KR101336151B1 - Method and system for providing service of comparing prices by collecting goods information of interest to users in on-line shopping mall - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a price comparison service that collects the interest product information of buyers stored in a plurality of online shopping malls and provides a price comparison service and at the same time collects the interest product information and registers new or updated product information for price comparison. It is about the system. The present invention comprises the steps of requesting the buyer's interest product information stored in the online shopping mall server, the price comparison service server and the online shopping mall server extracts the requested product information requested from the price comparison service server and transmits to the price comparison service server And (C) providing, by the price comparison service server, a price comparison service service for the interested product by using the interest product information received from the online shopping mall server.

Description

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SERVICE OF COMPARING PRICES BY COLLECTING GOODS INFORMATION OF INTEREST TO USERS IN ON-LINE SHOPPING MALL}

The present invention relates to a method and system for providing a price comparison service by collecting interest product information of a plurality of shopping malls, and more specifically, to provide a price comparison service by collecting interest product information of buyers stored in a plurality of online shopping malls. At the same time, the present invention relates to a method and system for providing a price comparison service that can provide a benefit to a user who contributes to a new or renewed product information for price comparison through the collection of interest product information.

With the widespread use of the Internet, merchandise sellers and sales agents have built an online commerce marketplace, or online shopping mall. Accordingly, product buyers can easily purchase a product through an online shopping mall without directly visiting an offline store.

The emergence of online shopping malls has shortened the time required for product purchase and reduced costs, compared to the conventional method in which a buyer visited several offline stores and purchased a product.

Due to the advantages of such an online shopping mall, the number of buyers who actually use the online shopping mall gradually increases year by year. As a result, the number of sellers selling products through online shopping malls has increased, and even the number of sales agents who act or broker commercial transactions between product buyers and product sellers has increased.

However, in the online shopping malls, many kinds of products are displayed on the product sales web page, which cannot be compared with the offline stores, and each product type uses a separate web page.

In this state, the buyer searches for a certain product and then simply clicks the mouse to go to another product's web page. When searching for a large number of products, the buyer has difficulty in finding the corresponding web page even if he tries to purchase the previously searched product.

To alleviate this inconvenience, most online shopping malls have a storage space where buyers can store their own information such as web pages of their products when they find a product they like while searching, often called 'wish list' or 'shopping cart'. It provides a storage space called. On the other hand, the product that the buyer wants to store separately in addition to the shopping cart product stored in the shopping cart may be stored in a separate storage space under the name of 'interest product'.

In addition, the products that the buyer selects during shopping and checks the product information are temporarily stored by the online shopping mall server under a name such as 'Today' or 'Recently Viewed' for a certain period of time. It can also be provided to a person to help with shopping.

In the present invention, the wish list product, the shopping cart product, the interest product, the present product and the recently viewed product, etc. will be referred to as the "interest product".

However, these interested products provide the buyer with convenience to purchase at the online shopping mall, but they are not helpful for comparing with the product information (typically sales price) at other online shopping malls. There is an inconvenience to input and compare.

For example, as shown in FIG. 4, electronic products such as laptops may be “ Apple Macbook Air MC965KH / A 'is difficult to recognize a brand name is a common reflection, so it is often difficult to search by re-entering the pre -stored product name in the price comparison site.

On the other hand, the 'price comparison site' is a site that helps the purchase by comparing the price of the products sold in the online shopping mall and the free gifts, etc., each shopping mall is slightly different even for the same product.

In particular, the price comparison site exposes buyers to different prices set by each seller for the same product sold in multiple online shopping malls, allowing buyers to compare products' prices more closely and buy products at the lowest price. The most important role is to make it possible.

Therefore, in the price comparison site, it is very important to provide buyers with accurate purchase judgment information by quickly reflecting product information, particularly price information, which changes frequently in various online shopping malls.

Conventionally, in order to reflect fluctuating product price information or new product information on a price comparison site, the product information is periodically received from a corresponding online shopping mall or a method of collecting product information of each online shopping mall using a tool such as a search robot. This was used a lot. Incidentally, as disclosed in Korean Patent No. 0491250, when a buyer visits an online shopping mall and searches for an item through a price comparison site, a method of collecting and reflecting corresponding product information is also adopted.

