KR102667472B1 - Method, computer device, and computer program to provide commerce service based on relationship within community - Google Patents

Abstract

A method, computer device, and computer program for providing relationship-based commerce services within a community are disclosed. A method of providing a commerce service includes providing a commerce service through a commerce platform built on a community platform, including setting a commerce relationship to apply to commerce using a relationship established in the community; Managing products registered on the commerce platform based on the commerce relationship; and providing an interface for trading the product using a chat function provided by the community.

Description

Method, computer device, and computer program for providing relationship-based commerce services within a community {METHOD, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM TO PROVIDE COMMERCE SERVICE BASED ON RELATIONSHIP WITHIN COMMUNITY}

The explanation below is about technology that provides a C2C (customer to customer) commerce platform.

Community services such as social network services (SNS) and messengers support interaction through posts by forming relationships between users.

Community services can provide users with information in different contexts. For example, a community service may provide update information about a user's connection relationships, post update information, content recommendations, and various other types of information items.

For example, Korea Patent No. 10-1754373 (registration date June 29, 2017) discloses a technology for managing posts using SNS.

We can provide a commerce platform that allows transactions based on trust through relationships within the community.

Products on the commerce platform can be filtered using the number of relatives based on relationships within the community.

In addition to displaying a list of products that can be traded on the commerce platform, relationship information can be displayed for each product.

In addition to displaying a list of friends available for transactions on the commerce platform, the commerce status can be displayed for each friend.

Relationship intimacy between users can be managed based on transaction history through the commerce platform.

In the commerce service method executed on a computer device, the computer device includes at least one processor configured to execute computer-readable instructions included in a memory, and the commerce service method includes a commerce platform built on a community platform. Providing a commerce service through the method, comprising: setting, by the at least one processor, a commerce relationship to be applied to commerce using a relationship established in a community; Managing products registered on the commerce platform based on the commerce relationship, by the at least one processor; and providing, by the at least one processor, an interface for trading the product using a chat function provided by the community.

According to one aspect, the setting step may set a 1st-degree friend who is in a friend relationship with the user in the community and a 2nd-degree friend who is in a friend relationship with the 1st-degree friend as the commerce relationship.

According to another aspect, the setting step may establish the commerce relationship in units of friends or relatives according to the user's settings in the relationships established in the community.

According to another aspect, the managing step includes providing a list of friends who are in the commerce relationship; And it may include providing a list of products registered by the friend in the commerce relationship.

According to another aspect, providing the friend list may include displaying commerce status information indicating a recent product registration status for each friend included in the friend list.

According to another aspect, providing the product list may include displaying relationship information with a friend who has registered the product for each product included in the product list.

According to another aspect, providing the product list may include filtering products using a relationship unit or product transaction type for the product list.

According to another aspect, the commerce service method is, by the at least one processor, the commerce service based on transaction history including at least one of the number of transactions on the commerce platform, the most recent transaction time, and transaction evaluation information. The step of determining the relationship intimacy for the relationship may be further included.

According to another aspect, the managing step includes providing a list of products registered by a friend in the commerce relationship; Filtering products from the product list using a relationship unit or product transaction type; and sorting and displaying a list of products corresponding to the filtering results based on the relationship intimacy.

According to another aspect, the managing step includes providing a list of products registered by a friend in the commerce relationship; and managing the product selected from the product list as an introduction product exposed to other people through at least one path.

According to another aspect, the commerce service method may further include transmitting, by the at least one processor, information about the introduced product as it is selected from the product list through a chat screen with the other person. You can.

According to another aspect, the commerce service method includes the step of posting information about the introduced product on a user's personal market screen that provides a user's product list according to selection from the product list, by the at least one processor. More may be included.

A computer program stored in a computer-readable recording medium is provided to execute the commerce service method on the computer device.

A computer device comprising at least one processor configured to execute computer readable instructions included in a memory, wherein the at least one processor provides a commerce service through a commerce platform built on a community platform, the community a relationship setting unit that sets a commerce relationship to apply to commerce using the relationship set in; a product management unit that manages products registered on the commerce platform based on the commerce relationship; and a product trading unit that provides an interface for trading the product using a chat function provided by the community.

1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a network environment according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 2 is a block diagram showing an example of a computer device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of components that a processor of a computer device according to an embodiment of the present invention may include.
Figure 4 is a flowchart showing an example of a commerce service method that can be performed by a computer device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Figures 5 to 13 show examples of interface screens for commerce services in one embodiment of the present invention.

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

Embodiments of the present invention relate to technology for providing C2C commerce services specialized for communities.

Embodiments including those specifically disclosed in this specification can provide a commerce platform that allows transactions based on trust through relationships within the community, thereby providing significant advantages in various aspects such as service expansion, efficiency, reliability, and convenience. can be achieved.

