KR20180089075A - Joint purchase method and system Using the auction and reverse auction - Google Patents

Abstract

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for performing a transaction through a group purchase method using an auction and a reverse auction by a group purchase server comprises the steps of: receiving information on an article desired for a group purchase from users to manage a desired number of users for each article; receiving, from an article manager, whether the group purchase of registered new articles is performed; receiving a sales number and a sales price therefor from a plurality of sellers through a reverse auction for a specific article; generating a plurality of bidding prices by dividing the highest price and the lowest price of the received sales price into a predetermined number of sections and receiving the bidding of the users for each bidding price; performing a temporary approval for the bidding price of each of the users with cards of users who make a bid; deriving a selling condition in which the lowest contract price is established based on a selling condition of the sellers and a bidding result of the users; and canceling the temporal approval in batch and performing a payment approval corresponding to a contract price with the cards of the users who make a bid for a price equal to or greater than the contract price.

Description

[0001] Joint purchase method and system using auction and reverse auction [

The present invention relates to a method and server for performing a joint purchase using an auction and a reverse auction, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for performing a joint purchase using a reverse auction, The present invention relates to a method and server for performing a joint purchase in a manner of selecting a possible sale condition.

As online purchases become more active, online shoppers are making efforts to travel to many sites and obtain coupons to purchase their desired items at a lower price.

One of the ways that users can buy goods cheaply is the joint purchase. In the joint purchase, buyers who need one product collect and buy by group, so that they receive price discount through mass purchase.

In the conventional joint purchase method, the seller is generally determined, and the users who will perform the purchase for the determined article are collected, and the joint purchase is carried out when the number of users is more than a certain number. According to this method, there was no competition of the sellers and the joint purchase had to proceed at a predetermined price. However, the more the number of users gathered for the joint purchase, the lower the price of the goods was needed.

According to the existing method, when a joint purchase is carried out through an auction, if the bid price of the winning bidder is different from the winning bid price, the difference between the amount deposited at the time of bid and the winning bid price should be settled. The settlement process has also been a major drawback.

In addition, in order to conduct joint purchasing, a method was needed to enable users to understand the demand for the items they wanted to purchase before starting joint purchasing.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems of the prior art.

An object of the present invention is to efficiently perform price determination of goods through a joint purchase method combining auction and reverse auction.

Another object of the present invention is to easily perform a subsequent settlement procedure through a cardholder and prevent cancellation of bidding.

Another object of the present invention is to grasp the demand scale of the users' products before the start of the joint purchase and to analyze the demand scale to help decide whether to proceed with the joint purchase of each product.

In order to achieve the above object, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method for performing a transaction through a joint purchase method using auction and reverse auction in a joint purchase server, Managing a desired number of users for the article; Receiving, from an article manager, whether or not the joint purchase of the registered new articles is proceeded; Receiving sales quantity and sales price from a plurality of sellers through reverse auction for a specific article; Generating a plurality of bids by dividing the highest price and the lowest price of the input sales price into a predetermined number of sections and receiving bids of the users for each bid; Performing bidirectional bid for each user's bid with the card of the user who made the bid; Deriving a sales condition in which a lowest bid price is established based on a sales condition of the sellers and a bid result of the users; And performing a payment approval corresponding to the winning bid with the card of the users bidding at a price higher than the bid price,

And provides a transaction execution method of the joint purchase server.

The sales condition deriving step determines that the sales condition can be established when the number of users bidding at a price equal to or greater than the sales quantity is equal to or greater than the sales quantity at the sales price corresponding to the sales quantity included in the sales conditions of the sellers, The lowest selling price among the possible sales conditions may be to select the winning bid price.

The transaction execution method of the joint purchase server comprises: receiving membership information including card information from users and performing membership; And calculating the probability of purchasing the specific item by the user through the member information and the card information of users wishing to jointly purchase the specific article, and providing the calculated probability to the article manager or the seller.

The transaction executing method of the joint purchase server may further include providing an opportunity to purchase the specific article as the winning bid price to users bidding below the winning bid price.

The transaction execution method of the joint purchase server may further include providing a predetermined number of users who have not performed the bidding when the bid price is determined, an opportunity to purchase the specific article as the bid price.

The transaction execution method of the joint purchase server may further include canceling the joint purchase if the number of bids for the specific article does not satisfy at least one of the sales conditions of the sellers.

The bidding for the joint purchase can be made only for a predetermined period, and the period can be extended by the article manager.

The transaction execution method of the joint purchase server may further include the step of paying the additional benefit to the user when the successful bidder has performed bidding after selecting the specific article as the joint purchase desired article.

The transaction execution method of the joint purchase server may further include providing a success fee to a user who has registered the article as a commodity purchase desired article when the joint purchase for a specific article is completed.

