KR20090058089A - Business coupon offer systems and the way that used a 114 guidance system - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a corporate coupon providing system and a method using a 114 number guide system, and more specifically, a company processing unit for processing a set company; A coupon processing unit for editing and managing the input coupon information; A target processing unit for extracting and editing the mobile phone number of the user who inquired the 114 number guide; An SMS processor for transmitting an SMS Callback URL to a user's mobile number; When the user downloads the coupon application consists of an information providing unit provided to the mobile phone.

According to the present invention, the company can actively promote the user to the 114 number guide inquiries through the coupon, and the user has the effect of providing a variety of services by downloading the coupon over the wireless Internet.

Description

Business coupon offer systems and the way that used a 114 guidance system.

The present invention relates to a corporate coupon providing system and method using the 114 number guide system, and more particularly, by providing a coupon of the company inquired by the user's mobile phone in 114 questions, the user downloads the coupon to the wireless Internet with a mobile phone I can use it.

Coupon means a voucher for a product or service and a voucher for a product or service in order to facilitate the sale of the product or to coupon the product or service. Such coupons are generally made of paper. Recently, as the use of mobile communication services is popularized, barcodes downloaded to a mobile phone can perform a function of a coupon, thereby diversifying the form of the coupon.

In the process of downloading a conventional corporate coupon to a mobile terminal, first, when a network operator or the like posts a corporate coupon of a company together with product information of the company on its own website, the user can visit the website and download the coupon. After the access number is found, it is a process of requesting to download to the mobile phone through the wireless Internet, or to send the company-type coupon posted using the PC to the mobile phone.

Such a conventional coupon providing method is inconvenient that a user must visit a site that directly provides a company type coupon, and then go through a predetermined procedure after confirming a company that provides the coupon.

If the coupon is provided in connection with the 114 telephone number guide system, the user can download the coupon of the corresponding company at the time of the 114 number inquiry to the mobile phone. Could be reduced.

Therefore, there is a need for a new type of corporate coupon providing system and method for providing a corporate coupon linked to a 114 telephone number guide system to a mobile phone.

Therefore, the present invention belongs to the field of wireless Internet access using SMS Callback URL in the field of SMS (Short Message Service) and the field of text and image processing in the wireless Internet.

The present invention relates to a corporate coupon providing system and a method using the 114 number guide system, the background of the company management and content production, content management, content provision, database control technology using the wireless Internet technology.

The present invention relates to a corporate coupon providing system and method using the 114 number guide system,

More specifically, when the user accesses the 114 number guide on the mobile phone and sends the SMS Callback URL provided by the mobile carrier to the user who inquires about the business, the company provides a corporate coupon that provides various contents information after the user accesses the wireless Internet on the mobile phone. A system and method thereof are provided.

SMS is a service provided by a mobile carrier and sends a text message to a mobile phone. The SMS Callback URL is one of the wireless Internet access methods that allow a user to directly access the wireless Internet and search for the corresponding content.

As of the end of 2006, there have been 1 billion calls per year for 114 number guide requests, and more than 400 million calls have been made to the 114 number guide via mobile phones. As of the end of August 2007, the Ministry of Information and Communication shows that the number of mobile phone subscribers in Korea is 42,509,977, and that the number of mobile Internet-enabled terminals is 40,905,832.

The wireless Internet provided by mobile carriers provides various information such as games, music, pictures, ringtones, sports, certificates, and traffic information. Many users access the wireless Internet through their mobile phones, search for information, and solve the desired information. have.

So far, the 114 guide service is connected to the receptionist when the user dials 114 and calls a company that wants to be guided. The guide finds the phone number of the company and uses the ARS to voice the phone number twice. It's a way of telling.

This conventional method has had a number of problems, the user has to inconvenience memorizing a simple 7-digit or more phone numbers, or prepare a note paper and writing instruments in advance, the company is actively promoting the inquired users I could not.

In addition, the user should call the business to address the location, transportation, and other questions.

As such, the disadvantage that users do not easily solve a variety of questions is not only the burden of telephone charges on users, but also the lack of active promotional opportunities in businesses, which causes huge costs, labor, and time loss in the country. There was this.

