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Granted Patent B2
US 12,423,727 · App. 17/868,194 · Granted Sep 23, 2025

Sales management system, sales management method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium

Inventors: Neil Primozich (Tokyo, JP); James Camps (Tokyo, JP); Wingin Chau (Tokyo, JP); KahHui How (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
G06Q30/0242G06Q30/0605G06Q30/0633
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Patent No.
US 12,423,727
App. No.
17/868,194
Granted
Sep 23, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a sales management system configured to: acquire: sales data on a target product sold at a shop to be targeted, the sales data indicating a plurality of time-series values relating to sales of the target product; and a period of a bargain sale of the target product at the shop to be targeted; and output an image including a graph which is based on the plurality of time-series values indicated by the acquired sales data, and in which a display mode for an area corresponding to the period of the bargain sale is different from a display mode for another area.

Claims (29)

1. A sales management system, comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory device that stores a computer program to be executed by the at least one processor, the computer program comprising:

acquisition code configured to cause the at least one processor to acquire sales data on a target product sold at a shop to be targeted, the sales data indicating a plurality of time-series values relating to sales of the target product; and a period of a bargain sale of the target product at the shop to be targeted;

strength acquisition code configured to cause the at least one processor to acquire, as a strength of an advertisement, from an access log or access statistics from a server that outputs an advertisement web page for each of a plurality of shops, a display frequency or a number of impressions of a web page on which an advertisement for the bargain sale is displayed;

color determination code configured to cause the at least one processor to determine a density of a display color in the period of the bargain sale based on the display frequency; and

output code configured to cause the at least one processor to output an image including a graph which is based on the plurality of time-series values indicated by the acquired sales data, and in which a display mode for an area corresponding to the period of the bargain sale is different from a display mode for another area, and in which the area corresponding to the period of the bargain sale is drawn based on the determined density.

2. The sales management system according to claim 1 , wherein the sales data indicates a time-series transition of at least one of an actual result value of a sales quantity, a predicted value of the sales quantity, a selling price, or a stock.

3. The sales management system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the computer program causes the at least one processor to output an image in which the area corresponding to the period of the bargain sale is drawn in a display mode corresponding to an attribute of the bargain sale.

4. The sales management system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the computer program causes the at least one processor to: acquire the sales data on the target product sold at the shop to be targeted; a period of a product bargain sale set for the target product at the shop; and a period of a category bargain sale set for a category including the target product at the shop; and

output an image including a graph in which a display mode for an area corresponding to the period of one of the product bargain sale and the category bargain sale that has been selected by a user is different from a display mode for the another area.

5. The sales management system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the computer program causes the at least one processor to: acquire sales data on the target product sold at another shop different from the shop to be targeted; and a period of a bargain sale of the target product at the another shop; and

output an image including a graph which is based on the sales data acquired for the shop to be targeted and the another shop, and in which an area corresponding to the period of the bargain sale at the shop to be targeted and an area corresponding to the period of the bargain sale at the another shop are drawn in mutually different display modes.

6. The sales management system according to claim 1 , wherein the computer program causes the at least one processor to output an image including a graph in which a display mode regarding a value that is not included in the period of the bargain sale among the plurality of time-series values indicated by the acquired sales data and a display mode regarding a value included in the period of the bargain sale among the plurality of time-series values are different from each other.

7. The sales management system according to claim 6 , wherein the computer program causes the at least one processor to output an image including a graph in which the value included in the period of the bargain sale is not drawn.

8. The sales management system according to claim 1 , wherein the sales data indicates a plurality of time-series values each associated with at least one of a date or a time in relation to the sales of the target product.

9. A sales management method, comprising:

acquiring sales data on a target product sold at a shop to be targeted, the sales data indicating a plurality of time-series values relating to sales of the target product; and a period of a bargain sale of the target product at the shop to be targeted with at least one processor operating with a memory device in a system;

acquiring, as a strength of an advertisement, from an access log or access statistics from a server that outputs an advertisement web page for each of a plurality of shops, a display frequency or a number of impressions of a web page on which an advertisement for the bargain sale is displayed;

determining a density of a display color in the period of the bargain sale based on the display frequency; and

outputting, with the at least one processor operating with the memory device in the system, an image including a graph which is based on the plurality of time-series values indicated by the acquired sales data, and in which a display mode for an area corresponding to the period of the bargain sale is different from a display mode for another area, and in which the area corresponding to the period of the bargain sale is drawn based on the determined density.

10. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a computer program, wherein when executed by at least one processor, the computer program comprising:

acquisition code configured to cause the at least one processor to acquire sales data on a target product sold at a shop to be targeted, the sales data indicating a plurality of time-series values relating to sales of the target product; and a period of a bargain sale of the target product at the shop to be targeted;

strength acquisition code configured to cause the at least one processor to acquire, as a strength of an advertisement, from an access log or access statistics from a server that outputs an advertisement web page for each of a plurality of shops, a display frequency or a number of impressions of a web page on which an advertisement for the bargain sale is displayed;

color determination code configured to cause the at least one processor to determine a density of a display color in the period of the bargain sale based on the display frequency; and

output code configured to cause the at least one processor to output an image including a graph which is based on the plurality of time-series values indicated by the acquired sales data, and in which a display mode for an area corresponding to the period of the bargain sale is different from a display mode for another area, and in which the area corresponding to the period of the bargain sale is drawn based on the determined density.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 8, 2023
From: PRIMOZICH, NEIL; CAMPS, JAMES; CHAU, WINGIN; HOW, KAHHUI
To: RAKUTEN GROUP INC.
Reel/Frame 062920/0192 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2021-119806 · Jul 20, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230023177A1 · Jan 26, 2023
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