KR20200107227A - Method and server of managing food order - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a food order management method which comprises the following steps of: receiving a request of a food order page to be provided to a portable terminal of a customer from an access point (AP); providing the food order page to the AP; and receiving information about food ordered through the provided food order page by the customer from the AP. According to the present invention, the portable terminal receives the food order page provided to the AP, food is ordered through the food order page displayed in the portable terminal, and the ordered food is paid through the food order page. When Wi-Fi is connected between an AP of another store using the same SSID as that of the AP and the portable terminal, the food order page is provided to the AP of another store. Moreover, food can be conveniently ordered by executing a web browser installed in the portable terminal without installation of a separate application in the portable terminal of the customer.

Description

{Method and server of managing food order}

The present invention relates to a food order management method, and more particularly, a food order management server that can easily order food by running a web browser already installed on the mobile terminal without installing a separate application on the customer's mobile terminal, and It's about how.

Conventionally, in the case of providing restaurant information or menu information through a website operated by each store, each restaurant-specific site must be used individually, so that the customer has to know the website address in advance.

In order to solve this inconvenience, a food ordering application (e.g., the nation's app for delivery) has been developed that allows food orders from multiple stores to be ordered through a single site or app, but customers download the app to their smartphones. After installation, separate personal information must be entered to place an order at the store, which complicates the ordering process.

Although a lot of food ordering applications for ordering food delivery have been developed as described above, there is no app that allows customers to conveniently place an order when visiting a real store, and only delivery-oriented apps are being used.

In addition, users who do not use these apps due to the rejection of downloading and installing apps on their smartphones have many problems.

Therefore, the first problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a food order management method that can easily order food by running a web browser already installed on the mobile terminal without installing a separate application on the customer's mobile terminal. .

The second problem to be solved by the present invention is a food order management server that can accurately provide customers with food information ordered by store customers and expected waiting time when visiting a store by using food order information of customers who actually visited the store. Is to provide.

Further, it is to provide a computer-readable recording medium in which a program for executing the above-described method on a computer is recorded.

In order to achieve the first object, the present invention comprises: receiving a request from an AP for a food order web page to be provided to a customer's portable terminal; Providing the food order web page to the AP; And receiving information on food ordered by the customer from the AP through the provided food order web page, wherein the portable terminal receives the food order web page provided to the AP, and ordering food displayed on the portable terminal When food is ordered through a web page, the ordered food is paid through the food ordering web page, and a Wi-Fi connection is established between the portable terminal and the AP of another store using the same SSID as the AP, the food It provides a food order management method, characterized in that providing the order web page to the AP of the other store.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the food order web page includes statistics of food ordered by customers, and when information on food ordered by the customer is received from the AP, food statistics of a food order web page provided to the AP It may further include the step of updating.

In addition, when receiving information on food ordered by a customer from the AP, it is preferable to provide at least one or more of an ordered food being cooked and an expected waiting time through the food ordering web page.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, by using map information stored in the portable terminal, geographic location information of the portable terminal, and direction information of the camera of the portable terminal, the store information displayed in the image captured by the camera is acquired, and , It is possible to display the menu information of the store in augmented reality.

In order to achieve the second task, the present invention receives a request from an AP for a food order web page to be provided to a customer's portable terminal, and receives information on food ordered by the customer from the AP through the food order web page. ; And a transmission unit for providing the food order web page to the AP, wherein the portable terminal receives the food order web page provided to the AP, food is ordered through the food order web page displayed on the portable terminal, and When the ordered food is paid through the food order web page, and a Wi-Fi connection is established between the portable terminal and the AP of another store using the same SSID as the AP, the transmission unit sends the food order web page to the other store. It provides a food order management server, characterized in that provided to the AP of.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the food order web page includes statistics of food ordered by customers, and when information on food ordered by the customer is received from the AP, food statistics of a food order web page provided to the AP It may further include a management unit for updating.

