KR20140086809A - Method and server of providing membership service - Google Patents

Abstract

In a method for a membership service providing server connected to a user terminal to provide a membership service, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method for providing a membership service, including the steps of: a) receiving a membership service application request including user information from a user terminal; b) receiving and registering representative card information of a representative card used in a membership service from the user terminal; c) receiving affiliated company selection information of an affiliated company which is to be provided with the membership service through the representative card among a plurality of affiliated companies which is provided with the membership service, from the user terminal; d) matching and storing the user information, the affiliated company selection information and the representative card information; and e) providing at least one of point and coupon provided from the affiliated company for a user according to the user information, if a membership service request is received through the representative card from an affiliated company server corresponding to the affiliated company selection information.

Description

[0001] METHOD AND SERVER OF PROVIDING MEMBERSHIP SERVICE [0002]

The present invention relates to a membership service providing method and server, and more particularly, to a membership service providing method and server for providing a membership service through a representative card.

In recent years, as a variety of cards such as credit cards, traffic cards, check cards, and cash cards have become popular, the number of users holding cards rather than cash is increasing. This is because if the banknotes or coins are carried, the thickness and weight of the wallet increase, which is not only inconvenient, but also loses or stolen. As a result, users are more likely to use cards that are easier to hold than cash, that are utilized by multiple vendors, and that offer a variety of benefits.

However, users have too many cards, such as credit cards, check cards, and prepaid cards, as well as card type ID cards, membership cards issued by various companies, point cards, etc., And it was avoided to carry except traffic card and credit card which use frequency frequently. Accordingly, in a company that issues a membership card, a membership card, a point card, etc., it is difficult to attract a customer while paying only the cost of issuing the card, and users are also less likely to enjoy benefits such as accumulating points or issuing coupons.

In addition, although the card company provides some services for managing the membership or points of a plurality of affiliates with a single card, in this case, since there is an inconvenience of issuing a separate card, the user to be used is limited, There is a problem that the card issuing cost must be paid.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a membership service through a registered representative card when a representative card among cards held by a user is registered.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing a membership service by a membership service providing server connected to a user terminal, the method comprising the steps of: a) receiving a membership service subscription request including user information from the user terminal Receiving; b) receiving from the user terminal representative card information of a representative card used in the membership service and registering the representative card information; c) receiving, from the user terminal, affiliate selection information of an affiliate to receive the membership service through the representative card among a plurality of affiliates provided with the membership service; d) matching and storing the user information, the affiliate selection information, and the representative card information; And e) when a membership service request through the representative card is received from an affiliate server corresponding to the affiliate selection information, providing at least one of points and coupons provided by the affiliate to a user according to the user information , And a method of providing a membership service.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the step b) includes: receiving the representative card information; Receiving from the card issuer server corresponding to the representative card information whether the representative card information is valid; And determining whether to register the representative card according to whether the representative card information is valid or not.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the step (c) includes: receiving affiliate member subscription information for subscription of the affiliate company corresponding to the affiliate company selection information from the user terminal; And transmitting the affiliate member subscription information to the affiliate server.

In one embodiment of the present invention, when the change occurs in at least one of the point provided to the user and the coupon, the method further comprises providing the change information of the point and the coupon to the user terminal can do.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the method includes receiving a request to transmit usage history information of the point and coupon from the user terminal; And providing usage history information of the user's point and coupon corresponding to the user information to the user terminal.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the representative card may be a plurality of representative cards.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the step d) may include collectively storing and storing the user information, the affiliate information according to the affiliate selection information, and a plurality of representative card information.

In one embodiment of the present invention, in the step e), when a membership service request is received from the affiliate server through one of the plurality of representative cards, the representative card requesting the membership service is transmitted to the affiliate server Confirming that it matches the affiliate corresponding to the affiliate; And providing at least one of the points and coupons provided by the partner company to the user if the membership service request representative card and the affiliate partner are matched as a result of the checking.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the collectively matching and storing step includes a case where a single affiliate matching only one representative card among affiliates according to the affiliate selection information is included, Information and representative card information of any one of the plurality of representative cards.

