KR20060019746A - System and method to unify premium drawings of member stores - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an integrated lottery system and a method for a sweepstakes for each merchant, and it is characterized by recruiting merchants who want to jointly conduct a sweepstakes and the sweepstakes in each merchant are integrated. To this end, each merchant checks the winning by requesting a lottery through the integrated lottery system when the customer uses his or her products or services. The integrated lottery system for this purpose is a database for storing each affiliate information, a communication means for communicating with each affiliated terminal, a lottery means for determining whether to win or not according to the winning probability set for each affiliate, and a lottery request from each affiliated store. And a lottery request processing means for determining whether or not to win the lottery means and sending a message informing whether or not to win.

According to the present invention, it is possible to integrally provide a sweepstakes that were made independently for each affiliated store. As a result, each merchant can reduce the cost of the prize event and provide expensive prizes without undue burden. In addition, expensive prizes and high-quality prizes can attract customers' attention, making it easier to achieve the purpose of the prize.

Merchants, Sweepstakes, Draws, Integrations

Description

System and Method to unify premium drawings of member stores}             

1 is an overview of the integrated lottery made in accordance with the present invention;

2 is an embodiment of an integrated lottery system according to the present invention;

3 is an embodiment of an integrated lottery method according to the present invention.

* Explanation of symbols for main parts of the drawings

1: Merchant 10: Merchant Terminal

21: Internet network 22: communication network

30: integrated lottery system 31: communication means

32: lottery request processing means 33: lottery means

34: Database 35: Internet Sites

The present invention relates to an integrated lottery system and a method for prizes for each merchant, in particular, to perform a sweepstakes jointly by performing a sweepstakes of prizes made in each merchant.

Currently, a variety of services are provided to give prizes to customers for the promotion or promotion of various products or services. These sweepstakes sometimes offer prizes to all customers who visit the workplace, but in most cases they offer more expensive prizes to the customers who win the prize. These sweepstakes are organized by individual workplace.

However, there are a lot of problems in the case of running an exclusive prize in an individual workplace. For example, consumers are more interested in expensive giveaways (eg digital TVs, refrigerators, cars, etc.) than low-priced ones, and it is difficult to make high-priced giveaways at individual businesses. . In addition, there is a limit to attracting the attention of many customers only local promotion.

Accordingly, the present invention has been proposed to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a system and a method for performing a sweepstakes jointly by integrating sweepstakes at each affiliated store.

In order to achieve the above object, the integrated lottery system for the sweepstakes for each merchant according to the present invention, the database for storing each merchant participating in the joint sweepstakes event; Communication means for communicating with each of the terminals of the affiliated stores through a predetermined communication network; Lottery means for determining whether to win according to the winning probability set for each affiliated store; And a lottery request processing means for receiving a lottery request from each of the affiliated stores through the communication means, determining whether to win the prize through the lottery means, and transmitting a message indicating whether to win the prize to the corresponding affiliated store terminal through the communication means. Characterized in that.

In addition, the integrated lottery method for the individual sweepstakes according to the present invention, the step of storing and managing each merchant information participating in the joint sweepstakes database; Receiving a request for drawing from each of the affiliated stores; Determining whether to win according to a winning probability set for each affiliated store according to the drawing request; And transmitting a message indicating whether to win the prize to the affiliated store terminal.

At this time, receiving the participation request from each merchant may be configured to be made online through the Internet site.

Participation amount by affiliated store may be applied equally to all affiliated stores according to service needs or may be differentiated by affiliated store. In addition, each affiliate may be configured to arbitrarily set a time period to participate in the sweepstakes. Such participation amount or period of participation by the affiliated stores is preferably configured to ensure that the fair lottery is reflected in the probability of winning a prize at the affiliated store. The probability of winning the respective affiliated stores may be configured to ensure that the amount of money won during the participation period is equal to or more than a predetermined percentage of the participation amount, thereby ensuring a certain degree or more.

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

Referring to FIG. 1, the integrated lottery provider 3 providing an integrated lottery service according to the present invention allows each affiliated store 1 to participate in a joint giveaway by paying a certain amount of participation. For example, if you receive a 500,000 won participation fee for each merchant, 10 20 won participation costs will be raised if 20 affiliates participate. Accordingly, it is possible to provide expensive prizes of about 10 million won.

