CONTROL METHOD AND CORRESPONDING SYSTEM FOR OBTAINING COUPONS THROUGH COUPON TERMINAL

• US 20130041742A1
• Filed: 01/21/2011
• Published: 02/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: VELO Information Technology (Shanghai), Inc.
• Original Assignee: VELO Information Technology (Shanghai), Inc.
• Inventors: He, Liang, Zhang, Yibin, Ying, Zhenyu, Chen, Huadong
• Application Number:
  US13/574,308
• Publication Number:
  US 20130041742A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.36
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0207 Discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates

Abstract

A control method for obtaining a coupon by a coupon terminal is disclosed. The method includes: step a. receiving request information for obtaining a coupon; step b. providing a coupon according to the request information; step c. deducting points corresponding to provided coupon from an account corresponding to the request information; step d. adaptively recording the provided coupon in a database; and step e. performing a statistics analysis on the provided coupon stored in the database. A control apparatus for obtaining a coupon by a coupon terminal is also disclosed. According to the present technical solution, by using the existing internet technology and RFID technology, a user may conveniently obtain required coupons by the coupon terminal, and download and print the coupons.

Claims

1. A control method for obtaining a coupon by a coupon terminal, comprising the following steps:

a. receiving request information for obtaining a coupon;

i. judging whether to provide a coupon according to the request information;

ii. if a judgment result of the step i is positive, performing step b;

b. providing a coupon according to the request information.

2. The control method according to claim 1, wherein the step i comprises any one of the following steps:

judging whether a requester corresponding to the request information exists in a particular data list according to the request information, wherein the judgment result of the step i is determined as positive if the requester exists in the particular data list;

judging whether a requester corresponding to the request information belongs to a particular group according to the request information, wherein the judgment result of the step i is determined as positive if the requester belongs to the particular group;

judging whether a requester corresponding to the request information sends the request information for a plurality of times within a time period according to the request information;

judging whether a requester corresponding to the request information is a person in a particular age bracket according to the request information, wherein the judgment result of the step i is determined as positive if the requester is the person in the particular age bracket; and

judging whether a requester corresponding to the request information is of a particular gender according to the request information, wherein the judgment result of the step i is determined as positive if the requester is of the particular gender.

3. The control method according to claim 1, wherein the step b comprises the following steps:

judging whether a requester corresponding to the request information exists in a belongs to a first group according to the request information;

if the requester belongs to the first group, generating one or more first coupons according to the request information; and

if the requester does not belong to the first group, generating one or more second coupons according to the request information.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step b comprises any one of the following steps:

generating one or more coupons according to the request information and printing the coupons; and

generating one or more electronic coupons according to the request information, and sending the electronic coupons to one or more terminals corresponding to the request information.

5. The control method according to claim 4, wherein the step of generating one or more coupons according to the request information comprises the following steps:

b1. providing, according to the request information, all coupon information which is available for a user to choose from

b2. receiving selection information of the user; and

b3. generating one or more coupons according to the selection information of the user.

6. The control method according to claim 5, further comprising the following steps between the step b2 and the step b3:

prompting the user to provide identity verification information;

judging whether the identity verification information is received, and performing the step b3 if the identity verification information is received.

7. The control method according to claim 6, wherein the identity verification information comprises at least any one or more kinds of the following information:

indication information of a user equipment corresponding to the coupon terminal; and

identity information of the user recorded in a background service system corresponding to the coupon terminal.

8. The control method according to claim 5, wherein the step b1 comprises the following steps:

sending coupon retrieve information to a background process system corresponding to the coupon terminal according to the request information;

determining and providing the coupon information which is available for the user to choose from according to feedback information from the background process system.

9. The control method according to claim 8, wherein the feedback information at least comprises an one kind of the following information:

information in the background process system regarding an appointed coupon in an account corresponding to the requester corresponding to the request information; and

coupon information which is selected from all coupon information in the background process system and matches the coupon retrieve information;

wherein the information regarding an appointed coupon in an account corresponding to the requester is held within the account corresponding to the requester by any one of the following manners;

the requester actively requesting the coupon;

a background process system pushing the coupon to the account corresponding to the requester; and

automatically obtaining the coupon when the requester submitting registration information;

wherein the coupon retrieve information comprises indication information regarding a location of the coupon terminal, and the feedback information at least matches the indication information.

10. The control method according to claim 8,

wherein the background process system comprises any one or more of the following systems:

a third party system;

information process systems corresponding to one or more advertisers placing advertisement information on the coupon terminal; and

the background service system configured to maintain the coupon terminal.

11. The control method according to claim 5, wherein the coupon information which is available for the user to choose from comprises the coupons corresponding to consumption places, locations of which are separated from the coupon terminal by a distance less than a first threshold.

12. The control method according to claim 4, wherein the step of generating one or more coupons according to the request information comprises the following steps:

b1′

. reading a coupon number included in the request information;

b2′

. determining one or more coupons according to the coupon number.

13. The control method according to claim 12, wherein the request information is sent by a mobile terminal, and the coupon number is downloaded to the mobile terminal in advance.

14. A control apparatus for obtaining a coupon by a coupon terminal, comprising:

a first receiving means configured to receive request information for obtaining coupon; and

a first sending means configured to provide a coupon according to the request information;

wherein the first receiving means further comprises any one of the following means;

a second receiving means configured to receive the request information for obtaining a coupon sent from a mobile terminal; and

a third receiving means configured to receive the request information for obtaining a coupon sent from a third party system.

15. The control apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the first sending means further comprises:

a first judgment means configured to judge whether a requester corresponding to the request information belongs to a first group according to the request information;

a first generation means configured to generate one or more first coupons according to the request information; and

a second generation means configured to generate one or more second coupons according to the request information;

wherein if a judgment result of the first judgment means is positive, the first generation means is invoked; and

if the judgment result of the first judgment means is negative, the second generation means is invoked.

16. The control apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the first sending means further comprises any one of the following means:

a first printing means configured to generate one or more coupons according to the request information and print the coupons; and

a second sending means configured to generate one or more electronic coupons according to the request information, and send the electronic coupons to one or more terminals corresponding to the request information.

17. The control apparatus according to claim 14, further comprising:

a first process means configured to deduct points corresponding to the provided coupon from an account corresponding to the request information;

a first recording means configured to record the provided coupon adaptively in a database; and

a first statistics means configured to perform a statistical analysis on the provided coupon stored in the database.

18. The control apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the mobile terminal at least comprises a radio frequency module, and the radio frequency module has unique identification information.

19. The control apparatus according to claim 18, wherein the mobile terminal at least further comprises a mobile communication module, and the mobile communication module comprises any one of the following modules:

GPRS communication module;

Wi-Fi communication module;

WCDMA communication module;

TD-SCDMA communication module;

WiMax communication module; and

LTE communication module.

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