TW202329006A - Electronic apparatus for providing information to terminal of delivery person and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided is an electronic apparatus for providing information to a terminal of a delivery person, and a method thereof. According to the present disclosure, the electronic apparatus identifies a reference location of the delivery person, identifies at least one piece of area information included in a first geographical range including the reference location, identifies delivery order information of each area, and provides the terminal of the delivery person with a first page including a map for the first geographical range, and at least one first type icon displayed on the map and corresponding to the each area.

Description

Electronic device and method for providing information to delivery man's terminal

The present invention relates to an electronic device and method for providing information related to a delivery order to a terminal of a deliveryman.

As services in the form of ordering various items (including food) online and receiving delivery services become common, faster and more efficient fulfillment of customer orders is becoming a major factor in judging the reputation of a service.

In this regard, since it is a deliveryman who ultimately delivers an item to fulfill a customer's order, in order to fulfill orders quickly and efficiently, it is necessary to efficiently deploy deliverymen in areas with high order volumes.

Currently, a proprietary application only displays the orders currently waiting for a delivery person, and each delivery person chooses which order he/she would like to fulfill. However, in the case where only pending orders are displayed in this way, it is difficult for a deliveryman to intuitively know a region with a high order volume, so that it is difficult to arrange deliverymen efficiently.

Regarding this, reference may be made to the prior art KR20200136718A and KR102315856B1.

[Technical target] The present invention has been proposed to solve the above problems and provide a method of processing and providing delivery order information as an icon on a map provided to an application on a terminal of a deliveryman, and using the Method for electronic equipment.

More specifically, the present invention provides a method for providing information to a shipping company by graphically displaying order quantity information and shipping cost information for one or more areas on a map that includes a geographic area of a reference location. A method for a cargo terminal, and an electronic device using the method.

The technical problems to be solved by the present invention are not limited to the technical problems as described above, and other technical problems can be inferred from the following example embodiments.

[Technical solution] According to an aspect, there is provided a method of providing information to a terminal of a delivery person, the method comprising: identifying a reference location of the delivery person; identifying a location contained within a first geographic range containing the reference location At least one piece of area information; identifying delivery order information for each area; providing a first page to the terminal of the deliveryman, the first page including a map of the first geographic area and displayed on the map and corresponding to At least one first-type icon in each area, wherein the first-type icon includes order quantity information and delivery cost information identified based on the delivery order information in each area.

According to an example embodiment, the reference location may be set as any one of a current location of the terminal of the delivery man and an address pre-registered by the terminal of the delivery man.

According to an example embodiment, the order quantity information may include textual information about a result of classifying an order quantity of each region into one of four grades of low, normal, high and very high according to a preset classification criterion.

According to an example embodiment, the delivery fee information may include representative value information on delivery fees of stores requesting delivery within the respective regions.

According to an example embodiment, the delivery cost information may be determined based on a base delivery cost of one or more delivery orders occurring in the respective regions during a predetermined period of time.

According to an example embodiment, the order quantity information and the delivery cost information may be calculated based on information collected during a first time period, and may be updated every second time period, the second time period being shorter than the first time period.

According to an example embodiment, in the first page, when a display range of the map changes from the first geographic range to a second geographic range in response to an input through the deliveryman's terminal, If first-type icons corresponding to each of two or more regions overlap each other, it may be determined to display the first-type icons based on a distance between the reference location and the regions in the second geographic range. One of the layers of the type diagram sequence.

According to an example embodiment, in the first page, when a display range of the map changes from the first geographic range to a second geographic range in response to an input through the deliveryman's terminal, If the icons of the first type corresponding to each of the two or more areas overlap each other, the decision to display the icons of the first type may be based on the shipping cost information for each area within the second geographic range. One of the order of layers.

According to an example embodiment, in the first page, when a display range of the map changes from the first geographic range to a second geographic range in response to an input through the deliveryman's terminal, If the icons of the first type corresponding to each of two or more areas overlap each other, it may be determined based on a number of deliverymen currently assigned to each area within the second geographic range that the icons of the second type are displayed. An order of layers for a type diagram.

According to an example embodiment, the first type of icon may be displayed at a central point of a virtual rectangle in contact with a boundary of the respective regions and including the respective regions.

According to an example embodiment, the first page may display the first type of icon for each area belonging to a pre-selected hot list among all areas displayed on the map.

According to an example embodiment, for each area where the delivery cost information satisfies a predetermined cost condition, the first page may additionally display an indication that the predetermined cost is met at a position on the map corresponding to the respective areas. Set the second type icon of one of the expense conditions.

According to an example embodiment, the first page may additionally display on the map a third type of icon containing information about a region where a current promotion is applied.

According to an example embodiment, the method may further comprise, if a predetermined first type icon is selected by the terminal of the delivery person, providing a second page to the terminal of the delivery person, the second The page includes boundary information corresponding to an area of the selected first type icon and a heat map based on information about a number of orders within the area.

According to an example embodiment, the second page may be provided in the form of a bottom sheet on a layer higher than the layer on which the first page is displayed.

According to an example embodiment, the second page may further include a list of one or more sub-areas within the area, and may display one of the sub-areas in a manner configured based on delivery order information for each of the sub-areas The list of one or more subregions.

According to an example embodiment, on the first page, when providing the second page to the terminal of the deliveryman, a preset graphic effect may be applied to the selected first type icon.

According to an example embodiment, the method may further comprise receiving a delivery order to be assigned to the delivery person, and providing the delivery person's terminal with all first type icons and displays in which all icons of the first type are hidden and the received A first page of at least one of departure information, destination information, and delivery fee information related to the delivery order.

According to another aspect, there is provided an electronic device for providing information to a terminal of a delivery person, the electronic device comprising: a transceiver; a memory configured to store instructions; and a processor , connected to the transceiver and the memory and configured to identify a reference location of the delivery person, to identify at least one piece of area information included in a first geographic area containing the reference location, to identify each area delivery order information, and providing a first page to the terminal of the deliveryman, the first page including a map of the first geographical area and at least one first page displayed on the map and corresponding to each area A type of icon, wherein the first type of icon includes order quantity information and delivery fee information identified based on the delivery order information of each region.

