JP2006053809A - Internet auction system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a check system of an Internet auction capable of checking at the time that an illegal item is exhibited. <P>SOLUTION: The Internet auction system has a terminal of an exhibitor, a terminal of a bidder, an auction server connected via the Internet and an auction information database. The auction server, when accepting an exhibit from an exhibitor, records exhibit information in the auction information database and, when accepting bidding, sequentially records bidding information with an ID of a bidder in the auction information database and determines the bidder who bids the highest price to be a winner. The Internet auction system has a check server for checking auction content which extracts character string data included in the bidding information and compares the character string data with a predetermined character string and determines the unallowable exhibit in the case that the character string data matches with the predetermined character string. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to an Internet auction system that efficiently determines whether or not an application for an exhibit can be applied.

With the development of Internet shopping in recent years, so-called Internet auctions for conducting auctions on the Internet have become popular.
In the Internet auction, as is well known, an exhibitor accesses an auction site from his / her terminal via the Internet, and inputs information on a product to be exhibited from a displayed Web page. Then, the product information is registered as exhibition information in the auction server. The exhibition information can be referred to by an unspecified number of bidders on a Web page. When a bidder finds a favorite listing, he bids for the amount he or she can afford. The previous-period exhibition information has a time limit for accepting bids, and the bidder who gave the highest price by the time limit becomes the winning bidder and obtains the right to purchase the product. In many cases, the user performs user registration on the auction site to obtain a customer ID, and then logs in to the auction site using the customer ID and uses the auction.
Additional functions for Internet auctions include registering listings by category, searching for listing information registered by keyword, displaying the results, and evaluating each other's winning bidders and bidders. Is provided to improve user convenience.
(For example, see Patent Document 1)
JP2003-036372

By the way, in such an Internet auction, illegal goods may be bought and sold. For example, it's like touching copyright laws like illegal copy media for software products, but anything else that touches the law, such as drugs, firearms, weapons, etc. Applicable. For such illegal listings, the auction site administrator or checker manages the listing information, and if an illegal item is found, the listing is deleted, or the seller's user ID Or making it unusable. However, for example, by setting an extremely short bidding period, it is possible to complete the transaction without checking, and it is difficult to eliminate users who make illegal listings.
For this reason, an Internet auction check system that can check when an illegal listing is made is necessary.

The Internet auction system of the present invention has the following configuration.
<Configuration 1>
A seller's terminal, a bidder's terminal, an auction server to which these terminals are connected via the Internet, and an auction information database connected to the auction server. When the seller's listing is accepted, the listing information is recorded in the auction information database, and when the bidder's bid is accepted through the bidding Web page, the bid information is sequentially recorded in the auction information database together with the bidder's ID, and the highest price In the Internet auction system that determines the bidder who bid on
It has a check server that checks the contents of the auction,
The check server extracts character string data included in the bid information,
The character string data is compared with a predetermined character string.
<Configuration 2>
In Configuration 1, the exhibition information includes image data, and the character string is extracted from the image data. <Configuration 3>
In Configuration 1, the exhibition information includes image data,
The check server includes image type determination means for determining whether the image data includes a character string portion, and character recognition means for recognizing a character string in the image,
The check server determines whether the image data includes a character string portion by the image type determination unit, and performs character recognition of the character string portion by a character recognition unit when the image data includes the character string portion. Extract data.
<Configuration 4>
In configurations 1 to 3, when the check server determines that the listing cannot be listed, the auction server notifies the seller that the listing is not possible,
When the exhibitor inputs a response indicating that he / she wishes to scrutinize, the manager is instructed to scrutinize the listing.
<Configuration 5>
In configurations 1 to 3, when the check server determines that the listing is not available,
The auction server records a provisional judgment that listing is not possible and notifies the seller that listing is not possible,
In response to the notification, the seller terminal displays a screen for confirming the exhibition information of the exhibition, and when the seller inputs that the seller wishes to scrutinize,
The auction server notifies the administrator terminal, and the administrator terminal displays a screen for confirming the exhibition information of the exhibition in response to the notification, and when the administrator inputs that it agrees with the provisional determination, the auction server When it is confirmed that the listing is not allowed to be displayed and the manager inputs that the listing is not agreed, the auction server allows the listing to be displayed.
<Configuration 6>
In configurations 1 to 3, when the check server determines that the listing is not available,
The auction server records a provisional judgment that the listing is not possible and notifies the manager terminal, and the manager terminal displays a screen for confirming the listing information of the listing in response to the notice, and the manager agrees with the provisional judgment. The auction server confirms that the listing is not allowed to be entered when the manager inputs that he / she wants to sell, and the auction server allows the listing to be put up when the administrator inputs that he / she does not agree with the provisional determination.

