JP3273935B2 - Vehicle trading system and method - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a vehicle buying and selling system for providing information on a used car that can be sold by using a computer network accommodating a personal computer and a terminal that handles used cars.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Recently, the provision of used car information using the Internet has become popular.

(Prior Art 1) Examples of information service systems using the Internet include: Gazoo; Toyota Motor Corporation; Dolphinet; Gulliver International Inc., and the like. In the above, the used car sales company provides its stock vehicle information so that it can be referred to on the Web.
Go to the site, enter the desired conditions and search.

(Prior art 2) As an information service system using a private network such as a LAN, there is Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 54-127250. In this proposal, a dedicated terminal is placed at a used car dealer and information processing is entirely performed by the host.

(Prior Art 3) There is a system in which a plurality of affiliated companies cooperate to operate a used car information providing service system.

[0006]

However, according to the above-mentioned prior art 1, the service is operated by the company itself and only the stock of the company or the affiliated company is provided, and the site users are exclusively consumers (individuals). .

Further, in the above-mentioned prior art 2, it is difficult to completely abandon the sales management method that has been used up to now and to completely switch to the method disclosed in the above-mentioned gazette. Introducing systems that are expensive. Therefore, the above-mentioned conventional technology 2 is hardly adopted except for a form in which a single company places a terminal at each business office.

[0008] In the above-mentioned prior art 3, since the information system inside each business is completely independent,
Registering and updating stock information in this service is very troublesome (must be duplicated). It is not uncommon for inventory information to be registered or left alone, and it is difficult to maintain the quality (freshness) of the information.

[0009] All of the above prior arts are online used car information services limited to specific users such as used car dealers affiliated with or affiliated with each other, and used cars as used cars. The prior art has a problem to be solved in that since only vehicles put on the market are used for second-hand car transactions, it is difficult for a buyer who wants to sell and a buyer who wishes to buy or sell to match in a timely manner.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a vehicle buying and selling system which can easily realize an online used car information service which can be easily used by a used car dealer having no affiliate or affiliate.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a system and method for buying and selling vehicles that satisfy both buyers and sellers of used vehicles.

[0011]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the first aspect of the present invention, a plurality of clients for browsing and a server are connected to a publicly open communication network. In a vehicle trading system for providing a used car information for a used car that can be sold to the client, the server includes an input unit for inputting the used car information and the information of a desired sale condition to the server, wherein the server uses the input used car information. Car information and sale conditions
Means to store the information and the sales status of used cars
Determining means for determining whether or not the desired sale condition information is satisfied; and information for disclosing, to the client, used car information which has been determined if the determination result of the determining means is satisfied. Control means for performing processing .

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the vehicle trading system according to the first aspect, when the result of the determination by the determining means is satisfied, the vehicle owner of the used vehicle information subject to the determination is sent to the vehicle owner. A notification means for notifying that the determination result is satisfied is further provided.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a communication network open to the public, a client for a plurality of browsing,
A server is connected, wherein the server provides the client with used car information about a used car that can be sold to the client. In the vehicle buying and selling method of the vehicle buying and selling system, the server receives the input of the used car information and the desired sale condition information. , wherein the server, used car information and sales Nozomi, which is input
Stores the Nozomu condition information, when the trading activity of used cars in accordance with the instruction by the automatic or manual became determined repeatedly whether satisfying the sale desired condition information, the determination result is satisfactory, The method is characterized in that information processing is performed to make the used car information subject to the determination public to the client.

[0014]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a system configuration of a vehicle trading system according to this embodiment. In FIG. 1, a vehicle trading system includes a computer system (hereinafter referred to as a used car information center) 102 installed in a used car information center, a used car dealer client machine 110, an auction site client machine 111, and a desired car purchase request. Client machine 112, a vehicle data registrant (sale applicant) client machine 113, and a rental car leasing company client machine 114.

The used car information center 102 includes a public used car database (hereinafter abbreviated as DB) 103, a vehicle DB 104 to be disclosed, a database server 105, and a WWW (Wo).
rldWide Web) server 106, mail server 108,
It has an FTP server 109.

The communication network 101 is a publicly disclosed communication network, and in the present embodiment, the Internet is assumed.

The open used car DB 103 stores used car information, vehicle transaction price information, and the like traded at auction sites and used car dealers.

The disclosure-desired vehicle DB 104 stores and registers data on vehicle sale conditions from the vehicle owner (the vehicle data registrant and the rental car leasing company) that the vehicle may be sold.

In response to an inquiry from an external client machine of the used car information center 102, the database server 105 accesses the public used car DB 103 and the publicly available vehicle DB 104, processes data, and provides services to each client machine. I do.

