Product Search Server Cross-Shop Comparison Mechanism
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Solution Overview
Problem
In virtual shopping malls, users face difficulties in determining the best sales conditions for a product across multiple shops, leading to hesitation in purchase decisions due to the need to manually compare prices and conditions across different shops.
Innovation Solution
A product search support server that extracts and transmits product specifying information to users, allowing them to easily compare sales conditions across multiple shops, including price, delivery time, and user preferences, by integrating a receiving unit, extraction unit, and transmitting unit to facilitate informed purchasing decisions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If users manually search for product pages of multiple shops to compare sales conditions, then they can find advantageous deals, but it takes time and effort
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a product search support server as an intermediary between users and multiple shop product pages. The server automatically extracts product specifying information from the currently displayed product page and performs searches across multiple shops, returning comparison results to the user. This eliminates the need for users to manually visit multiple product pages, thereby reducing time and effort while ensuring complete information retrieval.
2Speed
If users access product pages directly through search engines or links, then they can reach specific products quickly, but they cannot determine whether the sales conditions are advantageous compared to other shops
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by automatically extracting product specifying information and performing cross-shop searches immediately when a user views a product page, before the user needs to make a purchasing decision. The system proactively retrieves and presents comparative sales condition information from multiple shops, so users don't need to manually initiate comparison searches afterward. This maintains the quick access benefit while adding automated comparison functionality.
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AI summary
A product search support server that is connected to communicate with a terminal of a user and provides product pages of a plurality of shops selling a same product includes a receiving unit to receive a display request of a product page of one shop from the terminal, an extraction unit to extract product specifying information for uniquely specifying a product on sale on the product page of the one shop from a product information storage unit that stores one or more product information containing shop information indicating a shop and information indicating a product on sale in the shop, and a transmitting unit to transmit search-related information related to search for the one or more product information using the product specifying information to the terminal.