摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic shopping system by which a user supervises the entire purchase of Internet shopping by another user and restricts the purchase. <P>SOLUTION: The electronic shopping system includes a customer profile database, an article database and a transaction database and uses data records and ID numbers for facilitating supervision of the Internet shopping. A first user establishes a shopping standard and predetermines what item or what category, by what quantity or frequency a second user may purchase. The first user examines a selection result of the second user before a purchase transaction is completed. An arithmetic operation is executed in the data records for reducing time and energy required for supervising purchase selection. The electronic shopping system uses electronic mails and date and time information for informing the users of activities executed in the system. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO |