KR20000049707A - System and Method for Unifying Mileage Management in Internet Business Transactions - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for integrating and managing mileage is provided, so that consumers can integrate the mileage obtained when the consumers buy products to manage the integrated mileage, and convert the mileage into mileage cash to use the mileage as cash. CONSTITUTION: A method for integrating and managing mileage comprises the steps of: making each enterprise server transmit mileage allowed to customers to an integrated managing server; changing the transmitted mileage into predetermined forms to allow an integrated mileage, and converting the integrated mileage into mileage cash to manage the mileage cash; if a customer buys products on electronic commerce sites with the mileage cash, making an electronic commerce server request an authenticating process for the customer to an authenticating server; if the authenticating server receives the request, receiving the mileage cash with the customer's identity in the integrated server, and transmitting the authentication to the integrated managing server and the electronic commerce server; and if the authentication is identified, making the electronic commerce server supply products and services.

Description

System and Method for Unifying Mileage Management in Internet Business Transactions

The present invention relates to a mileage integrated management system and method, and more specifically, after integrating the mileage provided to each customer from each company and return cash or electronic money corresponding to the integrated mileage to the customer by using the customer The present invention relates to a mileage integrated management system and a method for enabling a product to be purchased at an e-commerce site using the Internet.

As is well known, the early Internet started out as a special military computer network, but now it has become a popular network connecting computers in every country or region around the world. The origin of the Internet is ARPAnet, which was built by the US Department of Defense in the 1960s for strategic defense purposes. It has been transformed into a media that can help.

In the early days, the purpose of the Internet was to be used as a means of academic research. At the same time, the use of the Internet began to expand to various fields of society such as academic, economic, and cultural.

The Internet is a network designed to maintain communication between two computers that are separated from each other at any time since its inception. ARPAnet, the parent of the Internet, was established based on packet communication.In 1973, ARPAnet was established based on packet communication. The first international connections to Norway were initiated, and in 1974, the design of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), a packet-switched network protocol, began.

Since then, ARPAnet, which has continued to expand, was established in 1982 using Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol (TCP / IP), which is the core technology of the Internet, and the Internet began to be introduced. The e-mail service was launched, and in 1988, the Korean domain began to be defined as (.kr) and applied to various Internet services.

The Internet has made rapid progress in developing world wide web services based on hypertext.

The World Wide Web (WWW) was distributed in CERN in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee of The European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) based on the Client / Server model. It was developed for efficient organization and retrieval of documents.

And hypertext is a network-structured document that allows you to connect directly to specified data, away from the traditional menus such as gopher and WAIS. At the time, it was operated based on a text browser and did not receive much acknowledgment.However, in 1993, a mosaic browser was developed at the National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA) in the United States. It started to run under the GUI (Graphic User Interface) environment, including a great response worldwide.

Due to the development of the Internet, netizens using e-commerce, home shopping, and home banking using the Internet are increasing exponentially.

As a result, each company has established a homepage or a shopping mall to promote its products or provide various services using the Internet to absorb the network using the Internet. have.

On the other hand, as the production technology of products is standardized and generalized in most industrial sectors, product quality is uniform and product differentiation is difficult, which leads to intense price competition and service competition through price destruction. In other words, the consumer perceives price and service as an important element of product purchase in a market where products are indistinguishable, and thus, companies use price and service as the most important means of competition. In such a competitive market environment, as companies competitively lower prices in order to secure the market, operating profit decreases and even all related companies lose money.

Therefore, companies develop various means of promoting sales instead of lowering prices. Among them, the most prominent ones are advertisements in which the image of the company or its products is imprinted on the emotions and memories of consumers, and the degree of purchase when the products are repeatedly purchased. According to the mileage system, certain items, prizes, and money are paid. The mileage scheme takes full advantage of the fact that the cost of selling additional products to frequent customers with high purchases is much lower than that for new customers.

However, as a large number of companies implement the mileage system when purchasing a homepage or a general product, the mileage benefit is required for a small amount of purchase after inducing an initial impulse purchase, so the mileage benefit requires a substantial mileage for the consumer. Difficult to receive, due to this there was a problem that gave up the continuous purchase.

In addition, the company had another problem that it was difficult to recover the costs invested to implement the mileage system.

In addition, there is another problem that it is difficult to pay a small amount of goods when purchasing on the Internet, which hinders the development of electronic commerce.

