KR20210140972A - Rental platform system - Google Patents

Abstract

A rental platform system is disclosed. The rental platform system comprises a rental platform server for providing an online product rental service by interworking with a rental application executed on a borrower-specific communication terminal for renting personal items and a use application executed on a user-specific communication terminal to borrow and use borrower items. The rental platform server includes: a transaction management unit which registers information on at least one item newly received from each lender in a rental item list, processes payment of a rental cost for the item requested for rental in the rental item list from a user, and notifies the rental application of reception of the item of which the payment has been processed so that the item is rented from the borrower to the user; and an item damage management unit including an item image registration unit which receives, for each item, the item image captured by at least one among the rental application of the borrower and the use application of at least one user having rented the item and stores the item image in an inspection image storage unit, and an item damage determination unit which compares and analyzes two or more item images stored in the inspection image storage unit for the item only when a damage inspection request for the rental item is received from the borrower, to determine whether the item is damaged. Therefore, the rental platform system can automatically analyze whether the item is damaged.

Description

Personal rental brokerage platform system {Rental platform system}

The present invention relates to an online platform, and more particularly, to a technology for providing a service for renting goods between individuals through the online platform.

Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2019-0009529 discloses a customer-to-customer (C2C) rental system. This system allows lessors to register the items they want to rent on the rental server, and allows lessees to apply for rental of items registered on the rental server and use them exclusively during the rental period. And the rental server allows the manager to verify the offline quality of the registered product, and determines whether to rent the corresponding product according to the verification result. Through this, the borrower can earn profits by renting unused goods, and the lessee can use the goods exclusively during the rental period at a lower price compared to the purchase price. In addition, by allowing the rental manager to guarantee the quality of the rental item, it is possible to increase the trustworthiness of the lessees for the rental.

Domestic Patent Publication No. 10-2019-0009529 (published on January 29, 2019)

An object of the present invention is to provide a personal rental brokerage platform system that can automatically analyze whether rental items are damaged.

In addition, an object of the present invention is to provide a personal rental brokerage platform system that can easily estimate the subject who has damaged the rental article.

The personal rental brokerage platform system according to an aspect is online in conjunction with a rental application executed on a communication terminal for each borrower for renting personal belongings and a usage application executed on a communication terminal for each user to borrow and use the items owned by the borrower. A rental platform server that provides a rental product service, wherein the rental platform server registers information on one or more items newly received from each lender in the rental item list, and rental cost for the item requested for rental in the rental item list from the user The transaction management department, which notifies the rental application of the payment-processed goods to the rental application so that the rental of the goods is made from the borrower to the user; Only when a request for inspection of damage to the belongings for rental is received from the product image register that receives the product image taken by at least one application among the one or more users' applications and stores it in the image storage for inspection, and the borrower It may include a product damage management unit including a product damage determination unit for determining whether the product is damaged by comparing and analyzing two or more product images stored in the image storage unit for inspection.

The product damage management unit may further include a damage estimating unit for estimating the damage to the product when it is determined that the item requested for inspection is damaged.

The product image registration unit maps and registers the shooting time for each product image on the time axis for each rental item, the product damage determination unit compares and analyzes two adjacent product images on the time axis to determine whether the item is damaged, and the damage estimator unit determines whether the item is damaged or not. If it is determined that the item is damaged, it can be estimated that the item occupant during the time interval between the two compared item images is the item damage.

The transaction management unit may include a rental rate setting support unit that calculates an appropriate rental rate for the borrower's article and provides the calculated appropriate rental rate information to the borrower for reference.

The rental fee setting support unit collects market sales price information and sales volume information for the borrower's goods, reflects a predetermined rental fee setting ratio to the collected market sales price, and calculates the appropriate rental fee first, and adds the collected sales volume information to the first calculated appropriate rental fee. The appropriate rental fee may be secondarily calculated by reflecting a predetermined weight in accordance with the method, and the second calculated appropriate rental fee may be provided to the borrower.

Since the present invention does not require the borrowers and users to inspect the rental goods in several steps in the process of renting the goods, it not only simplifies the rental process, but also requires users to borrow the goods. It allows you to free yourself from the burden of having to shoot a video for

In addition, the present invention analyzes the photographed images of items freely uploaded by the borrower and/or users for the rental item regardless of the rental process to automatically determine whether the item is damaged, so that the borrower can be notified of the fact that the item is damaged. Of course, if it is found that the item is damaged, it is easily estimated and notified to the borrower so that the borrower can take follow-up measures accordingly.

