WO2024019228A1

WO2024019228A1 - Sales management system according to patent for sponsorship call sales business

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Publication number: WO2024019228A1
Application number: PCT/KR2022/015672
Authority: WO
Inventors: 김성희
Original assignee: 김성희
Priority date: 2022-07-21
Filing date: 2022-10-16
Publication date: 2024-01-25
Also published as: KR20240012990A

Abstract

The present invention provides a sales management system. The sales management system comprises: a data reception unit for receiving sales product information of a sales product and seller information of a seller who sells the sales product; a database unit for storing product information including at least one piece of patent management information, wherein the patent management information comprises non-exclusive license information of a patent for the sales product; a non-exclusive license identification unit for generating patent application information by determining whether the sales product is within the scope of a right of the patent, on the basis of the sales product information and the patent management information, and generating non-exclusive license allowance information on the basis of the patent application information and the non-exclusive license information; and a sales standard management unit for determining, through the seller information, whether the seller complies with a sales standard according to the non-exclusive license allowance information, so as to generate sales standard compliance information of the seller.

Description

Sales management system based on patent rights for sponsored door-to-door sales business

The present invention relates to a sales management system pursuant to a patent for a sponsored door-to-door sales business. Specifically, the present invention relates to a system for monitoring and managing the use of non-exclusive licenses to protect the rights of patent holders.

Among profit-seeking companies, the door-to-door sales business meets the requirements for door-to-door sales and multi-level marketing, but as prescribed by Presidential Decree, it is a sales business with a sponsorship allowance payment method in which the sales performance of a specific salesperson affects only the sponsorship allowance of one immediately higher-ranking salesperson. am.

Salespeople engaged in sponsored door-to-door sales can sell products to buyers in accordance with the policies of their company and receive allowances based on their performance.

However, salespeople engaged in sponsored door-to-door sales can sell products arbitrarily without considering the list price according to company policy in order to receive allowances based on sales performance.

In response to this, it is difficult for companies to monitor and sanction salespeople who sell products online.

In addition, due to sales prices arbitrarily set by salespeople online, the value of the products sold may decrease and have a negative impact on the company's marketing plan.

Intellectual property refers to knowledge, information, technology, expressions of thoughts or emotions, business or product indications, biological species or genetic resources, etc. created or discovered through human creative activities in accordance with Article 3, Paragraph 1 of the Framework Act on Intellectual Property. It is an intangible thing, meaning that property value can be realized.

Rights to intellectual property can be recognized and protected by laws or treaties. Specifically, by registering intellectual property for protection through the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the right to exclusive rights can be guaranteed. Representative rights registered with the Korean Intellectual Property Office include industrial property rights, including patent rights, utility model rights, design rights, and trademark rights.

Among them, the patentee who owns the patent right has the exclusive right to implement the patented invention as a business under Article 94 of the Patent Act and can provide the right to use it to others.

Specifically, in accordance with Article 100 of the Patent Act, the patentee may grant an exclusive license to another person for the patent right, and the exclusive licensee who has been granted an exclusive license shall have the exclusive right to practice the patented invention as a business within the scope determined by the act of establishment. do.

Additionally, under Article 102 of the Patent Act, the patentee may grant a non-exclusive license for the patent right to another person. Accordingly, the non-exclusive licensee has the right to practice the patented invention as a business within the scope determined by the establishment act.

Companies with licenses or patent rights include price defense policies in their internal policies to ensure the company's profits and maintain brand value as part of brand marketing to maintain brand loyalty among buyers.

The object of the present invention is to provide a system for determining whether something is within the scope of a patent right.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to provide a system that monitors the implementation of a non-exclusive license for a patent right and determines whether sales standards are complied with.

In addition, another task of the present invention is to provide a system for calculating damages based on compliance with sales standards for non-exclusive licenses and the valuation amount.

The objects of the present invention are not limited to the objects mentioned above, and other objects and advantages of the present invention that are not mentioned can be understood by the following description and will be more clearly understood by the examples of the present invention. Additionally, it will be readily apparent that the objects and advantages of the present invention can be realized by the means and combinations thereof indicated in the patent claims.

A sales management system according to some embodiments of the present invention for solving the above problems includes a data receiving unit that receives sales product information about a sold product and seller information of a seller selling the sold product, and at least one patent right management information. Stores product information including, but the patent right management information is a database unit containing non-exclusive license information of the patent right for the sold product, and based on the sold product information and the patent right management information, the sold product is within the scope of the patent right. A non-exclusive license confirmation unit that determines recognition and generates patent application information, and generates non-exclusive license grant information based on the patent application information and the non-exclusive license information, and the seller information allows the seller to follow the non-exclusive license grant information. It includes a sales standards management unit that determines whether the sales standards are complied with and generates information on the seller's sales standards compliance.

