TWI807243B - An online social system and method with crowdfunding - Google Patents

Abstract

An online social system and method with crowdfunding therefore comprises the steps. A fundraising side receive a project request and generate a fundraising project and a project history record. The social side perform a crawler application and fetch the fundraising project and the project history record. The social side generates a social dynamic interface. The social side post the project history record to the social dynamic interface according a project ability of the project history record. The social dynamic interface receive a funding request and forward the funding request to the fundraising side. The fundraising side appends the funding request to the project history record of the correspond project.

Description

Online community system and processing method combined with fundraising activities

A network communication system and processing method, in particular an online community system and processing method combined with fundraising activities.

With the rapid development of network transmission, it has also led to the rise of many online businesses, especially online fundraising activities. In order to raise the first capital, many entrepreneurs will use online fundraising methods to provide low-cost and preferential prices and products to funders. And at different stages of product development, manufacturers will propose corresponding products (or combinations) and prices. Generally speaking, users can pre-order products with lower prices from manufacturers through early funding.

Different fundraising platforms have their own registration process, operation mode and payment method, so that the client needs to learn the relevant operations of each fundraising platform. It is a cumbersome burden for the user end.

In view of this, according to some embodiments, the present invention provides an online community system combined with fundraising activities, which is characterized in that it combines the cross-network and data processing of the fundraising platform and the community platform, so that users of the community platform can directly perform operations related to the fundraising platform.

The online community system combined with fundraising activities of the present invention includes an activity platform end and a community platform end. The activity platform end has a first processing unit, a first network unit and a project resource The database, the first processing unit is electrically connected to the first network unit and the project database. The first processing unit receives the project initiation request and generates the fundraising project and the project history record. The first processing unit creates the corresponding project history record in the project database according to the fundraising project. Funding projects and project history records, the second processing unit executes the crawler program and information classification program, the crawler program is used to retrieve the fundraising project and the project history record to which it belongs, the storage unit records the community group and the user terminal, the community program generates the community dynamic interface according to the community group, the information classification program selects the community group with the same project attribute according to the project attribute of the fundraising project, and posts the fundraising project to the community dynamic interface; wherein, the community platform terminal selects the fundraising from the community dynamic interface according to the user terminal. When a project generates a project funding request, the second processing unit forwards the project funding request to the event platform, and the event platform attaches the project funding request to the project history record to which the fundraising project belongs.

In some embodiments, the project history record includes project name, product introduction, target amount, fundraising deadline, project leader, product attribute label and sponsor information, fundraising amount and purchase items.

In some embodiments, the crawler retrieves a new fund-raising project or an existing project history record from the activity platform after each preset period of time passes by the crawler. The above-mentioned project attributes may include product category, activity category, or project leader.

In some embodiments, the storage unit further stores the communication information of the client, the community group it belongs to, and the delivery information.

In some embodiments, when the fundraising amount of the fundraising project exceeds the target threshold, the social platform can send a notification of reaching the target to the user terminal to which the fundraising project belongs. The social platform side can then transmit the communication information and delivery information of the client side that has received the notification of reaching the standard to the activity platform side.

In some embodiments, the activity platform includes a project management interface, and the first processing unit generates a corresponding project management interface according to the project initiation request, and the project management interface is used to add, delete or modify the project history record.

In some embodiments, the community platform includes an attribute tag management interface, through which the client of the community group adds, deletes or modifies attribute tags, and the information classification program searches for corresponding project attributes according to the attribute tags.

In some embodiments, the social networking platform includes a first chat room program, the first chat room program is network-connected to the second chat room program on the activity platform side, the first chat room program generates a dialogue interface, and the first chat room program obtains the conversation record of the second chat room program and displays it on the dialogue interface.

The present invention also proposes an online community processing method combined with fundraising activities, which includes receiving project initiation requirements from the activity platform and generating fundraising projects and project history records; executing a crawler program on the community platform to retrieve fundraising projects and associated project history records from the activity platform; generating a community dynamic interface on the community platform; according to the project attributes of the project history records, the community platform forwards the project history record to the community dynamic interface with the same project attributes; Obtain the project funding requirements; forward the project funding requirements to the event platform; the event platform attaches the project funding requirements to the project history record to which the fundraising project belongs.

