KR20130005251A - System providing service information for store - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A system for providing location-based member store service information is provided to increase an advertising effect and sales by providing a discount service once prepayment for location-based services is performed. CONSTITUTION: An information management server includes the followings. A member store interface unit(10) registers and manages discount information for prepayment and member store information provided from a member store terminal. A client interface unit(30) provides an interface for processing prepayment for a desired service of a member store. A main processing unit(20) processes the prepayment for the service of the member store. [Reference numerals] (10) Member store interface unit; (20) Main processing unit; (210) Location tracing module; (220) Payment management module; (230) Member store information providing module; (30) Client interface unit; (40) Database; (AA) Member store connecting program; (BB) Member store terminal; (CC) Client application; (DD) Client terminal; (EE) Information management server

Description

Location-based Merchant Service Information Delivery System {System Providing Service Information For Store}

The present invention relates to a location-based merchant service information providing system, and more specifically, to increase the sales and increase the advertising effect in terms of merchants providing services by providing a discount than the normal price when prepaying for services by type of business searched based on location. The present invention relates to a location-based merchant service information providing system that can be purchased at a low price from a client receiving the service.

Due to the development of the Internet and communication technology, the spread of smart phones is expanding, and various applications mounted on smart phones have been developed and provided to clients.

With the spread of smart phones as described above, various applications for providing information based on location have been developed.

However, the conventional location-based information provision has a problem that only simple information such as location and business hours of affiliates can be provided, and social-commerce, a new business model that has emerged due to the dissemination of smartphones and social networks, exceeds a purchase amount regardless of location. There is no location-based information providing service that can provide a discount on the service by the affiliate store regardless of the purchase amount in that it is provided at a greatly discounted amount only.

In order to solve the problems as described above, an object of the present invention is to increase the sales and increase the advertising effect in the position of merchants providing services by providing a discount than the normal price when prepaying for services by type of business searched based on location. In addition, the client receiving the service is to provide a location-based merchant service information providing system that can be purchased at a low price.

In order to achieve the above object, the location-based merchant service information providing system according to the present invention is based on the merchant interface unit and location for registering and managing the merchant information provided from the merchant terminal and discount information upon prepayment by allowing access of the merchant terminal. A client interface unit providing an interface for retrieving merchant service information provided and prepayment processing for a desired merchant service, controlling the merchant terminal interface unit and the client interface unit, and prepaying the merchant service selected according to the client's selection And an information management server having a main processing unit for processing.

The affiliated store interface unit includes an affiliated store management module configured to register a new affiliated store, provide an interface for editing registered affiliated store information, and store and manage the registered or edited affiliated store information.

The main processor may process a prepayment for a service of a specific affiliated store selected from a client and a merchant information management module for providing a location tracking module for extracting location information designated by a client, and affiliated store information mapped to the extracted location information. Characterized in that it comprises a payment management module.

The location tracking module may receive location information from the client terminal according to mode selection and selectively extract the current location of the client, or extract the location searched on the map data by the client.

In addition, the merchant information management module, if the location is specified from the client, provides the classified merchant information registered within the range set from the location for each industry type, and provides merchant information for the merchant selected from the client among the classified businesses by the classified industry type It is characterized by.

The merchant information may include discount information at the time of payment for each merchant service and customer occupancy status information of the current merchant (including availability).

In addition, the affiliated store information management module, if the client wants to share the prepaid discount information of a particular merchant with an acquaintance, receives the acquaintance's telephone number and sends the prepaid discount information of the specific affiliated store to the terminal of the acquaintance, the calling number of the client. Specify and transmit, and earn a certain point that can be used in the particular merchant to the client that has transmitted the prepayment discount information of the particular merchant to the acquaintance.

The affiliated store information management module transmits pre-payment discount information of the specific affiliated store through the client application when the acquaintance is a registered client having a client application, and an acquaintance terminal via an MMS message when the acquaintance is not provided with the client application. It is characterized in that for transmitting the pre-payment discount information of the particular merchant.

