KR20020094220A - Method of electronic commerce with an individual shopping mall under internet p2p environment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An electronic commerce method via a personal shopping mall under the Internet P2P(Peer-to-Peer) environment is provided to prevent the generation of the overload in a central server used for the management of an Internet shopping mall, to build the personal shopping mall of a seller, and to make a purchaser directly contact with the seller on the Internet. CONSTITUTION: The purchaser is connected to the server(400) of a central system for managing the articles and a seller list registered in the Internet shopping mall(421) and refers an article list by browsing the homepage of the central system. If the purchaser selects the articles, a URL(Uniform Resource Locator) of the PC of the seller is connected and a personal shopping mall(443) built in the PC is referred by a P2P software. The purchaser reads the personal shopping mall and determined to make a purchase. Then, the details on the purchase are transferred to the seller by the P2P software. The purchaser orders the articles from the shopping mall.

Description

E-Commerce Method through Building Personal Shopping Mall in Internet P2P Environment {METHOD OF ELECTRONIC COMMERCE WITH AN INDIVIDUAL SHOPPING MALL UNDER INTERNET P2P ENVIRONMENT}

The present invention relates to an electronic commerce method through an internet shopping mall, and in particular, a central server by allowing a buyer and a seller to deal directly with a personal computer (PC) as a web server using peer-to-peer (P2P) technology. It provides an e-commerce model that relieves the burden of and facilitates e-commerce interest.

The present invention provides an electronic commerce method by which a person directly establishes a shopping mall in his PC and makes a direct transaction with a visitor who visits to purchase his item.

In general, Internet e-commerce relies on a method in which a seller registers an item to be sold and a buyer views a list of registered items and purchases the item through a large server.

However, such a conventional technology generates a lot of load on the server in which the Internet shopping mall is operated, and all the transactions must be centrally managed and controlled, so that the burden of a company providing a market place of e-commerce is very burdensome. Will occur.

In addition, some of the sellers who sell goods to build a shopping mall by collecting their own sales goods, in this case, the prior art allows individuals to build a shopping mall in the central server. As a result, the service provider operating the central server is burdened, and the seller has a problem that the concept of ownership of the shopping mall is weakened.

Moreover, in the case of the e-commerce method according to the prior art, the buyers look up the sales list and details of the central server to select the purchased goods, and wait for a few days depending on the purchase conditions, the result is that the prior art Contact loss between the seller and the buyer is lost, thereby reducing the confidence in the commerce and there is a problem that the recognition of the purchased goods is reduced.

Accordingly, a first object of the present invention is to provide a new electronic commerce method for preventing an overload of a central server in operating an internet shopping mall.

A second object of the present invention is to provide an electronic commerce method for building a personal shopping mall in a PC of a seller who wants to sell an article in an internet shopping mall in addition to the first object.

It is a third object of the present invention to provide an electronic commerce method in which a buyer and a seller can directly contact on the Internet in addition to the first object.

1 is a diagram illustrating an operation flow of an internet shopping mall under a P2P environment according to the present invention.

2 is a diagram illustrating a purchaser purchase scenario of a P2P e-commerce according to the present invention.

Figure 3 is a diagram showing the configuration of the P2P Internet shopping mall according to the present invention.

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100: central server

110: Buyer PC on P2P

120: Seller PC on P2P

400: web server

410: database

420: Mediation Server

421: shopping mall

422: File sharing

423: Internet Online Game

430 chat server

440: Personal Web Server

441: Messenger

442: File Sharing

443: shopping mall

444: the game

445 network module

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention by using a P2P (P2P) technology to make a personal shopping mall on your PC using a personal PC as a web server, the seller feels more interest in his own shopping mall and freely The shopping mall can be managed.

Hereinafter, an e-commerce model according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1 to 3.

