Shopping support system and shopping support method
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakashi SUGIMOTO
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a shopping support system has a server and a store terminal. The server stores user identification information including information of a group capable of identifying the group to which the user belongs, and shopping memo information which is associated with the user identification information, and includes information of a commodity to be purchased by the user, in a storage device. The store terminal repeatedly acquires the shopping memo information which is associated with the information of the group capable of identifying the group to which the user in whom login has been permitted belongs, from the server at a periodic prescribed timing.
Claims10
A shopping support system that supports a first user and a second user who perform operations to purchase commodities for a first terminal and a second terminal, the shopping support system comprising:
- a server that manages shopping memo information including commodity information of commodities to be purchased by the first and the second users, and periodically transmits the shopping memo information to the first and second terminals, and the server including
- a storage device configured to store the shopping memo information, the shopping memo information that is permitted to be shared by the first and second users being associated with a first member ID of the first user and a second member ID of the second user;
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- a controller configured to, when the operation for purchasing the commodity which is coincident with the commodity included in the shared shopping memo information is received by either the first terminal or the second terminal, store the information indicating that the purchase of the coincident commodity is completed in the storage device in association with the commodity information of the purchased commodity included in the shared shopping memo information.
A shopping support method of a shopping support system which has a server that manages shopping memo information including commodity information of commodities to be purchased by the first user and the second user and periodically transmits the shopping memo information to the first and second terminals, and supports the first and second users who perform operations to purchase commodities for the first and second terminals, the shopping support method comprising:
- storing the shopping memo information, the shopping memo information that is permitted to be shared by the first and second users being associated with a first member ID of the first user and a second member ID of the second user;
- and
- when the operation for purchasing the commodity which is coincident with the commodity included in the shared shopping memo information is received by either the first terminal or the second terminal, storing the information indicating that the purchase of the coincident commodity is completed in the storage device in association with the information of the purchased commodity included in the shared shopping memo information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.