KR20020024491A - E-comerce system and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A system and method for electronic commerce are provided to easily embody an integrated shopping mall without modifying the structure of each shopping mall affiliate system. CONSTITUTION: An electronic commerce system consists of a plurality of shopping mall affiliate systems(10), a shopping mall host system(20), and a shopping mall gateway(30). The shopping mall host system(20) synthetically operates and sells the goods of the shopping mall affiliate systems(10). The shopping mall host system(20) comprises a database server(21), a processing server(22), and a server adapter(23). The database server(21) comprises a category mapping DB(211), a goods information DB(212), an integrated order DB(213), and an integrated order log DB(214). The processing server(22) executes a shopping mall function, based on information stored in the database server(21). The processing server(22) comprises an order processing part(221), an integrated settlement part(222), a goods information conversion part(223), a delivery inquiry part(224), an integrated shopping cart part(225), and a category conversion part(226). The shopping mall gateway(30) comprises a goods information channel to transmit goods information based on a goods information request, an order/settlement information channel to transmit order processing details, and a delivery information to transmit delivery details, and a search information channel.

Description

E-commerce system and method thereof {E-COMERCE SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF}

The present invention relates to an electronic commerce system and a method thereof, and more particularly, to an electronic commerce system and a method for easily purchasing a product sold in a plurality of shopping malls without separately accessing shopping malls on the Internet.

In recent years, with the rapid increase in the spread of the Internet, electronic commerce targeting people around the world is being made through the same medium. E-Commerce generally refers to commercial commerce involving the flow of money using electronic media and electronic technologies and means under an integrated automated information system environment between companies and companies, between companies and individuals, between individuals and individuals, or between governments and enterprises. But also includes a series of activities for buyer marketing, advertising, procurement, service, production, transportation, and purchase.

In general, an electronic commerce is performed by a user accessing a shopping mall site, selecting a product, and applying for a purchase to perform a payment for the product at the shopping mall site based on the user's payment information. As described above, in order to purchase a product sold at a specific shopping mall site, the user must directly access the shopping mall site, and each shopping mall has to go through authentication steps for purchasing and paying for the shopping mall. There was a problem that can not grasp the characteristics of products sold in a number of shopping mall sites.

In order to solve this problem, recently, a comprehensive shopping mall is being integrated to manage product information sold at a plurality of shopping mall sites, and to perform payment for goods sold at each shopping mall site. The shopping mall affiliate (affiliate) (hereinafter referred to as affiliate shopping mall) for providing a, and a shopping mall host for operating a comprehensive shopping mall based on product information provided in each affiliate shopping mall.

In general, a shopping mall system operating on the Internet basically has a web server and a database storing information on various products sold in the lower tier, order information, payment information, and delivery status, and a web server. In the upper middle layer, a product module, a search module, an order module, a payment module, and a delivery module, which perform shopping mall functions in connection with a database and a web server below, are constructed. In the upper layer, a user interface unit that actually interacts with a user is built. That is, all shopping mall web pages for reading the product information from the database and outputting it to the user, receiving the order and showing the payment result belong to this upper layer.

The most common way of constructing a comprehensive shopping mall using a shopping mall having such a structure is to use a database connection of each shopping mall.

The method of connecting the database implements a comprehensive shopping mall by integrating the database of the affiliate shopping mall and the product page with the database of the shopping mall host and including the affiliate shopping mall as part of the shopping mall host.

The general shopping mall site is basically similar to the affiliate shopping mall, but since the product information of different structures is received and stored from each affiliate shopping mall, the lower database is formed by integrating such product information. In addition, since a single form of data processing must be performed by integrating the structure of the product information, the shopping mall engine has a structure having a product module managing each product in order to manage them.

When using a database connection in this way, the structure of the affiliate shopping mall does not change. However, the shopping mall host must receive all the data of these affiliate shopping malls (including the change of the data type if necessary) and build it in the lowest level database, and also include the product module in the middle layer to process these materials. Should be added to the mall engine hierarchy.

