KR20140125967A - Refuel reservation system and method - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a refueling reservation system and a method and, more specifically, a refueling reservation system capable of making reservation of refueling with an amount of oil to buy at the oil price of the day, making payment in advance, and refueling at the reserved oil price within a certain period of time and a method for the same. To that end, according to the present invention, the refueling reservation system includes: a user terminal with which a user inputs an amount of oil to buy at the oil price of the day, selects a gas station to buy oil, and make refueling reservation; and a refueling reservation server which receives the refueling reservation from the user terminal, processes payment, updates the refueling reservation data if a purchase occurs at the selected gas station, and notifies the user terminal about the remaining refueling amount of oil.

Description

{Refuel reservation system and method}

More particularly, the present invention relates to a system and method for reserving a lube oil reserving system that reserves a lube oil amount for a lump sum payment today and prepares it for payment, And methods.

It is becoming more and more burdensome to fuel the vehicle according to the high oil price era. Many people are sensitive to gasoline prices, so if you have a gas station in your area that has a low oil price, you often go to the gas station and put in oil.

However, for the user who puts in the oil, I want to use a lot of oil at the time when the gasoline price drops, but since the amount of oil to enter the vehicle is limited, it is not possible to buy the oil in advance. In addition, the gas station has advantages in terms of securing funding if the oil customer buys a large amount of oil at one time, regardless of the oil price.

However, current customers are not aware of reserving oil to get more oil in advance, in case there is only enough oil to enter their vehicle, in case of rising oil prices.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a gas filling reservation system and method in which a gas filling customer reserves gas and reserves gas within the gas booking period.

To this end, the fueling reservation system according to the present invention comprises a user terminal for inputting the amount of gasoline to be purchased at a gasoline price today, selecting a gasoline station for which the number of gasoline is expected to be purchased and reserving gasoline, And a gas booking server for updating the gas booking information when the number of units is generated and notifying the remaining amount of gasoline to the user terminal.

The reservation reservation server according to the present invention includes a reservation information management unit for providing booking information and service station information to a user terminal, a reservation management unit for receiving reservation information from the user terminal, And a message sending unit for notifying the remaining amount of gasoline to the user terminal when a purchase is made with respect to the main oil reserved by the user terminal.

The present invention also provides a method for reserving gasoline according to the present invention, comprising the steps of: providing gasoline ticket information and gasoline station information to a user terminal; inputting a gasoline amount and a gasoline number forecasting gasoline to buy from the user terminal; Requesting the settlement server to perform settlement according to the settlement request; and performing settlement processing and generating settlement reservation information through the settlement server.

The method includes the steps of receiving fueling ticket information and service station information from a fueling reservation server, inputting a gasoline amount to be purchased and a gas station expected to be purchased in a fueling market today, Requesting a billing server to charge a bill according to a quantity of fuel to be charged; and receiving a billing reservation code from the billing reservation server.

As described above, according to the present invention, since the user can determine the quantity of gasoline to be purchased at the gasoline price today and make reservations for gasoline, it is possible to secure a desired amount of gasoline at a desired price according to the fluctuating gasoline price. In addition, since the gas station purchases a large amount of oil at a time, the possibility of securing a large amount of money is increased.

In addition, customers can reserve gasoline at a fixed fuel price, so if the price of gas rises, the customer can benefit as the price rises. On the other hand, if the price falls, the price of gasoline can be benefited.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a gas filling reservation system according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001]
3 is an internal configuration diagram of a user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;
4 is a signal flow diagram between components in a gas booking system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. The configuration of the present invention and the operation and effect thereof will be clearly understood through the following detailed description. Before describing the present invention in detail, the same components are denoted by the same reference symbols as possible even if they are displayed on different drawings. In the case where it is judged that the gist of the present invention may be blurred to a known configuration, do.

1 shows a schematic configuration of a gas filling reservation system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a fueling reservation system is a user terminal 100. A booking reservation server 200, a payment server 300, a gas station terminal 400, and the like.

The user terminal 100 receives fueling information such as fueling ticket information and service station information from the fueling reservation server 200 and reserves the fueling. The user terminal 100 may input the amount of gasoline to be purchased at the gasoline price today and select the gasoline station where the number of gasoline is anticipated. As the user terminal 100, various devices such as a computer, a notebook, a tablet PC, and a smart phone can be used.

