KR20040003750A - A cash certificate to be used in wireless contents service and a mean of approval and supply a bundle of content certificates - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for settling and offering a cash gift certificate and a bundled contents gift certificate to use the wireless contents through a cellular phone is provided to present a bundled contents set to a fixed cellular phone user and to enable the cellular phone user receiving the present to use the contents set. CONSTITUTION: A mobile communication company or a contents service provider displays the gift certificate price to use the contents on the cellular phone. A user selects the gift certificate on the cellular phone. The selected gift certificate is presented to other user. The user receiving the present confirms a use part and the use particulars of the gift certificate.

Description

A cash certificate to be used in wireless contents service and a mean of approval and supply a bundle of content certificates}

Currently, the number of registered mobile phones has exceeded 30 million, and the use of mobile phones has also been diversified by SMS (text messaging) and wireless Internet access wireless data, where voice calls were used mainly. However, when accessing and using the wireless Internet, a lot of contents are charged for a fee, and there are fewer users flying to the wired Internet due to excessive access costs and content costs of the wireless Internet through a mobile phone. In addition, there are many users in their teens and twenties, such as ringtone service and wireless Internet games, but users of teenagers and twenties have a weak income base and feel burdened to use expensive wireless Internet contents.

However, when the user wants to access the wireless Internet and use the content, the mobile phone user only pays the bill and the user uses it. Since only one piece of content can be presented, the gift-receiving user has little choice.

The present invention relates to a method of providing a gift certificate that can use paid content to encourage the activation and use of wireless Internet contents. The method is divided into a method of presenting a set of contents in bundles with cash gift certificates.

The payer selects the bundled content set and presents it to the designated mobile phone user. The received mobile phone user can use the content set.

1 is a flow chart of use of wireless content vouchers

The present invention relates to a method of presenting a content gift certificate, and is divided into a method of presenting the gift certificate presented above as a cash amount and a method of presenting a bundled content.

In the case of a gift in cash, (a) the portion of the gift certificate on which the content can be used is displayed on the mobile phone by the carrier and the content service company, and (b) the portion on which the gift certificate is selected on the mobile phone. And (d) the part used by the user who received the gift and the part that displays the usage history of the gift certificate.If you want to present the bundled contents, (e) And (f) selecting the desired bundled content among the bundled content gift certificates in the mobile phone, and (g) presenting the selected bundled content gift certificates.

The above invention increases the use of wireless Internet content, and can provide stable profits to content providers.

According to the present invention, by sending a cash gift certificate and a bundled content gift certificate to others on a mobile phone, it is possible to secure additional users who are reluctant to use in terms of cost as a wireless Internet user, and the use of content is concentrated on specific content. By providing them in bundles, they also play a positive role in the development of new content.

In addition, it can be used as a means of publicity and advertising of companies using a wireless content gift certificate. The enterprise provides a content voucher to a mobile phone user in a specific way, and by using the voucher provided, the mobile phone user can authenticate and accumulate it according to the procedure indicated on the voucher.

Claims (3)

A gift voucher that allows users to use mobile content used on a mobile phone is a method of presenting a gift voucher or a bundled content voucher to a person who wants to receive a gift. When the cash gift certificate presented in claim 1 is set as a predetermined amount, a user who receives the gift certificate uses a paid content within a predetermined amount, and a method for accessing the amount of money presented in the gift certificate by using a mobile phone. Method for providing a plurality of paid content as a single product for the bundled content gift certificate that was presented in claim 1.