KR20040024934A - System dealings of avatar and the real thing - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A system for trading actual goods and avatars is provided to enable a buyer to get an avatar item related to an actual goods if the user buys the actual goods. CONSTITUTION: The customer client connects to a web server through a wire/wireless Internet network(3). The web server connects a customer management master server(4), an actual goods master server(5), a virtual goods master server(6), a settlement management master server(7), a goods seller master server(8), a mail server(9), a game server(10), a chatting server(14), a bulletin board server(15), and a cyber money exchange master server(16). A goods seller client(11), an actual shop client(13), and an actual goods control system connect to the web server through the wire/wireless Internet network.

Description

System dealings of avatar and the real thing}

The present invention is a real product and avatar trading system. More specifically, a merchandise sales company may produce avatar items that are similar to or similar to the actual goods, and provide items that can be decorated on the avatar when purchasing the goods in conjunction with the Internet. To send graphics that can be used, or to give discount coupons and mileage, to purchase avatar items, to give reality goods, or to give discount coupons and mileage, to provide mutual advertising effect between the reality goods and avatar items, Entering a unique number to show scarcity, facilitating item transactions, giving item coupons when purchasing items in real product stores, facilitating the purchase of real products, exchanging cyber money between sites, and creating avatars in virtual space It is a commerce system that operates real items to operate items.

Currently, the Internet has been used for various purposes, and there are many uses of the Internet such as e-commerce and avatar virtual worlds. Electronic commerce has been actively activated by trading products on the Internet, and the virtual world expresses another self by using avatars representing themselves in the real world.

Netizens use their avatars in games or other virtual worlds, and use their avatars to create and enjoy another identity.

That is, he identifies himself with the avatar of the virtual world.

An avatar may be referred to as a character. The avatar is decorated with items in basic shapes such as people and animals to express the characteristics of the atava. Items are used to decorate your avatar's appearance and characterize it, including clothing, shoes, jewelry, swords and shields.

The avatar item has the same value as a real product to netizens, which is a value of scarcity. Should not think that is low. This is because it is a change in the value of culture caused by the change of civilization.

The avatar items expressing individual personalities on the Internet have not been directly used for commerce in connection with reality products, but are merely to advertise brands by putting a brand mark on the avatar items.

Accordingly, when a company manufactures a product in the real world in order to improve and develop a problem, an avatar item that is the same as or similar to the image may be produced, and the avatar may be decorated when the product is purchased in connection with a computer system. Give a present item, a graphic to decorate a client, or give a discount coupon and mileage, and when you buy an avatar item in the virtual world, such as the purchase of the reality product, give a reality product, or discount coupon and mileage The state has a challenge to develop a commerce system.

In addition, the mutual advertisement between the actual product and the avatar item, by entering a unique number into the item to make the scarcity, to promote the item trading, to give the item coupon when purchasing the product in the real product store to promote the purchase of the real product The task of controlling the reality product by the avatar manipulating the items in the virtual space;

By purchasing avatar items with the same images as real goods, individuals can have realism and familiarity in the virtual world, enjoy the benefits of owning and trading items, exchange money between sites,

The company sells real goods and avatar items in the virtual world and sells them to each other.

The object of the present invention is to develop a new culture by consuming and creating products by interconnecting the real world and the virtual world.

1 is a block diagram showing a system configuration according to the present invention.

2 is a flow chart showing a product purchase step according to the present invention

3 is an exemplary view showing a reality product and an avatar item on a customer client monitor according to the present invention;

4 is an exemplary view showing an avatar item on a customer client monitor when an avatar is clicked according to the present invention.

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1. Client Client 2. U, Wireless Internet

3. Web Server 4. Customer Management Master Server

5. Real Product Master Server 6. Virtual Product Master Server

7. Payment Management Master Server 8. Product Seller Master Server

9. Mail Server 10. Game Server

11. Seller Client 12. Shopping Mall Site

13. Reality store client 14. Chat server

15. Bulletin board server 16. Cyber money exchange master server

17. Reality Product Control System 18. Third Party Website

In describing the configuration for achieving the above technical problem, the configuration will be described with reference to FIG.

