KR20010054024A - Method for Auction of Goods using Internet - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: The method for the item auction via the Internet is provided to enable a purchaser to choose the best price and high qualified item by receiving the information of the desirable item from many distributors, to enable the distributors to reduce the ad(advertisement) cost, and to prevent the leakage of the personal information of the purchaser and distributor by transacting the item via an e-mail. CONSTITUTION: An Internet service provider opens the auction site and stores the distributor information(201). The provider checks if there is a purchase order of the purchaser or not(202). If there is not a purchase order, the process continues to wait. Otherwise, the provider grants an identifier of the item order and chooses the distributor, who deals with the ordered item, by the stored information of the distributor(203). The provider sends the order information to each distributor via the e-mail(204). The provider checks if the response, including the information about the distributor and ordered item, is received from the distributor or not(205). If the response is not received, the provider waits until receiving the response. Otherwise, the provider sends the response information(e-mail address, phone number, item, price) of the distributor to the purchaser via the e-mail(206). The purchaser compares the response information of each distributor, and notifies the determined distributor to the provider. The provider checks if the determined distributor is notified from the purchaser or not(207). If the determined distributor is not notified, the process returns to the step 206 and runs repeatedly. Otherwise, the provider notifies the successful contract with the purchaser to the relevant distributor via the e-mail(208).

Description

Method for Auction of Goods using Internet}

The present invention relates to a product auction method through the Internet, and more particularly, to help the buyer to purchase the desired product at the best price over the Internet, and to the seller a product auction method through the Internet that can expand the product sales path It is about.

Nowadays, auctions over the Internet are becoming popular among consumers. Purchasing a product by internet auction has the advantage of being able to purchase the product at a lower price than on the market, and save time by convenient purchase method. Therefore, the market for buying and selling at cyber auctions with the network of real auctions is exploding more than any other market. Such auctions are a global trend, and online auctions are already active in Korea. Forrester Research (http://www.forrester.com/), a leading global market researcher, estimated that the internet auction market was estimated at $ 2.9 billion last year (1998), and $ 52.2 billion was traded in 2002. Analyzing that would lead to As such, there is a great deal of potential for the development of the auction market via the Internet.

In the conventional method of auctioning a product through the Internet, when one seller presents a product to be sold, a number of buyers present a price they want to buy, and in contrast to the general auction method in which a buyer bids an upper limit, If you present a product name that you want to buy, there are a reverse auction method in which a plurality of sellers present information and prices of their products, and a buyer wins the seller who presented a lower limit among them. In order to perform this auction method (ie, general auction method, reverse auction method), a business operator first establishes an auction site including an overall system of auction, and prepares a home page.

A home page is a personal home page that organizes personal information or personally helpful information, a home page that remembers the location of various home page documents on the Internet. The search engine home page you use to find a specific site on the Internet, It is a commercial home page. It is a commercial home page, such as the sale of goods through the Internet, a commercial home page, and a corporate home page, most of which consists of advertisements for corporate products and events. There is this.

Auctions through the Internet or PC communications, which are free to negotiate prices, have recently been regarded as the best business utilizing the characteristics of the Internet. This auction through the Internet was carried out by introducing a method that allows buyers to check the bidding and auction situation in real time through a bulletin board auction. In addition, we have a professional auction system, such as preventing duplicate bidding, preventing bidding after the deadline, multiple auctions to ensure the transparency of the auction.

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the conventional product auction method through the Internet will be described.

In order to participate in the auction via the Internet, the buyer must first register as a member on the homepage of the auction site established by the business operator. After registration, the main page appears on the screen, and on the left side of the main page, there are about 20 categories of items such as computer / peripheral device, game device / game software, furniture / kitchen / household goods, clothing / fashion goods. Buyers can browse the products by selecting a category to purchase, or use the search box directly above to find a more accurate product.

After selecting a product to purchase, you can view detailed information about the product directly under the auction product picture, or look up the credit rating of the seller who wants to sell the product. After this process, if you decide to participate in the auction, click the 'Join Bid' button at the bottom of the screen.

