JP2002175447A - Design ordering and collecting method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a design ordering and collecting method capable of quickly delivering design by simplifying a contract with a designer. SOLUTION: This design ordering and collecting method comprises a step for transmitting a design preparation order mail including a first password through an electric communication line to a designer terminal, a step for receiving the design preparation order mail by the designer terminal, a step for accessing a host server through the electric communication line by using the designer terminal, and for reading a design preparation written request download request page for downloading a design preparation written request to the designer terminal, a step for inputting the first password, a step for permitting the download of the design preparation written request from the host server to the design terminal when the first password is approved, and a step for transmitting the design which is accompanied by the written request or included in the written request from the designer terminal.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a design order collection method. More specifically, the present invention relates to a design order collection method using a telecommunication line such as the Internet.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when creating designs for clothes, precious metals, accessories, electrical appliances, shoes, leather goods, posters, buildings, etc., a contract between a design orderer who orders the design and a designer who produces the design. Are performed individually. Since the contract is individually explained, confirmed, and created for each designer such as design fee, delivery date, design concept, confidentiality, and the like, the contract work becomes complicated, time-consuming, and costly. In addition, since there is a limit to the time spent for ordering work by the design orderer, the number of ordering designers must be reduced. As a result, reordering is often performed for designers who have contracted before before making it easy to understand the terms of the contract, or for designers who are working at a short distance where it is easy to arrange contracts. That is, conventionally, since the design orderer takes cost and labor, it is difficult to actually request a new designer, and it is difficult to find and collect a novel design by the new designer. In addition, even if a person with a handicap or a hearing-impaired handicap has a long-standing ability to create a design, it is difficult to implement the business habit of going to the design orderer for a design meeting. Restrictions make it difficult for people with handicap to enter the designer profession.

[0003] In general, a design orderer has a strategy of developing a new product of the company by ordering a design,
Extremely dislikes leaks to the outside such as design strategies. If an unfamiliar maker or the like orders a design as a design orderer, it may be difficult for designers to collect the design because the designer cannot expect the ripple effect of the future career by designing the maker.
For these reasons, there is a need for a design orderer to order a design with the designer's name being kept secret if possible. However, conventionally, there is no means for ordering a design with the orderer's name kept secret, so it is difficult to place an order with the orderer's name kept secret.

[0004] There are also the following problems for designers. Even the most up-to-date designers, even those with innovative design skills, are not well-known and have no credibility, making it difficult to contract with multiple design clients. Therefore, there is a need for designers who want to keep the designer's name secret, compete only with design, and get a design job. However, there is no way to order the design with the designer's name kept secret, so it is not actually done. This is because the conventional delivery method of the design is generally a paper medium by mail or fax. With these delivery methods,
Since the delivery management is confirmed by the designer's name entered in the mail envelope or fax sender's name field, the anonymity of the designer is not maintained. Also, when delivered on paper media such as mail and fax, journals such as opening envelopes tend to be troublesome, and human costs tend to be enormous, and the design development period tends to be long. It is in.

[0005] A designer sometimes reuses a design submitted to one design orderer and submits it to another orderer. This design reuse is a problem for the design orderer. Until now, no means has been established to prevent this reuse problem, and it has to rely on the conscience of the designer.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and simplifies contracts with a plurality of designers. Designs which are difficult when a designer and a design orderer are at a long distance. It is an object of the present invention to provide a design order collection method for promptly performing a contract and design delivery work such as explanation of a concept. It is another object of the present invention to provide a design order collection method in which communication between a design orderer and a designer is performed anonymously throughout.

[0007]

According to the present invention, in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a design creation order mail including a first password is transmitted from a host server to a designer terminal via a telecommunication line; Receiving a creation order mail by the designer terminal; and using the designer terminal, accessing the host server via a telecommunication line to download a design creation request document to the designer terminal. Browsing a download request page, inputting the first password to the host server, and, if the first password is approved, a design creation request form is transmitted from the host server to the designer terminal via a telecommunication line. Steps to allow downloading Receiving a design created based on the design creation request together with the design creation request or in the design creation request and transmitting the design from the designer terminal via a telecommunication line. I do.

According to the present invention, a step of transmitting a design creation request protected by a first password from a host server to a designer terminal of a designer via a telecommunication line, and receiving the design creation request at the designer terminal And transmitting the design created on the basis of the design creation request together with the design creation request or the design creation request and transmitting the design order from the designer terminal. Preferably, the request for design creation includes software executable together with data.

According to the present invention, in addition to the above steps, a step of transmitting a design creation request mail inquiring whether or not to accept the design creation from the host server to the designer terminal via an electric communication line; Receiving by a designer terminal, returning a design creation request e-mail including whether or not the design creation is accepted from the designer terminal to the host server via a telecommunication line; and Receiving a mail by the host server, and further comprising, based on the returned design creation request mail, determining whether or not a design creation order can be made to a designer, if the design creation order is possible, Before sending the design creation order email Executing step provides a design created ordering recovery method comprising. In the present invention, in addition to the above steps, when the design creation request is transmitted from the designer terminal via a telecommunication line after the design creation, the executable software included in the design creation request is activated to execute the design creation request. The present invention further provides a method for collecting a design order, wherein the method further comprises a step of setting the two passwords and setting a state in which the design creation request or the design taken in the request cannot be viewed unless the second password is input. The present invention provides a design order collection method that further includes, in addition to the above-described steps, a step of creating a database based on design features input by a designer or another operator, from a design received from the designer terminal. In addition, the present invention provides a design order collection method that further includes, in addition to the above steps, a step of automatically extracting characteristic elements of the design from the design received from the designer terminal and creating a database based on the characteristic elements of the design. provide. The present invention provides a design order collection method that further includes a step of displaying a design in a database on a design recycle sale page.

