KR20030026737A - method and apparatus for electronic commerce using mobile phone - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an electronic commerce method of a mobile communication terminal using a network, the method comprising receiving identification information on a product to be purchased, information on the received product identification information and payment for the product through a wireless network. Requesting the payment for the purchase of the product by transmitting the data; receiving and displaying the result information corresponding to the payment for the payment requested through the network; and receiving and displaying the delivery status information of the requested product. .

According to the present invention, in an offline market such as a large department store, a discount mart, and the like, the user can perform order, payment, and delivery processing of goods through Internet e-commerce using his mobile terminal. Business commerce can be extended to the area of electronic commerce and can promote more active commerce.

Description

Method and apparatus for electronic commerce using mobile phone

The present invention relates to an electronic commerce method and a device using a mobile terminal. In general, as the society becomes more uniform and clustered, the way of selling products is also becoming more common, and large discount stores that have almost all kinds of goods are sold.

In addition, the average consumer visits a large discount store once a week or once every few days, and purchases a large quantity of necessary items because of the increase in the number of office workers who cannot usually spend much time. There are many cases.

Meanwhile, as the environment and technology of the Internet develop, electronic commerce through the Internet is actively performed. In order to conduct e-commerce through the Internet, a buyer sits in front of his PC, accesses a website of a shopping mall, searches for a desired product, and if there is a product he / she likes, order number of the product and card information for payment. Enter the shipping information for delivery, and if you want to deliver home, complete the order by entering the home address and delivery date.

By purchasing products through e-commerce using the Internet, buyers can conveniently order products from their own homes and complete all purchase procedures by simply clicking on their PCs. This saves me time and money.

However, there is a condition that a buyer must sit in front of his PC in order to perform such e-commerce through the Internet. In addition, there is a limit that can not be ordered if you do not have a PC if you like walking on the street, shopping a large discount mart, or watch a TV at home.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object thereof is to provide a method and apparatus for performing an electronic commerce which enables a user to purchase a product to be purchased through a mobile terminal in an offline market.

1 is a block diagram of a system for performing electronic commerce using a mobile terminal according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a mobile terminal of FIG. 1; FIG.

3 is a flow chart for performing an electronic commerce in the mobile terminal of FIG.

4 is a flowchart of an electronic commerce made in an electronic commerce server.

5 is a detailed system block diagram for performing an electronic commerce according to the present invention.

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10: mobile terminal 20: wireless network

30: product purchase processing unit 40: product information providing unit

50: payment processing unit 60: delivery processing unit

In the electronic commerce method of the mobile communication terminal using the network of the electronic commerce method using the mobile communication terminal according to the present invention for achieving this object, the step of receiving identification information about the product to be purchased, and the identification of the received product Requesting payment for the purchase of goods by transmitting the information and information for payment of goods through a wireless network, receiving and displaying the result information corresponding to the payment for the payment requested through the network, and Receiving and displaying the shipping status information for the step.

In addition, according to one aspect of the electronic commerce method using a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention, in the electronic commerce method interworking with the mobile communication terminal via a network, receiving the identification information of the product from the mobile communication terminal via a wireless network In the case of retrieving the stock state of the corresponding product, providing the product information, receiving the product order information and information for payment of the product corresponding to the provided product information and receiving a request to purchase the product, and ordering the product Commodity payment according to the information and information for commodity payment, transmitting the resulting information corresponding to the requested purchase to the mobile terminal through the wireless network, and the commodity payment of the user Request the delivery to the shipper for the ordered product, and check the shipping status of the shipper. Seen to carry out the step of transmitting to the mobile terminal.

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

1 is a block diagram of a system for performing electronic commerce using a mobile terminal according to the present invention.

The purchase of goods by receiving the order number of the goods and information for payment of goods from the mobile terminal 10 through the wireless network 20 and inputs the order number corresponding to each product and proceeds the purchase Commodity purchase processing unit 30 that receives the request, the commodity information providing unit 40 for providing commodity information on the commodity received the purchase request, and the commodity payment information corresponding to the product identification information and commodity payment information It may be configured to include a payment processing unit 50, and a delivery processing unit 60 for the shipment or delivery of the goods processed payment.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a mobile terminal of FIG. 1. Referring to FIG. 2, a purchase request for requesting a purchase of a product by transmitting an input unit 11 for receiving identification information on a product to be purchased and information about the received product identification information and payment for a product through a wireless network. And a purchase result processing unit 13 for receiving and displaying the result information corresponding to the purchase requested through the network.

The input unit 11 may be a keypad or a barcode reader that allows a user to input an order number of a product by operating a button one by one, and input product information by scanning a barcode attached to the product through a barcode reader unit. Can be.