The customer client 1 is connected to the web server 3 via the wired or wireless Internet network 2.

Web server (3) is the customer management master server (4), the actual product master server (5), virtual product master server (6), payment management master server (7), product seller master server (8), mail server (9) ), The game server 10, the chat server 14, the bulletin board server 15, the cyber money exchange master server 16 is connected.

The merchandise seller client 11, the real store client 13, and the real product control system 16 are connected to the web server 3 via wired and wireless Internet networks 2.

The role of the computers in the configuration will be described above.

The customer client 1 is connected to the web server 3 via the wired and wireless Internet network 2, registers the customer as a member, accesses the real product master server 5, and purchases a real product in a shopping mall or virtually Avatar items are purchased from the commodity master server 6, and the PC, mobile phone, PDA, etc. are customer computers operating in the game server 10, the chat server 14, and the bulletin board server 15.

Wired and wireless Internet network 2 refers to a communication connection means including an optical cable, wireless, intranet, telephone wired.

Web server (3) is equipped with a firewall for safety, customer management master server (4), real product master server (5), virtual product master server (6), payment through the wired, wireless Internet network (3) It is connected to the management master server (7), product seller master server (8), mail server (9), game server (10), chat server (14), bulletin board server (15), cyber money exchange master server (16) It is a relay computer that customers, members, and sellers of goods access and process data with the computer.

The customer management master server (5) is to enter the membership registration, two-way account number, credit card number, mobile phone registration number, and the game registration, avatar item storage, mileage, coupon, cyber money to manage and store Computer. The item storage box is interconnected with the game server 10, the chat server 14, and the bulletin board server 15, and may input a program for controlling the real product to operate the real product control system 17. It's a library that can be operated.

The real product master server (5) has a characteristic corresponding to a real world department store where the product seller receives the real product data from the real world store to the merchandise seller client (12), classifies and manages and stores by merchants, virtual goods It is a computer that works with.

The virtual goods master server 6 is a computer having a virtual goods department store personality that manages and stores a graphic item that a product seller can decorate on the client and the avatar item linked to the real product, and stores the item unique number When upgrading a product, the avatar item is also upgraded at the same time, and the items before the upgrade are also stored. The virtual product master server 6 stores the stores in the virtual world for each game and each company in the game. Some stores sell items that can be used on non-game chat servers and bulletin board servers, while others don't support them. In addition, when purchasing a real product in a real store, when a real store seller wants to give an item as a free gift to a customer, there is a module that authenticates the item's unique number to authenticate the item transmission and register the item as a member item storage box or transfer the customer. Computers that send items and graphics to the client (1), and when giving an avatar item as a coupon in a real store, when a member accesses the virtual goods master server and authenticates the password of the coupon, the computer transmits the item to the member's item storage box. to be.

Payment management master server (7) is a computer that the member pays when purchasing a real product or avatar items, mobile payment, credit card payment, account transfer payment, mileage payment, cyber money payment, members The money purchased and deposited is transferred to the product seller, site manager, real product carrier, avatar and graphic seller account, transfer the mileage and electronic coupon to the customer management master server (4), When a judge gives or sells an item, he / she charges and manages the transaction contents and fees according to the transaction and pays in connection with the bank computer.

The product seller master server 8 registers a real product seller and an avatar item and a graphic seller, and processes payment through the account number and credit card number of the seller member in connection with the payment management master server 7, In addition to this site, when a product purchaser purchases a real product on another website or when a real product is purchased at a real store, the member is authenticated. It is a computer that transfers items to an item storage box in connection with 6), transfers items and graphics to a customer client, and manages and stores the data.

The mail server 9 is a computer that can send and receive e-mails between members, product vendors, and site management companies.

The game server 10 is a computer that a member plays a game on the Internet, and is a computer that can play various games such as 3D games and casino games.

