ELECTRONIC COUPON PROCESSING SYSTEM

• US 20100179872A1
• Filed: 12/29/2009
• Published: 07/15/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: FUJITA, Takeshi, Ogawa, Keiichi, Kawachi, Tsutomu
• Application Number:
  US12/648,657
• Publication Number:
  US 20100179872A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.380
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0238 at point-of-sale [POS]

Abstract

An electronic coupon processing system includes a plurality of user management server devices configured to register one or a plurality of different user identifiers and to register designated coupon information, and a center server device configured to register address information of a storage location of one piece or plural pieces of coupon information in association with identification information of a mobile device and to receive an inquiry about the coupon information from a shop terminal device.

Claims

1. An electronic coupon processing system comprising:

a plurality of user management server devices configured to register one or a plurality of different user identifiers and to register designated coupon information; and

a center server device configured to register address information of a storage location of one piece or plural pieces of coupon information in association with identification information of a mobile device and to receive an inquiry about the coupon information from a shop terminal device,

wherein each of the plurality of user management server devices acquires the user identifier and the identification information of the mobile device, reports the address information of the storage location of the coupon information and the identification information of the mobile device to the center server device if the designated coupon information is registered in association with the user identifier and the identification information of the mobile device, and transmits the coupon information specified by the address information to the shop terminal device if a transmission request for designating the address information is received from the shop terminal device, and

the center server device receives the identification information of the mobile device from the shop terminal device and reports the address information of the storage location of one piece or the plural pieces of coupon information associated with the identification information of the mobile device to the shop terminal device if the received identification information of the mobile device is registered.

2. A user management server device which registers one or a plurality of user identifiers and manages the user identifiers and identification information of a mobile device in association with each other, the user management server device comprising:

processing means and communication means configured to perform network communication,

wherein the processing means acquires the identification information of the mobile device via the communication means,

if designated coupon information is registered in association with the user identifiers and the identification information of the mobile device, reports address information of a storage location of the coupon information and the identification information of the mobile device to a center server device via the communication means, and

if a transmission request for designating the address information is received from a shop terminal device which acquires the address information of the storage location of the coupon information from the center server device via the communication means, transmits the coupon information specified by the address information to the shop terminal device.

3. The user management server device according to claim 2, wherein the processing unit stores issuance origin identification information of the issuance origin of the coupon information in association with the coupon information, and transmits the coupon information specified by the address information to the shop terminal device when a transmission request for designating the address information is received from the shop terminal device and the identification information of the issuance origin associated with the coupon information specified by the address information coincides with transmission origin identification information of a transmission origin of the transmission request.

4. The user management server device according to claim 2, wherein the processing unit specifies a directory associated with the identification information of the mobile device when the identification information of the mobile device is acquired and reports the address information of the storage location of a file of the coupon information and the identification information of the mobile device to the center server device when the file of the coupon information is stored in the directory.

5. The user management server device according to claim 4, wherein the processing unit provides display data for displaying a file system corresponding to the user identifier to a user terminal device, monitors a directory associated with the identification information of the mobile device in the file system, and reports the address information of the storage location of the file of the coupon information and the identification information of the mobile device to the center server device when the file of the coupon information is stored in the directory based on an operation of the user terminal device.

6. The user management server device according to claim 2, wherein the processing unit receives a user identifier, executes user authentication based on the user identifier, and registers the coupon information in association with the user identifier and the identification information of the mobile device when the user authentication is successful.

7. The user management server device according to claim 2, wherein the processing unit receives key information input to the shop terminal device together with the transmission request and transmits the coupon information specified by the address information to the shop terminal device if the received key information coincides with key information which is registered in association with the coupon information in advance.

8. The user management server device according to claim 2, wherein the coupon information is an image file in which privileges of an electronic coupon are described as an image and data or a file name.

9. A user management server device which registers one or a plurality of user identifiers and manages the user identifiers and identification information of a mobile device in association with each other, the user management server device comprising:

a processing unit and a communication unit configured to perform network communication,

wherein the processing unit acquires the identification information of the mobile device via the communication unit,

if designated coupon information is registered in association with the user identifiers and the identification information of the mobile device, reports address information of a storage location of the coupon information and the identification information of the mobile device to a center server device via the communication unit, and

if a transmission request for designating the address information is received from a shop terminal device which acquires the address information of the storage location of the coupon information from the center server device via the communication unit, transmits the coupon information specified by the address information to the shop terminal device.