METHOD FOR ONLINE SELLING AND MANAGING UNITEDLY BY FRANCHISE'S PARTICIPATION OF PARTIAL RESPONSIBILITY

• US 20090292585A1
• Filed: 06/12/2007
• Published: 11/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Yong Sung Seo
• Original Assignee: Yong Sung Seo
• Inventors: Seo, Yong Sung
• Application Number:
  US12/304,756
• Publication Number:
  US 20090292585A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.58
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0875 Itemisation or classification of parts, supplies or services, e.g. bill of materials
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0226 Incentive systems for frequent usage, e.g. frequent flyer miles programs or point systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• 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 40/12 Accounting

Abstract

In a hot chamber die casting apparatus of pressurizing molten magnesium alloy at an atmospheric pressure or higher without being exposed to the atmosphere and forming a magnesium alloy casting product in the shape of a mold, the hot chamber die casting apparatus basically configured with a melting furnace having a heater, a pressure unit configured to pressurize the molten magnesium alloy, and a mold configured to shape a product, and includes an electromagnetic stirrer disposed around a nozzle between a pressure chamber and the mold, and configured to stir semisolid magnesium alloy, the pressure chamber being connected to the melting furnace and supplying magnesium alloy in liquid state, wherein an inner diameter of the nozzle is partially or wholly smaller than that of the pressure chamber so as to crush solid phases existing in the semisolid magnesium alloy in the pressure chamber or the nozzle.

Claims

1. A method for online selling and managing unitedly by franchise'"'"'s participation of partial responsibility, the method comprising the steps of:

at a central management server, receiving predetermined information on a new customer from a franchise terminal or customer terminal so as to receive a membership registration request (step 100);

at the central management server, determining the purchase rating of the customer, registering the customer as a member, and granting a unique code to the customer (step 200);

at the central management server, performing user authentication as the customer terminal requests connection, and then providing information on products, stored by a head office and nationwide franchises, to the customer terminal (step 300);

at the central management server, when an order request for a product is made from the customer terminal, noticing the breakdown of the order request to a franchise in charge of the customer by using a wired and wireless communication network (step 400); and

at the central management server, when a product delivery request is made from the franchise terminal, giving an instruction to deliver the requested product (step 500).

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the purchase rating is periodically updated by reflecting the credit, the transaction volume, and the integration degree for a single item of the customer.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the product information includes the price of the product, and the price of the product is differentially determined for each customer, depending on a discount rate according to the purchase rating of the customer.

4. The method according to claim 3 further comprising the step of:

at the central management server, when the payment of the customer is performed through cash payment or regular payment, checking if an adjusted amount is received from the franchise in charge of the customer, and noticing the result to the franchise terminal (step 600).

5. The method according to claim 3 further comprising the step of:

at the central management server, when the payment of the customer is performed through credit-card payment, receiving the breakdown of the credit-card payment by the customer from a credit card company, and noticing the breakdown of the credit-card payment and the adjusted breakdown of the payment to the franchise terminal (step 700).

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein step 200 includes:

at the central management server, verifying the customer who has requested the membership registration, registering the customer as a member when the customer has no reason for disqualification, and determining the purchase rating of the customer by reflecting the received predetermined information on the customer (step 210);

at the central management server, designating a franchise in charge of the registered customer, granting a unique code to the customer, and storing the information on the customer, the unique code, and information on the franchise in charge of the customer into a database (step 220); and

at the central management server, noticing the unique code, granted to the customer, to the franchise terminal of the franchise in charge of the customer (step 230).

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein step 400 includes:

at the central management server, providing a customer interface screen, through which a product order is placed, to the customer terminal (step 410); and

at the central management server, when an order request for a product is made from the customer terminal, noticing the breakdown of the order request to the franchise in charge through the wired and wireless communication network (step 420).

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the customer interface screen includes a menu for inputting an order request for a product and a purchase period such that the order request is automatically made at every the purchase period and a menu for checking the breakdown of the previous order for each day and each item and the payment breakdown.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein as for the wireless and wired communication, an email, a mobile-phone text message, an automatic phone using Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) and the like are used.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein when the franchise terminal requests connection to the central management server at steps 100 and 500, the central management server performs user authentication and then provides a franchise manager screen to the franchise terminal, the franchise manager screen including a menu for providing information on each customer under management of the franchise, the present status of product order from each customer, the present status of products stored by the head office, the present status of products stored by each franchise and the like, and a menu for selecting the type of product delivery by discriminating whether the ordered product is directly delivered to the customer from the head office or is delivered to the corresponding franchise.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein when a product delivery request is made from the franchise terminal through the franchise manager terminal at step 500, the central management server gives an instruction to deliver a requested product by discriminating whether the product is delivered to the customer or the franchise in charge.

12. The method according to claim 10, wherein the franchise manager screen includes a menu for checking and managing a list of warehoused products, a quantity of warehoused products, a list of shipped products, a quantity of shipped products, and a list of stored products in the corresponding franchise and a menu for providing the present status of unattended transactions caused by insufficient quantities in stock.

13. The method according to claim 11, wherein when the head office does not store a product which is to be delivered to the customer or the franchise, the central management server makes a product delivery request to a franchise, which stores the corresponding product, among the nationwide franchises.