Details of other example embodiments are included in the detailed description and drawings.

[effect] According to an example embodiment, a deliveryman may provide, via an electronic device configured to provide information to the deliveryman's terminal, graphically on an application provided to the deliveryman's terminal, information including delivery information. A member of staff can easily determine an area that accepts a delivery order request by easily grasping the order quantity and delivery cost information of each area with reference to the order quantity information and delivery cost information of a specific range of locations.

Furthermore, according to an example embodiment, by providing boundary information of an area selected by a delivery man and a heat map indicating the number of orders as a separate page, even within that area, the delivery man can still easily Identify the number of orders and a place with a high number of orders, and consider accepting a delivery order.

The effects of the present invention are not limited to those described above. Those skilled in the art will clearly understand other effects not described from the description of the technical solution.

When considering functions in the present invention, the terms used in the example embodiments are selected from general terms widely used at present, where possible. However, terms may vary depending on the intention of those skilled in the art or precedents, the appearance of new technologies, and the like. In addition, in specific cases, there are also terms arbitrarily selected by the applicant, and in such cases, meanings will be described in detail in the corresponding description. Therefore, the terms used in the present invention should be defined based on the meaning of the terms and the content of the present invention rather than the simple names of the terms.

Throughout this specification, when a part is described as "comprising or comprising" an element, it does not exclude another element but may further include another element, unless otherwise stated. In addition, terms such as "... unit", "... group" and "... module" described in this specification mean a unit that processes at least one function or operation, which may be implemented as hardware, software, or the like one combination. Certain operations may not be clearly distinguished as compared to the illustrated example embodiments.

The expression "at least one of a, b, and c" described throughout this specification may include "alone a", "alone b", "alone c", "a and b", "a and c", "b and c" or "all a, b and c".

In the present invention, a "terminal" can be implemented as, for example, a computer or a portable terminal capable of accessing a server or another terminal through a network. Here, the computer may include, for example, a notebook computer equipped with a web browser, a desktop computer and/or a laptop computer. A portable terminal can be a wireless communication device that ensures portability and mobility, and includes (but is not limited to) any type of handheld wireless communication device, such as a tablet PC, a smart phone, a communication-based (such as International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), W-Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA), Long Term Evolution (LTE) or the like).

In the following description, the terms "transmit", "communicate", "send", "receive" and other similar terms refer not only to the direct transmission of a signal or information from one component to another, but may also include the transmission.

In particular, "transmitting" or "sending" a signal or information to a component may indicate an ultimate destination of the signal or information, and may not imply a direction to the destination. The same applies to "receiving" a signal or information. In addition, in the present invention, when two or more pieces of data or information are "related", it indicates that when one piece of data (or information) is obtained, at least a part of other data (or information) can be obtained based on it.

Also, terms such as first and second may be used to describe various components, but the above components should not be limited by the above terms. The above terms may be used for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another.

For example, a first component may be called a second component without departing from the scope of the present invention. Similarly, the second component can also be referred to as the first component.

Hereinafter, example embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention pertains can easily understand. This invention, however, may be embodied in many different forms and is not limited to the example embodiments described herein.

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

In describing example embodiments, descriptions of technical contents that are well known in the technical field to which the present invention pertains and are not directly related to the present invention will be omitted. This is to convey the gist of the present invention more clearly without making the gist of the present invention unclear by omitting unnecessary descriptions.

For the same reason, some elements are exaggerated, omitted or schematically illustrated in the accompanying drawings. In addition, the size of each element does not completely reflect an actual size. In the figures, the same or corresponding elements are assigned the same reference numerals.

The advantages and features of the present invention and one method of achieving the advantages and features will be apparent with reference to the example embodiments described in detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to the example embodiments disclosed below, and may be implemented in various forms. The example embodiments are provided only so that this disclosure will be complete, and will fully convey the scope of this invention to those skilled in the art to which this invention pertains. The present invention is only defined by the scope of the patent scope of the invention application. Throughout, the same reference numerals refer to the same elements.

It will be understood that the blocks of a flowchart and combinations of flowcharts can be implemented by computer program instructions. Computer program instructions may be embodied in a processor of a general purpose computer or a special purpose computer, or may be embodied in a processor of other programmable data processing equipment. Accordingly, instructions executed by a processor of a computer or other programmable data processing device may result in portions for performing the functions described in the flowchart blocks. Computer program instructions that direct a computer or other programmable data processing equipment may also be stored in a computer-available or computer-readable memory in order to perform a function in a specific manner. Accordingly, the instructions stored in a computer-usable or computer-readable memory can be produced as an article of manufacture containing a portion of the instructions for performing the functions described in the flowchart blocks. Computer program instructions may be embodied in a computer or other programmable data processing device. Therefore, a series of operations can be performed in a computer or other programmable data processing equipment to generate a computer-executable program, and the computer or other programmable data processing equipment can provide means for performing the functions described in the flowchart blocks. step.

Additionally, each block may represent a module, a segment, or a portion of code that includes one or more executable instructions for performing a specified logical function(s). It should also be noted that in some alternative implementations, the functions recited in the blocks may occur out of the order. For example, two blocks shown in succession may be executed substantially concurrently, or the blocks may sometimes be executed in the reverse order according to a corresponding function.

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram illustrating a system for providing information according to an example embodiment.

Referring to FIG. 1 , a system 100 for providing information according to an example embodiment includes an electronic device 110 and a deliveryman terminal 120 . In addition, according to example embodiments, the system 100 for providing information may further include a user terminal using a delivery service or a separate delivery server (in the present invention, it indicates a user who wishes to receive delivery of an item a terminal of a client). It depends on which entity the electronic device 110 obtains the delivery order information from, which will be described later. If the electronic device 110 obtains delivery order information from the deliveryman's terminal 120 through a network 130, the user terminal using the delivery service and delivery server may not be included in the system 100 for providing information. However, if the electronic device 110 obtains the delivery order information from the user terminal through the network 130 through the delivery service or the delivery server, the user terminal using the delivery service or the delivery server may be included in providing the information In the system 100. In addition, those skilled in the art can understand that, in addition to the components shown in FIG. 1 , other common components may be further included.

