TWI722628B - Preferential voucher system and its control method - Google Patents

Abstract

A discount voucher system includes a portable electronic device, a positioning server and a discount server. The positioning server stores a plurality of area data related to a plurality of predetermined areas. The discount server stores a plurality of discount vouchers, and each discount voucher corresponds to one of the regional data. The portable electronic device sends a location data indicating its current location to the positioning server. When the positioning server determines that the location indicated by the location data falls within one of the predetermined areas related to the area range data, it sends a certificate request to the discount server. The preferential server sends the (etc.) preferential certificate to the positioning server. The positioning server transmits the (etc.) discount voucher to the portable electronic device.

Description

Preferential voucher system and its control method

The invention relates to an electronic system, in particular to a preferential voucher system. The invention also relates to a control method of the preferential voucher system.

With the development of Internet communications, many businesses send preferential messages through the Internet to stimulate consumers' willingness to spend. However, consumers often forget when or where they can use relevant discounts because they receive too much discount information. How to develop a new preferential voucher system that can improve the shortcomings of the aforementioned prior art is a subject to be further explored in the present invention.

Therefore, the purpose of the present invention is to provide a preferential voucher system.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a control method of a preferential voucher system.

Therefore, the discount voucher system of the present invention includes a portable electronic device, a positioning server, and a discount server. The portable electronic device is operated by a user. The positioning server is electrically connected to the portable electronic device through a communication network, and stores a plurality of area data respectively related to a plurality of predetermined areas. The preferential server is electrically connected to the positioning server through a communication network, and stores multiple preferential vouchers, each of which corresponds to one of the regional data, and is suitable for the corresponding regional data. Used by a store in or adjacent to the relevant predetermined area.

The portable electronic device sends a location data indicating its current location to the positioning server.

When the positioning server receives the location data, the positioning server determines whether the location indicated by the location data falls within one of the predetermined areas related to the area range data.

When the positioning server determines that the location indicated by the location data falls within one of the predetermined areas related to the area range data as a predetermined area of the target area, the positioning server sends a location related to the target area. The certificate request for the relevant area data is sent to the preferential server.

When the preferential server receives the certificate request, the preferential server sends the preferential certificate or the preferential certificates corresponding to the region-wide data related to the certificate request to the positioning server.

When the positioning server receives the preferential certificate or the preferential certificates, the positioning server transmits the preferential certificate or the preferential certificates to the portable electronic device.

When the portable electronic device receives the discount voucher or the discount voucher, the portable electronic device outputs a discount push message indicating the discount voucher or the discount voucher.

In some implementation aspects, the positioning server also stores a filter list corresponding to the user, and the filter list includes one or more filter items indicating one of the discount vouchers.

Before the positioning server transmits the discount certificate or the discount certificates to the portable electronic device, it also filters the discount certificate or the discount certificates according to the filter list, wherein the positioning server also filters the discount certificate or the discount certificates. In other discount vouchers, delete the discount vouchers that match the filter item in the filter list or the discount vouchers indicated by the filter items or the discount vouchers, and only delete the discount vouchers or the discount vouchers with the filter list The filter item or the discount voucher indicated by the filter items or the discount voucher inconsistent with the discount voucher is transmitted to the portable electronic device.

In some implementations, after the portable electronic device receives the discount voucher or the discount voucher, the portable electronic device displays a message for asking the user whether to keep the discount voucher or the discount voucher Keep the confirmation message.

When the portable electronic device receives one or more non-retention commands input by the user and related to the discount voucher or one or more of the discount vouchers, the portable electronic device is based on the non-retention The instruction or the non-reservation instructions send a non-retention notice related to the non-reservation instruction or the discount vouchers related to the non-retention instructions or one or more of the discount vouchers to the positioning server.

When the positioning server receives the non-reservation notification, the positioning server generates an instruction according to the non-retention notification to indicate the discount voucher or one or more filtering items of the discount voucher related to the non-retention notification Or these filtering items are added to the filtering list.