When the 'bid participation' button is clicked, a bid is displayed on the screen, and the buyer must complete all the bids. The bid amount can be from the minimum 100 won or 1000 won unit, even if the quantity of the bidding product is more than two, you must write down the price individually. After you have completed the bids, click on the 'Submit Bid' button at the bottom of the screen. If you click the 'Submit Bid' button, the message "Please check the bid details and decide carefully" will be displayed. If you finally decide to bid, click the 'OK' button. When the 'OK' button is clicked, the bid is finally connected. Here, you can see a list of IDs, bid dates, prices, and quantities of people who have been bidding for you.

Some auction companies charge 1% of the winning price to both the successful bidder and the seller, and some companies charge 5% of the winning price and 3% to the winning bidder, and only 10% of the winning price is paid to the seller. Some companies charge a fee and do not charge any successful bidders.

However, the conventional method of auctioning goods through the Internet considers information sharing without considering security in an open computer network called the Internet, so that the personal information of the buyer is leaked and anyone can easily know the personal information of the buyer. There is this.

In addition, due to excessive competition, the bid may be higher than the market price, the curiosity may be auctioned off, and the bid may not be received even after the payment. There is a problem that does not occur.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, the object of the present invention is that the buyer can receive the product information from the various sellers of the desired product can select the best price and high quality products To provide a method of auctioning goods through.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for auctioning goods over the Internet, which can save enormous expenditure on advertising to widely sell the seller's products to the public, and can sell the seller's products to buyers who want to sell them in a timely manner. There is.

Still another object of the present invention is to allow buyers and sellers to trade goods through e-mails, etc., which can be kept confidential to third parties, thereby preventing the leakage of personal information of buyers and sellers. It is to provide a method of auctioning goods through.

Figure 1a is a flow diagram schematically showing a new registration and order acceptance process according to the present invention.

Figure 1b is an exemplary view showing an embodiment of the order request page according to the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating the overall operation of the auction method according to the present invention.

Figure 3 is a flow chart illustrating a payment method for goods in the auction method according to the present invention.

Figure 4 is a block diagram showing an electronic signature process of the auction method according to the present invention.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention allows a business operator to register a home page that provides various information on an auction site, arrange a sale of goods between a buyer and a seller using the home page, and sell a product through an auction. A method for auctioning goods over the Internet, comprising: when a purchase goods order is transmitted by a buyer, assigning an identifier for the transferred goods and selecting a seller for the transmitted goods; Sending the order information sent from the buyer to the selected seller by e-mail, and when the response is received from the selected seller, sending the response information sent from the seller to the buyer by e-mail; If a notification from the buyer about the desired seller who wishes to trade is sent by e-mail, a notification is made to the seller.

In addition, when the contract is established and the price of the goods is received from the buyer, the seller is notified of a message about the payment confirmation; When the seller delivers the successful bid product to the buyer, the buyer determines whether the successful bid product is satisfied; If the buyer is satisfied with the winning product and notifies the operator, the operator pays the seller price of the product; If the buyer is not satisfied with the successful bid product and notifies the operator of the return, the operator further includes refunding the price of the product to the buyer.

In addition, the documents written by the buyer, seller and business are transmitted by electronic mail (electronic mail), the method of verifying the written document is characterized in that the electronic signature process.

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of a method for auctioning goods through the Internet according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1A is a flowchart schematically illustrating a new registration and order acceptance process according to the present invention.

First, a business operator must register with e-mail and the Internet, open an auction site, and a buyer and seller must register with e-mail and the Internet.

An auction site is a web site that refers to an entire system, including a computer or a network that contains information about the auction or information about the auction. The home page (1) is a place of information for an individual or organization that is publicly available on the Internet. In other words, the home page (1) originally refers to the place where the user first accesses the web using his or her own tool, and nowadays it has been converted to "Internet address used on the web." Since the home page 1 is composed of hypertext, a user can click on a link point on the screen with a mouse to jump to a corresponding page or another server. One of the advantages of the web is that even individuals can provide some information to the whole world. The source of information is called the home page (1). In order to create a home page (1), a web server (web sever) must be installed on its host, and the home page (1) creation is written in a kind of computer language called "HTML (HyperText Markup Language)".