  According to the Internet auction system of the present invention, an illegal listing can be found at the time of listing, and it can be quickly determined that listing is impossible.

  Hereinafter, embodiments will be described with reference to the drawings.

<Configuration of Example 1>
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the present invention.

  The exhibitor terminal 1 is a personal computer or the like for accessing the auction server 6 (to be described later) via the network 3 and allowing the exhibitor to input the exhibition information, and for operating a Web browser. Although not shown, the exhibitor terminal 1 has a text editor function for inputting text as exhibit information, an image acquisition function by a scanner or digital camera for capturing images of exhibits, and an image used for exhibiting. It has an image editing function for editing.

  The bidder terminal 2 is a personal computer or the like on which a bidder accesses a later-described auction server 6 via the network 3 to bid by referring to the exhibition information.

  Here, the seller terminal 1 and the bidder terminal 2 are described separately for convenience, but the same terminal is actually the seller terminal 1 and the bidder depending on whether the customer makes an offer or bids. Any of the terminals 2 can be used.

  The network 3 uses the Internet, but may be a dedicated network as long as it provides the auction function to exhibitors and bidders.

  In the present embodiment, the auction center 4 is for storing each component for providing the auction function to the exhibitor terminal 1 and the bidder terminal 2, but each server and terminal is of course located in another place. May be present. A local area LAN is laid in the auction center 4, and the servers and terminals in the auction center 4 are connected so as to be accessible to each other.

  The manager terminal 5 is a manager terminal device connected to the auction server 6 via the local LAN of the auction center 4 and is a personal computer or the like on which a Web browser or other program operates. The manager terminal 5 has a function for managing the auction system. The present invention particularly has a function for confirming and approving the contents of an auction listing.

  The auction server 6 is a server device for providing a function for Internet auction to the exhibitor terminal 1 and the bidder terminal 2, and is realized by a computer such as a workstation. The auction server 6 includes processing units such as a Web information generation unit 6a, an exhibition information reception unit 6b, a bid information reception unit 6c, a successful bidder determination unit 6d, an information check unit 6e, and a mail transmission unit 6f realized by a program. These are controlled by a control unit of the auction server 6 (not shown). The auction server 6 has a web service program (not shown) for operating as a web server, and is configured to provide an internet auction function to the exhibitor terminal 1 and the bidder terminal 2 through a web page. ing. The administrator terminal 5 is used in the management of the auction system in the auction center 4, so it is not always necessary to provide a management function on the Web page, and the administrator terminal 5 has a dedicated function. Although management may be performed by a program, in this embodiment, the function is also provided to the administrator terminal 5 by a Web page.

  The auction server 6 also has an auction information DB 61 for registering and managing the auction information that has been exhibited.

  In the auction information DB 62, for each exhibition, an exhibition ID that uniquely identifies the exhibition, a customer ID of the exhibitor that identifies the exhibitor, an exhibition title that indicates the title of the exhibition, and an exhibitor for introducing the content of the exhibition to the bidder. Are registered, text data input by the seller, image data sent by the exhibitor to guide the exhibitor to the bidder, a bid due date indicating the bid acceptance deadline, and a start amount indicating the starting amount. Such information is called exhibition information.