In one embodiment of the present invention, any one of the plurality of representative cards is set according to the representative representative card selection information received through the user terminal.

Meanwhile, the recording medium providing the membership service of the present invention for solving the above-mentioned problems can execute the method according to any one of the above-mentioned steps.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a membership service providing server connected to a user terminal for providing a membership service, the membership service providing server including: a membership service subscription request receiving unit for receiving a membership service subscription request including user information from the user terminal; A representative card information registration unit for receiving and registering representative card information of a representative card used for the membership service from the user terminal; An affiliate selection information receiver for receiving affiliate selection information of an affiliate to receive the membership service through the representative card among a plurality of affiliate companies provided with the membership service from the user terminal; An information storage unit for matching and storing the user information, the affiliate selection information, and the representative card information; And a membership service providing unit for providing at least one of points and coupons provided by the partner company to a user according to the user information when a membership service request through the representative card is received from the affiliate server corresponding to the affiliate selection information, , And a membership service providing server.

In another embodiment of the present invention, when the representative card information is received, the representative card information registration unit registers the representative card information validity information indicating whether the representative card information is valid from the card issuer server corresponding to the representative card information Verification unit; And a representative card registration determination unit for determining whether to register the representative card according to whether the representative card information is valid or not.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the affiliate selection information receiving unit receives affiliate member subscription information for subscription of the affiliate company corresponding to the affiliate company selection information from the user terminal, and transmits the affiliate member subscription information to the affiliate company And an affiliate member subscription information transmitting and receiving unit for transmitting the affiliate member subscription information to the server.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the membership service providing unit may transmit the change information of the point and the coupon to the user terminal when a change occurs in at least one of the point and the coupon provided to the user. And a change information providing unit for providing the change information.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the membership service providing unit, when receiving a request to transmit the usage history information of the points and coupons from the user terminal, transmits to the user terminal the points and coupons corresponding to the user information And a usage history information providing unit for providing usage history information.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the representative card may be a plurality of representative cards.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the storage unit may collectively store the user information, the affiliate information according to the affiliate selection information, and the plurality of representative card information.

In another embodiment of the present invention, when the membership service providing unit receives a membership service request through the representative card of the plurality of representative cards from the affiliate server, the representative card, which requests the membership service, And if at least one of the points and coupons provided by the partner company is provided to the user if the membership service request representative card and the affiliate partner are matched as a result of the checking, have.

In another embodiment of the present invention, when a single affiliate matching only one representative card among affiliates according to the affiliate selection information is included, the storage unit stores the information of the single affiliate into the user information and the plurality of And match the representative card information of any one of the representative cards.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the storage unit is characterized in that any one of the plurality of representative cards matched with the single affiliate is determined according to the representative representative card selection information received through the user terminal .

According to the embodiment of the present invention, since the representative card among the cards held by the user is registered by the user and the membership service is provided using the registered representative card, the separate card is not issued, Can be saved.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a plurality of representative card information and one or more affiliate company selection information can be collectively matched and registered without a complicated procedure in which a user has to register a plurality of representative cards and affiliates one by one, The convenience of the user can be increased.

It should be understood that the effects of the present invention are not limited to the above effects and include all effects that can be deduced from the detailed description of the present invention or the configuration of the invention described in the claims.

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a membership service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG.
2 is a configuration diagram illustrating a configuration of a membership service providing server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a membership service according to another embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. In order to clearly illustrate the present invention, parts not related to the description are omitted, and similar parts are denoted by like reference characters throughout the specification.

Throughout the specification, when a part is referred to as being "connected" to another part, it includes not only "directly connected" but also "indirectly connected" . Also, when an element is referred to as "comprising ", it means that it can include other elements, not excluding other elements unless specifically stated otherwise.

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

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a membership service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG.