In some embodiments, executing the crawler program includes: every time the crawler program passes through After a preset period of time, the crawler program retrieves new fundraising projects or existing project history records from the event platform.

In some embodiments, the social platform further stores the communication information of the client, the community group it belongs to, and the delivery information.

In some embodiments, the fundraising project meeting the target threshold includes the following steps: the community platform sends a notice of reaching the target to the user terminal to which the fundraising project belongs; the social platform transmits the communication information and delivery information of the user terminal that has received the notice of reaching the target to the event platform.

In some embodiments, the step of forwarding the project history record to the community dynamic interface with the same project attribute further includes: executing the first chat room program on the social platform side, and generating a dialogue interface; the first chat room program is connected to the second chat room program on the activity platform side, and obtains the chat records of the second chat room program; and displaying the chat records in the chat interface.

In summary, the present invention provides an online community system and processing method combined with fundraising activities. Fundraising projects on different fundraising platforms can be automatically posted in community groups with corresponding project attributes according to project attributes to achieve the effect of advertising. In addition, by combining the online community system and processing method of fundraising activities, the client terminal on the community platform can directly perform corresponding operations on other fundraising platforms. And through the integrated interface and operation process of the social platform, the client does not need to switch between multiple platforms.

110: Activity platform end

111: The first processing unit

112: The first network unit

113:Project database

114:Fundraising project

115:Project history record

116: The second chat room program

117:Project properties

118:Project management interface

120: Community platform terminal

121: Second processing unit

122: Second network unit

123: storage unit

124: Crawler

125: Information classification program

126:Community program

127a: Communication information

127b: Community groups

127c: pick up information

128: The first chat room program

131: The first client

132: Second client

133: The third client

134: the fourth client

140: Community dynamic interface

S310~S370: steps

S900~S921: Steps

[FIG. 1A] is a schematic diagram of an online community system combined with fundraising activities according to an embodiment.

[ FIG. 1B ] is a schematic diagram of a hardware architecture and an architecture block of an embodiment.

[Fig. 2] is a schematic diagram of a fundraising project and related information of an embodiment.

[ FIG. 3 ] is a schematic flowchart of an online community processing method combined with fundraising activities according to an embodiment.

[FIG. 4] is a schematic diagram of the project management interface of an embodiment.

[Fig. 5] is a schematic diagram of the community dynamic interface and tag attributes of an embodiment.

[ FIG. 6 ] is a schematic diagram of a community dynamic interface and a fundraising project of an embodiment.

[ FIG. 7 ] is a schematic diagram of a first user terminal, a second user terminal, a third user terminal and a fourth user terminal according to an embodiment.

[ FIG. 8 ] is a schematic diagram of a hardware architecture and an architecture block of another embodiment.

[ FIG. 9 ] is a schematic diagram of the process of reaching the standard of a fund-raising project according to an embodiment.

[FIG. 10] is a schematic diagram of the linkage between the first chat room and the second chat room according to an embodiment.

Please refer to FIG. 1A and FIG. 1B , which are schematic diagrams of an online community system combined with fundraising activities, hardware architecture and architecture blocks according to an embodiment. The online community system combined with fundraising activities in this embodiment includes an activity platform terminal 110 and a community platform terminal 120 . The activity platform terminal 110 is connected to at least one social platform terminal 120 via network. In FIG. 1A , different electronic devices are respectively connected to the activity platform terminal 110 or the social platform terminal 120 . The event platform 110 includes a first processing unit 111 , a first network unit 112 and a project database 113 . The first processing unit 111 is connected to the first network unit 112 and the project database 113 .

The activity platform terminal 110 is connected to at least one user terminal through the first network unit 112 . Here, the client belonging to the active platform 110 is defined as the first client 131 . The first client terminal 131 can send a project initiation request to the activity platform terminal 110 through the first network unit 112 beg. Project launch requests can include, but are not limited to, crowdfunding for merchandise, as well as crowdfunding for events. The commodities include physical objects or intangible software or multimedia.

