KR20150116107A - Method of Product Sale over Competition Composition - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for selling a product and a method for sharing information about the product. The present invention relates to the method for selling the product through competition among products under a computer network environment including: a central server for providing a product purchase service; a shopping mall server which is connected to the central server; and a number of purchaser terminals which are connected to the central server through a wired/wireless communication network. The present invention provides the method for selling products through competition among products, which includes the steps of: providing a list of competitive products which is generated in advance, to the purchaser terminals; calculating each number of competitive products which are purchased by the purchaser terminals on the basis of the provided list of the competitive products, during a predetermined time; determining a battle winning product, the best-selling product, on the basis of the calculated number; and providing a notice message to the purchaser terminals which have purchased the battle winning product, and a process thereof.

Description

{Method of Product Sale over Competition Composition}

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to electronic commerce used on-line, and more particularly, to a method of providing electronic commerce to online purchasers, .

In recent years, electronic commerce systems that buy and sell goods online have been widely used due to the development of the Internet. In order to sell a commodity in such an electronic commerce, it is necessary to provide information to the buyers about the commodities to be sold. Conventionally, information on a product on-line can be provided to a buyer by searching for a product to be purchased in an online search service and selecting one of the search results. The information is only a comment and a rating of a review form written by a previous buyer or another user, so that it is almost impossible to share various information about the product.

Also, in the conventional e-commerce, the method of selling a product is a method in which a buyer selects one item from among a plurality of items listed on-line. In the conventional electronic commerce system, there is a problem that the purchasing method of the commodity is merely a method in which the purchaser selects only the listed commodities and can not promote the sales of the commodities.

In the present invention, it is an object of the present invention to provide an information sharing method and system for sharing various information such as an evaluation and a column of a plurality of users' products, instead of uniform information about a product that is merely a price, do.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a competitive purchase method and system for introducing a purchase competition system for a product out of a simple product purchase manner in the past to promote active consumption of buyers.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a computer network environment including a central server for providing a product purchase service, a shopping mall server connected to the central server, and a plurality of purchaser terminals connected to the central server through a wired / A method for selling a product through competition, comprising: providing a list of pre-generated competitive products to buyer terminals; Calculating, for a predetermined period of time, the number of each of the competitive products purchased by the buyer terminals based on the list of the provided competitive products; Determining a battle win item as a most-sold item based on the calculated number; And providing a notification message to the purchaser terminals that have purchased the Battle Winning product. The present invention provides a method for selling a product through competition between products.

As described above, according to the present invention, when a consumer purchases a product on-line, the discount coupon can be received through competition among a plurality of products according to the present invention.

In addition, it provides practical information sharing among consumers by providing consumers with more and more information on products online.

Therefore, according to the present invention, sales of products can be promoted through information sharing and competition among the consumers.

1 is a block diagram illustrating an online product sales system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of the central server apparatus of the present invention.
3 is a flow chart of a method for selling a product through competition between products according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a block diagram of a module implementing a method for selling a product through competition between products in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a flow diagram of a method for sharing information about a product according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 6 is a block diagram of a module implementing a method for sharing information about a product according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIGS. 7A to 7C are exemplary screens illustrating a process in which the present invention is performed in a device.

The terms and words used in the present specification and claims should not be construed in a conventional or dictionary sense and should be construed as meaning and concept consistent with the technical idea of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments described in the present specification and the configurations shown in the drawings are merely the most preferred embodiments of the present invention and are not intended to represent all of the technical ideas of the present invention. Therefore, various equivalents It should be understood that water and variations may be present.

1 is a block diagram illustrating an online product sales system according to an embodiment of the present invention. A purchaser terminal 102, an Internet 103, and a shopping mall server 104, as shown in Fig. 1 is a diagram of a general Internet shopping mall system, in which a consumer accesses the Internet using a buyer terminal and purchases a product online from a shopping mall server. Here, the buyer terminals are devices capable of accessing the Internet such as a desktop computer, a notebook, a smart phone, and a personal digital assistant (PDA). The Internet 103 in FIG. 1 denotes all Internet services that can access the Internet through wired and wireless methods. Also, the system in FIG. 1 includes one or more buyer terminals 102 and one or more shopping mall servers 104.