Referring to FIG. 1, a membership service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a membership service providing server 100, a user terminal 200, a card issuing server 300, and an affiliate server 400.

The user terminal 200 transmits a membership service subscription request including user information to the membership service providing server 100. At this time, the user terminal 200 may be implemented as a computer or a portable terminal that can be connected to the membership service providing server 100, which is a remote server through a network. Here, the computer includes, for example, a notebook computer, a desktop computer, a laptop computer, and the like, each of which is equipped with a web browser (WEB Browser), and the portable terminal may be a wireless communication device , Personal Communication System (PCS), Global System for Mobile communications (GSM), Personal Digital Cellular (PDC), Personal Handyphone System (PHS), Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), International Mobile Telecommunication (IMT) Based wireless communication device such as a wireless communication device, a wireless communication device, a wireless communication device, a wireless communication device, a wireless communication device, a wireless communication device, a wireless communication device, a wireless communication device, a wireless communication device, .

When the membership service providing server 100 receives a membership service subscription request including user information, the membership service subscription procedure can be started.

The user terminal 200 transmits the representative card information of the representative card to be used in the membership service to the membership service providing server 100. The representative card is a card for using the membership service, Lt; / RTI >

At this time, the representative card may include one of a credit card, a check card, a prepaid card, a membership card, and a point card. For example, the user selects a card to be used most frequently among the cards registered by the user as a representative card, and transmits information of the representative card to the membership service providing server 100 through the user terminal 200 .

Hereinafter, the representative card in the present specification refers to a representative card registered by a user in order to receive a membership service provided by a plurality of matching affiliates.

According to one embodiment, if there are a plurality of representative cards selected by the user for receiving the membership service, the user terminal 200 may transmit a plurality of representative card information to the membership service providing server 100 Can be transmitted and registered.

The membership service providing server 100 transmits the representative card information of the representative card used for the membership service to the card issuer server 300 to check whether the representative card information is valid, , And can be registered as a representative card for providing membership service.

At this time, if there are a plurality of representative cards selected by the user as described above, the membership service providing server 100 can receive information of a plurality of cards as representative card information, and the card company server 300 corresponding to representative card information A plurality of representative cards can be registered according to the result of checking whether the received card information is valid or not. If invalid card information is included in a plurality of representative card information, the card may not be registered as a representative card, and an error message for the card may be transmitted to the user terminal 200.

The availability of the representative card information can be determined by the card issuer server 300 corresponding to the representative card information. The card issuer server 300 can determine whether the representative card information is valid by using the unique card number, the card company information, the CVC number, and the like included in the representative card information, and transmit the result to the membership service providing server 100 .

The user terminal 200 may select an affiliate to receive the membership service through the representative card among a plurality of affiliates for which the membership service is provided, and may transmit the affiliate selection information to the membership service providing server 100. For example, if there are five affiliates to be used by the user among the plurality of affiliates providing the membership service, the affiliate selection information may be transmitted to the membership service providing server 100 ).

At this time, the affiliate selection information may include affiliate member registration information for membership of the affiliate company. The membership service providing server 100 transmits the affiliate member registration information to the affiliate server 400 of the affiliate company, Can also proceed with the membership process.

When the membership service providing server 100 receives the affiliate selection information of an affiliate to be provided with the membership service, the membership service providing server 100 stores the user information, affiliate selection information, and representative card information in a matching manner.

At this time, if the user registers a plurality of representative cards in the membership service providing server 100, the plurality of registered representative cards and the affiliates to receive the membership service can be matched and registered.

The membership service providing server 100 may collectively match one or more of the affiliate company information included in the user information, the affiliate selection information, and the plurality of representative card information so as to match each other. Thereafter, the matching result information in which the user information, the affiliate selection information, and the representative card information are matched can be transmitted to the user terminal.

For example, if the affiliate that user A has registered is A, B, and C, and the representative card is a representative card, I, D, line, the affiliate A, B, and C and representative card A, B, Can be matched. That is, the affiliate A and the representative card can be stored in a batch matching manner with the representative card A, the partner B, the representative card B, the partner C, the partner C, and the representative card.