1 is a block diagram of a personal rental brokerage platform system according to an embodiment.
2 is a block diagram of a rental platform server according to an embodiment.
3 to 6 are exemplary views of an application screen.
7 is a reference diagram for explaining product image registration management on a time axis for each rental item.

The foregoing and further aspects of the present invention will become more apparent through preferred embodiments described with reference to the accompanying drawings. Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail so that those skilled in the art can easily understand and reproduce through these examples.

1 is a block diagram of a personal rental brokerage platform system according to an embodiment. As shown in FIG. 1 , the personal rental intermediary platform system includes the borrower terminals 100 and the user terminals 200 and the rental platform server 300 . However, the personal rental brokerage platform system does not necessarily include all of these components, and may include only some. In one embodiment, the personal rental mediation platform system refers only to the rental platform server 300 . In another embodiment, the personal rental intermediary platform system among the components shown in FIG. 1 (hereinafter referred to as "rental app" for short) 110 and user applications (hereinafter referred to as "use app" for short) ) 210 and the rental platform server 300 .

The borrower terminal 100 is a computing-capable communication terminal used by a lender who wants to rent personal belongings, and the user terminal 200 is a computing-capable communication terminal used by a user who wants to borrow items belonging to the lender. Examples of the communication terminal include a desktop computer or a laptop computer, as well as a mobile terminal such as a smart phone. A rental app 110 for providing a rental service that allows the borrower to rent personal belongings that is not used by the borrower may be installed and executed in each of the borrower terminals 100 , and each user terminal 200 includes a user The use app 210 for providing a use service that allows the borrower to borrow and use the goods owned by the borrower may be installed and executed. The rental app 110 and the used app 210 may be substantially the same application, and may provide a service as both a borrower and a user to the member.

The rental platform server 300 may be a server system configured including a web server, a web application server, a database server, and the like, and includes or includes a Windows-based operating system or MacOS, Java, UNIX or Linux. It can be operated under various operating systems that have not been The rental platform server 300 may provide an online product rental service to the borrowers and users who have signed up for membership in conjunction with the rental apps 110 and the used apps 210 . Alternatively, the rental platform server 300 may provide an online product rental service to borrowers and users through a web app or a web-based basis. Meanwhile, the communication network may include a plurality of heterogeneous networks and may support a plurality of communication protocols. For example, the communication network supports at least some of the communication protocols such as TCP/IP, IPX, SPX, NetBIOS, Ethernet, ARCNET, Fiber Distributed Date Interface (FDDI), IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.11a, and direct synchronization connections. . The rental platform server 300 may perform data communication with the borrower terminals 100 and the user terminals 200 through such a communication network.

2 is a block diagram of a rental platform server according to an embodiment. The network communication unit 310 is a transceiver for transmitting and receiving data to and from the outside through a communication network. The storage unit 320 is configured to include one or more streams. The storage unit 320 may store and manage a rental item list in which information on rental items received from borrowers is registered, and item images photographed for rental items may be classified and stored for each item and managed. . The control unit 330 may include hardware including one or more processors and an operating system, and may include a transaction management unit 340 and/or a damage management unit 350 . Both the transaction management unit 340 and the damage management unit 350 are functional components that can be implemented in software, and may be executed by one or more processors to perform corresponding functions.

The transaction management unit 340 registers information on one or more items newly received from each lender in the rental item list. The product information may include at least a portion of the product name, product unique code, product image, rental period, rental fee, and the like, and may additionally include information on rental areas. The rental item list is a list that can be inquired by the borrowers and users, and the borrower and the user can inquire the rental item list through the rental app 110 and the used app 210 , respectively. In addition, the transaction management unit 340 processes the payment for the rental fee of the item that the user wants to borrow from the rental item list, and notifies the rental application for the completed item to the rental app 110 of the borrower. And the borrower who has confirmed the notification through the rental app 110 lends the item to the user.

The user interface of the used app 210 is illustrated in FIGS. 3 to 6 . The user may inquire the items registered for rental through the rental item list illustrated in FIG. 3 . When the user selects any one item from the rental item list, the use app 210 provides detailed information about the item to the user as shown in FIG. 4 . Accordingly, when the user touches the "rent now" button after checking the detailed information, the use app 210 provides a payment screen as shown in FIG. 5 to the user so that the payment procedure can be performed. When the user touches the “chat inquiry” button in FIG. 4 before receiving the rental, the use app 210 provides the user with a chatting screen as shown in FIG. 6 to chat with the borrower in relation to the rental of the item .