On the other hand, the method of connecting databases has the advantage that the mall host can arrange and implement products of a plurality of affiliate shopping malls according to the intention of the general shopping mall, but it is cumbersome to manage a plurality of databases having the same contents, and thus, a longer length of time. There is a disadvantage in that the price competitiveness is reduced due to the information update cycle, and the product pages and information of the affiliated shopping mall are re-developed in accordance with the form of the general shopping mall.

In addition to this method, there is a method using a link as a way to build a comprehensive shopping mall.

The link method is to build a general shopping mall by adding a link page created for the general shopping mall on the upper user interface layer of the affiliate shopping mall. Through the affiliated shopping mall will be automatically connected to purchase the selected product. This method has the advantage of being very easy to develop, but since all the operations for ordering, payment, shipping, and shopping malls are performed in affiliated shopping malls, the function of brokering the mall host to the affiliated shopping mall is not a general shopping mall. There is no choice but to do it. In addition, when the shopping mall host requests to change the product details, the request for a request to the affiliated company (participating shopping mall operating entity) is delayed, and the update cycle is delayed and it is difficult to implement the desired shopping mall in the shopping mall host.

In addition, there is a method using a shopping mall copy as a method of building a comprehensive shopping mall.

The shopping mall copying method is a compromise between the above two methods. In order to implement the payment part for the product in the shopping mall host, the shopping mall engine with the changed payment part for the general shopping mall and a copy of the user interface are added and operated on the affiliate side. A copy shopping mall is constructed, and a general shopping mall of a desired form can be constructed by modifying the user interface as required by the shopping mall and adding the link to the shopping mall.

The copying method of the shopping mall has the advantage that the rich contents of the affiliate shopping mall can be used in the shopping host as it is, but the affiliate shopping mall must modify a large part of the original source code of the shopping mall to match the shape of the comprehensive shopping mall. It is difficult to configure the interface into a unified form. In particular, since the shopping mall copying method is the same as newly developing a part (middle layer) that performs a shopping mall function on a database layer, which is a lower layer, a development time or a development manpower is required.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide an electronic commerce system and a method for easily implementing a comprehensive shopping mall without changing the structure of an affiliate shopping mall system.

1 is a conceptual diagram of an electronic commerce system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a structural diagram of an electronic commerce system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a diagram illustrating an operating characteristic of a shopping gateway adapter according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an interlocking relationship between components that are performed when a product information providing operation is performed through a product information channel of a shopping mall gateway according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a flowchart sequentially illustrating an operation of providing product information through a product information channel of a shopping mall gateway according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an interworking relationship between components performed in an order processing operation through an order / payment information channel of a shopping mall gateway in an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating an order processing operation through an order / payment information channel of a shopping mall gateway in an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an interworking relationship between components that are performed in a shipment inquiry operation through a delivery information channel of a shopping mall gateway in an embodiment of the present invention.

9 is a flowchart sequentially illustrating a delivery inquiry operation through a delivery information channel of a shopping mall gateway according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an interworking relationship between components that are performed in a shipment inquiry operation through a delivery information channel of a shopping mall gateway in an embodiment of the present invention.

11 is a flowchart sequentially illustrating a delivery inquiry operation through a delivery information channel of a shopping mall gateway in an embodiment of the present invention.

An electronic commerce system according to a feature of the present invention for achieving the technical problem, as an electronic commerce system for transmitting and receiving information through a plurality of affiliated shopping mall system and shopping mall gateway,

A sub adapter connected to the shopping mall gateway to transmit and receive information; A product information database in which an identification code of an affiliate shopping mall system is correspondingly stored for each product; And searching the database according to a product purchase request from a user terminal to find an identification code of an affiliate shopping mall system corresponding to the corresponding product, and provide the identification code to the sub-adapter to perform product purchase processing with the corresponding affiliate shopping mall system. And a server, wherein the server adapter performs information transmission and reception with an affiliated shopping mall system corresponding to an identification code provided from the processing server through the shopping mall gateway.