In addition, it may further include a compensation calculation unit that calculates the compensation amount based on the sales standard compliance information.

Additionally, the database unit stores the valuation amount of the patent right, and the amount of damages may be calculated by considering the valuation amount.

In addition, the seller belongs to a sales hierarchy, the upper seller of the sales hierarchy acquires margin according to sales of lower sellers of the sales hierarchy, and the database unit links margin information about the margin with the seller. You can save it.

Additionally, the sales standard compliance information may be updated based on the margin information.

In addition, the non-exclusive license confirmation unit may further include a patent right confirmation module that determines whether the sold product is within the scope of rights based on claims and drawings included in the patent right management information.

In addition, the patent right confirmation module calculates a matching rate of the patent right elements included in the sales product information and the patent right management information, and the patent right elements can identify each element included in the claims of the patent right.

In addition, the non-exclusive license confirmation unit may further include a non-exclusive license confirmation module that generates the non-exclusive license grant information by calculating a match rate between the license scope elements included in the non-exclusive license information and the patent right application information.

In addition, the non-exclusive license information includes the patent right application information and whether the license is permitted, and the license may include at least one of license for the product for sale and prohibition of license for the product for sale.

Additionally, the non-exclusive license confirmation unit may be an artificial intelligence model learned based on the non-exclusive license information and pre-stored original product information.

The sales management system of the present invention can determine whether a product sold online is within the scope of the patent right, making it easier to manage the use of license and determine whether it is an infringement.

In addition, the present invention can prevent inappropriate use of the non-exclusive license by monitoring the implementation of the non-exclusive license for the patent right and determining whether it complies with the sales standards.

In addition, the present invention allows the patentee to easily exercise his/her rights by calculating the amount of damages based on compliance with the sales standards of the non-exclusive license and the valuation amount.

In addition to the above-described content, specific effects of the present invention are described below while explaining specific details for carrying out the invention.

1 is a schematic diagram illustrating a sales management system according to some embodiments of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram for explaining the sales management system of FIG. 1 in detail.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining in detail the seller of the seller information of FIG. 2.

Figure 4 is a block diagram showing the non-exclusive license confirmation unit of Figure 2.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the sales management system of FIG. 2.

Figure 6 is a diagram for explaining sales standard compliance information of Figures 2 and 5.

Figure 7 is a diagram for explaining the hardware implementation of a sales management system according to some embodiments of the present invention.

Terms or words used in this specification and patent claims should not be construed as limited to their general or dictionary meaning. According to the principle that the inventor can define terms or word concepts in order to explain his or her invention in the best way, it should be interpreted with a meaning and concept consistent with the technical idea of the present invention. In addition, the embodiments described in this specification and the configurations shown in the drawings are only one embodiment of the present invention and do not completely represent the technical idea of the present invention, so they cannot be replaced at the time of filing the present application. It should be understood that there may be various equivalents, variations, and applicable examples.

Terms such as first, second, A, and B used in the present specification and claims may be used to describe various components, but the components should not be limited by the terms. The above terms are used only for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another. For example, a first component may be named a second component, and similarly, the second component may also be named a first component without departing from the scope of the present invention. The term 'and/or' includes any of a plurality of related stated items or a combination of a plurality of related stated items.

The terms used in the specification and claims are merely used to describe specific embodiments and are not intended to limit the invention. Singular expressions include plural expressions unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. In this application, terms such as "include" or "have" should be understood as not precluding the existence or addition possibility of features, numbers, steps, operations, components, parts, or combinations thereof described in the specification. .

Unless otherwise defined, all terms used herein, including technical or scientific terms, have the same meaning as generally understood by a person of ordinary skill in the technical field to which the present invention pertains.

Terms defined in commonly used dictionaries should be interpreted as having a meaning consistent with the meaning in the context of the related technology, and unless clearly defined in the present application, should not be interpreted in an ideal or excessively formal sense. No.

Additionally, each configuration, process, process, or method included in each embodiment of the present invention may be shared within the scope of not being technically contradictory to each other.

The right to license is the right for someone other than the patentee to use the patented invention as a business. Licenses can be divided into exclusive licenses and non-exclusive licenses depending on exclusivity and exclusivity.