Returning to FIG. 2 again, the damage management unit 350 is a configuration for managing whether the rental item is damaged, and includes an item image registration unit 351 and an item damage determination unit 352 , and a damage estimation unit 353 . may further include. The article image registration unit 351 stores and manages the article image in the storage unit 320 when the article image photographed in the rental app 110 and/or the use app 210 is uploaded for the borrower article, Separate and manage images by mapping them. The borrower can use the photo taking function of the rental app 110 at any time while not renting for his/her own item registered in the rental item list and register it in the rental platform server 300 by taking a picture of the item, and the user may register the loaned item For the rental period, at any time during the rental period, by using the photo taking function of the app 210 to take an image of the item can be registered in the rental platform server (300). In addition, since product image registration may not be compulsory, users who do not want to photograph and upload the product can use the online product rental service more conveniently.

In one embodiment, the rental app 110 activates the article image registration function only for non-rental articles for each borrower's article, and the use app 210 activates the article image registration function only during the period in which the article is rented. In addition, the rental app 110/use app 210 may provide a shooting guide for each item to be image registered, whereby the borrower/user may take a picture according to the shooting guide for each item. According to the photographing guide, photographing may be performed on the front, rear, side, etc. of an article, and the number of images to be registered for each article may be different.

The article image registration unit 351 may register by mapping a shooting time for each article image on a time axis for each rental article. An example of this is shown in FIG. 7 . 7 shows the registration status of the product image for the product X owned by the lender A, and it can be confirmed that the product images are mapped with the shooting time (xx month xx, xx, 20xx, xx hour xx) and registered. In addition, the article image registration unit 351 may manage the time axis by dividing the time axis into a rental section in which the user borrows and uses the item X and an unrented section in which the rental is not made. Lender A can photograph and register Item X at any time in the non-rental section, and users can photograph and register Item X at any time in the rental section. For reference, in FIG. 7 , the section in which item X is rented is identified as rental section 1, rental section 2, and rental section 3, with user a in rental section 1, user b in rental section 2, and user c in rental section 3 indicates the section rented by 7, it can be seen that user a has not registered the image of the item, user b has registered the image of the item once at the beginning of the rental, and user c has the image of the item at the beginning and the end of the rental, respectively. It can be seen that registered once.

The article damage determination unit 352 inspects whether the borrower's article is damaged in response to the borrower's request for damage inspection. The borrower may request damage inspection through the rental app 110 , and may request damage inspection by designating one of his/her own items registered in the rental item list. In addition, the product damage determination unit 352 determines whether the rental app 110 is damaged based on the product images stored in the storage unit 320 for the borrower product according to the damage inspection request. In other words, it is to determine whether the product is damaged through image comparison analysis.

In an embodiment, the article damage determination unit 352 determines whether the article is damaged by comparing and analyzing two adjacent article images on the time axis. That is, in FIG. 7, the image of item ① and item ② are compared and analyzed, the image of item ② and item ③ are compared and analyzed, the image of item ③ and item ④ are compared and analyzed, and item No. ④ It compares and analyzes the image and the image of item ⑤, and compares and analyzes the image of item ⑤ and the image of item ⑥. In this case, the article damage determination unit 352 may determine whether the article is damaged by comparing and analyzing adjacent article images based on a well-known image analysis technique or an AI algorithm learned through deep learning or machine learning. Meanwhile, the article damage determination unit 352 may analyze only the article images that have not been comparatively analyzed without re-comparatively analyzing the article images that have already been compared and analyzed when the borrower requests the damage inspection.

The damage estimating unit 353 estimates who has damaged the product when it is determined that the product is damaged by the product damage determination unit 352 . In one embodiment, when it is determined that the article is damaged based on the managed article images as shown in FIG. 7 , the damage estimating unit 353 is an article during a time interval between two article images used for the determination. The occupant is presumed to be a damage to the goods. For example, if it is determined that the item is damaged as a result of comparing the image of item 3 and item 4, user b is presumed to be the damaged item. In some cases, there may be more than one presumed damaged item. The damage estimating unit 353 provides the estimated damage information to the rental app 110 to allow the borrower to use it as a legal basis, or to take follow-up measures, such as.

Meanwhile, the transaction management unit 340 may include a rental fee setting support unit 341 . The rental fee setting support unit 341 calculates an appropriate rental fee for the borrower's article, and provides information on the calculated appropriate rental fee to the borrower. That is, the rental fee setting support unit 341 is configured to help borrowers who have difficulties in setting an appropriate rental fee for an item to be rented. In an embodiment, the transaction management unit 340 collects information related to the borrower's goods, and calculates an appropriate rental fee based on the collected information. The collection information may include market selling price information and sales volume information for the borrower's goods, and may be collected from one or more online shopping malls. When information is collected from two or more online shopping malls and each of the collected market sales price information is different, the average can be obtained and used, and when the average is obtained, the sales volume can be reflected.

