TW201508664A - Transaction system and method capable of concealing original product codes in sales channel - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed are a transaction system and a method capable of concealing original product codes in a sales channel. The method is applicable to a system operator (such as a game agent) server. The system operator server is capable of receiving a plurality of product codes and product information transmitted from a supplier (such as a game developer) server and generating a channel code according to each product code, so as to produce a physical product (such as a game point card) based on the product information and the channel codes and provide the physical product to a distributor server. As such, after a consumer completes the payment for the physical product, the system operator server can receive a transaction message transmitted from the distributor server and marks the corresponding product information as "sold". When the consumer transmits a verification code to the system operator server through the Internet, the system operator server can determine whether the verification code is consistent with the channel code and whether the corresponding product information is marked as "sold". If the determination results pass the verification, the system operator server starts to notify the supplier server to provide corresponding transaction service to the consumer. Therefore, since the product code will not be released in the entire sales channel, the convenience of management can be effectively improved and potential transaction risk can be reduced at the same time.

Description

Trading system and method capable of hiding original commodity code in sales channel

The present invention is a transaction system and method capable of hiding original commodity codes in a sales channel, and in particular, a system vendor server can generate a channel code for a complex array of commodity codes provided by a vendor server, and use the path code A trading system and method for producing goods.

With the continuous development of computer software and hardware technology and the increasing performance of broadband networks, online games have become an extremely common daily life entertainment in modern society, and the types of games are also very rich: no matter the picture Gorgeous fighting adventure games, competitive sports games or brainstorming games have a large number of players. Generally speaking, the current operating methods of online games mainly include "free system" and "charge system". The "free system" online game system is used as a revenue source for game companies by embedding advertisements in games. The "charge system" online game requires players to purchase game points on a regular basis to start the game. How the game company charges and manages the "charge system" online game will directly affect the online game. Revenue and popularity.

Generally speaking, the most common "charge system" online game, the game company (in this case, the game provider that develops the game or the game agent that acts as the agent) will first set a set of game hours. The method (for example, a monthly fee of 500 yuan), and generate a complex array verification code, and print a batch of game point cards according to the verification code, and finally, it is sold to a distributor (such as a convenience store). After purchasing the game credit card from the consumer to the channel merchant, the consumer must perform login verification on the game website set up by the game company according to the verification code on the card to enable the service (ie, the stored value game hours). Although this type of charging method has been in existence for many years, it is not without flaws. On the contrary, for game companies, such charging methods have many important shortcomings in management and risk control. The main reason is Therefore, in this charging method, the "validation code" generated by the game company is equivalent to the actual product and its value. Therefore, there are often people who are uncomfortable. The squad will try to obtain the verification code by cracking, stealing or stealing its potential interests. For example, if the game card is accidentally stolen during the sales process, the game company will not be able to know What is the verification code in the game card that was stolen? That is, others will be able to directly use the stolen game credit card to add value, and the game company can not tell which group of verification code has been stolen? It can only be regarded as a potential risk in the transaction process, and it has suffered huge losses.

The above problems are a difficult problem for manufacturers who develop games (hereinafter referred to as suppliers) or agents and dealers (hereinafter referred to as agents). For this reason, some operators have designed a new transaction. Method: After the agent obtains the verification code corresponding to a game goods or service from the supplier, the agent does not directly print the verification code on the game point card, but corrects the sales method of the channel provider. That is, after the consumer purchases the game hours from the channel provider and the payment is completed, the channel provider first informs the agent through the network that the payment is completed. At this time, the agent will provide a set of verification codes to the channel. The quotient, 嗣, and quotient will print the verification code of the group to the consumer receipt and hand it to the user. In this way, the problem that the game point card is stolen and stolen when it is not sold can be avoided. However, this method is still not perfect in practice. The main reason is that the entire communication process not only greatly increases the transaction because the channel provider must contact the agent in real time (or in batches) to obtain the verification code and print it. The complexity of the procedures, meanwhile, will also increase the cost of sales. Therefore, the acceptance of each channel is not high, and it has not been widely popularized in implementation.