2 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of the central server apparatus of the present invention. The central server apparatus includes a transmission unit 201, a reception unit 202, a control unit 203, and a storage unit 204. The transmission unit 201 serves to provide information on a product or a notification message for a battle win item to the buyer terminal, for example. The receiving unit 202 serves to receive, for example, information on goods from the buyer terminal or information on goods for which purchase processing has been performed, information on goods to be posted on the competitive goods list from the shopping mall server, and the like. For example, the control unit 203 constructs a list of competitive products based on the products received from the shopping mall server, counts the number of products sold on the competitive product list, determines a battle win product, And to detect purchaser terminals that have purchased battle victory goods. The storage unit 204 stores information on, for example, competitive merchandise lists and merchandise.

3 is a flow chart of a method for selling a product through competition between products according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 3, at block 301, the central server provides a list of pre-generated competitors to the buyer terminals. The list of pre-generated competitive products is a list of products received from the shopping mall server and compiled in the central server as competitive sales products for each similar product category. A list of competitive selling products may be stored in a set of a plurality of sets of two or more products determined as one set, for example, to compare the sales quantity of each product as the same product, Means a list. For example, a list of competing products may be stored as a set of Americano, made by A, and Americano, made by B, or as a set of Americano and café latte.

At block 302, for each predetermined period of time, each merchandise belonging to one set selected based on the list of competitive merchandise is sold, and the number of purchases for each merchandise is calculated. The predetermined time can be determined by the user before the merchandise sale, at a time when the consumer can purchase the merchandise. And, for the predetermined time, the number of purchases, that is, the number of sales, for each commodity is calculated. Whether or not the consumer has purchased the product is added to the number of sales only when the purchase processing is performed from the purchaser terminal. Then, the total number of sales for each product belonging to the one set is calculated.

In block 303, the most-sold items (hereinafter referred to as "battle win items") are determined based on the total number of sales for each product calculated in block 302. It is then necessary to determine the consumer who purchased the Battle Winning product, which is determined based on the purchase processing message received from the Buyer terminal at block 302. [

In block 304, the buyer terminal that has completed the purchase processing for the Battle Win item transmits a notification message indicating that the Battle Win item has been purchased. And provides a certain compensation for the purchase of the battle win item to the buyer terminal that has received the notification message. Certain rewards include at least one of a discount coupon item or an exchange coupon.

In addition, since the consumers who purchase the same goods are consumers having the same or similar buying tendency, in order to share information between consumers having similar buying tendencies, Provide consumer information. The information of other consumers can be used as a messenger ID, e-mail address, etc. on the mobile.

4 is a block diagram of a module implementing a method for selling a product through competition between products in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. This module is a module for performing the method described in Fig. 3, which refers to a computer-related entity, hardware, firmware, software, combination of software and hardware, or execution of software.

5 is a flowchart of a method for sharing information on a product according to another embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 5, in block 501, information on goods is received from the purchaser terminal. The information on the commodity is information described by a user with respect to a certain commodity, for example, pros and cons of the commodity, price information, and the like. In addition, the information may be transmitted to the central server for posting the information only when the purchaser terminal has the authority to post information about the goods. The publishing rights are hereinafter referred to as Egg (egg image). In other words, only users with Egg can post articles about products. Egg represents publishing rights, while Egg represents one subject.

As mentioned above, Egg corresponds to the right to publish information. In other words, without Egg, information can not be posted. Egg is provided to the buyer's terminal once a day, and each Egg posted by another user gives three answers, one Egg. The steps for viewing Egg posted by other users are described below.