In addition, the food ordering web page includes at least one or more of the ordered food being cooked and the expected waiting time, and upon receiving information on the food ordered by the customer from the AP, at least one or more of the ordered food being cooked and the expected waiting time It is preferable to further include a management unit to update.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the portable terminal acquires store information displayed in an image photographed with the camera using pre-stored map information, geographical location information of the portable terminal, and direction information of the camera of the portable terminal. And, it is possible to display the menu information of the store in augmented reality.

In order to solve the above other technical problem, the present invention provides a computer-readable recording medium recording a program for executing the above-described food order management method on a computer.

According to the present invention, it is possible to easily order food by running a web browser already installed on the mobile terminal without installing a separate application on the mobile terminal of the customer.

In addition, according to the present invention, by utilizing the food order information of customers who actually visited the offline store, it is possible to accurately provide the customer with food information ordered by the store visitor, and the estimated waiting time when visiting the store.

1 is a block diagram of a food ordering system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 shows an example of a structure of a beacon frame broadcast by an AP.
3 is a block diagram of a food order management server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a flowchart of a food order management method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a flowchart of a food order management method according to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings in which a person of ordinary skill in the art can easily implement the present invention. However, these examples are for explaining the present invention in more detail, and it will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art that the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto.

The configuration of the invention for clarifying the solution to the problem to be solved by the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings based on a preferred embodiment of the present invention, but the same in assigning reference numerals to the components of the drawings For the components, even if they are on different drawings, the same reference numerals are given, and it should be noted in advance that components of other drawings may be referred to when necessary when describing the drawings. In addition, when it is determined that a detailed description of a well-known function or configuration related to the present invention and other matters may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention in describing the operating principle of the preferred embodiment of the present invention in detail, Its detailed description is omitted.

In addition, throughout the specification, when a part is said to be'connected' to another part, it is not only'directly connected', but also'indirectly connected' with another element in the middle. Include. In this specification, the singular form also includes the plural form unless specifically stated in the phrase. As used herein, “comprises” or “comprising” excludes the presence or addition of one or more other elements, steps, operations, or elements other than the recited element, step, operation, or element. I never do that.

1 is a block diagram of a food ordering system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the food ordering system according to the present embodiment includes a portable terminal 110, an access point (AP, 120), a store terminal 130, a management server 140, and a payment server 150. .

The portable terminal 110 is a terminal capable of wireless communication possessed by a customer, and the wireless communication is preferably Wi-Fi (Wi-Fi). Wi-Fi is a local area network technology that enables wireless Internet access within a certain distance by using radio waves or infrared transmission methods in places where wireless access devices (APs, Access Points) are installed.

After the customer enters the store, the portable terminal 110 is operated to search for an AP for Wi-Fi communication. The portable terminal 110 may display the SSIDs (Service Set Identifiers) of the searched APs on the display device.

The access point (AP) 120 allows the portable terminal 110 to access an Internet network through Wi-Fi communication.

In order to notify the existence of the AP 120, the AP 120 broadcasts an SSID to a terminal to which a Wi-Fi connection is attempted to notify the existence of the AP 120. The terminals display the received SSID broadcasting signal on the display device, try to connect to the AP 120 through the selected SSID, and establish a session connection through an authentication procedure.

The AP 120 announces its SSID using a beacon frame. Nearby terminals can easily discover the AP 120.

An example of a wireless network management frame of IEEE 802.11 may be used as a broadcast frame in which the AP 120 periodically notifies the existence of a wireless network (BSS) under its control.

The role of the beacon frame is a frame that the AP 120 periodically broadcasts to notify the existence of a wireless network through broadcasting and connect to the wireless network by finding 802.11, which is a wireless network.

2 shows an example of a structure of a beacon frame broadcast by an AP.

Essential fields of a beacon frame are classified into a timestamp, a beacon interval, capability information, and a service set identifier (SSID).