  Further, in the auction information DB 61, bid information for storing information bid by the bidder for the exhibition is registered for each exhibition. The bid information includes a bidder's customer ID, bid price, bid date and time, successful bid flag, and the like. Note that the successful bid flag is a flag for indicating that the bid information that has been "successful bid" by placing the highest price among a plurality of bid information is the bid information for which the exhibition has been successful.

  Further, the auction information DB 61 includes information on an exhibition permission / inhibition flag indicating whether the exhibition can actually be provided to the bidder for each exhibition.

  These exhibition information, bid information, and successful bid flag are collectively called auction information.

  The auction server 6 has a customer DB 62 for registering customer information including the customer ID. In the customer DB 62, for each customer, a unique customer ID, a customer address, a customer name, a customer telephone number, a customer email address, and the like for uniquely identifying the customer are registered. As described above, since the customer ID is registered in the auction information for both the seller and the bidder, each customer needs to be registered in the customer DB 62 regardless of the seller or the bidder. Each customer registers his / her data in the customer DB 62 in advance using a customer registration function unit (not shown) of the auction server. At that time, the customer registration function unit automatically assigns a unique customer ID, or allows the customer to input a character string to be a customer ID and checks whether it is the same character string as the existing customer ID, etc. It is assumed that the customer information is registered in the customer DB 62 together with the customer ID that can identify the customer.

The Web information generation unit 6 a is for generating Web pages for providing various functions of the auction system to the exhibitor terminal 1, the bidder terminal 2, and the administrator terminal 5.
When accessing the auction system of the present embodiment, the Web information generation unit 6a provides a top page, which is a page to be displayed first, to all terminals. The top page is provided with links for accessing each page provided to the seller terminal 1 and the bidder terminal 2 to be described later. Thus, a later-described exhibition page can be accessed, and a bidder can access a later-described search page by clicking “Search”. Further, the top page has a function of automatically logging on the customer, and identifies the customer ID of the exhibitor terminal 1 or the bidder terminal 2 that has been accessed using a known technology such as Cookie. The identified customer ID is valid while the customer is accessing, and is used to identify the customer in each page described later. For this reason, if the customer logs in for the first time, it is not necessary to input the customer ID every time the customer makes an exhibition or bids.

  In addition, the Web information generation unit 6a, for the exhibitor terminal 1, inputs auction information for registration and an exhibition page for registering and auction information confirmation for referring to and updating the registered auction information. The function to provide a page for the user.

  Further, the Web information generating unit 6a displays a list of search pages for searching for auction information by specifying keywords and genre information and a search result together with a link to the bid page for the bidder terminal 2. It has a function of providing a search result page, a bidding page for bidding on a favorite listing, a bidding information confirmation page for confirming a bid made by the user, and the like. The bidding page is a bidding screen 8 as shown in FIG. Details of the bid screen 8 will be described later.

  In addition, the Web information generation unit 6a confirms a search page for searching for auction information by specifying keywords and genre information, and information on each auction information for the administrator terminal 5, and if necessary, It has a function of providing a page for editing auction information for editing information. If an illegal listing is found, the listing can be stopped or deleted on the auction information editing page.

  Further, the Web information generation unit 6a, when the check server 7 to be described later determines that the item cannot be displayed, indicates that the item as shown in FIG. It has a function of generating an error notification screen 9, which is a page for informing the user. Details of the error notification screen 9 will be described later.

  Further, the Web information generation unit 6a determines whether or not the listing of the listing as shown in FIG. 4 is permitted to the administrator terminal 5 when the listing is determined to be unlistable by the check server 7 described later. It has a function of generating a scrutiny screen 10 for inputting a result. Details of the examination screen 10 will be described later.