In block 502, information on the goods received in the above step is stored and posted on an on-line bulletin board. In the step of publishing on the bulletin board, the user clicks the pond image corresponding to the button to create and transmit the article on Egg, and the information is transmitted to the central server. The transmitted information is stored in a storage unit of the central server.

 At block 503, the buyer terminal can receive information transmitted by another user. Other users can view the information posted about an arbitrary article. That is, it is possible to easily share information on a product by making it possible to view information about the product described by another user. This allows Egg to be viewed by other users by clicking on the frog image. You can post the answers to other users' Eggs, and then click on the pond image again to send them back to the central server.

Figure 6 is a block diagram of a module implementing a method for sharing information about a product according to an embodiment of the present invention. The module is a module for performing the method described in Fig. 5, and the module refers to a computer-related entity, hardware, firmware, software, a combination of software and hardware, or execution of software.

7A to 7C are exemplary screens showing a process in which the present invention is performed on a device. 7A shows an initial screen when a method of selling a product through competition of goods is performed through a device. Consumers purchase the first item or the second item on the screen. The predetermined selling time is indicated by the hourglass image.

7B and 7C are exemplary screens when a method of sharing information about goods is performed through a device. The Egg image is a medium in which each Egg represents the right to post articles and can store a single topic. And the pond image acts as a button to send and store the article to the central server. The frog image serves as a button that allows the user to view Eggs posted by other users.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments. Accordingly, the embodiments disclosed herein are intended to be illustrative rather than limiting, and the spirit and scope of the present invention is not limited by these embodiments. The scope of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all the techniques within the scope of the same should be construed as being included in the scope of the present invention.

101: central server 102: buyer terminal
103: Internet 104: shopping mall server

Claims (10)

A method for selling a product through competition between products in a computer network environment including a central server for providing a product purchase service, a shopping mall server connected to the central server, and a plurality of purchaser terminals connected to the central server through a wired / As a result,
Providing a list of pre-generated competitive products to buyer terminals;
Calculating, for a predetermined period of time, the number of each of the competitive products purchased by the buyer terminals based on the list of the provided competitive products;
Determining a battle win item as a most-sold item based on the calculated number; And
Providing an alert message to buyer terminals that have purchased the Battle Winning product;
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How to sell a product through competition between products. The method according to claim 1,
Further comprising: providing compensation to buyer terminals that have purchased the Battle Winning product.
How to sell a product through competition between products. 3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein the reward includes at least one of a discount coupon or a goods exchange coupon,
How to sell a product through competition between products. The method according to claim 1,
Further comprising: providing a list of other buyers who have purchased the Battle Win items with buyer terminals that have purchased the Battle Win items.
How to sell a product through competition between products. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the purchaser terminals comprise at least one of a desktop computer, a laptop computer, a handheld device, a cellular telephone,
How to sell a product through competition between products. The method according to claim 1,
The competitive products in the list of competitive products may be the same kind of goods manufactured by another manufacturer,
How to sell a product through competition between products. A processor for selling a product through a competition between products through a wired / wireless communication network in a central server for providing a product purchase service,
A first module for providing a list of pre-generated competitive products to buyer terminals;
A second module for calculating the number of each of the competitive products purchased by the buyer terminals based on the list of the provided competitive products for a predetermined time;
A third module for determining a battle win item that is the most sold item based on the calculated number; And
A fourth module for providing a notification message to the purchaser terminals purchasing the Battle Winning product;
Containing
A processor for selling goods through competition between products. 8. The method of claim 7,
Further comprising a fifth module for providing compensation to buyer terminals that have purchased the Battle Winning product,
A processor for selling goods through competition between products. 9. The method of claim 8,
Wherein the reward includes at least one of a discount coupon or a goods exchange coupon,
A processor for selling goods through competition between products. 8. The method of claim 7,
Further comprising: a module for providing a list of other buyers who have purchased the Battle Win items to the purchasers who purchased the Battle Win items,
A processor for selling goods through competition between products.

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