In order to achieve the above object, another embodiment of the present invention is a transaction purchase server for performing a joint purchase using an auction and reverse auction, comprising: receiving joint purchase object information from users, A desired article management unit for performing management of the number, and receiving input from the article manager whether the joint purchase of the new articles is proceeded; A sales condition receiving unit for receiving a sales quantity and a sales price from a plurality of sellers through reverse auction for a specific item; A user bid management unit for generating a plurality of bids by dividing a maximum price and a minimum price of the input sales price into a predetermined number of sections and inputting bids of the users for respective bids; A joint purchase price and a quantity determination unit for deriving a sales condition in which a lowest bid price is established based on a sales condition of the sellers and a result of a bid of the users; And bidding the bids of the respective users with the card of the bidders. When the bidding price is determined, the bidders are collectively canceled, and the bidders' And a card settlement performing unit for performing settlement approval.

The common purchase price and quantity determination unit determines that the sales condition can be established when the number of users bidding at a price equal to or greater than the sales quantity is equal to or greater than the sales quantity at a sale price according to the sales quantity included in the sales conditions of the sellers , The lowest selling price among the sales conditions that can be established can be selected as the winning bid price.

The joint purchase server receives the personal information including the card information from the users and performs member registration, and calculates the specific article purchase probability through the member information and the card information of users wishing to jointly purchase the specific article And providing the information to the goods manager or the seller.

The common purchase price and quantity determining unit may provide the users who have bidded below the winning bid price an opportunity to purchase the specific article at the winning bid price.

The common purchase price and quantity determination unit may provide an opportunity to purchase the specific item at the price for the predetermined number of users who have not performed the bidding at the determination of the winning bid price.

The joint purchase price and quantity determination unit may cancel the joint purchase if the number of bidders for the specific article does not satisfy at least one of the sales conditions of the sellers.

The user bidding management unit enables bidding for joint purchase only for a predetermined period of time, and can change the period by the selection of the article manager.

The joint purchase server may further include a success payment dispenser for awarding the additional benefit to the user when the bidding user performs the bidding after selecting the joint purchase desired article.

The joint purchase server may further include a success / fee payment unit for providing a success fee to a user who has registered the item as a first joint purchase item if joint purchase of a specific item is completed.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the user can easily perform a later settlement procedure through the cardholder, and the canceling of the purchase of the bidders can be somewhat prevented.

According to the embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to grasp the demand scale for each item before the start of the joint purchase, and it is possible that the users wishing to jointly purchase the goods actually calculate the probability of the purchase, So that it can be performed reasonably.

It should be understood that the effects of the present invention are not limited to the effects described above, but include all effects that can be deduced from the description of the invention or the composition of the invention as described in the claims.

1 is a schematic view of a joint purchase system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a view schematically showing a process of registering a joint purchase target product by users according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is an exemplary diagram for explaining a process of determining an item to be jointly purchased by an article manager according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a method by which sellers register sales conditions to perform reverse auction, according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a diagram illustrating a method of performing a bid for a joint purchase prod- uct through auction method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a method for determining a final price and a purchase quantity of a joint purchase progress article through auction and reverse auction information according to an embodiment of the present invention.
7 is a block diagram illustrating an internal configuration of a joint purchase server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 8 is a flowchart illustrating a method of performing a joint purchase in which a joint purchase server according to an embodiment of the present invention combines auction and reverse auction methods.

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

Throughout the specification, when a part is referred to as being "connected" to another part, it includes not only "directly connected" but also "indirectly connected" . Also, when a component is referred to as "comprising ", it means that it can include other components as well, without excluding other components unless specifically stated otherwise.

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

1 is a schematic view of a joint purchase system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The joint purchase system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a user terminal 100, an administrator terminal 200,

(300), and a joint purchase server (400).

A user terminal 100 used by the user to use the joint purchase system of the present invention, an administrator terminal 200 used by the manager to manage the joint purchase server 400, The seller terminal 300 may be any type of handset capable of being connected to the joint purchase server 400 through a network such as a mobile phone, a smart phone, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), a PMP (Portable Multimedia Player) (IPTV) including a desktop PC, a tablet PC, a laptop PC, and a set top box, and may be connected to a joint purchase server 400 through a network Devices may also be included.

Communication between the user terminal 100, the administrator terminal 200, the seller terminal 300, and the joint purchase server 400 may be performed through a communication network (not shown) according to an embodiment of the present invention.

According to one embodiment, the communication network may be configured without regard to its communication mode, such as wired and wireless, for example, a local area network (LAN), a metropolitan area network (MAN) And a wide area network (WAN). Preferably, the communication network according to an embodiment of the present invention may be a known World Wide Web (WWW) or the like.