The WWW server 106 provides a homepage providing service to an external client machine of the used car information center 102.

The mail server 108 receives an electronic mail transferred from an external client machine of the used car information center 102.

The FTP server 109 receives an FTP (File) from an external client machine of the used car information center 102.
The information file transferred by the Transfer Protocol is received.

A browser is mounted on the client machine described below, and the communication function of the browser, H
The used car information center 102 is accessed using the TML document analysis / display function.

Used car dealer client machine 11
0 uploads information on general purchase, general sales, and transactions between used car dealers to the used car information center 102 and receives various services from the used car information center 102.

Auction site client machine 1
Reference numeral 11 uploads transaction information at the auction site to the used car information center 102.

[0027] Used machine purchaser client machine 1
12 is a used car information center 10 for used cars to be purchased.
2 to receive various information services.

Vehicle data registrant client machine 1
Reference numeral 13 uploads vehicle sale condition information to the used car information center 102 and registers data, and receives various information services from the used car information center 102.

The rental car leasing company client machine 114 is a used car information center 1 for vehicle sales condition information.
02, and receive various information services from the used car information center 102.

All of the server machines and client machines have a communication device (not shown) such as a modem. Further, each of the server machines of the used car information center 102 is also connected to a printer (not shown).

In such a system configuration, in the present embodiment, the statistics of the price at the time when the sales contract of the used car is established are obtained, and the market price of the used car is determined. The used car sales applicant sets the sales conditions, for example, the desired sale price, in the used car information center 10.
If the price of the used car is registered and the desired selling price is conditionally satisfied, the used car information registered by the used car seller is disclosed to the public.

FIG. 2 shows the contents of information (hereinafter referred to as vehicle transaction price information) registered in the publicly used car DB 103.

The vehicle transaction price information includes vehicle information of each used car, transaction price information, and market price at the time when used car information traded at the auction site or used car dealer is uploaded to the used car information center 102. Use pricing information.
Further, in order to maintain the freshness of the information, the vehicle transaction price information is automatically deleted from the publicly used vehicle DB 103 after a certain period of time (6 months in the example of FIG. 2) has elapsed after the generation of the information.

In the example of FIG. 2, the transaction price information (item No.
10) is a sale price from a used car owner to a dealer, such as a successful bid price at an auction site, a trade-in / purchase price at a used car dealer, and the like. The market price information (item No. 11) is the transaction price information (item No. 1) of the vehicle having a common term (for example, items No. 1 to 4) in the used car information stored in the publicly used car DB 103.
0). However, the market price here is merely an example for convenience, and a known method may be used to calculate the market price.

FIG. 3 shows the contents of information (hereinafter referred to as vehicle sale condition information) registered in the vehicle DB 104 desired to be disclosed.

The vehicle sale condition information is obtained by uploading the information from the vehicle owner (vehicle data registrant or rental car leasing company) to the used car information center 102 and registering the vehicle information of each vehicle (FIG. 2). ), Images, sale conditions, and owner information. In order to maintain the freshness of the information, the vehicle sales condition information is transmitted to the vehicle database DB after a certain period of time (six months in the example of FIG. 3) after the information is generated.
It is assumed that the data is automatically deleted from the file 104.

In the example shown in FIG. 3, the vehicle sale condition information is not disclosed at the beginning when the vehicle sale condition information is registered in the used car information center 102. By setting options in the processing when the condition is satisfied (item No. 12 in FIG. 3), When the conditions are satisfied, the vehicle sales condition information is transferred to BBS (Bulletin B
oard System, electronic bulletin board) as vehicle sale information ・ When the conditions are met, the vehicle owner (sale applicant) notifies the vehicle owner of the fulfillment of the sale conditions while keeping the vehicle sale condition information private. Selectable.

Hereinafter, the processing content of the vehicle trading system will be described with reference to a flow chart.

(Vehicle Transaction Price Information Storing Process) In the flow chart of FIG. 5, used car information is uploaded from the used car dealer client machine 110 (or the auction site client machine 111) to the used car information center 102. The processing contents of the vehicle trading system at the time are shown.

Used car dealer client machine 11
0 (or auction site client machine 11)
For 1), the following used car information from the user: (1) Information on general purchase, general sales from the used car dealer client machine 110 and transactions between used car dealers (2) Auction site client The transaction information at the auction site from the machine 111 is input, and the used car information is used by the used car information center 102.
(Step S510). As a method of uploading at this time, a method of transmitting the used car information file by FTP or the like may be used.

In the used car information center 102, the database server 105 stores the uploaded used car information in the public used car DB 103 (step S52).
0).