The present invention was created in order to solve the problems inherent in the prior art as described above, an object of the present invention is to provide a mobile coupon using the SMS CallBack URL to the user's mobile phone when guiding 114 and the user to the wireless Internet to the mobile phone It is to provide a company-type coupon providing service and method using a 114 telephone guide system that receives a variety of services such as company information and coupon services, orders and payment by accessing.

As described above, the corporate coupon providing system and method using the 114 number guide system according to the present invention provides a corporate coupon service differentiated from the existing 114 guide service, and the user can download and use information and coupons of the company through a mobile phone. By doing so, various services can be provided without having to search one by one on the website of the company providing the coupon as in the prior art.

Furthermore, the service provider may use the information input by the user at the time of providing the service as customer management information, thereby providing a higher quality service to the attracted and attracted customers.

In addition, when the user inquires about 114 phone guides, the company provides an enterprise-type coupon, providing an opportunity to provide active personalized information and an effect to improve operating profits.

As a system for providing a corporate coupon service to provide a corporate coupon service to the telephone number of the user inquired with 114 of the present invention for realizing the above object, and the user can download and use the information and coupons of the company. Active public relations activities are possible.

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

1 is a schematic diagram showing a schematic configuration of a corporate coupon providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to this, the enterprise coupon providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention is stored with the phone number of the company when the user inquires 114 on the mobile phone, so that the mobile phone number of the user who wants to provide a coupon in the company easily It can be acquired.

As shown in FIG. 1, when the mobile phone 100 or the wired telephone 150 contacts 114 using the mobile communication network 600 or the PSTN 650, the receptionist 800 is connected. The receptionist 800 listens to the inquiries of the user and then checks the corresponding company by searching the 114 telephone guide DB 300 using the 114 telephone guide system 200 and checks the corresponding company. The phone 150 informs the phone number of the company.

When the guidance inquiry is processed, the telephone number of the user who inquired and the telephone number of the corresponding company are stored as the basic data of billing by storing the result in the 114 telephone guide DB (300).

The corporate coupon providing system 500 includes an SMS / MMS server 510 for SMS and MMS sending processing, a content server 530 for editing coupon contents, a WAP server 550 for providing wireless Internet information, and a coupon processing PC. At 400, a web server 570 that registers company information or provides coupon editing, target customer information management function, statistical information, and the like, and DB server 590 that stores various information.

The enterprise-type coupon providing system 500 receives an application for the offer of the coupon from the corresponding company and receives and edits the company information registration and coupon from the coupon processing PC 400 and stores it in the content server 530.

The company retrieves the phone number of the user who inquired to the company from the 114 number guide information DB (300) managed by the 114 number guide system (200) from the coupon processing PC (400) SMS / MMS server In operation 510, the SMS callback URL is transmitted to the mobile phone 700 of the target user using the mobile communication network 600.

Upon receiving the SMS Callback URL, the customer may access the wireless Internet from the mobile phone 700 and download and use coupon information provided by the WAP server 550, the content server 530, and the DB server 590.

The mobile phone 100 and the mobile phone 700 are the same.

Although these servers are all described as separate servers, it is apparent to those skilled in the art that in practice, they may be separate processes implemented in one server, or one or several of them may be integrated and implemented in one server.

2 is a block diagram showing in detail the configuration of the mobile phone according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, the mobile phone 700 includes a control unit 710, an input unit 720, a memory 730, a wireless communication unit 740, a display unit 750, an output unit 760, and an enterprise coupon providing processing unit ( 770, a coupon processing unit 780, and a VM function unit 790.

A control unit 710 for controlling the overall operation of the mobile communication terminal, an input unit 720 for input control of the mobile phone 700, a memory 730 for storing various data, a wireless communication unit for performing wireless communication ( 740, the display unit 750 for indicating the current state of the mobile communication terminal or the event processing state requested by the user, and the output unit 760 for providing wireless Internet access or necessary content are general configurations of the mobile communication terminal. Will be omitted.