1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a network environment according to an embodiment of the present invention. The network environment in FIG. 1 shows an example including a plurality of electronic devices 110, 120, 130, and 140, a plurality of servers 150 and 160, and a network 170. Figure 1 is an example for explaining the invention, and the number of electronic devices or servers is not limited as in Figure 1.

The plurality of electronic devices 110, 120, 130, and 140 may be fixed terminals or mobile terminals implemented with a computer system. Examples of the plurality of electronic devices 110, 120, 130, and 140 include smart phones, mobile phones, navigation devices, computers, laptops, digital broadcasting terminals, PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), and PMPs (Portable Multimedia Players). ), tablet PCs, game consoles, wearable devices, IoT (internet of things) devices, VR (virtual reality) devices, AR (augmented reality) devices, etc. For example, in FIG. 1, the shape of a smartphone is shown as an example of the electronic device 110. However, in embodiments of the present invention, the electronic device 110 actually communicates with other devices through the network 170 using a wireless or wired communication method. It may refer to one of various physical computer systems capable of communicating with electronic devices 120, 130, 140 and/or servers 150, 160.

The communication method is not limited, and may include not only a communication method utilizing communication networks that the network 170 may include (e.g., mobile communication network, wired Internet, wireless Internet, broadcasting network, satellite network, etc.), but also short-range wireless communication between devices. You can. For example, the network 170 may include a personal area network (PAN), a local area network (LAN), a campus area network (CAN), a metropolitan area network (MAN), a wide area network (WAN), and a broadband network (BBN). , may include one or more arbitrary networks such as the Internet. Additionally, the network 170 may include any one or more of network topologies including a bus network, star network, ring network, mesh network, star-bus network, tree or hierarchical network, etc. Not limited.

Each of the servers 150 and 160 is a computer device or a plurality of computers that communicate with a plurality of electronic devices 110, 120, 130, 140 and a network 170 to provide commands, codes, files, content, services, etc. It can be implemented with devices. For example, the server 150 may be a system that provides a first service to a plurality of electronic devices 110, 120, 130, and 140 connected through the network 170, and the server 160 also provides a network ( It may be a system that provides a second service to a plurality of electronic devices 110, 120, 130, and 140 connected through 170). As a more specific example, the server 150 provides services (for example, community services, etc.) targeted by the application through an application as a computer program installed and running on a plurality of electronic devices 110, 120, 130, and 140. As a first service, it can be provided through a plurality of electronic devices 110, 120, 130, and 140. As another example, the server 160 may provide a service for distributing files for installing and running the above-described application to a plurality of electronic devices 110, 120, 130, and 140 as a second service.

Figure 2 is a block diagram showing an example of a computer device according to an embodiment of the present invention. Each of the plurality of electronic devices 110, 120, 130, and 140 described above or each of the servers 150 and 160 may be implemented by the computer device 200 shown in FIG. 2.

As shown in FIG. 2, this computer device 200 may include a memory 210, a processor 220, a communication interface 230, and an input/output interface 240. The memory 210 is a computer-readable recording medium and may include a non-permanent mass storage device such as random access memory (RAM), read only memory (ROM), and a disk drive. Here, non-perishable large-capacity recording devices such as ROM and disk drives may be included in the computer device 200 as a separate permanent storage device that is distinct from the memory 210. Additionally, an operating system and at least one program code may be stored in the memory 210. These software components may be loaded into the memory 210 from a computer-readable recording medium separate from the memory 210. Such separate computer-readable recording media may include computer-readable recording media such as floppy drives, disks, tapes, DVD/CD-ROM drives, and memory cards. In another embodiment, software components may be loaded into the memory 210 through the communication interface 230 rather than a computer-readable recording medium. For example, software components may be loaded into memory 210 of computer device 200 based on computer programs installed by files received over network 170.

The processor 220 may be configured to process instructions of a computer program by performing basic arithmetic, logic, and input/output operations. Commands may be provided to the processor 220 by the memory 210 or the communication interface 230. For example, processor 220 may be configured to execute received instructions according to program code stored in a recording device such as memory 210.

The communication interface 230 may provide a function for the computer device 200 to communicate with other devices (eg, the storage devices described above) through the network 170. For example, a request, command, data, file, etc. generated by the processor 220 of the computer device 200 according to a program code stored in a recording device such as memory 210 is transmitted to the network ( 170) and can be transmitted to other devices. Conversely, signals, commands, data, files, etc. from other devices may be received by the computer device 200 through the communication interface 230 of the computer device 200 via the network 170. Signals, commands, data, etc. received through the communication interface 230 may be transmitted to the processor 220 or memory 210, and files, etc. may be stored in a storage medium (as described above) that the computer device 200 may further include. It can be stored as a permanent storage device).