The amount of participation paid by each merchant may be the same, or may be differentiated by merchant. For example, one merchant A may pay 500,000 won, and another merchant B may pay 1 million won. In such a case, it is desirable to determine that the probability of winning for each affiliated store is proportional to the participation amount for fairness. In other words, Merchant B has a probability of winning twice higher than the probability of winning Merchant A, and thus, the probability that a customer using Merchant B wins a prize.

Meanwhile, each merchant (1) who participated in the joint prize event requests a lottery from the integrated lottery provider (3) when the customer uses his / her product or service, and the integrated lottery provider (3) performs the lottery and then applies the result. Notify the merchant. Such requests for drawing and confirmation of winning prizes will continue until the prize is over. The present invention can be preferably applied to each affiliated store connected to a point of sales (POS) system, but can be applied to any affiliated store as it is.

An embodiment of configuring the integrated lottery system will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 2.

Each merchant information participating in the joint giveaway event is stored and managed in the database 34. The affiliated store information stored in the database 34 may include an identification code of the affiliated store, the amount of participation of the affiliated store, communication information with the affiliated store, and the like. Merchant information may be received directly by the integrated lottery provider offline in the database 34, but may be configured to receive the merchant information online via the Internet network 21 to store in the database 34. In addition to providing a general service performed on the Internet, the Internet site 35 performing such a role allows each affiliate to sign up as a member, selects a participation amount, and makes payments online.

The communication means 31 communicates with each of the affiliated store terminals 10 through the communication network 22. Here, the communication network may be configured as any network connecting the affiliated store terminal 10 and the integrated lottery system 30, or may be an internet network. The integrated lottery system 30 receives a lottery request from the affiliated store terminal 10 through the communication means 31 and transmits the result of the lottery to the affiliated store terminal 10.

The lottery means 33 serves to determine whether or not to draw by drawing according to the winning probability set for each affiliated store. The lottery method can be configured using any method. The probability of winning by each merchant may be the same for each merchant, but may be configured to be differentiated from each other.

When the lottery request processing means 32 receives the lottery request from the affiliated store terminal 10 through the communication means 31, the lottery means 33 determines whether or not to win. And, it plays a role of transmitting a message indicating whether or not to the merchant terminal 10 through the communication means (31).

On the other hand, the participating amounts of each affiliate may be all the same, but each affiliate may be configured to determine arbitrarily. For example, one merchant may be configured to pay as much as 500,000 won, one merchant 1 million won or the like.

In addition, each affiliated store may be configured to specify the participation period to participate in the sweepstakes. Participation period can also be the same for each affiliate, or can be configured so that each affiliate can decide arbitrarily. For example, one merchant may pay 500,000 won for two months and one merchant may pay the same 500,000 won for one month. In this example, for the sake of fairness, the latter affiliated store is preferably configured to have twice the probability of winning as compared to the former affiliated store.

That is, the lottery means 33 may be configured to differentiate the probability of winning for each affiliated store according to the participation amount and participation period for each affiliated store. Therefore, the lottery means 33 includes a module for calculating the probability of winning by each merchant based on the participation amount or participation period for each affiliate.

As another example of setting the odds of winning, the amount of winnings during the participation period of each merchant may be configured to be equal to or more than a predetermined percentage of the participation amount. For example, if the ratio is 100% and a merchant participates for one month at 500,000 won, the merchant must be configured to win a prize worth 500,000 won within one month.

This guaranteed lottery may be conducted separately or in combination with the non-guaranteed lottery, which does not guarantee winning as much as the participation amount during the participation period. For example, 50% of the participation amount of each merchant may be operated as a guaranteed type and the remaining 50% may be operated as a non-guaranteed type. That is, if 10 merchants participated with 500,000 won, each merchant is guaranteed a prize of 250,000 won, and the remaining amount can be used to provide high-priced prizes of 2.5 million won. In this case, the prize of 2.5 million won will be won only for one of the merchants.

On the other hand, the amount the customer uses in each affiliated store may be different from each other. Therefore, it may be configured to determine the probability of winning the prize or the kind of the prize according to the amount (sales amount) used by the customer.

For this embodiment, the prizes that can be won must be stored in the database 34 by sales. In addition, the lottery request from the merchant is configured to include information on the sales of the customer. That is, the merchant inputs the sales of the corresponding customer when the lottery request is sent together.