1 is a diagram illustrating an operation flow of an internet shopping mall under a P2P environment according to the present invention. In P2P e-commerce, individual PCs, each of which is a peer, take turns serving as a client and a server. In other words, the buyer's PC becomes a client and the seller's PC becomes a server. Accordingly, the central server according to the present invention manages only a list of goods and sellers, and transfers most of the remaining server functions to the peers.

Referring to Figure 1, the Internet shopping mall e-commerce system according to the present invention comprises a central server 100, the buyer PC 110 on P2P, the seller PC 120 on P2P. First, the seller PC 120 and the buyer PC 110 on the P2P may start a transaction by downloading the P2P software from the central server 100. To start a transaction, the seller PC 120 may access the central server 100 through P2P software to register the goods for sale, and generate a list of items and details (step S201).

At the same time, the design template for the personal shopping mall is selected, and the central server 100 aggregates these pieces of information to build a personal shopping mall in the seller PC 120 (step S202). That is, the present invention is characterized in that a shopping mall is constructed using a software downloaded to a personal PC, rather than building a shopping mall on a central server or linking an individual shopping mall to a central server as in the prior art. .

In addition, the purchaser 110 on the P2P likewise accesses the central server 100 to download the P2P software, and receives the list of items stored in the database from the central server 100 (step S203).

At this time, the article retrieval can be performed by the retrieval method or the retrieval method as a preferred embodiment according to the present invention. Subsequently, the buyer PC 110 connects to the seller PC 120 on the P2P and visits the personal shopping mall (step S204).

As a preferred embodiment according to the present invention, a request for quotation, a real time sale, a real time chat, etc. may be performed between the seller PC 120 and the buyer PC 110 (step S205). In a preferred embodiment according to the present invention, real-time sales means sales through the exchange of real-time image information using a web cam, etc., and this real-time sales function is made possible by providing an instant messenger function on the P2P program. .

In addition, the purchaser 110 on P2P visits the shopping mall of the seller by browsing the list of items of the central server through P2P software, or directly accesses the seller shopping mall from the outside by inputting the domain address provided for each SPC 120 in the central server. You may. Thereafter, in the actual purchase step, the transaction is allowed only when approaching through the P2P software, and the purchase is realized by adding the shopping cart controlled by the P2P software (step S206).

2 is a diagram illustrating a purchaser purchase scenario of a P2P e-commerce according to the present invention. Referring to Fig. 2, the buyer connects to the central server and inquires an article list (step S301). When the seller is connected (step S302), the entire personal shopping mall is inquired (step S303).

As a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the page of the item found on the homepage of the personal shopping mall selling the corresponding item selected by the buyer may be displayed first. At this time, the personal shopping mall can be easily established at the same time as the registration of goods with the wizard provided by the central server.

On the other hand, if the seller PC is not connected to the Internet in step S302, only the detailed information in the form of text registered in the central server is inquired (step S307). In addition, according to the present invention, a purchaser who accesses a personal shopping mall of a peer-to-peer type may selectively purchase items by using steps such as request for quotation (S306), real-time sales (S305), and chat between parties (S304).

That is, the quotation request service provided by the P2P program according to the present invention (S306) is an embodiment in which the P2P note function is modified, and can request a quotation through a web document prepared in a standard quotation form according to the industry. As a preferred embodiment in accordance with the present invention, it may be designed to authorize quote issuance only to enterprise sellers of SOHO and above. As another embodiment according to the present invention, a peer-to-peer individual may perform a direct transaction according to an estimate after step S306.

On the other hand, in the real-time sales step (S305) according to the present invention, by using the P2P voice chat, video chat, or a whiteboard function to enable the real-time sales to the seller. As a result, the transaction negotiation step (step S311) or the direct transaction (step S312) is performed via the quotation request step (step S306) or real time sales (step S305).

In addition, the P2P purchaser and the seller may exchange opinions about the item through instant chat (step S304). Then, the buyer can put the purchased goods in the shopping cart and request the central server to purchase the goods (step S308). At this time, the central server performs a purchase confirmation procedure (step S309), and proceeds for payment and delivery (step S310).

