SERVICE METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ONLINE INTEGRATED SHOPPING MALL
First Claim
1. A method for providing an online integrated shopping mall in an integrated shopping mall service apparatus connected to computer terminals over the Internet, comprising:
- a) upon receiving a control signal from a shopping mall management server including a product-provider shopping mall manager, a retail shopping mall manager, and a wholesale shopping mall manager, managing a product-provider shopping mall manager by the product-provider shopping mall manager, managing a retail shopping mall by the retail shopping mall manager, managing a wholesale shopping mall by the wholesale shopping mall manager, in which the product-provider shopping mall, the retail shopping mall, and the wholesale shopping mall are managed by a plurality of sub-domains dependent-linked to a main domain of the integrated shopping mall;
b) providing an enterprise member with an independent management page via a main homepage of the main domain, such that the enterprise member is able to simultaneously manage commodities supplied to the integrated shopping mall via the main homepage of the main domain;
c) receiving a shopping-mall sale-in-lots request from a general member via the main homepage of the main domain, registering the general member as a regular member, assigning a client shopping mall acting as a retail shopping mall to the regular member free of charge such that the client shopping mall is managed as a sub-domain, and providing the regular member with a homepage of the client shopping mall and a client shopping mall administrator page;
d) assigning a wholesale shopping mall to a wholesale-qualified member from among several regular members as a sub-domain such that the wholesale-qualified member can manage the wholesale shopping mall as the sub-domain, and providing the wholesale-qualified member with a homepage and administrator page of the wholesale shopping mall; and
e) if any one of the regular member and the enterprise member requests to register his or her commodities as regular commodities to be sold in the shopping mall, exposing/displaying information of the commodities on any one of the main homepage, the homepages of the client shopping malls, and each client shopping mall'"'"'s homepage according to a predetermined product-registration request method, and managing the information of the commodities.
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Abstract
An online integrated shopping mall service apparatus and method is disclosed. The apparatus registers manufacturing/enterprises, SOHO distribution enterprises, and SOHO trade enterprises as enterprise members, provides the shopping mall with commodities, sells the commodities, and manages the sales record of the commodities. If a member is a shopping-mall founder, a sideline-person, a SOHO distribution enterprise, or a SOHO trade enterprise, the apparatus assigns a free retail-client shopping mall to the member, such that the member sells commodities at retail in the client shopping mall, performs the shopping mall management, registers commodities as regular commodities to be sold in the client shopping mall, and assigns lower client shopping malls to others. The apparatus assigns a specific administrator who satisfies a predetermined condition to a wholesale-qualified member capable of managing the wholesale shopping mall, assigns the wholesale shopping mall to the qualified member, and sells the commodities at wholesale.
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14 Claims
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1. A method for providing an online integrated shopping mall in an integrated shopping mall service apparatus connected to computer terminals over the Internet, comprising:
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a) upon receiving a control signal from a shopping mall management server including a product-provider shopping mall manager, a retail shopping mall manager, and a wholesale shopping mall manager, managing a product-provider shopping mall manager by the product-provider shopping mall manager, managing a retail shopping mall by the retail shopping mall manager, managing a wholesale shopping mall by the wholesale shopping mall manager, in which the product-provider shopping mall, the retail shopping mall, and the wholesale shopping mall are managed by a plurality of sub-domains dependent-linked to a main domain of the integrated shopping mall; b) providing an enterprise member with an independent management page via a main homepage of the main domain, such that the enterprise member is able to simultaneously manage commodities supplied to the integrated shopping mall via the main homepage of the main domain; c) receiving a shopping-mall sale-in-lots request from a general member via the main homepage of the main domain, registering the general member as a regular member, assigning a client shopping mall acting as a retail shopping mall to the regular member free of charge such that the client shopping mall is managed as a sub-domain, and providing the regular member with a homepage of the client shopping mall and a client shopping mall administrator page; d) assigning a wholesale shopping mall to a wholesale-qualified member from among several regular members as a sub-domain such that the wholesale-qualified member can manage the wholesale shopping mall as the sub-domain, and providing the wholesale-qualified member with a homepage and administrator page of the wholesale shopping mall; and e) if any one of the regular member and the enterprise member requests to register his or her commodities as regular commodities to be sold in the shopping mall, exposing/displaying information of the commodities on any one of the main homepage, the homepages of the client shopping malls, and each client shopping mall'"'"'s homepage according to a predetermined product-registration request method, and managing the information of the commodities. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. An online integrated shopping mall service apparatus connected to computer terminals over the Internet, in which a B2B (Business-to-Business) transaction, a B2C (Business-to-Consumer) transaction, and a B2B2C (Business-to-Business-to-Consumer) transaction are integrated and conducted at one place, comprising:
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a main server for controlling operations of individual components of the online integrated shopping mall service apparatus; a shopping-mall management server which includes a product-provider shopping mall manager, a retail shopping mall manager, and a wholesale shopping mall manager, receives a control signal from the main server, manages a product-provider shopping mall manager via the product-provider shopping mall manager, manages a retail shopping mall via the retail shopping mall manager, managing a wholesale shopping mall via the wholesale shopping mall manager, in which the product-provider shopping mall, the retail shopping mall, and the wholesale shopping mall are managed by a plurality of sub-domains dependent-linked to a main domain of the integrated shopping mall; a database (DB) unit which includes a member database (DB), a commodity DB, an advertisement DB, an information-registration DB, and a settlement-management DB, and stores a variety of information associated with services of the online integrated shopping mall; a database (DB) server for managing the individual DBs contained in the DB unit upon receiving a control signal from the main server; a sale-in-lots management unit for receiving a shopping-mall sale-in-lots request from a general member via a main homepage of the main domain, registering the general member as a regular member in the member DB, and assigning a retail client shopping mall to the regular member free of charge via the retail shopping mall of the shopping mall management server, such that the retail client shopping mall is managed as a sub-domain; and a commodity-entry and commodity-management server connected with the commodity DB of the DB unit and the shopping mall management server, if any one of the regular member acting as the client shopping mall administrator and the enterprise member acting as the product-provider shopping mall manager administrator requests to register his or her commodities as regular commodities to be sold in the integrated shopping mall, exposing/displaying information of the commodities on any one of the main homepage, the homepages of the client shopping malls, and each client shopping mall'"'"'s homepage according to a predetermined product-registration request method using the commodity DB and the shopping mall management server, and managing the information of the commodities using the commodity DB and the shopping mall management server. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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