Then, the lottery means 33 determines the prize to be quenched according to the sales amount received from the affiliated store terminal 10 when the lottery request. As an example, if the bicycle and the computer are stored as prizes for the sales 5000 won and the 50000 won, respectively, in the database 34, and the sales received at the request of the lottery from the affiliated store are 5000 won, the lottery is decided whether or not the bicycle is won. Will be done.

As another example, the winning probability itself may be changed with respect to the sales of the customer. In other words, the lottery means 33 to change the probability of hearing according to the amount of sales received from the corresponding merchant terminal when the lottery request. For example, if the winning probability is 1% when the sales amount is 5000 won, the winning probability may be 10% when the price is 50000 won.

Referring to Figure 3 will now be described the process of the integrated lottery according to the present invention.

First, the integrated lottery system allows each affiliate to participate in the joint giveaway event and stores and manages the affiliate store information for each affiliate in a database (S41, S42).

Merchant information may be received by the integrated lottery provider offline and directly entered into the database, but may be configured to receive the merchant information online and store it in the database through the Internet. In addition to providing general services performed on the Internet, an internet site that performs such a role allows each affiliate to sign up as a member, select a participation amount, and make payments online.

On the other hand, general customers at some point will use the goods or services provided by each merchant.

The affiliated store requests a lottery for the corresponding customer by using the affiliated terminal provided at the affiliated store at a certain time such as when the customer enters or charges (S43). The merchant terminal requesting the lottery is a POS terminal provided in each merchant terminal, but may be any device (eg, credit card inquiry, PC, etc.) that can communicate with the integrated lottery system. Such a merchant terminal should be configured to communicate with the integrated lottery system to request a lottery and receive and display the result of the lottery.

In step S43, the method for requesting a lottery may be variously configured. For example, the lottery request may be made only by pressing a specific key provided in the affiliated store terminal. This approach saves money by eliminating the need for additional tools such as lottery numbers.

The integrated lottery system receiving the lottery request determines the winning by lottery based on the probability of winning set by each affiliate store (S44), and transmits a message informing whether the lottery is received to the corresponding affiliated store terminal (S45). Then, the winning history is displayed on the merchant terminal, and the merchant pays a prize to the corresponding customer according to the result (S46).

On the other hand, the participating amounts of each affiliate may be all the same, but each affiliate may be configured to be arbitrarily determined.

In addition, each affiliated store may be configured to specify the participation period to participate in the sweepstakes. Participation period can also be the same for each affiliate, or can be configured so that each affiliate can decide arbitrarily. For example, one merchant may pay 500,000 won for two months and one merchant may pay the same 500,000 won for one month. In this example, for the sake of fairness, the latter affiliated store is preferably configured to have twice the probability of winning as compared to the former affiliated store.

That is, the drawing in step S44 may be configured to differentiate the probability of winning for each affiliated store according to the participation amount and participation period for each affiliated store.

As another example of setting the odds of winning in step S44, the amount of winnings during the participation period of each affiliated store may be configured to be equal to or more than a predetermined percentage of the participating amount. For example, if the ratio is 100% and a merchant participates for one month at 500,000 won, the merchant must be configured to win a prize worth 500,000 won within one month.

This guaranteed lottery may be conducted separately or in combination with the non-guaranteed lottery, which does not guarantee winning as much as the participation amount during the participation period. For example, 50% of the participation amount of each merchant may be operated as a guaranteed type and the remaining 50% may be operated as a non-guaranteed type. That is, if 10 merchants participated with 500,000 won, each merchant is guaranteed a prize of 250,000 won, and the remaining amount can be used to provide high-priced prizes of 2.5 million won. In this case, the prize of 2.5 million won will be won only for one of the merchants.

On the other hand, the amount the customer uses in each affiliated store may be different from each other. Therefore, it may be configured to determine the probability of winning the prize or the kind of the prize according to the amount (sales amount) used by the customer.

For this embodiment, the winning prizes must be stored in the database by sales. In addition, when requesting a lottery from the affiliated store to the integrated lottery system in step S43, information on the sales of the customer is transmitted together.

At the time of drawing in step S44, the prize to be quenched is determined according to the sales amount received from the affiliated store. For example, if a bicycle and a computer are stored as prizes for the sales amount of 5,000 won and 50000 won respectively, and the amount of sales received at the request of a lottery is 5,000 won, the lottery is drawn. .