An exclusive license is the right to use another person's patented invention exclusively and exclusively, and a non-exclusive license is the right to use another person's patented invention within a specified scope.

Hereinafter, for convenience of explanation, the present invention will be described based on the non-exclusive license. However, this description is merely illustrative, and it is obvious that the embodiments are not limited to this description and can be equally applied to exclusive licenses.

Hereinafter, with reference to FIGS. 1 to 7, we will look at a patent rights management method performed in a sales management system according to some embodiments of the present invention.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating a sales management system according to some embodiments of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating the sales management system of FIG. 1 in detail. FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining in detail the seller of the seller information of FIG. 2.

Referring to FIG. 1, the sales management system 100 may receive sales product information about products sold on a plurality of e-commerce sites 200 and seller information of sellers selling the products through a network. .

Additionally, in some other embodiments of the present invention, the sales management system 100 may perform web crawling and web scraping of product information and seller information. However, this description is merely illustrative, and the method for allowing the sales management system 100 to collect sales product information and seller information from at least one device that can be connected to a network may be implemented in various modifications. This is self-explanatory to technicians. Additionally, since web crawling and web scraping are already known technologies, detailed descriptions thereof will be omitted.

Sales product information and seller information will be described later while explaining the sales management system with reference to FIG. 2.

Referring to Figure 2, the sales management system 100 may include a data receiving unit 110, a database unit 130, a non-exclusive license confirmation unit 150, a sales standard management unit 170, and a damages calculation unit 190. You can.

The data receiving unit 110 may receive or collect sales product information about a product for sale and seller information of a seller selling the product from at least one e-commerce site 200 that can be connected to a network.

Here, the sales product information is information about products sold on at least one e-commerce site. Specifically, sales product information may include at least one of the brand or company name, components, component parts, type, name, image, size, and color of the product for sale. For example, if the product sold is a vitamin C supplement, the product information includes “Vitamin C”, “Vitamin C 90%”, “Zinc 10%”, “100 tablets”, “Brand name”, and “Diameter 2cm”. It can be included. However, it is obvious that this explanation is merely illustrative and that the information that can be included in the sales product information can be modified depending on the type of product sold.

An e-commerce site is a site that the buyer terminal corresponding to the buyer can access through a network, and may include other online sites that enable transactions in addition to the e-commerce site. However, this explanation is merely illustrative and may be configured with some modifications. Below, all online sites where transactions are possible will be described as e-commerce sites.

Seller information is information about a seller who sells a product on at least one e-commerce site. Seller information may include an identification value that can identify the seller, the seller's contact information, the seller's name, and the location of the business. For example, seller information may include business registration number, business name, representative name, business location, wired and wireless contact information, and e-mail address. However, the present invention is not limited thereto.

Here, the seller may be a licensee of the patent right. Additionally, a seller may belong to a sales hierarchy and affect the commissions of other sellers depending on the seller's performance. Specifically, a seller at the top of the sales hierarchy can obtain a margin based on the sales of sellers at the bottom of the sales hierarchy.

A seller's sales hierarchy may hierarchically include a plurality of layers. For example, referring to Figure 3, the sales hierarchy may be a plurality of hierarchies including level 1 (L1), level 2 (L2), and level 3 (L3). Level 2 (L2) is a lower layer of Level 1 (L1) and is dependent on Level 1 (L1), and Level 3 (L3) is a lower layer of Level 2 (L2) and is a lower layer of Level 1 (L1) and Level 2 (L2). may be dependent on

Additionally, the sales hierarchy may be any one of a tree structure, a mesh structure, and a multidimensional array structure. Hereinafter, for convenience of explanation, an example will be given where the sales hierarchy is a tree-structured root tree.

For example, level 1 (L1) of a sales hierarchy includes the top seller (TS), and level 2 (L2) includes the first seller (LS1), second seller (LS2), and third seller (LS3). Level 3 (L3) includes the 4th seller (LS4), the 5th seller (LS5), the 6th seller (LS6), the 7th seller (LS7), the 8th seller (LS8), and the 9th seller (LS9). may include.

Sellers can earn margins based on the sales performance of other sellers corresponding to the node level. For example, the top seller (TS) may obtain a margin according to the sales performance of the first to third sellers (LS1 to LS3), which are subordinate sellers of the top seller (TS).

In this way, the first seller (LS1) can obtain margin according to the sales performance of the fourth seller (LS4), the fifth seller (L5), and the sixth seller (L6), which are sub-sellers of the first seller (LS1). there is. At this time, the top seller (TS), which is the top seller of the first seller (LS1), may not obtain margin depending on the sales performance of the fourth seller (LS4), the fifth seller (L5), and the sixth seller (L6). . In other words, sellers can only earn margin based on performance up to the level immediately above. However, this embodiment may not be limited thereto.

