KR20150008207A - Electronic Device for Selling Articles Automatically and System for Selling Articles Automatically Using the Same - Google Patents
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an electronic device for selling unattended articles and a method for selling unattended articles using the same, and more specifically, a unique identification code assigned to each article is transmitted to an approval server to determine whether or not the article is to be accessed, And more particularly, to an electronic apparatus for selling unattended articles and a method for selling unattended articles using the same. The electronic device includes a unique identification code assigned to the article; A code reader capable of wirelessly reading a unique identification code; And a control device for deciding whether or not to access each article, wherein the code reader is capable of communicating with an approval server, in which information related to a unique identification code is stored through an electronic device in which the code reader itself or a code reader is installed, Whether or not the access to the article is permitted is transmitted from the approval server to the control device through a code reader or an electronic device, and the control device has information for identifying the unique identification code transmitted to the initial code reader.
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The present invention relates to an electronic apparatus for selling unattended articles and a system for selling unattended articles using the same, and more particularly, to a system for transmitting a unique identification code given to each article to a purchasing server, And an unmanned article sales system using the electronic apparatus.
Various devices or systems for unattended sales along with the development of electronic technology are known. Unmanned sales technology started from a vending machine and expanded to various types of merchandise sales. In addition to the development of an electronic payment system, various payment methods have been applied to unattended sales. Commodities that can be applied to unattended sales range from tangible goods to intangible goods. In the case of an intangible article, it is generally possible to store it in a medium, and if it can be transmitted in the form of an electrical signal, the communication means is used as the transport means and the billing system is applied separately. On the other hand, the type of goods should be made in the form of a vending machine or a special type of exhibition space and payment system should be prepared.
As a prior art related to unmanned sales, Patent Unexamined Publication No. 2008-0076480 entitled 'Unattended automatic sales system' exists. It is an object of the present invention to provide an automatic sales system that enables a plurality of products to be withdrawn while allowing the display of products of various specifications and packaging conditions.
Another prior art related to unattended sales is disclosed in Korean Patent Publication No. 2005-0091636, entitled " Automatic sales system and management server control method capable of purchasing using mobile phone ". The prior art provides a vending machine in which a product is provided to a purchaser and a display is installed, and when there is a purchase request for a specific product in a vending machine from a buyer's mobile phone, a request is made to the mobile communication company server for payment of telephone number information and amount, A management server which is connected to the buyer's mobile phone to control whether the goods are discharged or not according to a signal input from the buyer's mobile phone and transmits a receipt for payment to the buyer's mobile phone, And an automatic teller system including a mobile communication company server for providing telephone information and approving payment of a corresponding amount when there is a telephone number information and a money amount payment request from the management server.
Another prior art related to the auto-sales system is Patent Pub. No. 2012-0031752, 'Automatic beverage sales using smart cup'. The prior art includes a smart cup on which an information tag recording amount information and user recognition information is formed; A beverage dispenser for reading the information tag of the Smart Cup and comparing the remaining amount with a beverage sales price, controlling the beverage sales enabled / disabled state according to a result of the comparison, and controlling a payment settlement request through a communication network according to a user's selection; And a billing server for deciding whether or not to approve payment based on the currently available amount of money when payment request data is transmitted from the beverage dispensing machine.
The presented prior art has the disadvantage that it can be applied to limited sales of goods or that a complex product withdrawal structure has to be created separately. On the other hand, there is a problem that a separate system such as a money recognition device must be made for goods purchase and payment. On the other hand, in the case of a known vending machine type vending machine, for example, an input device such as a touch screen or a button, which is necessary for payment, must be installed, and a separate communication line must be connected for payment for the selected goods I have a problem.
The present invention has been made to solve the problems of the prior art and has the following purpose.