As another example, the winning probability itself may be changed with respect to the sales of the customer. That is, at the time of drawing in step S44, the probability of changing the hearing is changed according to the sales amount received from the affiliated store terminal. For example, if the winning probability is 1% when the sales amount is 5000 won, the winning probability may be 10% when the price is 50000 won.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments and can be variously modified and implemented by those skilled in the art without departing from the technical spirit of the present invention.

According to the present invention, it is possible to integrally provide a sweepstakes that were made independently for each affiliated store. As a result, each merchant can reduce the cost of the prize event and provide expensive prizes without undue burden. In addition, expensive prizes and high-quality prizes can attract customers' attention, making it easier to achieve the purpose of the prize. In addition, the effects of joint marketing by each merchant can be seen.

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A database for storing information of each merchant participating in the collective prize event; Communication means for communicating with each of the terminals of the affiliated stores through a predetermined communication network; Lottery means for determining whether to win according to the winning probability set for each affiliated store; And Receiving a lottery request from each of the affiliated stores through the communication means to determine whether the lottery through the lottery means, and includes a lottery request processing means for transmitting a message informing whether or not through the communication means to the corresponding merchant terminal; Integrated lottery system for the sweepstakes for each merchant, characterized in that. The method of claim 1, And an internet site for receiving participation information of each affiliate store by receiving each affiliate store information through the internet network and storing the information in the database. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The affiliated store information includes a participation amount, and the participation amount is integrated lottery system for the sweepstakes for each affiliate, characterized in that each affiliate is configured to be arbitrarily determined. The method of claim 3, wherein The affiliated store information includes a participation period, and the participation period is an integrated lottery system for the sweepstakes for each affiliate, wherein each affiliate is configured to be arbitrarily determined. The method of claim 4, wherein The odds of winning the respective merchants are differentiated according to the amount of participation and the period of participation of the respective merchants. The method of claim 4, wherein The probability of winning the respective merchants is an integrated lottery system for the sweepstakes for each merchant, characterized in that the amount of winning during the participation period is configured to be more than a certain percentage of the participation amount. The method of claim 1, The database may store prizes that can be won by division, and the lottery request from the affiliate store includes information on sales of the corresponding customer, and the lottery means draws prizes to be quenched according to the sales received at the lottery request. Integrated lottery system for sweepstakes for each merchant, characterized in that the configuration. The method of claim 1, The lottery request from the affiliated store includes information on sales of the corresponding customer, and the lottery means includes an integrated lottery for sweepstakes for each of the affiliated stores, wherein the lottery means is configured to change the probability of hearing by the sales received at the lottery request. system. In the method of performing a lottery for the sweepstakes of each affiliated store is performed in a server connected to the terminal of each affiliated store through a predetermined communication network, Storing and managing each affiliate store information participating in the collective prize event in a database; Receiving a request for drawing from each of the affiliated stores; Determining whether to win according to a winning probability set for each affiliated store according to the drawing request; And Integrated lottery method for the sweepstakes event for each merchant, characterized in that it comprises the step of transmitting a message indicating whether or not to win the merchant terminal. The method of claim 9, Each merchant information stored in the database is an integrated lottery method for a sweepstakes for each merchant, characterized in that configured to receive through the Internet site. The method according to claim 9 or 10, The affiliated store information includes a participating amount, and the participating amount is configured to allow each affiliate to be arbitrarily determined. The method of claim 11, The affiliated store information includes a participation period, and the participation period is integrated lottery method for the sweepstakes for each merchant, it characterized in that each affiliate is configured to be determined arbitrarily. The method of claim 12, The odds of winning the respective merchants are differentiated according to the participation amount and the participation period of each affiliated store. The method of claim 12, The probability of winning the respective merchants is an integrated lottery method for the sweepstakes for each merchant, characterized in that the amount of money won during the participation period is configured to be more than a certain percentage of the participation amount. The method of claim 9, The winning prizes are stored in the database according to the sales, and the lottery request from the merchant includes information on the sales of the customer, and the determining of the winning may be performed according to the sales received at the lottery request. Integrated lottery method for the sweepstakes for each merchant, characterized in that configured to determine the prize. The method of claim 9, The request for lottery from the affiliated store includes information on the sales of the corresponding customer, and the determining of the winning or not includes determining the win probability according to the amount of sales received at the request for the lottery. Integrated lottery method for.

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