After creating the home page (1), it is necessary to register on the Internet.How to register the home page (1) on the Internet is provided by an operator by establishing a web server or registering an Internet service provider (ISP). The home page (1) registration means includes a method using WS-FTP, an ISP home page (1) registration method, a PC communication program, and the like. The homepage (1) registration method and means differ depending on the ISP.

It is preferable that the operator uploads the home page 1 on the Internet, and then registers with the search engine to promote the fact that his home page 1 is on the Internet.

The buyer decides to purchase the goods to be purchased through the internet by auction method, and then accesses the auction site established by the business operator. When accessing the auction site, the home page is first displayed on the screen. The home page contains simple information on the auction method, advertisements and pictures, and when a buyer visits the auction site for the first time, clicks the 'New registration' button to go to the new registration page (2), and the auction If you do not visit the site for the first time, enter the buyer ID and go to the order request page (3). When the buyer moves to the new registration page (2), a page for registering buyer information regarding the purchaser's personal information is displayed. When the buyer enters all the buyer information or the buyer ID on the home page, the order request page (3 Go to).

In order for the buyer to successfully receive the order, the information entered on the home page (1) must be transferred to the new registration page (2) or the order request page (3), and the information entered on the order request page (3) is transferred to the next page. This process uses the HTTP protocol. However, the HTTP protocol is a protocol that is not capable of persistent connections and statefulness. That is, when a buyer visits two sequential pages, the web server cannot maintain a continuous connection between the pages, nor can the web server remember a trace of previously left information (for example, buyer information). Therefore, when a buyer sequentially enters information into two consecutive web pages, the information entered in the first visited page is lost when visiting the next page. To solve this problem, the hidden type input tag is used. Hidden tags are new information entered when sending the current page's HTML form if the information entered on the previous page is also needed on the current page, and if the information is hidden in the HTML document of the current page (though not shown in the browser). The hidden information is sent to the server so that the information entered on the previous page is not lost.

1B is an exemplary view showing an embodiment of the order request page 3 according to the present invention.

1A and 1B, when a buyer enters a buyer ID on the home page 1 or purchaser information on the new registration page 2, an order request page 3 as shown in FIG. 1B is output. The buyer enters all the information printed on the order request page in the corresponding item. As shown in FIG. 1B, the 'purchase product name' is an item for selecting a product to be purchased by the buyer, and when the bar on the right side is clicked, the products handled at the auction site are output, and the corresponding product is selected from among them. 'Purchase count' is the item to input the quantity of the product to be purchased by the buyer, 'Member ID' is the item to be given from the operator, and 'E-mail address' is the buyer's E-mail ID. 'Contact Phone Number' is to enter the buyer's contact phone number. 'Address to Receive' is to enter the address to receive the winning item from the seller from the seller. Detailed Order Details and Memo 'is an item to input detailed details about the product to be purchased and items desired by the business operator or seller. After the buyer enters all of the above items, he clicks the 'Apply' button to complete the order acceptance process. At this time, if you want to cancel the order acceptance process, click the 'Cancel' button.

2 is a flowchart illustrating the overall operation of the auction method according to the present invention.

When the operator opens the auction site, the seller information of the sellers to sell the product is stored and stored before the auction site is operated (201). In order to meet the needs of numerous buyers, it is desirable for auction site operators to have a variety of items and the ability to provide a convenient service to the buyer at any time. In addition, a database may be utilized to store seller information. Here, the seller's information enters the seller's e-mail, address, phone number, and handling products.

Once determined to have sufficient seller and seller information, the Internet service provider of the present invention publishes the auction site on the Internet and determines whether there is an order of a purchased product from any buyer (202). In order to implement the order acceptance process and whether there is an order from an arbitrary buyer, technologies such as HTML form and Common Gateway Interface (CGI) are required. In HTML document, HTML form is provided to send various data entered by buyer to server so that buyer and operator's web server can interact. That is, when a buyer inputs data such as a string or an option into an HTML form, which is a kind of HTML document, and clicks the 'send' button, the input data is transmitted to the operator's server. In general, data exchange standard rules, called CGIs, are used to exchange information between web clients and web servers. Web server programs should support server-client interactions to process user information requests (eg, purchase order fulfillment). To do this, server programs typically support a standardized way of communicating information, called CGI. .

