Review Management Device Delivery Verification

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing product review mechanisms allow users to write reviews before receiving products, leading to unreliable reviews based on guesswork, as users have not actually used the products.

Innovation Solution

A review management system that specifies the access user and target product, determines the delivery status of the product, and permits review writing only after the product has been received, while restricting writing until then.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If users are allowed to write reviews before receiving products, then the ease of operation is improved, but the reliability of reviews deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of review writingVSAvoidreliability of product reviews
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary verification of product delivery status before enabling the review writing function. The determination unit checks whether the product has been delivered to the user, and only after this preliminary action is completed does the writing control unit permit review writing. This ensures that users have actually received and can evaluate the product before writing reviews.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If review writing is restricted until product receipt, then the reliability of reviews is improved, but the ease of operation deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereliability of product reviewsVSAvoidease of review writing
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically performs the delivery status verification without requiring manual intervention from users. The determination unit autonomously checks the delivery status by comparing the current date with the scheduled delivery date, and the writing control unit automatically enables or disables the review writing function based on this verification. This self-service mechanism maintains ease of operation while ensuring reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS10867305B2Review management device, review management method, and review management program
Publication Date: 2020.12.15 RAKUTEN GROUP INC
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AI summary

A review management device according to one embodiment includes a specifying unit, a determination unit and a writing control unit. The specifying unit specifies an access user and a target product for a product review based on a request from a user terminal. The determination unit acquires a delivery status of products purchased by users on a web site and determines whether the access user has received the target product purchased on the web site. The writing control unit permits writing of a review on the target product by the access user after it is determined that the access user has received the target product, and restricts writing of a review on the target product by the access user when it is determined that the access user has not received the target product.