E-commerce system and method

Abstract

In an e-commerce system which rearranges merchandise information pieces distributed to a consumer to match preferences of the consumer based on a personal profile with which various keywords contained in the merchandise information pieces and evaluation values corresponding to the keywords are registered where the evaluation values are learned in advance based on preferences of the consumer, while withdrawing a charge of merchandise from an account designated by the consumer to pay to the seller when receiving an order from the rearranged merchandise information pieces, an order for merchandise from the merchandise information pieces distributed to one consumer is placed using the personal profile of another consumer.

1 . A consumer terminal, comprising: 
 a storage section that stores a personal profile in which various keywords contained in merchandise information distributed from a merchandise information server and evaluation values corresponding to the keywords are registered, the evaluation values being learned in advance based on a preference of a consumer; and    an information filtering section that ranks the distributed merchandise information distributed from the merchandise information server to match the preference of the consumer, based on the personal profile,    the consumer terminal being configured to transfer distributed merchandise information to an information filtering section of another consumer terminal, and place an order for merchandise using merchandise information transferred to the other consumer terminal and ranked by the other consumer terminal using a personal profile stored in a storage section of the other consumer terminal.    
     
     
         2 . The consumer terminal according to  claim 1 , further comprising a querying section that queries whether the utilization of the personal profile stored in the storage section of the other consumer terminal is permitted, wherein the merchandise information distributed is transferred to the information filtering section of the other consumer terminal when the utilization of the personal profile stored in the storage section of the other consumer terminal is permitted.  
     
     
         3 . The consumer terminal according to  claim 1 , wherein the consumer terminal is configured to allow a consumer that uses the terminal to designate a consumer who uses the other consumer terminal  
     
     
         4 . The consumer terminal according to  claim 3 , wherein the consumer who uses the other consumer terminal is a celebrity.  
     
     
         5 . An e-commerce method for distributing merchandise information provided from a seller to a plurality of consumers and receiving an order for merchandise from a consumer, comprising: 
 distributing merchandise information provided from a seller to a consumer terminal;    storing, in a first consumer terminal, a personal profile in which various keywords contained in merchandise information and evaluation values corresponding to the keywords are registered, the evaluation values being learned in advance based on a preference of a consumer;    ranking, by the first consumer terminal, the distributed merchandise information to match a preference of the consumer based on the personal profile;    transferring distributed merchandise information from the first consumer terminal to a second consumer terminal;    ranking, by the second consumer terminal, the transferred distributed merchandise information based on a personal profile stored in the second consumer terminal;    placing an order, by the first consumer terminal, for merchandise using the merchandise information ranked by the second consumer terminal; and    withdrawing a charge of merchandise from an account designated by the consumer to pay to a seller when receiving an order for merchandise from the first consumer terminal,    
     
     
         6 . The e-commerce method according to  claim 5 , further comprising: 
 querying, by the first consumer terminal, whether the personal profile stored in the second consumer terminal is permitted to be utilized, and    transferring the merchandise information distributed to the first consumer terminal to the second consumer terminal when the personal profile stored in the second consumer terminal is permitted to be utilized.    
     
     
         7 . The e-commerce method according to  claim 6 , further comprising: 
 providing notification of the permission when the personal profile stored in the second consumer terminal is permitted to be utilized, withdrawing a utilization charge from the account designated by the consumer using the first consumer terminal, and paying the utilization charge to another consumer who uses the second consumer terminal and provides the personal profile stored in the second terminal.    
     
     
         8 . The e-commerce method according to  claim 5 , further comprising: 
 designating, by a user of the first consumer terminal, a consumer who uses the second consumer terminal.    
     
     
         9 . The e-commerce method according to  claim 8 , wherein the consumer who uses the second consumer terminal is a celebrity.