KR20170005618A - Apparatus and Method for Providing Information of Coupons - Google Patents

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KR20170005618A
KR20170005618A KR1020150095900A KR20150095900A KR20170005618A KR 20170005618 A KR20170005618 A KR 20170005618A KR 1020150095900 A KR1020150095900 A KR 1020150095900A KR 20150095900 A KR20150095900 A KR 20150095900A KR 20170005618 A KR20170005618 A KR 20170005618A
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Abstract

Disclosed are a system and method for providing information about coupons. The system for providing information about coupons according to the present invention provides information about rewards obtained through purchasing of a product to a user using coupons, thereby enabling the user to use advantageous coupons. Furthermore, the system for providing information about coupons may recommend a coupon providing a high reward. For this purpose, the system for providing information about coupons comprises: a user registration database (DB) which stores information about coupons possessed by a user; a coupon information DB which stores information about rewards of various types of coupons; and a service server which provides information about a coupon providing the highest reward among the coupons possessed by the user in response to a search request from a terminal of the user. The system according to the present invention also comprises a location-based information server, and thus the system provides information about affiliated stores disposed near a location of the terminal of the user, thereby improving convenience of a search for information about coupons.

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[0001] APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING COUPON INFORMATION [0002]

The present invention relates to a coupon information providing system and a method for providing information on a discount coupon provided from various sources to a database and making it searchable, .

With the development of the Internet, various social commerce and membership card coupons are being developed. A member who has signed a contract with a social commerce company can purchase coupons at low prices and purchase coupons without paying cash at participating retailers. Merchants are being used to buy most of today's products, such as department stores, specialty stores, and restaurant bookstores. Membership cards from various companies offer discounts at various affiliate retailers.

In order to use a coupon, there is a method of selecting a product or service to be used and purchasing it. However, there may be a method in which a coupon provider bills the user for a certain period of time after the purchase, and the user pays the bill according to the bill.

A social commerce or merchant may offer various discounts to coupon users for the purpose of expanding or using coupons, or they may accumulate points or miles that can be redeemed according to coupon usage results.

In general, the information provided to the users of the social commerce or membership card is limited to unilaterally providing the information through a homepage or by enclosing a mail or an Internet mail for delivering an invoice or payment receipt. Therefore, although various information is provided from various social commerce, actual coupon users often do not know exactly what benefits are currently being provided. Furthermore, since users hold and use multiple coupons at a time, they are in fact blocked from information on which coupon is beneficial or advantageous for purchasing a certain product.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a coupon which can provide a coupon user with information on a benefit to be obtained by purchasing the commodity to enable the use of the advantageous coupon, A coupon total information providing system and a method thereof.

In order to achieve the above object, there is provided a service providing method of a service server, which is connected to a registered user database storing coupon information held by a registered user and coupon information databases holding benefit information of various real- Requesting a search for coupon benefit information for a specific merchant; Receiving information on coupons held by the user from the registered user database in response to the search request, and receiving benefit information of various coupons provided by the requested merchant from the coupon information database; Selecting a maximum benefit coupon among the coupons held by the user based on the benefit information of the merchant provided by the service server; And providing the maximum benefit coupon to the terminal by the service server and displaying the coupon to the user.

The step of requesting the search includes: generating the location information of the terminal using the GPS receiver, providing the location information to the location-based information server, and requesting the location-based information; Providing, by the location-based information server, a list of franchisees within a predetermined distance from the location of the location information to the terminal according to the request; The terminal providing the merchant list to the service server and requesting the search of the coupon benefit information applied to the merchant on the list; The service server receiving from the coupon information server benefit information of various coupons provided by the merchants on the list, and extracting a merchant providing benefit to the user-retained coupon from among the merchants of the list; And the service server providing the terminal with a list of the extracted merchants, displaying the selected merchants to the user, and selecting the particular merchant.