In more detail, the coupon information is requested from the user to the corporate coupon providing system 500 through the wireless communication unit 740 with the information requested by the corporate coupon providing processing unit 770.

The corporate coupon providing processing unit 770 outputs the coupon information of the company transmitted from the corporate coupon providing system 500 so that the user can check it using the display unit 750, the output unit 760, or both.

Here, the coupon information includes a company identifier, coupon number, coupon contents, expiration date, user's telephone number, etc. indicating that the company issued.

Therefore, in the corporate coupon providing processing unit 770, the mobile phone 700 so that the user can check the contents of the coupon information of the company transmitted from the corporate coupon providing system 500 using the display unit 750, the output unit 760, or both. If the user wants additional information, the user should be able to request the information to the corporate coupon providing system 500 through the corporate coupon providing processing unit 770 of the mobile phone 700.

3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a corporate coupon providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3, the corporate coupon providing system 500 includes an information transmitting and receiving unit 511, a controller 512, a company processor 520, a target processor 530, a coupon processor 540, and an information provider ( 560, an SMS processing unit 570, and a database 550.

Herein, the corporate type coupon refers to a bar code that functions as a discount voucher or an exchange voucher of a product that can be used by the corresponding company and is stored as a file in the mobile phone and displayed externally.

In more detail, the company processor 520 processes the company information input to the corporate coupon providing system 500 under the control of the controller 512, and includes a company information input unit 521 and a company information processor 522. .

The database 550 stores information related to the corporate coupon providing system 500 under the control of the controller 512. The database 550 may store at least one company information inputted using the company information input unit 521. After processing in the information processing unit 522 and stored in the company information DB (551).

The company information DB 551 includes a company number, a business name, an address, a phone number, a mobile phone number, a registration date, and the like.

The target processing unit 530 is connected to the 114 number guide information DB 300 that stores the processing result of the 114 number guide system 200 under the control of the controller 512 to extract the coupon target target, edit and store the target And a customer extracting unit 531, a target customer editing unit 532, and a target customer storage unit 533.

In addition, when the target company requests to extract the target target using the function provided by the web server 570 of the corporate coupon providing system 500 to select a target target for sending a coupon, the target processor extracts the target processor 530. The section 531 retrieves the 114 number guide information DB 300 and extracts the mobile phone number of the user who requested the 114 guide to the corresponding company.

The database 550 edits the extracted user's mobile phone number and the corresponding company's information in the target customer editing unit 532 to the coupon target DB 553 through the target customer storage unit 533 under the control of the controller. Save it.

The coupon target DB 553 includes a target mobile phone number, company number, business name, contents, coupon number and the like.

The coupon processing unit 540 may include a coupon input unit 541 for generating a coupon when inputting one or more business information, a coupon processing unit 542 for editing and storing the input coupon, and a user requesting a coupon on a mobile phone. And a coupon authentication unit 543 for authenticating the user, the company, and the coupon information.

The database 550 stores the coupon edited in the coupon processing unit 542 in the coupon DB 552.

The coupon DB 552 includes a coupon number, a company number, coupon contents, an expiration date, and the like.

When requesting sending SMS Callback URL to the mobile phone 700 of the target target based on the target target extracted from the corresponding company, the SMS processing unit 570 searches the coupon target DB 553 under the control of the controller 512 and corresponds to the corresponding target. Sending the SMS Callback URL by using the mobile communication network 600 to the mobile phone 700 of the target target company.

When the target object requests coupon download to the mobile phone 700 by the SMS callback URL, the information transmitting / receiving unit 511 receives the coupon information from the mobile phone 700, and under the control of the control unit 512, the coupon authentication unit 543 After verifying the user's mobile phone number and the corresponding company information, coupon information, etc. provides a coupon to the user's mobile phone 700 through the information providing unit 560.

The coupon downloaded to the mobile phone 700 uses a lot of barcode formats, and the company preferably has a barcode reader to recognize the barcode of the mobile phone 700 to authenticate the validity of the corporate coupon.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a target customer extraction according to an embodiment of the present invention.