To this end, the inventor thinks whether it is possible to design a new transaction method that ensures the security of the verification code obtained by the consumer without affecting the current trading habits of the channel provider and the consumer, thereby reducing the potential Trading risk? Due to the piracy of the Asian region, many well-known software companies have produced the registration code, which has the risk of being stolen at the channel. For a long time, the software industry has suffered from the loss of theft and theft, so how to deal with these codes The transaction mode of class, verification code, and registration code is improved to design a new type of transaction method with the aforementioned requirements, and the code generation system such as the current commodity code, registration code, verification code, etc. That is, the important problem that the present invention is intended to solve here.

In view of the current payment method for online games, it is for the industry. At an excessive risk, the inventor, after years of practical experience and rich network knowledge, after many research, testing and evaluation, finally designed a method of hiding the original commodity code in the sales channel. Trading systems and methods provide a more convenient and manageable trading option for global goods and service providers.

An object of the present invention is to provide a transaction method capable of hiding an original commodity code in a sales path, the transaction method being applied to a transaction system including a system server and a channel server. The system provider server can be connected to a provider server through an internet connection, and has a system vendor database to receive and store the data transmitted by the provider server; the channel server can pass through The internetwork is connected to the system server to receive data sent by the system server, and the transaction method enables the system server to perform the following steps: saving the server server (eg, : the data transmission of the Internet, or receiving the commodity data and the commodity code of the transit goods delivered by the manual operation; for each of the commodity codes, respectively generating a corresponding access code in the system database; And the commodity data and the corresponding access code are provided to the channel server; and the channel server transmits a transaction message to the system for the path code In the case of a server (eg, when the consumer payment is completed), the corresponding product information is searched from the system database, and the product data is marked as sold; and the consumer transmits the information through the Internet. In the case of verifying the code to the system server (the "transfer verification code" action, after the payment is completed by the consumer, the channel code obtained after the payment is used as a verification code is transmitted to the system server for verification. In order to obtain the corresponding product or service behavior, if the system provider server determines that the verification code can correspond to each of the path codes, and determines that the product data corresponding to the path code is marked as sold, Then, a confirmation message is sent to the supplier server, so that the supplier server can execute the transaction service corresponding to the commodity data or obtain a corresponding consumer interest (eg, stored value game hours). In this way, since the vendor of the system provider server is not made into the channel product by the original product code, but the channel code is converted into the channel product and then provided to the downstream channel provider, even if the channel code is encountered. The stealing, forgery, and cracking of various methods, or any copying of the code to other users (such as the software registration code), the stolen channel code cannot be effectively exchanged, and the legally purchased consumer It can't be remade or cracked for use by other users. At the same time, if there is any intention in the channel code for the channel vendor to sell. In addition, the system server provider only needs to re-generate the new channel code according to the commodity code and provide it to the channel provider to continue sales, which effectively improves the management convenience of the operator and greatly reduces the convenience. Potential trading risk.

Another object of the present invention is that the system server transmits the product code together with the confirmation message to the supplier server, so that the supplier server can determine the confirmation message after receiving the confirmation message. Has the original product code stored in the supplier server been logged out? If the commodity code has not been cancelled, the supplier server will initially execute the transaction service corresponding to the commodity data, and then, the commodity code is cancelled. According to this, since the system server and the supplier server can respectively judge, respectively, a more complete protection mechanism can be formed.

Another object of the present invention is to improve the convenience of the product code when updating, for example, when the system server needs to confirm whether the product code has been used, cancelled, modified, or updated (for example, goods). The code needs to be updated regularly to avoid being cracked by unscrupulous people. The system server can transmit a synchronization message and transmit the commodity code to the provider server, and then execute it on the provider server. The commodity code update operation in the vendor server and the system provider server. Since the above update operation does not affect the access code sold in the market path at all, the operation cost of the supplier or the agent can be greatly reduced. In addition, since the system server and the supplier server can both be activated in both directions. Updates are made separately, so a more complete protection mechanism can be formed.