However, since the change of the product information of each online shopping mall is frequently made frequently, it is very difficult to accurately reflect the change of the product (price) information on the price comparison site only by the above-described conventional method.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, and to provide a method and a system for easily price comparison using information stored as an interest product of a buyer in an online shopping mall. Furthermore, it is to provide a method and system for updating product information of a price comparison site using the interested product information. In addition, it is intended to provide a method and a system for providing a predetermined benefit to a buyer who performs a price comparison using a product of interest.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention, (A) the price comparison service server requesting the product information of the buyer stored in the online shopping mall server; (B) the online shopping mall server extracts the requested product information requested from the price comparison service server and transmits the requested product information to the price comparison service server; And (C) providing, by the price comparison service server, a price comparison service service for the interested product by using the interested product information received from the online shopping mall server.

In addition, the step (A) of the present invention, the buyer requesting the price comparison service server to synchronize the buyer's interest product information stored in the online shopping mall server to the purchaser terminal; and the price comparison service server authentication key of the buyer And requesting confirmation of the purchaser's authentication by transmitting the authentication key to the online shopping mall server. The step (B) includes the case where the authentication of the corresponding purchaser is completed in the online shopping mall server. And transmitting the interest product information of the corresponding buyer stored in the online shopping mall server to the price comparison service server.

And in the step (A), when the price comparison service server does not have an authentication key of a buyer, requesting for the authentication key issuance to the online shopping mall server by the price comparison service server. The online shopping mall server may generate and issue an authentication key and transmit the generated authentication key to the price comparison service server.

In addition, the present invention (D) the price comparison service server compares the product of interest information received from the online shopping mall server with the previously stored product information to determine whether the product of interest price comparison service is already made step; And (E) if the price comparison service server determines that the product of interest is a product for which a price comparison service has been previously performed, compares the sales conditions and updates the sales information of the product for which the price comparison service has been previously performed. It may further comprise a.

In the step (E), when the price comparison service server determines that the product of interest is not a product for which a price comparison service has been provided, the product of interest is newly registered on the price comparison page for the reference product of the product of interest. The interest product information may be stored in a price comparison product DB as new product information.

And if the reference product of the product of interest does not exist, the price comparison service is performed by generating a temporary reference product page and price comparison link the product of interest to the temporary reference product page.

The system of the present invention for this purpose includes a price comparison service server, an online shopping mall server and a purchaser terminal connected by a network, the price comparison service server 100 is a database unit 110, interest product processing unit 120 and product information It is configured to include a processing unit 130, the online shopping mall server 200 may be configured to include a shopping mall member authentication module 201, product sales module 202 and interest product DB 203, the price comparison The database unit 110 of the service server 100 includes a personal authentication DB 111, an interest product DB 112, and a price comparison product DB 113, and the interest product processing unit 120 includes a member authentication module 121. ) And the interest product price comparison module 122, and the product information processing unit 130 may be configured to include a new product registration module 131.

According to the present invention, the purchaser can immediately retrieve the product of interest in the price comparison site, without having to re-search in the online store of interest product information, it is possible to save the maximum shopping time.

 In addition, by using the price comparison information of the price comparison site can be provided with a price comparison service of a high-purchase interest product, it is possible to collect and manage the interest products of various online shopping malls within the price comparison site. In addition, in the course of interest product price comparison service, if the relevant product contributes to product information update / new price comparison product registration on the price comparison site, a discount coupon can be provided.

Online shopping malls can expose fluctuating product information to consumers through a price comparison site, so the effect of customer inflow can be expected.

In the price comparison site, product information update and new product registration are automatically performed for new products or price variable products registered in the online shopping mall, thereby saving human and physical resources. In particular, it collects information about completely new products that are not in price comparison and can provide price comparison service to buyers quickly.

1 is a schematic system block diagram of the present invention;
2 is a flow chart of a price comparison service process performed around the interest product processing unit of the present invention.
Figure 3 is a flow chart of the process of processing in the product information processing unit of the present invention
Figure 4 is an example price comparison site
5 is an example of interest price comparison page

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

Prior to this, terms and words used in the present specification and claims should not be construed as limited to ordinary or dictionary terms, and the inventor should appropriately interpret the concepts of the terms appropriately The present invention should be construed in accordance with the meaning and concept consistent with the technical idea of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments described in the present specification and the configurations shown in the drawings are merely the most preferred embodiments of the present invention and are not intended to represent all of the technical ideas of the present invention. Therefore, various equivalents It should be understood that water and variations may be present.

1 is a schematic block diagram of an embodiment of a system used in a method of providing a price comparison service by collecting interest product information of an online shopping mall of the present invention.

Important elements of the entire system are the price comparison service server 100, the online shopping mall server 200, and the purchaser terminal 300. And they are connected by computer networks such as wired and wireless Internet.