In addition, the payment management module selects a payment method selected from a service of a specific merchant to be purchased by a client, credit card payment, mobile phone payment and real time account transfer, and performs payment by the corresponding method, purchase number, directions information, It is characterized by issuing a coupon including the expiration date, coupon use mode (reservation request or storage box) to provide to the client.

And if the coupon use mode is selected as the reservation request, the payment management module checks the current customer occupancy status information of the corresponding merchant, if the merchant is currently available for reservation, characterized in that to receive the reservation request and transmit the reservation request information to the corresponding merchant It is done.

In addition, the client interface unit is installed in the client terminal, it characterized in that the download and provide a client application for providing a user interface in conjunction with the client interface unit.

The client application includes a security module for protecting personal information during prepayment, and the security module receives and stores personal information and a password through communication with a client terminal, and confirms whether a password matches when the password is input during prepayment. If it is matched, personal information mapped to the password is transmitted to the payment server.

As described above, the location-based affiliated store service information providing system according to the present invention provides not only the registered merchant information based on the location to the client, but also a discount upon prepayment, thereby increasing sales and increasing the advertising effect from the merchant. In addition, it is possible to reduce the labor cost by reducing the cashier through the prepayment, and can be purchased at a low price for the client provided with the service, so that both the merchant and the client can win-win.

In addition, it is possible to check whether or not the purchased service is available immediately by providing the customer occupancy status information of the merchant during prepayment, and has an excellent effect of protecting personal information by preventing personal information exposure during payment.

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram schematically showing a system for providing location based merchant service information according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a detailed block diagram of FIG.
3 is a flowchart schematically illustrating a method for providing location based merchant service information according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
4 to 9 are exemplary diagrams for each step of the method for providing location based merchant service information according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, specific embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram schematically showing a system for providing location based merchant service information according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a detailed block diagram of FIG.

1 and 2, the location-based merchant service information providing system according to the present invention may include a merchant terminal, a client terminal, and an information management server.

The information management server allows the access of the merchant terminal to register and manage the merchant information provided from the merchant terminal and discount information upon prepayment, and the merchant information search provided on a regional basis and the service of the desired merchant. A client interface unit 20 for providing an interface for a prepaid request, a main terminal 30 for controlling the merchant terminal interface unit and the client interface unit, and processing various types of prepaid services for the selected service according to a client's request are stored. It may be configured to include a database 40 for managing.

The merchant interface unit 10 may be configured to include a merchant management module for performing registration of new merchants, providing an interface for editing registered merchant information, and storing and managing the registered or edited merchant information. Can be.

That is, the affiliated store interface unit 10 plays a role of providing an interface for freely uploading, modifying or editing registration and affiliated store information by accessing the affiliated store or a registered affiliated store that wants to newly register.

In order to provide the interface as described above, an affiliated store terminal must have an affiliated store access program, and the affiliated store access program may be provided by the affiliated store interface unit.

Here, the affiliated store is defined as a concept including all service businesses provided by the service together with a professional service or various products to the client, and will be defined as a service encompassing the products and services provided by the affiliated store.

For example, a service store that provides only professional services such as skin care or a hair shovel, and a food service provided such as a restaurant or a coffee specialty store and a service industry that provides an accompanying service may be included.

The affiliated store information may include all information related to the affiliated store, such as a business type, trade name, location, business hours, contact information, advertisements, and events of the affiliated store, and includes discount information upon prepayment.

The discount information at the time of prepayment may have a difference for each type of service provided by the affiliated store according to the intention of the affiliated store, and may be set at the same discount rate.

In addition, the client interface unit 30 allows access to the server through the client terminal, can search for merchant information for each industry based on the location, and provides an interface for prepaying services for the selected specific merchants. Play a role.

A client terminal accessing the client interface unit 30 should have a client application for system access and interface execution, and the client interface unit can provide a client application stored in a database according to a client's request.

The client application may be downloaded and installed from an external web server that provides various applications.

The client application connects to the server and interworks with the client interface to play a role of a medium for using a service such as searching and payment of merchant information to a client.