When the event platform 110 receives a project initiation request, the first processing unit 111 will create a fundraising project 114 and a project history record 115 to which the project belongs. The fundraising project 114 has its project attribute 117, and the project attribute 117 includes commodity type, activity type or project leader. The project history record 115 includes project name, product introduction, target amount, fundraising deadline, project leader, product attribute label and sponsor information, fundraising amount and purchase items, as shown in FIG. 2 . FIG. 2 includes various fundraising projects 114 and corresponding project history records 115 . However, Fig. 2 is only an example, and is not limited to the fields therein.

The social platform terminal 120 has a second processing unit 121 , a second network unit 122 , a storage unit 123 , a crawler program 124 (crawler), an information classification program 125 and a social program 126 . The second processing unit 121 is electrically connected to the second network unit 122 and the storage unit 123 . In addition to being connected to the active platform end 110, the second network unit 122 can also be connected to the user end of the platform through the network. In order to distinguish the users of the social networking platform terminal 120, it is defined as the second user terminal 132 here. A user who has both the community platform terminal 120 and the activity platform terminal 110 is defined as the third user terminal 133 . The aforementioned client terminals refer to the user connecting to the social platform terminal 120 or the activity platform terminal 110 through a computer device. The computer device may be, but not limited to, a personal computer, a notebook computer, a mobile communication device, or a tablet computer.

The storage unit 123 is used for storing relevant information of the crawler program 124 , the community program 126 , the information classification program 125 , community groups, and the second client terminal 132 . The second processing unit 121 executes the crawler program 124 , and the crawler program 124 is used to retrieve the fundraising project 114 and the associated project history record 115 of the event platform 110 . In some embodiments, the crawler 124 runs every After a preset period of time, the crawler program 124 retrieves a new fundraising project 114 or an existing project history record 115 from the event platform 110 . The shortest preset period can be set in minutes, and the longest can be set in days. The crawler program 124 can be implemented through development languages such as Python, JSP (Java Server Page) or JSON (JavaScript Object Notation).

In addition to providing the community interface used by common client terminals, the community program 126 can also generate a community dynamic interface 140 (as shown in FIG. 5 ) according to community groups. The community group can be formed by the second client 132 . Generally speaking, a community group is composed of multiple users (all of which belong to the second client terminal 132 ), and the community group has at least one set of attribute tags. The information classification program 125 selects a community group with a corresponding attribute tag according to a project attribute 117 of the fundraising project 114 . After the information classification program 125 completes the selection of community groups, the information classification program 125 will post the fundraising project 114 on the community dynamic interface 140 for the second client terminal 132 to view.

The second user terminal 132 can select any fundraising project 114 from the community dynamic interface 140 . The second client 132 can initiate a sponsorship request for the selected fundraising project 114 . When the second processing unit 121 receives the sponsorship request, the second processing unit 121 normalizes the sponsorship request according to the page content format of the event platform 110, and outputs the project funding request conforming to the page content format. The second processing unit 121 sends the project funding request to the event platform 110 . The first processing unit 111 searches for the corresponding fundraising project 114 after receiving the project funding request, and appends the project funding request to the project history record 115 to which the fundraising project 114 belongs.

In order to further illustrate this embodiment of the online community combined with fundraising activities For the processing method, please refer to FIG. 3 , which is a schematic flowchart of a processing method for an online community combined with fundraising activities according to an embodiment. The processing method of the online community combined with fundraising activities in this embodiment includes: Step S310: The activity platform receives a project initiation request and generates a fundraising project and a project history record; Step S320: Executes a crawler program on the community platform to retrieve the fundraising projects and their associated project history records from the activity platform; Step S330: Generate a community dynamic interface on the community platform; The project history record is forwarded to the community dynamic interface with the same project attribute; Step S350: Obtain the project funding request in the community dynamic interface; Step S360: Forward the project funding request to the event platform; and Step S370: The event platform attaches the project funding request to the project history record to which the fundraising project belongs.

Firstly, the activity platform 110 receives the project initiation request initiated by the first client 131 , and the activity platform 110 generates a fundraising project 114 and a project history record 115 , and records them in the project database 113 . In some embodiments, the event platform 110 can use a project management interface 118 to control the generation and progress of the fundraising project 114 . The first client terminal 131 can add, delete, view or modify the fundraising project 114 and the project history record 115 to which it belongs via the project management interface 118 , as shown in FIG. 4 . FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of the project management interface 118 of an embodiment. In FIG. 4, the screen of a personal computer is used as an illustration. In the project management interface 118, the first client terminal 131 can add a product name (or event name), a fundraising target amount, Product specifications (or activity content) and other information.

