Storage medium for storing a program for executing the product purchasing method, and a server used therefor
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorShunichi Mukai
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Abstract
A product purchase system using a network comprises a server 2 connected to a network 1, a database 5 included in the server 2 for storing order sheet data for each user, means connected to the network 1 for updating the order sheet data via the network 1, means for inhibiting the updating of the order sheet data after a predetermined date, means for aggregating the order sheet data of all users by summing up the quantities of ordered products for each type of the ordered products to obtain aggregated data after the predetermined date, and means for fixing, as order data, the order sheet data for each user and the aggregated data after the predetermined date.
Claims8
A computer-readable storage medium on which a program for executing a product purchase method using a computer network is stored, said program when executed by a computing device performs the steps of:
- updating, via said computer network, order sheet data stored in a database included in a server, wherein said order sheet data is order sheet data for each buyer;
- inhibiting the updating of said order sheet data after a predetermined date, wherein, until said predetermined date is reached, said order sheet data for each buyer is able to be corrected by respective buyers at any time via said computer network;
- aggregating said order sheet data of each buyer by summing up quantities of ordered products of all users to obtain aggregated data after said predetermined date;
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- fixing, as order data, said order sheet data for each buyer and said aggregated data after said predetermined date, wherein said ordered products are delivered to the respective buyers based on said order sheet data, wherein delivery confirmation data is stored in the database as information corresponding to the order sheet data for each buyer when buyers confirm deliver of said ordered products.
The computer-readable storage medium according to wherein said aggregating of said order sheet data of each buyer occurs by summing up the quantities of ordered products for each type of order products.
A server used for purchasing products via a computer network comprising:
- a database for storing order sheet data for each buyer;
- means, connected to said computer network, for updating said order sheet data via said computer network, wherein said order sheet data is order sheet data for each buyer;
- means for inhibiting the updating of said order sheet data after a predetermined date, wherein, until said predetermined date is reached, said order sheet data for each buyer is able to be corrected by respective buyers at any time via said computer network;
- means for aggregating said order sheet data of all users by summing up the quantities of ordered products for each type of the ordered products to obtain aggregated data after said predetermined date;
- means for fixing, as order data, said order sheet data for each buyer and said aggregated data after said predetermined date;
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- means for ordering products based on said fixed order sheet data, wherein said ordered products are delivered to the respective buyers based on said order sheet data, wherein delivery confirmation data is stored in the database as information corresponding to the order sheet data for each buyer when buyers confirm deliver of said ordered products.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.