The gas booking server 200 receives the gas supply reservation from the user terminal 100, processes the settlement through the settlement server 300, and generates gas reservation information. The gas booking reservation server (200) updates the gas booking reservation information when the number of gas lots is generated, and notifies the user terminal (100) of the amount of gas to be used and the remaining gas amount.

When the settlement server 300 receives a settlement request for settlement reservation from the settlement reservation server 200, the settlement server 300 makes a settlement of the cost based on the amount of fuel and the amount of money to be bought and transmits the settlement processing result to the settlement reservation server 200. When the settlement server 300 receives a settlement request based on actual gasoline from the gas station terminal 400, the settlement server 300 confirms whether the gasoline is reserved or not, and transmits the reservation information of the reserved gasoline to the gasoline reservation server 200. The payment server 300 is a server operated by a bank or card company.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the lump reserving server 200 and the payment server 300 exist independently, but they can be integrally operated as one server.

The service station terminal 400 provides a payment request to the payment server 300 after providing gas as a terminal installed at a gas station. The gas station terminal 400 may be a card terminal, a computer, or the like.

The communication network for inter-component data communication in the luggage reservation system according to the embodiment of the present invention covers wired and wireless. The wired communication network includes xDSL, cable modem, optical LAN and Fiber To The Home (FTTH), and the wireless communication network includes communication methods and media of various generations including 2G, 3G, WiBro, LTE and WiFi.

FIG. 2 shows an internal configuration of a gas booking server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2, the luggage reservation server 200 includes a luggage information providing unit 202, a reservation managing unit 204, a message sending unit 206, and the like.

The fueling information providing unit 202 provides the user terminal 100 with information for reserving fuel. The fueling information providing unit 202 can provide fueling ticket information including current tickers and available service station information. The usable gas station is selected through agreement between the operator of the gas main reservation server 200 or the payment server 300 and the gas station.

The reservation management unit 204 receives the reservation for lubrication from the user terminal 100 and performs settlement processing to generate lubrication reservation information. The fueling reservation information includes a purchase price, which is a fuel purchase price, a fuel amount to be bought, a reservation information, a gas station expected to be purchased by the booking person, and the like. Herein, the reservation person information includes personal information such as a reservation person's name, a telephone number and a resident registration number, a gas booking code including a reservation number and the like, and a gas booking reservation expiration time.

When the settlement processing is completed, the reservation management unit 204 generates the main reservation information including the above-mentioned main reservation code and transfers the main reservation reservation code among them to the user terminal 100. [

In addition, the reservation managing unit 204 invalidates the amount of fuel injected when the amount of fuel that has not been exhausted remains until the expiration date of the fueling reservation. In order to prevent the unlimited use of the user from being held in accordance with the fluctuation of the gasoline consumption rate, the invalidation of the remaining amount of gasoline remaining until the expiration date with the gasoline expiration time is prevented.

In addition, the reservation management unit 204 receives the usage history from the payment server 300 and updates the booking reservation information when the reservation is made for the reserved money.

The message forwarding unit 206 receives the updated information from the reservation managing unit 204 and notifies the user terminal 100 of the amount of used fuel and the amount of remaining fuel when the fueling reservation information is updated when the number of fuel for the reserved fuel is generated. The user terminal 100 can confirm the amount of used fuel and the amount of remaining fuel by using a mail, a text message, a pop-up message, or the like.

3 illustrates an internal configuration of a user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3, the user terminal includes a display unit 10, an input unit 12, a communication unit 14, a memory 16, a control unit 18, and the like. The user terminal may be a smart phone or a tablet PC as well as a computer or a notebook.

The display unit 10 may be constituted by a display panel such as an LCD or an LED and the input unit 12 may be constituted by a keyboard, a keypad or a button. However, the display unit 10 such as a smart phone or a tablet PC, The display unit 10 and the input unit 12 may be integrally formed.

The display unit 10 according to the present invention displays a screen for reserving lubrication and displays various menus for confirming lubrication information and gas station information, inputting the amount of lubrication, and selecting a gas station. Also, the display unit 10 displays a message about the reserved gas utilization history sent from the gas supply reservation server 200. FIG.

The communication unit 14 is a part for performing data communication with the luggage reservation server 200. The communication unit 14 receives luggage charge information, gas station information, and the like from the luggage reservation server 200 and stores the amount of luggage to be bought in the luggage reservation server 100 And the like.