The merchandise seller client 11 transmits and manages the data selling the real goods and avatar items and graphics to the real merchandise master server 5 and the virtual merchandise master server 6 via the merchandise seller master server 8. Is a seller computer.

The real store client 13 is a computer provided in the real store used to give an item to a member in a product store in the real world, and enters the user's site and ID, or enters a mobile phone number, the product seller master server It is a wired / wireless computer that is used to give virtual goods to customers with the certification of (8).

The shopping mall site 12 is a shopping mall site affiliated with this site. The shopping mall site 12 is an affiliate shopping mall site that provides items and graphics, which are virtual goods, to a product buyer.

The chat server 14 is a computer for chatting between members, and an avatar appears and chats.

The bulletin board server 15 is a computer that acts as a bulletin board for sharing data among members, and is a computer on which an avatar is displayed.

The cyber money exchange master server 16 is a computer that auctions cyber money based on the principle of market competition between members and is a computer that allows different game cyber money to be traded by members. The exchange office is a computer that can exchange cyber money between other company sites.

Real product control system 17 is a computer that controls the goods in the real world of the customer is connected to the wired, wireless Internet network (2), if controlled by the corresponding item program in the customer management master server (4), It is a computer that controls the products of the real world by receiving the data through the Internet.

An avatar is a person who selects and uses a specific image in the virtual world and expresses it in the virtual world as his own alternation. The avatar is a generic term for avatars used in games, chat avatars, bulletin board avatars, and e-mails.

An item is a decoration or a feature used for an avatar, and corresponds to a cyber item that expresses the avatar's personality through clothing, shoes, precious metals, swords, spears, and the like. In order to increase the scarcity of the item, the system can set the number of transactions and the extinction period according to the transaction, add fees and taxes according to the transaction, and assign a unique number to the item to know which member owns the item. have.

The present invention also includes a means for transmitting a graphic that can decorate a PC, mobile phone, or PDA screen, with the avatar item as the main transaction.

The operation of the configuration will be described with reference to FIG.

Starting step (S100);

The product seller connects to the web server 3 through the wired / wireless internet network 2 as the product seller client 11, and registers and pays the membership to the product seller master server 8 according to the instructions of the web server 3. Means input step (S101);

Storing the merchandise seller realistic product and avatar item data in the real product master server 5 and the virtual product master server 6 (S102);

The customer, the client client (1) is connected to the web server (3) via the wired and wireless Internet network (2), and the member registration and payment method input to the customer management master server (4) according to the web server (3) instructions Step S103;

After the member is registered, the product purchase step (S104) in the real product shopping mall or the avatar item shopping mall;

In order to pay the goods purchased by the member, the payment management master server (7) in connection with the payment card, wireless telephone, bank transfer, cyber money, gift certificates, etc., the payment management master server (7) to sell the goods Transferring the amount according to the stakeholder account in association with the bank computer (S105);

After the payment, the actual product is delivered to the member, the avatar item is transferred to the member item storage box, and the graphic is transmitted to the customer client (S106);

There is a feature that includes a terminating step (S107).

In describing the present invention in detail with reference to FIG. 2 and FIG. 3.

Referring to the Levi's jeans company as an example, the reality product and avatar item Levi's jeans company registered as a member in the product seller master server (8), and the corresponding product in the reality product master server (5) and the virtual product master server (6) If you save.

A person accesses the web server 2 through the wired / wireless Internet network 2 as his client 1 to purchase the actual product, and according to the web server 3 instructions, the customer management master server 4 ), He entered his personal information and payment method and registered as a member.

In order to purchase jeans, the person who registered as a member accesses the virtual goods master server 5, enters a virtual department store, visits various stores, enters a Levi's jeans store, and clicks a desired jeans. And avatar item appeared on their client monitor screen.

The member decides to purchase Levi's jeans, sets the quantity, size and color, clicks the purchase icon, and pays the purchase price with a credit card, and the credit card information is entered into the customer management server master 4. The payment management master server 7 confirms whether the payment is made and approves the payment.