Information transmitted to the server in the CGI format is processed by the CGI program installed on the server by properly interpreting the buyer's information request in accordance with the CGI standard format. The ability to convert data entered by buyers or sellers into the CGI standard format is already built into most browser programs, so no additional work is required for the buyer or seller to convert input data into CGI format. After entering the data in the formatted HTML document, simply click the 'Send' button. According to the CGI standard rules, data input and transmitted to HTML forms is converted into URI codes by the browser, and then transmitted. When data arrives at the server, the CGI program existing at the server is started and restored to the original data. URI code conversion method is transmitted as it is for English letters or numbers, space is converted to '+', and other special characters and Korean characters are converted to hexadecimal ASCⅡ code or Korean code, and then ' It is sent with the symbol '%' attached.

In step 202, if it is determined that there is no purchase goods order from the buyer, it is kept waiting, and if it is determined that there is a purchase goods order, the operator gives an identifier for the purchase goods order and reminds the seller who handles the goods to be purchased by the buyer. Selected by the stored seller information (203). The identifier has an identification function for distinguishing one transaction from another transaction in case a buyer orders several items. The identifier may be composed of a serial number or a letter.

Next, the business operator sends e-mail to each selected seller, order information including information on the purchased goods (type, quantity, etc. of purchased goods) (204). Thereafter, the business operator receives a response from each seller, including the price of the purchased product, and the seller's site information including the product information, in which detailed information about the seller's products is stored, if there is a seller's dedicated site. Determine (205).

If no response is received from each seller, wait until a response is received. If a response is received, the operator includes the seller's e-mail, address, telephone number, handling product, price, site information, and product information. The information is sent to the buyer by e-mail (206). The buyer who has received the response information from the operator compares the response information presented by each seller to determine the seller who wishes to trade among them, and notifies the operator of the determined desired seller. The operator determines whether the desired seller who wants to trade from the buyer has been notified (207). If it is determined that the desired seller is not notified by the buyer, the process returns to the above step 206, and the subsequent steps are repeated. When the desired seller is notified by the buyer, the seller is notified by e-mail of the establishment of a contract with the buyer ( 208).

Figure 3 is a flow chart illustrating a payment method for goods in the auction method according to the present invention.

In the payment method of goods in the auction method through the Internet, the buyer pays the goods first and then the goods are delivered, the goods are received from the seller (successful bidder), and then the goods are paid. After paying a portion of the price and receiving the product, you pay the rest of the product, how the seller delivers a portion of the product to the buyer and the buyer pays the full amount of the product, and then the seller delivers the rest of the product to the buyer. There is a branch. That is, the payment method is also different depending on the nature of the purchased product. Here, a description will be given of the first method, that is, a method in which a buyer pays a product price first and then receives a product.

When the contract between the buyer and seller is established, the buyer deposits the price of the goods to the business operator. The means for depositing can be either cash or credit card. The operator determines whether the product price is received from the buyer (301). As a result of the determination, if the product price is not deposited, the operator waits until the product price is deposited, and if it is determined that the product price has been deposited, notifies the seller (successor) by E-mail that the product price has been deposited from the buyer (302). The seller, notified by the buyer of the payment of the goods, delivers the successful bid product to the buyer within a predetermined period (usually, 5-7 days) (303). At this time, if the seller is not notified of the payment of the goods, the seller waits without delivering the successful bid product to the buyer until the deposit confirmation notification arrives.

After that, the purchaser carefully examines whether the received successful bid product is a product he or she originally wanted to purchase, examines the defect of the product, and then determines whether the successful bid product is satisfied (304). As a result of the determination, if the buyer is satisfied with the successful bid product, the buyer notifies the operator that the desired successful bid product has been received from the seller (305). The business operator who receives the notification regarding the delivery of the successful bid product from the buyer pays the price of the product to the seller (306). As a result of the determination of step 304, if the buyer is not satisfied with the successful bid product, the buyer returns the successful bid product to the seller (307), and notifies the operator of the return (308). Upon receiving notification of the return, the operator refunds the purchase price to the buyer (309).