At this time, the used car information is stored in a public used car DB.
When stored in the database server 103, the database server 10
5 is the transaction price for each used car from the above used car information,
Extract and arrange market prices. The vehicle transaction price information of FIG. 2 obtained at the time of organizing is stored in the publicly used vehicle DB 103 (step S530).

(Vehicle Sale Condition Information Storage Processing) The flow chart in FIG. 6 shows the vehicle sale condition from the vehicle data registrant client machine 113 (or the rental car leasing company client machine 114) to the used car information center 102. 4 shows the processing content of the vehicle trading system when information is uploaded.

Vehicle data registrant client machine 1
13 (or a rental car leasing client
The vehicle sale condition information of FIG. 3 is input from the user to the machine 114), and the vehicle sale condition information is uploaded to the used car information center 102 (step S610).
As a method of uploading at this time, a method of transmitting the file of the vehicle sale condition information by FTP or the like may be used.

At this time, the user selects and sets either "0; open to BBS" or "1; owner notification", which is an option of the process (item No. 12) when the condition is satisfied in FIG. can do.

In the used car information center 102, the database server 105 stores the uploaded vehicle sale condition information in the desired vehicle DB 104 (step S620). (Vehicle sale condition determination processing) The flowchart of FIG.
The processing contents of vehicle sale condition determination in the used car information center 102 are shown. The process illustrated in FIG. 7 is performed in the database server 105 at a fixed period (for example, once a day) or according to an instruction from an operator.

One vehicle sale condition information from the disclosure desired vehicle DB 104, for example, “data ID = 65432” in FIG.
1 "is extracted. Next, vehicle transaction price information having the vehicle information closest to the vehicle information of "data ID = 654321" (items Nos. 1 to 9 in FIG. 3) is searched for publicly used vehicle DB 103 (step S710). .

In step S720, vehicle transaction price information of the corresponding vehicle information, for example, "data ID = 12" in FIG.
If “3456” exists, the process proceeds to step S730.
If the vehicle transaction price information of the corresponding vehicle information cannot be searched, for example, if there is no vehicle of the same type or the same type, step S
Returning to 710, similar processing is performed for the next vehicle sale condition information.

In step 730, the vehicle sale condition information to be processed is compared with the retrieved vehicle transaction price information to determine the sale condition. For example,

[0050]

(Equation 1) In the case of, it is determined that the sale conditions are satisfied.
If the sale condition is satisfied, the procedure proceeds to step S74.
If the selling condition is not satisfied, the procedure returns to step S710, and the same processing is performed for the next vehicle selling condition information.

In step S740, it is determined whether the vehicle sale condition information that satisfies the sale condition is disclosed or not disclosed to the BBS. Processing at the time of sale completion (item NO.
If 12) is “0; open to BBS”, the procedure proceeds to step S750, and if “1; notify owner”, the procedure proceeds to step S760.

In step S750, the vehicle sale condition information is made public to the BBS as vehicle sale information.

For example, “data ID = 65432” in FIG.
When the vehicle sale condition information of "1" is made public, vehicle sale information is created from the information extracted from FIG. 3 and the information is made public to the BBS in a form as shown in FIG. Here, in order to maintain the freshness of the information, the disclosure of the BBS is automatically deleted from the BBS after a certain period of time (6 months in the example of FIG. 4) has elapsed after the release of the vehicle sale information.

In this case, the used car dealer uses the used car dealer client machine 110, and the used car buyer wants to buy the used car client machine 11.
2 allows the vehicle sale information disclosed to the BBS to be viewed and accessed by the owner.

In step S760, a document to the effect that the sale conditions have been established is notified to the vehicle owner of the used car information by e-mail via a communication device such as a modem, with the vehicle sale condition information kept private.

Accordingly, the vehicle owner who has received the above notification performs the processing when the condition shown in FIG. 3 is satisfied (item NO. 12).
Is set to "0; Publish to BBS", the vehicle sale condition upload is performed again in step S610 in FIG. 6 described above, and the vehicle sale condition information is disclosed to the BBS as vehicle sale information, or the used vehicle is uploaded. Bringing the vehicle you want to sell directly to the dealer will enable you to sell it to used car prices in a timely manner.

Finally, in step S770, if the processing of all vehicle sale condition information has been completed, the processing is terminated. If not completed, the process returns to step S710, and the same processing is performed for the next vehicle sale condition information. Perform processing.

The following embodiment can be carried out in addition to the above embodiment. 1) In the above embodiment, the information file is transferred to the used car information center 102 by uploading the information file by FTP. However, as other information transfer methods, transmission of an e-mail with an information file attached thereto, transmission of an e-mail with information described in a predetermined format, WW
There are other methods for transmitting information using the HTML form function in cooperation with the W server 106.

