SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CUSTOMER ADDRESS INFORMATION IN ELECTRONIC COMMERCE USING THE INTERNET

• US 20100030811A1
• Filed: 06/12/2009
• Published: 02/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Original Assignee: Gmarket Inc. (eBay Inc.)
• Inventors: KU, Young Bae
• Granted Patent: US 9,424,582 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: N/A
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions

Abstract

A system and method for managing customer address information in electronic commerce using the Internet are provided. Customers'"'"' detailed address information is received from customer terminals connected over the Internet, a unique address number corresponding to the detailed address information is produced, and the produced unique address number and the corresponding detailed address information are separately stored and managed in separate database (DBs), thereby effectively preventing leakage of the customers'"'"' detailed address information due to hacking or a malicious program.

Claims

1. A system for managing customer address information in electronic commerce using the Internet, the system comprising:

a customer address database (DB) for storing a unique address number for each customer;

an integrated address DB for storing detailed address information corresponding to the unique address number for each customer, in an integrated manner; and

a management server for receiving the customers'"'"' detailed address information from customer terminals connected over the Internet, producing the unique address number for each customer corresponding to the detailed address information, storing the produced unique address number for each customer in the customer address DB, and storing the detailed address information corresponding to the unique address number for each customer in the integrated address DB.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the customer address DB stores one unique address number for the same ones among the customers'"'"' detailed address information.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the management server comprises:

a first server for receiving the customers'"'"' detailed address information from the customer terminals connected over the Internet, producing the unique address number for each customer corresponding to the detailed address information, and storing the produced unique address number for each customer in the customer address DB; and

a second server for receiving the detailed address information corresponding to the produced unique address number for each customer from the first server and storing the detailed address information in the integrated address DB.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the management server is connected to the customer address DB and the integrated address DB through different administrator accounts.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the customer is a seller or a buyer subscribing as a member through a web server of the management server.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the customer address DB comprises:

a seller address DB for storing a unique address number for each seller; and

a buyer address DB for storing a unique address number for each buyer, wherein the seller address DB is included in the buyer address DB.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the management server produces one unique address number for the same ones among the customers'"'"' detailed address information input from the customer terminal, stores the produced unique address number in the customer address DB, and stores the detailed address information corresponding to the unique address number in the integrated address DB.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the management server temporarily stores the customers'"'"' detailed address information in a separate temporary table when the management server is not normally connected with the integrated address DB for communication, and stores the customers'"'"' detailed address information in the integrated address DB when the management server is normally connected with the integrated address DB.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising a backup integrated address DB interworking with the integrated address DB for synchronizing and backing up the customers'"'"' detailed address information for each unique address number stored in the integrated address DB, wherein:

when the integrated address DB does not normally operate, the management server is connected to the backup integrated address DB.

10. A method for managing customer address information in electronic commerce using the Internet, the method comprising:

(a) receiving customers'"'"' detailed address information from customer terminals and producing a unique address number for each customer corresponding to the detailed address information;

(b) storing the produced unique address number for each customer in a separate customer address DB; and

(c) storing the detailed address information corresponding to the unique address number for each customer in a separate integrated address DB.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein step (a) further comprises producing one unique address number for the same ones among the customers'"'"' detailed address information input from the customer terminals.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising storing the produced unique address number in the customer address DB and storing the detailed address information corresponding to the unique address number in the integrated address DB.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein step (c) further comprises temporarily storing the customers'"'"' detailed address information in a separate temporary table when communication is not normally made with the integrated address DB, and storing the customers'"'"' detailed address information in the integrated address DB when the communication is normally made with the integrated address DB.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising connecting to a backup integrated address DB interworking with the integrated address DB for synchronizing and backing up the customers'"'"' detailed address information for each unique address number stored in the integrated address DB when the integrated address DB does not normally operate.

15. A computer-readable recording medium having a computer-executable program recorded thereon for executing a method according to claim 10.