The input/output interface 240 may be a means for interfacing with the input/output device 250. For example, input devices may include devices such as a microphone, keyboard, or mouse, and output devices may include devices such as displays and speakers. As another example, the input/output interface 240 may be a means for interfacing with a device that integrates input and output functions, such as a touch screen. The input/output device 250 may be configured as a single device with the computer device 200.

Additionally, in other embodiments, computer device 200 may include fewer or more components than those of FIG. 2 . However, there is no need to clearly show most prior art components. For example, the computer device 200 may be implemented to include at least some of the input/output devices 250 described above, or may further include other components such as a transceiver, a database, etc.

Below, specific embodiments of a method and system for providing relationship-based commerce services within a community will be described.

These embodiments relate to technology that provides C2C commerce services specialized for communities.

In this specification, community may encompass communication platforms on the Internet such as messengers or SNS. It is not limited to this, and can be expanded to any space where users can communicate through various communication functions such as chatting, posts, posts, messages, and comments based on relationships.

Figure 3 is a block showing an example of components that the processor of a computer device according to an embodiment of the present invention may include, and Figure 4 is a block diagram of a method that the computer device may perform according to an embodiment of the present invention. This is a flowchart showing an example.

The computer device 200 according to this embodiment may be configured with a commerce service system implemented on a computer. For example, the commerce service system may be implemented in the form of a program that operates independently, or may be implemented in the form of an in-app of a specific application to enable operation on the specific application.

The commerce service system implemented in the computer device 200 can perform the commerce service method shown in FIG. 4 based on commands provided by an application installed on the computer device 200.

In order to perform the commerce service method according to FIG. 4, the processor 220 of the computer device 200 includes a relationship setting unit 310, a product management unit 320, and a product transaction as shown in FIG. 3 as components. It may include unit 330. Depending on the embodiment, components of the processor 220 may be selectively included in or excluded from the processor 220. Additionally, depending on the embodiment, components of the processor 220 may be separated or merged to express the functions of the processor 220.

The processor 220 and the components of the processor 220 can control the computer device 200 to perform steps S410 to S430 included in the commerce service method of FIG. 4. For example, the processor 220 and its components may be implemented to execute instructions according to the code of an operating system included in the memory 210 and the code of at least one program.

Here, the components of the processor 220 are performed by the processor 220 according to instructions provided by the program code stored in the computer device 200 (for example, instructions provided by an application running on the computer device 200). These may be expressions of different functions of the processor 220. For example, the relationship setting unit 310 may be used as a functional representation of the processor 220 that controls the computer device 200 according to the above-described command to set a relationship for the computer device 200 to apply to commerce. there is.

The processor 220 may read necessary instructions from the memory 210 where instructions related to controlling the computer device 200 are loaded. In this case, the read command may include a command for controlling the processor 220 to execute steps S410 to S430 that will be described later.

Referring to FIG. 4, in step S410, the relationship setting unit 310 may set a relationship (hereinafter referred to as a 'commerce relationship') to apply to commerce within the community using the relationship established between users in the community. The relationship setting unit 310 may set a commerce relationship corresponding to the scope of the user's market activity. For example, the relationship setting unit 310 may set a first-degree connection that is a friend relationship with the user on the community, and a second-degree connection that is a friend relationship with the user's first-degree friend as the commerce relationship with the user. Furthermore, the relationship setting unit 310 can also add a 3rd degree or more than 3rd degree relationship that is a friend relationship with the user's 2nd degree friend to the commerce relationship. As another example, the relationship setting unit 310 may set a commerce relationship according to user settings. The relationship setting unit 310 may set a commerce relationship in the user's community relationship in units of friends or relatives selected by the user. For example, a user can set the market activity of at least one of the user's sales history and purchase history to be disclosed only to first-degree friends or specific friends among first-degree friends. Depending on the embodiment, it is also possible to set targets to be excluded from commerce relationships, that is, targets to hide the user's market activities, on a friend or relative basis. As described above, it is possible to not only set the scope of the user's market activity to be partially open, but also set it to be fully open to the community according to user settings. At this time, in the case of full disclosure, anonymity among users can be guaranteed.

In addition, the relationship setting unit 310 can manage relationship intimacy with friends in a commerce relationship with the user (hereinafter referred to as 'commerce friends') based on transaction history through the commerce platform. At this time, relationship intimacy refers to the strength of the relationship between the user and commerce friends, and can be used to determine friend rankings or product rankings within the commerce platform. For example, relationship intimacy includes transaction history, which includes transaction count, which indicates how much or how often the transaction was made, the most recent transaction time, which indicates how recently the transaction was made, and rating information, which indicates how many positive reviews the transaction has received. It can be determined in proportion to .