The user can access the joint purchase server 400 using the user terminal 100 and perform operations necessary for joint purchase. According to one embodiment, a joint purchase related application may be installed on the user terminal 100, and a joint purchase related operation of the user may be performed through the application.

In the present invention, the article manager may be referred to as an MD (Merchandiser) who has the authority to decide whether to proceed with the collective shopping through review of the desired article desired by the user when the user registers the desired article. Hereinafter, the article manager can be simply referred to as an administrator.

The manager accesses the joint purchase server 400 through the manager terminal 200 to check the list of joint purchase objects registered by the user, determines whether or not the joint purchase is successful based on the desired number of users for each article, It is possible to decide whether to proceed with the joint purchase for the article and input it to the joint purchase server 400.

In addition to determining whether to proceed with a joint purchase of an individual item, the administrator can also make choices such as reverse auction period and auction period change, limiting the maximum or minimum price of reverse omnidisation

The seller accesses the joint purchase server 400 through the seller terminal 300, and the manager can confirm the commodity in which the joint purchase has started to proceed and register the sales conditions therefor. Item related information registered by a plurality of sellers may include a price condition depending on the quantity of the goods. For example, a first seller can deliver to A for goods that are determined to be jointly procured, a first condition that if more than 300 are sold, the first condition is that the product can be delivered at 550,000 won, and if 500 or more are sold, 530,000 Can register the second condition simultaneously. In this way, each seller can register a plurality of his / her sales conditions.

According to one embodiment, the seller can confirm the desired number of jointly purchased articles registered by the user in the joint purchase server 400 and determine the price based on the confirmed number.

According to one embodiment, the common purchase server 400 receives information on a desired item to be jointly purchased from a user, and determines whether or not the goods which the administrator has decided to proceed with the joint purchase include a combination of reverse auction method and auction method Can proceed with the transaction.

FIG. 2 is a view schematically showing a process of registering a joint purchase target product by users according to an embodiment of the present invention.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a plurality of users can register a desired article to be purchased by the user as a joint purchase target article, or select a joint purchase target article registered by another user to increase the number of desired persons for the article .

According to another embodiment, users may register a review of the item they have used. If other users read this post and want to purchase the item as a joint purchase, they can select the item and increase the number of joint purchasers for that item.

3 is an exemplary diagram for explaining a process of determining an item to be jointly purchased by an article manager according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, it can be seen that the number of persons wishing to jointly purchase articles A is the highest, and the list according to the number of the common purchasers is shown below.

The manager can access the joint purchase server 400 and select an article suitable for joint purchase based on the list as described above. When the manager selects the joint purchase item, the transaction can be performed through reverse auction and auction for the article.

According to one embodiment, the criteria for the administrator to select an item may be the type of item the users wish to jointly purchase, or the number of applicants for the item, as shown in FIG.

According to another embodiment, the manager can additionally check the analysis information on the users of the joint purchase of each article from the joint purchase server 400 and use it as a criterion for determining whether the joint purchase is proceeded.

For example, in the present invention, the entity that operates the joint purchase server 400 may be a credit card company, and the card company may prefer to perform the membership addition when a plurality of users use the joint purchase service. The joint purchase server 400 may analyze the personal information input by the users when performing the membership registration, and the card information of the users may be included in the information.

The joint purchase server 400 may calculate the number of the predicted purchasers reflecting the probability of actually purchasing the joint purchase number from the number of applicants for the joint purchase desired goods registered by the users, and provide the calculated number to the manager.

For example, the joint purchase server 400 can analyze the card usage history of users who have selected a specific article as a joint purchase desired article. In the case where the expensive electronic product is a joint purchase desired product, if the card usage history of the user who selected the expensive electronic product is analyzed, if the low priced item is intermittently purchased, the probability that the user purchases the expensive electronic product will be low.

In addition, the joint purchase server 400 can analyze the probability that users who have selected the joint purchase target goods actually perform purchase through personal information such as the age and the residence of the cardholder. For example, in the case of users who selected golf clubs in their early teens or early 20s, even if the golf clubs are jointly purchased, the probability of actual purchase will be low.

As described above, the joint purchase server 400 can help the administrator to select an article to be jointly purchased by analyzing the information on the users who have selected the jointly-purchased desired article to calculate the purchase probability . In addition, the joint purchase server 400 may provide such analysis information to the sellers so that the sellers can refer to registering the sales conditions through reverse auction.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a method by which sellers register sales conditions to perform reverse auction, according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The joint purchase method disclosed in the present invention uses a reverse auction system and auction system in combination. When an administrator selects an article to be jointly purchased, the sellers can perform reverse auction of the article on the joint purchase server 400 All.