Meanwhile, when a single affiliate company matching only one representative card among the affiliate companies selected according to the affiliate selection information selected by the user in order to receive the membership service is included, the single affiliate company may select any one of the registered plural representative cards Representative card) of the user.

On the other hand, when the membership service providing server 100 receives a membership service request from the affiliate server corresponding to the affiliate selection information, using the representative card, the membership service providing server 100 provides the membership service, that is, at least one of points and coupons of the affiliated company. At least one of the provided points and coupons is accumulated for each user, and the points and coupons that are accumulated later can be used by the user at the affiliate company.

The membership service request may be received by the membership service providing server 100 from the affiliate server 400 when the user wants to receive the membership service using the representative card in the partner company corresponding to the affiliate selection information. At this time, the membership service request may include, but is not limited to, a payment request using a representative card at an affiliate company.

Then, the user terminal 200 accesses the membership service providing server 100, and can check the points and coupon details, used points and coupon details accumulated in the user.

2 is a configuration diagram illustrating a configuration of a membership service providing server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2, a membership service providing server 100 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a membership service subscription request receiving unit 110, a representative card information registering unit 120, an affiliate selection information receiving unit 130, a storage unit 140 and a membership service provider 150.

The membership service subscription request receiving unit 110 receives a membership service subscription request including user information from a user terminal.

The representative card information registration unit 120 receives and registers the representative card information of the representative card to be used for the membership service from the user terminal. As described above, the representative card is a card for using the membership service. The representative card can designate at least one of the cards held by the user as a representative card and register the card. Here, when there are a plurality of cards designated by the user as representative cards, information of a plurality of designated cards may be registered as representative card information.

At this time, the representative card information may include a unique card number of the card, card company information, a CVC number, and the like. For example, in order to select a plurality of cards among the cards held by the user and to enter the card number 16, the card company information, and the CVC information of the corresponding cards in order to register the card as the representative card, 120 < / RTI >

The representative card information registration unit 120 may receive selection information on a card to be used as a main representative card among a plurality of representative cards from the user terminal and store the representative representative card selection information together with the representative card information.

The representative card information registration unit 120 may include a representative card information validity confirmation unit (not shown) and a representative card registration determination unit (not shown).

When the representative card information validity confirmation unit receives the representative card information from the user terminal, the representative card information validity confirmation unit sends a confirmation request as to whether the representative card information is valid to a card company server (not shown) corresponding to the representative card information, Is valid or not. At this time, when there are a plurality of representative card information, the representative card information validity confirmation unit can receive whether or not each representative card information is valid from each of the card company servers corresponding to the received plurality of representative card information.

The representative card registration decision section can decide whether to register the representative card according to whether the representative card information is valid or not.

If the representative card information transmitted by the user terminal is valid according to the result of checking the validity of the representative card information transmitted from the card company server, the representative card registration decision section registers the card corresponding to the representative card information transmitted from the user terminal as a representative card And if the representative card information is not valid, an error message can be transmitted to the user terminal.

When there are a plurality of representative cards, the representative card registration decision section may transmit the error message of the corresponding card to the user terminal if the card information that is not valid among the plurality of representative card information is included, have.

As described above, only when representative card information among a plurality of representative card information is valid, the card can be registered as a representative card.

The affiliate selection information receiving unit 130 receives selection information of an affiliate to be provided with a membership service through a representative card among a plurality of affiliates to which the membership service is provided from the user terminal.

The affiliate selection information receiving unit 130 may further include an affiliate member subscription information transmitting / receiving unit (not shown).

The affiliate member subscription information transmitting and receiving unit may receive the affiliate member subscription information for membership of the affiliate company corresponding to the affiliate selection information from the user terminal and transmit the affiliate member subscription information to the affiliate server of the affiliate company.