[0010] It is preferable that the design creation request form includes an identification code for identifying a designer requested to create the design. Preferably, the identification code is a letter or number selected from a group including an orderer name, a date ordered by the orderer, a designer name, and a date on which the designer opened the design creation request, or a character or a number selected from these. It is preferable that it is created based on both. Further, it is preferable that the identification code is set in the design creation request document that cannot be identified by a designer or a third party. The design creation request form includes a request form confirmation page,
It includes one or more pages selected from a group including a contract confirmation page, a confirmation e-mail transmission page, a request concept confirmation page, a design entry page, and an additional material rough sketch page. preferable.

The host server is functionally connected to a telecommunication line such as the Internet for managing the order of design creation and ordering between the client terminal of the design client and the designer terminal of the designer. Computer. The host server in the present invention includes:
Pertains to the design orderer, such as the design orderer's corporate name, name, postal code, address, telephone number, e-mail address, capital, and credit limit (unsecured credit limit) that sets the limit for unsecured design orders. An orderer registration section that has registered the profile, and a designer registration section that has registered the profile of the designer such as the name, zip code, address, telephone number, e-mail address, transfer account number, transfer bank branch, and design fee of the designer. Orders, orders, order management, deadline management, billing, payment management
It is preferable to include an order management unit and a database in which the design is made into a database by distinguishing product categories, keywords, colors, and the like.

The telecommunications line includes a radio network such as a cellular phone and a PHS, a telephone network, a digital network, an analog network, and the Internet connected by a TCP / IP protocol. When the designer terminal and the orderer terminal access the host server, the terminal may be dial-up connection via a telecommunication line, or may be always connected to a dedicated line network such as a cable television. Is not limited as long as it does not contradict the purpose. The designer terminal is a computer terminal used by the designer. If the object of the present invention is achieved, the designer terminal may be a mobile phone, a PHS (Personal Handyphone System).
m), PDA (Personal Digital Assistants) and the like, but are not limited to, but do not include a fax machine as a dedicated machine (not as software running on a computer). It does not include a fax machine because it does not have an environment for receiving and running software.

The identification code for identifying the designer who has requested the design creation is a code added to the design creation request form to identify which designer has first transmitted from the host server. This identifier can be a number, alphabet, email address, etc.
Codes for identifying designers are widely included. The reason why this identification code is added to the design creation request form is to manage the order and order of the design while maintaining the anonymity of the design. Also, when a design is reused or when the contents of a design request are leaked to a designer other than the requested designer, the information is added to specify which designer performed the request. This identification code should not be visible to designers and other third parties so that it cannot be changed or other injustices can be seen and cannot be identified. It is preferable to keep it.
Alternatively, the identification code may be displayed in the same color as the background color of the page, so that the external appearance is the same color so that a person who does not know its existence cannot recognize it. For example, a white color identification code may be displayed on a page with a white background color. The identification code is a predetermined number based on a letter or a number selected from a group including an orderer name, a date ordered by the orderer, a designer name, and a date on which the designer opened the design request mail, or both. Although it is preferable that the identification code is created by a conversion method, as long as the designer can be specified, the identification code may be created using other characters and numbers without being limited to these letters and numbers. For example, the name of the orderer, the order date, the designer name, and the date on which the design creation request mail was opened by the designer are converted into JIS dot code numbers. The orderer name, order date, designer name, and opening date, which have been converted into numbers, are connected to form a number sequence. For example, take the first six digits of this number sequence and attach it to the end of the number sequence. The identification code can be obtained by multiplying the whole number string by an integer. Such a conversion of the numeric string may be performed in any manner as long as the original information can be restored based on a certain rule. It is preferable from a security point of view that such rules are changed every time a request for design creation is made. This conversion is attached or included in the design request.
It can be executed by executable software such as JAVA (registered trademark), macros and applets.

The design creation request mail is an e-mail for confirming in advance whether or not a designer has an intention to receive a design creation order before requesting a design creation request document including a request concept of an orderer. This design creation request email can prevent a designer who does not receive orders from viewing the design creation request form. It does not include the details of a design request as detailed as a design creation request, but it does include the design payment deadline and design fee for deciding whether or not to accept an order, and the category of the design item (eg, bag, hat, etc.). The returned design creation request email is an email for transmitting to the host server whether or not the designer has received the design creation request. If a request for design creation is received, the will is communicated by checking the flag in the column of "OK" and not receiving the request. The design creation order mail includes a necessary first password so that the designer who has received the design creation request can download the design creation request form from a predetermined website.

