KR20130065819A

KR20130065819A - Mobile coupon transfer service system and methods using user's future plan

Info

Publication number: KR20130065819A
Application number: KR1020110127605A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 박유정
Original assignee: 박유정
Priority date: 2011-12-01
Filing date: 2011-12-01
Publication date: 2013-06-20

Abstract

PURPOSE: A coupon transmitting service system using future schedules of a user and a method thereof are provided to supply a customized coupon based on the future schedules of the user. CONSTITUTION: A database server registers or updates various schedule information transmitted from a related person terminal or a wireless terminal of a user. A web server accesses a database server to inquire into information a place to be visited in the future and transmits a coupon stored in the database server to the wireless terminal in order to share the various schedule information. [Reference numerals] (1) Information registration, inquiry, deletion, modification; (2) DB registration, inquiry, deletion, modification; (3,4) Result response; (AA) System configuration diagram; (BB) Mobile terminal; (CC) Web server; (DD) DB server

Description

Coupon transfer service system and method using a user's future schedule {Mobile coupon transfer service system and methods using user's future plan}

The present invention relates to a system for providing a mobile coupon and a method thereof, and more particularly to a partnership in which a user inputs his or her future schedule and inputs it into a mobile terminal and provides the user's information using a wireless mobile communication network. The present invention relates to a mobile coupon providing system and method for providing a discount to a merchant by receiving a coupon from the merchant and allowing the user to download the coupon again.

Recently, the number of subscribers is growing exponentially due to the advantages that small mobile terminals such as smartphones and tablet PCs can easily and data communication services anytime, anywhere.

Existing coupon service provides coupons with a discount rate by coupon service providers to general consumers in the form of tags in the form of flyers or printed papers, and general consumers who possess coupons can purchase goods at merchants affiliated with the coupon service providers. When you purchase or receive a service and pay for it, you can get a discount as much as listed by presenting a coupon.

Coupon in the form of a paper tag has a service to receive the coupon service by storing the coupon on the mobile terminal to present to the coupon service merchants in order to alleviate the inconvenience that should always be carried.

However, this type of coupon service also has the disadvantage of using a coupon service that is limited to the use period and location by providing it to an unspecified number of users, such as the paper-based coupon service.

Therefore, in order to alleviate this inconvenience, the user registers his or her future schedule on the mobile terminal, the merchant receives this information, provides the selected coupon suitable for the user, and the user selects the coupon provided by the merchant to receive the coupon service. What is needed is a way to enable it.

However, while the first leading technology discloses a technique of displaying a coupon message received from a mobile communication network to a diary in a diary used in a mobile terminal, a technology for releasing a future schedule written by a user to another person in a mobile terminal and The process of checking a user's schedule and presenting a coupon at a merchant is not started.

The present invention is designed to solve the problems of the prior art, the object of the present invention is that the user does not need to carry a coupon provided to the unspecified number of paper-based, and complements the problem of the mobile coupon that is limited in place and time by the user It is to provide a coupon providing system and method to suit the schedule and taste of the user by using the future schedule written in the mobile terminal.

There is provided a mobile coupon providing system for providing a mobile coupon in response to a request from a mobile terminal through a mobile communication network and a digital data network, the mobile coupon providing system for interfacing with the digital data network and filling the schedule of the user in the mobile terminal An interface unit for providing a UI; A coupon generation unit generating a mobile coupon in response to a request from the mobile terminal or according to an instruction from a merchant terminal; A coupon transmitter for transmitting the mobile coupon generated by the coupon generator to the mobile terminal; Merchant DB for storing information about the mobile coupon service provider affiliated store; And a coupon DB for storing the mobile coupon.

Provided is a mobile coupon providing method for providing a mobile coupon upon request from a mobile terminal through a mobile communication network and a digital data network, wherein the mobile coupon providing method is a method for writing user information into a user's terminal from a mobile terminal through a mobile communication network. Inputting and transmitting the user's future schedule, place, number of people, and the nature of the meeting through the function to the mobile terminal; Based on the service information, the affiliate store confirms a future schedule of the users and transmits the mobile coupon providing system; Checking and selecting a coupon by searching for a coupon provided by affiliated stores received by the mobile coupon providing system in a UI of a terminal; Providing a UI for downloading a mobile coupon to the mobile terminal by the mobile coupon providing system; Downloading a mobile coupon from the mobile coupon providing system through the UI and displaying on the mobile terminal to the consumer to the merchant Inquiring and entering a code of a coupon in a merchant to use a mobile coupon at a visit; By entering the code number, the mobile coupon can be used to provide a UI that is displayed on the mobile terminal.

The form of the UI for implementing the mobile coupon system of the terminal is effective to use a function such as registration of the user's schedule on the diary's calendar, whether or not the arrival of the coupon, coupon confirmation.

As described above, the mobile coupon providing system and method thereof according to an embodiment of the present invention do not need to be inconveniently carried like a paper-based coupon.

In addition, there is a convenience to use a personalized coupon based on a user's schedule, away from the form of a mobile coupon provided to an unspecified number like a conventional mobile coupon service.

Merchants can issue a mobile coupon as an effective marketing means by browsing the future schedule of coupon users that provide indiscriminately to an unspecified number.