For example, the user transmits agreement information on 'contract / personal information' of the affiliate company selected by the user through the user terminal and membership subscription information for subscription to the affiliate company of the affiliate company to the membership service providing server 100, Of the membership process. Accordingly, the user can join the affiliate company corresponding to the affiliate selection information through the simple procedure, and receive the membership service of the affiliate company.

The storage unit 140 stores and stores user information, affiliate selection information, and representative card information.

When there are a plurality of representative card information received in the representative card information registration unit 120, the storage unit 140 may collectively store the user information, the affiliate information according to the affiliate selection information, and a plurality of representative card information. For example, if a plurality of representative cards are cards 1, 2, and 3, and the affiliates to receive the membership service are partners A, B, and C, cards 1, 2, and 3 and the partners A, B, have. That is, the card 1 and the partners A, B, C, the card 2, and the partners A, B, C and the card 3 and the partners A, B, C can be collectively matched and stored.

Meanwhile, when a single affiliate company capable of matching only one representative card among affiliates according to affiliate selection information is included, a single affiliate company can be matched with only one representative card among a plurality of registered representative card information. For example, if the plurality of representative cards are cards 1, 2, and 3, and the affiliates selected as affiliates to receive the membership service are A, B, and C, and the affiliate A is a single affiliate that can match only a single card, Only cards 1, 2, and 3 can be matched. That is, cards 1, 2, and 3 may be registered in Affiliate A, Affiliates B and C,

At this time, the card 1 may be a card set as a main representative card by the user or the membership service providing server 100 among the representative cards.

For example, when the user selects a representative card among the cards held by the user, the user selects one of the selected representative cards as the representative representative card and registers the selected representative card together with the representative card information in the membership service providing server 100 .

In addition, the membership service providing server 100 can automatically set any one of the plurality of representative cards registered in the card use frequency order, the registration time order, and the like as the representative representative card. The membership service providing server 100 can determine the representative card that is the most used among the plurality of representative cards registered as the representative card or the representative card that is registered first by the user among the plurality of representative cards.

Meanwhile, whether the affiliate company is a single affiliate company can be checked in real time through the affiliate server, or the membership service providing server 100, which receives and manages the single affiliate list information in advance, can directly check whether the affiliate company is a single affiliate.

Meanwhile, when a plurality of representative card information and affiliate information according to affiliate selection information are collectively matched by the storage unit 140, the membership service providing server 100 transmits matching result information between a plurality of representative cards and an affiliate to a user And the user terminal can display the received matching result information on the screen in the form of an SMS, a push message, a pop-up, or the like.

If the single affiliate information is included in the affiliate selection information, the membership service providing server 100 may separately transmit the matching result information matching the primary representative card and the single affiliate to the user terminal.

As in the above example, if the affiliate A is a single affiliate and only the card 1 is matched, the matching result information of the card 1 and the affiliate A may be separately transmitted to the user terminal and a pop-up screen may be displayed. At this time, the user can confirm that the card 1 and the partner A match through the screen of the user terminal. If the user wants to match another card with the partner A, which is a single affiliate, And transmits a change request to the membership service providing server 100 to allow the affiliate A and other representative cards to match with each other.

For example, after the user confirms the matching result of the card 1 and the single affiliate A on the pop-up window displayed on the user terminal, selects the 'change button' displayed on the pop-up window and selects the card 2, To be matched.

As described above, according to the present invention, since a plurality of registered representative cards and one or more affiliate companies to receive the membership service are collectively matched, a complicated procedure of matching each card and various affiliates one by one is omitted, The membership service for the affiliated company can be matched, and the convenience of the user can be increased.

When the membership service request from the affiliate server corresponding to the affiliate selection information is received, the membership service provider 150 provides at least one of the membership service, that is, the coupon and the point, to the corresponding user. For example, if a user requests payment using a membership service from an affiliate selected by his / her selected representative card, he / she can use a point provided by the affiliate or pay a portion of the payment using the earned points If you have a discount coupon, you can use the discount coupon to pay the discounted amount.