It is an object of the present invention to provide an electronic device for the automatic sale of unmanned articles which enables the automatic sale of various types of articles to be carried out directly by an electronic device such as a smart phone, for example.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a method for automatically selling an unmanned article which can be applied regardless of the type of the article and enables the purchasing process to be carried out through the medium of the portable electronic device of the user, An unmanned goods sales system.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, an electronic device for unattended article sale comprises a unique identification code assigned to the article; Means for transmitting the unique identification code to the electronic device so as to be readable; And
Wherein the unique identification code read by the electronic device is transmitted to a purchase server where the product information is stored through the electronic device, Such that it is determined by the purchasing server and transmitted to the control device via the electronic device or to an article control module capable of controlling access to the article, do.
According to another preferred embodiment of the present invention, when the purchasing server sends a decision for whether or not to permit access to the electronic device, the electronic device transmits the security identification code encrypted with the electronic device, and the security identification code is stored in a predetermined manner Accordingly, a unique identification code is read out by the electronic device and is generated.
According to another preferred embodiment of the present invention, the unmanned product selling system comprises an article having a unique identification code; Means incorporated in the portable electronic device capable of reading a unique identification code of the article;
A purchase server capable of communicating with the portable electronic device and storing information related to the article having the unique identification code; And a control device capable of determining whether to access the article and communicating with the portable electronic device, wherein the control device determines whether or not to permit access to the article based on information provided from the purchase server via the portable electronic device, Determine whether the supply is allowed.
According to another preferred embodiment of the present invention, the portable electronic device is a mobile phone or a smart phone, and the article becomes type or intangible.
According to another preferred embodiment of the present invention, the purchasing server receives only the unique identification code from the portable electronic device and determines whether to access or supply the article through communication with the portable electronic device based thereon.
The electronic device for unattended sales according to the present invention allows the purchaser to use the portable mobile communication device or the electronic device of the purchaser who can recognize the unique identification code of the article, . The unattended sales method according to the present invention has an advantage that it can be applied to all kinds of goods regardless of the kind of the goods, for example, fish or grain sold in quantities, industrial products sold in number units, or intangible electricity. In addition, the purchase method according to the present invention has an advantage that a facility for purchasing can be simplified by allowing a purchasing process to be determined through a portable electronic device such as a smart phone, for example. It is advantageous in that only the control device is installed at a specific purchase place, and all the information related to the purchase of goods between the portable electronic device and the purchase server is transmitted and received, simplifying the unattended selling facility. Specifically, the control device related to the article has an advantage that it is possible to install and use the unmanned sales facility irrespective of the location, without the need of connecting a communication line separately from the purchase server. In other words, since it is not necessary to install an input device for payment in the automatic sales related device for settlement of purchase, unlike the known system, a communication line, a money recognition device or a NFC (Near Field Communication) system for settlement So that the installation of the system can be simplified and the maintenance and management cost can be reduced.
FIG. 1 illustrates an operation of an automatic unattended article sales system according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 illustrates a process in which product information and payment information are transmitted and received in an operation of automatic unattended product sales according to the present invention.
FIG. 3 shows an embodiment of a display rack in the automatic unattended article selling process according to the present invention.
FIG. 4 illustrates an embodiment in which a purchasing process is performed in the unmanned article purchasing system according to the present invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the embodiments shown in the accompanying drawings, but the present invention is not limited thereto. In the following description, components having the same reference numerals in different drawings have similar functions, so that they will not be described repeatedly unless necessary for an understanding of the invention, and the known components will be briefly described or omitted. However, It should not be understood as being excluded from the embodiment of Fig.
As used herein, an electronic device means any device that can be in the form of a chip or an element and can be controlled electrically or electronically. For example, a QR (quick response) code, a barcode, a storage medium storing an electronic signal, A wireless communication chip such as an RF (Radio Frequency) chip, a Bluetooth communication chip, a short distance communication chip, an application for enabling wireless communication, an optical device capable of electric communication, a medium for storing electrical signals Or various combinations of these. An electronic device according to the present invention refers to any device capable of storing, receiving, transmitting, executing, or a combination of electronic signals. The electronic device may be of a single type, or may be in the form of a combined form of various devices, a form of application or application combined with a storage medium on which the application is stored, and may not necessarily have a physical appearance.