The design creation request preferably includes a request confirmation page, a contract confirmation page, a confirmation mail transmission page, a request concept confirmation page, a design entry page, a rough sketch page for additional materials, and the like. The following describes each page. These pages will simplify the process of contracting a designer with a designer that has traditionally been expensive. The request confirmation page includes the designer's name, address, email address, phone number, notes, and so on. The precautionary statement states that the confidentiality of the request should not be disclosed to anyone other than the requested designer. The precautionary statement states that plagiarism and duplication are not used in the submitted design. On the contract confirmation page, the contract items for the ongoing transaction regarding the design creation between the host server operator and the designer are described. When the designer accepts the agreement, the designer inputs the address and name of the designer in the input fields.
The confirmation mail transmission page includes a form and a banner for transmitting a confirmation mail for causing the host server to confirm that the designer has accepted the design creation work request. The designer clicks the confirmation banner to confirm that the design creation has been received, and sends a confirmation mail to the host server. The host server confirms the received confirmation mail, and in the order / order management section, registers as a designer who has accepted the order, so that deadlines such as design delivery and design fee payment can be managed.

On the request concept confirmation page, an information comment field of the orderer's company indicating a product handled by the orderer's company and a delivery destination, a sales area information field indicating the sales area of the orderer, and a sales concept of the product are displayed. Brand concept column, Brand color column, Age target column, Price assumption column, Image sample column showing the image of the product assumed by the orderer, Magazine column indicating the magazine that matches the image of the product assumed by the orderer And so on. The request concept confirmation page is not limited to only these fields. The number of columns for inputting items for designating the orderer's intention to design may be increased or decreased according to the orderer's design needs. Price setting may be made such that the design unit price is increased if the number of fields for inputting the designated items is increased, or the design unit price is reduced if the number of fields is reduced.

The design entry page is a page on which the designer actually inputs a design creation result for a product requested by the designer. The design entry page mainly includes design characteristic elements for converting a design and a design described later into a database. Examples of design feature elements include a proposal reason field where you enter a concept when you propose a design, a price assumption field,
Assumed size column, proposed material data column, self-evaluation column to enter comments that self-evaluated the design designed by the designer, completed image column to enter the design drawn by computer graphic software, color wheel to show color pattern and Color selection field, distinctive classification field for each product,
For example, in the case of a bag, a column for selecting various types such as a mouth opening type with a hand, a mouth opening type with a shoulder strap, and a lid cover type may be provided on the design entry page.

The first password is a password required to download a design creation request to a designer terminal of a designer. This is to prevent a third party other than the designer who received the design creation request from illegally downloading the design creation request form. The second password is a password required for a designer or a third party to view the design creation request after the designer has completed the design entry and submitted the design creation request to the host server. is there. By setting the second password, the designer himself / herself cannot confirm the design after the transmission, and this prevents fraud such as reuse of the design. Also, it is to prevent unauthorized viewing and plagiarism by a third party.

Making the design of the design creation request database into a database means that the design is classified in such a way that the design order can be quickly determined by considering the design features such as color pattern, target age, assumed price and the like. Means to create a database. Specifically, the design features are defined by the designer when the design is delivered, that is, when entering the design page, and the design delivered by multiple designers is automatically processed by the computer using the design features. It is to make a classification. Or not a designer,
An operator who has access to the host server may view the design and enter the characteristic elements of the design in the prescribed fields. In other words, it is necessary to preliminarily define a table including design feature elements that define design features that can be identified by the computer so that the computer can automatically classify the designs. For example, when filling out the design page, the designer selects a representative color from a given color wheel to characterize the color pattern of the design,
Let the computer be a distinctive feature of the database design. If you want to categorize your design roughly, you may set it to formal, casual, basic, round, square, cute, adult, or childlike. In addition, if it is distinguished by shape, in the case of bag classification examples, the types of bags such as the mouthpiece type with a handle, the mouthpiece type with a shoulder strap, the lid cover type, the fastener type, the drawstring type, the school bag type, etc. Register,
Set up a classification field for the designer to select.
In addition, it is preferable to create an input field so that the designer can input a target age, an estimated price, and the like in a design page by a number.

Automatically extracting design feature elements from a design means reading text data of features for a design entered on a design entry page, and using a computer to generate artificial intelligence by a classification method that will be classified from these texts. May be automatically classified. For example, if there is a text "back" on the design entry page, the computer analyzes the form of the back, calculates the aspect ratio, and analyzes whether the pattern is a circle, and creates a database. It may be a feature element of the design to perform.

Executable software is a file including a sub-program required for executing a program so that a designer does not need to have startup software for reading a page of a design creation request in a designer terminal. is there. For example, in general, the runtime
Format file. In addition, a file maker (File Maker) and Oracle SQL (Structured Query Lang)
uage), it is preferable to create the design creation request using software that enables the construction of a relational database, but if the object of the present invention is achieved, the use of these software is limited. is not.

What is the design recycling sales page?
This is a page for storing the design in a database in the host server and releasing it for a fee or free of charge when a predetermined date comes. This recycling sales page allows the design orderer to search, browse, and acquire a design group belonging to the design element designated by the design orderer at a lower price without ordering a new design. Designers can also expect to have the effect of recycling designs once submitted and resell them to anyone other than the original design orderer, thereby increasing their income. For example, the design orderer and the designer contract a resale clause one year after the design creation contract. One year later, another design orderer who has contracted to be able to search, browse, and acquire designs by recycling sales will search for designs according to the characteristic elements of the desired designs, and browse and acquire a predetermined quantity. In this contract, the fee for browsing may be determined based on the number of designs that can be browsed or the number of contract months. For a designer, a predetermined fee may be paid to the designer when a design created in the past is viewed or acquired.

