves the contradiction by transferring the storage function to an external intermediary.
2Area of stationary object
If clothes are disposed of immediately to free space, then room space is freed up, but the user may regret the decision and want to wear them again
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by requiring users to declare their disposal intent in advance rather than disposing immediately. The system provides a grace period during which users can reconsider and withdraw their disposal declaration. This preliminary declaration phase allows users to commit to disposal while retaining an escape route, reducing regret while maintaining space benefits.
3Ease of operation
If a grace period is provided for disposal decisions, then users can change their minds, but the clothes occupy space during this period
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the intermediary principle by having third-party storage facilities hold clothes during the grace period instead of requiring user home storage. The intermediary service absorbs the temporary space burden, allowing users to enjoy the flexibility of a grace period without sacrificing their own storage space.
4Productivity
If third parties can rent or purchase clothes directly, then transaction efficiency increases, but users need to make immediate decisions without flexibility
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by separating the disposal declaration phase from the actual transaction execution. Users first declare their intent to dispose, which triggers the grace period and makes clothes available for third-party transactions. However, the actual sale or rental only completes if the user doesn't withdraw their declaration within the grace period. This preliminary declaration enables transaction efficiency while preserving user flexibility through the withdrawal option.
Data Source
AI summary
A fashion database system includes a database that manages information on a merchant that keeps and manages clothes, information on a user who leaves clothes with the merchant, rental availability information indicating whether the clothes left by the user can be lent to a third party, and transaction availability information indicating whether the clothes can be sold to a third party, and a management server that mutually communicates with the database. The management server processes, on the basis of the rental availability information stored in the database, a rental request from a third party who wishes to rent the clothes left by the user; processes a purchase request from a third party who wishes to purchase the clothes left by the user; and updates the information stored in the database in response to a change request to the rental availability information or the transaction availability information from the user.