Here, the affiliated shopping mall system also includes a client adapter for transmitting and receiving information with the server adapter through the shopping mall gateway.

In response to a request for product information from a user terminal, the processing server searches for the database, finds an identification code of an affiliate shopping mall system corresponding to the corresponding product, provides the sub-adapter to request product information, and requests the sub-adapter. An order processor which transmits product information provided from the affiliate shopping mall system to the user terminal; And performing an order and payment process for the corresponding product according to a product purchase request from a user terminal, and then providing the sub-adapter with an identification code and an order of the affiliate shopping mall system corresponding to the corresponding product to the affiliate shopping mall system. It may include an integrated payment unit for requesting the transmission of the order history.

In addition, it may further include a category mapping database in which the identification code of the affiliate shopping mall system corresponding to each category is stored. In this case, the affiliate shopping mall which provides product information by searching the category mapping database of the order processing unit of the processing server. The category information to which the system belongs is extracted and the category information and the product information are transmitted together to the user terminal so that the user can more specifically grasp the information of the affiliate shopping mall system.

Meanwhile, the electronic commerce system according to an aspect of the present invention further includes an integrated order database in which the order details are stored. Contains information.

In this case, the processing server requests the delivery information by providing the server adapter with an identification code of the affiliate shopping mall system that sold the corresponding product in response to the request for delivery information from the user terminal, and requests the delivery information from the affiliate shopping mall system through the server adapter. The apparatus may further include a delivery inquiry unit for transmitting the provided delivery information to the user terminal.

In such an e-commerce system, the shopping mall gateway includes a product information channel for transmitting product information, an order / payment information channel for transmitting order details, and a delivery information channel for transmitting delivery information. A plurality of adapters for transmitting and receiving corresponding information corresponding to each channel.

An electronic commerce method according to another aspect of the present invention is an electronic commerce method of a system for transmitting and receiving information through a plurality of affiliate shopping mall systems and shopping mall gateways.

If a product information request is input from a user terminal through a network, providing an identification code of an affiliate shopping mall system corresponding to the corresponding product to a server adapter connected to the shopping mall gateway; Requesting, by the server adapter, information about a product from an affiliate shopping mall system corresponding to the product through the shopping mall gateway; Receiving, by the server adapter, product information provided from the affiliate shopping mall system and transmitting the product information to a user terminal; Performing an order and payment process for the product when a purchase request for the product is input from the user terminal; Providing the server adapter with the order details according to the order and payment processing of the goods and the identification code of the affiliate shopping mall system which provided the goods information; And transmitting, by the server adapter, the order history of the product to the corresponding affiliate shopping mall system through the shopping mall gateway.

In addition, when a request for delivery information is input from a user terminal, finding an identification code of an affiliate shopping mall system selling the product from an order history of the product purchased by the user and providing the identification code to the server adapter; Requesting, by the server adapter, delivery information indicating a delivery processing status to an affiliate shopping mall system corresponding to the product through the shopping mall gateway; And receiving, by the server adapter, delivery information provided from the affiliate shopping mall system, and transmitting the delivery information to a user terminal.

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

1 illustrates a concept of an electronic commerce system according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 illustrates a structure of an electronic commerce system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

An electronic commerce system according to an embodiment of the present invention builds a comprehensive shopping mall through a shopping mall gateway. Here, the shopping mall gateway sends and receives the product information, order, and delivery information of the affiliate shopping mall system to the shopping mall host system through a network such as the Internet using the product information channel, the order / payment information channel, the delivery information channel, and the check information channel. It is a method and a system for supporting it.

In the case of building a comprehensive shopping mall using a shopping mall gateway, the shopping mall host system installs a server-side channel adapter for transmitting and receiving goods, orders, delivery, and user information with the affiliate shopping mall system, and the affiliate shopping mall system communicates with the server-side channel adapter. You will install a client channel adapter to do this.

