KR100603954B1 - Methods for Transacting the Foreign Auction between Buyer and Seller - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention uses a computer to bid in real time at an overseas auction on behalf of a buyer. Linking and storing the login information of the buyer connecting to the computer and the login information of the site where the overseas auction is made, and according to the bid request of the buyer In the above, it is configured to access the site in real time with login information (site), and input bid information input from the buyer to the site.

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Description

Methods for Transacting the Foreign Auction between Buyer and Seller}

The following drawings attached to this specification are illustrative of preferred embodiments of the present invention, and together with the detailed description of the invention to serve to further understand the technical spirit of the present invention, the present invention is a matter described in such drawings It should not be construed as limited to

1 illustrates an example of a computer system to which the present invention is applied.

2 shows a configuration of a server computer according to the present invention.

3 illustrates a process for a server computer to bid on a requested overseas auction on behalf of a buyer.

4 illustrates a process in which a server computer receives a buyer's bid request.

5 illustrates a process in which a server computer manages a bid request of a buyer.

FIG. 6 illustrates an operation sequence of a server computer that allows a buyer to bid in real time on an overseas auction site.

7 illustrates a process in which a server computer processes a buyer's rebidding.

8 illustrates a process of delivering a successful bid product to a buyer.

* Brief description of the major symbols in the drawings *

10: server computer 20: buyer interface 30: auction site

The present invention relates to a method for closing an overseas auction between a buyer and a seller, and more particularly, participates on behalf of the buyer in an overseas auction, and in response to the buyer's intention, the buyer participates in the auction in real time. It is about how to close overseas auctions.

Traditionally, the trading method that has been widely used in commerce is a seller-based trading method centered on the seller. This was mostly a way of trading, which allowed sellers to produce, package, and price their products, which made them very advantageous in trading.

As another trading method, an auction appears, and if the conventional trading method is a method of closing a deal between a plurality of sellers and a plurality of buyers, the auction is a method of closing a deal between one seller and a plurality of buyers.                         

In an auction, the seller announces the product to multiple sellers, and the buyer bids the price at random. Bidding is competitive among buyers, and once a certain criteria (eg, time, price, etc.) is reached, the auction is won or auctioned.

The auction was able to position itself as a new commerce for the conventional one-way method of trading by partially engaging (priceing) the buyer in the transaction.

On the other hand, as the society developed into an information society thanks to the development of communication means, the commerce carried out in the field moved online and the traditional stores moved online to form shopping malls.

Compared with traditional commerce, online transactions are competitive in time and money. In particular, by breaking down regional boundaries, buyers can purchase their desired products online at any time, no matter where they are.

This collapse of the place was seen by sellers as a powerful weapon that allows buyers to make more use of online shopping malls. In particular, online auctions have made netizens a commerce agent, providing a potential market sufficient to attract explosive attention to netizens, both buyers and sellers.

Auction (www.auction.co.kr), Korea's representative auction shopping mall, is estimated to have posted sales of KRW 34 billion (based on commissions) and operating profit of KRW 2.5 billion a year ago. LG Eshop, Lotte.com, and Samsung Mall It is reported to have achieved remarkable growth, ranking fourth in the industry.

In this atmosphere, buyers have also broadened their eyes to overseas shopping malls. Especially, netizens in geographically isolated countries such as Korea are calling for purchases that are different from local shops or domestic shopping malls. It acts as a factor sufficient to produce it.

By the way, it is hard for netizens to purchase products like people from other countries in shopping malls that speak other languages. In particular, linguistic barriers cause buyers to abandon commerce itself. In addition, even if a product is purchased in an overseas shopping mall, there are often cases of giving up the purchase because it is not delivered separately.

In addition, even though most of the overseas auction sites adhere to the monetization policy, even though the auction site, which is a free member system, suffers from difficulties such as remittance and international delivery to the exhibitors after a successful bid, it is impossible to actually bid on many overseas auction sites. Overseas auctions and overseas purchases have been seen as a big barrier for Koreans.