In addition, the main processing unit 20 controls the entire server system, and plays a role of controlling operations of the affiliated store interface unit and the client interface unit.

More specifically, the main processing unit 20 is a location tracking module 210 for extracting the location information specified by the client and the merchant information management module 220 and the client for providing merchant information for each industry mapped to the extracted location information. It may be configured to include a payment management module 230 for processing the upfront payment for the service of the particular merchant selected from.

The location tracking module 210 may extract the location of the client by receiving the current location of the client from the GPS module of the client terminal, and extract the location by receiving the location specified by the client from the map coordinates.

That is, the location extraction method may vary according to the mode selected by the client, and when the client designates the location by searching, the client interface unit 10 may provide map data for map search. If the location is specified from, the location tracking module 210 analyzes the map coordinates of the specified location to extract the location specified by the client.

In addition, the affiliated store information management module 220, if a location is designated from the client, provides the classified merchant information registered within the range set from the location for each industry type, and provides a detailed merchant store for the merchant selected from the client among the classified industry categories It is responsible for providing information.

Here, the affiliated store information may include discount information during prepayment provided by the affiliate store, and the client may retrieve the prepayment discount information and determine whether to purchase a service.

In general, when a client searches for affiliate store information based on a current location, the client may want to use the service of an affiliate store that meets a condition immediately, and the affiliate store information may further include current customer occupation state information of the affiliate store.

That is, by providing the client with the current customer occupancy status information in real time, it is possible to check whether or not the merchant that meets the condition can be used immediately, thereby improving the service convenience of the client.

The current customer occupancy state information may include information such as a customer occupancy state, availability of reservation, waiting time of the selected store in the current store.

Since the customer occupancy status information is necessary information for the client using the service at the same time as the prepayment, it can be configured to selectively check through a menu function.

In addition, when a client searching for merchant information requests sharing of prepaid discount information of a specific merchant with an acquaintance, the affiliated store information management module 220 receives an acquaintance's telephone number and uses the client's telephone number as a calling number for a specific merchant. It is also responsible for transmitting the prepayment discount information.

Here, the prepaid discount information of a specific affiliated store may be directly transmitted through an acquaintance's client application when the acquaintance has a client application according to the present invention, and an MMS message when the acquaintance does not have a client application. Can be sent to acquaintances.

Whether or not the client application is provided in the acquaintance terminal can be found by searching the database 40, since the telephone number information of the terminal can be stored and managed in the database when the client application is downloaded to the terminal.

As described above, when the client transmits prepayment discount information to an acquaintance, the merchant is acting as an affiliate advertisement to the acquaintance, so the points are accumulated as a reward to the client, and the accumulated point information is stored in a database.

The point may be a point issued by the affiliated store that registered the pre-payment discount information, and may be configured to issue a coupon for free use of the service of the affiliated store if a specific point or more is provided.

 In addition, the payment management module 230 is responsible for processing the payment for the client when a request for pre-payment of the service of a particular merchant.

More specifically, the payment management module may be selected from among a real-time account, a credit card payment and a mobile phone payment method. In this case, the real time account transfer is possible only when the public certificate is provided in the client terminal.

Hereinafter, a method of providing location based merchant service information according to the present invention will be described in detail.

3 is a flowchart schematically illustrating a method for providing location based merchant service information according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

First, when an affiliated store is registered with the information management server through the affiliated store terminal, the affiliated store information is stored in the database.

Here, when registering the affiliated store information, the location information of the affiliated store is mapped to the provided map data and stored in the database.

The client then activates the client application to access the information management server.

The client then selects the desired location via the location determination menu provided by the client interface.

The location determination menu may select a current location of a client or search a map data to select a location on a map.

When the current location of the client is selected, the client application receives current GPS information from the GPS module of the terminal and transmits the current GPS information to the location tracking module of the main processor, and the location tracking module maps the GPS information to map data. Provide the client with the current location of the client.

When the client selects a location by searching the map data, the client may provide map data for searching the location to the client, and the client may select a desired location through the location search of the map data.