If there are a plurality of registered representative cards and a payment request is made by an affiliated company matched with the representative card through any one of the plurality of representative cards in which the user is registered, the affiliate server corresponding to the affiliated company for which payment is requested, And may transmit a membership service request through the representative card of the plurality of representative cards to the membership service provider 150.

The membership service provider 150 checks whether the affiliate information corresponding to the affiliate server that transmitted the membership service request is matched with the information of the representative card requested for payment, and transmits at least one of points and coupons provided by the affiliate company Can be provided to the user.

The membership service provider 150 may include a change information providing unit (not shown) and a use history information providing unit (not shown).

The change information providing unit may provide the change information of the points and coupons to the user terminal when a change occurs in at least one of the points and coupons provided to the user. That is, the change information providing unit may provide the change information of the points and coupons to the user terminal when the change occurs by accumulating or using the points or coupons by the user when using the membership service through the representative card in the affiliate company .

The usage history information providing unit may provide the user's point and coupon usage history information corresponding to the user information to the user terminal upon receiving the membership service, that is, the request to transmit the usage history information of points and coupons from the user terminal. For example, when a user requests at least one usage history information among a coupon and a point accumulated in the web page associated with the membership service through the user terminal, the coupon and the point status information accumulated in the user, Information can be received.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a membership service according to another embodiment of the present invention.

When the membership service providing server 100 receives a membership service subscription request including user information from the user terminal 200 (S310), the membership service subscription procedure may be started (S311).

The membership service providing server 100 receives the representative card information to be used for the membership service from the user terminal 200 in operation S320 and displays the validity of the representative card information in the card company server 300 corresponding to the received representative card information (S321). At this time, the representative card information may include a card number, card company information, CVC number, and the like.

At this time, when there are a plurality of representative cards, the membership service providing server 100 can receive a plurality of representative card information from the user terminal 200 (S320), and the card company server 300 corresponding to a plurality of representative card information It is possible to request confirmation of whether the representative card information is valid or not (S321).

The card issuer server 300 determines whether the representative card information is valid (S322). For example, the card issuer server 300 compares the representative card information including the unique card number with the card information stored in the card company server to check whether the user matches, whether the unique card number is valid, Can be determined.

Thereafter, the card issuer server 300 transmits the validity of the representative card information to the membership service providing server 100 (S323).

Upon receiving the validity of the representative card information, the membership service providing server 100 determines whether to register the representative card according to whether the representative card information is valid or not (S324). That is, the membership service providing server 100 registers the representative card information as a representative card if the representative card information is valid, and does not register it.

When there are a plurality of representative card information, validity of each of the representative card information is received from each of the card issuer server 300, the card in which the representative card information is valid is registered as a representative card, and the other cards are not registered. At this time, the membership service providing server 100 can transmit an error message to the user terminal 200 if the representative card information is not valid.

The user terminal 200 selects an affiliate to receive the membership service through a representative card among a plurality of affiliates provided with the membership service, and transmits the affiliate selection information to the membership service providing server 100 at step S330.

At this time, the user terminal 200 can transmit the affiliate member subscription information for subscription to the affiliate company corresponding to the affiliate selection information together with the affiliate selection information. For example, the user terminal 200 transmits the agreement / personal information agreement information of the affiliate company and the affiliation member subscription information for membership to the affiliate company to the membership service providing server 100, Can be processed.

The membership service providing server 100 may transmit the affiliate member subscription information received from the user terminal 200 to the affiliate server 400 of the affiliate company at step S331.

The affiliate server 400 may subscribe the user as a member based on the received affiliate member subscription information (S332).

Then, the membership service providing server 100 stores user information, affiliate selection information, and representative card information in a matching manner (S340).

The membership service providing server 100 may collectively store user information, affiliate information according to affiliate selection information, and a plurality of representative card information. If a single affiliate company that can match only one representative card among affiliates corresponding to affiliate selection information is included, only one representative card information of a plurality of representative card information may be matched to each other in a single affiliate information .