According to the present invention, there is provided a design order collection method for simplifying contracts with a plurality of designers and promptly performing contract and design delivery work such as a difficult design concept explanation when the designer and the design orderer are at a long distance. can do. Further, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a design order collection method in which a design orderer and a designer are anonymously performed. As an effect of providing these methods, it is possible to deal with designers and design orderers at a long distance. It can promote the employment of unfamiliar designers who have not achieved results, shorten the design development period, and reduce the design cost. In addition, since the design cost is reduced, various designs can be obtained at the conventional cost, and the orderer can select from a large number of designs.

[0024]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS [Design Order Collection System] FIG. 1 is a system for implementing a design order collection method according to the present invention. The designer terminal 1 used by the designer exchanges contracts, design creation requests, confirmation mails, design deliveries, etc. with the host server 6. The designer terminal 1 includes a transmitting unit 2 for transmitting a contract and a design to the host server 6 for delivery, a receiving unit 3 for receiving a contract and a design creation request from the host server 6, a design and a design. Input unit 4 including scanner for inputting concept, electronic pen and tablet for inputting design, keyboard, mouse, etc.
And a storage unit 5 for storing contracts, designs, and design creation requests.

The host server 6 exchanges a contract, a design order, a design delivery, etc. with the orderer terminal 11 used by the orderer ordering the design. The designer terminal 1 also exchanges contracts, design creation requests, confirmation mails, design deliveries, and the like. The host server 6 has an orderer registration section 7 for registering information about the orderer of the design creation, a designer registration section 8 for registering information about the designer, and an order for the design creation from the orderer and for the designer. Orders to be placed
There is an order management unit 9 and a database 10.

The orderer terminal 11 exchanges a contract, a design order, a design delivery, etc. with the host server 6. The orderer terminal 11 includes a transmitting unit 12 for transmitting a contract and a design concept to the host server 6, a receiving unit 13 for receiving the completed design from the host server 6, and a keyboard for inputting the design concept. And a storage unit 5 for storing contracts, designs, and design creation requests.

[Designer Registration] FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a procedure for registering a designer. Data transfer between the designer terminal 1 and the host server 6 is shown. The designer starts the browser of the designer terminal 1 and connects to the provider by dial-up connection. From the browser, enter the URL of the host server 6 (Uniform Resource Locato
r) is specified, and the host server 6 is accessed via the electric communication line 16 (step 30). The designer terminal 1 requests the HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) source of the designer registration page from the host server 6, and the host server 6 transmits the designer registration page to the designer terminal 1 (step 31). The designer inputs and transmits the registration items on the received designer registration page (step 32). Necessary items for registration include name, zip code, address, telephone number, e-mail address, name of financial institution to transfer, branch name, account number, design fee prescribed for each designer, etc. .

The host server 6 receives the designer registration items via the telecommunication line 16 (step 3).
3). A registration examination is performed based on the received designer registration items (step 34). To prevent re-registration of previously misregistered or misappropriated designers who have previously registered but are no longer registered,
The name, email address,
A database is created as a blacklist of designer profiles such as addresses and telephone numbers, and the server 6 checks whether or not elements such as names of designer profiles on the blacklist match at the time of designer registration, so that an error is generated. Is good. Next, a designer registration page is transmitted from the host server 16 to the designer terminal 1 to the designer who has passed the registration examination (steps 35 to 37). The designer carefully reads the contract in the registration page, and transmits the contract to the host server 6 upon accepting. The host server 6 receives the contract (step 3
9). The profile of the designer who passed the designer examination and contracted is stored in the database 10. If the examination for designer registration does not pass for various reasons, the host server 6 sends a non-registration notification e-mail to the designer terminal 1 stating that the registration has not been made (step 40). The designer terminal 1 receives the non-registration notification mail (step 41).

[Design Orderer Registration] FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a procedure for registering an orderer for design creation. The exchange of data between the orderer terminal 11 for design creation and the host server 6 is shown. The orderer of the design creation starts the browser of the orderer terminal 11 and connects to the provider by dial-up connection. The browser specifies the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the host server 6, and accesses the host server 6 via the telecommunication line 16 (step 50). HTML of the orderer registration page (Hypert
The orderer terminal 11 requests the host server 6 for an ext Markup Language) source, and the host server 6 transmits an orderer registration page to the designer terminal 1 (step 51).