An object of the present invention is to solve the above problems, by integrating the mileage obtained when purchasing the product of each company, the consumer manages one integrated mileage, and converts it into a mileage cache, such as cash, to the consumer There are many benefits.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to allow companies to easily recover the cost invested to implement the mileage system, and to renew the corporate image by giving mileage that can be easily used by consumers.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to promote the development of electronic commerce by paying using a mileage cache when a consumer purchases a small item such as MP3, video data, data, etc. on the Internet.

1 is a conceptual diagram illustrating the configuration of a mileage integrated management system according to the present invention;

2 is a block diagram schematically showing the configuration of the integrated management server of the mileage integrated management system according to the present invention;

Figure 3 is a flow chart showing a customer registration process in the integrated management server of the mileage integrated management method according to the present invention,

4 is a flowchart illustrating a process of converting mileage into a mileage cache in the mileage integration management method according to the present invention;

5 is a flowchart illustrating a process of purchasing a product by a customer in the mileage integrated management method according to the present invention.

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100: mileage integrated management system 110: vendor server

120: integrated management 121: conversion means

122: cache conversion means 123: storage means

124: information guide means 125: control means

130: server e-commerce server 140: authentication server

A feature of the present invention for achieving the above object is a plurality of company servers that give the mileage corresponding to the customer when purchasing or using the service, and the mileage granted to the customer in each of the company server in a predetermined manner An integrated management server that converts and converts the mileage cache into a mileage cache, and an e-commerce site where a customer can purchase a product or use a service on the Internet with the mileage cache received from the integrated management server. If the e-commerce server provides a request for authentication to the customer from the e-commerce server or requests the authentication from the integrated management server when the customer purchases the product or uses the service from the e-commerce site, the identity of the customer and the mileage cache are stored. Integrated management of results by authentication It characterized in that it comprises a server and an authentication server for transmitting to the e-commerce server.

Here, the integrated management server, conversion means for converting the mileage of the customer transmitted from each of the company server to the integrated mileage, cache conversion means for converting the integrated mileage converted by the conversion means into a mileage cache, Storage means for storing the mileage cache converted by the cache converting means for each customer according to an input control signal, and information guiding means for transmitting a cumulative state of the mileage cache to a customer via e-mail according to the input control signal; And controlling means for controlling the respective components as a whole, storing the mileage cache in the storage means, informing the customer of the accumulated state of the mileage cache through the information guiding means, and requesting authentication to the authentication server. do.

Here, the predetermined method also calculates the mileage provided by each of the company servers at the ratio presented by the company server.

Another feature of the present invention is a transfer step of transferring the mileage granted to the customer in each company server from the plurality of company server to the integrated management server, and converting the mileage transmitted from each of the company server in a predetermined manner integrated mileage And a management step of converting it into a mileage cache and managing it, and when a customer purchases a product from an e-commerce site on the Internet or uses a service with the mileage cache received from the integrated management server, the authentication server at the e-commerce server. An authentication request step of making a request for authentication to the customer, and if the authentication is requested for the customer by the authentication server, the integrated management server receives the identity of the customer and the mileage cache and authenticates the authentication to the integrated management server and the electronic commerce. The verification step sent to the server, and the certificate is confirmed Once it characterized by comprising the steps of providing a product or service provided the customer purchased from the e-commerce server.

Here, the mileage integrated management method further includes a member registration step in which a customer is given an ID and a password through membership in the integrated management server.

The management step further includes the step of the customer buying the mileage cache using cash directly.

The management step further includes the step of paying the mileage cache in cash to the customer.

Here again the mileage cache is cash or electronic money.

Here, the predetermined method calculates the mileage provided from each of the company servers at the ratio suggested by the company server.

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Hereinafter, the configuration of the mileage integrated management system according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.

1 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a configuration of a mileage integrated management system according to the present invention, Figure 2 is a block flow diagram illustrating a mileage integrated management system according to the present invention.

1 and 2, the mileage integrated management system 100 according to the present invention includes a plurality of company servers 110, an integrated management server 120, an e-commerce server 130, and an authentication server 140. It is composed of

The plurality of company servers 110 are servers of a company that grants mileage corresponding to a customer purchasing or using a service, and refers to all companies that provide mileage to customers such as oil companies, card companies, and department stores. Here, each company server 110 also transmits the generated mileage generated when the customer uses the product or service to the integrated management server 120 described below.

The integrated management server 120 converts the mileage granted to the customer in each company server 110 in a predetermined manner to give the integrated mileage, and converts it into a mileage cache and manages the conversion means 121 and the cache. The conversion means 122, the storage means 123, the information guide means 124 and the control means 125.