The Levi's jeans, which is a real product, is delivered to the member through a transporter, and the jeans item for decorating the avatar is registered in the item storage box provided in the customer care master server 4 according to the instruction of the virtual goods master server 6. The payment management master server 7 deposits a purchase price in the Levi's company account.

In the case of purchasing the actual product on the affiliated company's website in addition to the above site, when the product is purchased, if the site to receive the item and the member ID, the mobile phone and the PDA number are entered, the member item is stored as if the avatar item was purchased from the site. Register the item before, or send the data to the client client in the case of graphic.

If the item made by the Levi's jeans company does not like the buyer, it is possible to purchase goods by selecting other items made or affiliated with the Levi's company. In this case, the item is registered before the item storage box, and in the case of graphic, the data is transmitted to the client client.

When the user clicks on the icon to view the real product, the real product and the virtual product are simultaneously displayed on the client screen, or the virtual avatar product information does not appear in a window according to the seller's setting. The icon may appear in the Real Product Information window.

When the person who wants to receive the item is not a buyer but wants to give it as a gift to another person, enter the recipient's site and ID, or enter a mobile phone and a PDA number, and the item is transferred to the item holder of the gift recipient. The graphic is sent to the recipient's cell phone and PDA.

In addition to the item, as an additional service, it may include giving a discount coupon to buy mileage and a specific product at a discount price.

When the company selling the real product does not make an avatar item the same as or similar to the real product, the real product purchase service may give another item in association with the avatar item manufacturing company. This is because a small sales company may be expensive to make an item, or some products may not meet consumer demand.

The item may have a unique number, and when the item is traded between members, the number of transactions can be determined, and when making a trade, the item can be destroyed by setting a time after the start of item trading between members in order to increase the scarcity of the item. In addition, a limited quantity may be set in the item transaction, so that the item may no longer be reduced. In addition, the item can be upgraded in terms of advertisement effect and customer service of the sales company, and the upgrade item can be decided by the customer compared to the conventional item.

For example, in the case of Levi's jeans item trading, the total number of items sold 100,000, 100 times the number of items trading between members can be eliminated, three years after the item started trading, but the last 100 items are not destroyed , Not restricting transactions.

When purchasing a real product at a real store, the real store may give a coupon as a gift to give the buyer an item that can be used for an avatar.The item may be given a coupon with a hidden password, such as an item number and an instant lottery ticket. The coupon received at the store receives the item unique number and password into the virtual product master server 6 of this site, and transfers it to his item storage box after approval, and if the product is a graphic, the graphic is transferred to his client. I can receive it. In addition, the store may directly receive a product buyer's member site and ID, and give an avatar item and a graphic as a gift using the real store client 13. The coupon can be used once, and the coupon whose password is disclosed is invalid.

For example, the purchase of an avatar item which is a virtual product.

In order to purchase an avatar item, a person connects to the web server 2 via the wired / wireless Internet network 2 as his client 1, and in accordance with the instructions of the web server 3, the customer management master server 4 Enter your personal information in) and register as a member.

In order to purchase the avatar item Levi's jeans, the person registered as a member accesses the virtual goods master server 6, enters the virtual avatar department store, visits various stores, and enters the Levi's jeans item store and clicks the desired jeans. The reality product and the avatar item appear on their client monitor screen.

When the member decides to purchase the Levi's item jeans, clicks the purchase icon, and pays with the wireless mobile phone to pay, the mobile phone payment information is input to the customer management server master 4, and the wireless mobile phone company In connection with the payment management master server 7 approves the payment. The mobile phone payment method supports a payment method for re-entering a password transmitted to a mobile phone by entering a mobile phone number on the Internet, which is a conventional mobile phone payment method.

After the payment, in order to decorate the avatar, the Levi's jeans item is previously registered with the item storage box provided in the customer care master server 14 according to the instruction of the virtual goods master server 6. If the payment management master server 7 deposits an item purchase price to the Levi's company, the item purchase is terminated.

