KR20140050171A

KR20140050171A - A minus charging support system

Info

Publication number: KR20140050171A
Application number: KR1020120115830A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 엄태범
Original assignee: (주)엠베이스솔루션
Priority date: 2012-10-18
Filing date: 2012-10-18
Publication date: 2014-04-29

Abstract

As the use of smartphones is becoming more common, the use of wireless Internet is growing exponentially, and mobile-based services, product sales, and advertisements are also rising. However, due to the mobile communication environment using smartphones, the burden of communication expenses to be paid by the users is increasing, which is a serious situation.
Therefore, the present invention introduces a negative (subtracted) additional service concept to an advertisement or an event using a wired / wireless / internet advertisement or an app and provides a certain amount of benefits to those who actively participate in it, and utilizes it for payment of communication costs. An integrated deduction management system and operation plan were proposed.
Through the introduction of such a negative service, a clear communication cost reduction effect is provided to individuals, and the telecommunications company is freed from the pressure to reduce the communication cost from external organizations such as the government or civic groups, preserving existing sales, and other negative service. There is also a new source of revenue called a settlement fee.
In addition, advertisers can provide effective tangible products, such as discount coupons, to maximize user's participation in ads, thereby rapidly achieving advertisement effects.

Description

Negative Charging Method {A Minus Charging Support System}

The present invention is to charge a negative service (deduction) service to reduce the burden of the payer by subtracting or paying a part or the whole of the monthly fee paid by the user, such as a communication fee or an electric charge, or a part of the payment, and It's about how.

As the use of smartphones is becoming more common, the use of wireless Internet is growing exponentially, and mobile-based services, product sales, and advertisements are also rising. However, due to the mobile communication environment using smartphones, the burden of communication expenses to be paid by the users is increasing, which is a serious situation. In general, a smart phone user purchases and uses an expensive terminal in a monthly installment, so that the user's perceived communication cost is more serious.

Currently, it is possible to use a fixed discount rate (e.g., more than about 5,000 won per month) through an affiliate card when paying for communication costs, or a fixed amount (10,000 won per month) in the form of terminal payment support when buying or selling stocks through certain securities companies. These are all savings, and in those cases, you can get a discounted offer only if you meet certain criteria set by the discount provider. In other words, in the case of an affiliate card discount, the card must be used in excess of a certain amount set by the card company each month, and in the case of a securities company discount, a fixed amount of discount can be provided in the month only when there is a transaction of a certain amount or more per month. Discounts are not continuous and may be available for a limited time (about 2 years).

The present invention provides a negative service method that can improve the limited fixed amount discount method currently used to provide individual users with various savings in communication costs and additionally provide commission income to the telecommunications companies without reducing existing sales. do.

The present invention is a method for reducing the communication cost per individual and household, a form in which a user using a smart phone in the exponentially expanding internet advertising or app advertising market provides a certain amount of benefits to a person participating in such an advertisement or event. This paper proposes an integrated deduction management system and its operation plan, which allow users to actively reduce their communication costs by actively participating in the service of the company and using the amount secured.

In general, a telecommunication company charges and collects a service fee in the form of a "pay-as-you-go" payment, which pays a certain amount monthly or as much as used, regardless of the amount used by the service provider. In the present invention, by introducing the concept of "minus (subtracted) additional service" in the same concept as the method of collecting additional service of the current carrier to be used to reduce the communication cost. In general, a pay-as-you-go additional service is a service in which a user pays as much as the user uses the service. The service system providing the additional service generates billing information (billing record) based on the user usage history and uses the generated billing information. It is added to the telecommunication fee and charged to the carrier, and the usage of the service is notified in the user bill.

The present invention is similar to the concept that the user generates the billing information in the corresponding service system when using a specific service and transmits it to the telecommunications company, and registers the "minus (subtracted)" additional service in the telecommunications billing system and includes the deductible with the user's telephone number. (Deduct) Deduct from the communication fee when the user charge is settled by sending the billing information (billing record) by the deductible amount transferred for the user, or transmit only the service information of the user's phone number and the registered minus service to the telecommunication company. When the user fee is settled, the service fee can be deducted from the communication fee.

To this end, there is a need for a system that can more easily execute a service to a variety of service providers who want to provide the above minus (deductible) service, and the present invention proposes an integrated deduction management system as such an overall system environment. As a benefit to users, this system issues and manages "discount tickets" for each minus (deduction) service and manages discount coupons for each user. ), Providing a full environment for sending and deducting so that service providers can plan, implement and focus on the service.

[Figure 1] is a general representation of such a service providing environment, which provides the user rate discount while interworking with the subject (advertiser) providing the advertisement service and the integrated deduction management system proposed in the present invention, and the rate discount information is integrated. Represents a service environment that is transmitted as negative charging information to the carrier's charging system through the deduction management system.

Negative service is provided on the premise of user benefits. The telecom company will actively consider introducing this service as it will not only preserve existing sales but also generate additional revenue by collecting negative processing fees.