The price comparison service server 100 is a server that operates a price comparison site, the database unit 110 including a personal authentication DB 111, the interest product DB 112 and the price comparison product DB 113 for the present invention ) And the product of interest processing unit 120 and the product information processing unit 130. And the interest product processing unit 120 includes a member authentication module 121 and the interest product price comparison module 122, the product information processing unit 130 is provided with a new product registration module 131 and a discount coupon module 132. do.

The online shopping mall server 200 may exist in plurality as a server that operates various online shopping malls. The online shopping mall includes an open market in which a plurality of sellers sell various products as well as a general shopping mall. The online shopping mall server 200 includes a shopping mall member authentication module 201, a product selling module 202, and a product of interest DB 203.

The purchaser terminal 300 is a terminal operated by a purchaser connected to the online shopping mall server 200 and the price comparison service server 100 through a wired or wireless network. The buyer requests the interested product information to be generated in the online shopping mall server 200 through the purchaser terminal 300 and requests that the price comparison service server 100 obtain the interested product information from the online shopping mall server 200. to be.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a process from S100 to S800 below for collecting and storing a product of interest and providing a price comparison service, which is performed based on the product of interest processing unit 120 in the price comparison service server. The method of providing a price comparison service by collecting interest product information of an online shopping mall by the system of the present invention is as follows.

First, the buyer stores the interest product in the interest product DB 203 of the online shopping mall server 200 in the process of searching for the products to be purchased by accessing the online shopping mall server 200 through the purchaser terminal 300. At this time, the product searched by the buyer by the online shopping mall server 200 may be stored in the interest product DB 113 of the online shopping mall server 200 as the interest product regardless of the active intention of the buyer.

Thereafter, when the buyer wants to compare the price of the interest product stored in the server of the desired online shopping mall, the buyer terminal 300 accesses the price comparison service server 100 and performs the interest product synchronization request. )

The interest product synchronization request means that the buyer requests to receive a price comparison service for an interest product previously stored in an online shopping mall at a price comparison site, and the buyer terminal 300 synchronizes the interest product to the price comparison service server 100. When there is a request, this means that the price comparison service server 100 requests the online shopping mall server 200 to obtain the interested product information stored in the interested product DB 203 of the desired online shopping mall server 200. At this time, the price comparison service server 100 may be provided with a page for making a request for synchronization of interest products and transmitted to the purchaser terminal 300, and the page for making a request for synchronization of interest products may be provided as a separate page. have.

The request for synchronization of interest items is performed by inputting the ID and password of the online shopping mall where the buyer wants to bring the goods of interest to the purchaser terminal 300 connected to the price comparison service server 100 and selecting 'request interest items'. Can be. In this case, the corresponding page of the price comparison site (which may be a separate page) may include an input box of ID and password and a button for selecting an item of interest for each online shopping mall.

At this time, the import of the interest product may be configured to import all of the interest products stored in each of the various online shopping malls at once, or may be selectively imported to each online shopping mall.

The price comparison service server 100 receiving the request for synchronization of interest products from the purchaser terminal 300, the authentication key of the buyer for the online shopping mall to obtain the interest product information by the member authentication module 121 is a personal authentication DB (111) Check whether or not it exists in step (S200).

If there is no authentication key of the buyer, the price comparison service server 100 transmits the information (for example, the corresponding online shopping mall ID or password of the buyer) to the online shopping mall server 200 and issues an authentication key. Ask.

The online shopping mall server 200 that is requested to issue an authentication key checks whether the buyer is a shopping mall member with the information necessary for the received authentication by the shopping mall member authentication module 201, and generates an authentication key when authenticated as a member. Issue and transmit to price comparison service server 100. (S300)

The authentication key transmitted in this way is stored in the personal authentication DB of the price comparison service server 100 is used continuously. Of course, the authentication key is unique to each buyer. In addition, when a buyer requests to synchronize more than one online shopping mall, a separate authentication key is issued for each online shopping mall.

If the buyer's authentication key exists in step S200, the price comparison service server 100 requests the buyer's interest product information while transmitting the authentication key to the online shopping mall server 200. (S400)

Accordingly, the online shopping mall server 200 checks the received authentication key (S500), and when authentication is completed, extracts the interested product information of the corresponding buyer from the interested product DB 203 and transmits it to the price comparison service server 100. (S600)

The interest product information may be configured by selectively combining items such as a product name, a manufacturer's model name of a product, a manufacturer, category information of a corresponding shopping mall, a price, a seller, a delivery condition, a free gift, and a product code of a corresponding shopping mall.

The product code means a unique code assigned to each product sold in the online shopping mall in order to manage a product sold in the online shopping mall.

In operation S600, the price comparison service server 100 receiving the buyer's interest product information from the online shopping mall server 200 stores the information in the interest product DB 112, and compares the price by the interest product price comparison module 122. The product list is extracted from the comparison product DB 113 to provide a price comparison service for the interested product requested by the buyer (S700).