4 is an exemplary diagram illustrating an avatar item according to an embodiment of the present invention on a client client monitor. A member can click on his or her avatar or another person's avatar in a game, chat, or bulletin board to view it on his or her client screen. It is displayed according to this type, item characteristics and purchase information are displayed in detail for each item, and when a user clicks on an item to decorate, the real product appears simultaneously in the next window, and the same company can purchase the same item. It is possible to move to the item store made in, and to move to the reality product store of the company that made the reality product.

The present invention is able to operate the products of the real world as a virtual world items, when purchasing a real product, if the real product control program is input to the item storage box receiving items and control program, click the item to operate the item In addition, the data can be transmitted to the real product control system 17 through the Internet to control the real product. In more detail with an example.

When explaining how to operate the goods in the virtual world and the real world, a member purchases an air conditioner that is a household appliance, receives an air conditioner item as an avatar item, decorates the air conditioner in his game space, and operates the air conditioner on the Internet. The program can be installed in the item locker, the real product air conditioner is installed in the real world member's house, and the air conditioner control program is installed in the real product control system 17 which can be operated via the Internet and connected to the Internet. When you want to operate the world air conditioner, go into the game and click on the air conditioner, the air conditioner control program will appear on the screen, and control the program to run the real world air conditioner. In this way, all real-world products that can operate via the Internet can be controlled through this system.

The present invention supports a method of trading various cyber money based on the principle of market competition between members through the cyber money exchange master server (16), and also can cooperate with other companies to trade cyber money of other company sites by auction method. It is supposed to be. At the auction, if a member enters cyber money to sell or enters cyber money to buy and enters a trade condition, the transaction is closed when there is a member who satisfies the purchase condition. Transactions are based on credit transactions, but in violation, unfaithful traders must confiscate their IDs and compensate for damages. The cyber money system is traded in the same way as the stock market and foreign exchange market in the real world, and is required to collect transaction fees and taxes.

The reason why the cyber money transactions of other company sites are for various reasons is that the members want to sell cyber money which is left over by purchasing goods and playing games on various types of sites, or to buy at low prices. Thus, the exchange office can effectively exchange cyber money that members want, the site company can receive transaction fees, and the interested country can control the cyber world and the real world by imposing tax on transactions.

In the above described cyber money exchange transaction method, by sharing cyber money between members who share two or more of the same site, a member wants to sell A site cyber money and purchase B site cyber money. If a person enters the A site cyber money and the B site cyber money to purchase and puts them on the cyber money exchange computer, the person who wants to sell the B site cyber money and purchase the A site cyber money competes best. After the successful bid, the exchange office computer transfers the transaction to the site's exchange management computer, and the exchange management computer checks and approves the cyber money between members and collects the fee and tax. And exchange the corresponding cyber money.

The cyber money exchange master server 16 is a site that is different and trades two or more members, and also includes a system that can trade various cyber money, items, and gift certificates. The assessment shall be made freely by the site company and the country by evaluating the value of the goods.

Changes and modifications of the specifically described embodiments of the invention are limited only by the scope of the claims.

The effect of the present invention is that when a company sells a product in the real world, by making and selling an avatar item that is the same as or similar to the image, the company can obtain profit from both the real product and the virtual product, and the member's avatar There is an advertising effect due to the use of the item.

In addition, the buyer may have a sense of reality and familiarity in the virtual world avatar activity according to the purchase of an avatar item that is the same as or similar to the reality product, and may enjoy the profits of owning and trading the item, and controlling the reality product in the virtual world. You can exchange cyber money and use it effectively on many different types of sites.

In addition, the site company may receive transaction fees, and the country may coordinate collection of goods transactions with the cyber world through currency collection.