The memory 16 stores various programs and data. When the user terminal is a smart phone or a tablet PC, the memory 16 according to the present invention can store the reservation application. Also, the memory 16 can store the gas booking code generated by the gas booking server 200 when reserving the gas.

The control unit 18 controls the overall operation of the user terminal. The control unit 18 accesses the gas booking reservation server 200 via the communication unit 14 to display a screen for gas booking through the display unit 10 or executes the gas booking reservation application and displays the gas booking reservation screen Can be displayed.

The control unit 18 receives the amount of gasoline to be purchased and the estimated number of gas stations to be purchased at today's gasoline market through the input unit 12 and requests the gasoline booking server 200 through the communication unit 14 for the cost settlement based on the reservation. After completing the settlement processing, the control unit 18 receives the charge reservation code from the charge reservation server 200 via the communication unit 14 and stores it in the memory 16. [

FIG. 4 illustrates a signal flow between components in a fueling reservation system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, first, the user terminal 100 receives fueling ticket information and service station information from the fueling reservation server 200 (S10). After confirming the gasoline price and the gasoline station information, the user terminal 100 inputs the amount of gasoline to be purchased at the gasoline price today, selects the gasoline station expected to buy the gasoline, and reserves gasoline (S12). The user terminal 100 can access the website for reservation of luggage or execute the luggage reservation application to execute the luggage reservation. The period during which the user can make a reservation when the reservation is made, that is, the reservation expiration time is set to a default as a mandatory item or can be selected by the user.

Upon receipt of the lump reserving from the user terminal 100, the lump booking server 200 requests the payment server 300 to settle the lump sum payment date and the amount of money to be bought (S14). The payment server 300 executes settlement in response to the settlement request and transmits the settlement processing result to the oil reservation server 200 (S16).

When the settlement processing is completed, the gas booking reservation server 200 generates the gas booking reservation information, and at this time also generates the gas booking reservation code. The gas booking reservation server 200 transmits the generated gas reservation code to the user terminal 100 and the payment server 300 (S18, S19).

After completion of the gas filling reservation, the gas filling reservation person goes to the gas filling station selected by the user and supplies the gas filling reservation code to the gas station terminal 400 (S20). If the user terminal 100 is a portable device such as a smart phone, the charging reservation code is stored in the payment means, so that the charging reservation code can be inputted to the gas station terminal 400 immediately upon payment.

When the gas station terminal 400 receives the booking reservation code at the time of payment of the credit card or makes a payment request containing the reservation reservation code to the payment server 300 at the time of payment to the user terminal 100 (S22), the payment server 300 Confirms that the reserved gas is reserved and approves payment at the gas station terminal 400 (S24).

After the payment is approved, the payment server 300 notifies the usage history to the gas booking reservation server 200 (S26), and the gas booking reservation server 200 updates the gas booking reservation information in accordance with the usage history (S28). The gas booking reservation server 200 notifies the user terminal 100 of the amount of gasoline to be used and the remaining gasoline amount through mail or a text message according to the updating of the main reservation information (S30).

Also, the lump reserving server may notify the user terminal 100 of the guidance message about the lump reserving expiration time. When the expiration date of the gas storage reservation arrives, the remaining gas storage quantity is invalid and can not be used, so that a notice message can be periodically notified before the expiration of the expiration date to notify the use of the reserved gasoline amount.

In this way, the customer can reserve his / her desired gasoline price by using the same concept as the exchange rate reservation. If the current market price is higher than the buyer's price, the buyer will profit as much as the right price, and the bank, card company, gas station, etc. that sells will suffer losses. The amount of damages incurred at this time can be shared by the card company and the gas station agreement.

In addition, if the current market price is lower than the buyer's price, the buyer will suffer losses as much as the buyer's price, and the bank, card company, or gas station sold will profit. The profits generated at this time can be similarly distributed by the agreement between the card company and the gas station.

Meanwhile, the remittance method using the virtual account described above can be implemented by a software program and recorded on a predetermined recording medium readable by a computer.

For example, the recording medium may be a hard disk, a flash memory, a RAM, a ROM, or the like embedded in each reproduction apparatus, or an external optical disk such as a CD-R or a CD-RW, a compact flash card, a smart media, have.

In this case, the program recorded on the computer-readable recording medium may include the steps of: providing the user terminal with the gasoline ticket information and the gas station information; inputting the gasoline amount and the expected number of gas stations to be purchased from the user terminal, Requesting a settlement server to settle a cost based on the present day oil price and the amount of gasoline to be purchased; and performing a settlement processing through the settlement server and generating gas reservation information.