3 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a P2P internet shopping mall according to the present invention. Referring to FIG. 3, a central server of a P2P internet shopping mall according to the present invention includes a web server 400, a database 410, a mediation server 420, and a chat server 430. The web server 400 according to the present invention provides an internet shopping mall homepage, and the database 410 stores registration information of an article provided by a P2P sales PC.

In addition, the mediation server (Intermediation Server) 420 according to the present invention is a server supporting a peer-to-peer (P2P) function, and may include modules such as a shopping mall 421, a file sharing 422, and an internet online game 423. have. In addition, the mediation server 420 and the chat server 430 enable communication between peers even when the firewall 450 is involved in the P2P communication protocol or there is a PC using dynamic IP.

The P2P client according to the present invention establishes a Personal Web Server (440) using a personal PC, and the P2P software downloaded from the central server is a messenger 441, a file sharing (442). ) And a module such as a shopping mall 443, a game 444, and the like, and may include a network module 445 for P2P communication.

The foregoing has outlined rather broadly the features and technical advantages of the present invention to better understand the claims of the invention which will be described later. Additional features and advantages that make up the claims of the present invention will be described below. It should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the conception and specific embodiments of the invention disclosed may be readily used as a basis for designing or modifying other structures for carrying out similar purposes to the invention.

In addition, the inventive concepts and embodiments disclosed herein may be used by those skilled in the art as a basis for modifying or designing other structures for carrying out the same purposes of the present invention. In addition, such modifications or altered equivalent structures by those skilled in the art may be variously changed, substituted, and changed without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention described in the claims.

As described above, the present invention has the effect of reducing the load of the central server managing only the goods and the seller list by acting as the client and server to each other as the peer.

In addition, since the personal shopping mall is built on the personal PC according to the characteristics of the P2P, the seller can freely operate and manage the shopping mall with interest.

Claims (5)

In terms of operating a shopping mall on the Internet, (a) a purchaser accessing a server of a central system that manages a list of merchandise and sellers registered in an internet shopping mall, and inquiring a list of articles by browsing a homepage of the central system; (b) When the buyer selects an item to be purchased, the URL of the personal PC of the seller selling the item is connected, and the wizard registers the product with the wizard provided by the central system server and is established in the personal PC of the seller. Viewing the personal shopping mall through P2P software; (c) When the buyer views the seller's personal shopping mall that is viewed in a peer-to-peer manner from his PC and decides to purchase the goods, the purchase contents are sold through the P2P software that controls the personal web server function of the personal shopping mall. Delivered to; (d) the purchaser visits a personal shopping mall of a seller, which is viewed in a peer-to-peer manner in his PC and requests to purchase an item Internet e-commerce method comprising a. The Internet electronic device of claim 1, wherein the step (b) comprises accessing and inquiring detailed information about an item in a database of the central system server when the seller's PC on the P2P is not connected. Commerce method. The method of claim 1, wherein the step (d) further comprises the step of the buyer performing a request for quotation through a messenger function or exchanging goods information on a P2P with a seller using a text / voice / video chat or a whiteboard function. Internet e-commerce methods, including. The method of claim 1, wherein the Internet e-commerce method further comprises the step of the purchaser making a purchase request and confirming the purchase using a shopping cart add function provided by the P2P software. In the shopping mall system for providing P2P e-commerce on the Internet, A web server for providing an internet shopping mall homepage and providing PPI services to sellers who want PTT e-commerce; A database storing a list of items sold by the Internet shopping mall and a list of sellers providing a personal Internet shopping mall on P2P; An arbitration server providing the internet shopping mall, a file sharing or an online game module, supporting a peer-to-peer function, and solving a problem of a firewall and dynamic IP; A chat server to support buyers and sellers to conduct P2P chat during the purchase process; P2P client computer with network module and P2P personal web server function P2P Internet shopping mall system comprising a.