Likewise, the second seller (LS2) can obtain a margin according to the sales performance of the seventh seller (LS7) and the eighth seller (LS8), which are subordinate sellers of the second seller (LS2). Additionally, the second seller (LS2) may not be able to obtain a margin depending on the sales performance of the fourth to sixth sellers (LS4 to LS6). The third seller (LS3) can obtain a margin according to the sales performance of the ninth seller (LS9).

In the seller according to another embodiment of the present invention, according to the sales performance of the fourth seller (LS4), the fifth seller (LS5), and the sixth seller (LS6), the top seller (TS) of the first seller (LS1) At least one of the first sellers (LS1) may obtain a margin.

Additionally, in a seller according to another embodiment of the present invention, the seller may additionally obtain margin depending on the number of sub-sellers. Here, the number of sub-sellers may be the node degree of the tree structure. When the sub-sellers of the first seller (LS1) are the fourth to sixth sellers (LS4 to LS6), the number of sub-sellers of the first seller (LS1) is 3. As such, referring to FIG. 3, the number of sub-sellers of the second seller (LS2) may be 2, and the number of sub-sellers of the third seller (LS3) may be 1.

For example, if the number of sellers included in level 3 (L3) is 6 and the number of sub-sellers of the first seller (LS1) is 3, the first seller (LS1) adds 0.5 of the preset additional margin. It can be obtained with

However, this explanation is merely illustrative, and it is obvious to those skilled in the art that various methods can be applied to influence a seller's performance on the margins of other sellers.

The database unit 130 may store product information, patent valuation amount, and margin information.

Product information is information about the original product for which patent rights must be managed, and may include at least one patent right management information. The original product is a product corresponding to the patent right, and the product sold with a license corresponding to the original product is classified and described as a sales product.

Patent rights management information may include non-exclusive license information of patent rights for the original product. Specifically, the patent rights management information may include non-exclusive license information of the patent right for at least one original product. For example, the patent rights associated with the first sold product include the first patent right, the second patent right, and the third patent right, and the first to third patent rights may each include at least one non-exclusive license information. Information on each non-exclusive license may vary depending on the associated patent and licensee.

Additionally, patent rights management information may include information on claims, drawings, and duration of patent rights.

Additionally, the patent rights management information may include a patent right element that can identify each element included in the patent right claim. For example, the database unit may extract a string that can identify each element included in a claim for each element and group each extracted string to create a patent right element. Additionally, the database unit can create patent rights elements by listing each extracted string. However, this description is merely illustrative, and the embodiments are not limited to this description.

Non-exclusive license information may include information about the licensee. Additionally, non-exclusive license information may be stored in the database unit 130 based on the non-exclusive license agreement concluded for each patent right, and may be updated according to changes in the contract. The data reception unit 110 can receive information about the non-exclusive license agreement. For example, the data reception unit 110 may receive data by providing an interface to a terminal corresponding to the patent holder and licensee.

Additionally, non-exclusive license information may be stored in the database unit 130 based on the patent register and patent registration gazette documents for each patent right. Patent register and patent registration gazette documents can be received from an external system or user terminal. For example, the data receiving unit 110 may receive a patent register and a patent registration publication document from at least one of terminals corresponding to the patent holder, licensee, and patent manager, respectively. Additionally, the data receiving unit 110 may request and receive information corresponding to the patent register and patent registration gazette documents from a patent-related external system. However, this description is illustrative, and the embodiments are not limited to this description.

Additionally, non-exclusive license information may include patent rights management elements and license scope elements created based on a non-exclusive license agreement. Specifically, the database unit 130 may extract the implementable elements included in the non-exclusive license agreement and create license scope elements by mapping the extracted implementable elements and patent rights management elements. However, this explanation is merely illustrative and may be configured with some modifications.

Additionally, the database unit 130 may delete information corresponding to patent rights whose duration has expired and licenses whose duration has expired. On the contrary, the database unit 130 can separately classify and manage information on expired patent rights and expired licenses as history.

Additionally, the database unit 130 may store non-exclusive license information of the patent right in conjunction with information on sales products sold by the licensee corresponding to the non-exclusive license information.

The valuation amount stored in the database unit 130 is the valuation amount calculated for each patent right. The valuation amount can be calculated by considering the technology, rights, marketability, and business feasibility of the patent right. For reference, the valuation amount may be a conversion of the value created by the patent right at the current time. Additionally, it is obvious to those skilled in the art that various known methods can be applied in deriving the valuation amount.