The electronic device 110 identifies nearby delivery order information based on each deliveryman's location and provides the information to the deliveryman's terminal 120, so that a deliveryman can more efficiently identify pending order requests and receive a desired order.

According to an example embodiment, the electronic device 110 can provide an application program for a service related to a series of delivery order information to the deliveryman terminal 120, and can execute the application program and connect to the electronic device 110 The deliveryman terminal 120 provides a service related to delivery order information. Through the service, delivery order information related to stores registered on the service may be provided. Meanwhile, the electronic device 110 may be a server providing a service or may be a device included in the server. In connection with this, an application program provided by the electronic device 110 can be installed in the deliveryman terminal 120, and the application program can be executed so that some operations of the service are processed by the deliveryman terminal 120 and processed by the deliveryman terminal 120. A server external to machine 120 handles other operations.

Meanwhile, the electronic device 110 and the deliveryman terminal 120 can communicate with each other in the network 130 . The network 130 includes a local area network (LAN), a wide area network (WAN), a value-added network (VAN), a mobile radio communication network, a satellite communication network and combinations thereof. Network 130 is, in a comprehensive sense, a data communication network that enables the network constituent entities shown in FIG. 1 to communicate with each other smoothly, and may include a wired Internet, a wireless Internet, and a mobile network. wireless communication network. For example, wireless communication is Wireless LAN (Wi-Fi), Bluetooth (Bluetooth), Bluetooth Low Energy, Zigbee, WFD (Wi-Fi Direct), Ultra Wide Band (UWB), Infrared Data Association (IrDA) and Near Field Communication ( NFC), etc., but not limited to this.

Regarding the above, it will be described in more detail through the following figures.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a method for providing information according to an example embodiment.

The method depicted in FIG. 2 may be performed by, for example, the electronic device 110 described above.

In operation S210, the electronic device 110 may identify a reference location of a delivery person.

According to an example embodiment, the electronic device 110 can identify the current location of the deliveryman's terminal 120 as the reference location of the deliveryman. For example, the electronic device 110 can recognize the global positioning system (GPS) location information of the deliveryman's terminal 120 as the reference location of the deliveryman.

According to another example, the electronic device 110 may recognize an address pre-registered by the deliveryman terminal 120 as a reference location of the deliveryman. For example, a deliveryman can register his/her business address or home address on the service provided by the electronic device 110 through the deliveryman terminal 120, and the electronic device 110 can recognize the registered business address or home address as the delivery member of the reference position.

However, this is only exemplary, and in addition to the current location of the deliveryman terminal 120 or the address pre-registered by the deliveryman terminal 120, one of the references of the deliveryman may also be set differently according to example embodiments. Location.

In operation S220, the electronic device 110 may identify at least one piece of area information included in a first geographic range including the identified reference location. In an example embodiment, the area information can be determined according to preset information, and can be set based on geographic information. In addition, area information may be variously set by the electronic device 110 based on order information or the like.

In operation S230, the electronic device 110 may identify delivery order information of each identified area. In an example embodiment, the delivery order information may include at least one of order information of a sales office in a corresponding region and information about orders requesting delivery in the region.

In operation S240, the electronic device 110 may provide the delivery person terminal 120 with a first page, the first page displays a map of the first geographical area and at least one icon of the first type corresponding to each area on the map . In this case, a first type icon on the first page may include order quantity information and delivery cost information identified based on delivery order information for each region.

According to an example embodiment, the electronic device 110 may display a first type icon of an area satisfying a specific condition among all areas displayed on the map on the first page. For example, the electronic device 110 may display a first type icon for each area belonging to a pre-selected hot list among all areas displayed on the map on the first page. Through this, the service provider can preferentially provide the delivery man with information about a popular area where many delivery orders are requested and accepted.

According to an example embodiment, the order quantity information included in the first type of graph is information indicating how high or low the number of orders are currently waiting to be assigned to delivery drivers in the respective regions. Specifically, the order quantity information may include textual information about the results of classifying the order quantity in each region into any one of four levels: low, normal, high, and very high according to a preset classification criterion.

For example, compared to the number of orders in the entire region within the first geographic range, the order quantity information included in the first type of graph can be divided into the top 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%. The number of orders in the top 25% may contain textual information marked as "very high". The number of orders in the top 50% but below the top 25% may contain text marked as "high". Order numbers that are in the top 75% or below the top 50% may contain textual information marked as "normal". Order quantities less than 75% may contain text information marked as "low".

For another example, the order quantity information included in the first type graph may be divided according to preset natural numbers L, M, and N (in this case, L>M>N) based on the order quantity in each region. For order quantities of L or higher, text information marked "very high" may be included. For order quantities of M or higher that are less than L, text information marked "high" may be included. For order quantities of N or higher that are less than M, text information marked "normal" may be included. For orders less than N, text information marked as "low" can be included.

According to an example embodiment, the delivery fee information included in the first type of icon may include representative value information about the delivery fee of the store requesting the delivery in each area.

In this case, a "representative value" is a value indicative of the nature and trend of delivery charges by stores requesting deliveries. For example, a mean value, a median value, a plurality of values, etc. may correspond to "representative values." However, a mean, a median and a mode of values are exemplary. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, any numerical information that can be derived by applying a specific algorithm or function to a store's delivery charges can be representative value information.

According to an example embodiment, the shipping cost information included in the first type of graph may be determined based on a base shipping cost for one or more shipping orders occurring in each region during a particular time period. In this context, "Base Delivery Fee" means the fee set as the default payment when a delivery person fulfills a delivery order for each store.

For example, the shipping cost information included in the first type of graph can be determined as a representative value (e.g., an average , a median value, a plurality of values, a highest value and a lowest value).