The time stamp is 8 bytes and is a field for synchronization between stations within a wireless network (BSS).

The beacon period is 2 bytes, and the smaller the interval is, the more advantageous the handover mobility of the mobile terminal moving faster, but the longer the radio resource of the shared channel is consumed.

The capability information is 2 bytes, which is information on a specific capability required by a mobile terminal to participate in the wireless network.

The SSID consists of 0 to 4 bytes, and is an ID that distinguishes several APs. SSID is a mandatory field corresponding to the body of a beacon frame transmitted through a wireless LAN, and is a 32-bit unique identifier attached to the mandatory header of a packet. The names appearing after the portable terminal 110 searches for Wi-Fi are SSIDs.

Meanwhile, a connection with the AP 120 is attempted through the SSID signal searched for by the portable terminal 110 and the authentication process begins. As an example of the authentication process, when the AP 120 receives a shared key shared in advance for authentication from the portable terminal 110, the portable terminal 110 is authenticated and can access the wireless network. . As another example of the authentication process, the portable terminal 110 and the AP 120 may be connected without using a separate shared key during the authentication process. If a separate shared key is not used in the authentication process with the AP 120, when the user selects the AP 120 in the portable terminal 110, a Wi-Fi connection is established.

In connection between the portable terminal 110 and the AP 120 according to an embodiment of the present invention, it is preferable to select an AP having the strongest beacon frame signal from among SSIDs having a history of access by the portable terminal 110.

For example, in the case of an affiliated store using the brand A, if the SSIDs of the APs 120 of all affiliated stores are displayed as A_SSID, the AP displayed as A_SSID even when a customer visits an affiliate store in another region using the brand A. And the customer's portable terminal are connected. In this case, since the AP of the affiliated store visited by the customer has the strongest signal of the beacon frame than other APs, and is the SSID with the previous connection history, the A_SSID is preferentially connected to the customer's portable terminal. Accordingly, it is possible to easily reconnect the SSIDs of the affiliated store APs once accessed by setting the SSIDs of all the affiliated store APs to be the same.

When the portable terminal 110 is connected to the AP 120 via Wi-Fi, the AP 120 transmits a food order web page of the corresponding restaurant to the portable terminal 110 so that the customer can check it. It is preferable that the food order web page transmitted by the AP 120 to the portable terminal 110 causes the food order web page to be popped up in the portable terminal 110.

At this time, the AP 120 may request the food order web page to the management server 140 and transmit the food order web page received from the management server 140 to the portable terminal 110, if necessary, the AP The 120 may store the food order web page in a separate storage device and transmit it to the portable terminal 110.

Therefore, the customer who visits the store can be provided with a food order web page of the corresponding restaurant through the operation of connecting the Wi-Fi SSID without installing a separate app on the portable terminal 110.

The store terminal 130 receives ordered food information transmitted from the portable terminal 110 to the management server 140 from the management server 140. It is also possible for the store terminal 130 to receive the ordered food information transmitted from the portable terminal 110 through the AP 120 without going through the management server 140.

In addition, the store terminal 130 receives that payment of the food ordered from the payment server 150 has been completed. The store terminal 130 may transmit the paid food information to the management server 140 so that the management server 140 can grasp customer preference using food information made up to payment.

When the management server 140 receives a request for a food order web page from the AP 120, the management server 140 transmits the food order web page to the AP 140. Thereafter, the AP 140 transmits a food order web page to the portable terminal 110 and receives ordered food information from the portable terminal 110.

The management server 140 transmits the received food information to the store terminal 130 so that the store can receive food orders and prepare food.

On the other hand, the management server 140 receives the food information paid from the store terminal 130, and updates the food order web page of the store based on the paid food information. It is preferable that the food order web page includes a list of foods ordered by many customers.