In this specification, for example, an electronic device is a QR code attached to an article or an automatic article supply apparatus having a short-range wireless communication function. Such as a bar code or a product ID code assigned to another electronic signal. When the user obtains a unique identification number of a product displayed on the automatic sales rack through his or her mobile communication terminal having a built-in mobile communication function or camera and makes a purchase request to the purchase server, the purchase server registers the unique identification number And retrieves the amount of the article, the seller's remittance account information, or the purchaser's payment account information to perform settlement. Such a series of processes related to the above functions can be executed by electronic politics.
The article may be of type or intangible. A type of article can be a variety of goods that are generally sold, and an intangible article can be, for example, a program capable of power or transfer for charging. The transmittable program may be, for example, a game, music, novel or other software converted into an electric signal form. In other words, an intangible article includes, for example, power or transmittable content for use of all appliances using electricity. The transferable content may be, for example, a game, music, novel or other software converted into a file format that can be read and executed by an electronic device.
An article according to the present invention includes all goods available for sale and is not limited by the type of goods.
FIG. 1 illustrates an operation of an automatic unattended article sales system according to the present invention.
An electronic device according to the present invention comprises a unique identification code assigned to an article; Means for transmitting the unique identification code in a wireless manner so as to be readable by an electronic device; And a control device for determining whether or not each item is supplied, wherein the unique identification code read by the electronic device is transmitted to a purchase server in which the product information is stored through the electronic device, It is determined by the purchasing server and is transmitted to the control device through the electronic device or is transmitted to the supply control module capable of controlling the supply of the goods, thereby enabling the supply of the goods.
An article having an unmanned article sales system unique identification code comprising an electronic device; Means incorporated in the portable electronic device capable of reading a unique identification code of the article; A purchase server capable of communicating with the portable electronic device and storing information related to the article having the unique identification code; And a control device capable of communicating with the portable electronic device, wherein the control device determines whether or not to supply the article based on the information provided from the purchase server through the portable electronic device do.
The
The unique identification code may be, for example, a Quick Response Code, a bar code or any label that can be converted into an electronic signal or an ID code stored in an electronic device such as an RF chip. The unique identification code includes identification information for the
The electronic device M may be, but is not limited to, a portable mobile phone including, for example, a smart phone, and may be any electronic device capable of reading a unique identification code from an article and capable of wireless communication. And the electronic device M may have a reader capable of reading a unique identification code such as, for example, an optical camera, a QR code scanner, a bar code scanner or an RF reader. The reader may be, for example, an application for QR code scanning or an optical camera installed in the electronic device M itself. The unique identification code read by the electronic device M can be displayed on the
The article may be installed in the heat-
The access blocks 13a and 13b may be open or close doors installed in the
When the
When the user makes a purchase / payment selection through the portable electronic device M and then transmits the payment, the purchasing
For example, the approved and paid amount can be displayed in the
When the unique identification code of the
The process for purchasing the article shown in FIG. 1 may be performed in various ways and is not limited to the embodiments shown. For example, the final purchase approval may be transmitted to the electronic device M and simultaneously to the
The process of transferring information for the purchasing procedure can be transmitted as an encrypted signal. For example, the communication between the portable electronic device M and the purchasing
As described above, the unique identification code can be transferred from the
This is explained below.
FIG. 2 illustrates a process in which product information and settlement information are transmitted and received in the operation of the automated unmanned product system according to the present invention.
2, the
When the unique identification code (ID-Code) attached to the
When the user decides to purchase, the
The purchasing
On the other hand, when the unique identification code (ID-code) is read by the electronic device M, the
The exchange of information between the electronic device M and the
A unique identification code for the
The identification code (ID-code), the AC code, the AU code or the TI code is an example. And the present invention is not limited to the embodiments shown.
FIG. 3 shows an embodiment of a display rack in the automatic unattended article selling process according to the present invention.