Therefore, the shopping mall host system easily manages a comprehensive shopping mall by managing only summary information and minimum order details of the product information, and the affiliate shopping mall system uses only a client channel adapter in the top layer of the system structure by a plug-in method. By simply installing, the shopping mall can be entered as an alliance shopping mall of the general shopping mall, so that a general shopping mall construction work can be performed quickly and easily.

The electronic commerce system according to the embodiment of the present invention having such a feature integrates a plurality of affiliate shopping mall systems 10 and a plurality of affiliate shopping mall systems 10 that sell products, as shown in FIG. A shopping mall host system 20 that operates and sells, and a shopping mall gateway 30 that transmits and receives a plurality of information generated between the plurality of affiliate shopping mall systems 10 and the shopping mall host system 20.

The shopping mall gateway 30 includes a product information channel for transmitting product information according to a product information request, an order / payment information channel for transmitting order processing details, a delivery information channel for transmitting delivery details, and a search information channel. The system 20 and each affiliate shopping mall system 10 each include a server adapter 23 and a client adapter 11 for transmitting and receiving information to and from each other through the shopping mall gateway 30.

The shopping mall host system 20 includes a database server 21 including a category mapping database 211, a product information database 212, an integrated order database 213, and an integrated order log database 214. An order processor 221, an integrated payment unit 222, a product information converter 223, a delivery inquiry unit 224, and an integrated shopping cart unit that perform a shopping mall function based on the information stored in the database server 21. 225, a processing server 22 including a category converting unit 226, and a server adapter 23.

In the case of the shopping mall host system 20, the server adapter 23 is positioned above the processing server 22, and the server adapter 23 sends this information to the shopping mall gateway 30 when a product information request is input from the user terminal. It transmits to the affiliate shopping mall system 10 through the above, and provides the product information input from the shopping mall gateway 30 to the user terminal, each part (221 ~ 2226) of the processing server 22 performs the product order and payment operation Do it.

In the product information database 212 of the shopping mall host system 20, a shopping mall code of the affiliated shopping mall system 10 that sells the corresponding product for each identification number of the product to be sold is mapped and stored, and the category mapping database 211 is provided. The shopping mall codes of the affiliated shopping mall system corresponding to each category are mapped and stored. In this case, categories are classified according to product features sold by each affiliate shopping mall system. For example, information of affiliate shopping mall systems corresponding to categories such as clothing, shoes, travel, books, and electronic products may be mapped and classified.

The integrated order database 213 stores an order history of a product that a user requests to purchase. For example, the integrated order database 213 may display an order history of a corresponding product, such as an ordered product, a quantity, and a shopping mall code of an affiliated shopping mall system. Minimal details are stored. The integrated order log database 214 stores details transmitted to the affiliate shopping mall system among the order details.

The order processing unit 221 of the processing server 22 performs an order processing for a product requested by the terminal 40 of a user connected through a network (for example, the Internet), and the product information converting unit 223 Based on the product information database 212, the affiliated shopping mall system 10 that actually sells the product requested by the user is found and requested to transmit the product information to the server adapter 23, and the integrated payment unit 222 makes a purchase. The payment inquiry unit 224 performs the payment for the requested product, and the delivery inquiry unit 224 requests the delivery inquiry details from the affiliate shopping mall system 10 to the server adapter 23 according to the delivery inquiry request from the user terminal.

In addition, when the product information is transmitted from the affiliate shopping mall system 10 through the server adapter 23, the category converting unit 226 finds a category to which the affiliate shopping mall system belongs from the category mapping database 211, and then the product information. And create a product information page based on the category information of the associated shopping mall system and transmit it to the user terminal. The integrated shopping cart unit 223 performs a function of receiving the product information requested by the user to purchase.

On the other hand, each affiliate shopping mall system 10 has a client adapter 11 is located between the general user interface layer () and the middle-tier shopping mall engine, the client adapter 11 requests for product information from the shopping mall gateway 30 Or order processing search and the like to receive the request to each module of the affiliate shopping mall system (for example, the product module, search module, order module, payment module, shipping module, etc.) as shown in FIG. In addition, the function of transmitting the result of performing each module to the shopping mall host system 20 through the shopping mall gateway 30 again.