In some implementations, when the portable electronic device receives input by the user and is related to one or more of the discount voucher or one or more of the discount voucher received by the portable electronic device A plurality of reminder time setting instructions, and the portable electronic device generates one or more offers related to the reminder time setting instructions or the reminder time setting instructions according to the reminder time setting instructions or the reminder time setting instructions The reminder time of one or more of the voucher or the discount voucher.

When the portable electronic device determines that the current time matches the reminder time or one of the reminder times, the portable electronic device displays a message indicating the reminder time or the discount voucher related to one of the reminder times Offer reminder message.

In some implementations, each discount voucher includes an expiration date. When the portable electronic device determines that the expiration date of the discount voucher or one of the discount voucher stored in it is earlier than the current time, the portable electronic device The electronic device deletes the preferential voucher whose validity period is earlier than the current time.

In some embodiments, the discount voucher system further includes a platform server and an acquiring host electrically connected to the platform server, and is suitable for communicating with a point-of-sale terminal and a point-of-sale server.

In a payment mode, the portable electronic device outputs a user-side payment data related to the user and one of the portable electronic device's stored discount voucher as a target discount voucher for the point-of-sale terminal Obtain the user-end payment data when it is adjacent to the portable electronic device.

When the platform server receives a store-side payment data from the point-of-sale terminal that includes the user-side payment data and a product amount, the platform server sends a status confirmation request related to the target discount voucher to the The point-of-sale server, the status confirmation request causes the point-of-sale server to return a status data indicating that the status of the target discount certificate is valid or invalid to the platform server.

When the platform server determines that the status data indicates that the status of the target discount voucher is valid, the platform server generates a net payment related to the target discount voucher based on the amount of the product, and sends a net payment that includes the net payment and The payment request related to the user is sent to the acquiring host.

When the acquiring host receives the payment request, the acquiring host executes an acquiring procedure related to the payment request.

The control method of the discount voucher system of the present invention is implemented by a discount voucher system. The discount voucher system includes a portable electronic device, a positioning server and a discount server, and the portable electronic device is operated by a user , The positioning server is electrically connected to the portable electronic device through a communication network, and stores a plurality of area data respectively related to a plurality of predetermined areas, the preferential server is electrically connected to the positioning server through the communication network, And a plurality of discount vouchers are stored, and each discount voucher corresponds to one of the region-wide data, and is suitable for use in a store in or adjacent to the predetermined area related to the region-wide data. The method includes: the portable electronic device sends a position data indicating its current location to the positioning server; when the positioning server receives the position data, the positioning server determines the position indicated by the position data Whether the location falls within one of the predetermined areas related to the area area data; when the positioning server determines that the location indicated by the location data falls within one of the predetermined areas related to the area area data As a predetermined area of the target area, the positioning server sends a certificate request related to the area-wide data of the target area to the discount server; when the discount server receives the certificate request, the discount server Send the discount voucher or the discount voucher corresponding to the region-wide data related to the voucher request to the location server; when the location server receives the discount voucher or the discount voucher, the location server will The discount voucher or the discount voucher is transmitted to the portable electronic device; and when the portable electronic device receives the discount voucher or the discount voucher, the portable electronic device outputs an indication of the discount voucher or the discount voucher Promotional messages such as discount vouchers.

The effect of the present invention is to transmit information related to the target area when the location server determines that the location indicated by the location data falls within one of the predetermined areas related to the area range data as the predetermined area of the target area. The voucher request for the region-wide data related to the target region is sent to the discount server, and the discount voucher or the discount voucher corresponding to the region-wide data related to the voucher request is sent to the discount server through the discount server A location server, and the location server sends the discount voucher or the discount voucher to the portable electronic device, so that the user can go to the nearby store immediately upon receiving the discount voucher or the discount voucher Use the discount voucher or such discount voucher.

Before the present invention is described in detail, it should be noted that in the following description, similar elements are denoted by the same numbers.

1, an embodiment of the discount voucher system 100 of the present invention is suitable for communicating with a point-of-sale terminal 200 and a point-of-sale server 300. The discount voucher system 100 includes a portable electronic device 1, a positioning server Server 2, a discount server 3, a platform server 4, and an acquiring host 5.