14. A method for online selling and managing unitedly by franchise'"'"'s participation of partial responsibility, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) at a central management server, receiving predetermined information on a new customer from a franchise terminal so as to receive a membership registration request;

(b) at the central management server, designating the franchise, which has requested membership registration, as a franchise in charge of the customer, registering the customer as a member with a predetermined purchase rating, and granting a unique code to the customer;

(c) at the central management server, performing user authentication as a customer terminal requests connection, and then providing information on products, stored by a head office and nationwide franchises, to the customer terminal;

(d) at the central management server, when an order request for a product is made from the customer terminal, registering the breakdown of the order request into a franchise manager region of the central management server in real time;

(e) at the franchise terminal connected to the central management server, checking the breakdown of the order request through a franchise manager screen so as to make a delivery request for the product;

(f) at the central management server, giving an instruction to deliver the ordered product; and

(g) at the customer terminal, making payment for the ordered product,

wherein the delivery request at step (e) is made to a delivery department of the franchise when the franchise has the ordered product in stock, or to the head office when the franchise does not have the ordered product in stock or should secure the stock of a specific product, the delivering at step (f) is divided into the delivering to the customer and the delivering to the franchise, the payment by the customer at step (g) is carried out for the franchise in charge of the customer, and the franchise is responsible for the payment of the product for which the franchise made a delivery request to the head office at step (e).

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the purchase rating is periodically updated by reflecting the credit, the transaction volume, and the integration degree for a single item of the customer.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein the product information includes the price of the product, and the price of the product is differentially determined for each customer, depending on a discount rate according to the purchase rating of the customer.

17. The method according to claim 16 further comprising the step of:

at the central management server, when the payment of the customer is performed through cash payment or regular payment, checking if an adjusted amount is received from the franchise in charge of the customer, and noticing the result to the franchise terminal.

18. The method according to claim 16 further comprising the step of:

at the central management server, when the payment of the customer is performed through credit-card payment, receiving the breakdown of the credit-card payment by the customer from a credit card company, and noticing the breakdown of the credit-card payment and the adjusted breakdown of the payment to the franchise terminal.

19. The method according to claim 16, wherein step (b) includes:

(b-1) at the central management server, verifying the customer who has requested the membership registration, registering the customer as a member when the customer has no reason for disqualification, and determining the purchase rating of the customer by reflecting the received predetermined information on the customer;

(b-2) at the central management server, designating a franchise in charge of the registered customer, granting a unique code to the customer, and storing the information on the customer, the unique code, and information on the franchise in charge of the customer into a database; and

(b-3) at the central management server, noticing the unique code, granted to the customer, to the franchise terminal of the franchise in charge of the customer.

20. The method according to claim 14, wherein step (d) includes:

(d-1) at the central management server, providing a customer interface screen, through which a product order is placed, to the customer terminal; and

(d-2) at the central management server, when a order request for a product is made from the customer terminal, registering the breakdown of the order request into the franchise manager region of the central management server in real time.

21. The method according to claim 20, wherein the customer interface screen includes a menu for inputting an order request for a product and a purchase period such that the order request is automatically made at every the purchase period and a menu for checking the breakdown of the previous order for each day and each item and the payment breakdown.

22. The method according to claim 20, wherein the customer interface screen provides a menu for inputting an order date for a product when the product is selected by an external input unit.

23. The method according to claim 20, wherein the customer interface screen provides a menu for inputting an order date for a product when the product is selected by an external input unit.

24. The method according to claim 20, wherein the customer interface screen displays the price of each product which is automatically varied depending on a discount or extra rate which is separately set for each franchise selling the product.

25. The method according to claim 20, wherein the customer interface screen provides a menu for designating options of various products on one screen and then performing selection for an order.

26. The method according to claim 20, wherein the customer interface screen displays the total price of products, selected for an order, on a specific region within the customer interface screen in real time.

27. The method according to claim 14, wherein when the franchise terminal requests connection to the central management server at steps (a) and (e), the central management server performs user authentication and then provides a franchise manager screen to the franchise terminal, the franchise manager screen including a menu for providing information on each customer under management of the franchise, the present status of product order from each customer, the present status of products stored by the head office, the present status of products stored by each franchise and the like, and a menu for selecting the type of product delivery by discriminating whether the ordered product is directly delivered to the customer from the head office or is delivered to the corresponding franchise.

28. The method according to claim 27, wherein when a product delivery request is received from the franchise terminal through the franchise manager terminal at step (e), the central management server gives an instruction to deliver the requested product by discriminating whether the product is directly delivered to the customer or is delivered to the franchise in charge.

29. The method according to claim 27, wherein the franchise manager screen includes a menu for checking and managing a list of warehoused products, a quantity of warehoused products, a list of shipped products, a quantity of shipped products, and a list of stored products in the corresponding franchise and a menu for providing the present status of unattended transactions caused by insufficient quantities in stock.

30. The method according to claim 27, wherein the franchise manager screen displays the image of a specific product on a pop-up window, when the product is selected from a product list by the external input unit.

31. The method according to claim 27, wherein when the head office does not store the ordered product at step (f), the central management server makes a product delivery request to a franchise, which stores the corresponding product, among the nationwide franchises.