At this time, the representative card matched with the single affiliate may be the main representative card pre-selected by the user, or the membership service providing server 100 may select any representative card among the plurality of representative cards as the representative representative card, Can be matched with information.

The membership service providing server 100 may transmit the matching result information matched with the user information, representative card information, and affiliate selection information to the user terminal 200.

When the membership service providing server 100 receives a membership service request through the representative card from the affiliate server 400 of the partner company corresponding to the affiliate selection information (S350), the membership service providing server 100 provides at least one of the points and coupons to the user ).

In a case where a plurality of representative cards registered by the user are requested, a payment request is made by an affiliate matching one of the representative cards through any of the representative cards of the plurality of representative cards. In this case, The service provider can confirm whether or not the affiliate information corresponding to the affiliate server and the representative card information requested for payment are matched and then provide at least one of the points and coupons provided by the affiliate company to the user S360).

The membership service providing server 100 may provide the user terminal 200 with information on the change of points and coupons or usage history information. Specifically, when the membership service providing server 100 generates a change in at least one of the points and coupons provided to the user, the membership service providing server 100 may transmit the change information of the points and coupons to the user terminal 200. In addition, upon receiving a request for transferring the usage history information of points and coupons from the user terminal 200, the user terminal 200 can provide the user's point and coupon usage history information corresponding to the user information.

According to the present invention, a membership card can be conveniently provided to a plurality of affiliated companies by registering a representative card of one of the cards used by the user for using the membership service. In addition, since a separate card issuance is not required in order to receive the membership service, the credit card company can reduce the manufacturing cost of the card.

Meanwhile, the membership service providing server 100 allows the user to select an affiliate to be provided with the membership service, so that the membership service providing server 100 does not provide all of the membership services for affiliates provided with the membership service, Service can be provided.

Also, it is convenient to collectively register and register a plurality of representative card information and one or more affiliate company selection information without complicated procedure of registering and matching the card and the affiliated company one by one.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the foregoing description of the present invention is for illustrative purposes only and that those of ordinary skill in the art can readily understand that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics of the present invention. will be. It is therefore to be understood that the above-described embodiments are illustrative in all aspects and not restrictive. For example, each component described as a single entity may be distributed and implemented, and components described as being distributed may also be implemented in a combined form.

The scope of the present invention is defined by the appended claims, and all changes or modifications derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and their equivalents should be construed as being included within the scope of the present invention.

100: Membership service providing server
110: Membership Service Subscription Request Receiver
120: Representative card information register
130: Affiliate selection information receiver
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150: Membership Service Offering
200: user terminal
300: Card issuer server
400: Affiliate Server

Claims (21)