For another example, in the representative value of the basic delivery fee for each of all delivery orders in each region, the electronic device 110 may display the delivery fee information previously set by the service provider on the first type icon The sum of the bonus amounts.

According to an example embodiment, the electronic device 110 may calculate the order quantity information and the delivery fee information based on the information collected during a first time period. For example, the electronic device 110 may calculate the order quantity information and the delivery fee information based on the delivery order information of each region collected 1 hour before the current time point.

According to an example embodiment, the electronic device 110 may update the order quantity information and the delivery fee information every second period, the second period being shorter than the first period. For example, if the first time period is 1 hour and the second time period is 10 minutes, the electronic device 110 may calculate the order quantity information and the delivery fee information based on the delivery order information of each region collected 1 hour before the current time point, And the electronic device 110 can maintain the latest information by repeating the calculation procedure every 10 minutes.

According to an example embodiment, the electronic device 110 may additionally display indications on the first page at a position on a map corresponding to each corresponding area for each area where the delivery cost information satisfies a preset cost condition A second type icon that satisfies a preset fee condition. For example, at a location on the map corresponding to each area where the basic delivery fee is ₩5,000 or more, the electronic device 110 may additionally display a text phrase including a text indicating that the basic delivery fee of the corresponding area is relatively high One of the second type icons. However, this is an example, and the shape, display position, graphic effect, etc. of the second type icon may be variously applied according to example embodiments of the present invention.

According to an example embodiment, on the map on the first page, the electronic device 110 may additionally display a third type icon including information about a region where a current promotion is applied. For example, if a delivery order is currently being fulfilled for Area A among areas within a first geographic range, the electronic device 110 may display in the form of a banner at the top of the map in the first page indicating payment of the bonus delivery fee One of the third type diagrams. However, this is an example, and the shape, display position, graphic effect, etc. of the third type icon may be variously applied according to example embodiments of the present invention.

In addition, in the present invention, at least one of the operations S210 to S240 described above may be performed based on the information received by the deliveryman terminal 120 from the electronic device 110 . According to an example embodiment, based on at least one of the information transmitted to the deliveryman terminal 120 and the information obtained by the deliveryman terminal 120 itself, the electronic device 110 can perform an operation in the deliveryman terminal 120 to generate the first page. Thus, for ease of description, the operations described and described as being performed by the electronic device 110 and the deliveryman terminal 120 respectively in the example embodiments are presented. Depending on the example embodiment, each device may transmit the obtained information to another device, so that the other device may perform a corresponding operation through computation.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for providing information according to an additional example embodiment of the present invention. Specifically, FIG. 3 relates to an example embodiment in which a second page is additionally provided according to an input of the deliveryman terminal 120 .

For example, the method shown in FIG. 3 can be executed by the electronic device 110 described above.

In operation S310, the electronic device 110 may identify a reference location of one of the delivery persons.

In operation S320, the electronic device 110 may identify information about at least one area included in the first geographic range including the identified reference location.

In operation S330, the electronic device 110 may identify delivery order information of each identified area.

In operation S340, the electronic device 110 may provide the deliveryman terminal 120 with a first page, the first page includes a map of the first geographical area and at least one icon of the first type corresponding to each area on the map .

In operation S350, the electronic device 110 may receive a selection of a specific first type icon from the deliveryman terminal 120.

In this case, the selection of a specific icon of the first type by the deliveryman's terminal 120 can be done by the deliveryman touching a corresponding icon on the display of the deliveryman's terminal 120 on which the first page is displayed , or by the deliveryman inputting the identification information corresponding to the icon through an input device (for example, a microphone, an optical sensor, etc.) provided in the deliveryman's terminal 120 . However, this is an example, and the method of selecting a particular first type of iconography can be set in various ways according to an example embodiment.

In operation S360, the electronic device 110 may provide the delivery person terminal 120 with a second page, and the second page may include a boundary corresponding to an area of the first type icon selected by the delivery person terminal 120 Information and a heatmap based on information about the number of orders in the area.

According to an example embodiment, the electronic device 110 may provide the second page in a form of a bottom sheet on a layer higher than the layer on which the first page is displayed.

Specifically, regarding the second page provided by the electronic device 110, the entire second page may be displayed on a display of the deliveryman terminal 120 based on a gesture event input through the deliveryman terminal 120, or the second page may be displayed. Part of two pages. More specifically, through the deliveryman terminal 120, gesture events such as touch, tap, drag, slide, pinch, touch and hold, and rotation can be input, and based on this, it can be determined whether to display the entire The second page or only part of the second page. For example, if the deliveryman slides an area of the second page that only displays a part in an upward direction through the deliveryman's terminal 120 , the entire second page can be displayed on the display of the deliveryman's terminal 120 .

According to an example embodiment, the second page provided by the electronic device 110 may include a map separate from the first page, and the electronic device 110 may display information based on the map corresponding to the map in the second page by the deliveryman terminal 120. A heat map of the boundary information of the area selected for the first type of icon and the number of orders in the area.

In the present invention, "boundary information" is information representing the administrative boundary of a specific area in a form recognizable by a deliveryman, and may indicate, for example, visual information representing the administrative boundary of a specific area as a solid line.

In the present invention, "heat map" may refer to visual information that responds to selection of a first type of icon by the deliveryman terminal 120 in an area proportional to the number of currently waiting orders The number of orders is displayed in the form of heat distribution.

According to an example embodiment, when the heat map is displayed on the second page, when the heat map is displayed on a layer higher than the map on the second page, the electronic device 110 may display a redder color with a larger number of waiting maps. A region that processes orders, and may display a region with a lower number of pending orders at a saturation (transparency) closer to 0.

According to another example embodiment, when displaying a heat map on the second page, when the heat map is displayed on a layer higher than the map on the second page, the electronic device 110 may display a redder color with a larger number a region with pending orders, and a region with a smaller number of pending orders may be displayed in a darker blue.