The portable electronic device 1 is operated by a user, and is, for example, a smart phone. The positioning server 2 is electrically connected to the portable electronic device 1 through a communication network, and stores a plurality of area data respectively related to a plurality of predetermined areas.

The discount server 3 is electrically connected to the positioning server 2 through a communication network, and stores multiple discount vouchers. Each discount voucher corresponds to one of the regional data, and is suitable for use in a store in or adjacent to the predetermined area related to the corresponding regional data.

The positioning server 2 also stores a filter list corresponding to the user, and the filter list includes one or more filter items indicating one of the discount vouchers.

1 and 2 (including FIGS. 2A and 2B), the following describes the steps of the preferential voucher system 100 executing a voucher sending procedure. First, as shown in step S01, the portable electronic device 1 sends a position data (such as GPS coordinates) indicating its current location to the positioning server 2.

Then, as shown in step S02, when the location server 2 receives the location data, the location server 2 determines whether the location indicated by the location data falls within one of the predetermined areas related to the area range data. If no, the process ends, if yes, then step S03 is executed next.

Step S03 is that when the positioning server 2 determines that the location indicated by the location data falls within one of the predetermined areas related to the area range data as a target area, the positioning server 2 sends a related The voucher request for the region-wide data related to the target region is sent to the preferential server 3.

Then, as shown in step S04, when the preferential server 3 receives the certificate request, the preferential server 3 sends the preferential certificate or the preferential certificates corresponding to the region-wide data related to the certificate request to the Positioning server 2.

Then, as shown in step S05, when the positioning server 2 receives the preferential certificate or the preferential certificates, the positioning server 2 filters the preferential certificate or the preferential certificates according to the filtering list. Then, as shown in step S06, the positioning server 2 transmits the filtered discount voucher or the discount voucher to the portable electronic device 1. More specifically, the positioning server 2 deletes the discount voucher or the discount voucher that matches the filter item in the filter list or the discount voucher or the discount voucher indicated by the filter items. Only the discount voucher or the discount voucher among the discount voucher that does not match the filter item in the filter list or the discount voucher indicated by the filter items or the discount voucher is sent to the portable electronic device 1 .

Then, as shown in step S07, when the portable electronic device 1 receives the discount voucher or the discount voucher, the portable electronic device 1 outputs a discount push message indicating the discount voucher or the discount voucher .

Then, as shown in step S08, the portable electronic device 1 displays a reservation confirmation message for asking the user whether to keep the discount voucher or the discount voucher.

Then, as shown in step S09, the portable electronic device 1 determines whether it has received one or more non-retention commands input by the user and related to the discount voucher or one or more of the discount voucher, If not, the process ends, and if so, then step S10 is executed.

In step S10, the portable electronic device 1 transmits a discount voucher or one of the discount voucher or the discount voucher related to the non-reservation instruction or the non-retention instruction according to the non-reservation instruction or the non-retention instructions. More than one non-retention notification is given to the positioning server 2.

Then, as shown in step S11, when the positioning server 2 receives the non-reservation notification, the positioning server 2 generates an indication of the discount voucher or one of the discount vouchers related to the non-reservation notification according to the non-retention notification Or multiple filtering items and adding the filtering item or filtering items to the filtering list.

1 and 3, the following describes the steps of the discount voucher system 100 executing a voucher use procedure. First, as shown in step S21, in a payment mode, the portable electronic device 1 outputs a user terminal of a discount voucher related to the user and the portable electronic device 1 as a target discount voucher Payment information for the point-of-sale terminal 200 to obtain the user-end payment information when it is adjacent to the portable electronic device 1. In this embodiment, the portable electronic device 1 and the point-of-sale terminal 200 support the NFC communication protocol and can transmit data through it, but it is not limited to this. The portable electronic device 1 may also display The user-end payment information is output by means of a barcode (for example, QR Code), and the point-of-sale terminal 200 obtains the user-end payment information by scanning the barcode.

