Hierarchical operation method for a cyber shopping mall

• US 20020010647A1
• Filed: 06/22/2001
• Published: 01/24/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: E--Net Incorporated
• Original Assignee: E--Net Incorporated
• Inventors: Kim, Ki Yeol
• Application Number:
  US09/887,949
• Publication Number:
  US 20020010647A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0643 Graphical representation of items or shoppers

Abstract

1. Technical field the invention disclosed in claims pertains to

The present invention relates to a method for operating a cyber shopping mall in the internet and a computer-readable recording medium of storing programs for realizing the method.

2. Technical subject the invention tends to solve

It is an object of the present invention to provide a hierarchical operation method for a cyber shopping mall and a computer-readable recording medium of storing programs for realizing the method, in order to easily performs connections, data sharing, and separation among cyber shops by allowing the cyber shops to have a hierarchical (dependent or vertical) structure rather than a horizontal (lateral) structure in installing the cyber shops in the cyber shopping mall.

3. Gist in a solution method of the invention

The present invention, in a hierarchical operation method for a cyber shopping mall applied to an information communication system, is characterized in that cyber shops are hierarchically connected and produced upon opening the cyber shops in the cyber shopping mall.

4. Important use of the invention

The present invention is used for information communication systems and the like.

Claims

1. A hierarchical operation method for a cyber shopping mall, which is applied to an information communication system, characterized by hierarchically connecting cyber shops upon opening the cyber shops in the cyber shopping mall.

2. The hierarchical operation method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cyber shopping mall grants certain codes to and hierarchically manages the cyber shops according to categories of goods and services with which the cyber shops deal, to thereby facilitate cyber shop searches.

3. The hierarchical operation method as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in the cyber shops, upper-layer cyber shops can use goods information of lower-layer cyber shops and deal with corresponding goods.

4. The hierarchical operation method as claimed in claim 2, wherein, in the cyber shops, upper-layer cyber shops can use goods information of lower-layer cyber shops and deal with corresponding goods.

5. A hierarchical operation method for a cyber shopping mall, which is applied to an information communication system, comprising steps of:

(1) building in a cyber shopping mall server meta data for operating the cyber shopping mall such as cyber shop classification criteria, requirements by field, code-granting methods, database-constructing methods, and the like;

(2) receiving, by the cyber shopping mall server, cyber shop opening application information in the cyber shopping mall from users who wish to operate cyber shops;

(3) selecting, by the cyber shopping mall server, hierarchical categories to which the cyber shops belong by using the cyber shop opening application information and existing shop information based on classification criteria defined by the meta data;

(4) granting, by the cyber shopping mall server, codes to the cyber shops and interconnecting upper and lower layers through databases with reference to the meta data based on the hierarchical classification of the cyber shops selected; and

(5) notifying, by the cyber shopping mall server, the users of the operations of the cyber shops applied for opening by the users by utilizing the cyber shop information of lower and upper layers interconnecting the cyber shops and the databases.

6. The hierarchical operation method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the cyber shops can share for use members information and goods information built by the cyber shops of lower and upper layers.

7. The hierarchical operation method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the upper-layer cyber shops can use the goods information of the lower-layer cyber shops and deal with corresponding goods.

8. The hierarchical operation method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the meta data includes, information for operating the cyber shopping mall such as the cyber shop classification criteria, requirements by field, code-granting method, database-constructing method, and so on.

9. The hierarchical operation method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the meta data includes information for operating the cyber shopping mall such as the cyber shop classification criteria, requirements by field, code-granting method, database-constructing method, and so on.

10. The hierarchical operation method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the meta data includes information for operating the cyber shopping mall such as the cyber shop classification criteria, requirements by field, code-granting method, database-constructing method, and so on.

11. A computer-readable recording medium of storing programs for realizing functions, in an information communication system having a processor, of:

(1) receiving cyber shop opening application information in a cyber shopping mall from users who wish to operate cyber shops;

(2) selecting hierarchical categories to which the cyber shops belong by using the cyber shop opening application information and existing shop information based on classification criteria defined by meta data for operating the cyber shopping mall;

(3) granting codes to the cyber shops and interconnecting upper and lower layers through databases with reference to the meta data based on the hierarchical categories of the cyber shops selected; and

(4) notifying the users of the operations of the cyber shops applied for opening by the users by utilizing the cyber shop information of lower and upper layers interconnecting the cyber shops and the databases.