In step S420, the product management unit 320 can manage products on the commerce platform within the community based on commerce relationships. Each product registered on the commerce platform can be managed in connection with the user information that registered the product, and the commerce relationship can be confirmed through the user information. The user's commerce relationship may be applied to all of the user's products at once, and depending on the embodiment, it is also possible to establish a commerce relationship on a product basis. In other words, the disclosure and transaction scope of a product can be set individually during the product registration process. At this time, the product management unit 320 can filter products on the commerce platform using commerce relationships. For example, the product management unit 320 may select and expose products of commerce friends among products registered on the commerce platform. As another example, the product management unit 320 may support product filtering that specifies the transaction type or number of transactions among the commerce friend's products. Transaction types can be divided into transactions wishing to sell a product and transactions wishing to purchase a product. Furthermore, the product management unit 320 may manage the product selected by the user among the commerce friend's products as an introduction product that can be exposed to other people through at least one path.

The product management department 320 may perform monitoring for product inspection and sanctions. For example, the product management unit 320 may monitor keywords entered during the product registration process and apply a ban on registration if a predetermined prohibited word is entered. As another example, the product management unit 320 may apply predetermined sanctions based on reports on products or user accounts registered on the commerce platform. If the accumulated number of reports for a user account exceeds a certain number, the product management department 320 may temporarily suspend the market activity of the account or send a warning notification, etc., and if such sanctions are repeated more than a certain number of times, the market activity may be permanently suspended. It can be stopped. If the accumulated number of reports for a product exceeds a certain number of times, the product management department 320 may delete the posting for the product or convert it to a non-transactionable state. If such sanctions are repeated more than a certain number of times for the same user account, the Market activity can be permanently halted.

The product management unit 320 may provide an evaluation function for users using the commerce platform, and the evaluation function may include user evaluation and system evaluation. User evaluations are evaluations by other users, allowing mutual evaluation of sellers and buyers. A user evaluation function is provided regardless of whether the transaction has been completed, but evaluation information based on transaction completion reviews can be distinguished through transaction authentication, etc. In addition, system evaluation can be based on the number of products registered on the commerce platform, the ratio of completed products to registered products, transaction satisfaction according to user evaluation, accumulated number of reports, accumulated number of sanctions, etc.

In step S430, the product trading unit 330 may provide an interface for product trading using a chat function provided by the community. If a user wishes to trade a product on the commerce platform, the product trading unit 330 may provide a chat screen with the user who registered the product as a product trading screen. At this time, the product trading unit 330 may deliver product information registered on the commerce platform to be displayed in the form of a message on the chat screen at the time the user enters the chat screen for the product he or she wishes to trade. Additionally, the product trading unit 330 can also use the community chat function as an interface to introduce the commerce friend's products to other people.

The product transaction unit 330 can provide anonymous transactions as well as acquaintance transactions depending on the scope of the commerce relationship. If the commerce relationship is set to be partially public, the community's one-on-one chat room can be provided as an interface for product trading as an acquaintance transaction, and in this case, the profile in the chat room may be the personal profile set in the community. Meanwhile, if the commerce relationship is set to be fully public, anonymity can be guaranteed by providing an openchat chat room where you can chat without the process of adding friends using phone numbers or IDs as an interface for product transactions. In such open chat chat rooms for anonymous transactions, an anonymized profile can be applied instead of a personal profile.

5 to 13 show examples of interface screens for commerce services in one embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 5 shows an example of the commerce main screen 500.

Various interface screens related to the community, such as the community's home screen, an interface screen containing a list of services available in the community, and the commerce main screen from the home screen of other services (e.g., wallet, game, etc.) linked to the community. A menu to enter at (500) is provided.

As shown in FIG. 5, the commerce main screen 500 may include a list of friends 510 in a commerce relationship with the user and a list of products 520 registered by friends in a commerce relationship.

The friend list 510 is a list of friends with whom transactions are possible and may consist of first-degree friends or first-degree friends and second-degree friends depending on user settings, and may further include third-degree or higher friends depending on the embodiment. In one example, the processor 220 may sort and display the friend list 510 in the order of names registered in the profile, and in another example, the friend list 510 may be sorted based on relationship intimacy, for example, in the order of high relationship intimacy. can be displayed by sorting. As another example, the processor 220 may sort and display the friend list 510 in the order of recent product registration on the commerce platform.

The processor 220 may display commerce status information 511 for each friend included in the friend list 510 using a separate display element. For example, the commerce status information 511 may include status information in which a product desired to be recently sold or a product desired to be purchased has been registered. For example, commerce status information 511 can be displayed for friends who have registered products they wish to sell or products they wish to purchase in the past day by highlighting the profiles of those friends. Commerce status information 511 can be displayed differently for friends who have registered products they wish to sell and friends who have registered products they wish to purchase.

The processor 220 may sort and display the product list 520 in the order in which it is registered on the commerce platform. The processor 220 may display relationship information 521 between the user and the person who registered the product for each product included in the product list 520. In other words, the processor 220 can show the number of connections between the user and the commerce friend who registered the product in the community through the relationship information 521. Additionally, the processor 220 may additionally display relationship similarity information 522 with the user in the case of products registered by commerce friends who are second-degree relatives or more. Relationship similarity information 522 refers to the amount of connections in common between the user's network (i.e., community friends) and the commerce friend's network. For example, the commerce friend's community friend list overlaps with the user's community friend list. It can be defined by the number of friends.