The orderer inputs and transmits the registration items on the orderer registration page (step 52). The necessary items to register are the name of the corporation (or individual name), representative name, postal code, address, telephone number, e-mail address, the capital of the corporation, and the upper limit of the order fee when ordering a design without collateral. Unsecured credit limit (credit limit),
Includes the design fee for each orderer. The host server 6 receives the orderer registration items via the telecommunication line 16 (step 53). A registration examination is performed based on the received orderer registration items (step 5).
4). Previously registered but not currently registered,
In order to prevent late payments and re-registration of non-paying orderers, their legal entity names, representative names, email addresses,
The orderer profile such as the address and telephone number is stored in a database as a blacklist, and when registering the orderer, the server 6 checks whether it matches the element such as the corporate name of the profile of the orderer on the blacklist. You may make it appear. Next, an orderer registration page is transmitted from the host server 16 to the orderer terminal 11 to the orderer who has passed the registration examination (steps 54 to 57).
The contractor in the registration page reads the contract carefully, and upon acceptance, transmits the contract to the host server 6 (step 58). The host server 6 receives the contract (Step 59). The profile of the design orderer who passed the design orderer examination and contracted is stored in the database 10. If the client does not pass the examination for orderer registration for various reasons such as credit risk, the host server 6 sends a non-registration notification e-mail stating that the registration has not been made to the orderer terminal 11.
(Step 60). The orderer terminal 11 receives the non-registration notification mail (step 61).

[Order] FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a procedure for ordering a design. The orderer inputs the details of the order in an order-only page (not shown) and sends it to the host server 6 (step 70). The order details on the order-only page include the orderer's company information comment field indicating the products handled by the orderer's company, delivery destination, etc., the sales area information field indicating the orderer's sales area, and the brand indicating the product's sales concept. Concept column, Brand color column, Age target column, Price assumption column, Image sample column showing the image of the product assumed by the orderer, Magazine column corresponding to the brand indicating the magazine that matches the product expected by the orderer And so on. The request concept confirmation page is not limited to only these fields. The number of columns for inputting items specifying the intention of the orderer for the design may be increased or decreased according to the needs of the orderer. Price setting may be made such that the design unit price is increased if the number of fields for inputting the designated items is increased, or the design unit price is reduced if the number of fields is reduced.

As a specific example, the information is entered as described below. For example, in the information comment column of the ordering company,
"It is a handbag wholesaler since 1950. It has been delivered to XX department stores, △△△ department stores, etc. since the late 20s
OLs and housewives up to about 40s are customers. ”And other information that indicates the orderer's sales product and delivery location.
In the product column handled by the ordering company, enter information indicating the sales channel of the ordering company, such as "60% of directly managed stores are in Japan and Tokyo, and sales in Hokkaido, Yokohama and Kobe are good." . In the brand concept column, orderers such as "We are producing design bags that suit casual suits mainly in beige systems for those who can change afterhand bags in the OL carrier class." Enter the brand concept, such as the target of the product you are envisioning. In the brand color field, a brand color such as "beige or brown" is input. In the age target field, enter the target age of the brand assumed by the orderer, such as "25 to 35". In the price assumption column, enter the selling price of the product assumed by the orderer, such as "20,000 yen". In the image sample column, an image photograph of the product assumed by the orderer is input. For example, a photograph of a bag or clothes is input.

The file format of the image photograph is BMP (Bit
-Map format), GIF (graphic interchange forma)
t) format, TIFF (Tag Image File Format) format, JPEG
(JointPhotographic Experts Group) format and other still image formats, MPEG (Motion Picture Experts Group) format and video formats such as QuickTime format, etc., and are not limited as long as the file format represents the image photograph of the product expected by the orderer. . In the magazine column corresponding to the brand, a magazine name or an image photograph of the cover of the magazine that is considered to correspond to the brand assumed by the orderer is input. Similarly, the file format of image photos is BMP (Bit-Map Forma
t) format, GIF (Graphic Interchange Format) format, TIF
F (Tag Image File Format) format, JPEG (Joint Photog
raphic Experts Group) and MP
A moving image format such as an EG (Motion Picture Experts Group) format or a QuickTime format may be used, and the file format is not limited as long as it is a cover image of a magazine corresponding to a brand assumed by the orderer.

Next, based on the purchase order received from the orderer, the host server 6 creates a design creation request mail to be transmitted to a designer who can expect design creation (step 72). At this time, the first identification code is recorded in the design creation request e-mail so that the designer or third party cannot recognize the first identification code, for example, in the design creation request document. At this time, a white number may be displayed on the white background of the design creation request mail so that the designer cannot recognize it. The first identification code converts the “design orderer name” and “design request date” into JIS period code numbers (steps 90 and 91). The “design orderer name” converted into a number and the “design request date” are connected (step 92). Next, the first six characters from the first digit to the sixth digit are extracted and attached to the end (step 93). This number is multiplied by an integer, for example, twice, and used as a first identification code (step 94). The method of creating the first identification code may be performed according to another agreement, and is not limited to the above. Next, a design creation request mail is transmitted from the host server 6 to the designer terminal 1 via the electric communication line (step 74). At this time, based on the category of the design,
The designer profile may be searched in the database 10, designated as the destination, and a design creation request mail may be transmitted. The designer terminal 1 receives the design creation request mail (step 75).

When the designer who has received the design creation request mail intends to receive the request, he inputs the designer name, checks the acceptance flag for receiving the design creation request, and sends the design request from the designer terminal 1 to the host server 6. The mail is returned (step 78). Designers who do not receive the request send without checking the acceptance flag. The host server 6 receives the returned design creation request mail. (Step 79). The host server 6 determines whether or not this designer can accept a design order based on the returned design creation request mail (step 80). If an order is accepted, a design creation order e-mail including the first password is transmitted (step 8).
2). Note that the action for the designer who cannot make an order ends (step 81). The order mail is received by the designer terminal 1 (step 83).