  The exhibition information receiving unit 6b receives information from the exhibitor terminal through the exhibition page. Specifically, the seller inputs text data, image data, a bid due date, and a start amount as exhibition information for registration in the auction information DB 61 from the exhibition page displayed on the browser of the seller terminal 1. . When the exhibitor inputs these data and performs a transmission operation, these data are transmitted from the exhibitor terminal 1 to the exhibit information receiving unit 6b on the auction server 6. The exhibition information reception unit 6b assigns an exhibition ID to the received exhibition information and writes it in the auction information DB 61 together with the customer ID of the customer who has exhibited. At this time, an “in-confirmation” flag is added to the exhibition availability flag.

  The bid information receiving unit 6c receives information from the bidder terminal 2 through the bidding page. Specifically, the bidder inputs a bid amount as bid information for registration in the auction information DB 61 from the bidding page displayed on the browser of the bidder terminal 2. Thereafter, when the bidder performs a transmission operation on the bidding page, the bid price is sent from the bidder terminal 2 to the bid information receiving unit 6c on the auction server 6. The bid information receiving unit 6c writes the received bid information in the auction information DB 61 together with the customer ID of the customer who has sent the bid information.

  The successful bidder determination unit 6d confirms the bid information of the auction information that has been completed after reaching the bid deadline, and determines the bidder with the highest price as the successful bidder. When the successful bidder is determined, processing such as attaching a successful bid flag to the corresponding bid information on the auction information DB 61 and sending a mail notifying the successful bid to the mail address of the corresponding customer ID is performed.

  When the exhibition information receiving unit 6b receives the exhibition information, the information check unit 6e checks whether the exhibition is a content that may actually be provided to the bidder as an auction. Specifically, the received exhibition information is sent to the check server 7 and the check result is received from the check server 7. If the check result is “exhibition possible”, the status “permitted” is written in the exhibition availability flag. If the check result is “non-exhibitable”, the status of “impossible (temporary)” is written in the exhibition availability flag. “Impossible (provisional)” indicates that the result of the check is “no display” but it is not finalized.

  Thereafter, the information check unit 6e performs a predetermined process. In the present embodiment, an error notification screen 9 (to be described later) is displayed on the exhibitor terminal 1 using the Web information generating unit 6a, and whether or not the exhibitor wishes to make a scrutiny is entered, and an input to the effect that the scrutiny is desired is entered. If there is, a scrutinizing screen 10 to be described later is displayed on the administrator terminal 5 using the Web information generation unit 6a, and the administrator visually confirms it. When the administrator inputs that “exhibition is possible”, the status “permitted” is written in the exhibition availability flag. When “not available” is entered, a status of “not available” is written in the availability flag, and the exhibitor is notified by email that the item is not available.

  When the status “permitted” is written in the exhibition permission / inhibition flag, the exhibition is displayed in the subsequent retrieval of the exhibition information. When a status of “impossible” is written in the exhibition permission / inhibition flag, the exhibition is not displayed even if it is searched, is recorded in a log file (not shown), and is appropriately deleted from the auction information DB 61.

  The mail transmission unit 6 f has a function of sending mail to the exhibitor terminal 1 and the bidder terminal 2. The mail address is acquired from the customer DB 62 as appropriate using the customer ID as a key. In this embodiment, the e-mail transmission unit 6f is used to transmit a result notification e-mail indicating whether or not the exhibition information transmitted to the exhibitor can be exhibited or not.

  In response to a request from the information check unit 6e, the check server 7 checks whether there is no problem even if the exhibition information is exhibited. The check server 7 has processing units of an image type determination unit 7a, a character recognition unit 7b, and a comparison unit 7c realized by a program, and these are controlled by a control unit of the check server 7 (not shown).

  The check server 7 has an NG character string DB 71. In the NG character string DB 71, character strings used in the case of illegal listings are registered in advance as NG character strings among the character strings used in the description of the auction exhibition information. Note that NG character strings are classified and registered for each genre.

  The image type determination unit 7a is a part that determines whether or not a character string portion is included in the image data included in the exhibition information. A known technique can be used to determine whether or not a character string part is included. For example, by taking a histogram of black pixels in the vertical and horizontal directions of an image, whether the histogram peaks regularly appear Judge by how.