As such, the server adapter 23 and the client adapter 11 that exchange information through the shopping mall gateway 30 may be integrated and may be referred to as a shopping mall gateway adapter. The server adapter 23 and the client adapter 11 may be referred to as a shopping mall gateway. It consists of an adapter corresponding to each channel of the product information channel adapter, order / payment information channel adapter, shipping information channel adapter, search information channel adapter.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the mall gateway adapter is divided into a server adapter and a client adapter for convenience, but functionally, the shopping mall gateway adapter may be divided into a data request channel and an action channel as shown in FIG. 3.

The data request channel is a server adapter for requesting data, in which case the server adapter may include an argument encoder, a requester, a data receiver, and a data decoder. Can be.

The argument encoder is composed of key values for data request. For example, when requesting product information from a shopping mall host system, a task of assigning a variable to a key value of a product to a client adapter of an affiliate shopping mall system or performing a search is performed. In this case, the task of assigning a search word corresponds to this.

The requestor sends these variables to the shopping mall gateway 30, which can be implemented as a form method of HTML, activeX, java, corba, or a component using the same. have. The result is called by the client in the same way as the server sends data. Since the client sends the result value to the server in a preset manner, it is necessary to take a value from the variable, which corresponds to the data receiver and the data decoder, respectively.

In addition, a client adapter provides a corresponding data according to a data request in the data request channel, and the client adapter includes a data decoder, a query data, a data encoder, and a responder. can do.

The data decoder performs preprocessing to use the values sent from the server adapter to the RPC of the HTML or component, and the query data retrieves the data using the actually transmitted values. The subsequent process is the same as the process of sending variable values from the server adapter to the client adapter.

An execution channel is a simplified form of a data request channel in that it does not receive data after execution, but receives the results of the execution. In the case of details of execution, for example a change in delivery status, when the order number and delivery status are sent to the client adapter via the argument decoder and the requester, the client adapter will update the database status according to this value.

The product information channel and the search information channel of the shopping mall gateway are both configured as information request channels, and the order / payment information channel and the delivery information channel are configured as information request channels and execution channels (order information storage and payment state change storage).

When data is sent in response to a server adapter's request from the client adapter, the location of the image is passed if the data being sent is an image. The server adapter will use this location as the link information. Therefore, the actual image is included in the affiliated shopping mall system, but is displayed on the user terminal like information of the shopping mall host system.

In actual implementation, each of these modules can be implemented as any module if it can be used on a web server such as HTML script, ActiveX component, etc. If it can take additional work in the shopping mall host system, it can be implemented as a general communication module. May be

When using HTML to perform a particular task, for example, the argument decoder and requester are made into a single script to form the form statement. The argument to the type action takes the name of the HTML file of the other host that will receive this information. Now when the form statement is executed, the HTML file (composed of data decoder and query data) of the other host is called, and this file works with the database. The result is also made up of form statements, which in turn call the server-side HTML file that called it. After receiving the requested result, this file is added to the server-side screen composition and displayed on the user terminal. do.

Although the shopping mall gateway may be divided into a data request channel and an execution channel, the shopping mall gateway is divided into a server adapter and a client adapter.

Next, the operation of the electronic commerce system according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail based on such a structure.

First, an operation performed between a shopping mall host system and an affiliate shopping mall system through a product information channel of a shopping mall gateway will be described. In FIG. 4, an interoperation operation between components is shown in the product information providing operation through a product information channel. The process is shown in sequence in FIG. 5.

When the user terminal 40 connects through a network and requests information on a specific product, the order processing unit 221 stores the product stored in the product information database 212, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5. After finding the identification number of the product from the page template, the identification number is provided to the product information converting unit 223 (S100 to S120).