Additionally, the valuation amount may be an amount assessed for each element included in the patent claim. However, this description is merely illustrative, and the embodiments are not limited to this description.

Additionally, the valuation amount may be received by the data receiving unit 110 and stored in the database unit 130. Additionally, the database unit 130 may calculate the valuation amount based on product information including an artificial intelligence model. However, this description is merely illustrative, and the embodiments are not limited to this description.

Additionally, the database unit 150 may link and store margin information about the seller and the margin. Accordingly, the margin information of each seller is stored in the database unit 150, and the sales management system 100 can set different sales standards for each seller based on the margin information. Specific details will be described later with reference to FIG. 6.

Hereinafter, the non-exclusive license confirmation unit 150 will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 4.

Referring to FIG. 2, the non-exclusive license confirmation unit 150 may include a patent right confirmation module 151 and a non-exclusive license confirmation module 153.

The patent right confirmation module 151 can load sales product information from the data receiving unit 110 and patent right management information from the database unit 130.

In addition, the patent right confirmation module 151 may determine whether the sold product is within the scope of the patent right based on the loaded sales product information and patent right management information and generate patent right application information. Specifically, the patent right confirmation module 151 can determine the relationship between the sold product and the patent right based on the sold product information and the patent right management information.

For example, the patent right confirmation module 151 may generate patent right application information by determining whether the sold product is within the scope of the rights based on claims and drawings of the patent right related to the sold product.

As another example, the patent right confirmation module 151 may generate patent right application information by extracting matching information from sales product information and patent right elements. The patent right application information may further include a match rate considering the rate at which each element included in the patent right element matches the sales product information. The matching rate may be a probability value that the sales product information and patent rights elements match.

An example will be given where the patent right element includes a first element, a second element, and a third element. Patent right application information may be information linked to patent right elements and overall match rate.

Additionally, the patent right application information may include the matching rate for each patent right element. For example, the patent rights element may include an 80% match rate for the first element, a 30% match rate for the second element, and a 99% match rate for the third element with respect to sales product information. However, this description is merely illustrative, and the embodiments are not limited to this description.

The non-exclusive license confirmation module 153 may generate non-exclusive license grant information based on the patent right application information generated by the patent right confirmation module 151 and the patent right management information loaded from the database unit 130. Specifically, the non-exclusive license confirmation module 153 may generate non-exclusive license grant information based on patent application information and non-exclusive license information.

Specifically, the non-exclusive license confirmation module 153 may determine whether patent right application information is included in the license scope elements and generate non-exclusive license grant information. In addition, the non-exclusive license confirmation module 153 may determine whether the patent right application information is included in the license scope elements and calculate the consistency rate of each license scope element to generate non-exclusive license grant information.

For example, if patent right application information is included in the license scope element, the non-exclusive license confirmation module 153 may determine that the sales product information associated with the patent right application information is appropriate for implementation. Accordingly, the non-exclusive license confirmation module 153 can generate non-exclusive license permission information, including patent application information and whether or not implementation is permitted. Here, whether implementation is permitted refers to information about implementation permission.

Conversely, if the patent right application information is not included in the license scope elements, the non-exclusive license confirmation module 153 may determine that the sales product information related to the patent right application information is an infringement. Accordingly, the non-exclusive license confirmation module 153 can generate non-exclusive license information including patent application information and whether or not licenses are permitted, and here, whether or not licenses are permitted is information about impossibility of implementation.

Additionally, if the patent right application information is included as part of the license scope elements, the non-exclusive license confirmation module 153 may determine that the sales product information related to the patent right application information is an infringement. Accordingly, the non-exclusive license confirmation module 153 can generate non-exclusive license permission information, including patent application information and whether or not implementation is permitted. At this time, here, whether or not implementation is permitted is information including whether implementation is permitted or not. Additionally, the non-exclusive license permission information may be information included by distinguishing between patent application information corresponding to license permission and non-implementation permission. However, this description is merely illustrative, and the embodiments are not limited to this description.

Additionally, referring to FIG. 4, the non-exclusive license confirmation unit 150 according to another embodiment of the present invention can use already known artificial intelligence and deep learning technologies. For example, the non-exclusive license confirmation unit 150 can analyze patent drawings and sold product information based on CNN (Convolutional Neural Network), which is mainly used for image recognition, to determine whether the sold product is within the scope of the patent right. there is.