It is possible to create a list of foods ordered by many customers based on the food information ordered through the food ordering web page, but because reasons such as change or cancellation may be issued after the order, it is also possible to write based on the food information paid for. It is possible.

The payment server 150 can pay through a method of paying through a food order web page and a method of paying through a store terminal 130 by a customer.

When paying through a food ordering web page, customers can sit at a table in the store and prepay for the ordered food. At this time, when the ordered food is paid through the portable terminal 110, the payment server 150 notifies the store terminal 130 that the ordered food has been paid. At this time, the payment server 150 may notify not only the store terminal 130 but also the management server 140 that the ordered food has been paid.

On the other hand, in the case of payment through the store terminal 130, the customer may post-payment with a payment method such as a credit card or cash after finishing a meal. At this time, when the ordered food is paid through the store terminal 130, the payment server 150 notifies the store terminal 130 that the ordered food has been paid, and additionally, the food ordered through the management server 140 is paid. You may be informed that it is complete.

3 is a block diagram of a food order management server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the food order management server according to the present embodiment includes a reception unit 141, a management unit 142, and a transmission unit 143.

The receiving unit 141 receives a request from the AP 120 for a food order web page to be provided to the customer's portable terminal 110. In addition, the receiving unit 141 receives food information ordered by the customer from the AP 120 through the food order web page.

When receiving a request for a food order web page from the AP 120, the management unit 142 transmits the food order web page to the transmission unit 143 to the AP 120.

When the reception unit 141 receives information on the food ordered by the customer from the AP, the management unit 142 updates the food statistics of the food order webpage provided to the AP, or between the order food currently being cooked and the expected waiting time. Update at least one or more.

The food order web page updated by the management unit 142 may include at least one of ordered food statistics, ordered food currently being prepared, and expected waiting time.

The ordered food statistics include a list of foods sold most in a corresponding store, a list of foods by season, a list of foods by age, and the like.

The food order webpage includes a phone number or SNS ID input field, and provides at least one of ordered food statistics, current ordered food, and expected waiting time to the customer by referring to the phone number or SNS ID entered by the customer. Can be transmitted.

In addition, the food ordering web page includes a memo field in which a customer can write a request when ordering food, so that the store can understand the customer's request by looking at the memo field.

Further, the food ordering web page includes a calling function that allows a customer visiting the store to call a clerk at a table. In this case, it is possible to eliminate the inefficiency of returning to the table after receiving the call, including a memo column in which the customer calls the clerk. By including such a memo column, the clerk can prepare a customer's request in advance and provide a service to the customer by referring to the memo column written when calling.

The transmission unit 143 transmits the food order web page to the AP 120. In addition, the transmission unit 143 transmits the ordered food information to the store terminal 130 so that the food ordered by the customer is received and prepared at the store.

Thereafter, the portable terminal 110 receives the food order web page provided to the AP 120, and food is ordered through the food order web page displayed on the portable terminal 110, and the ordered food is the food order web page. Through the process of payment through.

Meanwhile, when a Wi-Fi connection is established between the portable terminal and the AP of another store using the same SSID as the AP 120, the transmission unit 143 may provide the food order web page to the AP of the other store. Do.

4 is a flowchart of a food order management method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, the food order management method according to the present embodiment includes steps processed in a time series in the food order management system shown in FIG. 1. Therefore, even if omitted below, the contents described above with respect to the food order management system shown in FIG. 1 are also applied to the food order management method according to the present embodiment.

In step 400, the AP 120 notifies its SSID to neighboring terminals by broadcasting the beacon frame.

In step 405, the portable terminal 110 selects the SSID of the AP 120 to be connected.

In the connection between the portable terminal 110 and the AP 120 according to an embodiment of the present invention, the user selects an AP having the strongest beacon frame signal among SSIDs having a history of accessing the portable terminal 110. It is preferable to be automatically connected to the AP 120 without selecting the SSID.

In step 410, the portable terminal 110 and the AP 120 establish a Wi-Fi connection.