As shown in FIG. 5, the price comparison service server 100 may provide a price comparison service for a product of interest as a separate page to a buyer.

Next, the interested product processing unit 120 of the price comparison service server 100 transmits the interested product information to the product information processing unit 130 so as to process the information so that the request can be stored in the interest product information processing request, that is, the price comparison product DB. Request (S800)).

Next, a process of processing the product of interest information by the product information processor 130 will be described with reference to FIG. 3. Here, the product information processing unit 130 finds reference product information stored in the price comparison product DB 113 of the price comparison service server 100 corresponding to the interest product information collected from the online shopping mall, and belongs to the price of the reference product information. After the conversion to the comparison product information is stored in the price comparison product DB 113 as a main function.

First, the product information processing unit 130 that receives the request for processing the product of interest information from the product of interest processing unit 120 checks the product code of the product of interest by the new product registration module 131 and compares the price to the reference product, that is, price comparison It is determined whether the product belonging to the reference product stored in the product DB 113 is a product for which a price comparison service has been previously performed (S900).

Here, the reference product 10 is the same product, since there are many differences in how to display the product information for each online shopping mall, so that the difference is corrected in the price comparison site, the product is defined as one criterion, Even if there is a difference in the above-described notation method, if the same products are matched to the reference product to which the product belongs, price comparison can be made effectively.

For example, as shown in FIG. 4, the price comparison site defines a reference product 10 for price comparison and pre-stores information such as specifications about the reference product 10. In addition, the price comparison site provides a price comparison service by arranging a plurality of shopping mall selling products 20 that are being price-compared with the reference product 10.

 The information of the reference product 10 and the information of the shopping mall sale product 20 being compared with each other are matched with each other and stored in the price comparison product DB 113. The shopping mall sale product information includes seller information, shopping mall information, price, delivery condition, and product code of the shopping mall.

Thus, in step S900 the new product registration module 131 searches the price comparison product DB 113 with the product code of the product of interest to search whether there is shopping mall sales product information having the same product code.

If the interest product is a product for which a price comparison service is already performed in step S900, that is, if the same product code is found as the product code of the product of interest, the new product registration module 131 may compare the product with the product of interest. Comparing the sales conditions of the inter-price, shipping costs, free gifts and the like (S910), if the sales conditions are the same, the process is terminated as it is.

If the selling conditions are not the same in step S910, it means that the product information previously stored in the price comparison product DB 113 of the price comparison service server 100 is changed, so that the product of the price being compared with the sales information of the product of interest The sales information is updated and replaced (S920), and the updated product (sale) information is stored in the price comparison product DB 113 (S1200) and the process can be terminated.

At this time, if necessary, the discount voucher providing module 132 issues a discount voucher for the interested product to the buyer who has requested to synchronize the interest product information used to update the sales information, and sends the discount voucher to the interested product DB 113 together with the interested product information. After the process (S1300) of separately providing benefits for the contribution of information provision, which can be stored and used when purchasing a product of interest, the process may be terminated. The benefit is not limited to the discount voucher, but can be used in various ways such as earning points.

In step S900, if the interest product is not a product for which a price comparison service has been previously made, the new product registration module 131 has the same reference product as the interest product as sales information such as a product name, category matching information, and price range of the interest product. It is determined whether or not (S1000).

The category matching information refers to information in which information of a category to which a reference product belongs in a price comparison site and information of a category to which a product of interest belongs in a shopping mall are matched with each other. The category matching information between each online shopping mall and a price comparison site is a price in advance. It is stored in the price comparison product DB 113 by the comparison site manager.

Here, if it is determined that the reference product exists, the new product is automatically registered (linked) with the interest product on the price comparison page for the reference product (S1100). In operation S1200, the process may be terminated.

Even in this case, the discount voucher providing module 132 performs a process of separately providing a benefit for the information providing contribution described above to the buyer who requested to synchronize the interest product information used for the new sales information registration (S1300). You can then terminate the process.

In step S1300, the discount coupon providing module 132 may provide a discount coupon that can be used only in a shopping mall that provides the interest products in which the steps S920, S1100, and S1200 are performed. For example, as illustrated in FIG. 5, a discount coupon applied to an interest product of a corresponding shopping mall may be additionally exposed to a buyer on a separately prepared interest product price comparison page.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step S1000 that the reference product for the product of interest does not exist, the new product registration module 131 generates a temporary reference product page (S1400). At this stage, the temporary reference product is difficult to include complete product information (specifications, specifications, etc.), so it may include only simple product information of a brand name.