When the corresponding company requests coupon target selection and SMS sending using the coupon processing PC 400, the corporate coupon providing system 500 requests to extract the coupon target target from the target customer extracting unit 531 under the control of the controller 512. After receiving (S611) to analyze the extraction request conditions (S612).

As a result of the step S612, if the extraction request condition is not met, the corporate coupon providing system 500 transmits a message that the extraction failed to the coupon processing PC (400) (S613).

As a result of step S612, if the extraction request condition is met, the 114 mobile phone number of the 114 number guide information DB (300) of the 114 number guide information DB 300 to perform a 114 number guide information DB search (S614) of the user's mobile phone Extract the number.

As a result of step S614, the target customer editing unit 532 edits the mobile phone number that is the target target meeting the extraction condition based on the data retrieved from the 114 number guide information DB (S615).

As a result of step S615, it is confirmed whether or not editing is completed (S616).

As a result of step S616, if an error occurs during editing, the corporate coupon providing system 500 transmits a message indicating that editing has failed to the coupon processing PC 400 (S617).

As a result of step S616, if the editing is normally completed, the target customer storage unit 533 stores the target object in the coupon target DB 553 (S618).

As a result of step S618, the SMS sending request is confirmed to the mobile phone of the target coupon target (S619).

As a result of step S619, after confirming the SMS sending request in the SMS processing unit 580 (S620), if the SMS sending request content is incorrect, the enterprise-type coupon providing system 500 message that the SMS sending failed to the coupon processing PC (400). It transmits (S621).

When the SMS sending request is normal as a result of step S620, the target target is queried from the coupon target DB 553 (S622) and the SMS callback URL is sent to the target target mobile phone number (S623).

5 is a flowchart for generating a corporate coupon according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to this, the enterprise coupon providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention can register and store and manage the company's coupon creation.

As shown in FIG. 5, when the corresponding company inputs the company information using the coupon processing PC 400, the company type coupon providing system 500 is registered by the company information input unit 521 under the control of the controller 512. The company name, address, telephone number, mobile phone number, registration date and the like to receive the company information processing unit 522 generates and stores the company number (S711).

As a result of step S711, it is checked whether or not it is normally registered (S712).

As a result of step S712, if an error occurred during company registration, the corporate coupon providing system 500 transmits a message indicating that registration failed to the coupon processing PC 400 (S713).

As a result of step S712, if normally registered, the company number is retrieved from the company number information registered in the coupon input unit 541 (S714).

As a result of step S714, if an error occurs in the company number inquiry, the corporate coupon providing system 500 transmits a message that registration failed to the coupon processing PC (400) (S716).

As a result of step S714, if the registration is normally registered, the coupon processing unit 542 generates the coupon information including the coupon number, business number, coupon contents, expiration date, etc. and registers the coupon information (S717). Image is preferred.

6 is a flowchart illustrating an enterprise coupon providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The enterprise type coupon providing system 500 transmits the coupon using the SMS Callback URL through the SMS processing unit 570 to receive the coupon download to the user's mobile phone when the user requests 114 telephone guidance (S811).

As a result of step S811, when the user connects to the corporate coupon providing system 500 via the wireless Internet (S812) by the mobile phone 700 (S812) under the control of the control unit 512, the coupon authentication unit 543 confirms the coupon download request. (S813).

As a result of step S813, when the coupon download request is confirmed in the coupon authentication unit 543, the coupon target DB 553 is inquired to check whether the coupon is issued (S814).

As a result of step S814, the coupon is authenticated by the user's telephone number, company number, coupon number, expiration date, etc. (S815).

As a result of step S815, if the coupon is not issued, the corporate coupon providing system 500 transmits a message that the mobile phone 700 has failed (S816).

If the coupon is normally issued as a result of step S815, the coupon is downloaded from the information providing unit 560 to the mobile phone 700 under the control of the controller 512 (S817).

As a result of step S817, the coupon download content is stored in the coupon target DB 553 by the coupon processing unit 542.

As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the present invention can be implemented in other specific forms without changing the technical spirit or essential features thereof. Therefore, the above-described embodiments are to be understood as illustrative in all respects and not as restrictive. The scope of the invention is indicated by the following claims rather than the above description, and all changes or modifications derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and their equivalents should be construed as being included in the scope of the invention. do.

