Patent Application
20140358712
The present disclosure relates to guide systems, and particularly to a shopping guide system, a shopping guide management device, and a method thereof.
Nowadays, in order to enhance awareness of a product, the seller of the product usually advertises the product in a number of ways. A type of advertisement is to deliver leaflet via salesperson. However, such a way of advertisement usually does not achieve a good effect.
Many aspects of the present disclosure are better understood with reference to the following drawings. The components in the drawings are not necessarily drawn to scale, the emphasis instead being placed upon clearly illustrating the principles of the present disclosure.
Moreover, in the drawings, like reference numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the views.
The disclosure is illustrated by way of example and not by way of limitation in the figures of the accompanying drawings in which like references indicate similar elements. It should be noted that references to “an” or “one” embodiment in this disclosure are not necessarily to the same embodiment, and such references mean “at least one.” The references “a plurality of” and “a number of” mean “at least two.”
Embodiments of the present disclosure will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
The communication unit 20 is used to communicate with at least one portable device 200, such as a mobile phone, or a tablet computer of a consumer.
The storage unit 30 stores a shopping guide system 3. The shopping guide system 3 can include a number of modules, which are a collection of software instructions and are executed by the processing unit 10 of the device 100. The modules include a transmission module 310, and an association module 320. In the embodiment, the storage unit 30 can be a hard disk, a compact disk, a flash memory, for example. The processing unit 10 can be a central processing unit, a digital signal processor, or a single chip.
The transmission module 310 can transmit a shopping guide information to the portable device 200 via the communication unit 20 in response to a request of the portable device 200. In the embodiment, the portable device 200 includes a scanning unit 210, the portable device 200 produces the request in response to a user operation of scanning an application scan code corresponding to the shopping guide information by using the scanning unit 210. In the embodiment, the shopping guide information can be a shopping guide application. The application scan code includes an identification code (ID) of a salesperson and can be a two-dimension code or a bar code, the scanning unit 210 can be a scanner or software installed in the portable device 200.
In the embodiment, the application scan code further includes a download address of the shopping guide application, thus the request produced by the portable device 200 also includes the download address of the shopping guide application. The transmission module 310 can obtain the shopping guide application according to the download address of the shopping guide application, and then transmit the shopping guide application to the portable device 200.
For example,
The association module 320 is used to associate a current purchase record of the consumer with the ID of the salesperson when the consumer makes an online purchase via the shopping guide application.
In the embodiment, the shopping guide system 3 further includes a register module 330, the register module 330 is used to obtain an account input by the consumer. In the embodiment, the register module 330 obtains the account when the consumer requests to register in the shopping guide application. In another embodiment, the register module 330 obtains the account when the consumer logins the shopping guide application via the account. The consumer can make the online purchase via the shopping guide application after logging in the shopping guide application.
In the embodiment, the consumer can install the shopping guide application on the portable device 200 when receiving the shopping guide application transmitted by the transmission module 310. The consumer then can input the registered account via an input interface (not shown) provided by the installed shopping guide application via the portable device 200, and then the registered account can be transmitted to the register module 330 via the portable device.
In the embodiment, the association module 320 further associates the account of the consumer with the ID of the salesperson when the consumer makes the online purchase. Therefore, it is easily to obtain a relationship between the salesperson and the consumer, namely, which consumer makes the online purchase can be obtained. In another embodiment, the association module 320 further associates purchase records with the ID of the salesperson after associating the account of the consumer with the ID of the salesperson.
In the embodiment, the association module 320 associates the purchase record of the consumer with the ID of the salesperson when the consumer makes a first online purchase via the shopping guide application. In another embodiment, after the consumer is registered in the shopping guide application for a predetermined time, such as, 1 hour after registering, the association module 320 associates a purchase record of the consumer with the ID of the salesperson when the consumer makes the online purchase via the shopping guide application.
In the embodiment, the terminal device 400 has communication function and can be taken as an access point (AP). Then the portable device 200 can search the AP and communicate with network, such as internet, or the shopping guide management device 100 via the AP.
In the embodiment, the terminal device 400 further can display product information when the salesperson introduces the corresponding product to the consumers in any place, such as a shop, an avenue, or a park. The product information can include a picture and a brief introduction of the product.
In the embodiment, the terminal device 400 further can display a product scan code, and the consumer can obtain detail information of the product by scanning the product scan code via the portable device 200. In detail, the product scan code includes a website address of a website about the product, the portable device 200 can access to the website about the product via the website address and obtain the detail information of the product.
In a second embodiment, the shopping guide information can be the website address of the website about the product. Accordingly, in the second embodiment, the application scan code includes the ID of the salesperson and the website address of the website about the product, thus the transmission module 310 obtains the website address and transmits the website address to the portable device 20 via the communication unit 20 in response to the request of the portable device 200 produced by scanning the application scan code.
In a second embodiment, the association module 320 associates the purchase record of the consumer with the ID of the salesperson when the consumer makes an online purchase via the website.
The register module 330 obtains an account input by the consumer when the consumer requests to register in the website or when the consumer logins the website via the account. As usually, the consumer can make the online purchase via the website after logging in the website.
In the second embodiment, the association module 320 also associates the account of the consumer with the ID of the salesperson when the consumer makes the online purchase via the website.
Similarly, in the second embodiment, the applicant scan code can be pre-stored in the terminal device 400, or can be produced according to the ID of the salesperson and the website address of the website when the salesperson executes the share operation.
In 303, the transmission module transmits a shopping guide information to the portable device in response to a request of the portable device produced by scanning the application scan code. The shopping guide information can be the shopping guide application or the website address of the website about the product.
In 305, the association module associates a current purchase record of the consumer with the ID of the salesperson when the consumer makes an online purchase via the shopping guide information, such as the shopping guide application or the website.
In the embodiment, the method further includes: the register module obtains an account input by the consumer via the shopping guide application or the website, and associates the account of the consumer with the ID of the salesperson when the consumer makes an online purchase via the shopping guide application or the website.
It is believed that the present embodiments and their advantages will be understood from the foregoing description, and it will be apparent that various changes may be made thereto without departing from the spirit and scope of the disclosure or sacrificing all of its material advantages, the examples hereinbefore described merely being exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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| 201310211389X | May 2013 | CN | national |
| 2014102142308 | May 2014 | CN | national |