The product information converting unit 223 determines which affiliate shopping mall system the product is selling. That is, after searching the product information database 212 based on the identification number of the corresponding product to find the shopping mall code of the affiliate shopping mall system 10 corresponding to the identification number (S130), the identification number of the corresponding product and the shopping mall The code is provided to the server adapter 23, and the server adapter 23 provides the product identification number and the shopping mall code to the associated shopping mall system 10 through the product information channel of the shopping mall gateway 30 (S140).

The client adapter 11 of the affiliate shopping mall system 10 searches its own product database according to the product identification number transmitted through the product information channel of the shopping mall gateway 30, and thus the product name, price, and product description of the corresponding product. Product information, such as a product image, is transmitted back to the shopping mall gateway 30. Accordingly, the information is transmitted to the server adapter 23 of the shopping mall host system 20 through the product information channel of the shopping mall gateway 30.

The server adapter 23 provides the product information transmitted from the affiliate shopping mall system 10 to the category converting unit 226. The product converting unit 226 searches the category mapping database 211 when the product information is provided. After confirming which category is included in the affiliate shopping mall system 10 providing the product information (S150 to S160), the product page is created by combining the category information to which the affiliate shopping mall system belongs and the user terminal 40 (S170 to S180).

Accordingly, the user checks the category information of the affiliated shopping mall system selling the corresponding product along with the detailed information about the requested product through the terminal.

When a user requests a purchase of a corresponding product on a product page provided as described above, an order operation is performed through an order / payment information channel as follows.

6 illustrates an interlocking operation performed between components in the order processing operation through the order / processing information channel, and the process is sequentially illustrated in FIG. 7.

6 and 7, the integrated shopping cart unit 223 of the shopping mall host system 20 collects corresponding product information each time a user requests a purchase, and stores the product information in a list named "shopping cart". When the user requests a payment for a product requested for purchase, product information stored in the shopping cart is provided to the integrated payment unit 222 (S200 to S230).

The integrated payment unit 222 requests the payment information from the user terminal 40 according to the product information provided, and the external payment processing system such as a credit card company or cyber money company provides the payment information provided from the user terminal 40 ( 50) to request payment approval. When the payment approval result is transmitted from the external payment processing system 50, the integrated payment unit 222 stores the payment approval result together with the product information requested for payment in the integrated order database 213 (S240 to S250). The processor 221 searches the product information database based on the identification number of the product in order to determine which affiliate shopping system the ordered product should be delivered to the user, and finds a shopping mall code of the corresponding affiliate shopping mall system (S260), The server adapter 23 provides an order history including the shopping mall code, the identification number of the ordered product, the payment approval result, user shipping information (delivery date, shipping address, etc.) and user information.

Accordingly, similarly to the operation of the product information channel described above, the identification number, payment approval result, and user delivery information of the product ordered through the order / payment information channel of the shopping mall gateway 30 are displayed in the client adapter of the associated shopping mall system 10. It is sent to 11 and processed (S270).

Next, the order processing unit 221 of the shopping mall host system 20 stores the order details notified to the affiliate shopping mall system 10 in the integrated order log database 214 together with the corresponding shopping mall codes, and uses them at the time of settlement. Or prepare to transmit and receive errors (S280).

In this way, an order is processed for all products requested by the user (S290 to S300), and the order history transmitted through the shopping mall gateway 30 is stored in a database of the associated shopping mall system 10, and then In addition, the product ordered by the user is processed for delivery to the corresponding destination, and the delivery processing details are stored in the database.

As described above, when a product information providing, a product order, and a payment processing operation are performed, when a delivery inquiry request for a product ordered from a user is input, a delivery inquiry process through a delivery information channel is performed as follows.

In FIG. 8, an interlocking operation performed between components in the delivery inquiry operation through the delivery information channel is illustrated, and the process is sequentially illustrated in FIG. 9.

