KR20100011610A - System for giving addition service information of credit cards and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A system and a method for offering additive service information about the credit card are provided to easily confirm the various additive service information of the credit card using DID(Digital Information Display) by a user. CONSTITUTION: The available service information which the DID(100) is inquired the credit card is indicated. The card input unit(204) of the card recognition device(102) inputs the credit card and the credit card user information. The communication unit(208) performs the communication with the corresponding card company server offers the service information of the credit card. The controller(202) connects to the card company server by the user information of the credit card which is acknowledged through the card input unit. The controller shows the available service information of the credit card through the DID.

Description

System and method for providing additional service information of credit card {SYSTEM FOR GIVING ADDITION SERVICE INFORMATION OF CREDIT CARDS AND METHOD THEREOF}

The present invention relates to a method of providing information using a digital information display (DID), and in particular, to provide additional service information on an individual's credit card using a DID installed for guidance and advertisement in public places such as department stores, banks, restaurants, and the like. It relates to a system and method for providing additional service information of a credit card to enable this.

In general, the DID is a device for displaying digital information. The DID is configured to periodically display pre-stored public service-related or advertisement-related content so that users who visit public places can view public service-related or advertising content. Installations are rapidly increasing for introducing or advertising the stores in various public spaces, including department stores, banks or family restaurants such as TGIF, Outback and Pizza Hut.

In the case of department stores, DID plays a role of displaying advertisement contents for various products sold by department stores, and also shows various menus or offers to family restaurants such as TGIF, Outback, and Pizza Hut. It will play a role in showing.

However, such a conventional DID is simply to repeatedly display a pre-produced guide or advertisement content corresponding to the nature of a public place where a DID is installed, which cannot be used by an individual user for verifying personal information. Despite the installation cost, there was a problem that its utilization is not very high.

Accordingly, an aspect of the present invention is to provide a system and method for providing additional service information of a credit card that enables the provision of additional service information on an individual's credit card using a DID installed for guidance and advertisement in a public place.

The present invention as described above is a system for providing additional service information of a credit card, comprising: a digital information display (DID) displaying available service information inquired by credit card, and a corresponding card company upon receiving a service information inquiry request for the credit card. And a card recognition device which accesses a server to receive currently available service information on the credit card and displays it through the DID.

The present invention also provides a method for providing additional service information of a credit card in a system for providing additional service information of a credit card including a DID and a card recognition device. Reading user information of a credit card, accessing a card company server of the credit card through the user information, and receiving service information available on the credit card; and service available on the received credit card; Displaying information through the DID.

In the present invention, in providing additional service information of a credit card using a DID, an additional card recognizing apparatus capable of recognizing a credit card with respect to a DID installed in a public place for guidance or advertisement display may be further implemented. When displaying contents such as advertisements, and the user inputs his or her credit card information through a card contact to request additional service information, the DID screen displays the additional service information available for the current month of the credit card linked with the card company server. By providing the award, the user can easily check various additional service information of the credit card by using the DID in a public place, and there is an advantage in that the convenience is greatly increased. In addition, there is an advantage that the utilization of the DID is also diversified.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail the operating principle of the present invention. In the following description of the present invention, when it is determined that a detailed description of a known function or configuration may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted. Terms to be described later are terms defined in consideration of functions in the present invention, and may be changed according to intentions or customs of users or operators. Therefore, the definition should be made based on the contents throughout the specification.

Looking at the specific core technical gist of the present invention, by additionally implementing a card recognition device that can recognize the credit card for the DID installed in the public space for guidance or advertising display, usually display content such as pre-stored advertising If the user inputs his or her credit card information through contact with the card to request additional service information inquiry, the technology that provides the additional service information available for the current month of the credit card linked with the card company server on the DID screen Through it can be easily achieved to achieve in the present invention.

1 is a block diagram of an apparatus for providing service information of a credit card according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, an operation of each unit of the credit card service information providing apparatus of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 1.

First, the DID 100 is a device for displaying digital information. The DID 100 is installed in a public place such as a department store, a bank or a family restaurant, and periodically displays pre-stored public service-related or advertisement-related content. 102, when the user finds a public place by displaying the additional service information of the credit card provided through the card recognition device 102, the various additional benefits service information of the credit card possessed by the user through the DID 100; Make it easy to see.

The card recognition device 102 receives the credit card 104 additional service information inquiry request from a user who visits a public place using the DID 100 to check the additional service information of his or her credit card. Access to the corresponding card company server (106, 108) of receive the currently available service information for the credit card, and displays it through the DID (100).

Card company servers (106, 108) is a server that manages the information of the various types of cards possessed by the user, when receiving a credit card service information inquiry request from the card recognition device 102 is registered in the credit card 104 It provides the additional service information available for the current month according to the additional service information and the card usage history.

FIG. 2 illustrates a detailed block configuration of the card recognizing device 102 of the credit card service information providing device shown in FIG. 1. 202, a memory unit 200, a security unit 206, and the like.

Hereinafter, referring to FIG. 2, the operation of each part of the card recognition apparatus will be described. First, the card input unit 204 reads credit card user information by inputting a credit card through an interface device such as a contact card reader.

The communication unit 208 performs communication with the corresponding card company servers 106 and 108 corresponding to the credit card requested for additional service inquiry through the Internet under the control of the control unit 202. The memory unit 200 stores an operation control program for the overall operation of the card recognition device 102. The security unit 206 performs user authentication on the credit card when the credit card is input for service information inquiry through the card input unit 204.