The following drawings, which are attached to this specification, illustrate preferred embodiments of the present invention, and together with the detailed description of the present invention serve to further understand the technical spirit of the present invention, the present invention includes matters described in such drawings. It should not be construed as limited to.
1 is a screen for registering a schedule of a user to receive a coupon in the diary of the mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention
2 is a flowchart illustrating a service according to an embodiment of the present invention;
3 is a system configuration diagram according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a flowchart of user schedule registration and coupon issuance according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a flowchart of using a user coupon according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a flow chart of merchant coupon issuance according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, the same reference numerals will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, with reference to the same components preferred embodiments of the present invention. The terms or words used in the specification and claims are not to be construed as being limited to conventional or dictionary meanings, but should be construed as meanings and concepts corresponding to the technical matters of the present invention.

A system for providing a mobile coupon providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention is a mobile terminal, a digital data network, a wireless mobile communication network, a DB server for providing a mobile coupon, for providing a coupon in the coupon system program of the mobile terminal It includes a web server to communicate with the DB server.

Herein, the mobile coupon is a discount coupon of goods / services that can be used at the affiliated store and may be stored in a file format on the mobile terminal and displayed on an external display.

The merchant of the mobile coupon service will be described with an example of a cafe, but the merchant is not limited thereto. For example, an affiliated store may be a store that sells goods / services such as a movie, a play, a book, a record, a beauty salon, and a trip, and may be a store that can provide a coupon.

The mobile terminal is a means for storing a mobile coupon, such as a mobile phone, a smartphone, a PDA, a netbook, a tablet PC carried by the user in the memory of the mobile terminal and displaying the coupon on an external screen using the function of the coupon system of the mobile terminal. As a terminal input by a user.

The coupon system program executed in the mobile communication terminal updates the user's information to the DB server or downloads the mobile coupon from the DB server and displays it on the mobile communication terminal. The user may select a mobile coupon that the user wants to use from among the coupons issued or not and the issued status of the mobile coupon based on the schedule of the user using the coupon system program. Merchants can check the schedule of users and issue coupons using the coupon system program, and can check the status of the coupon provided to the user and the status of the coupon that the user has confirmed that the coupon will be used and used.

As described above, in the system for providing a mobile coupon providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention, a user writes his or her schedule in the future and transmits it to a web server via a mobile communication network and a digital data network connected to the mobile terminal. Becomes This web server can upload the user's personal schedule to the DB server again via digital data network.

Information that the user fills in the coupon system program in order to receive the coupon may include the date, time, place, number of people, the nature of the meeting, the type of business to be visited, and the like.

Merchants automatically issue and manage code numbers from DB servers to identify merchants, issue mobile coupons, and verify future schedules for users.

In order to provide coupons to users who wish to receive coupons in the coupon system program of the owner's mobile terminal, the affiliated store owners are sent to the web server via the mobile communication network and digital data network. . This web server can search the data registered by the user in the DB server again and download the information to the external screen of the owner's mobile terminal.

After confirming the schedules of the users in the coupon system program function of the mobile terminal, the affiliated store may determine a corresponding discount rate applied to the mobile coupon and issue the mobile coupon to specific users. This mobile coupon is again sent to the DB server via a web server from the merchant's wireless terminal to update the user's DB.

For example, the merchant owner can directly create a coupon suitable for the merchant's management environment by determining the discount rate of the mobile coupon, providing additional services, sales conditions for using the coupon, and visiting time using the coupon service program function of the mobile terminal. Can be issued.

The user may confirm that the merchant owners issued the coupon by using the coupon service program of the mobile terminal, and select the affiliated store that the user wishes to visit to determine the issue of the mobile coupon. Information that the user has confirmed the issuance of the mobile coupon can be confirmed again in the coupon service program of the merchant shopkeeper.

The user can visit the merchant to request a merchant code from the merchant, enter the code in the coupon service program of the mobile terminal, and download the coupon in the coupon DB to the mobile terminal to display and use on the external screen.

Although the technical spirit of the present invention has been described above, the present invention has been described by way of example and is not intended to limit the present invention. In addition, it is obvious that any person skilled in the art can make various modifications without departing from the scope of the technical idea of the present invention.

Claims

A system for providing a coupon service by analyzing a schedule of a user using a diary function of a terminal using a wireless mobile communication network,

A user terminal for registering or updating a user's future schedule information with a DB server in a wireless mobile communication terminal;

A DB server that registers or updates various schedule information transmitted from a user's wireless terminal or a related party terminal through a wireless mobile communication network;

In order to share various schedule information of the user registered or updated in the DB server, the DB server is accessed, and the information about a place to be visited by a user who is already stored in the DB server is queried and stored in the DB. A web server for transmitting the coupon to a wireless mobile communication terminal;

DB server for transmitting the coupon for transmitting the coupon to the user's wireless terminal or the related terminal via the wireless mobile communication network;

A terminal for automatically executing a coupon message received from a DB server in a diary program and receiving information on a schedule registered or updated in the DB server when the program is executed; Mobile coupon service system including

The method of claim 1,

The user terminal and the related party terminal, the coupon includes a data storage unit for registering the information of the user's schedule is registered and modified in the DB server via the wireless mobile communication network when the user's future schedule is entered into the coupon service program using the wireless mobile communication network Transmission system

The method of claim 1, wherein the web server,

When the schedule information of the user is registered or updated in the DB server, an information sharing system for searching for a coupon suitable for the user in the DB server and transmitting it to the user again