The rental fee setting support unit 341 first calculates the appropriate rental fee by reflecting a predetermined rental fee setting ratio to the market selling price (or the market average selling price), and reflects a predetermined weight according to the collected sales volume information to the first appropriate rental fee. can be calculated secondarily. And the second calculated appropriate rental fee is provided to the rental app 110 of the borrower. In the above, the rental fee setting ratio may be set differently for each item to be rented, for example, it is set in the range of 2 to 10%. And the weight is set higher as the sales volume of the product is higher, and the weight is set lower as the sales volume is lower. This weight may also be different for each article. For reference, the weight may be set differently depending on the sales volume in the range of 0.1 to 2.

In addition, the transaction management unit 340 may allow the user to exclusively use the borrower's article during the rental period to purchase the borrower's article by determining whether to purchase the borrower's article through the use app 210 . That is, the transaction management unit 340 performs payment processing for purchase when there is a purchase request from the using app 210 for the borrower item being used by the user. In one embodiment, the transaction management unit 340 notifies the user's purchase request to the rental app 110 according to the purchase request from the used app 210, and approval of the purchase request through the rental app 110 from the borrower If there is, the purchase (sale) payment processing for the item is performed. In this case, the selling price (purchase price) may be unilaterally determined by the lender or may be determined through consultation between the lender and the user. According to this, the user is able to purchase the item after first using it by borrowing it, thereby contributing to the vitalization of the second-hand market.

So far, with respect to the present invention, the preferred embodiments have been looked at. Those of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention pertains will understand that the present invention can be implemented in a modified form without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention. Therefore, the disclosed embodiments are to be considered in an illustrative rather than a restrictive sense. The scope of the present invention is indicated by the claims rather than the foregoing description, and all differences within the scope equivalent thereto should be construed as being included in the present invention.

100: borrower terminal 110: rental app
200: user terminal 210: used app
300: rental platform server 310: network communication unit
320: storage unit 330: control unit
340: transaction management unit 341: rental price setting support unit
350: product damage management unit 351: product image register
352: damage judgment unit 353: damage estimation unit

Claims (5)

a rental platform server providing an online product rental service in conjunction with a rental application executed on a communication terminal for each borrower for renting personal belongings and a usage application executed on a communication terminal for each user to borrow and use the belongings of the borrower; including,
The rental platform server is:
Registers one or more item information newly received from each lender in the rental item list, pays the rental cost for the item requested for rental in the rental item list from the user, and records the rental receipt of the paid item to the rental application a transaction management unit that notifies the lender to the user so that the rental of the item is made;
For each item, the item image register receives the item image photographed by at least one application among the rental application of the borrower and the use application of one or more users who have rented the item and stores it in the image storage unit for inspection, and possession for rental from the borrower a product damage management unit including a product damage determination unit that compares and analyzes two or more product images stored in the image storage unit for inspection for the product only when a request for inspection of damage to the product is received and determines whether the product is damaged;
A personal rental brokerage platform system that includes. The method of claim 1, wherein the property damage management unit:
a damage estimating unit estimating the damage to the item when it is determined that the item requested for inspection is damaged;
A personal rental brokerage platform system that further comprises. 3. The method of claim 2,
The article image registration unit maps and registers the shooting time for each article image on the time axis for each item of the borrower,
The product damage determination unit compares and analyzes two adjacent product images on the time axis to determine whether the product is damaged,
If the damage estimating unit is determined that the item is damaged, the personal rental brokerage platform system that estimates the item occupant during the time interval between the two compared item images as the item damage. According to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the transaction management unit:
a rental fee setting support unit that calculates an appropriate rental fee for the borrower's goods and provides the calculated appropriate rental fee information to the borrower for reference;
A personal rental brokerage platform system that includes. 5. The method of claim 4,
The rental fee setting support unit collects market sales price information and sales volume information for the borrower's goods, reflects a predetermined rental fee setting ratio to the collected market sales price, and calculates the appropriate rental fee first, and adds the collected sales volume information to the first calculated appropriate rental fee. A personal rental brokerage platform system that secondarily calculates the appropriate rental fee by reflecting a predetermined weight according to the following, and provides the secondly calculated appropriate rental fee to the borrower.

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