As described above, the sellers can register the deliverable sales conditions for each joint purchase progress item. Each seller may register a plurality of terms of sale, each of which may include a quantity of goods and a price condition depending on the quantity of the goods.

According to one embodiment, the sales conditions registered by the seller may include additional information other than the quantity of the goods and the price information. For example, the seller can additionally register the quantity that can be provided for the size and color of the article.

In addition, the seller may register the condition of the additional goods that can be sold together with the desired product to be jointly purchased. For example, when using a specific item, you can register the consumable items that are periodically replaced, together with the prices that apply when purchasing them together.

5 is a diagram illustrating a method of performing a bid for a joint purchase prod- uct through auction method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

When the reverse auction of the seller is completed for the specific item for which the joint purchase is performed, the joint purchase server 400 can receive bids from the users for the item.

As described with reference to FIG. 2, the article may be registered as a joint purchase desired article by the users, and the manager may make a joint purchase decision on the article. In the auction stage, not only the users who selected the article as a joint purchase item but also other users can participate in the auction before the joint purchase is decided.

However, according to the embodiment of the present invention, the joint purchase of the article which the user himself / herself has selected as the joint purchase desired article actually proceeds, and a predetermined benefit can be provided to the user who purchases it. This benefit may simply be to provide a certain point to the users and, if the number of items is limited and the user must select the winning bidder among the users who bid at the same price, May be given. By providing such a benefit, it is possible to increase the probability that the users who have selected the common purchase item perform the actual purchase.

Referring to FIG. 5, a list of bids that the user can select in performing a joint purchase is displayed. The collective shopping mall server 400 may divide the highest and lowest prices of the sales prices received from the sellers into a predetermined number of sections to provide a plurality of bid options.

According to one embodiment, the joint purchase server 400 can set a bid period by dividing the maximum value and the minimum value into a predetermined number of intervals. The joint purchase server 400 can select the interval of the bid price to be proportional to the price range of the highest price and the lowest price registered by the sellers. For example, if the highest bid price is 50,000 won and the lowest price is 40,000 won, the interval of the bidding interval is selected in units of 1,000 won. If the highest price is 500,000 won and the lowest price is 460,000 won, Can be selected.

If all the intervals of the bidding period including the highest price and the lowest price are all selected, the users can perform the bidding by selecting the price that they consider to be the proper price. Since the transaction method of the present invention is a mixture of "joint purchase" and "auction", there is a possibility that users who choose a lower price in this case may not be able to purchase when a winning price is formed at a higher price.

The joint purchase server 400 allows the user to perform a pass-by card with respect to a price selected by the user, and this process may be performed through the card information that the user has previously registered in the joint purchase server 400 at the time of member registration. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the joint purchase server 400 is managed by a credit card company and can perform the card winner process by itself. According to another embodiment, the joint purchase server 400 can communicate with a credit card company server (not shown) .

It is mainly used in hospitality industry and traffic industry because it is advantageous that franchisee or member can change the settlement amount at the stage of recklessness. According to the present invention, the falsehood is used to prevent the user from easily canceling the bidding for the common lot, and if the winning bid amount is determined in the future, the false false is canceled at once.

According to one embodiment, the joint purchase server 400 may not disclose the number of other users who selected each bid price to each user. In this case, as in the case of the blind auction, the user can not know whether or not the winning bidder will be awarded according to his / her selected price, and accordingly, he or she can select the appropriate price for the commodity for which the collective purchase is proceeding.

According to another embodiment, the joint purchase server 400 may disclose to each user the number of other users who have selected the respective bid price. This allows the user to determine how much he or she is willing to bid on the basis of the price selection information of other users. At this stage, however, since the number of items to be finally sold can not be known, the users may have to carefully select the bid price because none of the sales conditions of the sellers recruited through reverse auction are unselected.

According to one embodiment, the time allowed for users to bid for one co-purchased item may be limited. This time may be set prior to the beginning of the user's bid for the item and may change during the bidding process by the administrator. For example, if there is a short period of time available for bidding in a joint purchase, if the buyer is able to make a joint purchase if the buyer is able to collect more, the manager will be able to identify it and extend the bidding period.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a method for determining a final price and a purchase quantity of a joint purchase progress article through auction and reverse auction information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 6, a table showing the details of bidding by users for a specific item is shown.

The common purchase server 400 determines the number of users who have selected each bid price and performed the card winning bid,

It is possible to compare the sales conditions and find the conditions for establishing the transaction that can be sold at the lowest price for the joint purchase prod- uct.

To this end, the joint purchase server 400 can determine whether each sales condition registered by the seller is satisfied, and can select the lowest price among the conditions to be established. More specifically, when the number of users who have bid on the sale by the sales price given in each sales condition is added up, and the number of users is equal to or more than the quantity indicated by the sales condition, the sales condition can be established as a transaction. In this manner, the joint purchase server 400 can select the lowest price condition among the sales conditions that can be established, and proceed with joint purchase with the lowest price as the winning price.