The processor 220 may provide at least one of a search function and a filter function for the product list 520. The commerce main screen 500 may include a search menu 501 for searching products by entering a search term. In particular, the commerce main screen 500 may include a transaction type filter 502 for filtering products according to transaction type and a transaction number filter 503 for filtering products by number of transactions. The filter list for product filtering may additionally include filters using product category, region, price, etc., in addition to the transaction type filter 502 and number filter 503.

The transaction type filter 502 may include a 'sell' filter to view only products you wish to sell, a 'buy' filter to view only products you wish to purchase, and the number of relatives filter 503 may include a 'purchase' filter to view only products of first-degree friends. It can include a '1st-degree-of-degree' filter, a '2nd-degree' filter to view only the products of second-degree friends, and a '3rd-degree' filter to view only the products of third-degree friends. In addition, it can also include an 'all' filter that allows anonymous transactions.

When providing product search results using a search function or product filtering results using a filter function, the processor 220 may sort and display the result list based on relationship intimacy, for example, in descending order of relationship intimacy.

The commerce main screen 500 may include a plus menu 505 for calling main menus related to commerce services.

The processor 220 may provide a main menu list 630 as shown in FIG. 6 when the plus menu 505 is selected on the commerce main screen 500.

The main menu list (630) includes a 'sell' menu (631) for registering product information you wish to sell, a 'buy' menu (632) for registering product information you wish to purchase, and a specific keyword among registered products. It may include a 'Keyword Notification' menu 633 for setting registration notifications for products that are eligible for use.

When the 'For Sale' menu 631 is selected, the processor 220 provides a product registration screen 640 for registering the product desired for sale. At this time, the product registration screen 640 displays the product name, product price, product description, and related information. It may include an interface for entering product information such as keywords, tags, photos, or videos, and an interface for setting a disclosure scope for the product.

When the 'Buy' menu 632 is selected, the processor 220 provides a product registration screen for registering the product desired to be purchased. The product desired to be purchased may also be provided with a similar interface to the product desired to be sold.

Referring to FIG. 7, the processor 220 provides a keyword notification settings screen 750 when the 'Keyword Notification' menu 633 is selected. In this case, the keyword notification settings screen 750 is a notification for registered products. It may include an interface for registering keywords to receive notifications, and an interface for setting the product range to be notified in units of number of units.

The processor 220 can provide a notification for the product when a product corresponding to the notification conditions (keyword and/or notification target product range) set by the user through the keyword notification setting screen 750 is registered on the commerce platform. Users can directly access the product details screen with desired conditions through notifications.

In addition to keyword notifications, it is possible to provide a function that allows users to register products of interest among products registered on the commerce platform, and it is also possible to provide related notifications for the user's list of products of interest. For example, an interface for registering a product of interest can be provided on the product list screen or product detail screen, and notifications related to changes in the status of the product of interest (e.g., when there is an inquiry about a transaction for the product of interest, when a transaction for the product of interest is completed) , when the price information of the product of interest has changed, etc.) can be provided.

When a specific product is selected from various paths such as the product list 520 on the commerce main screen 500, product search results, or product filtering results, the processor 220 displays the product detail screen 800 as shown in FIG. 8. can be provided. The processor 220 provides the profile information of the commerce friend who registered the product through the product detail screen 800, the relationship information (i.e., number of relatives) between the commerce friend and the user, and, if the commerce friend is more than a second degree of connection with the user, the user's relationship information. Relationship similarity information can be displayed, and product information registered by commerce friends can include product name, product price, product description, related keywords or tags, photos or videos, etc.

The product detail screen 800 may include a ‘purchase inquiry’ menu 806 to enter the product transaction stage. If a user wishes to trade a commerce friend's product, they can connect to a chat provided by the community. The processor 220 can connect the chat function of the community when the 'purchase inquiry' menu 806 is selected, and as shown in Figure 9, connects a chat channel between the commerce friend who registered the product and the user to display the chat screen. (900) can be provided as a product transaction screen.

At the time of providing the chat screen 900 for product trading, the processor 220 transmits a product message 960 containing part of the product information on the product detail screen 800 as product information that the user wishes to trade, and sends it to the corresponding chat screen. It can be displayed on the screen 900. Additionally, the processor 220 may display a system message on the chat screen 900 indicating that the chat was introduced through a commerce platform at the time the chat screen 900 is provided.

In the case of a product that a commerce friend wishes to purchase, the user can first enter the chat screen (900) with the commerce friend through the product detail screen (800) of the product and propose a transaction to the commerce friend who wishes to purchase the product. .