The present invention was devised to solve the above problems, and bids on behalf of the buyer in the auction going on abroad, the buyer's intention to bid in auction in real time to close the overseas auction between the buyer and the seller It is intended to provide the present invention.

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In order to achieve the above object, the auction method of the present invention translates and outputs auction information of a plurality of overseas auction sites (or auction computers) to a buyer to make a transaction between the seller and the buyer in an auction manner, and the buyer An auction agency computer for registering bidding information from auction site on behalf of a buyer,
(1) obtain a plurality of auction agency authentication information for a specific overseas auction site for a plurality of potential buyers, store them by auction site, and assign buyer authentication information to a buyer who wants to use the overseas auction agency service; Storing them for each buyer;
(2) receiving buyer authentication information from the buyer and authenticating it;
(3) translating and outputting auction information of the plurality of foreign auction sites to the buyer;
(4) receiving and storing bidding information such as bidding product information and bidding price together with a bid request for an auction of a specific overseas auction site from an authorized buyer;
(5) the auction agency computer accessing the bidding overseas auction site;
(6) arbitrarily selecting authentication information that is free from bidding among a plurality of auction agency authentication information assigned to the overseas auction site, and allocating the same to the buyer;
(7) inputting bidding information of the buyer to the overseas auction site using the allocated auction agency authentication information;
(8) receiving the bidding result information from the overseas auction site, and translating it to the buyer, and outputting the same.

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Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Prior to this, terms or words used in the specification and claims should not be construed as having a conventional or dictionary meaning, and the inventors should properly explain the concept of terms in order to best explain their own invention. Based on the principle that can be defined, it should be interpreted as meaning and concept corresponding to the technical idea of the present invention.

Therefore, the embodiments described in the specification and the drawings shown in the drawings are only the most preferred embodiment of the present invention and do not represent all of the technical idea of the present invention, various modifications that can be replaced at the time of the present application It should be understood that there may be equivalents and variations.

In the present invention, the server computer 10 bids for an auction in progress in accordance with the buyer's request, the server computer 10 accepts the request at the buyer's request based on the account held by the server computer 10 overseas The server operates to reflect the bidding in real time on the auction site.

In an example, in a computer system using the Internet as a track, the server computer 10 operates as a web server and operates a site so that a purchaser can freely access the server computer 10. That is, the server computer 10 communicates with the buyer or something else through this site.                     

1 illustrates a computer system based on the Internet. In FIG. 1, server computer 10 is connected with a number of shopper interfaces 20 connected to the Internet. The purchaser interface 20 includes a modem 29 to smoothly exchange information with the server computer 10, which includes a server computer 10 at a high speed for information transmitted along a track. Or send and receive via the buyer interface 20.

The purchaser interface 20 is preferably a traditional personal computer, and the purchaser can use the device 20 to request the server computer 10 to bid on his behalf at an auction in progress at a particular overseas site.

The auction site 30 communicates with the server computer 10 and / or the buyer interface 20 via a track. The auction site 30 uploads a product that the seller wants to sell, and provides a virtual space for the buyer to search (or bid) on the uploaded product. This space is built by web-based computer programming technology.

As shown in FIG. 2, the server computer 10 includes a central processing unit (CPU) 11, an operating system 12, a RAM 13, a ROM 14, and a bid processor 15, a login processor 16. ), A translator 17, a network interface 19, and a data storage device 18.

Traditional personal computers or workstations with a significant amount of memory and processing power are preferably used as this server computer 10. The server computer 10, in one embodiment, acts as a web server to receive bids requested by the buyer. The server computer 11 can perform a large amount of work by executing a huge amount of mathematical operations in information processing or database search.

The bid processor 15, the login processor 16 and the translator 17 utilize the resources of the server computer 10, such as the central processing unit 11, RAM 13, ROM 14 and the operating system 12. Modules configured to handle assigned tasks, which may be made by one or more microprocessors or may be part of the central processing unit 11.

The bid processor 15 is a login information for participating in the auction in progress at the auction site 30, this login information is a login information of the auction site is generally used a username and password consisting of a combination of symbols, numbers, bid price, It supports the delivery and communication of bidding products so that the buyer's bid request can be reflected in the corresponding auction in real time.