The conversion unit 121 converts the mileage of the customer transmitted from each company server 110 into integrated mileage through a predetermined method. Here, the predetermined method refers to multiplying the mileage provided by each company by the ratio presented by each company server. For example, if Company A provides 100 miles per 10000 won to customers and presents a ratio of 0.1 to the integrated management server 120, the integrated mileage will be 100 miles, and Company B will earn 100 miles per 10,000 won. If you provide a ratio of 0.2 to the integrated management server 120, the integrated mileage is substantially 200 miles. In addition, the ratio of the conversion means 121 may change the ratio at any time under the control of the control means 125 when the company requests the ratio change.

The cache conversion means 122 converts the integrated mileage converted by the conversion means 121 into a mileage cache. The mileage cache refers to cash or electronic money corresponding to the integrated mileage. If the integrated mileage is 200 mileage, the mileage cache is preferably 200 won, which can be adjusted. Here too, the cache converting means 122 converts the member into a mileage cache when the member deposits cash.

The storage means 123 stores the mileage cache converted by the cache conversion means 122 for each customer under the control of the control means 125.

The information guiding means 124 delivers the guide information including the mileage cache to the customer through e-mail, fax, etc. under the control of the control means 125.

The control means 125 controls each component as a whole, and in particular, stores the mileage cache in the storage means 123, informs the customer of the cumulative state of the mileage cache through the information guiding means 124, the authentication server 140 Requires authentication. In addition, the control means 125 may check the mileage cache stored in the storage means 123 when the customer makes a request, and deposit the cash into the deposit account of the customer, or when the customer uses the product or service on the e-commerce site, Act on payment.

The e-commerce server 130 requests an authentication for the customer to the authentication server 140 described below when the customer purchases a product or uses a service on the Internet with the mileage cache granted from the integrated management server 120.

The authentication server 140 caches the identity and mileage of the customer when the customer requests authentication from the e-commerce server 130 or requests authentication from the integrated management server 120 when the customer purchases a product or uses a service from an e-commerce site. The authentication is transmitted to the integrated management server 120 or the e-commerce server 130.

Hereinafter, the mileage integration management method according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 3 to 5.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of registering a member in a integrated management server in a mileage integrated management method according to the present invention.

First, according to the present invention, a process of joining a member to an integrated management server will be described with reference to FIG. 3.

After the customer accesses the home page of the integrated management server 120, and requests a membership on the homepage (S1), the integrated management server 120 transmits and displays the terms and information input window to the customer's computer ( S2). In this state, when the customer enters the personal information and transmits it to the integrated management server 120 (S3), the integrated management server 120 checks whether there is an ID overlapping with the ID specified by the customer, and if there is no duplicate ID, Gives to the customer (S4). Here, if the duplicate ID is confirmed, the integrated management server 120 displays the duplicate message on the customer's computer, requests the ID again, and repeats the above process to grant the ID to the customer.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a process of converting mileage into a mileage cache in the mileage integration management method according to the present invention.

In addition, the process of converting the mileage into a mileage cache in the mileage integrated management method according to the present invention with reference to FIG.

First, when a customer purchases a product using an oil refinery, a card company, or a product purchase company (S11), each company provides a certain mileage to the customer (S12).

Then, each company server 110 transmits the information and the mileage about the customer to the integrated management server 120 (S13), the conversion means 121 of the integrated management server 120 is transmitted from each company server The mileage of the customer is converted into integrated mileage through a predetermined method (S14).

The cache conversion means 122 of the integrated management server 120 converts the integrated mileage converted by the conversion means 121 into a mileage cache (S15). The storage means 123 of the integrated mileage server (1) stores the mileage cache converted by the cache conversion means 122 for each customer, and the information guiding means 124 includes a mileage cache under the control of the control means 125. The guide information is delivered to the customer through an email or a fax (S16).

When the customer uses the mileage cache in this state (S17), the control means 125 of the integrated management server 120 confirms the customer (S18, S19), and transmits the customer identity and mileage cache to the authentication server 140. (S20), the mileage cache used by the customer in the total mileage cache is subtracted and stored (S21). Here, if the customer wants to transfer the cash to the integrated management server 120 to convert into a mileage cache (S22), the integrated management server 120 converts it into a mileage cache (S15), it is stored in the storage means 123 Save it (S16). In addition, when the customer requests a deposit to the integrated management server 120 to cache back the mileage cache stored in the storage means 123 (S23), the control means 125 of the integrated management server 120 deposits it into the customer's account. (S24).