Furthermore, as shown in FIG. 10, the product detail screen 800 may further include an 'introduction' menu 807 for introducing the commerce friend's product to others.

When the 'Introduction' menu 807 is selected, the processor 220 may provide a list 1070 of possible introduction methods in the commerce service. The introduction method list (1070) includes the 'Introduce through chat' menu (1071), which allows product information on the product detail screen (800) to be introduced by directly passing it through a chat channel, and a personal market that collects and displays the user's personal product list. It may include the 'Introduce to My Market' menu (1072), which can be introduced by posting on .

The processor 220 may provide the user's community friend list to select an introduction target when the 'Introduce through chat' menu 1071 is selected, and introduce product information through a chat screen with a friend selected from the community friend list. A product message including part of the product information on the product detail screen 800 can be delivered.

When the 'Introduce to My Market' menu 1072 is selected, the processor 220 may register product information on the product detail screen 800 in the list of products introduced in the user's personal market.

Figure 11 shows an example of a personal market screen 1100.

The processor 220 may provide a link for users using the commerce service to enter the personal market screen 1100 through various paths, such as a community profile screen. The processor 220 may allow access to the personal market screen 1100 between community friends or commerce friends.

When the user's friend list is displayed on the community home screen, etc., the processor 220 may display commerce friends among friends included in the friend list, distinguishing them from other friends. For example, it is possible to highlight and display the profile of a commerce friend on the friend list, or to additionally display a separate icon indicating that the friend is a commerce friend. You can enter the commerce friend's personal profile screen through the friend list, and at this time, a route to enter the friend's personal market screen (1100) can be provided on the personal profile screen.

The personal market screen 1100 may display the profile information of the commerce friend, relationship information (i.e., number of relatives) between the commerce friend and the user, and information on the similarity of the relationship with the user if the commerce friend is second-degree relatives or more with the user.

In particular, the personal market screen 1100 is an interface screen that collects and displays a list of products registered by a commerce friend. The 'Sell' page 1101 provides a list of products the commerce friend wishes to sell, and a list of products the commerce friend wishes to purchase. It may be composed of a 'buy' page 1102 that provides, etc. The 'sell' page (1101) and the 'buy' page (1102) each provide a list of products directly registered by commerce friends, and the 'product for sale' page (or 'purchase product' page) (1103) introduces other people's products. It may be composed of an 'introduction product' page 1104 that provides a list of products to be introduced, a 'completed product' page 1105 that provides a list of products in a transaction completed state, etc.

Users can visit their commerce friend's personal market screen (1100) to view products registered or introduced by the friend, and proceed with product transactions by entering the product details screen (800) from the personal market screen (1100). .

Figure 12 shows an example of the My Page screen 1200 of the commerce service.

The processor 220 may provide a link for users using the commerce service to enter the My Page screen 1200 through various paths, such as the commerce main screen 500 and the personal market screen 1100.

The My Page screen 1200 may include a profile including the user's account information, nickname, image, etc., as well as an 'Edit Profile' menu 1201 that can edit the user's profile information. The My Page screen 1200 may be composed of a profile screen linked to a community profile. In other words, in the case of commerce services, the user profile can be applied as the profile used in community services. If necessary, you can use the 'Edit Profile' menu (1201) to change the profile to a commerce-only profile, different from the profile on the community.

The My Page screen (1200) includes a 'Sell' menu (1202) to check the list of products that the user wants to sell, a 'Buy' menu (1203) to check the list of products that the user wants to buy, and a commerce friend's 'Wish' menu (1204) to check the list of products of interest, 'Keyword Notification' menu (1205) to set notification keywords and notification target product range, and commerce friends as the user's market activity range in friend units or A 'friend management' menu 1206 for setting by number of friends may be included.

The user's list of products he or she wishes to sell and the list of products he or she wishes to purchase may include other people's products that the user wishes to introduce.

Like the commerce main screen 500, the My Page screen 1200 may further include a plus menu 505 for calling main menus related to commerce services.

The processor 220 can provide two profile screens according to the commerce relationship as the My Page screen, namely, an acquaintance transaction profile screen and an anonymous transaction profile screen.

The My Page screen 1200 described above is composed of an acquaintance transaction profile screen linked to a community profile. Here, multiple profiles may be provided on a product-by-product basis on the My Page screen 1200. In other words, when registering a product, the public scope of the product is set, and at this time, menus where product lists for transactions with acquaintances such as first-degree or second-degree relatives are stored can be managed as sub-lists on different profiles.

Meanwhile, Figure 13 shows the My Page screen 1300 consisting of an anonymous transaction profile screen.

Referring to FIG. 13, a profile containing anonymous nicknames and images rather than user-identifiable personal information may be displayed on the My Page screen 1300, and a 'profile can be modified within the category that guarantees anonymity'. The 'Profile Edit' menu 1301 may be included.