According to an example embodiment, the second page provided by the electronic device 110 may further include a list of one or more sub-areas within an area corresponding to the first type of icon selected by the deliveryman terminal 120 . Specifically, a list of sub-regions may be stored and displayed based on delivery order information for each sub-region. For example, a list of subregions may be displayed in two columns from top left to bottom right in order of the largest number of delivery orders in each subregion. For another example, if the number of sub-regions is too large to be aligned in two columns, the list of sub-regions may be displayed as arranged in three columns from the upper left corner to the lower right corner. Alternatively, the list of sub-areas can be displayed in two columns, and some sub-areas with lower priority that cannot be displayed can be displayed by scrolling.

According to an example embodiment, a control item for determining whether to display a list of sub-regions may be displayed on the second page provided by the electronic device 110, and when the corresponding control item is selected by the deliveryman terminal 120, it may be Toggles the show/hide state of the sub-area list. For example, the corresponding control item can be an arrow control item or a switch control item, the direction of which is changed by being selected by the deliveryman terminal 120 .

According to an example embodiment, when providing the second page to the deliveryman terminal 120, the electronic device 110 may apply a default graphic to the first type of icon selected by the deliveryman terminal 120 on the first page Effect.

For example, the electronic device 110 may apply a highlight effect of a preset color to the edge of the selected first type icon, or may enlarge and display the selected first type icon compared with the unselected remaining first type icons. For another example, the electronic device 110 may set the color, font, saturation, brightness, etc. of the selected icon of the first type to be different from other icons of the first type not selected.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a method for providing information according to an additional example embodiment. Specifically, FIG. 4 relates to an example embodiment in which a first page is changed in response to receiving a delivery order by the deliveryman terminal 120 .

The method depicted in FIG. 4 may be performed by, for example, the electronic device 110 described above.

In operation S410, the electronic device 110 may identify a reference location of a delivery person.

In operation S420, the electronic device 110 may identify information about at least one area included in the first geographic range including the identified reference location.

In operation S430, the electronic device 110 may identify delivery order information of each identified area.

In operation S440, the electronic device 110 may provide the deliveryman terminal 120 with a first page, the first page includes a map of the first geographical area and at least one first page displayed on the map and corresponding to each area. Type icon.

In operation S450, the electronic device 110 may receive a delivery order to be assigned to a deliveryman.

FIG. 4 shows that the electronic device 110 receives a delivery order from the deliveryman terminal 120, but this is just an example. Alternatively, the electronic device 110 may receive a delivery order from a terminal that a deliveryman is assigned to a store or a separate server that manages the status of receiving delivery orders.

According to an example embodiment, if the deliveryman performs the result of accepting an input of a delivery order request from a specific store through a user interface (UI) on the first page displayed on the deliveryman terminal 120 , the electronic device 110 may receive a delivery order as a response to the corresponding input. In this regard, the deliveryman may select a card item representing a particular store on the first page displayed on the deliveryman terminal 120, or may choose to proceed for the deliveryman to accept an order request from a particular store. A call to action (CTA) button, and thus input can be performed. However, this is one example, and the manner in which the deliveryman performs the inputs described above may vary according to example embodiments.

In operation S460, the electronic device 110 provides the deliveryman terminal 120 with at least one of hiding all first type icons and displaying departure information, destination information and delivery fee information related to a currently received delivery order. a first page of the author.

According to an example embodiment, on the map in the first page, the electronic device 110 may display a graphical object representing the location of the store requesting the currently received delivery order, a graphic object representing the destination to which the deliveryman delivered the item A graphical object of the location, and delivery fee information to be paid to the deliveryman when the delivery order is completed, and a map in the first page can be provided to the deliveryman's terminal 120. Through this, the electronic device 110 can centralize the information necessary to fulfill a delivery order on the first page while visually informing the delivery person that the delivery order request was accepted and the delivery order was received without error.

According to another example embodiment, the electronic device 110 may display a graphic object representing the location on the map in the first page of the store requesting the currently received delivery order, and representing the destination to which the deliveryman delivered the item A graphics object at the position. Information about the delivery fee to be paid to the deliveryman upon completion of the corresponding delivery order may be displayed through a separate icon outside the map on the first page, or the delivery fee information may be notified (e.g., a push notification , a message, etc.) to the courier terminal 120.

The method is illustrated in a plurality of operations illustrated in FIGS. 2-4 . However, at least some operations may be performed out of order, may be performed in combination with other operations, may be omitted, may be divided into detailed operations and performed, or may be performed by adding one or more operations not shown.

FIG. 5 shows an exemplary diagram 500 of a first page of display information.

FIG. 5 illustrates a first page based on deliveries for an area corresponding to the geographic range from Seocho to Gangnam as a result of the reference location A of the identified deliveryman. The order information displays four icons 510 of the first type.

Specifically, the four first-type icons on the first page may contain order quantity information and delivery fee information for each of the four areas, Seocho-gu 1 (Seocho-gu 1) , Gangnam-gu 1, Gangnam-gu 3 and Gangnam-gu 4.

According to an example embodiment, the first type icon 510 corresponding to Gangnam-gu No. 1 may include a name 511 of an area, delivery fee information 512 and order quantity information 513 of the area. For example, if the delivery fee information indicates the average delivery fee of stores requesting delivery in the area, the marked delivery fee information 512 of "₩5,100" may indicate the delivery rate of the store requesting delivery in Gangnam-gu 1. The average shipping cost is ₩5,100. In addition, through the order quantity information 513 marked as "normal", it can be indicated that the order quantity in Jiangnan District No. 1 is normal according to the current classification standard.

However, according to an example embodiment, the displayed position and order of information representing each of the name of the area 511 , shipping cost information 512 and order quantity information 513 may vary widely within the illustration 510 .

According to an example embodiment, one is satisfied among the four areas (Seocho-gu No. 1, Gangnam-gu No. 1, Gangnam-gu No. 3, and Gangnam-gu No. 4) corresponding to the first type of icons marked on the first page. At a position on the map of an area of one of the predetermined fee conditions, a second type icon indicating that one of the fee conditions is satisfied may be additionally displayed.

