KR100387329B1 - Multi-auction Method Including a Mediation System - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides an auctioneer who applied for an auction (net auction or reverse auction) in any manner, and presents a proper price for the auction target product, and the transaction can be concluded by arbitrating the net auctioner and the reverse auctioner who applied for the auction for the same product group. A multi-auction method of a multi-auction system having an intermediary system is provided. The multi-auction method of a multi-auction system according to the present invention provides a forward and reverse auction with the auction starting price for the same product from the forward and reverse auctioners, respectively. If an application message is input, the mediation system includes a first step of calculating an appropriate price using price information and usage period information of the auction product; The second step of the e-mail server notifying the net and reverse auctioners of the proper price; When an appropriate price approval message is input from the forward auction and the reverse auction, the mediation system determines the forward auction and the reverse auction as the successful bidder of the reverse auction and the forward auction, respectively, and the auction server terminates the forward auction and the reverse auction. A third step; When an appropriate price approval message is input from one of the forward and reverse auctioneers and an appropriate price rejection message is input from another auctioneer, the intermediary system adjusts the auction start price of the approved auctioneer to the appropriate price and the approved auctioneer. A fourth step of registering the bidder as an auctioneer in the rejected auctioneer with the appropriate price as a bid, and the auction server continuing the auction of the approved auctioneer and the rejected auctioneer; When the appropriate price rejection message is input from the forward auction and the reverse auction, the auction server may include a fifth step of continuing the forward and reverse auctions.

Description

Multi-auction Method Including a Mediation System

The present invention relates to a multi-auction method of a multi-auction system using the Internet, to present an auction price to an auctioneer who applied for an auction (net auction or reverse auction) in an arbitrary manner, and to auction each for the same product group. The present invention relates to a multi-auction method of a multi-auction system having an intermediary system in which a transaction can be concluded by arbitrating the price negotiation between the applied net and reverse auctions.

In general, electronic commerce (EC) refers to a transaction in which all or part of a transaction of goods or services is processed by an electronic method such as an electronic document exchange, but in a narrow sense, an advertisement of a product or a service is carried out through the Internet. Or network-based cyber commerce. In recent years, the number of use of electronic commerce has exploded in developed countries.

Such e-commerce can be usefully used in retailers who want to effectively advertise and sell goods at low cost, such as department stores or discount stores. It can also be used by manufacturers who want to sell their products directly to consumers or traders who want to advertise and export their products or products abroad.

Currently used e-commerce methods can be classified into conventional cyber shopping mall method, Internet mall-of-mals, auction method, and reverse auction method. Here, the auction is to be expressed as a net auction as a concept distinguished from the reverse auction.

A typical cyber shopping mall is an electronic catalog including price information and product descriptions of all products to be sold in a cyber space, and is a widely used method worldwide for selling products to Internet users. Mall-of-Malls sells goods by setting up separate corners in existing large shopping malls instead of building their own shopping malls through the Internet, and large shopping malls collect a certain amount of sales as fees. Way.

A net auction is a general auction on the Internet. In other words, if the person to sell posts the type and quantity of the product, the auction starting price, and the bid deadline, the buyer is bidding from the starting price and bids the person who bids the highest price based on the closing time, thereby making a sale. The reverse auction method is that when a person who wants to buy a product requests a quotation from cyber space, the stores and buyers who offer the most favorable terms of sale to the buyer are offered to the stores that are registered as members of the cyber operator. That's how we do it. The difference between forward and reverse auctions is that auction applicants and bidders change.

In the case of the conventional net auction method, the auction start price suggested by the seller is ridiculously high or in the case of the reverse auction method, the auction start price presented by the buyer is often absurdly low. In this case, nobody wants to bid in the auction. As a result, the auction rate at these auction sites is very low. For this reason, e-commerce sites that trade products by net or reverse auctions have not been activated.

In addition, since one site uses only one method to make an e-commerce transaction, a buyer must visit both a reverse auction site and a forward auction site to purchase a single product. Since the two auction methods are operated separately, there was a problem that both auction methods should be visited.