The purchase request unit 12 transmits the order number of the product received through the input unit 11 and information for product payment through the wireless network to request the purchase of the product. In order to purchase a product through a mobile communication system, the payment of the product is required, so that the payment of the product price is made by the payment account of the mobile terminal by transferring information of the mobile terminal when a purchase request is made.

Information for payment of goods may include mobile terminal information, user identification information, card payment information, delivery information, and the like. The delivery information may include information about whether the buyer directly takes the goods or delivers the goods home.

The purchase result processing unit 13 requests the purchase of the product through the purchase request unit 12 and then receives the result information corresponding to the various procedures according to the received from the product purchase processing unit 30 and performs the corresponding procedure.

Such result information may include card authentication acceptance information, delivery request result information, purchase application completion information, and the like.

On the other hand, let's look at the electronic commerce system interworking with the mobile terminal and the network.

3 is a flowchart of performing an electronic commerce in the mobile terminal of FIG. 2.

Referring to FIG. 3, a procedure of an electronic commerce performed by the mobile terminal 10 is described. A user accesses a server providing product information, receives and displays information on each product, and orders a product to be purchased by the user. If the number is selected and received the product order number is stored (S1).

In addition, when a user views an advertisement for a product and the order number of the product for each product is listed at the bottom of the advertisement, the product is displayed through the input unit 11 as a keypad or a bar code reader when the user wants to purchase the product. If you enter the order number, you can also receive and store the product order number. The purchase request unit 12 sequentially adds the input product order number to the item of the order form (S2). Items in the order can be added or deleted by user input. The order number of the product to be purchased is sequentially added to the order, and it is determined whether there is a product to be added (S3). If not, the payment method and the shipping method for the price of the product are input from the user (S4). In the payment method, payment may be performed by receiving the user's credit card information, or payment may be made including the payment of goods during payment of the terminal. In addition, when the price of the product is large, the user may receive an input from the user in one-time payment or installment.

When the input of the payment method, the delivery method from the user is completed, the order, payment information, and delivery information is transmitted to the product purchase processing unit 30 (S5). The product purchase processing unit 30 checks whether the product is in stock by interworking with the product information providing unit 40 by referring to an order document, payment information, and delivery information, performs a payment by interworking with the payment processing unit 50, and performs a delivery processing unit ( 60) Perform the delivery procedure in conjunction with. The product purchase processor 30 transmits the result information to the mobile terminal 10 for the purchase procedure.

Therefore, the purchase result processing unit 13 receives the order result information from the product purchase processing unit 30 (S6). The order result information may include stock availability, card authentication acceptance information, delivery request result information, purchase application completion information, and the like.

When the user inputs a signal to confirm the purchase with respect to the order result information, the purchase confirmation information is transmitted accordingly (S7). The product purchase processing unit 30 transmits the purchase completion information accordingly. The purchase result processing unit 13 receives the purchase completion information.

On the other hand, when the user enters the delivery information, there is a case that a direct request for delivery or home delivery request. In this case, if the user directly picks up according to each situation, it is possible to receive the product release information indicating that the release of the goods requested by the user is completed (S9).

The user may receive the product release information through his mobile terminal 10, and the user may check the release time and place of the product with reference to the received product release information and pick up the product ordered by the user.

4 is a flowchart of an electronic commerce made in an electronic commerce server. Referring to Figure 4, when receiving the order, payment information, delivery information from the mobile terminal 10 (S11), whether the goods corresponding to the order number of the goods included in the order is sufficiently prepared Inquiry to study 40 to check the stock status of the goods (S12).

In addition, by referring to the order, payment information, and delivery information received from the mobile terminal 10, the product information providing unit 40 checks whether the goods are in stock, and the payment processing unit 50 performs the payment. In conjunction with the delivery processing unit 60 performs the procedure of delivery. The product purchase processing unit 30 transmits the result information to the mobile terminal 10 for the purchase process (S13). The order result information may include stock availability, card authentication acceptance information, delivery request result information, purchase application completion information, and the like.

When a signal for confirming purchase is received from the mobile terminal 10 with respect to the order result information (S14), the product purchase processing unit 30 performs payment for the price of the product in association with the payment processing unit 50 (S15). . When the user's payment for the ordered product is completed, the product purchase processing unit 30 transmits the purchase completion information to the mobile terminal 10.

On the other hand, if the user enters the delivery information, the delivery procedure is searched accordingly determines whether the ready to ship (S17). There may be a case where the user requests to pick up the goods ordered by himself or to the home delivery. If the user directly picks up the goods, when the goods are ready to be shipped, the delivery information related to the goods release may be transmitted indicating that the goods have been released.