A method for providing a membership service by a membership service providing server connected to a user terminal,
a) receiving a membership service subscription request including user information from the user terminal;
b) receiving and registering representative card information of a representative card used in the membership service from the user terminal;
c) receiving, from the user terminal, affiliate selection information of an affiliate to receive the membership service through the representative card among a plurality of affiliates provided with the membership service;
d) matching and storing the user information, the affiliate selection information, and the representative card information; And
e) providing at least one of points and coupons provided by the partner company to a user according to the user information when a membership service request through the representative card is received from an affiliate server corresponding to the affiliate selection information, How to provide membership service.
The method according to claim 1,
The step b)
Receiving the representative card information from the user terminal;
Receiving from the card issuer server corresponding to the representative card information whether the representative card information is valid; And
And determining whether to register the representative card according to whether the representative card information is valid or not.
The method according to claim 1,
The step c)
Receiving affiliate member subscription information for subscription of the affiliate company corresponding to the affiliate company selection information from the user terminal; And
And transmitting the affiliate member subscription information to the affiliate server.
The method according to claim 1,
Further comprising the step of providing the user terminal with the point information and the change information of the coupon when a change occurs in at least one of the point provided to the user and the coupon.
The method according to claim 1,
Receiving a request to transmit usage history information of the point and coupon from the user terminal; And
And providing the user terminal with usage history information of the user's points and coupons corresponding to the user information.
The method according to claim 1,
And a plurality of representative cards are provided.
The method according to claim 6,
The step d)
Collectively storing and storing the user information, affiliate information according to the affiliate selection information, and the plurality of representative card information.
8. The method of claim 7,
The step e)
Confirming whether a representative card requesting the membership service is matched with an affiliate company corresponding to the affiliate server, upon receiving a membership service request from the affiliate server through the representative card of the plurality of representative cards; And
And providing at least one of the points and coupons provided by the affiliate company to the user if the membership service request representative card and the affiliate partner are matched as a result of the checking.
8. The method of claim 7,
Wherein the collectively matching and storing comprises:
The information of the single affiliate company is matched with any one of the representative card information of the user information and the plurality of representative cards when the single affiliate company that matches only one representative card of the affiliate selection information is included The method comprising:
10. The method of claim 9,
Wherein one of the plurality of representative cards comprises:
Wherein the main representative card selection information is determined according to the main representative card selection information received through the user terminal.
A computer-readable recording medium on which a program for executing the method according to any one of claims 1 to 10 is recorded.
1. A membership service providing server connected to a user terminal for providing a membership service,
A membership service subscription request receiving unit for receiving a membership service subscription request including user information from the user terminal;
A representative card information registration unit for receiving and registering representative card information of a representative card used for the membership service from the user terminal;
An affiliate selection information receiver for receiving affiliate selection information of an affiliate to receive the membership service through the representative card among a plurality of affiliate companies provided with the membership service from the user terminal;
A storage unit for matching and storing the user information, the affiliate selection information, and the representative card information; And
And a membership service providing unit for providing at least one of points and coupons provided by the partner company to a user according to the user information when a request for membership service through the representative card is received from an affiliate server corresponding to the affiliate selection information, Membership service provision server.
13. The method of claim 12,
Wherein the representative card information registration unit comprises:
A representative card information validity confirmation unit for receiving, when the representative card information is received, whether the representative card information is valid from a card company server corresponding to the representative card information; And
And a representative card registration determination unit for determining whether the representative card is registered according to whether the representative card information is valid or not.
13. The method of claim 12,
Wherein the affiliate selection information receiver comprises:
And an affiliate member subscription information transmitting / receiving unit for receiving the affiliate member subscription information for membership of the affiliate company corresponding to the affiliate selection information from the user terminal and transmitting the affiliate member subscription information to the affiliate server server.
13. The method of claim 12,
The membership service providing unit,
And a change information providing unit for providing the change information of the point and the coupon to the user terminal when a change occurs in at least one of the point provided to the user and the coupon.
13. The method of claim 12,
The membership service providing unit,
And a usage history information providing unit for providing usage history information of the user's point and coupon corresponding to the user information to the user terminal upon receiving a request to transmit the usage history information of the point and coupon from the user terminal, Service delivery server.
13. The method of claim 12,
And a plurality of representative cards are provided.
18. The method of claim 17,
Wherein,
And stores the user information, the affiliate information according to the affiliate selection information, and the plurality of representative card information in a batch matching manner.
19. The method of claim 18,
The membership service providing unit,
When a request for membership service through one representative card among the plurality of representative cards from the affiliate server is received, it is checked whether a representative card requesting the membership service is matched with an affiliate company corresponding to the affiliate server, And provides at least one of the points and coupons provided by the affiliate service provider to the user if the membership service request representative card and the affiliate partner are matched.
19. The method of claim 18,
Wherein,
Matching the information of the single affiliate company with any one of the representative card information of the user information and the plurality of representative cards when a single affiliate company matching only one representative card of the affiliate companies according to the affiliate selection information is included Features a membership service server.
21. The method of claim 20,
Wherein,
Wherein the determining step determines one of the plurality of representative cards matched with the single affiliate card according to the representative representative card selection information received through the user terminal.

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