For example, the delivery fee information indicated in the first type icon among the four areas is each of the areas (Seocho-gu No. 1, Gangnam-gu No. 1, and Gangnam-gu No. 3) of ₩5,000 or more On top of the first type of icon, a second type of icon 520 may be displayed indicating that the delivery fee for each corresponding area is relatively high. However, this is an example. A position to display a second type icon, a size and a color of the second type icon may be variously set according to example embodiments.

According to an example embodiment, in addition to the text information indicating that the default fee condition is met, the second type icon may further include a graphic object for improving visibility.

Further according to an example embodiment, a third type icon containing information about a region where a current promotion is applied may additionally be displayed on the map of the first page.

For example, at the top of the map on the first page, a third type icon 530 indicating that a bonus is applied to delivery charges in Seocho-gu and Gangnam-gu may be displayed in a banner form as a current promotion.

According to an example embodiment, if the third type icon 530 is selected by the deliveryman terminal 120, the electronic device 110 may provide the deliveryman terminal 120 with a separate page providing updates on the currently applied promotion. More details.

FIG. 6 shows an exemplary view 600 of a first page with a first type of icon overlay.

Referring to FIG. 6, it can be indicated that the geographic range (hereinafter, the second geographic range) shown on the map on the first page of FIG. 6 is larger than the first geographic range shown on the map on the first page of FIG. A wider area covers Yongsan-gu and Seongdong-gu. When displaying a wider geographic area on a map of this limited size, two or more icons of the first type may inevitably overlap each other.

As shown in FIG. 6 , when indicating that the second geographical area extending from the first geographical area is displayed on the map on the first page, a total of five geographical areas including Jiangnan District No. 1, Jiangnan District No. 2, and Jiangnan District No. 3 are displayed. One type of illustrations overlaps each other (B).

According to an example embodiment, when the display range of the map in the first page is changed from the first geographic range to the second geographic range according to an input on the first page through the deliveryman terminal 120, if the corresponding two If the first type icons of each of the or more areas overlap each other, the electronic device 110 may determine to display the first type icon based on the distance between the reference position of the delivery person terminal 120 and each area within the second geographic range. The order of the layers of the type icon.

For example, in order to preferentially display the first type of icon at the top in order of the shortest distance between the reference position of the deliveryman terminal 120 and the area within the second geographic range, the electronic device 110 may determine to display the first type of icon The order of the layers shown. According to this, the first type icon of the area A closer to the reference position of the deliveryman terminal 120 may be displayed on a higher layer than the first type icon of another area B.

According to another example embodiment, when the display range of the map in the first page is changed from the first geographic range to the second geographic range according to the input on the first page through the deliveryman terminal 120, if corresponding to two If the icons of the first type in each of the or more regions overlap each other, the electronic device 110 may determine the order of the layers displaying the icons of the first type based on the delivery fee information of the regions within the second geographic range.

For example, to preferentially display the first type icons at the top in the order of the highest delivery costs of the regions within the second geographic range, the electronic device 110 may determine the order of layers to display the first type icons. According to this, the first type icon of area A where the delivery fee is ₩5,000 can be displayed on a higher layer than the first type icon of area B where the delivery fee is ₩4,000.

According to another example embodiment, when the display range of the map in the first page changes from the first geographic range to the second geographic range in response to an input on the first page through the deliveryman terminal 120, if the corresponding When the first type icons of each of the two or more areas overlap each other, the electronic device 110 may determine to display the first type icon based on the number of deliverymen currently assigned to each area within the second geographic range The order of the layers shown.

For example, to preferentially display the first type of icons at the top in order of the number of deliverymen currently assigned to areas within the second geographic range, the electronic device 110 may determine the order of the layers to display the first type of icons. According to this, the first type icon of area A where the number of currently assigned deliverymen is 800 can be displayed more than the first type icon of area B where the number of currently assigned deliverymen is 500 On a higher floor.

7a-7c illustrate exemplary diagrams 700a-700c of a second page of display information.

First, FIG. 7a shows an exemplary diagram 700a of a state in which the second page is partially exposed on a layer higher than the first page in the form of a bottom sheet.

Specifically, if the deliveryman selects a first type icon 711 corresponding to the area (No. The terminal 120 provides a second page 720 including a heat map based on the boundary information of the selected area (Jiangnan District No. 1) and information about the number of orders in the area (Jiangnan District No. 1).

According to an example embodiment, in this case, the electronic device 110 may apply a preset graphic effect to the selected first type icon 711 on the first page 710 . For example, the electronic device 110 can apply a highlight effect by forming a thick solid line with a preset color on the edge of the first type icon 711 in the first region of the Jiangnan area in FIG. 7 .

According to an example embodiment, if a specific first type icon 711 on the first page 710 is selected, the electronic device 110 may provide the second page 720 in a layer higher than the first page 710, while adjusting the second page 720 A substantial area is occupied on the entire screen such that the selected first type icon 711 is not covered by the provided second page 720 .

Meanwhile, FIG. 7 b shows an exemplary diagram 700 b in which the second page is fully exposed in response to an input from the deliveryman terminal 120 .

Specifically, if the deliveryman inputs a preset gesture to the exposed part of the partially exposed second page 720 through the deliveryman terminal 120, the electronic device 110 can recognize one of the gestures corresponding to the input gesture through the electronic device 110. Events and fully expose the second page 720 to provide the deliveryman with more information including boundary information and a heatmap. According to this, the exposed area of the previously partially displayed first page 710 can be narrower.

According to an example embodiment, in addition to boundary information 721 of the selected area (No. Contains delivery fee information and order quantity information for this area (Gangnam-gu No. 1). According to the second page 720 shown, the basic delivery fee for the indicated area (No. 1, Gangnam-gu) is ₩4,000, and according to a preset classification standard, the order quantity is "normal".