In addition, the login processor 16 stores the buyer's login information, the login information used by the buyer to access the server computer, the login information assigned to the buyer, and the login information connected to the auction site 30 where the auction is in progress. Link to the login information so that the buyer's bid request is reflected in the auction in real time.

Meanwhile, translation programs such as Unisoft 'BABEL TOP 2002', JungSoft 'Word Change', DreamC & C's 'E-Tran', and Lycos, ClickQ, Daum, OCN's translation system and others are similar. Is preferably used. This translator 17 translates the web page before the web page is sent to the buyer.                     

The data storage device 18 includes an optical storage device such as a CD-ROM or magnetic storage devices such as a hard disk, a floppy disk, and a magnetic tape. This data storage 18 includes a buyer database 181, a login database 182, a bid request database 183, a bid result database 184, and a re-bidding database 185, thereby bidding on the auction site 30. Contains information needed to process In a preferred embodiment, database software (MS-SQL) produced by Microsoft Corporation or database software produced by Oracle Corporation is used to create and manipulate these databases.

The buyer database 181 stores information related to the buyer, such as name, address, telephone number, social security number, e-mail address, and past system usage history. This information is obtained when the buyer connects to the server computer and joins as a member.

The login database 182 stores information related to the purchaser's authentication by the server computer, such as the purchaser's ID, password, encryption key, e-mail address, and social security number. The login information necessary for bidding on the auction site 30 is randomly obtained by assigning the server computer or the member at the time of joining or modifying the grade. Optionally, the auction site 30 may assign special authentication means that allow the server computer 10 to use this auction site 30 freely.

The bid request database 183 records such items as the bid product, bid price, recipient address, name, contact information, bid conditions, additional messages to describe the bid product. The bidding information is obtained when a buyer requests a bid for the server computer 10, and the buyer fills in the necessary information on a web page in a fillable form provided by the server computer, and the 'bid button' provided on the web page. You can easily transfer by clicking with the mouse. Or, the buyer may send a bid request to the server computer using things such as e-mail, telephone, and fax.

The bid result database 184 records the fact that the bid is made, such as the bidding products, exhibitors, auction progress results, auction deadline, bidding conditions, such as the conditions set in the auction of the product or what the buyer must know.

The rebidding database 185 records things such as bidding products, bidding prices, bidding conditions, and additional messages for describing bidding products, similar to the bidding request database 181. Preferably, this re-bidding is recorded by the purchaser writing a bid on the web page provided by the server computer 10 and sending it back to the server computer 10.

1 and 2, one computer is configured to operate as the server computer 10, but those skilled in the art will appreciate that the functionality may be distributed to a plurality of computers. In one example, server computer 10 is designed in a distributed fashion such that the database and each module are organized in separate units.

In Fig. 3, the process of the server computer bidding on the requested overseas auction on behalf of the buyer is described.

Using the conventional conventional method, the purchaser logs in to the server computer 10 (S11). The purchaser authenticates by sending an ID and password to the server computer 10, in one example, the server computer 10 provides a traditional web page to the buyer.

In step S12, the server computer 10 translates the overseas auction site into the translator 17 to guide the buyer about the auction in progress. As shown in box 121, the buyer selects any one or more of the products in the auction, cameras, shoes, glasses, refrigerator, and other products in the auction. The web page the buyer sees is in the same form as the auction site, only the language is translated.

The buyer selects a product to participate in the auction, writes a bid message, and requests the server computer 10 to bid auction of this product (S13). The buyer simply sends the written message to the server computer 10 by phone, fax, e-mail, or fills in the details required for the bid, such as the product being bid on the web page, the bid price, the recipient, the recipient's contact number, and the recipient's address. To the server computer 10.

Regarding the input bid request, the server computer 10 checks whether the bid request has been normally described and stores it in the database. In response to the bid request, the auction site 30 is accessed to search for the requested product, and the bid is auctioned according to the bidding condition set by the buyer (S14).