When the portable terminal 110 and the AP 120 are connected in step 410, the AP 120 requests a food order web page from the management server 140 in step 415.

In step 420, the management server 140 transmits a food order web page to the AP 120.

In step 425, the AP 120 transmits the food order web page received to the portable terminal 110. When the portable terminal 110 receives a food order web page, it is preferable to display the food order web page by popping up the food order web page by executing a web browser.

In step 430, the portable terminal 110 transmits food information ordered by the customer from the received food order web page to the management server 140. In this case, it is preferable that the food order web page transmitted from the portable terminal 110 is transmitted to the management server 140 through the AP 120.

In step 435, the management server 140 transmits the ordered food information to the store terminal 130. When food information is transmitted to the store terminal 130, the customer's food order is received to the corresponding store, and the store prepares the ordered food after the food order is received. In addition, the food ordering web page includes a memo field in which a customer can write a request when ordering food, so that the store can understand the customer's request by looking at the memo field.

In step 440, the portable terminal 110 and the payment server 150 complete a payment procedure by performing a payment procedure for the ordered food.

In step 445, the payment server 150 notifies the store terminal 130 that the ordered food has been paid.

In step 450, the store terminal 130 transmits the paid food information to the management server 140.

In step 455, the management server 140 updates the food order web page using the food information ordered in step 430 or the food information paid in step 450.

The ordered food information received in step 430 by the management server 140 is preferably used to update the ordered food currently being cooked in the corresponding store and the expected waiting time, and the paid food information received in step 450 is food statistics. Is preferably used to update. The food statistics include a list of foods sold most in a corresponding store, a list of foods by season, a list of foods by age, and the like.

5 is a flowchart of a food order management method according to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Looking at the difference between FIGS. 4 and 5, FIG. 4 is a flowchart when a customer makes a payment through a food order web page, and FIG. 5 is a flowchart when a customer makes a payment through a store terminal.

In FIG. 4, since the customer can pay through the food order web page through the portable terminal 110, payment is made between the portable terminal 110 and the payment server 150, whereas in FIG. 5, the store terminal 130 ) And the payment server 150.

Accordingly, FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a case where a customer places an order at a table and prepays when ordering food, and FIG. 5 is a flow chart corresponding to a case of using an existing payment method such as a credit card and a cash card.

The food ordering method discussed above is that the portable terminal 110 receives a food order web page through a Wi-Fi connection with the AP 120 and places an order for food. However, if the customer does not visit the store, the portable terminal 110 A food order web page may be received through the URL of the food order web page using wireless mobile communication (WiBro, LTE, LTE-A, 5G, etc.). Even in this case, at least one or more of the ordered food being cooked for each store and the expected waiting time are provided through the food order web page, and the customer orders food to a specific store through the food order web page. It would be desirable to be able to do it.

Meanwhile, based on the location of the portable terminal 110, a menu for stores around the user may be provided in augmented reality (AR) so that the user can check the menu board of the store without entering each store.

It is preferable that the portable terminal 110 includes a camera and a display device. For example, it may be a personal portable terminal such as a mobile phone or a wearable device such as Google Glass, but is not limited thereto.

The portable terminal 110 may acquire geographic location information using a Global Positioning System (GPS) sensor. All business names within a certain radius from the current location of the portable terminal 110 are searched. In addition, the portable terminal 110 may acquire direction information on a direction in which the camera is directed by a user's manipulation using a geomagnetic sensor.

The display of the portable terminal 110 outputs an augmented reality screen composed of a first area displaying an image captured by a camera and a second area displaying a company name list. A photographed image is displayed in the first area, and the results of searching the company name database for the corresponding range, that is, a list of company names, are displayed in the second area. In the company name list displayed in the second area, the name of the building next to the building or the company name in the building that is not visible through the video may be displayed together, and related additional information can be obtained even if the user selects it.