First, when horizontal histogram peaks appear regularly, there is a high possibility that there is a character line at the peak position. In that case, the peak portion of the histogram is cut out, and it is confirmed whether or not the histogram peak in the vertical direction appears periodically for the cut out portion. If it appears regularly, there is a high possibility that there is a character at the peak position.
In this way, it is determined whether or not the character string part is included in the image. If it is determined that the image part is included, the corresponding part is specified as an area where the character string part exists, and the character string part is stored in a storage unit (not shown). Save area information.

  When it is determined that the character string portion is included in the image, the character recognition unit 7b recognizes the character string portion of the image and extracts it as character data.

  The comparison unit 7c compares the text data of the exhibition information and the character data with the NG character string registered in the NG character string DB 71. If an NG character string is included, a determination is made that “exhibition is impossible”. If it is not included, it is determined that the item is “available for sale”. These determination results are notified to the information check unit 6e which is a request source.

  Next, each screen of the bid screen 8, the error notification screen 9, and the scrutiny screen 10 will be described with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 2 is an example of the bidding screen 8. The bid screen 8 includes, among the exhibition information, an exhibition title area 8a for displaying the exhibition title, an introduction sentence area 8b for displaying text data as an inquiry sentence inputted by the exhibitor, and an image registered by the exhibitor. An image area 8c for displaying, a starting price, a current price indicating the highest price among bid information, and a status display area 8d for displaying a bid deadline; a bid button 8e for the bidder to instruct bidding; There is a bid amount input area 8f for the bidder to input a bid amount. If the bidder confirms the displayed auction information and determines that the item may be bid with a price higher than the current price, the bidder inputs a desired amount in the bid amount input area 8f, Click the bid button 8e. As a result, the auction server 6 is notified of the bid price information.

  Here, it is assumed that illegal exhibition information is displayed on the bid screen 8. Here, in the exhibition title area 8a, an unobtrusive title "bargain information" is displayed. In addition, only the character string “Please check the image” is entered in the introduction sentence area 8b. In the image area 8c, information indicating the contents of the exhibition is displayed although it is an image. In other words, the seller of the item concerned does not input detailed information of the item in the exhibition title and text data that are easily checked automatically, and the image data that is difficult to automatically check and can be confirmed by the bidder The contents of the exhibition are entered. In this way, when an exhibition content is included in an image, an illegal exhibition cannot be checked only by checking the text data. For this reason, it is necessary to extract character data from the image and to check the extracted character data.

FIG. 3 is an example of the error notification screen 9. The error notification screen 9 has a title area 9a, an error content area 9b, a close request button 9c, and an exhibition withdrawal button 9d.
In the title area 9a, a display indicating that this screen is an error notification is displayed, and in the error content area 9b, a coping method is shown together with the reason. When the exhibitor who sees this clicks the exhibition withdrawal button 9d, the auction server 6 is notified that the exhibition is withdrawn, and the exhibition can be withdrawn. If the listing is not illegal, clicking the scrutiny request button 9c notifies the auction server 6 that a scrutiny is desired.

  If the listing is illegal, the seller can expect to give up the listing when an error is displayed, which leads to prevention of illegal listing in advance. In addition, if an NG character string happens to be included instead of an illegal listing, the listing can be relieved.

  FIG. 4 is an example of the examination screen 10. The scrutinization screen 10 includes a message 10a for an administrator, an exhibition information display area 10b, an exhibition impossible button 10c, and an exhibition possible button 10d. The administrator confirms the contents of the exhibition information, and when it is determined that the exhibition is not possible, the manager can notify the auction server 6 that the exhibition cannot be exhibited by clicking the exhibition impossible button 10c. When it is determined that the item can be displayed, the user can notify the auction server 6 that the item can be displayed by clicking on the display button 10d.

<Operation of Example 1>
Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described based on the flowchart of FIG.

