Method and apparatus for providing a gift using a mobile communication network and system including the apparatus

• US 10,108,944 B2
• Filed: 06/30/2015
• Issued: 10/23/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Eleven Street Co., Ltd. (SK Telecom Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: SK Planet Co., Ltd. (SK Telecom Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Choi, Kyung-Lim, Cho, Jae-Hee, Joo, Hyo-Jung
• Primary Examiner(s): Rudy, Andrew Joseph
• Application Number:
  US14/755,487
• Publication Number:
  US 20150302372A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,211 Days
• Field of Search: 705 21, 705 261, 705 2635, 705 2681, 705 272, 235375, 235376, 358 118
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/12 specially adapted for electronic shopping systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/123 Shopping for digital content
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/127 Shopping or accessing services according to a time-limitation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/202 Interconnection or interaction of plural electronic cash registers [ECR] or to host computer, e.g. network details, transfer of information from host to ECR or from ECR to ECR
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/322 Aspects of commerce using mobile devices [M-devices]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/325 using wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/40 Authorisation, e.g. identification of payer or payee, verification of customer or shop credentials; Review and approval of payers, e.g. check credit lines or negative lists
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0603 Catalogue ordering
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0609 Buyer or seller confidence or verification
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0635 Processing of requisition or of purchase orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0637 Approvals
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0643 Graphical representation of items or shoppers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a method of providing a gift icon using a communication network. The method includes providing information about products to a mobile terminal connected with the gift provision apparatus through a mobile communication network; selecting a gift and one of pieces of several information of a receipt terminal from an address book; transmitting the gift icon corresponding to the product to the receipt terminal, when the mobile terminal selects a button for requesting a gift receipt; when the receipt terminal selects an acceptance message for the gift receipt and pays money for the gift, transmitting a predetermined message including a URL (Unique Resource Locator) of the gift icon to the mobile terminal; and when the mobile terminal connects with the URL and then requests a download of the gift icon, downloading the gift icon.

Claims

1. A method of providing a gift icon using a mobile communication network, the method comprising:

providing, by a gift provision apparatus, information about products to a mobile terminal connected with the gift provision apparatus through the mobile communication network;

selecting, by the mobile terminal, a product;

selecting, by the mobile terminal, a recipient terminal from an address book including at least one group consisting at least one of a telephone number and e-mail address of the recipient terminal;

transmitting, by the gift provision apparatus, a gift request message for the product to the recipient terminal, when the mobile terminal selects a button for requesting the product as a gift;

when the recipient terminal selects an acceptance message for the gift request message and pays money for the product, transmitting, by the gift provision apparatus, a predetermined message including a Unique Resource Locator (URL) of the gift icon corresponding to the product, to the mobile terminal; and

when the mobile terminal connects with the URL and then requests a download of the gift icon, downloading, by the mobile terminal, the gift icon.

2. The method as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

when the gift icon has been downloaded to the recipient terminal, displaying a button for returning on a screen of the recipient terminal; and

when the button for returning is selected, providing a gift list to the recipient terminal, and then, when at least one of gifts included in the gift list is selected, transmitting a returning gift icon corresponding to the at least one selected gift, to the mobile terminal.

3. The method as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

setting and recording, by the gift provision apparatus, at least one of information of the mobile terminal for receiving the gift icon, a download period of the gift icon, and a usable period of the gift icon; and

providing, by the gift provision apparatus, contents of gift icons transmitted during a predetermined period, to the mobile terminal or the recipient terminal, and providing at least one of a message guiding a repayment of money corresponding to the gift icon which is not used for the usable period, and a message guiding a conversion of the gift icon which is not used for the usable period to reserve money, to the mobile terminal or the recipient terminal.

4. The method as set forth in claim 3, wherein said transmitting the predetermined message comprises:

when a request message for transmitting of the gift icon to a predetermined mobile terminal is received from the recipient terminal, transmitting the gift icon to the predetermined mobile terminal.

5. The method as set forth in claim 4, wherein said transmitting the gift icon to the predetermined mobile terminal comprises:

providing a message including a storage URL in which the gift icon is stored, to the mobile terminal.

6. The method as set forth in claim 5, wherein said transmitting the gift icon to the predetermined mobile terminal further comprises:

when the mobile terminal connects with the storage URL and requests downloading of the gift icon, downloading, by the mobile terminal, the gift icon.

7. The method as set forth in claim 6, wherein the gift icon comprises a bar-code corresponding to the gift icon.

8. The method as set forth in claim 7, further comprising:

authenticating, by the gift provision apparatus, a validity of the bar-code transmitted from a Point Of Sale (POS) terminal installed in a predetermined shop;

transmitting, by the gift provision apparatus, an authentication code corresponding to a completion of the authentication of the validity, to the POS terminal; and

when the gift icon comprising the bar-code has been used, transmitting, by the POS terminal, a message indicating an acceptance completion of the gift icon, to the gift provision apparatus.