To this end, the non-exclusive license confirmation unit 150 can be learned based on product information stored in the database unit 130. However, this description is illustrative, and the embodiments are not limited to this description.

Additionally, the non-exclusive license confirmation unit 150 may use artificial intelligence technology to generate non-exclusive license grant information based on patent right application information and patent right management information. To this end, the non-exclusive license confirmation unit 150 can be learned based on non-exclusive license information and pre-stored original product information. Original product information is information about original products officially sold by companies that hold patent rights and licenses. However, this description is illustrative, and the embodiments are not limited to this description. It is obvious to those skilled in the art that various known methods can be applied to the learning method using artificial intelligence technology in generating patent application information and non-exclusive license information.

The sales standards management unit 170 may determine whether the seller complies with the sales standards according to the non-exclusive license information through the seller information and generate information on the seller's compliance with the sales standards.

The sales standard may be set differently for each original product corresponding to the original product information. Additionally, sales standards may be set differently for each company holding patent rights and licenses, and may be set differently for each seller belonging to the company. However, this description is merely poetic, and the embodiments are not limited to this description.

Sales standards compliance information may include information about whether the seller complies with the sales standards, compliance items, and non-compliance items.

Sales standards and sales standard compliance information will be described in detail later while explaining the operation of the sales management system with reference to FIG. 5.

The damages calculation unit 190 may calculate the amount of damages based on at least one of sales standard compliance information and valuation amount.

Specifically, the damage compensation calculation unit 190 may calculate the damage compensation amount based on sales standard compliance information. For example, the damages calculation unit 190 may calculate the amount of damages for non-compliant items included in sales standard compliance information. At this time, the damages calculation unit 190 can extract conditions for non-compliance items from the non-compliance agreement corresponding to the seller information and calculate the amount of damages based on the compensation conditions written in the non-exclusive license agreement. Here, the calculation for calculating the amount of compensation is an implementation that can be used by a person skilled in the art according to the implementation, so detailed explanation will be omitted.

As another example, the damage compensation calculation unit 190 may calculate the damage compensation amount using the valuation amount. At this time, the amount of damages may be equal to or smaller than the valuation amount. Specifically, the damage compensation calculation unit 190 may calculate the damage compensation amount by calculating the valuation amount and a preset standard value. The reference value may be a preset value between 0 and 1, and may be a value received from a device corresponding to a company or individual holding a patent right.

As another example, the damages calculation unit 190 may calculate the amount of damages by considering the valuation amount based on sales standard compliance information. Specifically, the damage compensation calculation unit 190 may calculate the amount of damages by considering the ratio of non-compliant items included in the sales standard compliance information to the sales standard (hereinafter referred to as non-compliant item ratio) and the valuation amount. For example, the damage compensation calculation unit 190 may calculate the damage compensation amount by calculating the ratio of non-compliant items and the valuation amount.

Additionally, the damages calculation unit 190 may calculate the amount of damages based on the valuation amount and sales standard compliance information evaluated for each element included in the patent claim. Specifically, the damages calculation unit 190 may extract items corresponding to elements of patent claims from non-compliant items and calculate the amount of damages based on the extracted items and the valuation amount. However, this description is merely illustrative, and the embodiments are not limited to this description.

Below, the operation of the sales management system will be described with reference to FIGS. 5 and 6.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the sales management system of FIG. 2, and FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining sales standard compliance information of FIGS. 2 and 5.

The data receiving unit 110 included in the sales management system 100 can receive information on products for sale and seller information (S100). Sales product information is information about products sold on at least one e-commerce site. For example, sales product information may include at least one of the brand or company name, components, component parts, type, name, image, size, and color of the product for sale.

Seller information is information corresponding to sellers who sell products on network-connected e-commerce sites. For example, seller information may include an identification value, contact information, and name that can identify the seller.

Additionally, the data receiving unit 110 can perform web crawling and web scraping of product information for sale and seller information. Sales product information and seller information may be stored in the database unit 130 included in the sales management system 100. However, this description is merely illustrative, and it is obvious to those skilled in the art that various known methods can be applied in receiving sales product information and seller information in the sales management system 100.

Next, the patent right confirmation module 151 included in the sales management system 100 can determine whether the sold product is within the scope of the patent right based on the sold product information and patent right management information and generate patent right application information (S110 ). Specifically, the patent right confirmation module 151 can generate patent right application information by determining whether the sold product is within the scope of the rights based on claims and drawings of the patent right related to the sold product. Since the method for generating patent application information is described in the patent right confirmation module 151 of FIG. 2, redundant description will be omitted.