Here, the map data may be configured as a map built by the server itself, and may be configured to use map data provided from an external web server.

When the location is selected as described above, the client searches for the desired affiliate store according to the affiliate store search menu as shown in FIG. 5.

When the client selects a particular business type, affiliated store information included in the industry located within a range set at the selected location is output, and the desired affiliated store is selected by searching the outputted affiliated store information.

Here, when the industry is selected as described above, the affiliated points included in the industry located within the set range through the integrated search menu can be controlled to be simultaneously output to the map data.

The affiliated store information may be output in the order of the nearest affiliated store at the selected location or output in the order of the affiliated stores with the prepayment discount rate of the service.

If the prepayment discount rate of the service is configured to be output in the order of the largest merchants, it is possible to provide a higher discount rate to the client by competing merchants to check the real time prepayment discount rate and to provide a higher discount rate to be exposed to the upper position when outputting. Can be induced to.

Subsequently, the client selects a specific affiliate store and performs a prepayment for the target service through the prepayment menu.

More specifically, as shown in FIG. 7, a desired payment target is specified in the service menu of the specific affiliated store, and when a payment method is selected as shown in FIG. 8, the payment management module processes a payment for the selected payment target service.

Here, the payment method may be one of credit card payment, mobile phone payment and real time account transfer.

When paying through the client terminal, a credit card number, a social security number, an account number, etc. may be exposed, so a security problem may occur, and the client application may include a security module for personal information security.

More specifically, the security module may be set in advance before payment as a means for preventing the exposure of personal information during payment, and the personal information is encrypted and managed in the client application through communication between the client terminal and the client application. Therefore, the client application has personal information but cannot be viewed or accessed from the outside, so the personal information is not exposed to the outside.

That is, the client inputs the personal information and the password through the input means of the client terminal, transmits the personal information and the password to the client application, and the personal information and the password are stored in the client application to complete the internal security registration. If a password is not set in the personal information, a person possessing a terminal may freely process a payment and thus, it is necessary to set it for minimum personal authentication.

Here, the personal information may be a credit card number and password information in the case of a credit card payment, a social security number for identity verification in the case of mobile phone payment, may be an account number and password information in the case of real time account transfer.

If the payment method is selected when security registration is completed in the client application as described above, the client inputs the set password for the payment amount, and if the client application checks whether or not the set password matches, the payment management server sets the password. The personal information mapped to the is transmitted to the payment server, and the payment server performs the payment after authentication of the personal information.

The payment server may be a credit card company server for credit card payment, a mobile carrier server for mobile phone payment, and a bank server for real time account transfer.

Accordingly, since the personal information stored in the client application may be transmitted to the payment server by inputting only the set password without the client inputting his or her personal information, the personal information may be prevented from being exposed.

In addition, in order to further enhance the security of personal information transmitted without being exposed to the outside, the security module transmits personal information to a payment server in a state where personal information is encrypted, and the payment server decrypts the received personal information and then personalizes it. It may be configured to perform information authentication.

In this case, the payment server should have a decryption module for decrypting the encrypted personal information.

When the payment is processed through the above process, the payment management module issues a coupon for the service as shown in FIG. 9 and transmits the coupon to the client terminal.

The issued coupon may include a purchase number, an expiration date, and a coupon use mode. When the coupon use mode is selected, an interface for immediately selecting a reservation or a storage box menu is provided.

Here, the instant reservation is a menu that is selected when the service is used at the same time as the purchase of the service, and the reservation may be directly set when the customer occupancy status information of the current affiliate store for the service is available for reservation.

For example, as a result of checking the customer occupancy status information of the current merchant, the service is immediately available, and if the reservation is available, the client may set a reservation by inputting a reservation time and a purchase number purchased.

In addition, when the reservation is not available, the reservation waiting request may be accepted, and when the service available time is within the set time (for example, 10 minutes), the service request message may be transmitted to the client who applied for the reservation waiting request. have.