  S001: Exhibit information is transmitted when the exhibitor inputs the exhibition information to the exhibition page displayed on the browser of the exhibitor terminal 1 and performs a transmission operation. The exhibition information transmitted from the exhibitor terminal 1 is received by the exhibition information receiving unit 6b of the auction server 6. At this time, the browser of the exhibitor terminal 1 is in a state of waiting for display of a page indicating the exhibition result.

  S002: The received exhibition information is transferred to the information check unit 6e, and the information check unit 6e requests the check server 7 to check the exhibition information. Details of the check in the check server 7 will be described later. The check server 7 notifies the information check unit 6e of the check result “exhibition is possible” or “exhibition is impossible”.

  S003: If “exhibition is possible”, the process proceeds to step S009. In the case of “non-displayable”, the process proceeds to step S004.

S004: The information check unit 6e the exhibition information reception unit writes a status of “impossible (provisional)” as provisional exhibition prohibition information in the exhibition propriety flag, and instructs the Web information generation unit 6a to generate the error notification screen 9. As a result, an error notification screen 9 is generated as a page indicating the exhibition result and displayed on the browser of the exhibitor terminal 1.
The exhibitor looks at the error notification screen 9 to determine whether or not he / she wishes to scrutinize, and clicks a scrutinization request button 9c or an exhibition withdrawal button 9d according to the determination. When the scrutiny request button 9c is clicked, the information check unit 6e of the auction server 6 is notified that “scrutiny is desired”, and the browser of the exhibitor terminal 1 displays that the result is separately notified. When the exhibition withdrawal button 9d is clicked, the information check unit 6e of the auction server 6 is notified that “exhibition withdrawal” is performed, and the fact that the withdrawal of the exhibition is accepted is displayed on the browser of the exhibitor terminal 1.

  S005: If “exhibition withdrawal”, the process proceeds to step S008. In the case of “request for close examination”, the process proceeds to step S006.

S006: The information check unit 6e passes the exhibition information to the Web information generation unit 6a to instruct the creation of the scrutinization screen 10, and receives the URL of the scrutiny screen 10 from the Web information generation unit 6a. The information check unit 6e notifies the manager terminal 5 that there is a request for scrutiny together with the URL. The administrator terminal 5 receives the notification and displays the URL on the browser.
The administrator can confirm the information on the exhibition on the displayed scrutiny screen 10. When the administrator determines that “exhibition is not possible”, the information check unit 6e is notified of the fact that the administrator cannot click the exhibition by clicking the exhibition prohibition button 10c. When it is determined that “exhibition is possible”, the information check unit 6e is notified that the exhibition is possible by the administrator clicking the exhibition allowance button 10d.

  S007: If “exhibition is possible”, the process proceeds to step S009. If it is “not displayable”, the process proceeds to S008.

  S008: The information check unit 6e writes a status of “impossible” in the exhibition availability flag, and returns the process to the exhibition information reception unit 6b. The auction information in which the status of “impossible” is written is recorded in a log and deleted from the auction information DB 61 by a control unit (not shown).

  S009: For an item for which it is determined that the item can be displayed, the information checking unit 6e writes a status of “permitted” in the item displayable flag.

  S010: The mail transmission unit 6f reports to the exhibitor by mail whether or not the listing has been finally made. The mail address can be obtained from the customer DB 62 using the customer ID of the exhibitor as a key. This process is indispensable because if the listing becomes available or not available due to scrutiny, the result is separately notified to the customer.

  Furthermore, the details of the check process in the check server 7 will be described with reference to FIG.

  S101: The check is started by receiving a check request together with the exhibition information from the information check unit 6e. The comparison unit 7c checks whether text data in the exhibition information and a character string included in the exhibition title are registered in the NG character string DB 71. Here, it is assumed that “Copy CD-ROM” and “User registration cannot be performed” are registered. Note that synonyms and synonyms are also registered and can be checked.

  S102: If the text data and the exhibition title include an NG character string, the process proceeds to step S107. If not included, the process proceeds to step S103.