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Thereafter, the server computer 10 checks whether the bid of the buyer is normally entered in the auction site 30 (S15). The bidding does not proceed in the name of the buyer, but consists of any login information assigned by the server computer 10. The server computer 10 automatically logs into the auction site 30 with this login information and participates in the auction with the bidding conditions entered by the buyer.

Before the buyer's bid request is reflected in the auction in progress, the server computer 10 checks whether the bid request has been successfully made. 4 shows a process of checking whether this bid request is normally made.

The server computer 10 checks the received bid request message (S21, S22) and extracts the bidding product and the bid price. In addition, it is checked whether the buyer has sufficient credit. The server computer 10 looks at the previously traded record and checks for any reported accidents or other reported reasons not suitable for the transaction.

In one example, server computer 10 may be configured to ask the buyer to pay a partial cost of the bidding product so that the buyer's transaction is secured. Alternatively, the purchaser's credit card may be used to request a payment system (not shown) for prior authorization for the price of the product being bid. The operation of this server computer 10 is to protect against unscheduled accidents that may occur when an auction is auctioned, for example, a buyer's bad credit, and the unpaid amount of the billed amount.

In step S23, the server computer 10 checks whether the message received from the buyer specifies all items necessary for bidding, such as a product to be bid and a bid price (S23).

If any one of the bids is missing, the server computer 10 requests the buyer to create a new message (S24), receives a new bid message, or receives a modified bid message and checks again.

Accordingly, if everything necessary for bidding is described normally, the server computer 10 normally receives the bid request and records it in the database 183 (S25).

In addition, a process in which the received bid request is effectively managed by the server computer 10 is illustrated in FIG. 5.

In Fig. 5, the server computer 10 periodically checks the bid request message (S31). In step S31, each bid request is compared with the current date and the bid expiration date (S32). If the bid expiration date of the inspected bid request exceeds the current date, the server computer 10 deletes the record from the database 183 (S33).

On the other hand, if the bid expiration date has not exceeded the current date, the record is normally maintained in the database 183 (S34).                     

FIG. 6 illustrates an operation sequence of a server computer that allows a buyer to bid in real time on an overseas auction site.

In part, the auction sites 30 do not allow login for foreigners. For example, sites such as Japan's 'Bidus' and 'Yahoo Auction' are designed to allow members to sign up and bid only if they have a domestic address. In the case of Yahoo! Japan, foreign visitors need to pay an ID fee monthly. There are many problems with using.

If the bid request is normally received, the server computer 10 allocates the login information to the buyer (S41). Here, the login information is login information of the site where the auction is in progress.

In step S41, the server computer 10 selects among the login information secured as shown in the box 411, the login information without any defect in the bid, and allocates it to the buyer. Some sites will not allow you to participate in the auction of the same person afterwards, if the bidder is bidding in the previous auction and not paid.

The server computer 10 selects and assigns the login information which is not related to the buyer to the buyer, and links the allocated login information to the buyer (S42). Specifically, by linking the login information allocated to the server computer login information of the buyer to be linked, the server computer 10 may receive the bid request of the buyer and reflect it in the corresponding auction in real time.

Thereafter, the server computer 10 logs the purchaser into the auction site 30 with the linked login information (S43). This operation of the server computer 10 makes it look as if the buyer himself is directly connected to the auction site 30 to participate in the auction. In practice, however, the buyer merely sees the results of the server computer 10 processing according to the buyer's bid request.

After logging in, the server computer 10 searches (S44) the auction site for a product requested by the buyer, and includes unique identifiers that identify the product for each site. Therefore, by using this identifier, the server computer 10 can search for the bid product in real time at the same time as the login.

If the product is found, the server computer 10 bids at the auction according to the bid message (S45). The server computer 10 bids in real time at the auction reflecting the bidding conditions suggested by the buyer. If the bid request of the buyer is not reflected in real time, it may occur that the auction can not be entered. For example, the bid price suggested by the buyer may be 65,000 yen, but the searched auction may have changed to 66,000 yen in the meantime, or there may be a change in other auctions and the bidding may not be possible.

