US 12,293,385 B2
Information processing apparatus and information processing method
Yumiko Okuma, Tokyo (JP); Mayuko Tsunoda, Yokohama Kanagawa (JP); and Hikaru Komiyama, Yokohama Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 10, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/152,556.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-101631 (JP), filed on Jun. 24, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0419361 A1, Dec. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/0251 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 30/0251 (2013.01) 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A shopping note support system, comprising:
a mobile terminal that registers information of a purchased product;
a payment terminal that performs payment processing on a basis of the registered information of a purchased product; and
a server apparatus that is communicably connected to the mobile terminal and the payment terminal via a network and controls an operation of the entire system,
the mobile terminal including
a display device that displays information for supporting shopping of products, a display screen for displaying the information having a first display region and a second display region,
a first storage device that stores data regarding shopping of products, the data including data of a flyer containing pieces of information of products sold in a store and data of a shopping note for purchasing a product, and
a first controller configured to
display the flyer in the first display region of the display device on a basis of the data of the flyer stored in the storage device,
generate a product list containing information of a plurality of products included in the flyer,
display the generated product list in the second display region of the display device such that a product is selectable by an operator,
determine whether or not a product has been selected from the product list,
generate, where it is determined that a product has been selected, data of a shopping note containing information of the selected product and store the generated data of the shopping note in the storage device, and
display the shopping note in the second display region of the display device on a basis of the data of the shopping note stored in the storage device,
the server apparatus including
a communication interface that communicates with the mobile terminal and the payment terminal,
a second storage device that has a product registration data file for storing the registered information of a purchased product and a shopping note data file for storing the data of the shopping note, and
a second controller configured to
acquire the data of the shopping note from the mobile terminal via the communication interface and store the acquired data of the shopping note in the shopping note data file,
acquire the registered information of a purchased product included in the data of the shopping note from the mobile terminal via the communication interface and store the acquired registered information of a purchased product in the product registration data file,
compare, upon acquiring payment completion information via the communication interface, the acquire payment completion information and the registered information stored in the product registration data file with each other to recognize that a product whose information is registered in the product registration data file has been purchased,
determine whether or not the information of the product recognized to have been purchased is registered in the data of the shopping note stored in the shopping note data file, and
delete, where it is determined that the information of the product recognized to have been purchased is registered in the data of the shopping note, the information of the product recognized to have been purchased from the data of the shopping note.