If the sales conditions registered by the sellers shown in FIG. 4 are exemplified, the sales conditions corresponding to 500 or more are not satisfied because the number of users performing the entire bidding is less than 500, and the sales quantity The transaction is established at the lowest price condition that satisfies. Referring to FIGS. 4 and 6, since the lowest price among the conditions satisfying the second condition of the second seller, the condition is selected and the joint purchase can proceed.

If none of the conditions of the seller is satisfied in this process, the joint purchase can be concluded, that is, failure. In this case, all users can not purchase the corresponding article.

According to the embodiment of the present invention, all the users who bid on the price higher than the winning bid price can purchase at the winning bid price. However, if the quantity of goods to be sold is limited in terms of the seller's terms of sale, it may not be possible to supply the goods to all the users who bid more than the winning bid price. In this case, the winning bidder can be selected as the winning bidder in the order of the users bidding at a high price, and when the number of items to be sold is smaller than the bidder who bids the same amount, the winning bidder can be selected through a lottery. In addition, as described above, when the user who has performed the registration of the commodity desired to be jointly purchased performs bidding, the user may be offered preferential bidding among the users bidding with the same amount.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, users who have been withdrawn from the auction may be given an additional purchase opportunity by bidding at a price lower than the auction price. For example, when the selling condition of the seller is set to a certain number or more, it is preferable that the seller sells a large quantity, so that the user who has been dropped from the winning bid may be asked whether or not to make a purchase at the winning bid price.

Also, according to one embodiment, such an additional purchase opportunity may be provided to users who have not participated in the auction, and in this case, in order to relieve the deprivation of users who made a purchase through the auction, . In addition, the number of users who do not participate in the bidding may be restricted, and in this case, it may be possible to restrict additional purchase opportunities on a first come, first served basis.

When the successful bidder of the joint purchase prod- uct is confirmed, the joint purchase server 400 can collectively cancel the winner of the card of the user who has performed the bidding, and make the final payment approval with the card of the successful bidder. At the same time, the joint purchase server 400 can transmit the reverse auction winning bid information and winning bidder condition information to the seller won in the reverse auction, and the quantity of the article to be delivered.

According to one embodiment, the joint purchase server 400 may register the article as a joint purchase article for the first time when the joint purchase ends, or may award a success fee to the user who created the article late registration at the beginning of the joint purchase start .

The successful payoff may be a point that can be used as cash in the joint purchase server 400 and the user may use it at a later time or request a deposit to his account.

If the joint purchase server 400 calculates the success rate, a predetermined fixed amount may be calculated as a success rate, or a certain percentage of the sales multiplied by the number of purchasers of the article and the winning price may be a success rate.

FIG. 7 is a block diagram illustrating an internal configuration of a joint purchase server 400 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

7, the joint purchase server 400 includes a joint purchase object management unit 410, a sales condition reception unit 420, a user bid management unit 430, a joint purchase price and quantity determination unit 440, A successful completion payment unit 460, a member information analysis unit 470, a control unit 480, and a communication unit 490. [0044]

According to one embodiment of the present invention, the joint purchase object management unit 410, the sales condition reception unit 420, the user bid management unit 430, the joint purchase price and quantity determination unit 440, the card payment execution unit 450, The success and payment unit 460, the member information analysis unit 470, the control unit 480, and the communication unit 490 may be program modules or hardware capable of communicating with external devices. Such program modules or hardware may be included in the joint purchase server 400 or other devices communicatable therewith in the form of an operating system, application program modules and other program modules, and may be physically stored in a variety of well-

Can be stored in teeth. Such program modules or hardware, on the other hand, encompass but are not limited to routines, subroutines, programs, objects, components, data structures, etc. that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types in accordance with the invention.

The jointly-purchased product management unit 410 according to an exemplary embodiment may manage a list of jointly-purchased items registered by users.

In detail, the joint purchase desired article management unit 410 accesses the joint purchase server 400 to allow users to register an article that they want to purchase as a joint purchase target article, When registered, it can be cataloged in the form of a bulletin board or the like and displayed to other users. When each user registers a common purchase item or a used product item, users who want to purchase the corresponding item select the item , And count the number of hopefuls for each item.

In addition, the joint purchase desired article management unit 410 manages the users who have registered their products for the first time for each article or registered as a common purchase item, and when the joint purchase for the article is successfully completed, And the payment unit 460 may cause the user to pay the success fee.

The joint purchase desired article management unit 410 may receive a selection input for the joint purchase prod- uct from the manager of the joint purchase server 400 and may proceed to joint purchase of the selected article.