Claims (13)

Customer client is connected to web server through wired / wireless internet network. Web server is customer management master server, real product master server, virtual product master server, payment management master server, product seller master server, mail server, game server, Connected with chat server, bulletin board server, cyber money exchange master server, product seller client, real store client, real product control system connected to web server through wired / wireless internet network to purchase real goods and avatar items To Starting step (S100); The merchandise seller is connected to the web server through the wired / wireless internet network as the merchandise seller client, and in accordance with the web server instruction, member registration and payment means input to the merchandise seller master server (S101); Storing the merchandise seller realistic product and avatar item data in the real product master server and the virtual product master server (S102); Accessing a web server through a wired / wireless internet network as a customer or a client client, and registering a member and inputting a payment means in a customer management master server according to a web server instruction (S103); After the member is registered, the product purchase step (S104) in the real product shopping mall or the avatar item shopping mall; In order to pay for the products purchased by the member, in connection with the payment management master server, the payment is made by credit card, wireless telephone, bank transfer, cyber money, gift certificate, etc. Transferring to the account in association with the bank computer (S105); After the payment, the actual product is delivered to the member, the avatar item is transferred to the member item storage box, and the graphic is transmitted to the customer client (S106); Reality goods and avatar trading system including the end step (S107) According to claim 1, If you purchase a product from a partner company's website, enter the site to receive the item and the member's ID, and the item will be transferred to the member item library as if you had purchased the avatar item on this site. Real goods and avatar trading system that transmits According to claim 1, Reality product and avatar trading system that members can select and receive other items made or affiliated with reality product company when purchasing reality product According to claim 1, When you click on a reality product, the reality product and the virtual product appear at the same time, or depending on the seller's settings, the avatar item and graphic product information do not appear in a single window, but the avatar item and graphic detail view icons appear in the reality product information window. Real Goods and Avatar Trading System According to claim 1, In addition to the items as a real service and avatar trading system that can receive discount coupons to buy mileage and specific products at a discounted price as an additional service According to claim 1, Reality products and avatar trading system that provides items and graphics that can be decorated on the avatar when the reality product is purchased in connection with the avatar item manufacturing company when the company selling the reality product does not make an avatar item. According to claim 1, When you click on an avatar in a game, chat, or bulletin board, you can see the individual details of the avatar item, a reality product window appears next to the avatar item window, connect to a reality product seller store, and move to an item store made by the same company. Product and Avatar Trading System According to claim 1, When purchasing a real product at a real store, the real store gives an item that can be used for the avatar, or a graphic, a coupon with a password hidden on the foil, such as an item unique number and an instant lottery ticket, or the store is a direct member. Product and avatar trading system that accepts the site's site ID and mobile phone or PDA number and presents avatar items and graphics as gifts to the buyer According to claim 1, Items may have a unique number, and when trading items between members, the number of transactions can be determined, and when trading items, some items can be destroyed by setting a time after the commencement of trading to increase item scarcity. The actual product that can no longer reduce the item, upgrade the item and the corresponding reality product data in terms of advertising effect and customer service, and can determine the upgrade by comparing the item upgrade with the conventional item. And avatar trading system According to claim 1, When purchasing a product, if the person receiving the item or graphic is to be given as a gift to someone who is not a buyer, enter the site and ID of the person to receive the item or graphic, or enter a mobile phone and PDA number, the item will be given a gift. Real product and avatar trading system, which is transferred to the recipient's item storage box and the graphic is transmitted to the mobile phone and PDA According to claim 1, When controlling the products of the real world in the virtual world, receive items and decorate them in your own item library and game space, install programs to control the real world products on the internet in the item storage box, Real product and avatar transaction system that controls real product through internet by connecting to real product control system According to claim 1, The cyber money exchange method is to share cyber money between two or more members who share two or more of the same site. When a member wants to sell A site cyber money and purchase B site cyber money, When the B site cyber money condition to be purchased is digitized and placed on the exchange office computer, some people who want to sell the B site cyber money and purchase the A site cyber money are awarded to the person who enters the best condition through the competition. If the exchange office computer transfers the transaction to the site's exchange management computer, the exchange management computer checks the member's cyber money, approves the transaction, collects the fee and tax, and exchanges the cyber money between the members. Giving Real Product and Avatar Trading System According to claim 1, Cyber Money Exchange Master Server is a trading place for two or more members, and deals with various cyber money, items and gift certificates, and collects transaction fees.