Then, as shown in step S22, when the platform server 4 receives a store-side payment data from the point-of-sale terminal 200 that includes the user-side payment data and a product amount, the platform server 4 sends a related A request for confirming the status of the target discount voucher is sent to the point of sale server 300, and the status confirmation request causes the point of sale server 300 to return a status data indicating that the status of the target discount voucher is valid or invalid to the platform server 4.

Then, as shown in step S23, when the platform server 4 determines that the status data indicates that the status of the target discount voucher is valid, the platform server 4 generates a net payment related to the target discount voucher according to the commodity amount .

Then, as shown in step S24, the platform server 4 sends a payment request including the net payment amount and related to the user to the acquiring host 5.

Then, as shown in step S25, when the acquiring host 5 receives the payment request, the acquiring host 5 executes an acquiring procedure related to the payment request.

It is added that each discount voucher includes an expiration date. When the portable electronic device 1 determines that the expiration date of the discount voucher or one of the discount voucher stored in it is earlier than the current time, the portable electronic device 1 The electronic device 1 deletes the discount voucher whose validity period is earlier than the current time.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that when the portable electronic device 1 receives the discount voucher or one or more of the discount voucher input by the user and related to the portable electronic device 1 The portable electronic device 1 generates one or more reminder time setting instructions or the reminder time setting instructions according to the reminder time setting instructions or the reminder time setting instructions. The reminder time of the relevant discount voucher or one or more of the discount voucher.

When the portable electronic device 1 determines that the current time matches the reminder time or one of the reminder times, the portable electronic device 1 displays an indication indicating the reminder time or the discount related to one of the reminder times The voucher's discount reminder message.

In summary, the preferential voucher system 100 of the present invention uses when the positioning server 2 determines that the location indicated by the location data falls within one of the predetermined regions related to the region range data as the predetermined region of the target region Send the voucher request related to the region-wide data related to the target region to the discount server 3 within the time, and use the discount server 3 to send the voucher corresponding to the region-wide data related to the voucher request Or the preferential vouchers are sent to the positioning server 2, and the positioning server 2 sends the preferential vouchers or the preferential vouchers to the portable electronic device 1, so that the user receives the preferential vouchers or the preferential vouchers When you wait for the discount voucher, you can go to the nearby store to use the discount voucher or these discount voucher immediately, so the purpose of the invention can be achieved.

However, the above are only examples of the present invention. When the scope of implementation of the present invention cannot be limited by this, all simple equivalent changes and modifications made in accordance with the scope of the patent application of the present invention and the content of the patent specification still belong to Within the scope of the patent of the present invention.

100: discount voucher system

1: Portable electronic device

2: positioning server

3: Discount server

4: Platform server

5: Acquiring host

200: Point of Sale Terminal

300: Point of Sale Server

S01~S11: steps

S21~S25: steps

Other features and effects of the present invention will be clearly presented in the embodiments with reference to the drawings, in which: FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a hardware connection relationship of an embodiment of the preferential voucher system of the present invention; Figure 2 (including Figure 2A and Figure 2B) is a flowchart of this embodiment, illustrating a voucher sending procedure; Fig. 3 is another flowchart of this embodiment, illustrating a voucher usage procedure.

100: discount voucher system

1: Portable electronic device

2: positioning server

3: Discount server

4: Platform server

5: Acquiring host

200: Point of Sale Terminal

300: Point of Sale Server

Claims (8)