For the sake of your review, you can have a better understanding and understanding of the design concept, technical steps and purposes of the present invention. The embodiments are described in conjunction with the drawings, which are described in detail as follows:

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1 is a schematic diagram of a transaction system to which the transaction method of the present invention is applied; FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the system database in the transaction method of the present invention; and FIG. 3 is a first preferred embodiment of the transaction method of the present invention. Illustration of the example.

The present invention is a transaction system and method capable of hiding an original commodity code in a sales path, as shown in FIG. 1, which is a first preferred embodiment of the transaction system of the present invention, The transaction system 1 is associated with a vendor server 11 (the vendor server described herein is a management server set up by a software developer, and the "software" can be a computer application, a game program, etc.) The system is matched with each other, and includes a system server 12 and a channel server 13 , wherein the supplier server 11 stores a supplier database D1 for storing a plurality of products. Data (such as: software available hours, software usage rights and price points) and multiple product codes (such as: verification code for enabling product data), each of which corresponds to each product data.

Referring to Figures 1 and 2, the system server 12 (such as a network server set up by a software agent) has a system vendor database D2, which can be connected to the Internet through an Internet 10 a vendor server 11 that can receive the product data and the commodity codes transmitted by the vendor server 11 and store them in the system vendor database D2 (ie, the second D21, D22), at the same time, the system server 12 can still generate a channel code D23 for each commodity code D22 stored in the system database D2; the channel server 13 ( For example, a cash register or a central computer of a convenience store can connect to the system server 12 through the Internet 10 to perform mutual data transmission with the system server 12, and the channel server 13 The product data D21 and the corresponding channel code D23 provided by the system server 12 can be received (for example, through the Internet 10 or receiving a product or service delivered by the software agent).

After the consumer to the distributor, after purchasing the designated product, the consumer can obtain the corresponding access code D23 via the product, and at this time, the correspondent server 13 can transmit a transaction message to the path code D23. The system server 12, in the case that the system server 12 receives the transaction message, the system server 12 searches for the corresponding product data D21 from the system vendor database D2, and the Product data D21 is noted as sold. In this way, the consumer transmits a verification code (ie, the channel code D23 obtained by the consumer according to the payment transaction and the code input via the Internet 10 according to the payment code in the future), which is divided into "consumption" The code entered by the user and the "pass code D23" stored in the system server 12, and the "authentication code" defines the code that the consumer actively inputs to the system server 12 for verification) to the server 12 Next, if the system server 12 determines that the verification code matches the path code D23, and the corresponding product data D21 is sold, then the message is transmitted. The message is sent to enable the supplier server 11 to provide a corresponding transaction service.

