KR20200103983A - Food pre-order system considering user's arrival time - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a food pre-order system considering an expected arrival time of a user, which includes: a service server configured to allow a user terminal to be connected by communication, receive information necessary for food reservation from the user terminal and provide the information to a terminal of a restaurant; an information providing unit for providing the terminal of the restaurant with an expected arrival time of the user to the restaurant, in which the time is obtained through information provided from the user terminal connected to the service server or from an external device; a cost payment unit configured to pay for the food reserved through the user terminal; a revenue calculation unit configured to settle an amount according to a predetermined ratio from a business operator of the restaurant with respect to expenses paid by the cost payment unit; and a database unit for storing data necessary to provide a service for the reservation of the food. According to the present invention, when the user reserves food at the restaurant, the user arrival time in consideration of the user moving speed is provided to the restaurant, so that the time of completion of food is fulfilled to the time of arrival of the user, and accordingly, the user is provided with food in an optimal condition. Particularly, the user in an express bus or the like at a rest area on an expressway easily eats the food within the departure time of the vehicle, and the restaurant operator cooks the food conveniently according to the arrival time of the user.

Description

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The present invention relates to a food pre-order system, and more particularly, to a food pre-order system in consideration of a user's expected arrival time.

In general, in order to reserve food at a restaurant, a user makes a reservation by calling or visiting a restaurant. Such phone calls or visit reservations have caused a lot of inconvenience to users.

However, in order to alleviate the inconvenience of such food reservation, the "network-based restaurant reservation method and system" of Korean Patent Laid-Open Patent No. 10-2002-0017051 has been proposed, which is a network-based restaurant reservation device that makes restaurant reservations using a communication network. In the method, by using a communication means, a plurality of restaurant lists corresponding to a request for information by a user for each dish, reservation time, region, and atmosphere are transmitted, and the restaurant corresponding to the restaurant selected by the user based on the plurality of restaurant lists. It transmits detailed information about the user, transmits the user's reservation information and user information to the restaurant owner and communication fee company, and transmits communication fee reduction information corresponding to the number of reservations of the user calculated based on the reservation information to the communication fee company. A transmission unit for transmitting; And a receiving unit for receiving reservation information and user information selected by the user based on detailed information about the restaurant.

However, such a conventional technology does not take into account the user's arrival time at the restaurant, so that when the user arrives at the restaurant, the food is not completed in time, causing the inconvenience of waiting for a considerable amount of time, or It had a problem that the taste fell after cooling.

In particular, in the case of a highway rest area, it takes time for the user to arrive at the expressway rest area and order food, and it takes time for the food to finish cooking even after the order, so that the user can order and consume food within a limited time. As it takes a considerable amount of time, there was a problem in that the express bus that he used while eating food departed and suffered frustration, or was in a hurry to board the express bus in a state where he did not eat properly. It cannot be solved even with the prior art.

These problems or inconveniences are not limited to highway rest areas, and are similarly applied to most restaurants.

In order to solve the problems of the prior art as described above, the present invention provides the restaurant with the arrival time of the user taking into account the moving speed of the user when the user reserves the food at the restaurant, so that the time of completion of the food is the time of arrival of the user. This allows users to enjoy food in an optimal state, especially at rest areas on expressways, allowing users such as express buses to easily eat food within the departure time of the vehicle, and it is convenient for the restaurant operator to meet the user's arrival time. The purpose of this is to increase the reliability of the coincidence between the time of arrival of the user and the time of completion of the food by accurately providing the time required for cooking by time and food to the restaurant operator.

Other objects of the present invention will be easily understood through the description of the following embodiments.

In order to achieve the above object, according to one aspect of the present invention, the user's terminal is connected by communication, and the information necessary for food reservation is provided from the user's terminal and provided to the terminal of the restaurant. Service server; An information providing unit for providing the terminal of the restaurant with an expected arrival time of the user's restaurant, which is obtained through information provided from the user's terminal connected to the service server or from an external device; A cost payment unit configured to pay for the food reserved through the user's terminal; A profit calculation unit configured to settle an amount according to a predetermined ratio from a business operator of a restaurant with respect to the expenses paid by the cost settlement unit; And a database unit for storing data necessary for provision of a service for the reservation of the food; including, a food pre-order system in consideration of a user's expected arrival time.