  S103: The image type determination unit 7a determines whether or not there is a character string portion in the image included in the exhibition information. When a character string portion is included, the image type is set to “character string portion present”, and is stored in a storage unit (not shown) together with information on an area determined to be a character string portion in the image. If the character string portion is not included, the image type is “no character string portion”.

  S104: In the case of “no character string part”, the text data and the exhibition title do not include the NG character string, and the image does not have the character string part, so the process proceeds to step S108. In the case of “with character string part”, the process proceeds to step S105 in order to further investigate the character string included in the image.

  S105: The character recognition unit 7b performs character recognition based on the character string area information stored in the storage unit, and stores the character recognition result in a storage unit (not shown). The comparison unit 7c checks whether or not the character string included in the character recognition result is registered in the NG character string DB 71 as in step S101.

  S106: If the character recognition result includes an NG character string, the process proceeds to step S107. If not included, the process proceeds to step S108.

  S107: The determination result is stored in a storage unit (not shown) as “non-exhibitable”.

  S108: The determination result is stored in a storage unit (not shown) as “Exhibition is possible”.

  S109: The determination result is notified to the information check unit 6e.

As described above, according to the first embodiment, not only the text data and the text information such as the exhibition title among the exhibition information received from the seller at the time of exhibition, but also the check of the character string included in the image. Can also prevent illegal listings more reliably.
In addition, for items that are not allowed to be listed as a result of the NG character string check, the exhibitor will display an error and ask whether or not he / she wishes to scrutinize it. Can give up the listing. Furthermore, for listings that are not allowed to be listed even though they are not actually illegal, we have made it possible for the administrator to carefully enter and accept listings so that such listings can be remedied. be able to.

<Configuration of Example 2>
In the second embodiment, in contrast to the first embodiment, when it is determined by the check server 7 that listing is not possible, the manager terminal 5 is first examined, and when the manager determines that listing is not possible, the seller is notified. This is an example.

  The second embodiment is realized by the same configuration as the first embodiment. However, when the check server 7 determines that the listing is not possible, the seller is always informed through the examination at the administrator terminal 5, so The difference is that no request is generated.

<Operation of Example 2>
The operation of this embodiment will be described based on the flowchart of FIG.

  S201: The exhibition information is transmitted when the seller inputs the exhibition information to the exhibition page displayed on the browser of the exhibitor terminal 1 and performs a transmission operation. The exhibition information transmitted from the exhibitor terminal 1 is received by the exhibition information receiving unit 6b of the auction server 6. At this time, the browser of the exhibitor terminal 1 displays that the result is separately notified.

  S202: In this step, in the same manner as in S002, “Exhibition is possible” or “Exhibition is impossible” is determined.

  S203: If “exhibition is possible”, the process proceeds to step S208. In the case of “non-displayable”, the process proceeds to step S204.

S204: The information check unit 6e writes a status of “impossible (provisional)” as provisional prohibition information in the exhibition propriety flag, passes the exhibition information to the Web information generation unit 6a, and instructs the creation of the examination screen 10. The URL of the examination screen 10 is received from the Web information generation unit 6a. The information check unit 6e notifies the manager terminal 5 that there is an exhibition that is “application not possible” together with the URL. The administrator terminal 5 receives the notification and displays the URL on the browser.
The administrator can confirm the information on the exhibition on the displayed scrutiny screen 10. When the administrator determines that “exhibition is not possible”, the information check unit 6e is notified of the fact that the administrator cannot click the exhibition by clicking the exhibition prohibition button 10c. When it is determined that “exhibition is possible”, the information check unit 6e is notified that the exhibition is possible by the administrator clicking the exhibition allowance button 10d.

  S205: If “exhibition is possible”, the process proceeds to step S208. If it is “not displayable”, the process proceeds to S206.

  S206: The information check unit 6e writes a status of “impossible” in the exhibition propriety flag. The auction information in which the status of “impossible” is written is recorded in a log and deleted from the auction information DB 61 by a control unit (not shown).