For the social networking platform 120, the social networking platform 120 can perform the steps and items synchronously, or complete the step S320 after executing the step S330 first. The second client terminal 132 can establish a community group on the community platform terminal 120, and generate a community dynamic interface 140 in the community group, as shown in FIG. 5 . FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a mobile communication device, and the screen displayed on the mobile communication device is a community dynamic interface 140 . And in order to highlight the community group, an attribute mark is added to the right side of the community group in Figure 5, but it may not be displayed on the actual interface. Alternatively, when the crawler program 124 obtains the new fundraising project 114 , the second processing unit 121 forwards the fundraising project 114 to the corresponding community group and the community dynamic interface 140 according to the project attribute 117 of the fundraising project 114 .

In some embodiments, the social platform 120 includes an attribute tag management interface for managing the attribute tags to which the community group belongs. The second client 132 of the community group can add, delete or modify attribute tags through the attribute tag management interface. The information classification program 125 searches for the corresponding project attributes 117 according to the attribute tags, and forwards the fundraising projects 114 that match the attribute tags to the community dynamic interface 140 . Therefore, the administrator of the community group can modify or add the attribute label of the community group through the attribute label management interface. The aforementioned crawler program 124 will also retrieve the corresponding fundraising project 114 from the event platform 110 according to the content of the attribute tag. Taking the fund-raising project 114 in FIG. 2 as an example, the crawler program 124 finds the fund-raising project 114 of “wireless bluetooth earphones” in FIG. 2 according to the tags of “audio” and “3C”.

Other second client terminals 132 can view information related to the fundraising project 114 from the community dynamic interface 140 . If the second user terminal 132 has the willingness to support the fundraising project 114, the second user terminal 132 can click on the fundraising project 114 from the community dynamic interface 140, and select Select related projects to be funded. The second client terminal 132 sends a sponsorship request through the community dynamic interface 140 , as shown in FIG. 6 . In FIG. 6 , the community dynamic interface 140 has multiple fundraising projects 114 , and the second user terminal 132 can click the "+" sign next to the fundraising project 114 to sponsor the fundraising project 114 . Here, the expression of the "+" sign is only for demonstration, and it can also be a hyperlink, confirm and other ways that can be selected for sponsorship.

The sponsorship request includes information such as fundraising projects 114 (or activity items), commodity combinations, consumption amounts, and payment tools to be funded. In addition to the payment tools that the second user terminal 132 can pay through online remittance, transfer, and credit card payment, the social platform 120 can also provide other payment tools for the second user terminal 132 to choose. For example: social platforms provide options such as online payment, code payment or prepaid point payment. After the second client 132 sends out the sponsorship request, the second processing unit 121 normalizes the sponsorship request according to the page structure and column requirements of the event platform 110 , and outputs the project funding request. The community platform terminal 120 sends the request for project funding to the activity platform terminal 110 .

In addition, the community group may include the third user terminal 133 that also has members of the activity platform 110 and the second user terminal 132 that only has members of the community platform 120 . Here, the second user terminal 132 that does not have a member of the activity platform 110 but has a member of the community platform 120 is defined as the fourth user terminal 134 , please refer to FIG. 7 . The upper part of FIG. 7 is the union of the first client terminal 131 and the second client terminal 132 . The lower middle part of FIG. 7 is the intersection of the first user terminal 131 and the second user terminal 132 , that is, the third user terminal 133 . The lower right side of FIG. 7 is the second user terminal 132 minus the third user terminal 133 , that is, the fourth user terminal 134 . Since the fourth client terminal 134 is not on the active platform terminal 110, it does not have relevant communication information and mailing information. Therefore, the social platform terminal 120 will additionally perform the following processing in the process of encapsulating the project funding request.

In some embodiments, the storage unit 123 further stores the communication information 127a of the client, the community group 127b it belongs to, and the delivery information 127c, as shown in FIG. 8 . The pick-up information 127c also includes general delivery of goods, supermarket pick-up, and payment for pick-up. The second processing unit 121 may add the information contained in the user database and the communication information 127a of the fourth client 134 into the project funding request during the process of encapsulating the project funding request. In addition, the second processing unit 121 may also add the communication information 127a of the second client terminal 132 into the project funding request. Finally, the community platform 120 sends a project funding request to the activity platform 110 .