The program recorded on the computer-readable recording medium may further include the steps of receiving the gasoline ticket information and the gasoline station information from the gasoline reservation server, inputting the amount of gasoline to be purchased and the gasoline number expected to be purchased in the gasoline market today, Requesting a billing server to charge a bill according to an amount of money to be bought and a bill to be bought; and receiving a billing reservation code from the billing reservation server.

The functional operations and implementations described in the present specification may be embodied in digital electronic circuitry, computer software, firmware, or hardware, or a combination of any of the foregoing. The implementations described in the present disclosure may be implemented as one or more computer program products, that is, one or more modules associated with computer program instructions encoded on a program storage medium of the type for control of, or for execution by, Lt; / RTI >

While the drawings of the present invention depict operational processes, it should be understood that such operations should be performed in the order shown, in order to obtain the desired results, or that all illustrated operations should be performed. In certain cases, multitasking and parallel processing may be advantageous.

Further, specific embodiments have been described in the specification of the present invention. Embodiments are within the scope of the following claims. For example, the operations described in the claims may be performed in a different order, still achieving desirable results.

The foregoing description is merely illustrative of the present invention, and various modifications may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

Accordingly, the embodiments disclosed in the specification of the present invention are not intended to limit the present invention. The scope of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all the techniques within the scope of equivalents should be construed as being included in the scope of the present invention.

10: display section 12: input section
14: communication unit 16: memory
18: control unit 100: user terminal
200: gas supply reservation server 202: gas supply information provider
204: reservation management unit 206: message sending unit
300: Payment server 400: Service station terminal

Claims (13)

A user terminal for inputting an amount of gasoline to be purchased at a gasoline price today, selecting a gas station expected to be purchased and making gas booking,
And a lump-sum reservation server for updating the lump sum reservation information when the number of bills is generated at the selected gas station, and notifying the remaining amount of lump to the user terminal. A gasoline information providing unit for providing gasoline ticket information and gas station information to a user terminal,
A reservation management unit for receiving the amount of gasoline to be purchased from the user terminal for the present day gasoline price,
And a message sending unit for sending a remaining amount of gasoline to the user terminal when a number of pieces of gas oil reserved by the user terminal is generated. 3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein the reservation management unit generates a booking reservation code when the payment processing is completed and transmits a booking reservation code to the user terminal. 3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein the reservation management unit receives the fueling reservation expiration time from the user terminal and invalidates the fuel consumption amount that has not been exhausted until the expiration time. 3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein the reservation management unit receives the usage history from the payment server and updates the reservation information when the number of purchases of the service money reserved by the user terminal is generated. Providing petrol ticket information and service station information to a user terminal;
Receiving a gasoline amount to be purchased from the user terminal and a forecast gas station to be purchased at a gasoline market today;
Requesting the settlement server to settle the cost based on the present day oil price and the amount of gasoline to be purchased;
And making payment processing through the payment server and generating booking reservation information. The method according to claim 6,
Wherein the step of generating the main reservation information comprises generating a main reservation code and transmitting a main reservation code to the user terminal and the payment server. The method according to claim 6,
Receiving a usage history from the payment server when a purchase is made with respect to a bus reserved by the user terminal;
Updating the booking reservation information according to the usage history;
Further comprising the step of notifying the user terminal of the remaining amount of fuel injected in accordance with the updating of the main reservation information. The method according to claim 6,
Further comprising the step of storing the main reservation reservation expiration time as a default or recording the main reservation reservation expiration time as default and invalidating the remaining service amount when there is an unused consumption amount until the expiration time . 10. The method according to claim 9, further comprising the step of notifying the user terminal of the fueling use guide when the fueling amount remains before the arrival time of the fueling reservation. Receiving petrol ticket information and service station information from a gas booking server;
A step of inputting a gasoline amount to be purchased at a gasoline price today, and a gas station expected to be purchased,
Requesting the gas filling reservation server to settle a cost based on the present day gasoline price and the amount of gasoline to be purchased;
And receiving a booking reservation code from the booking reservation server. 12. The method of claim 11,
Further comprising the step of receiving a used amount of fuel and a remaining amount of fuel supplied from the fueling reservation server when the number of fuel for the reserved fuel is generated. A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for executing the method according to any one of claims 6 to 12.

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