The designer who has received the design creation order mail accesses the host server 6, specifies the design creation request form download request page, inputs the designer's name and the first password in the designated fields, and enters the design creation request form. The download is started and received by the designer terminal (steps 84 to 86). At this time, the first password is input to request the download of the design creation request, but if the erroneous input continues a predetermined number of times, for example, three times,
You may be made to take measures that cannot be downloaded with the designer name. The designer opens the design creation request (step 87).

[0037] The downloaded request for design creation includes a first identification code, and is preferably a file of data and an executable runtime. This is because the runtime file includes subprograms necessary for executing the program, and the designer does not need to have startup software for reading the page in the designer terminal. In addition, a file maker (File Maker) and Oracle SQL (Structured Query Language) are provided to the design orderer so that the design can be made into a database based on the design features that characterize the design and delivered easily.
It is preferable to use software that enables the construction of a relational database such as ge). In the design creation request form, there are "Request form confirmation page", "Contract confirmation page", "Confirmation mail transmission page", "Request concept confirmation page", "Design entry page", "Additional material rough sketch page""and so on. Each page has a flag that indicates that the designer has viewed the page, and the designer is prompted to review the page and, if accepted, check the flag.

The designer confirms the page of the design creation request document downloaded and received at the designer terminal 1. The “Request Form Confirmation Page” includes the name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, notes, etc. of the designer. The precautionary statement states that the confidentiality of the request should not be disclosed to anyone other than the requested designer. The precautionary statement states that plagiarism and duplication are not used in the submitted design. The “confirmation page of the contract” describes the contract items with respect to the continuous transaction regarding the design creation between the operator of the host server 6 and the designer. When the designer accepts the terms of the agreement, there is a space for entering the address and name of the designer. The “confirmation mail transmission page” includes a form and a banner for transmitting a confirmation mail for causing the host server 6 to confirm that the designer has accepted the design creation work request. The designer clicks a confirmation banner to confirm that the design creation has been received, and sends a confirmation mail to the host server 6 (step 88). The host server 6 receives the received confirmation mail (step 89). The order / order management unit 9 registers as an ordered designer and manages a term.

[Delivery] FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a procedure for delivering a design created by a designer from the designer terminal 1 to the orderer terminal 11 through the host server 6. When a designer enters a designer name on the contract confirmation page of a design creation request, the designer or third party cannot recognize it. For example, a second identification code is recorded in the design creation request. (Step 1
00). The code is created by an executable program such as a runtime included in the design creation request form. At this time, a white number may be displayed on a white background of the design creation request form or the design creation confirmation mail so that the designer cannot recognize it. The method of creating the second identification code is, for example, as follows. "Designer name"
And the “opening date opened by the designer of the design creation request” are converted into JIS punctuation code numbers (step 9
5). The “designer name” converted into a number is connected to the “opening date opened by the designer of the design creation request” (step 96). Next, it is connected to the first identification code (step 97). The first six digits from the first digit to the sixth digit are taken out and attached to the end, and this number is used as the second identification code (step 98). The method of creating the second identification code may be performed according to another agreement, and is not limited to the above as long as the designer can identify the second identification code. First, the designer confirms the request concept on the “request concept confirmation page” for the orderer's design, and after confirmation, checks a confirmation flag indicating the confirmation (step 101). The "Request Concept Confirmation Page" shows the orderer's company information comment field that indicates the products handled by the orderer's company, the delivery destination, etc., the sales area information field that indicates the orderer's sales area, and the product's sales concept. Brand concept field, brand color field, age target field, price assumption field, image sample field showing the image of the product assumed by the orderer, magazine corresponding to the brand indicating magazine matching the product expected by the orderer Column.

As a specific example of the “request concept confirmation page”, as shown in FIG. 7, various intentions of the orderer regarding the design creation are entered in each item column. For example, the information comment column of the ordering company's company says, “It is a handbag wholesaler that has been running since 1950. It has been delivered to XX department stores and △△△ department stores, and OLs and housewives from the late 20s to about 40s have been delivered. Etc. are the customers. " In the product column handled by the ordering company, information indicating the sales channel of the ordering company, such as "60% of directly managed stores are in Japan and Tokyo, and sales in Hokkaido, Yokohama and Kobe are good." ing. In the brand concept column, orderers such as "We are producing design bags that suit casual suits mainly in beige systems for those who can change afterhand bags in the OL carrier class." The brand concept such as the target of the assumed product is entered. In the brand color column, a brand color that is characteristic of a product such as “beige, brown” is input. In the age target column, the target age of the brand assumed by the orderer, such as "25 to 35" is entered. In the price assumption column, "20,000
The sales price of the product assumed by the orderer such as "yen" is entered.

In the image sample column, a sample photograph of a product assumed by the orderer is input. For example,
Image photos such as bags and clothes are input. Image file formats are BMP (Bit-Map format), GIF (graphic interchange format), TIFF (T
ag Image File Format), JPEG (Joint Photograph
ic Experts Group) or MPEG
(Motion Picture Experts Group) format, moving image format such as QuickTime format, etc., as long as it is a file format representing an image photograph of a product assumed by the orderer.
In the magazine column corresponding to the brand, a magazine name or an image photograph of the cover of the magazine that is considered to correspond to the brand assumed by the orderer is input. File format of image photos is BMP (Bit-Map Format) format, GIF (Graphic
Interchange Format), TIFF (Tag Image File Fo)
rmat) format, JPEG (Joint PhotographicExperts Grou
p) format, or MPEG (Motion Picture
A video format such as an Experts Group format or a QuickTime format may be used. The file format is not limited as long as it is a file format representing a cover photo of a magazine corresponding to the brand assumed by the orderer.