The activity platform terminal 110 attaches the project funding request to the project history record 115 to which the fundraising project 114 belongs. The first processing unit 111 calculates the progress of the fundraising project 114 according to the project funding requirements, and determines whether the fundraising amount has reached the target threshold or whether the fundraising period has expired. Please refer to FIG. 9 , which is a schematic diagram of the activity platform terminal 110 judging the fund-raising project 114’s compliance process of an embodiment, including the following steps: Step S900: Determine whether the fund-raising period of the fund-raising project expires and the fund-raising amount reaches the target threshold; Step S911: The fund-raising period of the fund-raising project expires and the fund-raising amount reaches the target threshold, and the community platform sends a notification of reaching the target to the second user terminal belonging to the fund-raising project; Step S912: The community platform will receive the notification of reaching the target The communication information of the user terminal of the fund-raising project and the delivery information are transmitted to the event platform; Step S921: the fund-raising period of the fund-raising project expires and the fund-raising amount does not reach the target threshold, and the community platform sends a notice of failure to the second user terminal to which the fund-raising project belongs; and Step S931: If the fund-raising period of the fund-raising project has not expired and the fund-raising amount of the fund-raising project exceeds Once the target threshold is passed, the community platform sends a notice of reaching the target to the second client of the fundraising project.

If the fund-raising period of the fund-raising project 114 expires and the fund-raising amount reaches the target threshold, the community platform 120 will generate a notice of reaching the target according to the return of the crawler program 124 . The social platform terminal 120 sends the standard-reaching notification to the second client terminal 132 of the fundraising project 114 , and queries the communication information 127a and delivery information 127c of the second client terminal 132 . The social platform 120 sends the relevant information of the second client 132 to the event platform 110 . If the fundraising amount of the fundraising project 114 has reached the target threshold but has not yet expired, the community platform terminal 120 will only notify the relevant second user terminal 132 . If the fund-raising period of the fund-raising project 114 expires and the fund-raising amount does not reach the target threshold, the community platform terminal 120 sends a failure notification to the second user terminal 132 to which the fund-raising project 114 belongs.

In some embodiments, the social platform terminal 120 further includes a first chat room program 128 , and the activity platform terminal 110 includes a second chat room program 116 . When the activity platform 110 starts to raise funds for the fundraising project 114 , the activity platform 110 can execute the second chat room program 116 , as shown in FIG. 10 . When the community platform 120 obtains the project history record 115 , the community platform 120 can execute the first chat room program 128 according to the fundraising project 114 . The first chat room program 128 can be accessed by the second client 132 and generates a dialog interface on the display screen of the second client 132 . The first chat room program 128 obtains the chat record from the second chat room program 116, and displays the chat record in the chat interface.

For the event platform 110, the person in charge of the fundraising project 114 can explain the progress of product development (or event preparation) through the second chat room program 116, and can also explain the functions or features of the product (or event). The second user end 132 of the social networking platform end 120 may not need Log in to the activity platform terminal 110 to watch the corresponding content from the dialogue interface.

Based on the above, the online community system and processing method combined with fundraising activities provide an integrated community platform, so that the client can directly watch and select sponsored projects of other fundraising platforms on the community platform. Fundraising projects on different fundraising platforms can also be automatically posted in community groups with corresponding project attributes according to the project attributes to achieve the effect of advertising.

Although the present invention is disclosed above with the foregoing embodiments, it is not intended to limit the present invention. Any person familiar with the related art may make some changes and modifications without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of patent protection of the present invention shall be defined by the scope of patent application attached to this specification.