4 is a block diagram showing an electronic signature process of the auction method according to the present invention.

Operators must protect the information flowing through the public computer network, the Internet, from infringement of outside or trading partners. Therefore, security technology is a core technology that is required throughout e-commerce including auctioning through the Internet, where products are traded without a face, and the transaction content is exposed to the outside as a requirement for constructing security technology. Confidentiality to prevent, integrity to prevent the contents of the transaction from being tampered with or forged by the trading party or external parties, authentication to verify the identity of the trading partners, and transactional information Non-repudiation is required to prevent denial or reversal, and the operator operates an auction site according to the configuration requirements of the security technology. As one of such security technologies, the digital signature process will be described with reference to FIG. This digital signature process is just one embodiment, and may be implemented in other ways.

Digital signatures are a way for the author of a document to prove that it is a document that he or she created. This prevents recipients from tampering with or tampering with messages they receive, and prevents the sender from later denying or reversing the contents of a message, thereby authenticating messages and authenticating users. It is a security technology that can simultaneously perform a combination of message digest and asymmetric key encryption. Message digest technology is an encryption technique that uses a one-way hashing algorithm. Because one-way hashing algorithms are one-way in a way that summarizes long messages into shorter ones, restoration from the summarized message to the original message is not possible, but the hashing function can generate a unique summary message, or digest, for a single message. have. The digital signature technology using the message digest is shown in FIG.

First, the buyer or seller converts the outgoing message 41 into a very short digest 42 by using a hashing function, and generates a digest 43 by encrypting it using its private key and simultaneously sends them to the operator. Send by mail (44). The operator receives these two digests 42 and 43 and transmits them without double encryption. The digest 42 compares the encrypted digest 45 with the digest 45 decrypted by the buyer or seller's public key. . Therefore, if the two digests 42 and 45 are the same, it is proved that the digest was not compromised while being sent via E-mail, and at the same time the decrypted digest 45 was decrypted by the buyer or seller's public key. This proves that the encryption digest 43 is encrypted with a private key that only the buyer or seller knows. Therefore, it is possible to authenticate the identity of the buyer or seller to serve as an electronic signature.

The above embodiments are merely illustrative of preferred embodiments of the present invention, and the scope of application of the present invention is not limited to these, and may be appropriately changed within the scope of the same idea. For example, the shape and structure of each component specifically shown in the embodiment of the present invention can be modified. In addition, the present invention can be widely used in various ways.

As described above, according to the method for auctioning goods through the Internet according to the present invention, by exchanging messages between the operator and the buyer or between the operator and the seller using E-mail, the personal information of the buyer or the seller can be prevented from being leaked. It can be effective.

In addition, by allowing the buyer to receive the product information from multiple sellers to select the best price and high quality products, there is an effect that can prevent the bid price higher than the market price due to excessive competition. .

Claims (3)

A home page providing various information on an auction site is registered by a business operator. The home page provides a method for auctioning a product between a buyer and a seller using the home page, and sells a product through an auction. In When a purchase product order is sent by the buyer, assign an identifier for the transmitted purchase product, and select a seller for the transmitted purchase product; Sending the order information sent from the buyer to the selected seller by e-mail, and sending the response information sent from the seller to the buyer by e-mail when a response is received from the selected seller; If the notice for the desired seller wants to trade from the buyer is sent by e-mail, and notifying the seller to establish a contract product over the Internet. The method of claim 1, When the contract is established and the product price is received from the buyer, a notification of the deposit confirmation is sent to the seller; When the seller delivers the successful bid product to the buyer, the buyer determines whether the successful bid product is satisfied; If the buyer is satisfied with the successful bid product and notifies the operator of the fact, the seller pays the price of the product to the seller; If the buyer is not satisfied with the successful bid product and notifies the operator of the return, the operator further comprises the step of refunding the purchase price to the buyer product auction over the Internet. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The documents written by the buyer, seller and business are transmitted by e-mail, and the method of verifying the written document is an electronic signature process.