In order to further explain the details and steps of the implementation of the transaction system 1, the flow chart shown in FIG. 3 is taken as an example to describe in detail the transaction method of the present invention as follows: According to the transaction method of the present invention, the supplier Batch goods (such as: services that start software functions, physical or virtual goods, game hours, etc.) to develop a relative charging method, and generate a complex array of commodity codes for distribution to the system vendor (through the Internet) The system 10 transmits, or is delivered via manual operation, the system server 12 can perform the following steps: (301) Please refer to FIG. 1 to receive the provider server 11 through the Internet 10. Product data and product code, and store the product data and product code in the system vendor database D2 (ie, D21, D22 shown in FIG. 2); (302) for each product code D22, A channel code D23 is generated in the system database D2, so that each product data D21 can correspond to each of the product code D22 and the channel code D23, wherein each group of product codes D22 are mutually different values, each Group access code D2 3 is also a mutually different value. As shown in Fig. 2, the product code D22 can be "ABCD12" and "ABCD06", and the path code D23 is "XYZ14" and "XYZ02", and the generation mechanism of the path code D23 is shown. It can be determined by the system provider server 12 to ensure its confidentiality and security; (303) according to the product data D21 and the corresponding channel code D23, the goods (such as: game points card, virtual treasure exchange) Volume, QR Code..., etc., which can be redeemed for the offer, and provided to the distributor server 13 for sale, wherein the sale method can be a traditional physical commodity (such as a software registration card, a game credit card, etc.) ) can also be a virtualized item (eg, sold on a network platform); (304) after the consumer wants to purchase the item and complete the payment, the consumer can pass the content of the item. The path code D23 is known, and at the same time, the channel server 13 will transmit a transaction message to the system server 12 for the path code D23. At this time, the system server 12 will be from the system. Search for the corresponding product in the merchant database D2 Material D21, and note the product data D21 as sold; (305) 嗣, in the consumer through the Internet 10, and according to the set of access codes D23 on the product, the system server 12 Enter a verification generation on one of the websites In the case of a code, the system server 12 will determine whether the verification code can correspond to any of the channel codes D23 in the system vendor database D2. If yes, go to step (306), otherwise, end the processing program (in particular, the user-entered verification code is compared with the access code D23, not with the product code D22, because the product code D22 is not Will be displayed to the messenger server 13 or consumer to ensure the security of the transaction system 1; (306) further determine whether the product data D21 corresponding to the access code D23 is marked as sold? If yes, proceed to step (307), otherwise, end the processing procedure; and (307) transmit a confirmation message to the provider server 11 to notify the supplier server 11 that the transaction corresponding to the product data D21 can be executed. Services (such as: software function activation, or redemption of virtual treasures) to consumers.

It can be seen from the above steps that in the transaction method of the present invention, the commodity code D22 does not flow out to the sales channel at all, that is, the commodity code D22 will not be displayed to the channel server 13 during the entire transaction. Or the consumer knows, in this way, to avoid the consumer holding the commodity code D22, and skipping the system vendor server 12, the problem of trading from the supplier server 11 of the supplier, to achieve complete transaction risk protection. In addition, through the transaction method of the present invention, the system server 12 will initially record the path code D23 as sold after the consumer completes the payment, and therefore, if anyone wants to be in the system server 12 If the channel code D23 that has not been marked as sold has been entered on the erected website, the system provider server 12 will not execute the corresponding transaction service, and it is still known that the channel code D23 has been stolen or stolen, so that the system provider The new product can be reissued for the channel code D23, completely solving the problem that the product may be stolen and the system vendor suffers a great loss.

It should be noted that in the foregoing embodiment, the goods sold in the trading system 1 are game points or virtual treasures. However, in actual application, the subject matter of the transaction is not limited thereto. The product can also be software (such as: game software, graphics software, anti-virus software), redemption voucher (such as restaurant coupons, movie tickets, etc.) or product content transmitted through electronic information transmission (such as: mobile phone newsletter received product information) And the relevant certification information), and the information included in the product data D21 can be subdivided into the product name (such as: movie morning tickets), the product price (such as: special price 50 yuan), the use period (such as: within one month ), or any information describing the item, etc.

In addition, in the first preferred embodiment of the present invention, the system server 12 is further provided with a conversion unit 121, and the system server 12 receives the product information transmitted by the supplier server 11 and In the case of the product code, the system server 12 can convert each of the commodity codes D22 into the channel code D23 through the conversion unit 121, so that the channel codes D23 can be composed of a group of values different from each other. (ie, each set of path codes D23 is different and will only correspond to a set of commodity codes D22).

Further, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, in the second preferred embodiment of the present invention, the system server 12 confirms that the verification code transmitted by the consumer matches the path code D23, and the corresponding product When the data D21 is also marked as sold, the system server 12 can still transmit the commodity code D22 together with the confirmation message to the supplier server 11, so that the supplier server 11 is receiving. After the confirmation message, can it be judged whether the commodity code stored in the supplier database D1 has been cancelled? If the product code has not been logged out, the supplier server 11 will initially execute the transaction service corresponding to the product data D21, and then the product code is logged off, so that a second verification mechanism can be formed to ensure the same The item code will not be redeemed repeatedly.