Next, it is checked whether matching information matching each other exists between the category classified in the Internet shopping mall and the category classified in the price comparison site with respect to the product of interest (S1500).

If there is category matching information, the temporary reference product is classified into a category of the corresponding price comparison site (S1700), and the price comparison service is provided as a product belonging to the price comparison link, that is, the temporary reference product on the temporary reference product page. A process to be made is performed (S1800).

Thereafter, the interest product information is stored in the price comparison product DB 113 (S1900), and the temporary reference product information (which may include the interest product information linked thereto) is notified to a manager terminal (not shown) ( S2000), the process ends. The reason for notifying the manager terminal is that there is no detailed product information in the temporary reference product page, so that the administrator loads the detailed product information.

On the other hand, if category matching information does not exist in the step S1500, the temporary reference product information (which may include temporary reference product page information) is stored in a temporary DB (not shown) (S1600), and this is a manager terminal (not shown). After notifying (S2000), the process ends.

100: price comparison service server 110: database unit
111: Personal authentication DB 112: Interest product DB
113: price comparison products DB 120: interest product processing unit
121: membership authentication module 122: interest price comparison module
130: product information processing unit 131: new product registration module
132: discount coupon module 200: online shopping mall server
201: shopping mall member authentication module 202: product sales module
203: Interest product DB 300: Buyer terminal

Claims (10)

(A) the price comparison service server 100 receives a request for the interest product synchronization for the buyer's interest product information stored in the online shopping mall server 200 from the buyer terminal 300;
(B) the price comparison service server 100 receiving the request for synchronization of interest products by the member authentication module 121, the authentication key of the buyer for the online shopping mall to obtain the interest product information is the personal authentication DB (111) Checking whether or not present in the;
(C) When the buyer's authentication key exists in the personal authentication DB 111, the price comparison service server 100 transmits the buyer's authentication key to the online shopping mall server 200 to the buyer's authentication key. Requesting product of interest information;
(D) When the authentication is completed by checking the authentication key of the buyer in the online shopping mall server 200, the price comparison service server 100 stores the buyer's interest product information stored in the online shopping mall server 200. Receiving a transmission; And
(E) the price comparison service server 100 stores the interest product information of the buyer received from the online shopping mall server 200 in the interest product DB 112 and compares the price by the interest product price comparison module 122. Extracting a product list from the product DB 113 and providing a price comparison service for the interested product which has received the interest product synchronization request from the buyer terminal 300; collecting price information of the online shopping mall including the price comparison service How to give it.
delete The method according to claim 1,
In the step (C), if there is no authentication key of the buyer in the personal authentication DB (111),
Requesting, by the price comparison service server 100, to issue an authentication key to the online shopping mall server 200; And
And receiving, by the price comparison service server 100, the authentication key of the buyer generated and issued by the online shopping mall server 200, by collecting interest product information of the online shopping mall. .
The method according to claim 1,
(F) The price comparison service server 100 compares the product of interest information received from the online shopping mall server 200 with the product information previously stored in the price comparison product DB 113, and the product of interest is price comparison service. Determining whether the product is being made; And
(G) When the price comparison service server 100 determines that the product of interest is a product for which a price comparison service has been previously made, the product for which the price comparison service 200 is made by comparing the sales conditions Updating the sales information of the; Collecting the product information of interest of the online shopping mall further comprising a price comparison service.
The method according to claim 1,
(F) The price comparison service server 100 compares the product of interest information received from the online shopping mall server 200 with the product information previously stored in the price comparison product DB 113, and the product of interest is price comparison service. Determining whether the product is being made; And
(H) If the price comparison service server 100 determines that the product of interest is not a product for which a price comparison service has been previously performed, newly registers the product of interest on a price comparison page for a reference product of the product of interest. And storing the interest product information as a new product information in the price comparison product DB 113. The method of claim 1, wherein the interest product information is collected.
The method according to claim 4 or 5,
The price comparison service server 100 provides a separate benefit for providing information to the buyer requesting to synchronize the product information of interest used to update the sale information of the product or to store the new product information; A method of providing a price comparison service by collecting information of interests of a shopping mall.
The method according to claim 5,
If the reference product of the product of interest does not exist, the price comparison service server 100 performs a price comparison service by creating a temporary reference product page and price comparison link the product of interest to the temporary reference product page; The method of providing a price comparison service by collecting the product information of interest of the online shopping mall further comprising.
The method of claim 7,
And notifying, by the price comparison service server (100), of the temporary reference product information to an administrator terminal, collecting interest product information of an online shopping mall and providing a price comparison service.
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