According to another embodiment, when the service server receives a request for searching for coupon benefit information for a specific merchant from the terminal, a maximum benefit is provided from the merchant based on the benefit information of the merchant provided from the coupon information provider Extracting a recommendation coupon for the recommendation; And providing the recommendation coupon to the terminal by the service server and displaying the recommendation coupon to the user, thereby providing information on the user's new coupon.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, each of the devices described above may form a coupon information providing system for providing coupon information to the terminal. Here, when the service server receives a request to search for coupon benefit information for a particular merchant from the terminal, the service server receives benefit information of various coupons provided by the specific merchant requested to be searched, from the coupon information database, And provides the terminal with information on the maximum benefit coupon that the maximum benefit offered by the merchant from the coupon held by the terminal user or held at the merchant is displayed to the user.

The coupon information providing system according to the present invention can automatically provide coupon information that gives the maximum benefit to a specific merchant from the coupon held by the user. Accordingly, users can easily receive coupon benefit information collected individually.

Further, the coupon information providing system can recommend a coupon or membership that generally provides the greatest benefit to a particular merchant. This feature may be particularly useful when the user is particularly busy purchasing goods at a particular merchant.

Furthermore, in the case of the terminal user who can receive the service of the location-based information server, the coupon information providing system of the present invention can automatically search coupon benefits provided to the merchants in the area where the terminal user is located.

1 is a diagram illustrating a structure of a coupon information system according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a method of providing coupon information according to an embodiment of the present invention;
3 is a view showing a coupon information providing screen displayed on a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a coupon information providing method according to another embodiment of the present invention, and FIG.
5 is a view illustrating a coupon information providing screen displayed on a terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention.

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION The present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the drawings.

Referring to FIG. 1, a coupon information system 100 according to the present invention includes a service server 111 for providing an information providing service, a first terminal 130 and a second terminal 140 to be provided with services, ). The service server 111 is connected to a registered user database 113 and a coupon information database 115. A service server 111, a registered user database 113 and a coupon information database 115 It belongs to the domain of the service provider.

The network 150 includes a wired or wireless network capable of interconnecting the service server 111 and the first terminal 130 and the second terminal 140. The network 150 includes not only a wired or wireless Internet but also a mobile communication network can do.

The first terminal 130 and the second terminal 140 are examples of terminals capable of receiving the information providing service of the present invention and may be any type of terminal capable of connecting to the service server 111 through the network 150 Do. For example, the first terminal 130 is an example of a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone or a personal information terminal (PDA), and the second terminal 140 may be a personal computer.

The first terminal 130 includes an input unit 131 for receiving a user's search command and the like, a display unit 133 for displaying predetermined information to the user, a communication interface unit 135 for connecting to the network 150, 137). The control unit 137 controls the operation of the other configuration in the first terminal 130 for the overall operation of the first terminal 130 including the service provision related to the present invention.

Unless otherwise described below, the operation of the first terminal 130 corresponds to the operation of the controller 137, and the first terminal 130 provides the service server 111 or the service server 111, Information corresponding to the information received from the control unit 137 via the communication interface unit 135. [

The first terminal 130 includes a GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver 139 to generate location information of the first terminal 130 and transmits the location information to the location based information server 170, Based information server 170 to provide the location-based service to the user.

Here, the location-based information server 170 receives location information from the first terminal 130 and transmits location-based information within a predetermined range (e.g., a radius of 1 km) from the location of the location information to the first terminal 130 . The location-based information may correspond to information on a store or a company located within a specific area, and may be information on various coupon merchant information in the corresponding area. Such location-based information may be provided in the form of a list.

Based information server 170 may be included in the service provider area of the present invention so that location-based information may be provided to the user via the service server 111 of the present invention, Based information server 170. The location-

The service server 111 performs a login procedure for the authentication process of the connected terminal user and refers to the registered user database 113 and the coupon information database 115 according to the request of the terminals to receive the intelligent coupon benefit information .

Here, the intelligent coupon benefit information includes information of the maximum benefit coupon and recommended coupon information. The 'maximum benefit coupon' as used in the present invention means a coupon that can receive the maximum benefit from a specific merchant among coupons that the user can easily hold or purchase. The 'recommended coupon' It is a coupon that can get the maximum benefit at the merchant regardless. Further, the merchant coupon benefit information is information on a benefit provided by various coupons of each coupon provider to a specific merchant, and is not limited to a user-retained coupon.