At this time, a confirmation message confirming whether the service is used may be further included. If the client cancels the reservation, the reservation waiting application is canceled and the issued coupon is stored in the storage box.

And the storage box menu is a menu for storing the service coupons generated in the storage box in the case of using the paid service later.

If the client uses the coupon stored in the storage box, if the user selects the storage box of the coupon, the list of coupons stored in the storage box is output, and if the desired coupon is selected, the reservation menu is immediately activated to check the customer occupancy status of the merchant and make a reservation later. Can be set.

While the present invention has been described in connection with what is presently considered to be practical exemplary embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but, on the contrary, It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

10: merchant interface unit 20: main processing unit
30: client interface 40: database

Claims (10)

An affiliated store interface unit for allowing the affiliated store terminal to access and register and manage the affiliated store information provided from the affiliated store terminal and discount information upon prepayment;
A client interface unit providing an interface for retrieving merchant service information provided on a location basis and prepayment processing for a service of a desired merchant;
An information management server including a main processing unit controlling the affiliated store terminal interface unit and the client interface unit and processing a prepaid payment for the selected affiliated store service according to a client's selection;
The client interface unit is installed in the client terminal, and downloads and provides a client application interworking with the client interface unit to provide a user interface;
The client application includes a security module for protecting personal information upon prepayment;
The security module
Receiving and storing personal information and password through communication with a client terminal, and checking the password if the password is input at the time of prepayment, and transmitting the personal information mapped to the password to the payment server if they match. Location based merchant service information providing system.
The method of claim 1,
The merchant interface unit
An affiliated store management module configured to register new affiliated stores and provide an interface for editing registered affiliated store information;
Location-based merchant service information providing system comprising a merchant database for storing and managing the registered or edited merchant information.
The method of claim 1,
The main processing unit
A location tracking module for extracting location information designated by the client;
An affiliated store information management module for providing affiliated store information for each industry type mapped to the extracted location information;
Location-based merchant service information providing system comprising a payment management module for processing the upfront payment for the service of the particular merchant selected from the client.
The method of claim 3, wherein
The location tracking module
Location-based merchant service information providing system, characterized in that for receiving the location information from the client terminal according to the mode selection to extract the current location of the client, or to extract the location retrieved on the map data by the client.
The method of claim 3, wherein
The merchant information management module
When the location is designated by the client, location-based merchant service, characterized in that it provides classified merchant information registered within the range set from the location for each industry type, and provides merchant information for the merchant selected from the client among the classified industry-specific merchants. Informational system.
6. The method of claim 5,
The merchant information is
Location-based merchant service information providing system, characterized in that it includes discount information and payment information (including availability) of the current merchant at the time of payment for each merchant service.
The method of claim 3, wherein
The merchant information management module
If the client wants to share the prepaid discount information of a specific merchant with an acquaintance, receive the acquaintance's phone number and transmit the prepaid discount information of the specific affiliated store to the acquaintance's terminal by specifying the calling number of the client;
Location-based merchant service information providing system, characterized in that for earning a certain point that can be used in the particular merchant to the client that has transmitted the prepayment discount information of a specific merchant to the acquaintance.
8. The method of claim 7,
The merchant information management module
If the acquaintance is a registered client having a client application, transmitting prepayment discount information of the specific affiliated store through the client application;
Location-based merchant service information providing system, characterized in that for transmitting the pre-payment discount information of the particular affiliated store to the acquaintance terminal in the MMS message when the client application is not provided.
The method of claim 3,
The payment management module
A client selects a payment method selected from a service of a specific merchant and a payment method selected from a credit card payment, a mobile phone payment, and a real time account transfer, and performs payment by the method;
Location-based merchant service information providing system, characterized in that it is provided to the client by issuing a coupon including a purchase number, directions information, expiration date, coupon use mode (reservation request or storage box).
The method of claim 9,
When the coupon use mode is selected as a reservation request
The payment management module
Location-based merchant service information providing system, characterized in that to check the current customer occupancy status information of the merchant to receive the reservation request and send the reservation request information to the merchant if the current reservation is possible.

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