5 is a flowchart illustrating a process of purchasing a product by a customer in the mileage integrated management method according to the present invention.

In addition, the process of the customer to purchase the product of the mileage integration management method according to the present invention with reference to Figure 5 as follows.

First, the customer accesses the homepage of the e-commerce company using the Internet and then purchases the product using the mileage cache (S30), and enters the ID and password received from the integrated management server 120 (S32), The commerce server 130 requests authentication to the authentication server 140 using the input user information (S32). Then, the authentication server 140 transmits the transmitted user information to the integrated management server 120 (S33), and the user is confirmed through the above-described verification process from the integrated management server 120 (S34), And if the mileage cache is transmitted (S35), it is authenticated to transmit the authentication result to the integrated management server 120 and the e-commerce server 130 (S36, S37).

Then, the e-commerce server 130 sends or provides the product or service to the customer according to the result of the authentication from the authentication server 140 (S38), and requests the product payment to the integrated management server 120 (S39). .

Therefore, the integrated management server integrates the mileage provided to the customer from each company and returns it to the customer in cash or electronic money corresponding to the integrated mileage, thereby enabling the customer to use the product purchase.

Therefore, according to the mileage integrated management system and method of the present invention configured as described above, by integrating the mileage obtained when purchasing the products of each company, the consumer manages one integrated mileage, by converting it into a mileage cache such as cash to use Many benefits can be given to consumers.

In addition, companies can easily recoup their corporate image by recovering the cost invested to implement the mileage system and by providing mileage that can be easily used by consumers.

In addition, when a consumer purchases a small item such as MP3, video data, data, etc. on the Internet, payment can be made using a mileage cache to promote electronic commerce development.

In addition, preferred embodiments of the present invention are disclosed for the purpose of illustration, those skilled in the art will be able to various modifications, changes, additions, etc. within the spirit and scope of the present invention, these modifications and changes should be seen as belonging to the following claims something to do.

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A multi-vendor server that grants corresponding mileage when a customer purchases a product or uses a service; An integrated management server for converting the mileage granted to the customer in each of the company servers in a predetermined manner to give integrated mileage, and converting the mileage cache into a mileage cache; An e-commerce server providing an e-commerce site through which the customer can purchase a product or use a service through the mileage cache granted from the integrated management server; When a customer requests an authentication for the customer from the e-commerce server or requests authentication from the integrated management server when a customer purchases a product or uses a service from the e-commerce site, the identity of the customer and the mileage cache are authenticated to manage the result. Mileage integrated management system comprising a server and an authentication server for transmitting to the e-commerce server. The method of claim 1, wherein the integrated management server, Conversion means for converting the mileage of the customer transmitted from each company server into the integrated mileage; Cache conversion means for converting the integrated mileage converted into the previous conversion means into a mileage cache; Storage means for storing the mileage cache converted by the cache converting means for each customer according to an output control signal; Information guiding means for transmitting the cumulative status of the mileage cache to the customer through an e-mail according to an output control signal; And controlling means for controlling the overall component, storing the mileage cache in the storage means, informing the customer of the cumulative state of the mileage cache through the information guiding means, and requesting authentication to the authentication server. Mileage integrated management system, characterized in that. The method of claim 1, wherein the predetermined scheme is The mileage integrated management system, characterized in that for calculating the mileage provided from each of the company server at the ratio presented by the company server. A transfer step of transferring the mileage granted to the customer from each vendor server from the multiple vendor servers to the integrated management server; A management step of converting the mileage transmitted from each company server in a predetermined manner to give integrated mileage, converting it into a mileage cache, and managing it; An authentication request step of requesting authentication of a customer from an e-commerce server to an authentication server when a customer purchases a product or uses a service from an e-commerce site on the Internet with the mileage cache received from the integrated management server; An authentication check step of receiving an identity of the customer and the mileage cache to the integrated management server and authenticating the request to the integrated management server and transmitting the authentication server to the integrated management server and the e-commerce server; If the authentication is confirmed, the mileage integrated management method comprising the providing step of providing a product or service purchased by the customer in the e-commerce server. According to claim 4, In the mileage integrated management method, The customer further comprises the step of receiving an ID and password through the membership of the integrated management server. The method of claim 4, wherein in the management step, The customer further comprises the step of purchasing the mileage cache using cash directly. The method of claim 4, wherein in the management step, Mileage integration management method comprising the step of paying the mileage cache in cash to the customer. The method of claim 4, wherein the predetermined scheme is The mileage integration management method, characterized in that for calculating the mileage provided from each of the company server at the ratio presented by the company server.