The information providing unit is a movement route system in which the external device is installed in the user's vehicle, or a location information providing system that provides movement information of the vehicle on which the user is boarded, and in the case of the movement route system, the user's terminal Information necessary for obtaining the expected arrival time of the user's restaurant is provided from the movement route system at the request of interlocking with the user, and in the case of the location information system, the identification information of the user's boarding vehicle is provided from the user's terminal. The vehicle movement information corresponding to the identification information may be provided from the location information providing system as information necessary for obtaining the expected arrival time of the restaurant by the user.

Using a machine learning algorithm from information provided from the user's terminal or the external device, learning to obtain the expected arrival time of the user's restaurant is performed, and the user's arrival at the restaurant obtained by the learning It may further include a machine learning analysis unit that provides the predetermined time to be used by the information providing unit.

The information of the restaurant that has been accessed by the service server and executed an electronic contract for receiving a given service is provided so that the user can use it, registers the restaurant, stores it in the database, and stores the location information from the restaurant information. Is extracted and provided to the information provider as information necessary for obtaining the expected arrival time of the restaurant by the user, and transmits a confirmation message to the terminal of the restaurant every set period, and does not receive a reply message set from the terminal of the restaurant. In this case, the confirmation message is retransmitted at a set time interval and a set number of times until the reply message is received, and if the reply message is not received within a given time for retransmission of the set number of confirmation messages, the corresponding restaurant is sent to the service. It may further include a registration change unit for removing from the list of restaurants provided to the user's terminal from the server, or inactivating the selection to the user's terminal.

Receive information on the start and end of cooking for each food in real time from the terminal of the restaurant connected to the service server, calculate the average time required for cooking for each food by time slot for the restaurant, and the user It may further include a cooking time weighting guide unit for guiding the terminal of the restaurant to a limit point at which cooking should start in order to match the expected arrival time of the user to the restaurant by reflecting the calculated average time in the current time zone. have.

According to the food pre-order system in consideration of the user's expected arrival time according to the present invention, when the user makes a reservation at a restaurant, the arrival time of the user in consideration of the user's movement speed is provided to the restaurant, thereby indicating the completion time of the food. In order to be able to match the time of day, it is possible to provide food in an optimal condition to users. In particular, it is possible for users such as express buses at rest areas on expressways to conveniently eat food within the departure time of the vehicle. The reliability of the coincidence of the time of arrival of the user and the time of completion of the food is improved by ensuring that food can be cooked conveniently according to the time of arrival, and further, the time required for cooking by time and food is accurately provided to the restaurant operator. You can increase it.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a food pre-order system in consideration of a user's expected arrival time according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In the present invention, various changes may be made and various embodiments may be provided, and specific embodiments will be illustrated in the drawings and described in detail. However, this is not intended to limit the present invention to a specific embodiment, and should be understood in a way that includes all changes, equivalents, or substitutes included in the technical spirit and scope of the present invention, and may be modified in various other forms. It can be, and the scope of the present invention is not limited to the following examples.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, and the same reference numerals are assigned to the same or corresponding components regardless of the reference numerals, and redundant descriptions thereof will be omitted.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a food pre-order system in consideration of a user's expected arrival time according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a food pre-order system 10 considering a user's expected arrival time according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a service server 11, an information providing unit 12, a cost settlement unit 13, and a profit settlement. It may include a unit 14 and a database unit 15.

The service server 11 allows the user's terminal 1 to connect through communication, and receives information necessary for food reservation from the user's terminal 1 and provides it to the terminal 5 of the restaurant. The service server 11 allows the user's terminal 1 and the restaurant's terminal 5 to perform registration together with identity authentication through input of required items or submission of documents, respectively, when connecting, and the user's terminal (1) In order to allow normal use of the terminal 5 of the restaurant, ID and password input, public certificate, credit card, and other various authentication means may be used to perform the personal authentication process. The service server 11 provides a list of restaurants by region or by street or by rest area or by food type when the user's terminal (1) who has completed identification is accessed, as well as food and cooking that can be ordered at the selected restaurant. Time can be provided as information. In addition, the service server 11 enables the registration or change of information on food when the terminal 5 of the restaurant that has completed identification is accessed, and the terminal 1 of the user who has selected or is currently selecting his restaurant ) Various information necessary for business, including sales information by number or period, can be provided.

The user's terminal 1 and the restaurant's terminal 5 are applications or programs necessary for the service provided by the present invention, that is, a service that allows a user to select a restaurant to reserve food, or a restaurant to receive an order from a user. Not only a POS terminal with functions necessary for performing the service, including a smartphone or tablet PC, or a PC or laptop that enables the installation of the device and performs wireless or wired communication while driving such applications or programs, Various information processing and communication devices can be used.