Subsequently, the non-exclusive license confirmation module 153 may generate non-exclusive license grant information based on the patent application information and non-exclusive license information (S120). The method for generating non-exclusive license grant information has been described in the non-exclusive license confirmation module 153 of FIG. 2, so redundant explanations will be omitted.

Subsequently, the sales management system 100 may determine whether the seller complies with the sales standards according to the non-exclusive license information through the seller information and generate information on the seller's compliance with the sales standards (S130).

Redundant explanations regarding sales standards and sales standard compliance information are omitted and only additional information is described.

Here, the sales standard may include the list price corresponding to the original product information. Additionally, the sales standard may further include at least one of the maximum discount rate and the lowest price. Sales standards may vary depending on the policy and timing of the licensee for the product being sold, and may be set differently for each seller.

Accordingly, sales standard compliance information may be information that determines whether the seller complies with the sales price guidelines.

*Sales criteria will be described with reference to FIG. 6. Figure 6 is an example explaining in detail a case where sales standards are different for each seller.

Referring to Figure 6, the first seller (A) has sold 90 products as of now, and the second seller (B) has sold 10 products as of now.

Company guidance on margins is received at this time so each seller's sales criteria can be updated.

The company's guidelines describe sales standards for price, assuming that if a seller sells 100 units of a product from the start of sales, a margin for 100 units is provided to the seller.

If the basic income from selling the remaining 10 units is less than the margin provided according to company guidelines, the first seller (A) may want to collect the margin by selling 10 units at a lower price than the regular price.

Accordingly, the sales standard for the first seller (A) may be the regular price.

In order to provide an incentive for the second seller (B) to sell the remaining 90 units, the company may set the sales standard for the second seller (B) as the maximum discount rate and/or the minimum price for the list price. Therefore, the second seller (B) can apply the maximum discount rate to the regular price or sell the product at the lowest price. However, this description is merely illustrative, and the embodiments are not limited to this description. The method by which the sales standard can be set differently for each seller can be configured by a person skilled in the art with some modification.

Subsequently, the damages calculation unit 190 may calculate the amount of damages based on at least one of sales standard compliance information and valuation amount (S140).

Redundant explanations regarding this will be omitted and the added parts will be described.

The damages calculation unit 190 may calculate the amount of damages based on information on compliance with the sales standard for price. For example, the sales standard of the first seller (A) is the regular price, but the case where the first seller (A) sells the product at a first selling price that is lower than the regular price is as follows. The damage compensation calculation unit 190 may calculate the damage compensation amount based on the list price, first sale price, and sales volume and provide a notification to the terminal corresponding to the first seller (A). Specifically, the amount of damages may be calculated based on the difference between the list price and the first sales price and the sales volume. However, this description is merely illustrative, and the embodiments are not limited to this description, and may be configured with some modifications.

Referring to FIG. 7 , the sales management system 100 according to some embodiments of the present invention may be implemented as an electronic device 1000. The electronic device 1000 may include a controller 1010, an input/output device 1020, I/O, a memory device 1030, an interface 1040, and a bus 1050. . The controller 1010, input/output device 1020, memory device 1030, and/or interface 1040 may be coupled to each other through a bus 1050. At this time, the bus 1050 corresponds to a path through which data is moved.

Specifically, the controller 1010 includes a Central Processing Unit (CPU), Micro Processor Unit (MPU), Micro Controller Unit (MCU), Graphic Processing Unit (GPU), microprocessor, digital signal processor, microcontroller, and application processor (AP). , application processor) and logic elements capable of performing similar functions.

The input/output device 1020 may include at least one of a keypad, a keyboard, a touch screen, and a display device.

The memory device 1030 may store data and/or programs.

The interface 1040 may perform a function of transmitting data to or receiving data from a communication network. Interface 1040 may be wired or wireless. For example, the interface 1040 may include an antenna or a wired or wireless transceiver. Although not shown, the memory device 1030 is an operating memory for improving the operation of the controller 1010 and may further include high-speed DRAM and/or SRAM. The memory device 1030 may store programs or applications therein.

The sales management system 100 according to embodiments of the present invention may be a system formed by connecting a plurality of electronic devices 1000 to each other through a network. In this case, each module or combination of modules may be implemented as the electronic device 1000. However, this embodiment is not limited to this.

Additionally, the sales management system 100 is a workstation, a data center, an internet data center (IDC), a direct attached storage (DAS) system, a storage area network (SAN) system, and a network attached (NAS) system. storage) system, a RAID (redundant array of inexpensive disks, or redundant array of independent disks) system, and an EDMS (Electronic Document Management) system, but the present embodiment is not limited thereto.