Likewise, the My Page screen (1300), the 'Sell' menu (1302) to check the list of products that the user wants to sell, and the 'Buy' menu (1303) to check the list of products that the user wants to buy, the Commerce Friend. It may include a 'Wish' menu (1304) to check the list of products of interest among the products, a 'Keyword Notification' menu (1305) to set the notification keyword and the scope of the notification target product, etc.

Among the menus provided in the My Page screen 1200, menus that are not relevant or unnecessary in anonymous transactions, such as the 'Friend Management' menu 1206, are omitted from the My Page screen 1300.

The My Page screen 1300, like the Commerce main screen 500 and My Page screen 1200, may further include a Plus menu 505 for calling main menus related to commerce services.

The processor 220 changes the product list exposed through the My Page screen 1300 (list of products desired to sell, list of products desired to purchase, list of products of interest) to the product list exposed through the My Page screen 1200 based on the commerce relationship. It can be managed as a separate list. In other words, when set to fully public for anonymous transactions during the product registration process, these product lists can be managed as sub-lists of the My Page screen 1300, which is different from the My Page screen 1200.

In addition to the product list for acquaintance transactions and the product list for anonymous transactions, the list of products you want to sell, the list of products you want to buy, and the list of products you are interested in can also be listed and managed as individual lists, and different product lists can be shared with each other. It cannot be shared.

However, when a user changes the commerce relationship for a product list, the product list may be managed as a product list in the profile of the changed commerce relationship.

For example, if you want to change the product list for acquaintance transaction to anonymous transaction, change the commerce relationship of at least some of the product list for sale or purchase product list from acquaintance transaction to anonymous transaction on the My Page screen (1200). You can change it. At this time, the product list whose commerce relationship has changed can be moved to and managed as a product list on the My Page screen 1300 as a product list for anonymous transactions.

Accordingly, the user can manage various settings or product lists related to commerce services through the My Page screens 1200 and 1300.

According to the embodiments of the present invention, it is possible to build a commerce platform capable of online market activities on a community platform that provides communication functions based on relationships between users, and in this case, commerce relationships are established based on community relationships. By setting up, you can provide commerce services that can be traded based on trust within the community.

The device described above may be implemented with hardware components, software components, and/or a combination of hardware components and software components. For example, the devices and components described in the embodiments include a processor, a controller, an arithmetic logic unit (ALU), a digital signal processor, a microcomputer, a field programmable gate array (FPGA), and a programmable logic unit (PLU). It may be implemented using one or more general-purpose or special-purpose computers, such as a logic unit, microprocessor, or any other device capable of executing and responding to instructions. The processing device may execute an operating system (OS) and one or more software applications running on the operating system. Additionally, a processing device may access, store, manipulate, process, and generate data in response to the execution of software. For ease of understanding, a single processing device may be described as being used; however, those skilled in the art will understand that a processing device includes multiple processing elements and/or multiple types of processing elements. It can be seen that it may include. For example, a processing device may include a plurality of processors or one processor and one controller. Additionally, other processing configurations, such as parallel processors, are possible.

Software may include a computer program, code, instructions, or a combination of one or more of these, which may configure a processing unit to operate as desired, or may be processed independently or collectively. You can command the device. The software and/or data may be embodied in any type of machine, component, physical device, computer storage medium or device for the purpose of being interpreted by or providing instructions or data to the processing device. there is. Software may be distributed over networked computer systems and stored or executed in a distributed manner. Software and data may be stored on one or more computer-readable recording media.

The method according to the embodiment may be implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed through various computer means and recorded on a computer-readable medium. At this time, the medium may continuously store a computer-executable program, or temporarily store it for execution or download. In addition, the medium may be a variety of recording or storage means in the form of a single or several pieces of hardware combined. It is not limited to a medium directly connected to a computer system and may be distributed over a network. Examples of media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tapes, optical recording media such as CD-ROMs and DVDs, magneto-optical media such as floptical disks, And there may be something configured to store program instructions, including ROM, RAM, flash memory, etc. Additionally, examples of other media include recording or storage media managed by app stores that distribute applications, sites or servers that supply or distribute various other software, etc.

As described above, although the embodiments have been described with limited examples and drawings, various modifications and variations can be made by those skilled in the art from the above description. For example, the described techniques are performed in a different order than the described method, and/or components of the described system, structure, device, circuit, etc. are combined or combined in a different form than the described method, or other components are used. Alternatively, appropriate results may be achieved even if substituted or substituted by an equivalent.

Therefore, other implementations, other embodiments, and equivalents of the claims also fall within the scope of the claims described below.