Therefore, the present invention has been made to solve the problems of the prior art as described above, by calculating the appropriate price for any auction item in the e-commerce site taking the auction method to inform the auctioneer, the auctioneer the auction item The purpose of the present invention is to provide a multi-auction method of a multi-auction system having a brokerage system to improve the bidding rate by controlling the auction application at an exorbitant price.

In addition, by interlocking the forward and reverse auction methods, the auctioneer of the forward auction is registered as the bidder of the reverse auction for the same product group, or the auctioneer of the reverse auction is automatically registered as the bidder of the forward auction for the same product group, so as to facilitate the user's convenience. In addition, another object of the present invention is to provide a multi-auction method of a multi-auction system having an intermediary system to improve the falling rate.

1 is a block diagram of a multi-auction system having an intermediary system according to an embodiment of the present invention,

2 is an operation flowchart of a multi-auctioning method having an intermediary system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

※ Explanation of code about main part of drawing ※

100: multi-auction system 101: auction server

102: mediation system 103: e-mail server

104: communication equipment 105: product database

106: Member Database 110: Internet

120: credit information providing system 131, 132: web-based terminal

In order to achieve the above object, a multi-auction method of a multi-auction system having an intermediary system according to the present invention comprises: an auction server for operating a multi-auction website in which forward and reverse auctions are linked; An intermediary system that calculates an appropriate price of a product applied for auction to the auction server, provides the auctioneer, and arbitrates a transaction to be made by connecting a net auctioner and a reverse auctioner who have applied for an auction for the same product group; And In the multi-auction method of the multi-auction system including an e-mail server for sending the e-mail to the auctioneers and bidders, Applied forward and reverse auction with the auction start price for the same product from the forward and reverse auctioners, respectively A first step of calculating a proper price using the price information of the auction product and usage period information when the message is input; the e-mail server notifies the net auctioner and the reverse auctioneer of the proper price; The second step; When the appropriate price authorization message from the net auction and reverse auction, input, the mediation system determines the net auction and reverse auction as the successful bidder of the reverse auction and the net auction, respectively, and the auction server the net auction And a third step of terminating the reverse auction; the titration from any one of the net auctioneer and the reverse auctioneer. When a price approval message is input and a proper price rejection message is input from another auctioneer, the mediation system adjusts the auction start price of the approved auctioneer to the proper price and sets the approved auctioneer as the bid price to the auction of the rejected auctioneer. Registering as a bidder in the auction server, and the auction server continues the auction of the approved auctioneer and the rejected auctioneer; when an appropriate price rejection message is input from the forward auction and the reverse auction, the auction server is configured to perform the auction. And a fifth step of continuing forward and reverse auctions.

Hereinafter, the "multi-auction method of a multi-auction system with an intermediary system" according to an embodiment of the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings in detail as follows.

1 is a block diagram showing a multi-auction system having a mediation system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to Figure 1, the multi-auction system 100, the auction server 101 for operating a multi-auction website in conjunction with the net auction and reverse auction, and calculates the appropriate price of the goods requested for auction to offer to the auctioneer when the bidding An intermediary system 102 that arbitrates auctioneers and bidders using the calculated appropriate prices, an e-mail server 103 that sends e-mails to auctioneers and bidders, an auction server 101, and an intermediary system 102. Communication device 104 for connecting the e-mail server 103 to the Internet network 110, a product database 105 for storing information about products, and a member database for storing information about members of a website ( 106).

The product database 105 is categorized by category (from major to small) to make it easier for buyers and sellers to find the products they want to buy or sell. Detailed price information such as successful bid price on the site and selling price on other e-commerce websites is stored.

The member database 106 stores information about members of the multi-auction website. In order to become a buyer or a seller in a multi-auction website, a member must be registered, and the member database 106 stores information such as personal information, credit information, purchase status, and sales status of each member.