According to an example embodiment, the second page 720 may further include a controller 723 for expanding/collapsing content identifying one or more sub-areas within the selected area (Jiangnan District No. 1). For example, when the second page 720 is provided, the controller 723 for expanding/collapsing content may be displayed in the collapsed state in FIG. 7b as a basic state.

Fig. 7c shows a second page when the controller 723 for expanding/collapsing the content in Fig. 7b in the folded state is selected by the deliveryman terminal 120 and converted to the controller 724 for expanding/collapsing the content in the unfolded state Illustrative diagram 700c of FIG.

As shown in FIG. 7c, when the controller 724 for expanding/collapsing content is switched to the unfolded state, the second page 720 can display one of the regions (Jiangnan District No. 1) corresponding to the current second page or List 725 of one of the subregions. Specifically, in the list 725 of the sub-areas in the list, Apgujeong-dong, Sinsa-dong, and Cheongdam-dong belonging to the area (Gangnam-gu No. 1) are displayed. ), Nonhyeon-dong, Samseong-dong, Yeoksam-dong and Daechi-dong.

According to an example embodiment, in the above list of sub-regions, sub-regions may be configured and displayed based on delivery order information of each sub-region.

For example, in the list of 7 sub-areas regarding the area (No. 1 Gangnam-gu), the sub-areas may be arranged and displayed from the upper left corner of a first column in the order of the largest number of orders in each sub-area. In this case, Apgujeong-dong has the most orders and Daeji-dong has the least orders.

FIG. 8 is used to illustrate an exemplary diagram 800 showing a position of a first type of diagram.

Referring to FIG. 8 , on a map provided to the courier terminal 120 , a first type icon 830 may be provided. In this case, a position to display the first type icon 830 may be determined based on at least one of a boundary 810 corresponding to an area of the first type icon 830 and a virtual rectangle 820 including the boundary 810 .

According to an example embodiment, the electronic device 110 may display the first type icon at the center point of a virtual rectangle touching the boundary of each area within a specific geographical range and including each area.

In the present invention, "the center point of an imaginary rectangle" indicates a point where a first straight line, which is an imaginary line connecting the center of one side of the rectangle to the center of the other side of the rectangle, intersects a second straight line , the second straight line is an imaginary line connecting the center of one vertical side of the rectangle to the center of the other vertical side.

According to another example embodiment, the electronic device 110 may introduce a virtual polygon adjacent to a boundary of each area within a predetermined geographical range, and may display the first type icon at the center of gravity of the corresponding polygon. For example, if the boundary of the specific area is a polygon formed by a combination of multiple straight lines, the electronic device 110 can directly display the first type of icon at the center of gravity of the polygon. If the boundary of a specific area is a polygon containing a curve, the electronic device 110 may introduce a virtual polygon close to the corresponding polygon but completely formed by straight lines, and may display a first type image at the center of gravity of the introduced polygon Show. If the boundary shape of a certain area is an unbalanced shape that is very skewed to one side, there may arise a problem that the positions of the first type graphics calculated by the method illustrated in FIG. 8 are located outside the area. In this case, it is possible to prevent the first type icon from being displayed outside the corresponding area by determining the position at which the first type icon is displayed by using the method of the center of gravity of the polygon described above.

According to another example embodiment, the electronic device 110 may display the first type icon at the center of gravity of a virtual rectangle that touches the boundary of each area within a specific geographical range and includes each area, and if the center point of the virtual rectangle is located in the area Externally, the electronic device 110 may introduce a virtual polygon close to the boundary of the corresponding area, and display the first type icon at the center of gravity of the polygon.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram of an electronic device for providing information according to an example embodiment.

According to an example embodiment, the electronic device 110 may include a transceiver 111 , a processor 113 and a memory 115 . The electronic device 110 can be connected to the deliveryman's terminal 120 , the network 130 and an external device through the transceiver 111 and can exchange data with them.

The processor 113 can execute at least one method described above through FIGS. 1 to 8 . The memory 115 can store information for performing at least one method described above with reference to FIGS. 1 to 8 . The memory 115 can be a volatile memory or a non-volatile memory.

The processor 113 can control the electronic device 110 to execute a program and provide information. Program code executed by processor 113 may be stored in memory 115 .

Connected to the transceiver 111 and the memory 115, the processor 113 can identify a reference location of a delivery person, can identify at least one piece of area information contained in a first geographical range containing the reference location of the delivery person, Delivery order information for at least one area can be identified, and the terminal of the deliveryman can be provided with a first page including a map of a first geographic area and displayed on the map corresponding to At least one representation of the first type for each of the at least one region.

In addition, the electronic device 110 according to an example embodiment may further include an interface for providing information to the delivery man.

In FIG. 9, electronic device 110 includes only elements relevant to the example embodiment of the invention. Therefore, those skilled in the art can understand that, in addition to the components shown in FIG. 9 , other common components may be further included.

An apparatus according to the example embodiments described above may include a processor, memory for storing and executing program data, persistent storage (such as a disk drive), communication ports for communicating with external devices, and use Interface devices such as touch panels, keys and buttons. The method implemented as a software module or an algorithm is computer-readable code or program instructions that can be executed on a processor, and can be stored on a computer-readable recording medium. Here, the computer readable recording medium includes a magnetic storage medium (for example, a read only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), a floppy disk, and a hard disk) and an optically readable medium ( For example, a CD-ROM, a digital versatile disc (DVD)). The computer readable recording medium can be distributed over network coupled computer systems so that a computer readable program code is stored and executed in a distributed fashion. The media can be read by a computer, stored in a memory, and executed on a processor.

Example embodiments may be represented by functional block elements and various processing steps. Functional blocks may be implemented in any number of hardware and/or software configurations to perform specified functions. For example, an example embodiment may employ integrated circuit configurations, such as memory, processing, logic, and/or look-up tables, which may perform various functions by controlling one or more microprocessors or other control devices. Similar to elements that can be implemented as software programming or software components, example embodiments can be implemented in a programming or scripting language (including C, C++, Java, assembly language, etc.), including as data structures, procedures, routines, or other Algorithms for a combination of programming constructs. Functional aspects may be implemented in an algorithm running on one or more processors. In addition, example embodiments may employ existing technologies for electronic environment setting, signal processing, and/or data processing. Terms such as "mechanism", "element", "member" and "configuration" are used broadly and are not limited to mechanical and physical elements. The term may include the meaning of a series of software routines associated with a processor or the like.