1 is a schematic configuration of a mobile enterprise coupon providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention

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2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a mobile phone according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an enterprise coupon providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a flowchart illustrating a target customer extraction according to an embodiment of the present invention;

5 is a flowchart for generating an enterprise coupon according to an embodiment of the present invention;

6 is a flowchart illustrating a corporate coupon providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (11)

It is a system that provides a corporate coupon service that is connected to the 114 number information system and provides the corporate coupon service to the telephone number of the user who inquired 114, and the user can download and use the information and coupon of the company by accessing the wireless Internet. , A database including a company information DB for storing at least one company information, a coupon DB for storing coupon information of a company, and a coupon target DB for storing information of a user who is downloading a coupon; A company processing unit for processing a set company; And A target processing unit for extracting and confirming the target mobile phone number from the 114 phone guide DB of the 114 number guide system when the corresponding company requests to extract the coupon target; And Coupon processing unit for editing the coupon information input from the company processor to store in the database; And An SMS processor for searching for a coupon target from the database and sending an SMS Callback URL; And Corporate coupon providing system, characterized in that it comprises an information providing unit to retrieve the company and coupon information from the database provided to the mobile phone. The method of claim 1, The company processing unit, A company information input unit for respectively assigning a company identification ID, that is, a company number according to the set company information, and storing the same in a database; And And a company information processing unit for extracting and editing the company information from the database when the user requests the company information. The method of claim 1, The target processing unit, A target customer extracting unit extracting a target customer from the 114 number guide information DB of the 114 number guide system when the corresponding company requests to extract a coupon target person; And Target coupon editing unit for extracting and editing the coupon number of the coupon target person from the extracted data; And And a target customer storage for storing the target information on which the editing is completed. The method of claim 1, The coupon processing unit, Coupon input unit for entering the coupon information associated with the business number to look up the company information; And Coupon processing unit for generating and storing a coupon number based on the input coupon information; And Corporate coupon providing system, characterized in that it comprises a coupon authentication unit to check whether or not the user has issued a coupon to the user in the normal case when the user requests the coupon download. As a coupon target extraction method using claim 1, Receiving a request for extracting a coupon target object; A second step of searching for 114 number guide information DB after confirming the subject extraction request in the first step; A third step of determining a coupon target mobile phone number based on the data retrieved in the second step; A fourth step of storing target target information when the editing is completed in the third step; A fifth step of confirming a request for sending an SMS to a target subject after the fourth step is completed; A sixth step of checking a target sender after confirming the SMS sending request in the fifth step; And a seventh step of sending the SMS callback URL to the target target person in the sixth step. As a coupon management method utilizing claim 1, A first step of registering information of the corresponding company; A second step of inquiring a business number if the corresponding company is normally registered in the first step; Coupon management method in a corporate coupon providing system comprising a third step of registering the coupon information if the normal in the second step. As a coupon providing method using claim 1, A first step of sending an SMS callback URL for requesting a coupon download to a mobile phone of a target target user; A second step in which the user normally connects to the wireless Internet in the first step; A third step of confirming a coupon download request of the user in the second step; A fourth step of checking coupon information requested by the user and coupon issuance information of the corresponding company in the third step; A fifth step of downloading the coupon to a user's mobile phone when the coupon issuance is normally completed through the coupon authentication in the fourth step; And a sixth step of registering the result when the download is normal in the fifth step. The method of claim 2, The company information is a coupon providing method in the enterprise coupon providing system for generating a company information, including a business number, business name, address, telephone number, mobile phone number, registration date. The method of claim 3, The target target information is, A coupon providing method in a corporate coupon providing system for generating target information including target mobile phone number, business number, business name, contents, coupon number, and the like. The method of claim 4, wherein The coupon information, Coupon providing method in the corporate coupon providing system for generating coupon information, including coupon number, company number, coupon details, expiration date. The method of claim 10, The coupon number is Coupon providing method in a corporate coupon providing system that is a barcode.

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