The joint purchase desired article management unit 410 analyzes the information of the users who have selected the joint purchase hope for each article and predicts the ratio of users who actually make purchases when the joint purchase of the articles proceeds. This prediction can be performed by using the information input by the users when joining the joint purchase server 400 and performing purchase prediction for the currently selected joint purchase based on the previous purchase details of each user You can do it.

According to one embodiment, each user can input card information to perform settlement at the time of membership registration, and the joint purchase server 400 performs the purchase probability prediction through the card information of the users with the consent of the users . The joint purchase server 400 may be a component included in the card issuer server, and may perform this prediction through communication with the card issuer server.

The joint purchase desired article management unit 410 can analyze the card usage patterns of the users through the card information registered by the users. In this analysis, the purchase amount, the purchase frequency, and the type of the card And the like.

The sales condition accepting unit 420 according to an embodiment may receive sales conditions from the sellers in a reverse auction format for the items selected for joint purchase.

The sales condition receiving unit 420 may receive the number of deliverable quantities and prices of the jointly-purchased items from a plurality of sellers, and may receive a plurality of sales conditions from one seller.

According to one embodiment, the sales condition receiving unit 420 may disclose the sales conditions inputted from the respective sellers to other sellers, thereby inducing the sellers to compete. In this case, the sales condition receiving unit 420 can prevent the sales condition from being registered on the joint purchase server 400 if there is a condition that is better than the selling condition that the seller intends to register. For example, if the first seller registers the sales conditions for the B article at 1000 or more than 200,000 won, and the condition is disclosed to the seller, the second seller tries to register at 1000 or more at 210,000 won or 1500 It is not meaningful to register at more than 200,000 won, so the sales condition receiving unit 420 can prevent the registration of these sales conditions.

According to another embodiment, the sales condition receiving unit 420 can receive the sales conditions in the form of a closed reverse auction by not disclosing the sales conditions inputted from the respective sellers. In this case, the selling condition which is worse than the already registered selling condition can be registered, and the same selling condition can also be registered.

The user bidding management unit 430 according to an embodiment can perform an auction for users when all sales conditions of sellers are inputted. The user bid management unit 430 may divide the maximum price and the lowest price into the number of the predetermined intervals in the sales conditions registered by the sellers, and present them so that the users can select them.

The user bid management unit 430 may allow the card settlement unit 450 to manage the bidder of the user's card to perform the bid when the user selects the desired bid price from the bid price list.

According to one embodiment, the user bidding management unit 430 may disclose the price at which the other users performed the bidding, so that the user can refer to the bidding for performing the joint purchase later. In this case, pre-bidding users can also check their bids and change their bids, and the pre-busted price can be kept unchanged.

According to another embodiment, the user bidding management unit 430 may set the bidding details of the users to be private, so that the users can select the bids according to their wishes.

The user bid management unit 430 may enable bidding for the joint purchase for a certain period of time, and when the period ends, the bidder can be prevented from further bidding and the bidders can be determined. According to one embodiment, the user bidding management unit 430 may change the biddable period by the input of the article manager.

The joint purchase price and quantity determination unit 440 according to an embodiment analyzes the conditions received from the seller by the sales condition reception unit 420 and the contents of the bids received from the users by the user bid management unit 430, It is possible to determine a condition that the lowest bid price can be established among the conditions of the seller.

In detail, the common purchase price and quantity determination unit 440 can select a final sale price based on the number of users who selected each bid price, for a specific article for which a joint purchase is to be made. For example, if the first seller's first sales condition for a particular item is 200 or more sales at 200,000 won, it is determined whether the number of users who bid at a price of 200,000 or more is 200 or more, , The corresponding conditions can be regarded as sales conditions that can be established. In this manner, the common purchase price and quantity determination unit 440 may compare the conditions of all the sellers and then proceed with the joint purchase under the condition that the winning price is the lowest among the sales conditions that can be established. The joint purchase price and quantity determination unit 440 can cancel the joint purchase of the article if none of the conditions of all the sellers satisfy.

As described above, when sales conditions of sellers are registered in a non-public reverse auction system, the same sales conditions registered by a plurality of sellers can be selected as final auction conditions. In this case, the common purchase price and quantity determination unit 440 can determine which of the plurality of sellers having registered the same selling condition to select and deliver the seller. According to one embodiment, the common purchase price and quantity determination unit 440 may select a seller having a higher transaction performance through the joint purchase server 400, or may select a seller having a higher rating of users who have purchased goods through the seller Can be selected. According to another embodiment, the common purchase price and quantity determination unit 440 may select a seller through a lottery, or may select a seller through additional reverse auction among remaining sellers.