Next, the designer creates a design based on the requested concept and clicks the “design entry page”
And "Additional material rough sketch page". These pages on which design input is performed are software of a runtime environment including sub-programs necessary for executing the programs, so that the designer does not need to have startup software for reading the dedicated pages in the designer terminal 1. Is preferable. In addition, it is preferable to use software such as a file maker (File Maker) or an Oracle SQL (Structured Query Language) that is easy to construct a database so that the design can be made into a database and easily delivered to the design orderer. If the purpose is achieved, there is no limitation.
Further, in order to prevent reuse of a design in which a design is delivered once and the design is delivered again, the following is preferably performed. In the “design entry page” and “additional material rough sketch page” for entering the design, include a code to identify the designer, for example, an e-mail address in an internal environment setting that the designer does not know. In addition, it is preferable to lock the page so that the designer cannot view the page without inputting the password when the product is delivered.

The “design entry page” is a page on which the designer actually inputs the design creation result for the product requested by the designer. It includes a proposal reason column, a price assumption column, an assumed size column, a proposal material data column, a self-evaluation column, a completed image column, and the like. Specifically, it is as shown in FIG. After inputting the design (step 102), the designer inputs the contents of the design created by the designer in words in the proposal reason column (step 102). For example, a description such as "unprecedented style in which softness is expressed in a classic shape with a light watermark" is written. In the price assumption column, enter the price of the product assumed by the designer, such as "15,000 yen". In the assumed size column,
Length of the assumed size of the designer of the designed product,
Enter the width and width. In the proposal material data field, input an image photograph of the material of the product designed by the designer. In the self-evaluation column, input the characteristics of the design.
For example, an input such as "the interestingness of contrast between a hard material and a soft material, and a warm material and a cold material" is input.
In the completed image column, a computer graphic which is an image of the designed product is input. In the completed image column, various figures such as a view viewed from the front, a view viewed from the front, and a view viewed obliquely from above may be placed in order to allow the orderer to understand the completed image in more detail. Further, other than the three types of drawings may be used to describe the design. Real-image computer graphics to closely resemble real things are preferred.

In addition, in order to create a database upon delivery of a design and deliver the design, a table of design feature elements that defines the design features that can be identified by the computer is determined in advance for each item, and the design input page shown in FIG. May be attached. For example, when filling out a design page, in order to characterize the color and design of the design, the designer selects a representative color from a predetermined color wheel and causes the computer to make it a distinguishable design element of the database. In addition, the three hues of color (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, purple) and lightness (vividness,
In other words, numerical values of the degree of non-whiteness and the saturation (brightness, that is, the intensity of light) may be quantified, and the designer may select them as characteristic elements of the design. In addition, if you want to classify a rough design, for example, in the case of the back classification, the back type such as a mouthpiece with a handle, a mouthpiece with a shoulder strap, a lid cover type, a fastener type, a drawstring type, a school bag type, etc. May be registered in a table in advance, and may be selected by a designer to be feature elements of the design. In addition, an input field may be created to be a characteristic element of the design so that the designer can input a target age, an estimated price, and the like into the design page by a number.

The designer may use the “additional material rough sketch page” to explain the design in more detail. In this “additional material rough sketch page”, the designer inputs an image to supplement the figure input in the completed image column. It may be accompanied by the size of a small part of the designed product which is not in the completed image column, or may be one expressing functionality such as opening and closing of the designed product. Further, an image of when the consumer actually uses the designed product may be attached. For example, if the designed product is a bag, it may be an image of a rough sketch used by a consumer with the bag on the shoulder.

The file format of these images is BMP
(Bit-Map format) format, GIF (graphic interchange fo
rmat) format, TIFF (Tag Image File Format) format, JPEG
(Joint Photographic Experts Group) and other still image formats, and MPEG (Motion Picture Experts Group)
Format, a video format such as the QuickTime format, etc., and is not limited as long as it is a file format representing an image of a product assumed by the orderer.

Next, in the designer terminal 1, the designer attaches the “design entry page”, the “additional material rough sketch page” and the reply to the design creation request mail to the host server 6 via the telecommunication line. Transmit (step 103). At this time, the designer himself / herself does not input the second password so that the design is not reused when the design is input to the “design entry page” and the “additional material rough sketch page” and transmitted. Is locked so that it cannot be seen again (step 104). Also, if only the orderer becomes aware of this password, it will not be leaked outside or reused in the middle of the process. In addition, the payment of the design fee to the designer may be transferred to a financial institution designated by the designer the next day to a designer who has a good workmanship of the design and has a proven track record.