The information provider 12 determines the estimated arrival time of the user's restaurant, which is obtained through information provided from the user's terminal 1 connected to the service server 11 or the external devices 2, 3, 4, and 5).

The information providing unit 12 is a movement route system 2 or 3 installed in the user's vehicle, for example, a bus or a truck, or a location information providing system that provides movement information of the vehicle on which the user is boarded. (4), and in the case of the movement route system (2,3), information necessary for acquiring the estimated arrival time of the user's restaurant at the request of the user's terminal (1) is transferred to the movement route system (2,3). ), and in the case of the location information system (4), the user's terminal (1) receives identification information about the user's vehicle and moves the vehicle corresponding to the identification information from the location information system (4). The information can be provided as information necessary for obtaining the expected arrival time of the restaurant by the user.

The cost settlement unit 13 allows the user to pay for the food reserved through the terminal 1 of the user. The cost settlement unit 13 makes payment for food by communication with a payment system 6, for example, a payment system of a card company, a deposit system of a bank, or a system that enables various types of payment, including a point payment system. Can be done.

The profit settlement unit 14 calculates the amount of the expenses paid by the cost settlement unit 13 according to a predetermined ratio from the restaurant business operator. Here, the predetermined ratio is in consideration of the fee for the restaurant business operator to receive the service of the present invention, and may be determined during a contract process with the restaurant business operator, for example, in the electronic contract process. The revenue settlement unit 14 may limit the above amount from the user's food cost in advance, and then remit it to the restaurant operator's registered account, or allow the restaurant operator to receive the user's food cost directly and then receive a remittance of a fixed rate. In addition, such settlement may be performed for each individual service or for each predetermined period, and various settlement methods may be used without limitation, and interworking with external systems required for such settlement may be performed.

The database unit 15 stores data necessary for provision of a service for food reservation, and is not limited thereto, and information about the user provided from the user's terminal 1 and the terminal 5 of the restaurant. It stores information related to the restaurant, and other contracts required for service provision or various applications or programs can be stored.

The food pre-order system 10 taking into account the expected arrival time of the user according to an embodiment of the present invention may further include a machine learning analysis unit 16, a registration change unit 17, and a cooking time weighting guide unit 18. have.

The machine learning analysis unit 16 uses a machine learning algorithm from information provided from the user's terminal 1 or external devices 2, 3, and 4 to obtain the expected arrival time of the user's restaurant. It is possible to provide the information providing unit 12 to use the estimated time of arrival of the restaurant of the user acquired through the learning for the purpose of learning. The machine learning analysis unit 16 can learn the pattern module for the expected arrival time of the user's restaurant by using statistical data and mapping relationship using an artificial neural network technique, the user's terminal 1 or external device 2, A pattern model for the expected arrival time of the user's restaurant by receiving the information provided from 3,4) and using the input information as an input value using a preset machine learning algorithm, but using the expected arrival time of the corresponding user as an output value Can be inferred. The machine learning analysis unit 16 uses information provided from the user's terminal 1 or external devices 2, 3, 4 as input values, but a preset machine learning algorithm that targets the user's expected arrival time at the restaurant. By using, the mapping relationship between the feature pattern and the user's expected arrival time at the restaurant can be detected, and the pattern model can be learned from a plurality of given information and mapping relationships.

The registration change unit 17 receives information on the restaurant that has performed an electronic contract for receiving a given service by being accessed by the service server 11 so that the user can use it, and performs registration of the restaurant to the database unit 15. It can be stored, the location information can be extracted from the restaurant information, and provided to the information providing unit 12 as information necessary for obtaining the expected arrival time of the restaurant by the user. In addition, the registration change unit 17 transmits a confirmation message to the terminal 5 of the restaurant at a set period, for example, every week, and when a reply message is not received from the terminal 5 of the restaurant, when receiving a reply message Retransmits the confirmation message of the set time interval and the set number of times, and if the reply message is not received within the given time for the retransmission of the set number of confirmation messages, the restaurant is provided from the service server 11 to the user's terminal 1 It can be removed from the list of restaurants, or inactivated so that selection is impossible with the user's terminal 1. Here, the confirmation message is, for example, "If the current business is working normally, please send me once. Etc.