A discount voucher system, comprising: a portable electronic device for a user to operate; a positioning server, electrically connected to the portable electronic device through a communication network, and storing a plurality of respective related to a plurality of predetermined regions And a discount server, which is electrically connected to the positioning server through a communication network, and stores multiple discount vouchers. Each discount voucher corresponds to one of these regional data and is suitable for The corresponding area data is used by a store in the predetermined area or adjacent to the predetermined area; the location server also stores a filter list corresponding to the user, and the filter list contains one or more indicators such as The filtering item of one of the discount vouchers; the portable electronic device sends a position data indicating its current location to the positioning server; when the positioning server receives the position data, the positioning server determines the position Whether the location indicated by the data falls within one of the predetermined areas related to the area data; when the positioning server determines that the location indicated by the location data falls within the area data related to the area Within a predetermined area where one of the predetermined regions is used as a target region, the positioning server sends a voucher request related to the area range data related to the target region to the discount server; when the discount server receives the voucher request, The discount server will The discount voucher or the discount voucher corresponding to the region-wide data related to the voucher request is sent to the positioning server; when the location server receives the discount voucher or the discount voucher, the positioning server The filter list filters the discount voucher or the discount voucher, and transmits the filtered discount voucher or the discount voucher to the portable electronic device, wherein the positioning server among the discount voucher or the discount voucher Delete the discount voucher or discount voucher that matches the filter item in the filter list or the discount voucher indicated by the filter items, and delete only the discount voucher or the filter item in the filter list among the discount voucher or the discount voucher Or the discount voucher indicated by the filtering items or the discount voucher that does not match the discount voucher is sent to the portable electronic device; when the portable electronic device receives the discount voucher or the discount voucher, it may The portable electronic device outputs a promotion message indicating the discount voucher or the discount voucher; the portable electronic device displays a reservation confirmation message for asking the user whether to keep the discount voucher or the discount voucher; When the portable electronic device receives one or more non-retention commands input by the user and related to the discount voucher or one or more of the discount vouchers, the portable electronic device is based on the non-retention The instruction or the non-reservation instructions send a non-retention notice related to the non-reservation instruction or the discount voucher or one or more of the discount voucher related to the non-reservation instruction to the positioning server; when the The positioning server receives the non-reservation notice, the positioning server According to the non-retention notification, an instruction is generated to indicate the discount voucher or one or more filtering items of the discount voucher related to the non-retention notification, and the filtering item or the filtering items are added to the filtering list. The discount voucher system according to claim 1, wherein when the portable electronic device receives the discount voucher or one of the discount voucher input by the user and related to the portable electronic device received One or more reminder time setting instructions of one or more, the portable electronic device generates one or more reminder time setting instructions or the reminder time setting instructions according to the reminder time setting instructions or the reminder time setting instructions Command the reminder time of the discount voucher or one or more of the discount voucher; when the portable electronic device determines that the current time matches the reminder time or one of the reminder times, the portable electronic device The device displays a discount reminder message indicating the reminder time or the discount voucher related to one of the reminder times. The discount voucher system according to claim 1, wherein each discount voucher includes an expiration date, and when the portable electronic device determines that the expiration date of the discount voucher or one of the discount voucher stored in it is earlier than At the current time, the portable electronic device deletes the discount voucher whose validity period is earlier than the current time. The discount voucher system according to claim 1, further comprising a platform server and an acquiring host electrically connected to the platform server, and is suitable for communicating with a point-of-sale terminal and a point-of-sale server; Payment mode, the portable electronic device outputs a The user and the user-side payment data of one of the discount vouchers stored in the portable electronic device as a target discount voucher, so that the point-of-sale terminal can obtain the user-side payment data when it is adjacent to the portable electronic device; When the platform server receives a store-side payment data from the point-of-sale terminal that includes the user-side payment data and a product amount, the platform server sends a status confirmation request related to the target discount voucher to the The point-of-sale server, the status confirmation request causes the point-of-sale server to return a status data indicating that the status of the target discount voucher is valid or invalid to the platform server; when the platform server determines that the status data indicates the The status of the target discount voucher is valid, the platform server generates a net payment related to the target discount voucher based on the amount of the product, and sends a payment request containing the net payment and related to the user to the acquirer Host; when the acquiring host receives the payment request, the acquiring host executes an acquiring program related to the payment request. A control method of a discount voucher system is implemented by a discount voucher system, the discount voucher system includes a portable electronic device, a positioning server and a discount server, and the portable