110: Activity platform end

111: The first processing unit

112: The first network unit

113:Project database

114:Fundraising project

115:Project history record

120: Community platform terminal

121: Second processing unit

122: Second network unit

123: storage unit

124: Crawler

125: Information classification program

126:Community program

131: The first client

132: Second client

Claims (14)

An online community system combined with fundraising activities, which includes: an event platform end with a first processing unit, a first network unit and a project database, the first processing unit is electrically connected to the first network unit and the project database, the first processing unit receives a project initiation request and generates a fundraising project and a project history record, the first processing unit creates a corresponding project history record in the project database according to the fundraising project; A second network unit, a storage unit, a crawler program, an information classification program, and a community program. The second processing unit is electrically connected to the second network unit and the storage unit. The second network unit is connected to the activity platform. The second network unit transmits the fundraising project and the project history record. The second processing unit executes the crawler program and the information classification program. The community program generates a community dynamic interface according to the community group, and the information classification program selects the community group with the same project attribute according to the project attribute of the fundraising project, and posts the fundraising project to the community dynamic interface; wherein, the community platform includes an attribute label management interface, and the user terminal of the community group adds, deletes or modifies an attribute label through the attribute label management interface, and the information classification program searches for the corresponding project attribute according to the attribute label. The user terminal generates a project funding request from the fundraising project selected in the community dynamic interface, and the second processing unit selects a communication information of the user terminal to add to the project funding request, and The project funding request is forwarded to the activity platform, and the activity platform attaches the project funding request to the project history record to which the fundraising project belongs. The online community system combined with fundraising activities as described in claim 1, wherein the project history record includes project name, product introduction, target amount, fundraising deadline, project leader, product attribute label and sponsor information, fundraising amount and purchased items. The online community system combined with fundraising activities as described in Claim 1, wherein after the crawler program passes through a preset period of time, the crawler program retrieves a new fundraising project or an existing history record of the project from the activity platform. The online community system combined with fundraising activities as described in claim 2 or 3, wherein the project attribute includes product type, activity type or project leader. The online community system combined with fundraising activities as described in Claim 1, wherein the storage unit stores a communication information of the client, the community group to which it belongs, and a delivery information. An online community system combined with fundraising activities as described in Claim 5, wherein the fundraising amount of the fundraising project exceeds a target threshold, and the community platform sends a notification of reaching the target to the client terminals to which the fundraising project belongs. The online community system combined with fundraising activities as described in Claim 6, wherein the social platform transmits the communication information and the delivery information of the client that has received the notice of reaching the standard to the activity platform. The online community system combined with fundraising activities as described in claim 1, wherein the activity platform includes a project management interface, and the first processing unit initiates a request according to the project To generate a corresponding project management interface, the project management interface is used to add, delete or modify the project history record. The online community system combined with fund-raising activities as described in Claim 1, wherein the community platform includes a first chat room program, and the first chat room program is network-connected to a second chat room program on the event platform side, the first chat room program generates a dialogue interface, and the first chat room program obtains a chat record of the second chat room program and displays it on the dialogue interface. A processing method for an online community combined with fundraising activities, which includes: receiving a project initiation request from an activity platform and generating a fundraising project and a project history record; executing a crawler program on a community platform to retrieve the fundraising projects and the project history records to which they belong. searching for a corresponding project attribute by tag; generating a community dynamic interface on the community platform; forwarding the project history record to the community dynamic interface with the same project attribute according to the project attribute of the project history record on the community platform; obtaining a project funding request on the community dynamic interface; selecting a communication information of the user terminal and adding the selected communication information to the project funding request; forwarding the project funding request to the activity platform; The activity platform side attaches the project funding request to the project history record to which the fundraising project belongs. The method for processing an online community combined with fundraising activities as described in claim 10, wherein executing the crawler program includes: after the crawler program passes through a preset period of time, the crawler program retrieves a new fundraising project or an existing history record of the project from the activity platform. The method for processing an online community combined with fundraising activities as described in Claim 10, wherein the social platform further stores a communication information of a user terminal, a community group to which it belongs, and a delivery information. The processing method for an online community combined with fundraising activities as described in claim 12, wherein the fundraising of the fundraising project meets a target threshold, including the following steps: the community platform sends a notification of reaching the target to the clients belonging to the fundraising project; and the social platform transmits the communication information and the delivery information of the client that has received the notification of reaching the goal to the activity platform. The processing method of an online community combined with fundraising activities as described in claim 12, wherein the step of forwarding the project history record to the community dynamic interface with the same project attribute further includes: executing a first chat room program on the community platform side, and generating a dialogue interface; connecting the first chat room program to a second chat room program on the activity platform side, and obtaining a conversation record of the second chat room program; and displaying the conversation record in the dialogue interface.

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