The portable terminal 110 may search for a store within a certain radius around the portable terminal 110 using map information stored in advance and the geographical location information.

On the other hand, it is preferable to acquire store information displayed in an image captured by a camera using the map information and geographical location information and direction information of the portable terminal 110 and display the store menu information in augmented reality.

At least one of the ordered food being cooked for each store and the expected waiting time is displayed on the menu information of the store displayed in augmented reality, and the customer ordered food to a specific store through the menu information to the portable terminal 110 You can do it.

Embodiments of the present invention may be implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed through various computer means and recorded in a computer-readable medium. The computer-readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, and the like alone or in combination. The program instructions recorded on the medium may be specially designed and configured for the present invention, or may be known and usable to those skilled in computer software. Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tapes, optical media such as CD-ROMs and DVDs, and magnetic media such as floptical disks. -A hardware device specially configured to store and execute program instructions such as magneto-optical media, and ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Examples of the program instructions include not only machine language codes such as those produced by a compiler, but also high-level language codes that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The above-described hardware device may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operation of the present invention, and vice versa.

As described above, in the present invention, specific matters such as specific components, etc., and limited embodiments and drawings have been described, but these are provided only to help a more general understanding of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments. , If a person of ordinary skill in the field to which the present invention belongs, various modifications and variations are possible from these descriptions.

Therefore, the spirit of the present invention is limited to the described embodiments and should not be defined, and all things that are equivalent or equivalent to the claims as well as the claims to be described later fall within the scope of the inventive concept. .

Claims (9)

Receiving a request from an AP for a food order web page to be provided to the customer's portable terminal;
Providing the food order web page to the AP; And
Receiving information on the food ordered by the customer from the AP through the provided food order web page,
The portable terminal receives the food order web page provided to the AP, food is ordered through the food order web page displayed on the portable terminal, and the ordered food is paid through the food order web page,
When a Wi-Fi connection is established between the portable terminal and an AP of another store using the same SSID as the AP, the food order web page is provided to the AP of the other store. The method of claim 1,
The food order web page contains statistics on food ordered by customers,
Upon receiving information about the food ordered by the customer from the AP, updating food statistics of a food order web page provided to the AP. The method of claim 1,
When receiving information on the food ordered by the customer from the AP, at least one of the ordered food being cooked and the expected waiting time is provided through the food ordering web page. The method of claim 1,
The map information stored in the portable terminal, the geographical location information of the portable terminal, and the direction information of the camera of the portable terminal are used to obtain store information displayed in the image captured by the camera, and the menu information of the store is converted into augmented reality. Food order management method, characterized in that to display as. A receiving unit for receiving a request from an AP for a food order web page to be provided to a customer's portable terminal, and receiving information on food ordered by the customer from the AP through the food order web page; And
Including a transmission unit for providing the food order web page to the AP,
The portable terminal receives the food order web page provided to the AP, food is ordered through the food order web page displayed on the portable terminal, and the ordered food is paid through the food order web page,
When a Wi-Fi connection is established between the portable terminal and an AP of another store using the same SSID as the AP, the transmission unit provides the food order web page to the AP of the other store. The method of claim 5,
The food order web page contains statistics on food ordered by customers,
When receiving information on the food ordered by the customer from the AP, a food order management server further comprising a management unit for updating food statistics of a food order web page provided to the AP. The method of claim 5,
The food order web page includes at least one or more of an order food being cooked and an expected waiting time,
When receiving information on the food ordered by the customer from the AP, the food order management server further comprises a management unit for updating at least one of the ordered food being cooked and the expected waiting time. The method of claim 5,
The portable terminal uses pre-stored map information, geographical location information of the portable terminal, and direction information of the camera of the portable terminal to obtain store information displayed in the image captured by the camera, and augments the store menu information. Food order management server, characterized in that the display in reality. A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for executing the method of any one of claims 1 to 4 on a computer.

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