The registered user database 113 stores and manages basic information about registered users to receive the service of the present invention. Here, the user basic information includes a coupon held by the user.

The coupon information DB 115 stores information (e.g., coupon name, related membership, offered social commerce, classification, keyword, benefit information, detailed information) of various coupons distributed in the transaction system, Includes information about the various benefits that are offered. Various kinds of information stored and managed in the coupon information database 115 may be collected by a search bot or the like by accessing a social commerce service server or a membership card service server 111 and automatically collecting various information provided by a social commerce company You will be able to collect and enter information.

Hereinafter, the coupon information providing service according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 2, focusing on the operation of the service server 111. FIG. For convenience of explanation, it is assumed that the coupon held by the user is an A coupon, a B coupon, a C coupon, and a D coupon.

The first terminal 130 receives a predetermined search command from the user through the input unit 131. The search command corresponds to inputting the purpose of use of the coupon (e.g., the name of a merchant). Accordingly, the user can input 'oo restaurant' to retrieve the benefit of the coupon usage provided in the 'oo restaurant', and the input becomes a search command soon. In some cases, the usage amount may be input in addition to the merchant name (S201).

When the first terminal 130 provides a search command and a user ID input from the user to the service server 111 and requests a search (S203), the service server 111 transmits information about the user requested for search to the registered user And receives the request from the DB 113. In particular, the service server 111 receives the kind of coupon held by the user from the registered user database 113 (S205, S207).

The service server 111 provides the merchant information included in the user's search command to the coupon information database 115 and receives the merchant coupon benefit information for the merchant. As described above, the merchant coupon benefit information is not limited to the user-retained coupon as benefit information for all the coupons provided by the merchant (S209, S211).

The service server 111 detects the recommended coupon based on the 'merchant coupon benefit information' provided from the coupon information database 115, extracts the maximum benefit coupon from the user's coupon (S213), and extracts the extracted information To the first terminal 130 (S215).

The first terminal 130 displays the maximum benefit coupon and the recommended coupon to the user through the display unit 133 based on the information (maximum benefit coupon information and recommended coupon information) provided from the service server 111. 3, merchant information P1, maximum benefit coupon information P2, and recommended coupon information P3 are displayed on the screen P displayed on the display unit 133. [ Further, the example of FIG. 3 is an example of displaying the benefit information P4 of the corresponding merchant for all of the coupons held by the user (S217) in addition to the maximum benefit coupon P2.

In this way, the coupon information service method of the present invention is performed. However, as shown in steps S205 and S207, it is not necessarily required to proceed ahead of steps S209 and S211, and steps S209 and S211 may be performed before or in parallel with steps S205 and S207.

Further, the first terminal 130 may provide detailed information on each item provided as a result of step S217 as shown in FIG. 3, the first terminal 130 may request the service server 111 to provide detailed information of the item (for example, detailed information on a 20% discount on the B coupon) have.

If the above-described GPS receiver 139 is built in, the user search command in step S201 of FIG. 2 is performed not only by the user's direct input but also through the location-based information server 170 as shown in FIG.

Referring to FIG. 4, in the case of using the location-based information server 170, the first terminal 130 generates location information about its location using the GPS receiver 139 at the request of the user (S401 , And requests location-based information while providing the generated location information to the location-based information server 170 (S403).

Based on the request of the first terminal 130, the location-based information server 170 generates a list of information on shops and businesses existing within a predetermined range (for example, a radius of 500 meters) from the position of the corresponding location information, (S405).

The first terminal 130 provides the service server 111 with a merchant list provided from the location-based information server 170 to request the merchant to search for coupon benefit information applied to the merchant on the list by searching for the merchant (S407) .

The service server 111 receives the coupon information held by the user requested by the registration user database 113 (S409 and S411).

The service server 111 provides the merchant information contained in the merchant list requested for search to the coupon information database 115 and receives the merchant coupon benefit information for the merchant stores. As described above, the merchant coupon benefit information is not limited to the user-retained coupon as benefit information for all coupons provided by the merchant (S413, S415).

