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

• US 10,185,941 B2
• Filed: 04/23/2015
• Issued: 01/22/2019
• 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:
  US14/694,788
• Publication Number:
  US 20150228009A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,370 Days
• Field of Search: 705 21, 705 261, 705 2681, 235376-385
• 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 for providing an electronic gift (e-gift), the method including providing information about products to a messenger of a user terminal, selecting at least one e-gift icon, which corresponds to a product to be provided as a gift, when the at least one e-gift icon is selected, displaying a settlement page, which corresponds to the at least one selected e-gift icon, when a settlement corresponding to the at least one selected e-gift icon is finished by the displayed settlement page, transmitting the at least one selected e-gift icon to at least one receipt terminal connected via the messenger, and when the at least one selected e-gift icon is accepted at the at least one receipt terminal, providing the product information of the at least one selected e-gift icon to the at least one receipt terminal.

Claims

1. A method of providing a gift icon by a gift icon providing apparatus, comprising:

transmitting a list of products to a user terminal;

receiving, from the user terminal, information about a user input for selecting one of the products as a gift and information about a receipt terminal, wherein the receipt terminal is separated from the user terminal;

transmitting, to the user terminal, a request for a payment of the selected product;

when the user terminal completes the payment of the selected product, transmitting, to the receipt terminal, a gift icon corresponding to the selected product through a communication network;

when the gift icon is used, receiving a confirmation message confirming a use of the gift icon; and

when the confirmation message is received, prohibiting a further use of the gift icon.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the list of products comprises gift icons corresponding to each of the products.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting of the list of products to the user terminal comprises transmitting information about at least one product among the products to the user terminal.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the user input comprises text to be transmitted with the gift icon.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the request for payment of the selected product to the user terminal comprises:

transmitting payment information to the user terminal; and

receiving from the user terminal a request for proceeding with the payment based on the payment information.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting of the gift icon comprises transmitting the gift icon to an e-mail address of a user using the receipt terminal.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the gift icon comprises a short message indicating the selected product as the gift.