The host server 6 receives the "design entry page" and the "additional material rough sketch page" (step 105). Based on the designs entered on these pages, a database is created to deliver the designs to the orderer. Specifically, the host server 6 creates a database based on the design features transmitted by the designer based on design features such as colors, patterns, target ages, and assumed prices.
6 (steps 106 and 107). When received by the orderer terminal 11, the orderer can view the design by entering the second password (step 10).
8-110). This method of delivering a series of designs not only includes delivering the design as a database file via the telecommunication line 16 but also storing the design on a computer-readable recording medium such as a CD-ROM or DVD according to the needs of the orderer. You may record the database or print the design on paper before delivery.

[Design Recycling Sales] Designs made into a database are stored in the host server, and are released to the public at no charge or at a predetermined date. The design orderer and the designer sign a resale clause one year later when the design contract is signed. One year later, another design orderer who has contracted to be able to search, browse, and acquire designs by recycling sales will search for designs according to the characteristic elements of the desired designs, and browse and acquire a predetermined quantity. In this contract, the fee for browsing may be determined based on the number of designs that can be browsed or the number of contract months. For designers, when a design they created in the past is viewed or acquired,
A predetermined fee may be paid to the designer. This recycling sales page allows the design orderer to search, browse, and acquire a design group belonging to the design element designated by the design orderer at a lower price without ordering a new design. For designers, it is expected that the design submitted will be recycled and resold to those other than the first orderer.

[0050]

According to the present invention, a design order collection method for simplifying contracts with a plurality of designers and promptly performing contract and design delivery work such as a difficult design concept explanation when the designer and the design orderer are at a long distance. Can be provided. Also, according to the present invention,
It is possible to provide a design order collection method in which a design orderer and a designer are anonymously performed. As an effect of providing these methods, it is possible to deal with designers and design orderers at a long distance. It can promote the employment of unfamiliar designers who have not achieved results, shorten the design development period, and reduce the design cost. In addition, since the design cost is reduced, various designs can be obtained at the conventional cost, and the orderer can select from a large number of designs.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system for implementing a design order collection method according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a procedure for registering a designer according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a procedure for registering an orderer of a design creation according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a procedure for ordering a design creation according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of an identification code creating procedure according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a procedure for delivering a design created by a designer according to the present invention from the designer terminal to the orderer terminal via the host server.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a specific example of a request concept confirmation page according to the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a specific example of a design entry page according to the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a view showing characteristic elements of a design of a design entry page according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 designer terminal 2 transmission unit 3 reception unit 4 input unit 5 storage unit 6 host server 7 orderer registration unit 8 designer registration unit 9 order / order management unit 10 database 11 orderer terminal 12 transmission unit 13 reception unit 14 input unit 15 storage Part 16 Telecommunication line

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Claims (12)

[Claims] Transmitting a design creation order mail including a first password from a host server to a designer terminal via a telecommunication line; receiving the design creation order mail by the designer terminal; Accessing the host server via a telecommunications line and browsing a design creation request download request page for downloading a design creation request to a designer terminal using: Inputting to the server, if the first password can be approved, permitting a design creation request to be downloaded from the host server to the designer terminal via a telecommunication line, based on the design creation request Design created The design order recovery method comprising the step of transmitting from the designer terminal via an electric communication line incorporated into conjunction or the design creation request form the design creation request form. 2. A step of transmitting a design creation request protected by a first password from a host server to a designer terminal of a designer via a telecommunication line, and a step of receiving the design creation request at the designer terminal. And a step of taking in the design created based on the design creation request together with the design creation request or in the design creation request and transmitting the design order collection from the designer terminal. 3. The design order collection method according to claim 1, wherein the design creation request includes software executable together with data. 4. A step of transmitting a design creation request mail inquiring whether the design creation is accepted from the host server to the designer terminal via a telecommunication line, and a step of receiving the design creation request mail by the designer terminal. Replying a returned design creation request mail including whether the design creation is accepted from the designer terminal to the host server via an electric communication line; and receiving the returned design creation request mail by the host server. And determining whether or not a design creation order can be placed with a designer based on the returned design creation request email. If the design creation order is acceptable, the design creation order email is transmitted. Performing the above steps Design create ordering recovery method according to claim 1 or 3, symptoms. 5. When the design creation request is transmitted from the designer terminal via a telecommunication line after the design creation, executable software included in the design creation request operates to set a second password. And
5. The design order collection method according to claim 1, further comprising a step of making the design creation request form or the design taken in the design creation request form unreadable unless the second password is input. . 6. The design order collection according to claim 1, further comprising the step of creating a database based on design features input by a designer or another operator from the design received from the designer terminal. Method. 7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising a step of automatically extracting characteristic elements of the design from the design received from the designer terminal, and creating a database based on the characteristic elements of the design. Design order collection method. 8. The design order collection method according to claim 6, further comprising the step of displaying the design in the database on a design recycling sales page. 9. The design order collection method according to claim 1, wherein the design creation request document includes an identification code for identifying a designer requested to create the design. The identification code may be a letter or number selected from a group including an orderer name, a date ordered by the orderer, a designer name, and a date on which the designer opened the design creation request. The design order collection method according to claim 9, wherein the method is created based on both of them. 11. The design order collection method according to claim 9, wherein the identification code is set in the design creation request form that cannot be identified by a designer or a third party. 12. The design creation request form includes a request form confirmation page, a contract confirmation page, a confirmation mail transmission page, a request concept confirmation page, a design entry page, and an additional material rough sketch page. The method of claim 1, wherein the method includes one or more pages selected from a group.