2) In the above-described embodiment, in step S760 of FIG. 7, the vehicle owner of the used car information is notified of the establishment of the sale condition by e-mail while keeping the vehicle sale condition information private. There is also a way to notify by voice mail.

3) In the above-described embodiment, in step S760 of FIG. 7, the vehicle owner of the used car information is notified of the establishment of the sale condition by e-mail while keeping the vehicle sale condition information private. However, as an off-line notification means, a document indicating that the sales conditions have been printed out by the printer of the used car information center 102 may be sent by mail to the owner of the used car information to be notified. As another off-line notifying means, there is a method of notifying a vehicle owner of used car information by mail of a recording medium such as a floppy disk in which data indicating the status of establishment of sale conditions is recorded.

4) In the above embodiment, when the sale conditions are not satisfied in step S730 of FIG. 7, a notice that the sale conditions are inappropriate for the market price may be sent to the vehicle owner. .

5) In the above-described embodiment, the sale price of a used car at an auction or the like is obtained as information indicating the environment for buying and selling a used car, and the obtained market price of the used car and the sale of a used car seller are obtained. The conditions are compared. As the used car market price (sales price), the selling price of a used car published in a specific magazine or the average of the selling prices of used cars published in a plurality of magazines may be used.

6) In the above embodiment, the used car information and the sale conditions are input from the client, but may be input from the keyboard on the server side, or may be transferred off-line from a floppy disk or the like.

7) In the above embodiment, the public used car DB
Used vehicle information, vehicle transaction price information, and the like are stored in 103, and vehicle sale condition information is stored and registered in the disclosed vehicle DB 104. However, the functions of the above two DBs are
One of made to have the DB, the function of the public used cars DB by to switch by the flag and the public wish vehicle DB
Function may be used properly.

[0065] Although various modifications are possible other than the embodiments described, the deformation, as long as in line with the technical idea described in the scope of the patent claims, is that variations of the present technique In range.

[0066]

As described above, according to the present invention, a system for easily realizing an online used car information service that is easy to participate even for a used car dealer without affiliates or alliances is limited to a specific user. It is a system that can seamlessly provide services, and in particular, incorporates information on in-service vehicles that have the potential of used vehicles.

For this reason, both the side that wants to sell a used car and the side that wants to buy a used car can be satisfied, and it is easy to timely match the wishes for buying and selling, providing information as an expanded used car market with high freshness of information. It becomes possible.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration of a vehicle trading system according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of vehicle transaction price information according to the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of vehicle sale condition information according to the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of disclosing vehicle sales information on a BBS according to the embodiment;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating the processing content of used car information uploaded to a used car information center 102 according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating the processing content of vehicle sale condition information uploaded to a used car information center 102 according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating a process of determining a vehicle sale condition in a used car information center 102 according to the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 101 Communication network 102 Used car information center 103 Public used car DB 104 Public vehicle DB 105 Database server 106 WWW server 108 Mail server 109 FTP server 110 Used car dealer client machine 111 Auction site client machine 112 Used car purchase Applicant client machine 113 Vehicle data registrant client machine 114 Car rental / lease company client machine

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] Claims 1. A publicly available communication network includes:
In a vehicle trading system in which a client and a server connected to a plurality of browsing are provided, and the server provides used client information on a used car that can be sold to the client, the server uses the used car information and desired sale condition information. The server comprises: a storage unit for storing the input used car information and the desired sale condition information; and a determination as to whether or not the sales status of the used car satisfies the desired sale condition information. A determining means for determining, and when the determination result of the determining means is satisfied, the used car information as a determination target is disclosed to the client.
And a control means for performing information processing for carrying out the processing . 2. In the vehicle trading system according to claim 1, when the determination result of the determination means is satisfied, the determination result is satisfied with the vehicle owner of the used car information that has been determined. A vehicle trading system, further comprising a notifying means for notifying that the vehicle has become unavailable. 3. A communication network that is open to the public,
In a vehicle buying and selling method of a vehicle buying and selling system, wherein a client provided for a plurality of browsing and a server are connected, and the server provides used client information on a sellable used car to the client, wherein the server has the used car information and accepting an input of sale desired condition information, the server stores the used car information is inputted and sold desired conditions information advance, trading activity used car in accordance with the instruction by the automatic or manual the sale desired condition information It is repeatedly determined whether or not the vehicle is satisfied. If the result of the determination is satisfied , information for disclosing the used car information subject to the determination to the client is provided.
A vehicle trading method for a vehicle trading system, which performs a reporting process .