METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A GIFT USING A MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK AND SYSTEM INCLUDING THE APPARATUS

• US 20150302497A1
• Filed: 06/30/2015
• Published: 10/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Eleven Street Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: SK Planet Co., Ltd. (SK Telecom Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: CHOI, Kyung-Lim, CHO, Jae-Hee, JOO, Hyo-Jung
• Granted Patent: US 10,152,701 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/12 specially adapted for electronic shopping systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/123 Shopping for digital content
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/127 Shopping or accessing services according to a time-limitation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/202 Interconnection or interaction of plural electronic cash registers [ECR] or to host computer, e.g. network details, transfer of information from host to ECR or from ECR to ECR
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/322 Aspects of commerce using mobile devices [M-devices]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/325 using wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/40 Authorisation, e.g. identification of payer or payee, verification of customer or shop credentials; Review and approval of payers, e.g. check credit lines or negative lists
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0603 Catalogue ordering
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0609 Buyer or seller confidence or verification
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0635 Processing of requisition or of purchase orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0637 Approvals
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0643 Graphical representation of items or shoppers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a method of providing a gift icon using a communication network. The method includes: providing, by a terminal, information about products to a messenger, which is a terminal operating software for transmitting and receiving messages and data in real time through a wired communication network; when the terminal selects a product, a counterpart terminal and a request button for a gift request, transmitting, by the terminal, a gift icon corresponding to the product to the counterpart terminal connected with the terminal through the messenger; and when the counterpart terminal selects an acceptance message in response to the gift request, providing, by the counterpart terminal, the gift icon corresponding to the product to the terminal or a first mobile terminal registered in the messenger.

Claims

1. A method of providing a gift icon using a communication network, the method comprising:

providing, by a terminal, information about products to a messenger, which is a terminal operating software for transmitting and receiving messages and data in real time through a wired communication network;

when the terminal selects a product, a counterpart terminal and a request button for a gift request, transmitting, by the terminal, a gift icon corresponding to the product to the counterpart terminal connected with the terminal through the messenger; and

when the counterpart terminal selects an acceptance message in response to the gift request, providing, by the counterpart terminal, the gift icon corresponding to the product to the terminal or a first mobile terminal registered in the messenger.

2. The method as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

when the gift icon is transmitted to the terminal at said providing the gift icon, displaying a button for returning on a screen of the terminal; and

when the button for returning is selected, providing, by the terminal, a gift list, and then, when at least one of gifts included in the gift list is selected, transmitting a returning gift icon corresponding to the at least one selected gift, to the counterpart terminal.

3. The method as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

when the gift icon is transmitted to the first mobile terminal at said providing the gift icon, displaying a button for returning on a screen of the first mobile terminal; and

when the button for returning is selected, providing, by the first mobile terminal, a gift list, and then, when at least one of gifts included in the gift list is selected, transmitting a returning gift icon corresponding to the at least one selected gift, to the counterpart terminal.

4. The method as set forth in claim 2, further comprising:

when a user having the gift icon accepts the gift in a predetermined shop, registering an acceptance completion message transmitted from a terminal of the shop in a gift provision server.

5. The method as set forth in claim 3, further comprising:

when a user having the gift icon accepts the gift in a predetermined shop, registering an acceptance completion message transmitted from a terminal of the shop in a gift provision server.

6. A method of providing a gift icon using a communication network, the method comprising:

providing, by a terminal, information about products to a messenger, which is a terminal operating software for transmitting and receiving messages and data in real time through a wired communication network;

selecting, by the terminal, at least one of a gift provision button for providing a product as a gift and a gift request button for receiving the product as the gift;

when the terminal selects the product, a counterpart terminal for receiving the product and the gift provision button, transmitting, by the terminal, a gift icon corresponding to the product to the counterpart terminal connected with the terminal through the messenger;

when the terminal selects the product, the counterpart terminal and the gift request button, transmitting, by the terminal, information about the gift icon to the counterpart terminal; and

when the counterpart terminal selects an acceptance message for the gift icon, displaying, by the counterpart terminal, a settlement page corresponding to the gift icon, and when the settlement, by the displayed settlement page, has been finished, transmitting, by the counterpart terminal, the gift icon to the terminal.

7. The method as set forth in claim 6, further comprising:

when a usable period is set, providing, by a gift provision server, at least one of a first guide message regarding a repayment of money corresponding to the gift icon which is not used for the usable period, and a second guide message regarding a conversion of the gift icon which is not used for the usable period to reserve money, to the user terminal.

8. The method as set forth in claim 6, further comprising:

providing, by the gift provision server, contents of gift icons transmitted during a predetermined period, to the user terminal or the counterpart terminal.