METHOD, SERVER AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL-COMMERCE DEAL WITH ROUTE INFORMATION

• US 20130091018A1
• Filed: 10/04/2012
• Published: 04/11/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NHN Corporation
• Original Assignee: NHN Corporation
• Inventors: YANG, Byoung Seok, LIM, Seung Phill, KO, Hyung Seok
• Application Number:
  US13/645,004
• Publication Number:
  US 20130091018A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.58
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

Disclosed herein are a method, a server, and a computer readable recording medium for providing social-commerce deals with route information. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing social-commerce deals with route information executed by a social-commerce server, method including receiving route request information from a user terminal and calculating route information based on the received route request information, extracting recommendation social-commerce deal information based on the calculated route information, and providing the calculated route information and the extracted recommendation social-commerce deal information to the user terminal.

Claims

1. A method for providing social-commerce deals with route information executed by a social-commerce server, the method comprising:

receiving route request information from a terminal and calculating route information based on the received route request information;

extracting, by the social-commerce server, recommendation social-commerce deal information based on the calculated route information; and

providing the calculated route information and the extracted recommendation social-commerce deal information to the terminal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the route request information comprises at least one of origination information, destination information, and moving device information.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the extracted recommendation social-commerce deal information is deal information of businesses located within a preset distance from the calculated route.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the preset distance is set according to distance setting information transmitted from the terminal.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the extracted recommendation social-commerce deal information is extracted based on an estimated time of arrival at a business, the estimated time of arrival being calculated based on the route information.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the recommendation social-commerce deal information is extracted based on whether a deal associated with the recommendation social commerce deal information is capable of being used at the estimated time of arrival at businesses.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether social-commerce coupons of businesses located around the calculated route information among social-commerce coupons owned by a user of the terminalexist and if so, further providing use recommendation information of the corresponding social-commerce coupons to the terminal.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

receiving a use reservation request for specific social-commerce coupons owned by the user from the terminal and transmitting reservation information to an advertiser terminal corresponding to the specific social-commerce coupons.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the reservation information comprises an estimated time of arrival at a corresponding business,the estimated time of arrival being calculated based on the route information.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, from the terminal, a purchase request of the social-commerce deals and transmitting purchase complete information of the purchased social-commerce deals to the terminal and an advertiser terminal.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the purchase complete information of the social-commerce deals comprises an estimated time of arrival at a corresponding business, is the estimated time of arrival being calculated based on the route information.

12. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising an executable program which, when executed, performs a method for providing social-commerce deals with route information, the method comprising:

receiving route request information from a user terminal and calculating route information based on the received route request information;

extracting recommended social-commerce deal information based on the calculated route information; and

providing the calculated route information and the extracted recommendation social-commerce deal information to the user terminal.

13. A server configured to provide social-commerce deals with route information, the server comprising:

one or more processors configured to communicate with one or more storage devices, the one or more storage devices comprising;

a route calculator configured to receive route request information from a terminal and calculate route information based on the received route request information; and

a social-commerce deal extractor configured to extract recommendation social-commerce deal information based on the calculated route information and provide the calculated route information and the extracted recommendation social-commerce deal information to the terminal.

14. The server of claim 13, wherein the route request information comprises at least one of origination information, destination information, and moving device information.

15. The server of claim 13, wherein the extracted recommendation social-commerce deal information is deal information of businesses located within a preset distance from the calculated route.

16. The server of claim 13, wherein the extracted recommendation social-commerce deal information is extracted based on an estimated time of arrival at a corresponding business, the estimated time of arrival being calculated based on the route information.

17. The server of claim 16, wherein the recommendation social-commerce deal information is extracted based on whether it is used at the estimated time of arrival at businesses.

18. The server of claim 13, wherein a coupon manager configured to determine whether social-commerce coupons of businesses located around the calculated route information among social-commerce coupons owned by a user of a terminal are present and if so, further provide use recommendation information of the corresponding coupons to the user terminal.

19. The server of claim 18, wherein an advertiser manager configured to receive a use reservation request for specific social-commerce coupons owned by the user from the terminal and transmit reservation information to an advertiser terminal of the specific social-commerce coupons.

20. The server of claim 13, wherein a social-commerce deal processor configured to receive a purchase request of the social-commerce deals transmitted from the terminal to perform purchase processing of the social-commerce deals and transmit purchase complete information of the social-commerce deals to the terminal and an advertiser terminal.