For such a negative service, an integrated deduction management system that manages all processes such as registration, management, advertisement execution, discount compensation, etc. of an advertisement service is required. [Figure 2] shows the main modules of the integrated deduction management system. (1) The service linkage module is a module that receives user discount information in real time by interworking with the advertisement service providing service (s) registered in the integrated deduction management system. After receiving the user discount information transmitted from the corresponding advertisement service, (5) checking the service registration information registered in the database and the basic information such as whether the discount ticket is normal or not, and confirming whether it is normal and transferring it to the service logic (2). (2) The service logic executes user authentication on the user voucher information received through the service interworking module or service menu user screen, and provides the function of storing and managing the completed discount voucher. It provides additional services such as executing communication fee payment, transferring to a third party according to user's needs, or substituting for another product.

(3) The billing interlocking module is a module that provides interworking functions with the billing system of the telecommunications company. It is responsible for transmitting the minus (subtraction) information for each user. It is a user screen that provides various management environments such as management function, advertisement service management function, statistics function for each service, user information management, usage history management, deduction history management, transmission history management by user by telecommunication company, and so on. Each module stores and manages necessary information in association with (5) a database.

For new advertisements or events through the minus (deduction) service, advertisers or advertising agencies review illegal contents such as sensibility, gambling, etc. of advertisement contents in advance, and general matters such as service name, expiration time, execution company, etc. (4) After registering all execution information related to service such as execution budget, individual compensation amount, fee, VAT, etc. in the integrated deduction management system through the service menu user screen, assign and manage a new management ID for the corresponding service. It also manages statistical information such as the processing contents for each assigned service.

(2) The service logic of the integrated deduction management system generates and stores a discount ticket number to be provided to the individual based on the budget information for each service when the advertisement execution starts for the assigned advertisement service. The generated voucher number is (1) delivered to the advertising subject through the service linkage module or manually. The advertising subject executes the discount coupon to the user who participated in the event or advertisement, and when the license is registered in the integrated deduction management system, (2) the user is authenticated with the user information to be deducted from the service logic, and the support is accumulated to each individual as much as the discount amount of the license. The registration response informs the user of the total amount of support.

(4) When the user can search the accumulated information and the total amount information accumulated in the user through the service menu user screen, and wants to use the accumulated amount for the communication cost discount (2) Real-time negative per subscriber by the service logic ( Deduction) After generating the billing record, (3) the billing interworking module linked with each carrier billing system can transmit the negative billing record to the corresponding carrier.

In the case of a carrier billing system that does not allow real-time negative (deductible) billing according to the carrier's policy, or supports only a fixed amount of a certain amount (for example, 5,000 won per month) as of the present day (2) With reference to the deduction reserve for each user, the deduction request for the user will be settled by notifying the carrier through the billing linkage module.

The reserves accumulated to users can be discounted through the changed carrier even if the individual changes the carrier. (4) The user can transfer his accumulated amount to another user through the service menu user screen or other than the communication fee for his / her phone number. It can be used to discount the communication costs of phone numbers, and can be used as a means of payment for other purposes in addition to the communication costs if it is converted into a cyber money type that can be used in other internet portals such as shopping malls and the like connected with the integrated deduction management system. All such usage content information for each individual is inquired through (4) Service menu user screen.

The present invention allows the user to save on burdensome communication costs or even not spend at all, and the telecommunications company can be more free from the pressures required to preserve existing revenue and reduce the cost of communication costs from external organizations such as government or civic groups. ) A new revenue source, called advertising service settlement fee, is also created, and advertisers can receive discounts on communication costs as effective products for everyone.

1 is an overall service configuration diagram showing a linkage relationship between a user, an advertisement service server, a carrier billing system, and an integrated deduction management system.
2 illustrates the internal configuration of the integrated deduction management system.
3 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment of a service.
4 shows a user settlement processing flow chart.

As shown in the service implementation flow chart of [Figure 3], an advertiser or an advertising agency that wants to make an advertisement or a specific event through an internet advertisement or an app for a smartphone is provided to the integrated deduction management system proposed by the present invention. After registering the service information (1) and obtaining the preliminary deliberation, according to the total execution budget, the purchase request for the discounted discount ticket for the respective service will be requested (2). In response to a request for a voucher, the integrated deduction management system adds information such as the expiration time, expiration period, etc. to the service and issues a voucher for use (3) stores and manages the issued voucher information in a database. The discount voucher has a similar form to a coupon specified in numbers or letters, with necessary information such as related service information, deduction, expiration date, etc.

Using the discount coupon issued by the advertising agency or advertiser, an advertisement / event service similar to the example below is started.

Example 1) If the advertiser proceeds with a negative (event) ad event service that pays a communication fee of 500 won to everyone who creates a specific product ad as a smartphone app and installs and uses the app, integrated deduction management The discount ticket issued within the budget is distributed to the advertising subject through the system, and the advertising subject transmits the discount coupon issued by the integrated deduction management system and receives the discount right upon determining that the user has installed and used the app. One user can automatically access the integrated deduction management system by selecting the license, or manually access the integrated deduction management system by entering the Internet access address, and obtain the corresponding amount by entering the obtained discount number. can do.