The service server 111 generates a merchant list to which the coupon held by the user is applied from the 'merchant coupon benefit information' provided from the coupon information database 115 and provides the generated merchant list to the first terminal 130, To the user. For example, if the merchant that received the benefit information from the coupon information database 115 of the merchant provided by the location-based information server 170 is a merchant of 'ΔΔ shop', '▲ ▲ ▲ book', ' The restaurant information, the restaurant information, the restaurant information, the restaurant information, and the restaurant information, and the user's voucher is applied to the benefits of the other merchants except for the restaurant restaurant, the information shown in FIG. 5 may be displayed (S417 and S419).

The command for selecting one of the information displayed in step S419 corresponds to the user search command in step S201 of FIG. If the user selects " oo restaurant " among the merchants shown in Fig. 5, the selection corresponds to the user search command in step S201 of Fig. 2, Information will be displayed.

According to the method of FIG. 4, the user can easily receive the coupon benefit information provided by the franchisees within a certain range from the place where the user is currently located.

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In addition, the method in which the service server 111 searches for the best benefit based on the benefits such as discounts provided by the social server, the membership card provider, or the merchant for various coupons in step S213 may be variously determined.

For example, the service server 111 calculates a ranking index for each benefit in consideration of a discount rate at the time of billing, a discount rate at the time of approval, an explicit amount discount, mileage usage, and mileage accumulation degree, You can choose the maximum benefit coupon and the recommended coupon.

For example, assuming that a certain merchant uses 10,000 won, the ranking index can be calculated as shown in Table 1 below.

Benefit category Ranking Index Final decision discount rate Amount × Discount rate With the highest ranking index
Select coupon
Mileage Mileage usage + mileage accrual A certain amount discount Discounted amount

In addition to Table 1, weights can be added to each ranking index according to frequency of use. Here, the frequency of use can be calculated on the basis of the number of times the user requests detailed information about a specific coupon discount of the corresponding merchant.

Further, the user can input the priority element of such coupon selection. Accordingly, different coupons may be the maximum benefit coupon or the recommended coupon for the user who prioritizes the discount and the user who prioritizes the point accumulation by using the coupon.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is clearly understood that the same is by way of illustration and example only and is not to be construed as limiting the scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.

111: service server
113: Registered user DB
115: Coupon Information DB
170: Location-based information server
150: Network

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A coupon information providing method of a service server connected to a registered user database storing coupon information held by a registered user and a coupon information database having various coupon providing benefit information,
The terminal receiving a search command from the user requests the service server to search for coupon benefit information for a specific merchant corresponding to the search command;
Receiving information on coupons held by the user from the registered user database in response to the search request and receiving benefit information of various coupons provided to the merchant requested from the coupon information database;
Selecting a maximum benefit coupon among the coupons held by the user based on the benefit information of the merchant provided by the service server; And
And the service server providing the maximum benefit coupon to the terminal and displaying the coupon to the user.
The method according to claim 1,
Extracting a recommendation coupon providing the maximum benefit at the merchant based on the benefit information of the merchant provided by the service server from the coupon information database; And
And providing the recommendation coupon to the terminal and displaying the coupon information to the user.
A registered user database storing coupon information held by a registered user;
Information of coupons with benefits information of various coupons; And
And a service server connected to the registered user database and the coupon information database and connected to the user terminal through a network to provide coupon information to the terminal,
When the service server receives a request for searching for coupon benefit information for a specific merchant from the terminal to which a search command is input through the input unit, the service server receives benefit information of various coupons provided by the specific merchant requested to search from the coupon information database And provides the terminal with information on the maximum benefit coupon that the maximum benefit offered by the merchant from the coupon held by the terminal user provided from the registered user database is displayed to the user. Delivery system.
The method of claim 3,
Wherein the service server optimizes and changes the formula for calculating the maximum benefit based on information such as a user's usage record and search history,
5. The method of claim 4,
When the service server receives a request for searching coupon benefit information for a specific merchant from the terminal, the service server extracts a coupon providing the maximum benefit from the merchant based on the benefit information of the merchant provided from the coupon information database And provides the recommended coupon information together with the maximum benefit coupon information to the terminal so that the coupon information is displayed to the user.
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