  S207: For an item for which it is determined that the item can be displayed, the information checking unit 6e writes a status of “permitted” in the item displayable flag.

  S208: The e-mail transmission unit 6f reports to the exhibitor by e-mail whether or not the exhibition has been finally made. The mail address can be obtained from the customer DB 62 using the customer ID of the exhibitor as a key.

As described above, according to the second embodiment, at the time of listing, not only the text information such as the text data and the listing title among the listing information received from the seller, but also the character string included in the image is checked. Can also prevent illegal listings more reliably.
In addition, for items that are not allowed to be listed as a result of the NG character string check, the administrator terminal has been scrutinized to enter the items that can be sent or not. The submitted listing can be remedied without bothering the exhibitor who is the customer. Furthermore, since it is possible to make an application impossible for an illegal listing without displaying an error to the customer, the processing efficiency can be improved and traffic can be reduced.
In addition, for those items that can be submitted as a result of the NG character string check, the results are notified by e-mail without scrutinizing the administrator, so there is no time damage to the customer.

Configuration of the present invention Bid screen Error notification screen Close screen Processing flow of Example 1 Processing flow of check in embodiment 1 Processing flow of Example 2

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Exhibitor terminal 2 Bidder terminal 3 Network 4 Auction center 5 Administrator terminal 6 Auction server 61 Auction information DB
62 Customer DB
6a Web information generation part 6b Exhibition information reception part 6c Bid information reception part 6d Successful bidder determination part 6e Information check part 6f Mail transmission part 7 Check server 71 NG character string DB
7a Image type determination unit 7b Character recognition unit 8 Bid screen 9 Error notification screen 10 Scrutiny screen

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A seller's terminal, a bidder's terminal, an auction server to which these terminals are connected via the Internet, and an auction information database connected to the auction server. When the seller's listing is accepted, the listing information is recorded in the auction information database, and when the bidder's bid is accepted through the bidding Web page, the bid information is sequentially recorded in the auction information database together with the bidder's ID, and the highest price In the Internet auction system that determines the bidder who bid on
It has a check server that checks the contents of the auction,
The check server extracts character string data included in the bid information,
An internet auction system in which the character string data is compared with a predetermined character string, and when it is determined that the character string data matches, the item is determined to be unlistable. The exhibition information includes image data, and the character string is extracted from the image data.
The internet auction system according to claim 1. The exhibition information includes image data,
The check server includes image type determination means for determining whether the image data includes a character string portion, and character recognition means for recognizing a character string in the image,
The check server determines whether the image data includes a character string portion by the image type determination unit, and performs character recognition of the character string portion by a character recognition unit when the image data includes the character string portion. Extract data,
The internet auction system according to claim 1. When the check server determines that the listing cannot be listed, the auction server notifies the seller that the listing is not possible,
Instructing the administrator to review the listing when the seller inputs a response to the request
The internet auction system according to claim 1. If the check server determines that the listing is not available,
The auction server records a provisional judgment that listing is not possible and notifies the seller that listing is not possible,
In response to the notification, the seller terminal displays a screen for confirming the exhibition information of the exhibition, and when the seller inputs that the seller wishes to scrutinize,
The auction server notifies the administrator terminal, and the administrator terminal displays a screen for confirming the exhibition information of the exhibition in response to the notification, and when the administrator inputs that it agrees with the provisional determination, the auction server When it is confirmed that the listing is not allowed to be listed and the administrator inputs that it does not agree with the provisional judgment, the auction server allows the listing to be sent,
The internet auction system according to claim 1. If the check server determines that the listing is not available,
The auction server records a provisional judgment that the listing is not possible and notifies the manager terminal, and the manager terminal displays a screen for confirming the listing information of the listing in response to the notice, and the manager agrees with the provisional judgment. The auction server confirms that the listing is not allowed to be entered when the input is made, and the auction server allows the listing to be entered when the administrator inputs that the agreement is not agreed,
The internet auction system according to claim 1.

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