The cooking time weighting guide unit 18 receives information on the start and end of cooking for each food in real time from the terminal 5 of the restaurant connected to the service server 11, The average time required for cooking is calculated, and the limit time at which cooking must be started is indicated on the terminal 5 of the restaurant in order to match the expected arrival time of the user by reflecting the average time calculated for the food ordered by the user in the current time zone. Be guided. The cooking time weighting guide unit 18 allows information on the start and end of cooking for each food to be confirmed through an operation signal of a corresponding item to the terminal 5 of the restaurant. In addition, the guide at the time limit may indicate on the terminal 50 of the restaurant at least a time when the ordered food should be placed, or may count how much time remains and display it on the terminal 5 of the restaurant.

According to the food pre-order system in consideration of the user's expected arrival time according to the present invention, when the user reserves the food at the restaurant, the user's arrival time in consideration of the moving speed of the user is provided to the restaurant, so that the time of completion of the food is determined by the user. In order to meet the arrival point of the vehicle, it is possible to provide optimal food to users, and in particular, at rest areas on expressways, users such as express buses can easily eat food within the departure time of the vehicle.

In addition, according to the present invention, the restaurant operator can conveniently cook food in accordance with the user's arrival time, and furthermore, the restaurant operator can accurately provide the time required for cooking by time and food, so that the user's arrival It is possible to increase the reliability of the coincidence of the time point and the time of completion of the food.

As described above, the present invention has been described with reference to the accompanying drawings, but, of course, various modifications and variations can be made without departing from the technical spirit of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be defined by the claims to be described later as well as those equivalents to the claims.

1: User's terminal 2,3: Vehicle movement route system
4: Location information provision system 5: Restaurant terminal
6: payment system 11: service server
12: Information provision department 13: Expense payment department
14: Revenue Settlement Department 15: Database Department
16: machine learning analysis unit 17: registration change unit
18: Cooking time weighting guide part

Claims (5)

A service server for allowing a user's terminal to access through communication, receiving information necessary for food reservation from the user's terminal and providing it to a terminal of a restaurant;
An information providing unit for providing the terminal of the restaurant with the estimated arrival time of the user, which is obtained through information provided from the user's terminal connected to the service server or from an external device;
A cost payment unit configured to pay for the food reserved through the user's terminal;
A profit calculation unit configured to settle an amount according to a predetermined ratio from a business operator of a restaurant with respect to the expenses paid by the cost settlement unit; And
A database unit for storing data necessary to provide a service for the reservation of the food;
Containing, food pre-order system in consideration of the user's expected arrival time. The method according to claim 1,
The information providing unit,
The external device is a movement route system installed in the user's vehicle, or a location information providing system that provides movement information of the vehicle on which the user is boarded, and in the case of the movement route system, a request by interlocking the user's terminal By means of the movement route system, information necessary for obtaining the expected arrival time of the user's restaurant is provided from the movement route system, and in the case of the location information system, the location information providing system receives identification information on the user's vehicle boarding from the user's terminal. A food pre-order system in consideration of the user's expected arrival time, receiving the vehicle movement information corresponding to the identification information from, as information necessary for obtaining the user's expected arrival time at the restaurant. The method according to claim 1,
Using a machine learning algorithm from information provided from the user's terminal or the external device, learning to obtain the expected arrival time of the user's restaurant is performed, and the user's arrival at the restaurant obtained by the learning A food pre-order system in consideration of a user's expected arrival time, further comprising a machine learning analysis unit that provides a predetermined time to be used by the information providing unit. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3,
The information of the restaurant that has been accessed by the service server and executed an electronic contract for receiving the given service is provided so that the user can use it, registers the restaurant, stores it in the database, and stores the location information from the information of the restaurant. Is extracted and provided to the information provider as information necessary for obtaining the expected arrival time of the restaurant by the user, and transmits a confirmation message to the terminal of the restaurant every set period, and does not receive a reply message set from the terminal of the restaurant. In this case, the confirmation message is retransmitted at a set time interval and a set number of times until the reply message is received, and if the reply message is not received within a given time for retransmission of the set number of confirmation messages, the corresponding restaurant is sent to the service. A food pre-order system in consideration of the expected arrival time of the user, further comprising a registration change unit that removes from the list of restaurants provided to the user's terminal from the server or inactivates the user's terminal so that selection is impossible. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3,
Receive information on the start and end of cooking for each food in real time from the terminal of the restaurant connected to the service server, calculate the average time required for cooking for each food by time slot for the restaurant, and the user Further comprising a cooking time weighting guide unit for guiding the terminal of the restaurant to a limit point at which cooking should be started in order to match the expected arrival time of the user to the restaurant by reflecting the calculated average time in the current time zone, Food pre-order system considering the user's expected arrival time.

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