In addition, when the auction reaches the bid deadline, the number of bids increases to determine the price by a few minutes or several seconds and the auction is closed. Therefore, an apparatus capable of reflecting a buyer's request in real time is required. In the present invention, real-time bidding is enabled by linking two login information to be linked.

Optionally, the server computer 10 confirms the auction expiration date of the bid product from the auction site 30, and stores it as a result of the bid (S46). This auction expiration date is useful for the server computer 10 to manage the bid request message.

7 illustrates a process in which a server computer processes a buyer's rebidding. The shopper logs in to the server computer 10 using the shopper interface 20. The buyer can log in to the server computer 10 to know the progress without having to access the auction site 30.

The server computer 10 uses the linked buyer's login information (auction site) to check the progress of the auction by logging in to the auction site at the same time as the buyer logs in to the server computer 10 or at the request of the buyer. By showing this on the site of the server computer 10, the buyer can check the progress of the bidding auction (S52).

The purchaser checks the progress of the bidding auction in the server computer 10 and determines whether to re-bid (S53).

The purchaser inputs the necessary items for re-bidding, for example, a re-bid product, a re-bid price, a re-bidding condition, and the like into the web page provided by the server computer 10, and inputs the same to the server computer 10. It is possible to re-bid auction in real time (S54).

Optionally, the purchaser may inform the server computer 10 of what is needed for re-bidding using things such as phone, fax, and e-mail.

Then, the server computer 10 processes the buyer's request in real time by recording the re-bidding information input from the buyer in the database 185 and at the same time logging in the auction site while logged in (S55).                     

Through this process, the winning product is delivered to the destination in the country.

8 illustrates a process of delivering a successful bid to a buyer. When the auction is successful, the auction site 30 delivers the goods to the shipping address of the successful bidder entered in the auction site or the login information otherwise.

Accordingly, the distribution center receives the winning item, and the buyer's address found here, which is the buyer's request for bidding, is delivered to the buyer by referring to the address provided to the server computer. Is sent.

As described above, although the present invention has been described by way of limited embodiments and drawings, the present invention is not limited thereto and is intended by those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. Of course, various modifications and variations are possible within the scope of equivalents of the claims to be described.

According to the present invention, the above problems can be solved, and in particular, the buyer's intention can be reflected in an auction conducted overseas in real time and bidding. As a result, buyers can easily participate in overseas auctions that are difficult to participate due to language, commerce, or cultural differences.

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Translating and outputting auction information of a plurality of overseas auction sites (or auction computers) to the buyer to auction the transaction between the seller and the buyer, and registering the bid information from the buyer on the auction site on behalf of the buyer Auction agency computer for, (1) obtain a plurality of auction agency authentication information for a specific overseas auction site for a plurality of potential buyers, store them by auction site, and assign buyer authentication information to a buyer who wants to use the overseas auction agency service; Storing them for each buyer; (2) receiving buyer authentication information from the buyer and authenticating it; (3) translating and outputting auction information of the plurality of foreign auction sites to the buyer; (4) receiving and storing bidding information such as bidding product information and bidding price together with a bid request for an auction of a specific overseas auction site from an authorized buyer; (5) the auction agency computer accessing the bidding overseas auction site; (6) arbitrarily selecting authentication information that is free from bidding among a plurality of auction agency authentication information assigned to the overseas auction site, and allocating the same to the buyer; (7) inputting bidding information of the buyer to the overseas auction site using the allocated auction agency authentication information; And (8) receiving bidding result information from the overseas auction site, translating it to the buyer, and outputting the bidding information. The method of claim 1, Receiving buyer authentication information from a buyer; Determining whether auction agent information corresponding to the inputted buyer authentication information exists; Reading auction agent authentication information linked to the buyer authentication information when auction agent information for the buyer exists; Accessing a corresponding overseas auction site, inputting the auction agency authentication information, and extracting auction progress information corresponding to the auction agency authentication information; And updating the bidding result information based on the extracted auction progress information, and outputting the bidding result information to a buyer. delete The method of claim 1, And wherein the authentication information is login information including an ID and a password. delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete

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