The example embodiments described above are examples only, and other embodiments may be implemented within the scope of the invention claims to be described later.

100: System for providing information/system for providing information 110: Electronic equipment 111: Transceiver 113: Processor 115: Memory 120: deliveryman terminal 130: Network 500: Schema 510: first type icon 511: name 512: Delivery Fee Information 513: Order Quantity Information 520:Second type icon 530: The third type of diagram 600: view 700a to 700c: schema 710: first page 711: The first type of icon 720: Second page 721: Boundary information 722:Heatmap 723:Controller 724: Controller 725: list 800: Schema 810: Boundary 820: virtual rectangle 830: First type icon A: Reference location/area B: area S210: Operation S220: operation S230: operation S240: operation S310: operation S320: operation S330: operation S340: Operation S350: Operation S360: Operation S410: Operation S420: operation S430: Operation S440: Operation S450: Operation S460: Operation

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram illustrating a system for providing information according to an example embodiment. FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a method for providing information according to an example embodiment. 3 and 4 are flowcharts for illustrating a method for providing information according to additional example embodiments. FIG. 5 is an exemplary diagram illustrating a first page of display information. FIG. 6 is an exemplary view of a first page when the first type of icon is overlapped. 7a to 7c are exemplary diagrams illustrating a second page of display information. FIG. 8 is an exemplary diagram for illustrating a position for displaying a first type of diagram. FIG. 9 is a block diagram of an electronic device for providing information according to an example embodiment.

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Claims (20)

A method of providing information to a terminal of a deliveryman, the method comprising: Identify the reference location of one of the couriers; identifying at least one piece of area information included in a first geographic range containing the reference location; Identify delivery order information for each region; and providing the deliveryman's terminal with a first page comprising a map of the first geographical area and at least one icon of the first type displayed on the map and corresponding to the areas, Wherein the first type icon includes order quantity information and delivery fee information identified based on the delivery order information of each region. The method according to claim 1, wherein the reference location is set as any one of a current location of the terminal of the delivery man and an address pre-registered by the terminal of the delivery man. The method as claimed in item 1, wherein the order quantity information includes text information about a result of classifying the order quantity of each region into one of four levels of low, normal, high and very high according to a preset classification criterion . The method of claim 1, wherein the delivery fee information includes representative value information about delivery fees of stores requesting delivery in each area. The method of claim 1, wherein the delivery cost information is determined based on a basic delivery cost of one or more delivery orders occurring in the respective regions during a predetermined period of time. The method of claim 1, wherein the order quantity information and the delivery fee information are calculated based on information collected within a first period, and are updated every second period, the second period being shorter than the first period. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first page, when a display range of the map changes from the first geographic range to a second geographic range in response to an input through the deliveryman's terminal, If the icons of the first type corresponding to each of the two or more areas overlap each other, determining to display the first type icons based on a distance between the reference location and the areas in the second geographic range One sequence of layers shown in the diagram. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first page, when a display range of the map changes from the first geographic range to a second geographic range in response to an input through the deliveryman's terminal, If the icons of the first type corresponding to each of the two or more regions overlap each other, the layer to display the icons of the first type is determined based on the shipping cost information for the regions within the second geographic range one order. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first page, when a display range of the map changes from the first geographic range to a second geographic range in response to an input through the deliveryman's terminal, If the icons of the first type corresponding to each of the two or more regions overlap each other, then it is determined to display the icons of the first type based on a number of delivery people currently assigned to each region within the second geographic range. One of the layers of the type diagram sequence. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first type of icon is displayed at a center point of a virtual rectangle in contact with a boundary of the respective regions and including the respective regions. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first page displays the first type of icon for each area belonging to a pre-selected hot list among all areas displayed on the map. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein for each area where the delivery cost information satisfies a preset cost condition, the first page additionally displays an indication that the delivery cost information is met at a position on the map corresponding to the each area An illustration of the second type of one of the preset fee conditions. The method of claim 1, wherein the first page additionally displays a third type icon on the map including information about a region applying a current promotion. The method according to claim 1, which further includes, if a predetermined first type icon is selected by the terminal of the delivery person, providing a second page to the terminal of the delivery person, and the second page A heat map including boundary information corresponding to an area of the selected first type icon and based on information about a number of orders within the area. The method of claim 14, wherein the second page is provided in a form of a bottom sheet on a layer higher than the layer displaying the first page. The method of claim 14, wherein the second page further includes a list of one or more sub-areas within the area, wherein the list of one or more sub-regions is displayed in a manner that configures the sub-regions based on shipping order information for each of the sub-regions. The method of claim 14, wherein on the first page, when the second page is provided to the deliveryman's terminal, a preset graphic effect is applied to the selected first type icon. The method of claim 1, further comprising: receive delivery orders to be assigned to one of the delivery workers; and providing the terminal to the deliveryman with a first page in which all icons of the first type are hidden and at least one of departure information, destination information, and delivery cost information related to the received delivery order is displayed . A computer-readable non-transitory recording medium on which is recorded a program for executing the method according to any one of Claims 1 to 18 on a computer. An electronic device for providing information to a terminal of a deliveryman, the electronic device comprising: a transceiver; a memory configured to store instructions; and a processor, wherein the processor connected to the transceiver and the memory is configured to: Identify the reference location of one of the couriers; identifying at least one piece of area information included in a first geographic range containing the reference location; Identify delivery order information for each region; and providing the terminal of the deliveryman with a first page comprising a map of the first geographical area and at least one icon of the first type displayed on the map and corresponding to the respective areas, Wherein the first type icon includes order quantity information and delivery fee information identified based on the delivery order information of each region.