Proxy Purchase Routing for Cross-Border EC Import Compliance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic commerce (EC) sites face challenges in completing settlement and delivery abroad, hindering globalization due to language barriers and complex import restrictions, leading to reduced cross-border sales.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that assists EC provision abroad by sorting and displaying relevant articles on user terminals, providing multilingual support, categorizing content, and offering proxy purchasing through an assisting server to manage import restrictions and delivery methods.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If EC sites do not support foreign languages, then website development is simple and cost-effective, but accessibility to foreign users is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an assisting server as an intermediary between foreign users and domestic EC sites. This server translates user requests and presents results in the user's language without requiring the original EC site to support multiple languages, thus resolving the contradiction by adding language capability through a mediating component rather than modifying the original system
2Productivity
If EC sites enable delivery abroad, then cross-border sales increase, but delivery costs and import restrictions increase
Solution Approach 1:
The assisting server acts as a mediator that handles import restriction checks and delivery coordination. It presents only those products to foreign users that can be legally imported to their countries, and manages the delivery process through domestic addresses, thereby enabling cross-border sales while mitigating the harmful effects of import restrictions and high delivery costs
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary checks of import restrictions and delivery availability before presenting products to users. By pre-filtering products based on the user's destination country and checking import regulations in advance, the system prevents users from attempting to purchase restricted items, thereby reducing delivery costs and avoiding import issues before they occur
3Reliability
If EC sites filter products by import restrictions, then legal compliance improves, but user selection range decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by customizing the product catalog according to each user's specific location and import regulations. Instead of uniformly restricting all users to the same limited set of products, the system checks import restrictions specific to each user's country and presents an optimized catalog that includes all legally importable products for that specific user, thereby maintaining legal compliance while maximizing each user's selection range
Data Source
AI summary
Provided is a method for assisting provision of EC abroad by determining a country of a user who accessed a first webpage of an EC site, the first webpage associated with a certain article, and causing a button or a banner to be displayed for forwarding a web-browser of a user terminal of the user from the first webpage to a second webpage provided by a second server different from a first server providing the EC site, the second server operated by an operator assisting proxy purchase of one or more articles of the EC site. The second webpage is a page for notifying that the certain article is to be purchased, and the button or a banner is displayed on the first webpage when delivery to the determined country by the operator is available.