The user receives the product release information through his mobile terminal 10, and the user can pick up the product he ordered by checking the release time and place of the product with reference to the received product release information. .

FIG. 5 is a detailed block diagram illustrating a system for performing e-commerce according to the present invention, and shows an example of using the respective servers for the respective functional blocks of the e-commerce server shown in FIG. 1. The mobile telecommunication company server 3 corresponds to the product purchase processing unit 30 of FIG. 1 and the payment gateway (P / G) 5 and the financial settlement institution 6 correspond to the payment processing unit 50 of FIG. The shopping mall or discount mart 4 performs a function corresponding to the product information providing unit 40 of FIG.

If a customer wants to purchase while shopping at a shopping mall or a discount mart (4), the customer enters the order number of the product on the mobile terminal 1 or uses a barcode reader mounted on the mobile terminal 1 to After inquiring the information, check the information such as price, date of manufacture, place of manufacture, etc. and finally, if you want to purchase, perform the procedure for purchase. The mobile communication server 3 interoperates with the shoming mall, the discount mart 4, the P / G 5, and the financial settlement institution 6 with respect to the purchase request information and the terminal information transmitted from the mobile terminal 1. Perform Finally, the customer can directly deliver the goods he or she purchases from the shopping mall or the discount mart 4, or if the customer requests an order from home, the goods can be delivered at home.

As described above in detail with respect to embodiments of the present invention, those of ordinary skill in the art may be modified or changed the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. You will see that.

According to the present invention, in an offline market such as a large department store, a discount mart, and the like, the user can perform order, payment, and delivery processing of goods through Internet e-commerce using his mobile terminal. Business commerce can be extended to the area of electronic commerce, and more active commerce can be performed.

In addition, it is effective to know the total amount of the product purchase by using the mobile terminal that the user always carries with him for the purchase of the product, and the consumer directly uses the mobile phone terminal rather than knowing the total amount of the product purchase at the counter. As a result, you can build a new buying and selling system that does not require price calculation at the counter in an environment where trust is established between consumers and large companies.

Claims (11)

In the electronic commerce method of the mobile communication terminal using the network, Receiving identification information of a product to be purchased; Requesting payment for a product purchase by transmitting the inputted product identification information and information for product payment through a wireless network; Receiving and displaying the result information corresponding to the requested payment through the network; E-commerce method using a mobile communication terminal to perform the step of receiving and displaying the delivery status information for the requested product. The electronic commerce method of claim 1, wherein the identification information of the product is an order number designated for each product. The method of claim 1, wherein the information for payment of goods is An electronic commerce method using at least one of mobile terminal information, user identification information, card payment information, and delivery information. The electronic commerce method of claim 1, wherein the result information comprises at least one of card authentication acceptance information, delivery request result information, and purchase request completion information. In the electronic commerce method of interworking with the mobile terminal through the network, When receiving the identification information of the product from the mobile communication terminal through a wireless network, searching for the stock state of the corresponding product and providing the product information; Receiving a request for purchase of a product by receiving product order information and information for payment of a product corresponding to the provided product information; Performing a payment for the goods corresponding to the order information of the goods and the information for the payment for the goods; Transmitting the resulting information corresponding to the requested purchase to the mobile terminal through a wireless network; E-commerce method using a mobile communication terminal performing a step of requesting the delivery to the delivery company for the order goods of the user for the payment of the product payment, receiving the delivery status information of the delivery company to the mobile communication terminal. The method of claim 5, wherein the identification information of the product is an order number designated for each product. The method of claim 5, wherein the information for payment of goods, An electronic commerce method using a mobile communication terminal including at least one of mobile terminal information, user identification information, card payment information, shipping information. The payment of the product price according to claim 5, An electronic commerce method using a mobile communication terminal to pay for goods by the payment account of the mobile communication terminal. The electronic commerce method of claim 5, wherein the result information includes at least one of card authentication acceptance information, delivery request result information, and purchase request completion information. An input unit for receiving identification information of a product to be purchased; A purchase request unit which requests the purchase of goods by transmitting the inputted goods identification information and goods payment information through a wireless network; And a purchase result processing unit which receives and displays the result information corresponding to the purchase requested through the network and the delivery status information of the corresponding product. In the electronic commerce system interworking with the mobile communication terminal through the network, A product purchase processing unit receiving product identification information and product settlement information from the mobile communication terminal through a wireless network and requesting the purchase of the product; A product information providing unit for searching the stock state of the product which has received the purchase request and providing the corresponding product information; A payment processing unit for performing a product price payment in response to the product identification information and information for product payment from the product information providing unit; An electronic commerce system using a mobile communication terminal including a delivery processing unit for requesting the release or delivery of the payment processed goods and providing the shipping status information to the mobile communication terminal.