electronic device is operated by a user, The positioning server is electrically connected to the portable electronic device through a communication network, and stores a plurality of area data respectively related to a plurality of predetermined areas, the preferential server is electrically connected to the positioning server through the communication network, and A plurality of discount vouchers are stored, and each discount voucher corresponds to one of the area data, and is suitable for use in a store in or adjacent to the predetermined area related to the area data. The set The bit server also stores a filter list corresponding to the user. The filter list includes one or more filter items indicating one of the discount vouchers. The method includes: the portable electronic device displays an indication of its current The location data of the location is sent to the location server; when the location server receives the location data, the location server determines whether the location indicated by the location data falls within the predetermined areas related to the area data When the positioning server determines that the location indicated by the location data falls within one of the predetermined areas related to the area range data as a target area, the positioning server sends a related The voucher request for the region-wide data related to the target region is sent to the discount server; when the discount server receives the voucher request, the discount server corresponds to the discount for the region-wide data related to the voucher request The vouchers or the discount vouchers are sent to the location server; when the location server receives the discount vouchers or the discount vouchers, the location server filters the discount vouchers or the discount vouchers according to the filter list, and filters The subsequent discount vouchers or the discount vouchers are sent to the portable electronic device, where the location server is instructed by the discount vouchers or the discount vouchers with the filter items or the filter items in the filter list Delete the discount voucher or discount voucher matching the discount voucher, and only delete the discount voucher or the discount voucher with the filter item in the filter list or the discount indicated by the filter items The voucher or the discount voucher that does not match the discount voucher is sent to the portable electronic device; when the portable electronic device receives the discount voucher or the discount voucher, the portable electronic device outputs an indication of the discount voucher Or the promotion message of the discount vouchers; the portable electronic device displays a confirmation message for asking the user whether to keep the discount vouchers or the discount vouchers; when the portable electronic device receives the One or more non-reserved commands entered by the user and related to the discount voucher or one or more of the discount vouchers, the portable electronic device transmits a related command according to the non-reserved command or the non-reserved commands The non-reservation notice of the discount voucher or one or more of the discount voucher related to the non-reserved instruction or the non-reserved instruction to the location server; and when the location server receives the non-reservation notification , The positioning server generates the discount voucher or one or more filtering items of the discount voucher related to the non-retention notification according to the non-retention notification, and adds the filtering item or the filtering items to the filtering list. The control method of the discount voucher system according to claim 5, further comprising: when the portable electronic device receives the discount voucher or the discounts input by the user and related to the portable electronic device received One or more reminder time setting commands for one or more of the certificates, the portable electronic device generates one or more reminder time setting commands or the reminder time setting commands according to the reminder time setting commands or the reminder time setting commands. Wait for the reminder time setting instruction related to the discount voucher or the discount Voucher the reminder time of one or more of them; and when the portable electronic device determines that the current time matches the reminder time or one of the reminder times, the portable electronic device displays an indication of the reminder time or The discount reminder message of the discount voucher related to one of the reminder times. The control method of the discount voucher system according to claim 5, wherein each discount voucher includes an expiration date, and the method further includes: when the portable electronic device determines that the discount voucher or the discount voucher stored therein The expiration date of one is earlier than the current time, and the portable electronic device deletes the discount voucher whose expiration date is earlier than the current time. The control method of the discount voucher system according to claim 5, wherein the discount voucher system further includes a platform server and an acquiring host electrically connected to the platform server, and is suitable for communicating with a point-of-sale terminal and A point-of-sale server communication, the method further includes: in a payment mode, the portable electronic device outputs a discount voucher related to the user and one of the portable electronic device stored as a target discount voucher User-side payment data for the point-of-sale terminal to obtain the user-side payment data when it is adjacent to the portable electronic device; when the platform server receives a payment data from the point-of-sale terminal and contains the user-side payment data And a store-side payment data of the product amount, the platform server sends a status confirmation request related to the target discount voucher to the point-of-sale server, and the status confirmation request causes the point-of-sale server to return an indication of the target discount The status data of the certificate's status as valid or invalid is sent to the platform server; When the platform server determines that the status data indicates that the status of the target discount voucher is valid, the platform server generates a net payment related to the target discount voucher based on the amount of the product, and sends a net payment that includes the net payment and The payment request related to the user is sent to the acquiring host; and when the acquiring host receives the payment request, the acquiring host executes an acquiring procedure related to the payment request.

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