As shown in FIG. 8 and FIG. 9, when user information is input from the user terminal 40 when the user wants to know the delivery status of the ordered product, the delivery inquiry unit 224 of the shopping mall host system 20 is provided. ) Searches the integrated order database 213 based on the input user information, finds the identification number of the ordered product, and provides it to the product information converting unit 223 (S410 to S420), and the product information converting unit 223 supplies the product. The information database 212 is searched to find a shopping mall code of the affiliated shopping mall system 10 that sold the corresponding product, and provided to the delivery inquiry unit 224 (S430).

The shipping inquiry unit 224 requests shipping processing status information while providing a shopping mall code and a product identification number to the server adapter 23, and accordingly, the affiliate shopping mall having a corresponding shopping mall code through the shipping information channel of the shopping mall gateway 30. The product identification number is transmitted to the system 10 (S440).

When the client adapter 11 of the affiliate shopping mall system 10 transmits a product identification number through a delivery information channel, the client adapter 11 inquires a database and displays delivery processing status information corresponding to the corresponding product identification number. ID, order e-mail address, order product code list, order quantity list, shipping address, shipping method, shipping price, delivery date, order date, order status (currently packaged, shipped, canceled) Information, such as a return process, and the like, and transmits the information to the shopping mall host system 20 through the delivery information channel of the shopping mall gateway 30.

The delivery process status information transmitted through the shopping mall gateway 30 is input to the delivery inquiry unit 224 through the server adapter 23 (S450), and the delivery inquiry unit 224 has changed the delivery process state information. In this case, the changed information is stored in the integrated order database 213 (S460 to S470).

As described above, transmission and reception information is transmitted and received between the shopping mall host system 20 and the affiliated shopping mall system 10 through the delivery information channel of the shopping mall gateway 30 for each product in which the user views the delivery processing status. The delivery inquiry unit 224 creates a delivery result page based on the delivery process status information for all products and transmits the result to the user terminal 40 so that the user checks the delivery status (S480 to S490).

On the other hand, unlike when a user clicks on a specific product when searching for product information, product information is provided, the user may search for product information by using a search word for a product or a category of a shopping mall at random.

FIG. 10 illustrates an interlocking operation performed between each component during a search operation through a search information channel, and a process thereof is sequentially illustrated in FIG. 11.

When a user selects a product search condition on the search page, that is, enters a search word, selects a category, or selects a search field, as illustrated in FIGS. 10 and 11, the product information converter 223 according to the selected product search condition. ) Or the category converting unit 226 operates (S500 to S520).

When a search word for a product is input, the product information converter 223 searches the product information database 212 to find a shopping mall code corresponding to the search word, that is, a category converter. S226 and S540 search the category mapping database 211 for a shopping mall code corresponding to the designated category.

Next, a search word is transmitted to the affiliate shopping mall system 10 having the corresponding shopping mall code through the search information channel of the shopping mall gateway 30 by the server adapter 23 in the same manner as the product information request described above (S550). The product information corresponding to the search term is transmitted by the client adapter 11 of the affiliate shopping mall system 10 to the shopping mall host system 20 again through the search information channel of the shopping mall gateway (S560).

Next, as shown in FIG. 10, the category converting unit 226 of the shopping mall host system 20 creates a search result page based on the transmitted product information and transmits the search result page to the user terminal 40. It is confirmed (S570 ~ S580).

The invention is susceptible to various modifications and implementations without departing from the scope of the following claims.

As described above, according to the electronic commerce system according to the present invention, as a result of implementing a comprehensive shopping mall by transmitting and receiving only the corresponding information through the shopping mall gateway without changing the basic structures of the shopping mall host system and the affiliated shopping mall system, It is possible to implement a comprehensive shopping mall quickly and easily at a cost.

In addition, even in the case of adding a new affiliate shopping mall system, only the shopping mall gateway module for transmitting and receiving signals and information through the shopping mall gateway is installed, and shopping mall entry is made and information is transmitted and received with the shopping mall host system in real time. .

In addition, since the information transmitted to the gateway is independent of the interface of the affiliate shopping mall system, the shopping mall host system can provide a user with a consistent shopping mall while operating a plurality of affiliate shopping malls. Very good compared to

In addition, since the affiliated shopping mall system is connected to the shopping mall host system by adding a gateway module instead of changing the infrastructure of the existing system or repetition of existing operations, the alliance shopping mall can efficiently form a comprehensive shopping mall. Entry work as a shopping mall is made.