Example 2) Integrated Advertisement Management System if Advertiser advertises certain product advertisements through the Internet and proceeds with a negative advertising discount service fee of 300 won for all those who access the non-raffle-type advertising page. The discount vouchers issued within the budget are distributed to the advertising subjects, and the advertising subjects judge the users who access the advertisements, send the discount vouchers issued by the integrated deduction management system, and the user who receives the discount vouchers You can select to automatically access the integrated deduction management system or enter the Internet access address and manually access the integrated deduction management system to obtain personal certification and enter the discount voucher number obtained to earn the amount.

Example 3) When a subscriber who subscribes to a newspaper or magazine with a smartphone receives a monthly service fee of KRW 3,000, the discount coupon issued within the budget is distributed to the advertising subject through the integrated deduction management system. Advertisers access the newspapers and magazines to determine whether they have been faithfully subscribed to them, and send discount coupons issued by the integrated deduction management system to those users. After accessing the system or manually accessing the integrated deduction management system by entering the Internet access address, the individual can obtain the corresponding amount by entering the obtained discount ticket number.

Example 4) When an event-based customer recruitment advertisement that requires the collection of personal information for insurance sales, the company provides a 5,000 won communication fee discount voucher to all those who provide personal information.

After the advertisement is started through the advertisement service server, when the advertisement user accesses the advertisement service server to use the advertisement service (advertisement) or participate in the event (5), the advertisement service server sends a discount coupon to the user (6). If the user selects a registration request for the transmitted voucher (7-1), the advertisement service server sends the user registration request to the integrated deduction management system (7-1). After verifying the discount voucher (8), the discount rate of the service, etc., whether the user is a normal user for the discounted phone number or not after the carrier and user authentication process (9) is registered (10) (11) If the user wants to register the discount voucher manually, access the integrated deduction management system and request the registration of the voucher voucher (7-2). Can be identified and the results confirm the rock (11-2), the registered information query request (12) to (13) the registered coupon list information.

When the settlement processing request (14) is requested to the carrier's negative (deduction) service for the registered discount coupon, the integrated deduction management system transmits the settlement result 16 to the user after completion of the settlement processing 15 according to [Figure 4]. In detail the settlement process of [Figure 4], the integrated deduction management system finds the carrier information on the telephone number (4) to confirm (5) and analyze the user's earned status and check the mutual amount from the available amount user Generates a charge record minus the amount of money and transmits it to the billing system of the affiliated telecommunication company. (7) When the processing result is received from the telecommunication company (8), the user is notified. After the settlement payment is made to the carrier, all processing of the negative charge is completed.

The deductions paid through active participation in various negative advertising services or events are deducted by sending negative billing information to the carrier's server at every registration of the discount ticket, or by deducting each deduction and earning a deduction for each deduction. The communication fee can be discounted by sending the payment to the carrier.

1. Service Information Registration (Service Provider Partner and Service Information Registration)
2. Purchase Request
3. Issuance of a discount ticket
4. Start advertising / event
5. Participate in user ads / events
6. Discount Vouchers
7. Registration of discount coupon
8. Discount voucher verification
9. User Authentication
10. Discount voucher registration
11 Send registration result
12. Discount voucher inquiry
13. Voucher inquiry response
14. Request for Settlement
15 Settlement Processing
16. Transmission of settlement results

Claims

In conjunction with the advertising service that provides advertisements or events in the form of users, online or mobile, or apps, and in conjunction with each carrier billing system, it can be used for payment of communication expenses by utilizing the benefits provided to users when participating in advertisements or events. Charge service method to do.

For services that register negative service information with the service provider in the same way as the additional service provided by the service provider and provide benefits to the user when the user uses the service, such as advertisements or events, the service server that provides the service A negative (deductible) billing information (billing record) that includes a deduction along with the number is transmitted and settled by deducting from the communication fee when the user charge is settled by the amount deducted for the user, or the user's phone number and the registered negative ( Deduction) Transfer only the service information of the service to the telecommunication company, and deduct from the communication fee or settle billing service when the user fee is settled by the amount of the deduction already registered with the corresponding service.

Service provider and service provider to register service information (minus) with the service provider in the same way as the additional service provided by the service provider, and to make it easier for service providers who provide benefits to the user when using the service, such as advertisements or events. Provides a user interface for registering and managing service information and granting to users, and issuing and managing negative (discount) "discount tickets" for each service and linking with registered services or using the issued discount tickets. Environment to verify the authenticity of the discount vouchers to be registered, to manage the registered discount vouchers for each user, and to receive negative (deductible) billing information (billing record) for the user as much as the discount amount accumulated in connection with each carrier. Integrated deduction management system to provide.

In the same way as the additional service provided by the service provider, the service server providing the service is registered with the service provider that provides negative service information to the service provider and provides benefits to the user when the user uses the service, such as advertising or events. It is linked with the management system and the integrated deduction management system is linked with each carrier billing system and transmits negative billing information (billing record) including the deduction amount along with the user's telephone number to each carrier billing system and sends it to the corresponding user. When calculating the user fee as much as the deducted amount, settled by deducting from the communication fee or transmitting only the user's phone number and service information of the pre-registered minus service to the telecommunications company and communicating when calculating the user fee by the amount deducted by the service Deduct from charges or charge.