When the credit card for querying the credit card additional service information is input through the card input unit 204, the control unit 202 authenticates whether the user is a legitimate user through a procedure such as checking a password input through the security unit 206. Do this. Subsequently, in the case of requesting the credit card value added service information inquiry by a legitimate user, the user accesses the card company servers 106 and 108 through the communication unit 208, and then provides the additional service information according to the card usage history of the credit card 104. It receives and displays it through the DID (100). Accordingly, the user can easily check various additional service information that can be freely admitted or discounted using his or her credit card if necessary through the DID 100 installed in a public place.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of guiding additional service information for each credit card of a DID installed in a public place such as a department store, a bank, or a restaurant in an apparatus for providing additional service information of a credit card according to an embodiment of the present invention. Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1, 2, and 3.

First, the DID (100) installed to introduce the store to a public place including a family store such as a department store, a bank or a TGIF, an outback, a pizza hut or to display a corporate advertisement or a public service advertisement, according to the present invention. If there is no request for additional service information guide, in step S300, the pre-stored guide or advertisement content is displayed so that people who find the corresponding public place can watch various guide information or advertisements.

At this time, the user who visited the place where the DID 100 is installed as above, free admission to Lotte World, which is granted to his / her own credit card 104 using the DID screen according to an embodiment of the present invention, an outback 20% discount In order to check whether additional service information such as this is possible in the current month, the credit card 104 may be inputted to the card recognition device 102 connected to the DID 100.

Then, the card recognition apparatus 102 connected with the DID 100 recognizes the request for additional service information of the credit card 104 through the card input unit 204 in step S302, and the security unit 206 in step S304. ) To authenticate the legitimate user through password input.

Subsequently, the card recognition apparatus 102 reads user information from the credit card 104 inputted by the user in step S306, and then inputs the information of the credit card 104 input through the Internet in step S308. Access to the corresponding card company server 106, 108 having a request for additional service information of the credit card 104 requested above.

Accordingly, the card company server (106, 108) is a card with the service information that can be available or further discounts, depending on the current usage history of the user with the general additional service information registered for the requested credit card 104 It is transmitted to the recognition device 102.

Then, the card recognition device 102 in step (S310) credit requested by the user provided from the card company server (106, 108) through the communication unit 208 connected to the card company server (106, 108) and the Internet Receive the actual additional service information available in the current month according to the general additional service information and the usage history of the card, and displays the additional service information of the received credit card through the DID 100 in step S312. FIG. 4 shows an example of additional service information of the credit card 104 displayed on the DID 100. As shown in FIG. 4, when the user needs it through the DID 100 installed in a public place, Using the credit card 104, it is possible to easily check a variety of additional service information that can be free admission or discount.

As described above, in the present invention, in providing additional service information of a credit card using a DID, a card recognizing apparatus capable of recognizing a credit card with respect to a DID installed for guidance or advertisement display in a public place is further implemented. In the case of displaying content such as a pre-stored advertisement, the user inputs his or her credit card information through a card contact or the like to request additional service information. By providing the service information on the DID screen, the user can easily check various additional service information of the credit card by using the DID in a public place, and the convenience can be greatly increased, and the utilization of the DID can also be varied.

Meanwhile, in the above description of the present invention, specific embodiments have been described, but various modifications may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the invention should be determined by the claims rather than by the described embodiments.

1 is a block diagram of a system for providing additional service information of a credit card according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a detailed block diagram of a card recognition apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a flowchart illustrating an operation for providing supplementary service information of a credit card using a DID according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is an exemplary view of displaying additional service information of a credit card on a DID according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

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100: DID 102: card recognition device

104: credit card 106, 108: card company server

Claims (7)

A system for providing additional service information of a credit card, Digital Information Display (DID) that displays available service information retrieved by credit card, When the service information inquiry request for the credit card is received, the card recognizing apparatus receives the service information currently available for the credit card by accessing the corresponding card company server and displaying the information through the DID. Additional service information providing system of the credit card comprising a. The method of claim 1, The card recognition device, A card input unit for inputting credit card user information by inputting the credit card; A communication unit for performing communication with a corresponding card company server providing service information of the credit card; A control unit which accesses to the card company server using the user information of the credit card recognized through the card input unit, and receives available service information of the credit card and displays it through the DID. Additional service information providing system of the credit card comprising a. The method of claim 2, The card recognition device, Security unit for performing a user authentication for the credit card when the credit card input for service information inquiry through the card input unit Additional service information providing system of the credit card further comprising. The method of claim 1, The DID is, A device installed in the public place to display advertisements or guide contents, and when the service information of the credit card is not received from the card recognition unit, the previously stored advertisement or guide contents are periodically displayed. Additional service information providing system. The method of claim 4, wherein Service information of the credit card, And service information registered in the credit card and service information made available according to the use history of the credit card. A method of providing additional service information of a credit card in a system for providing additional service information of a credit card including a DID and a card recognition device, Reading user information of the credit card when a service information inquiry request of the credit card is received through the card recognition device; Connecting to a card company server of the credit card through the user information to receive service information available on the credit card; Displaying service information available on the received credit card through the DID; Additional service information providing method of the credit card comprising a. The method of claim 6, Service information of the credit card, And service information registered in the credit card and service information available according to the use history of the credit card.

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