The multi-auction system 100 is connected to the credit information providing system 120 of the credit information company, card company or bank that provides the credit information of the payment means presented by the buyer through the Internet network 110. In addition, users such as buyers and sellers access the Internet network 110 using the web-based terminals (131, 132). The web-based terminals 131 and 132 include personal computers (PCs) with Internet access, as well as personal mobile communication devices such as cellular phones, PCS phones, PDAs, and the like.

The multi-auction method of the multi-auction system having the intermediary system configured as described above will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 2. In the present invention, it is assumed that the seller applies for forward auction and the buyer applies for reverse auction for the same product group. In addition, although the process of applying for forward auctions and the process of applying for reverse auctions by a seller occur independently of each other, the present invention will be described by way of example as two processes occur at the same time in order to help the understanding of the present invention.

The seller accesses the multi-auction website through the internet network 110 using the seller terminal 132 (S201). At this time, the auction server 101 provides the initial screen and product information to the seller terminal 132. When a seller registers as a member or logs in to this multi-auction website (S202), the seller is entitled to apply for net auction on the product he / she wants to sell.

When the seller registers the product he wants to sell in the category and registers for auction (S203), the seller is registered as a net auctioner and the brokerage system stores price information and usage period information of the product in the product database. Calculate the appropriate price of the auction product by using, and informs the net auctioneer through the e-mail server 103 to the calculated appropriate price (S204), the net auctioner to set the auction start price to the appropriate price. Therefore, the brokerage system calculates the appropriate price of the auction product using the price information of the product and the period of use of the product, so that the wholesale price, the retail price, and the winning price on other auction websites are stored in the product database of the product. Price new products for these products by referring to their selling prices on,, and other e-commerce websites. The appropriate price of the auction product is calculated by applying the period of use of the product to the price of the new product.

Meanwhile, the buyer accesses the multi-auction website through the internet network 110 using the purchaser terminal 131 (S201). At this time, the auction server 101 provides an initial screen and product information to the purchaser terminal 131. When the purchaser registers or logs in as a member of the multi-auction website (S202), the buyer is entitled to apply for reverse auction for the product he / she wants to purchase.

When the buyer registers the product he wants to purchase and applies for auction (S203), the buyer is registered as a reverse auctioneer and the mediation system 102 uses the price information of the corresponding product stored in the product database to obtain an appropriate price of the auction product. And calculate the appropriate price to the reverse auction through the e-mail server 103 (S204), so that the reverse auctioner to set the auction starting price to the appropriate price.

The net auctioneer or the reverse auctioneer who has been informed of the proper price from the mediation system 102 informs the mediation system 102 whether the appropriate price has been approved. If there is no reply for a predetermined time, it is regarded as rejected. However, if the forward or reverse auctioneer modifies the starting price of the auction to the appropriate price, it shall be deemed to have been approved even if no separate approval message is returned to the brokerage system.

When both the forward and reverse auctioners send a reply to the brokerage system approving the appropriate price, the broker system closes the transaction by linking the forward and reverse auctioners (S206) (S207). This ends the auction. In this case, the deal can be concluded before the auction deadline and the auction can be terminated early. Here, the auction is terminated because the transaction is completed, referring to the general auction method, where the forward auction is confirmed as the successful bidder of the auction applied for by the reverse auction and the reverse auction is confirmed as the successful bidder of the auction applied by the forward auction. Means that.

If only one of the forward auction and the reverse auction approves the appropriate price and the other rejects, the brokerage system automatically registers as the bidder of the auctioneer who rejected the approved auctioneer (S208). That is, when the forward auctioner approves and the reverse auctioner rejects, the forward auctioner is automatically registered as a bidder in the reverse auctioneer's auction. At this time, the bid price of the net auctioneer registered as the bidder is the calculated appropriate price. On the other hand, when the reverse auctioner approves and the forward auctioner rejects, the reverse auctioner is automatically registered as a bidder in the auction of the forward auctioneer. At this time, the bid price of the reverse auctioneer registered as the bidder is the calculated appropriate price.