Referring to Fig. 3, the
The provision of the
Whether the
FIG. 4 illustrates an embodiment of an unmanned product sales process according to the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 4, in order to sell an unmanned article, a unique identification code should be given to each article or each article type (S41). And the unique identification code can be read by, for example, a QR code scanner embedded in a form of program in an electronic device such as a smart phone. Alternatively, the unique identification code may be transmitted by the RF chip and received by the electronic device (S42). If the user reads the unique identification code using the electronic device, the article information may be displayed on the electronic device, and if necessary, the information request for the article may be transmitted to the purchase server by the electronic device (S421). Then, the user determines whether to purchase or not according to the result of transmission / reception of information between the user's electronic device and the purchase server (S43). If the user does not want to purchase (NO), he can read the unique identification code assigned to another item or cancel the purchase of the item.
On the other hand, if the user desires to purchase the goods (YES), approval of purchase of the goods can be confirmed through the electronic device, for example, through a server such as a payment server, and approval code can be transmitted to the electronic device (S44 ). The approval or rejection may be transmitted to the control module by the electronic device (S45). At the same time, the authentication code including the encryption code can be transmitted to the user's electronic device and then transmitted to the control module. The control module confirms whether the approval code or the authentication code is matched (S461).
If it is not confirmed that the approval code or the authentication code does not correspond to the predetermined code or is transmitted from the purchase server (NO), an error code is generated (S471) and transmitted to the electronic device (S472) To the module (S473). On the other hand, if it is confirmed that the authentication code is authentic (YES), the control module transmits the authentication code (S473) and the supply to the article can be started. When the supply of goods is completed, related information can be stored.
The communication in the sales procedure according to the present invention can be wireless or wired communication. For example, a near-field RF communication such as Bluetooth communication or ZigBee communication may be used between the electronic device and the vending machine where the goods are displayed, and communication means such as general wireless communication or Wi-Fi communication may be used between the electronic device and the purchasing server . Any communication means known in the art including a communication method as described above between a vending machine and an electronic device or an electronic device and a purchasing server in the sales procedure according to the present invention can be applied and the present invention can be applied to the present embodiment It is not limited.
The electronic device for unattended sales according to the present invention has an advantage in that the portable electronic device capable of recognizing the unique identification code of the product is used so that the purchase of the product is convenient and the reliability of the purchase of the product can be assured. The unattended sales method according to the present invention has an advantage that it can be applied to all kinds of goods regardless of the kind of the goods, for example, fish or grain sold in quantities, industrial products sold in number units, or intangible electricity. In addition, the purchase method according to the present invention has an advantage that a facility for purchasing can be simplified by allowing a purchasing process to be determined through a portable electronic device such as a smart phone, for example. It is advantageous in that only the control device is installed at a specific purchase place, and all the information related to the purchase of goods between the portable electronic device and the purchase server is transmitted and received, simplifying the unattended selling facility. Specifically, the control device related to the article has an advantage that it is possible to install and use the unmanned sales facility irrespective of the location, without the need of connecting a communication line separately from the purchase server. In other words, since there is no need to install an input device for payment in the automatic sales related device for settlement of purchase, unlike the known system, a communication line or a money recognition device for payment is not required, Maintenance and management costs can be reduced.
While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention . The invention is not limited by these variations and modifications, but is limited only by the claims appended hereto.
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Means for transmitting the unique identification code to the electronic device so as to be readable; And
And a control device for determining whether to access each item,
The unique identification code read by the electronic device is transmitted to the purchase server through which the article information is stored through the electronic device, and whether or not the access to the article is permitted is determined by the purchase server, To an article control module capable of controlling access to the article or allowing access to the article or supply of the article accordingly. ≪ RTI ID = 0.0 > [0002] < / RTI >
Goods with a unique identification code;
Means incorporated in the portable electronic device capable of reading a unique identification code of the article;
A purchase server capable of communicating with the portable electronic device and storing information related to the article having the unique identification code; And
A control device capable of determining whether to access the article and communicating with the portable electronic device,
Wherein the control device determines whether to permit or prohibit access to the article based on information provided from the purchase server through the portable electronic device.
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