The joint purchase price and quantity determination unit 440 may provide an opportunity for the user who has bid for less than the winning bid price to purchase the goods that have been jointly purchased at the winning bid price, It can provide a purchase opportunity.

According to one embodiment, when the user bidding management unit 430 receives a bid price input for a joint purchase prod- uct from users, the card settlement performing unit 450 generates a bet- Can be performed. The card settlement performing unit 450 can use the card information inputted by the users after selecting the bid price and when the users join the joint purchase server 400, It might be.

When the bid price for the article to be jointly purchased is determined by the common purchase price and quantity determiner 440, the card settlement performing unit 450 bids the user to perform the bid fare for the article You can withdraw all the cards in the card collectively. In other words, the users who have won the auction and the users who have dropped out of the auction are all canceled, and the card settlement performing unit 450 receives the actual settlement Can be performed. In addition, the card settlement performing unit 450 can perform settlement based on the card information when a user who has not won a bid or a user who has not performed a bid purchase the item through an additional purchase opportunity.

The successful payout payment unit 460 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may be configured such that when a joint purchase for a specific item is completed, the first user who registers the item as a joint purchase desired item or a user Of the total cost of the service. The successful payout payment unit 460 may also pay the additional benefit to the user if the user makes a joint purchase for the item selected as the joint purchase desired item, and bids for the same.

The form of the success fee paid to the user by the success / payment unit 460 may be cash, points, coupons, and the like. In addition, the size of the maintenance can be a fixed amount and can be set at a certain percentage of the sales generated by the joint purchase. The success and payment unit 460 stores the amount of the success fee to be paid to the user who has just registered the jointly purchased product as the first jointly purchased product, Can be set to be different from each other.

The member information analyzing unit 470 according to one embodiment can receive and manage member information including card information from users when the users access the joint purchase server 400 and perform membership registration.

The user information analysis unit 470 analyzes the information of users who desire the article for each article and analyzes the probability of actually purchasing the article desired by the users, Can be provided to sellers.

The information used by the membership information analysis unit 470 for analysis may be the age, gender, etc. of the member, and the usage history of the card registered by the user may also be used. In addition, the user's own interest field input by the user in joining the joint purchase server 400 can also be used.

For example, the member information analyzing unit 470 may analyze the age and gender of a major user of a jointly-purchased product, and analyze whether the age and gender of users who selected the product match the corresponding age and gender. In addition, the member information analyzing unit 470 can analyze the price range of the joint purchase desired article, analyze the card settlement history of users who selected the article, and analyze whether to purchase the article.

The member information analyzing unit 470 can calculate and provide the ratio of users who wish to purchase the product to the purchaser when the joint purchaser has performed the joint purchase for each item based on the analyzed contents.

For example, when the number of users who chose to purchase a product A is 300, the rating for these users is classified as "high purchase probability", "middle purchase probability", "low purchase probability" Information can be provided to the administrator. Alternatively, the member information analysis unit 470 may calculate the purchase probability as a number and provide it to the manager or the seller.

The control unit 480 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a joint purchase object management unit 410, a sale condition reception unit 420, a user bid management unit 430, a joint purchase price and quantity determination unit 440, a card settlement unit 450 ), The success / payment unit 460, the member information analysis unit 470, and the communication unit 490. That is, the control unit 480 according to the present invention includes a joint purchase object management unit 410, a sales condition reception unit 420, a user bid management unit 430, a joint purchase price and quantity determination unit 440, 450, the success / payment unit 460, the member information analysis unit 470, and the communication unit 490, respectively.

The communication unit 490 according to one embodiment enables communication between the joint purchase server 400 and an external device. More specifically, communication between the joint purchase server 400 and the user terminal 100, the administrator terminal 200, and the seller terminal 300 is enabled.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart illustrating a method for a joint purchase server 400 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention to conduct a joint purchase combining auction and reverse auction methods.

Referring to FIG. 8, the joint purchase server 400 may collect joint purchase desired article selection information from users (S810). The users may be users registered in advance as a member of the joint purchase server 400, and may register their personal information and card information at the time of membership registration.

The method for collective purchasing server 400 collects jointly purchased product information from users is a method in which when a specific user first registers a joint purchase recommendation item, it collects relevant product selection information of other users, To count the number of users who desire. Alternatively, when a specific user registers a review period of an item used by the user, and the other users view the selected item and perform a joint purchase selection for the item, the number of users may be counted.

According to one embodiment, the joint purchase server 400 analyzes the membership information and the card information of users who have selected a joint purchase target product selected by the users, and has a right to select a joint purchase progress item May be provided to the administrator (S820).

Then, the joint purchase server 400 may receive the selection information on the article to be jointly purchased, which is determined based on the analysis information about the joint purchasing users and information on the joint purchase desired article (S830) .