Additionally, the sales management system 100 may transmit data to the student terminal 200 and the instructor terminal 300 through the network. Networks may include networks based on wired Internet technology, wireless Internet technology, and short-distance communication technology. Wired Internet technology may include, for example, at least one of a local area network (LAN) and a wide area network (WAN).

Wireless Internet technologies include, for example, Wireless LAN (WLAN), DMNA (Digital Living Network Alliance), Wibro (Wireless Broadband), Wimax (World Interoperability for Microwave Access: Wimax), and HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet). Access), HSUPA (High Speed Uplink Packet Access), IEEE 802.16, Long Term Evolution (LTE), LTE-A (Long Term Evolution-Advanced), Wireless Mobile Broadband Service (WMBS) and 5G NR (New Radio) technology. However, this embodiment is not limited to this.

Short-range communication technologies include, for example, Bluetooth, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Infrared Data Association (IrDA), Ultra-Wideband (UWB), ZigBee, and Near Field Communication. At least one of NFC), Ultrasound Communication (USC), Visible Light Communication (VLC), Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Direct, and 5G NR (New Radio) may include. However, this embodiment is not limited to this.

The sales management system 100 that communicates through a network can comply with technical standards and standard communication methods for mobile communication. For example, standard communication methods include GSM (Global System for Mobile communication), CDMA (Code Division Multi Access), CDMA2000 (Code Division Multi Access 2000), and EV-DO (Enhanced Voice-Data Optimized or Enhanced Voice-Data Only). , at least one of Wideband CDMA (WCDMA), High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA), High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA), Long Term Evolution (LTE), Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTEA), and 5G New Radio (NR) may include. However, this embodiment is not limited to this.

The above description is merely an illustrative explanation of the technical idea of the present embodiment, and those skilled in the art will be able to make various modifications and variations without departing from the essential characteristics of the present embodiment. Accordingly, the present embodiments are not intended to limit the technical idea of the present embodiment, but rather to explain it, and the scope of the technical idea of the present embodiment is not limited by these examples. The scope of protection of this embodiment should be interpreted in accordance with the claims below, and all technical ideas within the equivalent scope should be interpreted as being included in the scope of rights of this embodiment.

Claims

a data receiving unit that receives sales product information about the sold product and seller information of the seller selling the sold product;

a database unit that stores product information including at least one patent right management information, wherein the patent right management information includes non-exclusive license information of the patent right for the sold product;

Based on the sales product information and the patent rights management information, determine whether the sold product is within the scope of the patent right to generate patent right application information, and generate non-exclusive license information based on the patent right application information and the non-exclusive license information. Generated non-exclusive license confirmation unit; and

A sales management system comprising a sales standard management unit that determines whether the seller complies with the sales standards according to the non-license grant information through the seller information and generates sales standard compliance information of the seller.
According to claim 1,

A sales management system further comprising a damages calculation unit that calculates the amount of damages based on the sales standard compliance information.
According to clause 2,

The database unit stores the valuation amount of the patent right,

A sales management system in which the amount of damages is calculated by considering the valuation amount.
According to claim 1,

The seller belongs to the sales hierarchy,

A seller at the top of the sales hierarchy acquires a margin based on sales of sellers at the bottom of the sales hierarchy,

The database unit is a sales management system that stores margin information about the margin in connection with the seller.
According to clause 4,

A sales management system in which the sales standard compliance information is updated based on the margin information.
According to claim 1,

The non-exclusive license confirmation unit further includes a patent right confirmation module that determines whether the sold product is within the scope of rights based on claims and drawings included in the patent right management information.
According to clause 6,

The patent right confirmation module calculates a matching rate of patent right elements included in the sales product information and the patent right management information,

The patent right element is a sales management system that is an element that can identify each element included in the patent claim.
According to paragraph 1,

The non-exclusive license confirmation unit further includes a non-exclusive license confirmation module that generates the non-exclusive license grant information by calculating a match rate between the license scope elements included in the non-exclusive license information and the patent right application information.
According to paragraph 1,

The non-exclusive license information includes the patent application information and whether the license is permitted,

A sales management system wherein whether the implementation is permitted includes at least one of allowing the implementation of the sold product and not allowing the implementation of the sold product.
According to paragraph 1,

The non-exclusive license confirmation unit is a sales management system that is an artificial intelligence model learned based on the non-exclusive license information and pre-stored original product information.