Claims (9)

In an electronic commerce system for transmitting and receiving information through a number of affiliate shopping mall systems and shopping mall gateways, A sub adapter connected to the shopping mall gateway to transmit and receive information; A product information database in which an identification code of an affiliate shopping mall system is correspondingly stored for each product; And A processing server that searches the database according to a product purchase request from a user terminal, finds an identification code of an affiliate shopping mall system corresponding to the corresponding product, and provides the sub-adapter to perform the product purchase processing with the corresponding affiliate shopping mall system. And the server adapter performs information transmission and reception with an affiliate shopping mall system corresponding to an identification code provided from the processing server through the shopping mall gateway. The method of claim 1, The affiliated shopping mall system includes a client adapter for transmitting and receiving information with the server adapter through the shopping mall gateway. The method of claim 2, The processing server In response to a request for product information from a user terminal, the database is searched, an identification code of an affiliated shopping mall system corresponding to the corresponding product is found and provided to the sub adapter to request product information. An order processing unit for transmitting the product information provided from the user terminal; And In response to a request for purchase of a product from a user terminal, an order and a payment process are performed on the corresponding product, and then the identification code and the order of the affiliate shopping mall system corresponding to the corresponding product are provided to the sub-adapter to the affiliate shopping mall system. Consolidated Billing Unit Requesting Order History E-commerce system comprising a. The method of claim 3, Further comprising a category mapping database that stores the identification code of the affiliate shopping mall system corresponding to each category, The order processing unit of the processing server searches for the category mapping database, extracts category information belonging to an affiliate shopping mall system that provides product information, and transmits the category information and the product information together to a user terminal. system. The method of claim 3, Further comprising a consolidated order database in which the order history is stored, The order history is an electronic commerce system, characterized in that it includes a product name, information of the affiliate shopping mall system that sold the product. The method of claim 5, The processing server requests delivery information by providing an identification code of the affiliate shopping mall system that sold the corresponding product to the server adapter in response to a request for delivery information from a user terminal, and delivers the information provided from the affiliate shopping mall system through the server adapter. E-commerce system further comprises a shipping inquiry unit for transmitting information to the user terminal. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 6, The shopping mall gateway includes a product information channel for transmitting product information, an order / payment information channel for transmitting order details, and a delivery information channel for transmitting delivery information. The server adapter and the client adapter comprises a plurality of adapters for transmitting and receiving corresponding information corresponding to each channel. In the electronic commerce method of the system for transmitting and receiving information through a plurality of affiliated shopping mall system and the shopping mall gateway, If a product information request is input from a user terminal through a network, providing an identification code of an affiliate shopping mall system corresponding to the corresponding product to a server adapter connected to the shopping mall gateway; Requesting, by the server adapter, information about a product from an affiliate shopping mall system corresponding to the product through the shopping mall gateway; Receiving, by the server adapter, product information provided from the affiliate shopping mall system and transmitting the product information to a user terminal; Performing an order and payment process for the product when a purchase request for the product is input from the user terminal; Providing the server adapter with the order details according to the order and payment processing of the goods and the identification code of the affiliate shopping mall system which provided the goods information; And Transmitting, by the server adapter, an order history of the product through a shopping mall gateway to a corresponding affiliate shopping mall system; E-commerce method comprising a. The method of claim 8, When a request for delivery information is input from a user terminal, finding an identification code of an affiliate shopping mall system selling the product from an order history of the product purchased by the user and providing the identification code to the server adapter; Requesting, by the server adapter, delivery information indicating a delivery processing status to an affiliate shopping mall system corresponding to the product through the shopping mall gateway; And Receiving, by the server adapter, delivery information provided from the affiliate shopping mall system and transmitting the delivery information to a user terminal; E-commerce method comprising more.