Information Processing Device for Real-Time Price Comparison
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Solution Overview
Problem
Consumers often purchase products without comparing prices across multiple stores, leading to potential dissatisfaction when they discover lower prices or additional value elsewhere.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus and program that receives input characters or strings, predicts related words based on input destination information, and generates display information showing product or service names along with their provision conditions, such as prices, to facilitate informed purchasing decisions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a purchaser directly purchases a product without comparison, then the purchasing process is simple and fast, but the purchaser may miss better prices or additional value
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically acquiring and storing product information from multiple stores before the purchaser needs it. When a purchaser views a product, the system has already gathered pricing and value information from various sources, ready for immediate comparison display, thus maintaining fast purchasing speed while preventing information loss.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention introduces an intermediary information processing system that acts as a mediator between the purchaser and multiple stores. This intermediary automatically collects, processes, and presents comparative product information from various stores without requiring the purchaser to manually visit each store, thus maintaining simplicity while providing comprehensive price comparison information.
2Loss of information
If a purchaser manually compares product information from multiple stores, then the purchaser can find better prices, but the purchasing process becomes complex and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges multiple information sources (product information from various stores) into a single unified presentation interface. Instead of requiring the purchaser to separately visit multiple store websites or applications, the system combines all relevant pricing and value information into one consolidated view, significantly reducing process complexity while maintaining comprehensive information availability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs the complex task of information gathering and comparison automatically without requiring purchaser intervention. The purchaser simply views the product information, and the system self-service handles acquiring data from multiple stores, processing comparisons, and presenting results, thus eliminating complexity from the purchaser's side while ensuring thorough information comparison.
3Loss of information
If product information from multiple stores is collected and compared, then the purchaser can make informed decisions, but information processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the essential and relevant information needed for comparison (such as price, product name, and key provision conditions) from multiple store sources, rather than processing all available data. This selective extraction approach maintains comprehensive product information while simplifying the processing complexity by focusing only on the most important comparison criteria.
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AI summary
An information processing device and a program are provided that enable a purchaser to compare provision conditions, such as the sales price of a product, in purchasing the product. The information processing device is provided with: a reception unit; a prediction unit; a specification unit; and an information generation unit. The reception unit is configured to receive a character or a character string, and input destination identification information. The input destination identification information makes it possible to identify an input destination of a character or a character string. The prediction unit is configured to predict, in accordance with the input destination information received by the reception unit, a word based on the character or character string received by the reception unit. The specification unit is configured to specify products or services related to the word. The information generation unit is configured to generate display information that displays the names of products or services as candidates of input character strings.