In this case, since the auction of the net auctioner and the auction of the reverse auctioner normally proceeds until the bid deadline date, separate bidders may participate in the auction while offering a bid (S209). When the bid deadline is reached, it is determined whether the bid is closed.

In addition, when the net auctioner and the reverse auctioneer both reject the appropriate price calculated in S205, the two auctions proceed normally (S209).

When the bid deadline is closed, the auction is automatically closed (S210). When the auction is closed, it is determined whether or not the two auctions are successful (S211). If no bidder participates in the net auction at a price higher than the auction start price suggested by the net auctioneer until the bid deadline date, or no bidder participates in the reverse auction at a price lower than the auction start price suggested by the reverse auctioneer, the auction is sought. If both forward and reverse auctions are spotted, the brokerage system will directly arbitrate forward and reverse auctioners. However, when at least one auction of the net auction and the reverse auction is successful, at least one transaction is made (S216), and the auction ends.

If both auctions are bid, the intermediary system notifies the net and reverse auctioners of the chat time for arbitration (S212), and when the chat time comes, price arbitration by closed chat is performed (S213). In other words, a chat is conducted between the net auctioner and the brokerage system, and the reverse auctioner and the brokerage system to negotiate a price under the mediation of the brokerage system.

In the closed chat, only a specific person who has been informed of the chat time from the intermediary system, that is, the seller and the buyer, can enter the closed chat. In the above embodiment, the net auction and the reverse auction are limited, but a lot of sellers and sellers who have applied for an auction for the same product group may participate in the chat at the same time. There is no system for direct selling between buyers and buyers. The system is built so that only the manager of the brokerage system can chat. The manager of the brokerage system delivers only the important contents of the contents of the sellers who wish to sell and the buyers who wish to sell.

When the net auction and the reverse auction are approved by the net auctioner (S214) and an arbitrator is established, the auction is terminated as the transaction is completed (S215).

While the invention has been described above based on the preferred embodiments thereof, these embodiments are intended to illustrate rather than limit the invention. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes, modifications, or adjustments to the above embodiments can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention will be limited only by the appended claims, and should be construed as including all such changes, modifications or adjustments.

As described above, according to the present invention, both auction and reverse auction can be registered in the multi-auction website, and the two auction methods are interoperable, so that the user's convenience is increased, and the brokerage system calculates an appropriate price of the auction product. The bidding rate will be improved because it will be presented and mediated for price negotiation, thereby contributing to the activation of e-commerce.

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delete An auction server for operating a multi-auction website in which forward and reverse auctions are linked; An intermediary system that calculates an appropriate price of a product applied for auction to the auction server, provides the auctioneer, and arbitrates a transaction to be made by connecting a net auctioner and a reverse auctioner who have applied for an auction for the same product group; In the multi-auction method of the multi-auction system, including an e-mail server for sending the e-mail to the auctioneers and bidders, When the net auction and the reverse auction application message is inputted together with the auction start price for the same product from the forward auction and the reverse auction, respectively, the mediation system calculates an appropriate price using price information and usage period information of the auction product. Steps; The second step of the e-mail server notifying the net and reverse auctioners of the proper price; When an appropriate price approval message is input from the forward auction and the reverse auction, the mediation system determines the forward auction and the reverse auction as the successful bidder of the reverse auction and the forward auction, respectively, and the auction server terminates the forward auction and the reverse auction. A third step; When an appropriate price approval message is input from one of the forward and reverse auctioneers and an appropriate price rejection message is input from another auctioneer, the intermediary system adjusts the auction start price of the approved auctioneer to the appropriate price and the approved auctioneer. A fourth step of registering the bidder as an auctioneer in the rejected auctioneer with the appropriate price as a bid, and the auction server continuing the auction of the approved auctioneer and the rejected auctioneer; When the appropriate price rejection message is input from the forward auction and the reverse auction, the auction server comprises a fifth step of continuing the forward and reverse auction multi-auction method of the multi-auction system. delete