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In a commerce service method running on a computer device,
The computer device includes at least one processor configured to execute computer-readable instructions contained in a memory,
The above commerce service method is,
By providing commerce services through a commerce platform built on a community platform,
Setting, by the at least one processor, a commerce relationship to apply to commerce using a relationship established in the community;
Managing products registered on the commerce platform based on the commerce relationship, by the at least one processor; and
Providing, by the at least one processor, an interface for trading the product using a chat function provided by the community.
Including,
The above management steps are:
providing a list of friends in a commerce relationship with the user on the service screen of the commerce platform; and
Providing a list of products registered by a friend in a commerce relationship with the user on the service screen
Including,
The step of providing the friend list is,
Among friends included in the friend list, commerce status information indicating the recent product registration status is displayed for friends who have registered products they wish to sell or products they wish to purchase within a recent certain period of time. A step of distinguishing and displaying the commerce status information and the commerce status information of a friend who has registered the product he or she wishes to purchase.
Including,
The step of providing the product list is,
Displaying relationship information indicating the number of relatives in the community between the user and a friend who registered the product for each product included in the product list; and
Displaying relationship similarity information indicating a common network in the community between the user and a friend who registered the specific product for each of at least one specific product according to the relationship information among the products included in the product list.
A commerce service method including. According to paragraph 1,
The setting step is,
Setting first-degree friends who are friends with the user in the community and second-degree friends who are friends with the first-degree friend as the commerce relationship
A commerce service method characterized by According to paragraph 1,
The setting steps are:
Establishing the commerce relationship in units of friends or relatives according to the settings of the user in the relationships established in the community
A commerce service method characterized by delete delete delete According to paragraph 1,
The step of providing the product list is,
Filtering products using the relationship unit or product transaction type for the product list
A commerce service method including. According to paragraph 1,
The above commerce service method is,
Determining, by the at least one processor, a relationship intimacy for the commerce relationship based on transaction history including at least one of the number of transactions in the commerce platform, the most recent transaction time, and evaluation information about the transaction.
A commerce service method further comprising: According to clause 8,
The step of providing the product list is,
Filtering products from the product list using a relationship unit or product transaction type; and
Sorting and displaying a list of products corresponding to the filtering results based on the relationship intimacy
A commerce service method including. According to paragraph 1,
The above management steps are:
Step of managing the product selected from the product list as an introduction product exposed to other people through at least one path
A commerce service method further comprising: According to clause 10,
The above commerce service method is,
transmitting, by the at least one processor, information about the introduced product as it is selected from the product list through a chat screen with the other person
A commerce service method further comprising: According to clause 10,
The above commerce service method is,
Posting, by the at least one processor, information about the introduced product on a user's personal market screen that provides a list of products for the user as they are selected from the product list.
A commerce service method further comprising: A computer program stored in a computer-readable recording medium for executing the commerce service method of any one of claims 1 to 3 and 7 to 12 on the computer device. In computer devices,
At least one processor configured to execute computer readable instructions contained in memory
Including,
The at least one processor,
By providing commerce services through a commerce platform built on a community platform,
a relationship setting unit that sets up a commerce relationship to apply to commerce using the relationship established in the community;
a product management unit that manages products registered on the commerce platform based on the commerce relationship; and
Product trading department that provides an interface for trading the product using the chat function provided by the community
Including,
The product management department,
Provide a list of friends in a commerce relationship with the user on the service screen of the commerce platform,
Among friends included in the friend list, commerce status information indicating the recent product registration status is displayed for friends who have registered products they wish to sell or products they wish to purchase within a recent certain period of time. Displays the commerce status information differently from the commerce status information of a friend who has registered the product they wish to purchase,
Providing a list of products registered by the user and a friend in a commerce relationship on the service screen,
For each product included in the product list, relationship information indicating the number of relatives in the community between the user and the friend who registered the product is displayed,
Displaying relationship similarity information indicating a common network in the community between the user and a friend who registered the specific product for each of at least one specific product according to the relationship information among the products included in the product list.
A computer device characterized by a. According to clause 14,
The relationship setting unit,
Setting first-degree friends who are friends with the user in the community and second-degree friends who are friends with the first-degree friend as the commerce relationship
A computer device characterized by a. According to clause 14,
The relationship setting unit,
Establishing the commerce relationship in units of friends or relatives according to the settings of the user in the relationships established in the community
A computer device characterized by a. delete According to clause 14,
The product management department,
Filtering products using relationship unit or product transaction type for the above product list.
A computer device characterized by a. According to clause 18,
The product management department,
Determining relationship intimacy for the commerce relationship based on transaction history including at least one of the number of transactions on the commerce platform, the most recent transaction time, and evaluation information about the transaction,
Sorting and displaying a list of products corresponding to the filtering results based on the relationship intimacy
A computer device characterized by a. According to clause 14,
The product management department,
Manage the product selected from the above product list as an introduction product that is exposed to others,
As selected from the product list, information about the introduced product is transmitted through a chat screen with the other person or posted information about the introduced product on the user's personal market screen that provides the user's product list.
A computer device characterized by a.

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