Delivery Option Selection Using Packaging Compatibility and Rewards

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing information processing systems for product delivery lack improvements in convenience, particularly in determining optimal packaging forms and delivery modes that offer rewards to users.

Innovation Solution

An information processing system that includes processors to determine packaging forms and compatibility with reward delivery modes, registering delivery histories, and selecting delivery mode candidates based on packaging form compatibility, thereby offering reward delivery options when compatible.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the system determines packaging form compatibility and offers reward delivery modes, then user convenience is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser convenienceVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary determination of packaging form compatibility before presenting delivery mode options to the user. The packaging form determination unit assesses whether the product's packaging is suitable for reward delivery modes in advance, and the delivery mode candidates determination unit pre-evaluates which reward delivery modes are compatible. This preliminary action ensures that only appropriate reward delivery modes are presented to the user, improving convenience while managing system complexity through structured pre-processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If the system registers delivery history and determines packaging form compatibility, then reliability is improved, but data capacity requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovereliabilityVSAvoiddata capacity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and stores only the essential delivery history data required for determining packaging form compatibility, rather than storing all possible delivery information. The registration unit captures key parameters such as product ID, delivery mode, and packaging form characteristics, which are then used by the packaging form determination unit to assess compatibility with reward delivery modes. This selective extraction maintains reliability for compatibility determination while minimizing data capacity requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Adaptability or versatility

If the system provides multiple delivery mode candidates including reward delivery mode, then adaptability is improved, but ease of operation worsens due to more options

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveadaptabilityVSAvoidease of operation
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies local quality by providing different levels of information presentation based on product characteristics. For products with packaging forms compatible with reward delivery modes, the system presents the reward delivery mode as a specific, highlighted option among delivery mode candidates. For incompatible products, the reward delivery mode is not presented. This localized adaptation to product-specific packaging characteristics maintains adaptability while simplifying the user's decision-making process by showing only relevant options.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS20260057334A1Information processing system, information processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing program code
Publication Date: 2026.02.26 RAKUTEN GROUP INC
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AI summary

An information processing system includes one or more memories configured to store program code and one or more processors. The program code includes product acquisition code configured to cause at least one of the one or more processors to acquire, from a user terminal device, user-selected product data indicating a user-selected product selected as a purchase candidate by a user, packaging form determination code configured to cause the processor to determine a packaging form of the user-selected product, candidates determination code configured to cause the processor to determine whether to include a reward delivery mode in delivery mode candidates for the user-selected product, and registration code configured to cause the processor to register a delivery history of the user-selected product including a delivery mode of the user-selected product.