In addition, in order to further improve the security of the transaction system 1, the supplier of the provider server 11 or the system provider server 12 can periodically change the encoding format of the commodity code or periodically delete the used commodity code. That is, either the vendor server 11 or the system servant server 12 can generate an update message and transmit it to the other party along with the changed commodity code (eg, annotation, logout, modification, update) to make another The party can perform the product code update operation in the vendor server 11 and the system provider server 12 accordingly. Since the foregoing update operation does not affect the access code sold in the market path at all, the management and operation cost of the transaction system 1 can be greatly reduced, and since the system server 12 and the supplier server 11 are both It can be updated in both directions, so it can form a more complete protection mechanism.

The above description is only a few preferred embodiments of the present invention, but the technical features of the present invention are not limited thereto, and those skilled in the relevant art can easily think about it after considering the technical content of the present invention. Modifications should not depart from the scope of protection of the present invention.

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10‧‧‧Internet

11‧‧‧Supplier Server

12‧‧‧System Vendor Server

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D1‧‧‧Supplier Database

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Claims (8)

A transaction method capable of hiding an original commodity code in a sales path is applied to a transaction system including a system server and a channel server, and the system server can communicate through an internet network. Connected to a vendor server and has a system vendor database for receiving and storing data from the vendor server; the channel server can connect to the system server through the internet server Receiving the data transmitted by the system provider server, the transaction method enables the system provider server to perform the following steps: saving the product data and the product code transmitted by the supplier server; for each product code, a channel code is generated in the system database; the commodity data and the corresponding channel code are provided to the channel server; and the channel server transmits a transaction message to the system vendor for the channel code In the case of the server, the corresponding product data is searched from the system database, and the product data is marked as sold. The transaction method of claim 1, wherein the system provider server determines that the verification code can correspond to each of the path codes, and determines that the verification code can be corresponding to the channel code. The product data corresponding to the path code is marked as sold, and a confirmation message is transmitted to the supplier server. The transaction method of claim 2, wherein the supplier server is provided with a supplier database, and the supplier server also stores a set of commodity data and commodity codes for when the transaction method is initially executed. The provider server can transmit the product data and the product code to the system server through the internet; the system server determines that the verification code can correspond to each channel code, and determines the The product data system corresponding to the path code When it is noted that it has been sold, the system server can still transmit the product code together with the confirmation message to the supplier server, so that the supplier server can receive the confirmation message first. After judging that the commodity code in the supplier database has not been cancelled, the transaction service corresponding to the commodity data is executed, and the commodity code is cancelled. The transaction method of claim 3, wherein each of the path codes is composed of a group of values different from each other, and only corresponds to an item code. The transaction method of claim 4, wherein the product information includes a product name, a product selling price, and a usage period. A trading system capable of hiding an original commodity code in a sales channel, comprising: a system vendor server having a database of system vendors and capable of storing product information transmitted by a supplier server via an internet network And a product code, and for each of the product codes, a channel code is generated in the system vendor database; and a channel server is connected to the system server through the internet network, and can receive the code The product information provided by the system server and the corresponding path code; the channel server can still transmit a transaction message to the system server for the channel code to receive the server server In the case of a transaction message, the system server searches for the corresponding product data from the system vendor database and notes the product data as sold. The transaction system of claim 6, wherein the system server receives a verification code transmitted from the internet, determines that the verification code can correspond to each path code, and determines the path. If the corresponding product data of the code is marked as sold, the system server will generate a confirmation message and transmit the confirmation message to the supplier server. The transaction system of claim 7, wherein the system server is provided with a conversion unit, The conversion unit can respectively convert each of the commodity codes into the respective path codes, and each of the channel codes is composed of a group of values different from each other, and only corresponds to one commodity code respectively.