The joint purchase server 400 performs a joint purchase for an item selected by the manager through an inverse auction and auction method. In step S840, the sales condition of the seller can be collected through the reverse auction method. Merchants may register multiple sales terms, each of which may include unit prices based on sales volume.

After collecting the sales conditions inputted by the sellers, the joint purchase server 400 divides the highest and lowest prices among the conditions suggested by the sellers into a predetermined section, and determines whether the users who intend to purchase the goods through the joint purchase have a predetermined number of bids You can let me choose.

If the user selects one of the bid prices, the joint purchase server 400 can perform the card reward corresponding to the bid amount selected by the user using the card information input from the users (S850).

When the bidding of the users is completed, the joint purchase server 400 analyzes the sales conditions registered by the sellers and the number of users who bid on each bid price to determine whether the lowest value among the conditions And the price of the condition can be selected as the final winning bid (S860).

When the winning bid price is determined, the common purchase server 400 cancels all winning cards in advance and performs the actual payment approval for the winning bid only for the winning cards (S870) . According to an embodiment, it is possible to provide additional opportunity purchases to the winning bidder even to the users who failed to make a decline, and to provide a certain number of users who have not participated in the auction.

When the joint purchase is completed, the joint purchase server 400 registers a user who registered the jointly purchased article for the first time or a later use period of the jointly-purchased article to allow other users to select the same, (S880).

As described above, according to the embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to grasp the demand scale of each product before commencement of the cooperative purchase through the procedure of selecting the cooperative purchase desired product, thereby helping efficient enforcement of cooperative purchase, The cost of goods can be determined efficiently through a joint purchase method. In addition, since the payment is made through the card acceptor and the actual approval in the future, even if the bid price of the user is different from the final bid price, it can be easily changed without a separate settlement procedure.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made in the present invention without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention. There will be. It is therefore to be understood that the above-described embodiments are illustrative in all aspects and not restrictive. For example, each component described as a single entity may be distributed and implemented, or components described as being distributed may be implemented in a combined form.

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

100: User terminal
200: administrator terminal
300: Merchant terminal
400: joint purchase server

Claims (6)

A method for performing a transaction through a joint purchase method using auction and reverse auction,
Receiving joint purchase-desired article information from users and managing a desired number of users for each article;
Receiving, from an article manager, whether to proceed with a joint purchase of new articles;
Receiving a sales quantity and a sales price from a plurality of sellers through reverse auction for a specific article;
Generating a plurality of bids by dividing a maximum price and a minimum price of the input sales price into a predetermined number of sections and receiving bids of the users for each bid;
Performing bidirectional bid for each user's bid with the card of the user who made the bid;
Deriving the lowest bid price that satisfies the sales quantity and the sales price inputted by the sellers;
Collectively canceling the false prize money and performing a payment approval corresponding to a winning price with a card of users bidding at a price higher than the winning price; And
And providing an opportunity for users who have bidded below the winning bid price to purchase a joint purchase progress article at the winning bid price. The method according to claim 1,
The selling condition deriving step includes:
If the number of users bidding at a price equal to or greater than the sales quantity is greater than or equal to the sales quantity at the sale price according to the sales quantity included in the sales conditions of the sellers, it is determined that the sales condition can be established, And selecting the winning bid price as the winning bid price. The method according to claim 1,
Receiving personal information including card information from the users and performing member enrollment; And
Further comprising calculating the specific article purchase probability of the users through the member information and the card information of the users wishing to jointly purchase the specific article and providing the calculated information to the article manager or the seller, How to Perform a Transaction. The method according to claim 1,
Further comprising the step of providing the joint purchase opportunity to the predetermined number of users who have not performed bidding when the winning bid price is determined as the winning bid price. The method according to claim 1,
Further comprising canceling the corresponding purchase if the number of bidders for the specific item does not satisfy one of the sales conditions of the seller. A joint purchase server for performing a joint purchase using an auction and reverse auction,
A desired article management unit which receives joint purchase information from users and manages a desired number of users for each article and receives a joint purchase progress of new articles from an article manager;
A sales condition receiving unit for receiving a sales quantity and a sales price from a plurality of sellers through reverse auction for a specific item;
A user bid management unit for generating a plurality of bids by dividing a maximum price and a minimum price of the input sales price into a predetermined number of sections and inputting bids of the users for respective bids;
A price of the lowest purchase price satisfying the sales quantity and the selling price entered by the sellers and providing an opportunity to purchase the joint purchase progress product at the winning price to the users bidding with the winning price only, And a quantity determining unit; And
The bidding process is performed for the bids of the respective users with the card of the bidders, and when the bid price is determined, the bidders are collectively canceled and the payment approval And a card settlement performing unit for performing the card settlement.

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