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

• US 10,152,701 B2
• Filed: 06/30/2015
• Issued: 12/11/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Eleven Street 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:
  US14/755,554
• Publication Number:
  US 20150302497A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,260 Days
• Field of Search: 705 261, 705 2635
• 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, by a terminal, information about products to a messenger, which is a terminal operating software for transmitting and receiving messages and data in real time through a wired communication network; when the terminal selects a product, a counterpart terminal and a request button for a gift request, transmitting, by the terminal, a gift icon corresponding to the product to the counterpart terminal connected with the terminal through the messenger; and when the counterpart terminal selects an acceptance message in response to the gift request, providing, by the counterpart terminal, the gift icon corresponding to the product to the terminal or a first mobile terminal registered in the messenger.

Claims

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

providing, by an apparatus, information about products to a terminal, the terminal operating a messenger for transmitting and receiving messages and data in real time;

detecting, by the apparatus, a selection at the terminal of a product, a recipient terminal, and a request button for a gift request, wherein the recipient terminal is selected from an address book including at least one group consisting at least one of a telephone number and e-mail address of the receipt terminal;

when the selection is detected, transmitting, by the apparatus, information of the selected product to the recipient terminal connected with the terminal through the messenger; and

when the recipient terminal accepts the gift request, providing, by the apparatus, the gift icon corresponding to the selected product to the terminal or a first mobile terminal registered in the messenger.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

when the gift icon is transmitted to the terminal and the button for returning displayed on a screen of the terminal is selected, providing, by the apparatus, a gift list to the terminal; and

when a product is selected from the provided gift list, transmitting, by the apparatus, a returning gift icon corresponding to the product selected from the provided gift list, to the recipient terminal.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

when the gift icon is transmitted to the first mobile terminal and the button for returning is selected, providing, by the apparatus, a gift list to the first mobile terminal, and

when a product is selected from the provided gift list, transmitting a returning gift icon corresponding to the product selected from the provided gift list and by the first mobile terminal, to the recipient terminal.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

when a user having the gift icon receives the product corresponding to the gift icon in a shop, registering an acceptance completion message transmitted from a terminal of the shop.

5. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

when a user having the gift icon receives the product corresponding to the gift icon in a shop, registering an acceptance completion message transmitted from a terminal of-the shop.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

when the gift icon has been used, receiving, by the apparatus, a confirmation message confirming the use of the gift icon; and

when the apparatus receives the confirmation message, prohibiting, by the apparatus, a further use of the gift icon.

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

providing, by an apparatus, information about products to a terminal, the terminal operating messenger for transmitting and receiving messages and data in real time;

detecting, by the apparatus, a first selection at the terminal of a product, a recipient terminal for receiving the product, and a gift provision button for providing the selected product as a gift to the recipient terminal, wherein the recipient terminal is selected from an address book including at least one group consisting at least one of a telephone number and e-mail address of the receipt terminal;

when the first selection is detected, transmitting, by the apparatus, a gift icon corresponding to the selected product to the recipient terminal connected with the terminal through the messenger;

detecting, by the apparatus, a second selection at the terminal of the product, the recipient terminal, and the gift request button for receiving the product as the gift;

when the second selection is detected, transmitting, by the apparatus, information on the selected product to the recipient terminal; and

when the recipient terminal selects an acceptance message for the selected product and the settlement for the selected product has been finished, transmitting, by the apparatus, the gift icon corresponding to the selected product to the terminal.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

when a usable period is set for the gift icon and the gift icon is not used in the usable period, providing, by the apparatus, at least one of a message regarding a repayment of money corresponding to the gift icon and a message regarding a conversion to a reserve of the gift icon, to the terminal.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

providing, by the apparatus, contents for gift icons transmitted during a predetermined period, to the user terminal or the recipient terminal.

10. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

when the gift icon has been used, receiving, by the apparatus, a confirmation message confirming the use of the gift icon; and

when the apparatus receives the confirmation message, prohibiting, by the apparatus, a further use of the gift icon.